losing lots of weight

my journey and journal through weight loss

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Day 1 | Seven-Day Diet

The following information comes from here.

THE DIET

Requirements

Food

4 apples

4 oranges

1 watermelon

2 pomegranates

Beverages

10 8 oz. glasses of water

Allowed

Food

watermelon

raspberries

blackberries

strawberries

Beverages

weight-loss drink (see recipe)

green tea

coffee (black or with skimmed milk)

Not Allowed

fruit juice

Weight-Loss Drink Recipe

2 tbsp. honey

8 oz. glass warm water

3 tbsp. fresh-squeezed lemon juice

Exercise

30-minute brisk walk

Oblique crunches

SHOPPING LIST

4 apples

4 oranges

1 watermelon

2 pomegranates

bag of lemons (opt.)

honey (opt.)

skim milk (opt.)

green tea bags (opt.)

coffee (opt.)

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LOG: Tuesday, May 10, 2016

STATS:

2014 Start Weight: 176 lbs.

Current Weight: 161 lbs.

Weight Loss: 15 lbs.

Goal Weight: 155

Goal Date: June 7, 2016

GOALS:

June 7, 2016 (4 weeks): 155

July 5, 2016 (8 weeks): 150

August 2, 2016 (12 weeks): 145

NOTES: Whew! 2 years and 15 pounds! Can’t believe it. Now to get this last bit off before summer ends.

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It’s been a while.

It’s been a long time since I logged on to this ole blog to write something about fitness. However, I have lost a bunch since I started this blog! I’m back on here because I’m now a college graduate and I’m ready to tone up for the summertime and look hot. Next post will be my weight loss and then I’ll post up what my workout schedule for the upcoming month is to be.

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Hello 168.5

Though I was pretty discouraged after drinking half a fifth of tequila on New Years Eve and bringing in the New Year with a Jalapeño Crunch Burger from Steak n Shake... I continued to work out (though I skipped like 3 days in a row 😳) and eat under 1200 calories, 1500 at most and I just weighed myself. At the end of the day, mind you --- something I never fucking do because you always weigh more. I guess I was feeling particularly self loathing today, so I thought "hey scale, tell me how I'll never lose weight!" Ever. In my life. But anyways... I weigh 168.5. Which is approximately an 8 pound weight loss so far. And I have gotten down this low by starving myself. But I'm not doing that now so I guess it's cool. I tried a little p90x3 the other day. Made my thighs burn. I may dabble with that some more but it's my dad's so it's at his house. I plan to run/jog around the track at my apartment complex tomorrow as my exercise and then I will work on doing some art/home projects for my apartment which will burn some more time and calories. Then later I will go and write music with a friend and probably hopefully drink some whiskey. But I'll leave calories for the whiskey. This is the plan. I will report if I follow it. Probably

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journal journalllingg

Had a double day of unproductiveness in the realm of fitness. I boozed it at the Titans game but mostly ate veggies and greens, except for a cup of baked mac and cheese. I've burned 5000 calories this past 7 days which is just a little under my goal. But I'm going to do 3000 tomorrow and 2000 the next day to get up to 10,000 for 10 days. It's gonna be awesome. 

I think I'll plan my cleanse/fasting experiments for between January 3-10. That will be something to look forward to. I need to start collecting recipes as well but I'll do that as much as possible.

My body feels GREAT though! Even with the days I have missed in working out. I'm thinking it will feel awesome by the next two days. I'm gaining a lot of self esteem and confidence. I really like having a fit life.

Need to do arms bicep/tricep workout tomorrow. I'll post what my workout is tomorrow as well.

XXX

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Buckwheat & chia oatmeal with melted chocolate chips, pomegranate seeds, sliced almonds, coconut-almond milk, and peanut butter.

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Omg. Need to try this. Soon.

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Weigh In

I was nervous about weighing in today because I didn't tread-climb the 25th or 26th but I did eat well and I did arm and other strength training on the 26th. My goal for weight for today was to be 171 pounds even or less. And while I didn't hit that goal perfectly, I weighed in at 171.3! Super happy about that. I adjusted all my goals so that I am now aiming to be 169.3 on New Years Eve (I don't know if adjusting is the way to go but it works for me...). So now I have lost a total of around 5 pounds in the 10 or so days of working out. Happy with that! Since I skipped Christmas work out, I will not get to rest Sunday. I'm drinking a black coffee right now and then I'm going to be ambitious and see if I can complete a run/walk to my boyfriends house. He lives about 5-7 minutes away by car but about an hour by walking (I've walked it before but never ran). I'm going to try out some energy gels today. Well maybe just one about half way through my run. They are 100 calories! I think I'll do the Clif bar mocha kind. I'm going to write a short blurb on how my workout went later. Confession: I ate half a cookie for breakfast this morning. And on that note, See ya!

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Detox Drinks

I think I'm going to try this detox drink out tomorrow. This post has been up for a while on myproana.com from StarvingActress. I want to do some detoxifying for sure this week. So here's two different detox recipes for the ole file, including one you may not be familiar with and another that you've probably tried already.

(Modified from original posts' text)

Apple Pie Detox Drink

makes 1 liter

Ingredients:

water

up to 2 tbsp raw, organic apple cider vinegar

up to 1 tsp cinnamon

sweetener of your choice (SweetLead, Stevia, maple syrup, honey, etc...)

Directions: 

Mix ingredients and blend in a blender/ magic bullet till smooth.

Pour into glass and enjoy!

