Food & Exercise -- 12/27/2003

Food:

9:00 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese

12:00 (out shopping): energy bar

2:30 (home): sandwich w/ 3.5 oz. grilled ham steak & 2 slices f/f
cheese on 1 slice whole wheat bread

5:00 (home): apple

7:00 (home): large salad w/ 3 oz. grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato,
baby corn, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, f/f balsamic vinaigrette;
3 mint meringue cookies

11:15 (home): 1 cup f/f cottage cheese w/ 4 tbs sugar-free orange
marmalade

Totals: 1295 calories, 25g fat (18%), 145g carbs (45%), 127g protein
(39%)

Averages for the week: 1727 calories, 24% fat, 42% carbs, 31% protein

Exercise: Just a little shopping.

Chris
262/168/???

Hi Chris,

I was just curious if you ever get bored eating some of the same things
over and over again. You sure have discipline that's for sure. Keep up the
great job. I noticed your nearing a 100 pound weight loss. GREAT JOB! I
envy you and hope to be right behind you in a few months.

Sincerely,

Paul
300/240/175


"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
Food:

9:00 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese

12:00 (out shopping): energy bar

2:30 (home): sandwich w/ 3.5 oz. grilled ham steak & 2 slices f/f
cheese on 1 slice whole wheat bread

5:00 (home): apple

7:00 (home): large salad w/ 3 oz. grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato,
baby corn, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, f/f balsamic vinaigrette;
3 mint meringue cookies

11:15 (home): 1 cup f/f cottage cheese w/ 4 tbs sugar-free orange
marmalade

Totals: 1295 calories, 25g fat (18%), 145g carbs (45%), 127g protein
(39%)

Averages for the week: 1727 calories, 24% fat, 42% carbs, 31% protein

Exercise: Just a little shopping.

Chris
262/168/???

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:54:05 -0600, "Paul"
wrote:

Hi Chris,

I was just curious if you ever get bored eating some of the same things
over and over again. You sure have discipline that's for sure. Keep up the
great job. I noticed your nearing a 100 pound weight loss. GREAT JOB! I
envy you and hope to be right behind you in a few months.

Sincerely,

Paul
300/240/175


Hi Paul,

I don't get bored with what I eat. I do eat quite a lot of different
stuff for some meals -- particularly because I eat out often. At home
we tend to have less variety, which I expect is fairly common in many
households. I think it's particularly common for people to eat the
same stuff for breakfast every day. I really like the poached eggs
that I've been eating daily. I only have it on days when I don't go
to work, so it has this sort of weekend/vacation connotation. (I'm
off from work until Jan. 5.) On work days I usually have the same
kind of cereal every day. I did the same sort of thing when I wasn't
dieting -- would find something I like a lot and eat it often.

Thanks for the compliment on the weight loss :-). I don't know about
discipline. I don't have much -- or really try to, I guess -- when
I'm out at parties and such. But day to day I guess I am relatively
disciplined.

The idea of a 100 pound loss is pretty amazing to me. When I started
all this I didn't think I wanted to go that low, but now I suppose I
will. I should note that I haven't lost nearly as fast as you're
doing so far -- this has taken me about 18 months. But that's fine
with me; it doesn't bother me to lose slowly. I expect that it will
take me a couple of months to lose another 6 pounds to get down to the
100 mark.

Chris (planning the next splurge for New Year's Eve)
262/168/???

hi chris

just wanted to let you know that you are doing a great job. I read your
posts everyday, you have come along way. You must be so proud of yourself.
Was wondering what your start weight was, and what your goal weight is? I
was on weight watchers before starting with Atkins and I so far have lost
30lbs. I decided to give Atkins a try to see if would give my weightloss a
boost, I have only 10lbs to go until I reach my goal. I know that I can
maintain my weight at the same weight for a period of time becuase I stayed
at 130lbs for three months before I started to lose again. And right now I'm
holding stronge at 125lbs.
Anyway, I'm hoping that by reading your posts about what you have to eat
I can get different ideas. And again congrads on being on top of things and
being strict with yourself. It must be hard to stay so focused and on top of
things???????

