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Good Monday morning everyone!!
Today, I think I'll post about setting goals, and calorie limits.
I don't know about anyone else, but setting realistic goals is important to me. I set a little unrealistic goal of loose 85 pounds. I should have set a more realistic goal of maybe 25 to 30 pounds. The thing is, I had already lost 20 pounds before I started on this site. That 20 was basically effortless. I quit taking one of my pain medications, because it just wasn't working. I dropped 15 of those pounds within days of stopping it.
I looked into that particular pain med, and one of the side effects,,,,,,,,,you got it!! WEIGHT GAIN!!
I am now on a different pill, and it works.. No weight gain side effect on this one.
With the 20 already lost, and now the 7 I lost this week, thats almost 30 pounds already. I guess I could always set my goal at 250, then once I reach that goal, set it for 200. etc. until I get to the ultimate goal of 165.
Setting more realistic goals gives you more freedom to meet that goal, and to trick yourself that it is within your reach. It makes getting to that goal that much easier. Once at your goal, you can say to yourself, hey, that wasn't so bad!! I CAN do this! Pat yourself on the back for getting there, and go buy a new shirt, or sandals!! Then reset your goals, to loose another 20 or so pounds, and keep it up!!
Right now, I would be the happiest person just to reach the 200 mark. I AM learning to love myself just as I am right now.
You can hate the weight you have on your body, but love you. who you are, no matter what you look like or how much you weigh or what size clothes you wear.
YOU are a beautiful person!! Treat yourself with respect. Don't hide yourself in your home, or behind dark baggy clothing. Get clothing that fits and flatters you. You are who you are. only you can change that.
On the subject of calorie intake, thats another place to go hog wild and unreasonable. Its a place where you can sabotage your goals.
Lots of people go crazy when they start dieting, without a specific diet plan or way of eating in place. Diets themselves are another topic, that has supporters on every front. But right now I'm just talking calorie intake.
Counting calories is a bunch easier than I thought. The counting calorie part. Some people figure the less calories I eat, the more weight I'll lose and it will come off faster.
That's not quite how it works.
You enter a weight in the widget here, and your height, and it will calculate how many calories you should eat a day to lose weight slowly. That is the BIG KEY!! SLOWLY!! You didn't put this weight on over night. Taking it off slowly helps you once you reach your goal to keep it off.
Readjusting your calorie intake to 500 calories will defeat you rather quickly. How??? Your body is quite complex. If you eat large portions, eat lots of cake, and pie, and candy, you will gain weight. Your body converts all that sugar, etc that it can't burn, into fat. Its your bodys way of storage, against the day that there isn't as much fuel coming in. Then It burns the fat.
When you drastically cut the amount of calories, less than 1200 calories, your body goes into a survival mode. It may burn your fat that you have stored, but once your body recognises that you are only eating say 800 calories a day, it shifts from burning fat, to storing it. It is a self defense mechanism. Your body is storing the fat like that because it wants to keep on working. It keeps the fat to protect your organs from failing.
When you eat say, from 1200 calories to 1800 calories, you get enough fuel to keep your body from hoarding that fuel as fat, and you will lose the weight you want. It is pretty complex, and there are other factors that will frustrate you. but that is for another day, and another post.
Have a happy Monday everyone, and keep up that diet fight!!! I'll be right here with ya, fighting too!!
Diet Calendar Entries for 22 July 2013:
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1430 kcal
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Fat: 107.49g | Prot: 82.48g | Carb: 29.07g.
Breakfast: equate fiber powder, Non-Dairy French Vanilla Coffee Creamer, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds, Decaffeinated). Lunch: Grape Tomatoes, Pure certified Organic Baby Spinach (Sams Club), Taylor Farms Iceberg & Romaine Blend, Colby Jack Cheese, Delallo Italian Style Pepperoni, Lemon Dill Salad Dressing. Dinner: Scrambled Egg (Whole, Cooked), Eggland's Best Large Grade A Eggs, Hot Sausage, Fresh Salsa with Cilantro. Snacks/Other: Lemon Juice (Canned or Bottled). more...
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3552 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Standing - 35 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 20 minutes, Cooking Supper - 20 minutes, Driving - 10 minutes, Desk Work - 5 hours, Sleeping - 9 hours and 30 minutes, Resting - 8 hours and 5 minutes. more...
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