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| Sat, 09-16-2006 - 6:05am |
Hi my name is Valerie I am 36 and sadly fall in the 100 to lose category. I have really bad knees' obviously from carrying so much weight around. My dr. says they will feel better once I lose some weight. But it's hard to do when your activity is limited, I always feel like I am starving on diets. Today I signed up for the fitday.com food diary and I want to try and limit my bad calories, without having the feeling that I am starving! LOL any advice would be helpful.
Valerie

Maryanne
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Angela
Angela
Hi Valerie and welcome to the board. I use fitday myself.. I track every bite that goes inside my mouth.. I find it very helpful. When you start to decrease the volume of food you eat, you'll obviously feel hungry.. the trick is to find food with large volume but low in calorie. Like the 94% popcorn.. there are 100 calorie packs for those and it's a lot of food. Drinking plenty of water also helps. Vegetables in general are low in calorie but fill you up real nice. Stock up with health food that you can snack on. You can have a look at the journals below and get ideas from there.
Good luck on your journey.. looking forward to knowing you better
HI Valerie! Just wanted to say welcome to our board. The key for me is to eat six mini-meals a day with a carb and a protein at every meal). Check out my journal and you'll see how a typical day goes for me (when I'm on track). I also cut out all refined carbs. For example instead of white rice, I eat brown rice. I eat whole grains (whole grain bread, pasta, etc..) I cut out all the white stuff. I also think the key for me has been that once I binge just to get back on track immediately. Hope this helps and I look forward to getting to know you better on the board.
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Welcome to the board, Valerie! I've heard a lot of good things about Fitday.com. If you like fruits and veggies, you could fix up ready made servings of them to have around for quickie snacks. If you have the healthy stuff handy, you can fill up on that whenever the munchies hit. That way you're getting in your daily servings and not starving.
Kaelynn
Hello, Valerie--
I can totally empathize with your bad knees; that was probably the most noticable weight-related problem for me, and the one that finally convinced me I'd better do something before I lost my mobility completely!
The good news is that even a small weight loss made a really pronounced improvement in the way my knees felt. And that in turn made it easier to exercise, which made it easier to lose weight, which helped my knees even more, etc. Last month I went on a week-long hiking tour, something that six months ago I could never have done! It is really worth the effort. I've also found that when I take in less sodium, my knees feel better. Don't know if it's the water-weight, or some other alchemy, but whatever the reason, I'll take it.
As for "starving", it might take some time to adjust. Eating lots of healthy fiber and some (not too much) fat helps me feel less empty... and WATER. Best of lucj to you!