Keep up the amazing work

angie
"Paul" wrote in message
...
Hi Chris,

I was just curious if you ever get bored eating some of the same things
over and over again. You sure have discipline that's for sure. Keep up
the
great job. I noticed your nearing a 100 pound weight loss. GREAT JOB! I
envy you and hope to be right behind you in a few months.

Sincerely,

Paul
300/240/175


"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
Food:

9:00 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese

12:00 (out shopping): energy bar

2:30 (home): sandwich w/ 3.5 oz. grilled ham steak & 2 slices f/f
cheese on 1 slice whole wheat bread

5:00 (home): apple

7:00 (home): large salad w/ 3 oz. grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato,
baby corn, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, f/f balsamic vinaigrette;
3 mint meringue cookies

11:15 (home): 1 cup f/f cottage cheese w/ 4 tbs sugar-free orange
marmalade

Totals: 1295 calories, 25g fat (18%), 145g carbs (45%), 127g protein
(39%)

Averages for the week: 1727 calories, 24% fat, 42% carbs, 31% protein

Exercise: Just a little shopping.

Chris
262/168/???

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:20:15 -0500, "Anglea Woollcombe"
wrote:

hi chris

just wanted to let you know that you are doing a great job. I read your
posts everyday, you have come along way. You must be so proud of yourself.

Hi Angela,

Thanks for the compliment. I am proud of what I've done -- not so
much because of what I look like, but because I have been able to
succeed at something I set my mind to.l

Was wondering what your start weight was, and what your goal weight is?

I don't know if you're familiar with the notation lots of us use at
the end of our posts that shows this. In my case, it's: 262/168/???.
This means I started at 262 (this was in July, 2002), I currently
weigh 168, and my goal is "???". I have never set a goal weight. I
figure I'll just decide at some point that I'm where I want to stay.
It won't be too far from now. I have a lot of muscle and not an
excessive amount of body fat. And I'm a serious weightlifter, so
don't want to lost muscle or be skinny. (Also, I'm 55 years old, and
am not gonna look like Britney Spears no matter what I weigh :-) .)

I was on weight watchers before starting with Atkins and I so far have lost
30lbs. I decided to give Atkins a try to see if would give my weightloss a
boost, I have only 10lbs to go until I reach my goal. I know that I can
maintain my weight at the same weight for a period of time becuase I stayed
at 130lbs for three months before I started to lose again. And right now I'm
holding stronge at 125lbs.

I expect any of these plans will get you to goal. I have heard that
Atkins can sort of kick-start a stalled diet, though I wonder if that
doesn't make it harder to stay at the weight you've reached once
you've stopped doing it. I'm no expert on it, though.

Anyway, I'm hoping that by reading your posts about what you have to eat
I can get different ideas. And again congrads on being on top of things and
being strict with yourself. It must be hard to stay so focused and on top of
things???????

I don't honestly feel I'm all that strict. What I do is try to stick
to a reasonably low calorie level most days, but I allow myself fairly
frequent "cheat meals". So it doesn't feel all that rigid. I think
knowing I can eat yummy food periodically makes it easy to avoid
eating it daily.

Chris

Hi Chris

my start weight when I started weight watchers in March of this yrs was at
152.5lbs and for my height of 5'4 i was on the verge of being over weight.So
I decided to do something about it. I reached my first goal big goal weight
on Sept 11 of this yrs then had some personal problems and stress and went
off the program. I gained 5lbs from the end of Sept till dec 15 when I
decided to get back with my diet.
I started earlier in the month to cut certian things out of my eating
plan (donuts and chocalate and chips just pretty much all jusnk.) I have
done a couple of challenges where I have given up chocalate for months at a
time. I have done this twice now. The longest I can go is a month and a
half. There are other things that I challenge myself to give up for a
certian amount of time. Exspecially if I eat alot of them and I eat them or
drink them all the time.
I find this helps me to stay on track a little easier. I also keep track
of how long I can go in charts. I write down the amount of days I will go
without something then the date and then I put if I have had any or not had
any. In the had box I always mark down the number of whatever it is that I
had , so that I can keep track of it over the month. then at the end of the
month I tally each thing up.
My reward for doing a good job usually results in weightloss. And if this
happens then I am pleased. Also I find that doing this keeps me honest about
what I am eating at the same time.
You asked me what my final goal weight is for my height it is 116lbs. So
I am aiming for that. My next goal is to get from 125lbs to 120lbs, if I can
do that then I know that I can reach my main goal. so here's how my states
look so far

152.5/125lbs/120lbs???/116lbs?????
total lost so far is 30lbs since March 15 2003 took me 5months to lose it.

