What did you eat today, and are you fat?

[Anonymous]

PP- Agree. Not bad in my book at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP- Agree. Not bad in my book at all.

Hence the "body image issues" thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad day today

oatmeal w/ skim milk
banana

1oz potato chips (first time in like 5 years - I am normally a sweets girl but desperately needed something salty today)

minestrone soup

mini-bag popcorn (salty craving still not conquered)

israeli couscous with sauteed spinach, mushrooms, and onion.
top of a small cupcake (with frosting)

workout - 10 mins sprints, 10 mins jumping, 10 mins squats

Very. very bad day - tomorrow will be better

This is a bad day?

I am the OP of the "finally losing weight and miserable thread". I ate very little protein, barely drank any water, and didnt get a good workout or a good night sleep. I have to be perfect to lose weight, so for me, it was a very bad day.

[Anonymous]

Hey, pp: let's revisit your diet and workout. One of the things that I'm seeing is that you are working out fairly inefficiently. Trade that workout for a good 45 minutes lifting/core session 2-3x weekly. If you don't have a gym, try bodyrock on YouTube or maybe one of the DVDs. Three more days---two of these can be weekends so you sleep---aim for 60-75 minutes of moderate to low intensity cardio. Think plopping kids in stroller and taking nice long walks, or if they are bigger, hitting the bike paths or hiking. There are really nice hikes in the area.

Then fix your food: breakfast should be around 400 calories and hit the protein hard. My favorite is an omelette or scrambled eggs with a whole egg and a bunch of egg whites, spinach, peppers, mushrooms and a bit of cheese. Add coffee if you drink it, some bacon if you like. Avoid the fruit so early or you will be starving all day.

Lunch is a giant salad with 4 oz of lean protein and some fat. Water, unsweetened tea, coffee....no juice or artificial nonsense. Watch the carbs: I'm paleo so no grains. I do like and recommend Greek yogurt but get the plain kind: fage is sweeter plain than many of the others---and add fruit.
Dinner: lean protein and veggies. Pasta packs a caloric wallop and causes insulin spikes that derail weight loss, WW be damned. One half cup is 100 calories and most people eat2-3 times that.

Easy, you won't be hungry, and your poor abused body will thank you.

[Anonymous]

Carbs and few fruits/veggies. Yeah, I'm fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, pp: let's revisit your diet and workout. One of the things that I'm seeing is that you are working out fairly inefficiently. Trade that workout for a good 45 minutes lifting/core session 2-3x weekly. If you don't have a gym, try bodyrock on YouTube or maybe one of the DVDs. Three more days---two of these can be weekends so you sleep---aim for 60-75 minutes of moderate to low intensity cardio. Think plopping kids in stroller and taking nice long walks, or if they are bigger, hitting the bike paths or hiking. There are really nice hikes in the area.

Then fix your food: breakfast should be around 400 calories and hit the protein hard. My favorite is an omelette or scrambled eggs with a whole egg and a bunch of egg whites, spinach, peppers, mushrooms and a bit of cheese. Add coffee if you drink it, some bacon if you like. Avoid the fruit so early or you will be starving all day.

Lunch is a giant salad with 4 oz of lean protein and some fat. Water, unsweetened tea, coffee....no juice or artificial nonsense. Watch the carbs: I'm paleo so no grains. I do like and recommend Greek yogurt but get the plain kind: fage is sweeter plain than many of the others---and add fruit.
Dinner: lean protein and veggies. Pasta packs a caloric wallop and causes insulin spikes that derail weight loss, WW be damned. One half cup is 100 calories and most people eat2-3 times that.

Easy, you won't be hungry, and your poor abused body will thank you.

You don't ever get bread or pasta? I'd rather be fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, pp: let's revisit your diet and workout. One of the things that I'm seeing is that you are working out fairly inefficiently. Trade that workout for a good 45 minutes lifting/core session 2-3x weekly. If you don't have a gym, try bodyrock on YouTube or maybe one of the DVDs. Three more days---two of these can be weekends so you sleep---aim for 60-75 minutes of moderate to low intensity cardio. Think plopping kids in stroller and taking nice long walks, or if they are bigger, hitting the bike paths or hiking. There are really nice hikes in the area.

Then fix your food: breakfast should be around 400 calories and hit the protein hard. My favorite is an omelette or scrambled eggs with a whole egg and a bunch of egg whites, spinach, peppers, mushrooms and a bit of cheese. Add coffee if you drink it, some bacon if you like. Avoid the fruit so early or you will be starving all day.

