Update

Well it's been a few but I've been doing really well. So far I'm down 9 pounds. 9 pounds have been left on the floor at the gym. I've been eating right and exercising 2-3 times a week for an hour each time. I know I could be working out more than that but for now that's all good. No need to get all crazy. :) So 9 pounds in 22 days. So I'm losing about a half a pound a day. That's not bad. I've decided that I'm not going to buy clothes until my birthday, that will by my present to myself and hopefully a smaller present. So it's 45 days until my birthday if I keep this up that will be another 20 pounds. Now being a reasonable person I realize that 20 pounds is a lot and at some point I will plateau so I'm not going to be disappointed if I don't make that goal. I will however be disappointed if I don't make 15 pounds by then. So here's to hoping I'm smoking hot for my birthday!!

NO I did not forget.... I have just been super busy.....
I have been doing very good at making myself eat 4-6 times a day. I feel full all of the time.
I have also been pretty good about not eating out at work and I have done great with no fast food.
Today I had scrambled eggs for breakfast with a couple small pieces of bacon (just because I have to get it out of my house), toast and orange-pineapple juice.

an orange

Lunch/Dinner;
Lean Cuisine lemon pecan chicken and lima beans

Day 6 Friday

I ordered a new scale, it's one of those body fat percentage scales and it came yesterday. Well it's probably a good thing I went to the gym yesterday and today. That made me feel even worse about myself let me tell you. It's one thing to know you are fat, but it's another thing to see it right there in front of your face in blinking numbers how much of your body is actually made up of fat. Soooooo I need to fix this. I need to keep off my arse as much as possible.

Breakfast

carnation breakfast essentials 220 calories/5 calories from fat. Tried the vanilla one today. I can't tell whether or not I like it. It's like a weird version of a mcdonalds shake only not frozen. I guess I could go all out and mix it with the ice but that's just too much drama that early in the morning.

Lunch
Ham sandwich
ham 105 calories/30 calories from fat
bread 200 calories/20 calories from fat
mustard 20 calories/0 calories from fat

3 slices of ham 105 calories/30 calories from fat


Snack
Kashi bar 120 calories/30 calories from fat.

Dinner
baked chicken Lean cuisine 240 calories 45 calories from fat

Went crazy and had a mountain dew...that's what stress will do for me...get me a pop and I'm fine. I need to stop the pop but hey 2 in 5 days is not bad. 110 calories/0 calories from fat.

Total for today is 1120 calories and 160 calories from fat. I feel as though I need to work out again tomorrow morning stupid scale.

Hey everyone, just checkin' in.



I haven't been doing very well with keeping track of what I am eating. I am trying to incorporate more fruits and veggies in my diet. What I really wanted to do was up my activity level, because now it is hovering near non existant. I really want to start walking on the treadmill at work, but six months ago I effed up my foot and it still hurts to walk on it. I did go to my doctor today, but ran into a little (major) insurance snafu. Once I get that settled, I can get my foot feeling better and plan to hit the ground running so to speak.

Day 5 Thursday.

Well I went to the gym we'll see how my knee feels later, I'm betting not so great but that's ok. I don't really want to go to the doctor just yet because he's going to tell me that hey you are fat that's why your knees suck so bad. So I want to try and lose some weight and see if that helps and if not then I'll go to the doctor, by then they should be nice and screwed up. :) Well today I did 23 minutes on the elliptical. I went for 1.51 miles. 20 minutes was straight up workout and 3 minutes of cool down period. Just from a personal note I hate that cool down period, I signed up for 20 minutes of working out not 25. Stupid machine trying to get me more fit than I want to be so my own personal hmmph to the machine was getting off after 3 minutes of cool down. :) After the elliptical I worked on the machines for 30-35 minutes. I better be smokin' hot when this is all over.


Breakfast
Carnation instant breakfast 220 calories and 10 calories from fat


Lunch
roasted chicken breast sub from subway 650 calories 80 calories from fat.

snack

Kashi bar 120 calories/30 calories from fat

Dinner

Lean cuisine swedish meatballs 310 calories and 70 calories from fat

I did break down and have a coke at one point I was stressin a bit. 240 calories/0 calories from fat

Well this seems to be my biggest calorie day so far at 1540 and 190 calories from fat. Good thing I worked out and that I'm going to work out tomorrow as well. Tomorrow no subway sticking to my failsafe ham sandwich.

Day 4

This is yesterdays info.

breakfast
carnation instant breakfast 220c/10 calories from fat

lunch
kashi bar 120 calories/30 calories from fat
turkey sandwich
turkey 90 calories/30 calories from fat
honey mustard 20 calories and 0 calories from fat
bread 200 calories and 20 calories from fat

grapple 80 calories/0 calories from fat

dinner
lean cuisine cheese ravioli 250 calories/54 calories from fat
special k bar 90 calories/15 calories from fat

snack
2 cups of special k cereal w/skim milk 320 calories/0 calories from fat

total for yesterday is 1390 calories and 129 calories from fat.

and then dinner
1 can of chef boyardee ravioli
480 calories and 140 calories from fat.
water, water and more water.

Lunch

Lunch at Red Lobster
1 cheddar bay biscuit
1 garden salad with no croutons very little balsamic vinegarette
Lunch grilled Tilapia
Rice Pilaf
Broccolli
Iced Tea with no sugar
Total calories 688//Total calories from fat 199


SNACK
1 Orange 85 calories and 2 calories from fat

Not too bad and I was full!!!!!

Not Good

Well I think I overdid it with the work out yesterday because now my knee is all swollen up and it hurts to walk. Looks like I'll be having to go back to the surgeon sometime soon. Crap, crap, crap.

Breakfast a medium banana. 105 calories and 4 calories from fat.