Angie
Ps sorry so long

"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:20:15 -0500, "Anglea Woollcombe"
wrote:

hi chris

just wanted to let you know that you are doing a great job. I read your
posts everyday, you have come along way. You must be so proud of
yourself.

Hi Angela,

Thanks for the compliment. I am proud of what I've done -- not so
much because of what I look like, but because I have been able to
succeed at something I set my mind to.l

Was wondering what your start weight was, and what your goal weight is?

I don't know if you're familiar with the notation lots of us use at
the end of our posts that shows this. In my case, it's: 262/168/???.
This means I started at 262 (this was in July, 2002), I currently
weigh 168, and my goal is "???". I have never set a goal weight. I
figure I'll just decide at some point that I'm where I want to stay.
It won't be too far from now. I have a lot of muscle and not an
excessive amount of body fat. And I'm a serious weightlifter, so
don't want to lost muscle or be skinny. (Also, I'm 55 years old, and
am not gonna look like Britney Spears no matter what I weigh :-) .)

I was on weight watchers before starting with Atkins and I so far have
lost
30lbs. I decided to give Atkins a try to see if would give my weightloss
a
boost, I have only 10lbs to go until I reach my goal. I know that I can
maintain my weight at the same weight for a period of time becuase I
stayed
at 130lbs for three months before I started to lose again. And right now
I'm
holding stronge at 125lbs.

I expect any of these plans will get you to goal. I have heard that
Atkins can sort of kick-start a stalled diet, though I wonder if that
doesn't make it harder to stay at the weight you've reached once
you've stopped doing it. I'm no expert on it, though.

Anyway, I'm hoping that by reading your posts about what you have to
eat
I can get different ideas. And again congrads on being on top of things
and
being strict with yourself. It must be hard to stay so focused and on top
of
things???????

I don't honestly feel I'm all that strict. What I do is try to stick
to a reasonably low calorie level most days, but I allow myself fairly
frequent "cheat meals". So it doesn't feel all that rigid. I think
knowing I can eat yummy food periodically makes it easy to avoid
eating it daily.

Chris

On 12/30/2003 4:24 AM, Anglea Woollcombe wrote:
Hi Chris

my start weight when I started weight watchers in March of this yrs was at
152.5lbs and for my height of 5'4 i was on the verge of being over weight.So
I decided to do something about it. I reached my first goal big goal weight
on Sept 11 of this yrs then had some personal problems and stress and went
off the program. I gained 5lbs from the end of Sept till dec 15 when I
decided to get back with my diet.
I started earlier in the month to cut certian things out of my eating
plan (donuts and chocalate and chips just pretty much all jusnk.) I have
done a couple of challenges where I have given up chocalate for months at a
time. I have done this twice now. The longest I can go is a month and a
half. There are other things that I challenge myself to give up for a
certian amount of time. Exspecially if I eat alot of them and I eat them or
drink them all the time.

I kind of go the opposite way -- I challenge myself to thing like:
- drink plenty of water (leaving little room for Diet Coke)
- eat plenty of fiber (setting a gram goal)
- eat "5 a day"

If I do that and keep within my caloric goal range then I am pretty much
replacing the junk with something else. I purposely decided not to give
up chocolate (but limit myself to "the good stuff") or coffee. For me
this is not about denial, just a new way of eating.

I find this helps me to stay on track a little easier. I also keep track
of how long I can go in charts. I write down the amount of days I will go
without something then the date and then I put if I have had any or not had
any. In the had box I always mark down the number of whatever it is that I
had , so that I can keep track of it over the month. then at the end of the
month I tally each thing up.

I like your check system. That would certainly work for me :-)

--
jmk in NC