Lunch is a giant salad with 4 oz of lean protein and some fat. Water, unsweetened tea, coffee....no juice or artificial nonsense. Watch the carbs: I'm paleo so no grains. I do like and recommend Greek yogurt but get the plain kind: fage is sweeter plain than many of the others---and add fruit.
Dinner: lean protein and veggies. Pasta packs a caloric wallop and causes insulin spikes that derail weight loss, WW be damned. One half cup is 100 calories and most people eat2-3 times that.

Easy, you won't be hungry, and your poor abused body will thank you.

Thanks for the advice. My workouts are generally very efficient - its 4-5 days a week of 30-60 min of HIIT and weights - think a mix of sprints, squats, weights, burpees, etc. I am very active on the weekends with 2 small kids, but a hike just isnt going to cut it for cardio.

I totally agree I need to add more protein to my day. I am working on it. I dont eat much meat and most of the veg-based proteins are high in carbs (beans, lentils, etc). I dont like yogurt or eggs. I am a super picky eater and this is most of my problem. I brought salad ingredients to work on Monday and they are still sitting in the fridge bc I really dont want to eat them.

I dont drink anything except water and an occasional coffee of glass of wine.

Pasta is definitely my weakness and I try to avoid it in the evenings, but its tough for me.

Overall, if I add more protein and a little more sleep, I'll be better off, but the diet you described would make me want to binge all the time

Giving up grains might have worked for you, but I've tried it in the past and it made me unhappy (much more unhappy than the extra 10-20 lbs makes me) and simply wasnt worth it to me.

[Anonymous]

"You don't ever get bread or pasta? I'd rather be fat."

I'm not the poster you're addressing, but personally after changing up my diet and focusing on eating more high quality proteins + veggies, I rarely want to eat bread or pasta. I do eat brown rice, quinoa and oatmeal, and will have a serving of whole grain bread every other day and whole wheat pasta once a month, but I'm just not into white breads or pasta any more.

[Anonymous]

It isn't that I am dying for them and don't eat them. I honestly don't miss them: I bake twice a week--bread, brownies, cinnamon rolls and such--for family and friends and the crew at work because I like to bake. I simply don't eat them and really don't want them. I feel so much better without and so bad with that it is not an issue.

Now, if I had to give up dark chocolate it would be a different story. Or coffee.

Once you make up your mind to do something it isn't hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't that I am dying for them and don't eat them. I honestly don't miss them: I bake twice a week--bread, brownies, cinnamon rolls and such--for family and friends and the crew at work because I like to bake. I simply don't eat them and really don't want them. I feel so much better without and so bad with that it is not an issue.

Now, if I had to give up dark chocolate it would be a different story. Or coffee.

Once you make up your mind to do something it isn't hard.

And I have no interest in chocolate or coffee, but bake bread/dessert weekly and would eat the entire thing if I didnt exert significant will power. We all have our own battles.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but if I made up my mind to give up coffee/chocolate I would. I've done so.

Besides, my one piece of dark chocolate a day is somewhere around 50 calories. A bar lasts me a week! And coffee isn't sabotaging my efforts to weigh what I want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but if I made up my mind to give up coffee/chocolate I would. I've done so.

Besides, my one piece of dark chocolate a day is somewhere around 50 calories. A bar lasts me a week! And coffee isn't sabotaging my efforts to weigh what I want to.

Thats not what you said in your first post. You said "Now, if I had to give up dark chocolate it would be a different story. Or coffee. "

So clearly, you recognize that everyone has their own vices and some are harder than others to give up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't that I am dying for them and don't eat them. I honestly don't miss them: I bake twice a week--bread, brownies, cinnamon rolls and such--for family and friends and the crew at work because I like to bake. I simply don't eat them and really don't want them. I feel so much better without and so bad with that it is not an issue.

Now, if I had to give up dark chocolate it would be a different story. Or coffee.

Once you make up your mind to do something it isn't hard.

I don't WANT to give up bread or pasta, or stop wanting them. They are part of the fullness of life for me.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast: yogurt
Snack: hot cocoa (w. whipped cream) and big cookie
Lunch: salad but also french fries
Snack: jelly beans
Dinner: almost a pint of mashed potatoes, pretzel chips, strawberries (obvi snacking before dinner, then didn't eat any dinner).

[Anonymous]

I was on deadline today and didn't eat properly, then went to a friend's for dinner.

2 cups black tea with milk

2 fish tacos on 5" corn tortillas with pineapple, cilantro, salad mix and hot sauce

apple, few grapes

whole red pepper

Homemade curry with white rice

sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, mango

2 small peppermint patties


I'm morbidly obese.