Master Cleanse (Fast)

Ingredients:

2 tbsp organic lemon juice

2 tbsp organic grade B maple syrup

1/10 tsp ground cayenne pepper

10 oz filtered water

Directions:

Drink a minimum of 12 glasses a day whenever hungry. 

Take a laxative before bed. (or Salt Water Flush)

(refer to themastercleanse.org for more info)

I have never done either of these, so I can't really recommend anything. However, I plan on trying both at some point and reporting my findings. Yup!

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Low Calorie Foods Master List

Thanks to JadeBambiRose on myproana.com for this Low Calorie Foods Master list!! I'm putting it here so I can use it for future reference. I'll be finding some other things from different websites soon though.

Shirataki Noodles (20 cal)

Coconut Milk, Vanilla unsweetendened (45 cal)

Almond Milk (Almond Breeze is only 40 cal) 

Sliced Deli Turkey Meat (50 cal)

Miso Soup (30 cal)

Low cal Apple Cider (10 cal packs)

Cup-a-soup (50 cal)

Banana Peppers (5 cals per 15 rings)

1/2 banana (50 cals)

Coke Zero (0)

Vanilla Coke zero (0)

Powerade Zero (0 cal and has a nice amount of B Vitamins)

Green tea (0)

Black coffee (0)

PB2  (45) 

Strawberries (48 cals a cup)

Miracle noodles (0)

Miracle rice (0)

Sugar free jelly pot (10 cal)

Weight watchers yoghurt (50 cal)

Kallo corn/rice cakes (26 calories)

Tesco lighter choices soup (Chinese chicken noodle)  (48 calories)

Options hot chocolate (40 calories)

Pickled onions - 10 = (20 calories)

Mini fabs (50 calories)

Weight watchers brown bread (48 calories) 

Snack a jacks (40 calories)

Lettuce (15)

Laughing cow spreadable cheese (35)

Black olives (25 for 4)

Plums (30-40)

Honey (10 cal for a teaspoon)

Steamed veggies (25-40 cals depending what type of vegetable it is)

Celery (5)

Magic pops (15)

Melba toasts (30 for two)

Any kind of broth (10-20) 

Croutons (the fat free kind are 30 for two tablespoons)

Cherry/grape tomatoes (fun to snack on, 15 for half a cup.)

Egg whites/egg beaters (20 for 2 tbsp.)

Baby carrots (30)

Mustard (5-10 for 2 tbsp.)

Ketchup (20)

Swiss Miss diet hot chocolate (25)

Healthy Choice wheat bread (35)

Fat free cool whip (15 for 2 tbsp.)

Plain rice cake (25)

Bell peppers (24)

Cucumber (47)

Morning Star veggie hot dog (50)

Weight Watchers american cheese (45)

Canned green beans (15) per 2/3 cups

Canned sliced bamboo shoots (10 - 20 cal)

Seaweed sheets (5 - 10 cal depending on size)

Eat Water rice/pasta/noodles (7 cal)

Bullion cubes (5 cal)

Salsa (10 for 2 tbsp.)

Cottage Cheese (100)

Oat Milk (45)

Green Tea (0)

Regular Peanut Butter (94 for 1 tbsp)

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Keto Carb-free Pancake Recipe

Thanks to Ladylavender on myproana.com for this keto-friendly recipe. I'm going to try this when I get back to my apartment and I'll post pics for anyone who's reading. I cleaned up the text a bit from her post to include it here.

Ingredients:

2 ounce cream cheese (reduced fat for less calories or regular for keto)

2 large eggs.

1/2 tbsp of ground cinnamon.

I packet/serving of stevia (or artificial sweetener of choice)

1/8 tbsp (or just a few drops) of vanilla extract (for sweetness)

Instructions:

Use a magic bullet or blender to blend.

Let it rest for a minute so the air bubbles pipe down.

Then, prepare as you would normal pancakes! Medium to high heat on the stove with a pan, grease the pan with whatever you choose.

Calories: about 200 with reduced fat cream cheese, 300 with regular cream cheese 

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new beginnings

Starting this blog to track my weight loss (loosely), but mostly to record healthy recipes and weight loss tips, and upload inspirational pics and exercise videos/regimens. I'll start off with my stats and maybe we will just call this my New Years resolution that started some time ago. If anyone reads this, feel free to chime in with your stats and discuss the goals you hope to achieve with your body.

I've been working out since December 13th, only resting on Sundays. Today is the 24th. I didn't exactly weigh in but I know I started out around 176 pounds. Thus:

Start weight: 176

Current weight: 172.5

BMI: 27 (overweight)

Current goal weight: 165 (11 pounds lost)

Next goal weight: 155 (21 pounds lost, top of healthy weight)

Ultimate goal weight: 140 (36 pounds lost, middle of healthy weight)

Days worked out so far: 9

Calories burned this week: 3000

Daily Goals before New Year

12/25: 172

12/26: 171.5

12/27: 171

12/28: 170.5

12/29: 170

12/30: 169.5

12/31: 169

Goals by Event

1/1: 168.5

1/28: 163

2/13: 158

3/1: 155

I'm not going to remark on the naivety of the goals above, though I just did. I'm working as hard as I can, restricting my caloric intake to just below 1200 and drinking lots of water and green tea. I hope I weigh 172 tomorrow! But I'm willing to accept 172.3. There might be a time where I have to decide to only weigh myself every 6 or 7 days. 

Current regimen:

burn 1000 calories 6 days a week

eat less than 1000-1200 calories a day

do strength training exercises 4 days a week