The Intuituve Eater

So this week I wanted to be lower than I started, but I gained a lb....I'm not beating myself up...I went out a couple times, drank , had fried, white castle, sugary drinks..and only gained a pound...even with going out twice I think I ate mostly paleo other than that. I need to stay away from the Chinese buffet and the French pastry spot. I made chunkey Monkey muffins (first paleo recipe) and they were awesome...no frankenfood and finally have an alternative to eggs everyday. I also made cauliflower rice  I linked the recipe, but I made it two ways.. 1. baked some chicken, and then sautéed the cauliflower in that and then just sautéed some onions and the sautéed the cauliflower in that....bother were good...for me I think I need 2-4 head to last me a whole week. I made cabbage and chicken sobrose from skinny taste. lasted the whole week...and now for what I'm making this week I think Imma try paleo pancakes, bacon salomon croquette Damn fine chic...

So Last week I was able to do no pasta or potatoes.  The past weekend was labor day weekend so I didn't worry about alcohol and just enjoyed the weekend. This morning I'm 351.  I'd like to be 350  in 5 days (basically anything lower than 351) Since I'm trying to ease myself into paleo Im adding on every week.  This week is no rice, pasta, potatoes or bread.  I'm not going to worry about sugar this week until I can figure out what to do about my coffee. Whatever happens I FEEL awesome, not sluggish or like I'm starving myself, so we'll see. I am still doing intuitive eating just with better food.

Posted on 3fc: Had a binge this weekend blah :?:  It wasn't emotional or anything.  I bought the low carb peanut butter cups and I ate the whole box (12).  I was mildly hungry, but I have been on this sugar thing lately.  Anyway, they can't come back in the house.  When it cools off I'll keep in the car.  I worked out a lil harder this morning.  Also seems since I've been working out I need to relearn hunger and not overeat. I like to work out on an empty stomach and by the time I'm done I feel like I wanna gnaw off my own leg.  I worked out, had a glass of almond milk to take the edge off while I made breakfast.  That was about 8:30. By the time I was almost to work at noon I was looking for something else.  So I picked up a danish...blah.  I packed my lunch today and dinner should be fine, but maybe I need a bigger breakfast.  I'm thinking of trying toast with breakfast on wednesday and see if that helps. To stop my add...

So yesterday I had lunch with my best friend.  She's smaller than me, but still heavy.  We went out to an Indian Buffet and I should have just ordered something from the menu, but I didn't want to spend to much since we were splitting the bill and had the buffet BAD MOVE.  It was all creamy sauce stuff which really begs to be poured over rice.  I was trying to pour it over the cauliflower dish, but that had potatoes in it.  I ended up just saying eff it and eating the cauliflower with a little potatoe.  Then my flawles logic *heavy sarcasm* said well if I'mma cheat go ahead and have the rice too.  I then had like 4 glasses of water.  I don't feel like I ate alot, the problem is I ate because of self peer pressure. I think of course wanted to punish myself and was going to make myself to a really hard workout today, but thought.  Ok I don't really want to do it...and I don't want to NOT workout because I don't want to do the work out.  ...

So I haven't really posted in a while, I find I stop when I'm  not doing so well and keep going when I'm doing great.  Well I'm in a good place.  For the first time I've managed to lose weight during the summer.  I haven't pushed myself to work out, but I have been watching what I've been eating.  I am using intuitive eating /exercise.  I haven't worked out in a while because its been too hot, but with eating better I've managed to lose.  Finally my body was like we miss working out and I had to workup ALOT of stairs since an escalator on the way to work was broken.  So, today I did 15 min of cardio with weights.  I was sweating like a slave in the fields.  I'm a lil grumpy that in about a month I lost so much ...endurance..but its a process and I'll be back at it. I'm currently PMSing which means my period is coming.  The cravings are over (blah at falling off for donuts), but i have about 7 days where I really won't be losing an...

Well my modified version of the 28 day diet seems to have helped me break through into the 330s.  i'm 335 this morning.  My modification is basically atkins induction and I allow some sweets every now and again. I am trying to stick to working out 3 days a week, but it hasn't been happened.  I usually fall off one day a week.  The upside is my workouts are harder so am going more when I do work out. My 28 days ends Aug 6th, so my very hesitant goal is to get into the 320s by then...take a break for a week and the back for another 28 days.  My summer goal was 330.  I'm going to change that to 320 by the monday after memorial day. Something else while I am low carbing it.  I am using Ie for the stuff I technically cant eat on the phase and it has been working.  I'm not down as much as everyone else (they're average is about 10 lbs in a week, i'm at 5), but I'm happier and it seems like something I can maintain. I also went back to the IE gro...

Wow so I haven't posted since january....alot has happened. Short story I ended up making friends with someone on facebook who had a weight loss group and I think this was the last piece I needed to get things in gear. Im currently doing a mix of intuitive eating and low carb (no pasta, potatoes or rice).  I'm down to 340...should be in the 330s next week. I think the last time i was in this place I wasn't as flexible, but I'm honestly trying to do this for life so..its working.  I'm going to try out a modified version of the 28 day diet.  I kinda wanna focus a but more on what i'm eating and take out some of the choices.  I'm going try it for 10-14 days and see where i am. Its summer so Im not working out, but my eating is on point so YAY me.

So I just looked at my bloog and realized I've been doing this for 5 years.  Hopefully this is the year I hit 299.  I didn't want to post till i was sure I was firmly back on the wagon.  I am not nearly as focused as I was my real first time around, but I am doing it and it seems to be working. So I am doin to 351.  I avoid potatoes, rice and pasta.  I had an issue where my stoool was WAYYYYYY to hard so I have an apple every other day to work that out.  I doing mostly IE...which makes me happy.  working out and just being ok.

