abbadabba's Journal, 26 October 2016

I looked at your weight loss chart - wow! You are doing so good! Congratulations on sticking to your plan. :) 

Keep up the good work!!! You rock! 

@ny_shelly the way I have to eat, I end up having to snack just before I go to sleep. It is the only way I could have done this - I was told what to do and did it. The one thing that sold me was that I was told that I might have to end up forcing myself to eat every day to get everything in and sure enough the first week I did have to start really adding food to my plan. 

Just a word of warning on many of those low-fat things out there: they're usually LOADED with sugar... (The manufacturers have to exponentially increase the amount of sugar they put in the product to make up for the amount of fat they remove from the product because fats are natural flavorants). But you ARE doing awesome!!! Keep up the good work, and much continued success to you! :) 

One other question Abbadabba -- how did you overcome the "having to force yourself to eat" thing in order to make sure you were getting enough nutrients? I'm experiencing the same thing... I've found that eating whole, nutritious foods is so much more filling and satiating than processed crap, and I find myself eating WAY less than I used to, and feeling fuller for longer. And I mean *much longer* - like I can go sometimes upward of 8 hours not being hungry at all after breakfast. But I know that doing so is depriving my body of the fuel it needs to function properly, and I wind up feeling "weak" but yet energetic. The only problem is, if I even try to eat a cheese stick between, I get nauseous... I'm *that* not-hungry... Any suggestions? 

@Roobert I was told to eat 125 grams of carbs and 125 grams of protein for my 125 pound goal. I was told to eat 4 times a day, 300 or so calories each time. No soda, no diet soda, no white rice, no white potatoes. One cheat day per week. I try to add fruit 2 or 3 times a day especially to keep "regular" (my trainer was very specific as to the reason!). 300 calories is easy to eat. I actually don't eat much cheese because it seems to be really fatty and not much protein which is what I need. I eat tuna, canned salmon, and protein powder in coffee as snacks to hit the 1200 efficiently. @Draglist I will look for that recipe!