Dinner revioli and water

Day 3 (it's gonna be the death of me)

So I went and worked out this morning with Andrea. I did 1.1 miles on the elliptical in 15 minutes. Not great but for the first time in 2 years 15 minutes is pretty darn good on the elliptical machine. Then we did arms and I did inner and outer thigh whatever that may be called. I call the machines the yes no machine. I don't know their technical terms but I know that I'm in some pain right about now. haaaaaa. So we worked out for 45 minutes or so total.

Breakfast
carnation instant breakfast 220 calories/10 calories from fat

Water at the gym

Lunch
kiwi 46 calories and 0 calories from fat
Ham sandwich
ham 140 calories/40 calories from fat
bread 200 calories/20 calories from fat
mustard 20 calories/0 calories from fat

snacks at work
raspberry peaches 240 calories/0 calories from fat
2 cups of veggies 50 calories/0 calories from fat

Dinner
New England Crab Soup 80 calories/5 calories from fat

So far my totals for the day are 946 calories and 75 calories from fat.

That leaves me with 809 calories & 276 calories from fat left to go. Looks like I might be able to go to b-dubs and have some naked tenders after all. :)

Well no work out is planned for tomorrow we are going to work out on Thursday and Friday then get ourselves on a M,W,F plan.

For lunch a huge orange

More interesting reading

On trying to find something that I could drink tonight that wouldn't push me over the edge I ran across this information. It seems that alcohol doesn't make you fatter what it does is stop your body from using stored fat as energy and uses the burned alcohol (acetate) as energy instead. So when you drink it stops your body from using the energy supplies you have on hand and instead uses the acetate as energy. This is a problem because I want to burn my fat and not the acetate. So now I need to decide what is more important getting rid of my fat ass or going out for a drink with the girls to b-dubs tonight. Why can't obese be in? I'd be totally cool right now.

Here is one of the websites that you can read that information on.

http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/alcohol.htm

Ok...glad to be back on the right track! For breakfast I had a banana and some pineapple! Yum yum! Water to drink. Welcome Andrea!!

Interesting Reading

Here are some cool sites that talk about how to find out how many calories a day you should be eating and what not.

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question457.htm

http://www.fatcalories.com/

http://www.calorieking.com/

http://www.nutritiondata.com/

I've posted the fatcalories one before but there is some great info there. I'm posting these as much for me as I am for you this way I can find them easily.

Holy Crap

So I just got the B-Dubs nutritional information. Guess why I'm such a fatass. Yup that's it right there. If anyone wants a copy of this let me know and I'll send it your way. Looks like from now on I'm getting naked tenders with honey bbq for a grand total of 328 calories and 120 calories from fat. Cripes now I have to figure out if it's better to drink vodka and lemonade or beer. Oh all these tough decisions that I have to make to get myself hot again. Sigh.

If anyone wants me to post the choose to lose calories let me know. It's the simplest diet and it actually works and you don't starve. You actually eat a ton.

Oh and everyone welcome Andrea she's starting with us on the website. Hi Andrea hope this works for you too!

Day 2 all over again....

Breakfast
Juice 300c/0fc
Raisin & Spice Oatmeal 300 c/0fc

Lunch Ham Sandwich
3 slices of ham 105c/30fc
honey mustard 10c/0fc
bread 160c/20fc

2 kashi bars 240c/60fc

Dinner
Lean Cuisine 260c/25fc
diet pepsi 0c/0fc

I know I should be drinking water but I finished the one I brought with me into work and my other ones are out in my car and are frozen. So tomorrow I will bring in 2 waters with me. Oh and tomorrow I start working out with Andrea. I'm kinda scared about that. Here's to hoping I don't end up needing knee surgery after working out since I can barely walk up the stairs as it is without going ouch, ouch, ouch. My knees suck, it's genetic. Ok back to the totals for today lets find out how much more I need to eat....1075 calories so far and 135 calories from fat so far. Getting to 1755 is pretty freaking hard I'm stuffed. Maybe tonight I'll have a snack. I didn't last night but I'll try to do that tonight.

********Updated Calories***********
I had a snack of a grapple 80c/0fc and 1 cup of low fat cottage cheese 180/40. This brings my total up to 1335 calories and 175 calories from fat. I didn't reach my calorie goal but I did awesome with my calories from fat. I still had 420 calories to go and I was 175 under my limit for calories from fat.

Day 1 All Over Again

Well no exercise today but I think I'm going to fix that tomorrow. Supposed to start working out. I'm back on Choose to Lose so that means 1750 calories and 351 fat calories a day. So far today I've had:

Breakfast Raisin & Spice Oatmeal 300c/40fc

Lunch Ham Sandwich
3 slices of ham 105c/30fc
honey mustard 10c/0fc
bread 160c/20fc

hot cocoa 150c/25fc

pancakes 150c/15fc
butter 30 c/0 fc
syrup 210 c/0fc

grapple 80c/0fc

That's 1045 calories and 130 calories from fat. I still technically need to eat 705 more calories. I'm sure I can find a snack before bed. :)

Rolling myself to the computer.

Well hi there, it's been a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time and I can sure feel it. I'm at the point now where I don't like any pictures of me I hate the way I feel and I really need to do something about it. So I am. I renewed my gym membership Friday and I'll start working out on Monday. I'm off to the grocery store to buy healthy food. I think before we go grocery shopping though I'm going to go through the pantry and toss all the bad stuff. It may not be popular by any means but it needs to be done. All of us could stand to lose some weight. So once again....Hi I'm Jaime and I'm a fat ass. Everyone has basically gone there own way when it comes to this but this is something I need so I'm going to continue to do this for myself and for my kid. I'll start keeping track of the food calories and calories from fat tomorrow but I just needed to get on here to see that it wasn't that hard to be good. So until tomorrow.