Fess Up!!!!!!!!!!

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Fess Up!!!!!!!!!!
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Fri, 12-05-2003 - 8:36pm

So I was reading some

 

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Fri, 12-05-2003 - 8:48pm

That post over there really got me thinking lol.

 
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Fri, 12-05-2003 - 9:51pm
Typical pre change of lifestyle menu:

Breakfast - Nothing to eat, just a regular Pepsi cola

Lunch - No real lunch, I would just eat a bag of popcorn or some candy, more soda, crackers, whatever was around that looked good.

Dinner - Regular dinner just like I eat now.

Snacks - Candy, cake, brownies, muffins, soda, chips, fruit, crackers.

I didnt eat set meals before except for dinner and I mostly lived off of sugar containing products as you can see.

I am happy to say I no longer eat this way.

Biggest reason to lose weight- I want to feel sexy and comfortable with myself, also for health.

Laura

270/215/150ish

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Fri, 12-05-2003 - 9:54pm
First one..........before you started your new way of eating (or now if you're starting later) what is a typical day of food for you. What'd ya eat on an average day? Before i started dieting I ate high protein, mostly red meat based meals. tiny portions of veggies, no fruit. breakfast, nothing, lunch would be big gulp, big mac, fries. dinner was pot roast, steak or like 5 slices of pizza.

What is your biggest reason for trying to lose weight? I guess a simple answer would be I wanted to fullfill gods purpose for me. My losing weight has been a religious awakening in many ways. When my friend died after having lived in a cancer stricken body for years, it suddenly seemed so selfish of me to waste the healthy body I had been blessed with. A lot of people suffer so much in their bodies, here i was given such a gift, and I was wasting it. seemed like a total slap in the face to my friend, who suffered and struggled so long to just see here kids turn 3. maybe i shoulda been thinking this last week during my pork fest, lol. jenz

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Sat, 12-06-2003 - 7:51am

First one..........before you started your new way of eating (or now if you're starting later) what is a typical day of food for you.

Deb 270/228/145ish  (updated 4/19/04. Next weigh-in: 6/1/04)

 

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Sat, 12-06-2003 - 9:14am

I really didn't change my eating at all.

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Sat, 12-06-2003 - 11:04am

Ooh Deb that would bug me too.

 
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Sat, 12-06-2003 - 1:09pm
1. Before I started paying better attention my diet a typical day of eating was....

get up, have coffee, eat a pop tart eventually, then at dinner time eat ALOT of whatever was good. Then a snack when my husband got home from work at 1 am.

2. My BIGGEST REASON is that I want to feel good about myself. Mentally, emotionally, physically, etc. It's exhausting to hate yourself. Health is very much a part of it, but mostly I want to feel like a real person.

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Sat, 12-06-2003 - 4:05pm
Before I started really counting my calories, I'd have either bacon and eggs, a croissant, or an Odwalla bar with a Diet Coke. For lunch I'd have either a hot dog, or a slice of pizza (only rarely did I pack my own lunch). For dinner I'd either get fast food (Taco Bell, McDonald's, Carl's Jr, Jack in the Box) or I'd have a TV dinner. I might have run to the grocery store and gotten some candy or something if I was having a craving for something sweet. Oh, and I seriously drank 6 Diet Cokes a day.

Vanity is about 70% of the reason I'm losing weight. I just think I'm ugly when I'm fat, and I'm tired of being ugly. I don't feel comfortable meeting men and I want to have a relationship some day. I'd like to wear shorts and go swimming and eat in public without wondering if other people are privately laughing at me or criticizing me. Of course, I also want to lose weight because my mother has to have both knees replaced and has already had one hip replaced--she's 53, with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and is testing as pre-diabetic. I want to avoid the same fate.

Whew. Better get started on studying.

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Registered: 11-26-2003
Sat, 12-06-2003 - 4:47pm
Typical day of food (pre-diet)

Breakfast: nothing, and once a week (haha... could only afford it once a week) was McDonalds bacon egg and cheese biscut, and hashbrowns. oh yeah and mountain dew

Lunch: left overs from the night before (not too bad) or something from either a fast food place, or one of the pizza places around where i work (like subs or something)

Dinner: i have always eaten a fairly good dinner... except my portion control was horrible, and once a week we would go out for dinner.

Snacks: chips, ice cream, candy, anything really fatty or sugary or super salty.

plus i (at one point) was drinking 3 bottles (16 ounces) of mountain dew a day... i have since stopped that... that was almost as hard to give up as smoking was! haha...

the main reason i want to lose weight is because i want to be able to have kids... and at the rate i am going i won't be able to do that... also i want to be skinny, and i want to look darn good when i get married... haha... not that im engaged yet... but i can hope! haha

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Registered: 09-04-2003
Sat, 12-06-2003 - 6:08pm
Typical former days' worth of food:

Breakfast was fruit, oatmeal and tea... not too bad, unless it was followed with birthday cake or homemade treats at the office.

Lunch wavered between soup and salad or greasy carry-in (sub, fries, whatever).

Lots of Pepsi (6 wasn't unusual) during the day, and a boredom break for candy or chips in the afternoon... "first dinner" when I got home around 6 (snack of some sort, not always healthy, need I add?), followed by dinner when my bf got home... meat-and-potatoes type stuff or pizza/chinese.

Scary, huh?

Motivations for losing weight:

Began when I found that my live-in bf of 10 years was having an affair. Not only was it wretched in and of itself, but I felt like it was at least partially my fault, and also powerless to do anything, even confront the witch... because she might feel justified if she saw me. This also came in the midst of several deaths, none weight-related, but it made me look at my health much more seriously.

So, maybe 40% health, 60% vanity (including the clothes-shopping aspect ;-)

Mickie

262.5/229/135

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