Saturday, January 24, 2009

Going Great

Let's just say I just love the Calorie King website. It makes things sooooo much easier doesn't it? It works out not only the calories but also anything else I feel the need to calculate, like fibre, fat, carbs, protein - you name it! And all at the click of a button - just great.
Went to my brother's for dinner last night, as him and his girlfriend are following Weight Watchers at the moment and decided to do a WW dinner. It was okay cause as everything was very healthy and low fat I was easily able to add my calories into Calorie King when I got home. Anyway, even going out to dinner and drinking 2 glasses of wine I still was under my calorie allocation of 1710 for the day - how exciting is that! Normally, if I went out for dinner (whether to a friends or restaurant) that would have been the end of my diet for the day cause I would have eaten crap. We were big on the dips, chips, wine, cheese sort of dinners but last night the meal was as follows:
Zucchini Soup (no cream) with small wholemeal dinner roll (no butter)Thai Prawn Salad (absolutely the best)Crumbed chicken strips (no oil used) with roastsed (canola spray) mixed vegiesFresh Fruit platter (watermelon, pineapple, strawberries, grapes and cherries)
Probably doesn't look very appetizing cause there was no cream, no oil, no butter but believe me I was pleasantly surprised and how tasty and filling the whole meal was. I have now vowed to have them back to my place and try the same thing.
Thanks to Calorie King I can stay on top of everything and I have now just realised I can print out each day's diary which gives you a quick rundown on what your totals have been for the day and the end result (ie whether calories were under or over and how much by!!)
So anyway, my week so far (and it has only been 4 days) has been really good and I have stayed under my calorie allowance EVERY day (one day by 294) so am looking forward to my first weighin next Wednesday morning (fingers crossed).
I'm excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

New Start

Well I have a new blog name (new year, new me) as I am starting (again) this weight loss journey. It is yet closer again to that dreaded 50 (Sep 2010) so I know that this time has to be the VERY last time if I am to be 50 and at goal. I did this when I stopped smoking as I was not going to be 40 and a smoker and here I am 10 years later and still not smoking. I therefore can't see the difference here and intend to make this the weightloss effort that works, once and for all.

I have thought long and hard about what I need to do and rather than do a specific diet like that tells me what to eat and what not to eat, I am going to take all the experience of dieting in the last 20 years and take the good and chuck out the bad. I do know that dieting does make you fat - hey look at me, a prime example cause I am now 30 kilos heavier than when I started dieting 20 years ago. My weight has just gone up and up and up even though I start 3-4 diets every single year. The money I have spent I don't even want to think about - my husband would have a coronary if he knew. We could have had 3 world trips I reckon on the money I have spent on diets, diet books, gym memberships (that stopped after 3 months), on diet foot. The lists is endless and what I would like to know is why the hell am I now fatter. Obviously, dieting doesn't work but then on the other hand I have also tried the "no dieting" diet and still ended up heavier than when I started.

Soooo,,,, I know what I should eat and what I shouldn't eat. I am going to concentrate on healthier options for example have a pizza with no cheese instead of with cheese, drink water instead of diet coke, grain breads instead of white with the biggest thing I really know I need to do and that is to reduce my portion sizes. I need to stop eating before I am stuffed and also start (slowly) to exercise (which I hate with a vengence by the way!).

So here goes everybody, today is day one (22nd Jan) and I hope to keep this blog up to date whether it be good or bad news.

Shaz