This is a quickie, short story.... Got back with my ex, it sucked broke up, got over it.  planning a trip to london with a day trip to paris.  champs de elysee (sp) has 238 steps, realized I was going to need to get in some kind of shape for this trip. and here i am not really counting anything just getting back into the habit of eating better and working out. Cardio and weights. trip is in 2 and a half months so I have some time.

So as you can probably guess last month was a wash.  The ex came to stay and i stopped working out.  I did try and watched what i eat.  Hoping I maintained, but we'll see. 40 min exercise. Update So I got on the scale to see what kind od damage I did and 353.  Yes I want to be lower, but SOOOOO happy.  So watching what i eat actually worked.  In a good place. 

Well the ex worked out with me and I wanted to go a little harder Cardio Overdrive 32 min peak 10 cardio strength 52 min

20 min jackie warner circuit 27 min cardio inferno

Did peak 10 cardio strengh 40 min...more later

I didn't make a whole lot of rules, and I doubt I go back to 3fatchicks anytime soon.  The site is wonderful, but i get obsessed reading about everyone elses obsessions.  Got on the scale and was 354 so that was good and did 500 calorie burn workout.  I did 50 min of it.  I was just worn out, but i liked it alot more than I thought. I moves quickly and while its hard most of it is low impact or has a good modification. So the only rules I have now is no eating out (appelbees, fridays, popeyes, baja fresh). I have eaten "out" but I'm trying to stick to little or no carbs and organic when possible.  No watching my sodium, water, sugar carb intake.  Just living.

I'll post more later 28 min kendal cardio 30 min kendall weight dvd 58 min

So I am back on the wagon, but not quite so obsessed.  I'm get on the scale on  Nov 30.  My only thing i am trying to stick to is not eating out.  No more logging on spark people and I haven't looked at 3fc in more than a week.  I have cooked and have been bringing my lunch.  I am happy.  Because I took a whole week off from working out. I am behind on my min.  So I am scrambling to get it in. Tried out tae bo today. I liked it, but Billy banks makes my head hurt. Also tried the trainers edge, it was ok, but I'm not really up for floor work right now.  I might by the trainers edge for christmas.  We'll see 30 min billbanks 25min trainers edge. Now that I am typing this I am going to do drop it in 30 today. Which would get me down to 175.  We'll see.

So I got on the scale on the 15 and I was still 349.  I took a week and ate whatever....I didn't over do it except for one day, but I drank, didn't cook, and didn't workout.  By sunday, I really went over...ate a whole package of sausage and then appetizer plater at Fridays.  I was sick the rest of the day.  Also My little aches and pains were starting to come back to here I am.  I worked out this morning and once again my monthly goal has kept my going.  I wish i had something similar when it came to eating.  So I am going to try no eating out till the 15th of december.  No other rules.  No realy weight goal anything lower than 348 would make me happy at this point. 29 min Kendal, 40 min Kendal Weights

not sure what happened, but I don't have a post for monday...anyway, as of rightnow I'm up to 191 min Monday I did abs with chris 12 min, cardio inferno and kendal strength. Today I do 29 min Kendal, 8 min abs with chris (no warm up this time) and strength with Kendall(38 min) I haven't been on the scale and not really pressed. not sure I'll ever go back to weekly weigh ins again.  Eating is ok. I went out to lunch yesterday.  Ikept thinking ok I need to find something I should be eating, but what ends up happening is I'm not happy and feel like I wasted the eating out.  So I got what I wanted a hamburger, with bacon and instead of fries I got salad and only used half the salad dressing and I was happy.  My girlfriend did the usually you can eat whatever off my plate a few times and I said no thanks and wasn't pressed about it. The ex and I had another talk and I'm not happy, but rather than sprial into bad eating and not exercising I gotup and didn...

So things have been weird.  I think while I ate intuitively when I was in the hospital for daddy's surgery it wasn't the greatest food and while I did IE when I went away for halloween it was crappy food. On top of it I didn't cook so I had frozen packaged food all week.  I did ok, but I've been tracking my sodium and I would blow past 2000mg and was usually 2500+ and a big part of that is from the prepacked food.  So even though my weekend will be busy I'm going to make sure I cook. Since I did crappy last week afraid of the scale and either I get on friday or the 15, but I HAVE to get on the 15th. I think netflix is keeping me working out.  I seem to get bored really easily, so I tried self slim and lean with elen barrett. I'm used to more jumping about, but the warm up was more pilates inspired which kinda has me wanting to try it.  It was low impact and slow, but my heart rate was up.  I don't think I'll ever workout on friday, but we'll ...

So I haven't posted in a bit, but I've stayed the course.  I hit my exercise goal kind of early so I kinda of slacked off. I'm back at it this week primarily because of my work out buddy at work.  She mentioned we were supposed to work out and that got me back into the swing of things.  I was thinking I should tell her I don't want to work out anymore, but seems to be a good way to make me accountable.  I've been tracking my calories half heartedly, well mostly carbs and sodium and how much water I am drinking.  My ankles swelled up which surprised me, but I think it was due to my TOM.  I also didn't get on the scale because emotionally I just couldn't deal with seeing the scale go up.  Today was interesting I left my lunch at home and thought oh I can order something now, but I ended up running to a supermarket and picking up a smart one. Which leads me to an article on who the obesity epidemic is caused by ultra processed foods, which I totally b...