[bizi]

welcome brains! congratulations on your weight loss and for committing to quiting smoking.
I think you are a hero for attempting.
I hear it is the hardest addiction to give up.
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[Moose72]

Today I had two protein shakes in whole milk and a roast beef sandwich - roast beef tomato mayo wrapped in lettuce (no bread).

[b1ghr0ll3r]

Originally Posted by Slowbrains

I'm in. Dropped 40 lbs since quitting seroquel about 1 1/2 yrs ago.

10 days ago i quit smoking and i think that for now on i'll have to be on diet just to keep my current weight...

Well done !!! Seroquel is a reaaaal creeper with the weight, I noticed significant changes with dose changes. I've put on about 25kgs from seroquel alone, the other 25kgd have been from poor diet, alcohol & little to no excercise. I'll be tapering off seroquel in a few months time

Today I saw my psych & he mentioned I should start doing some walking (not in an offensive way I think he realises I know I need to lose the weight) & that I need to lose some weight. I am committing myself to eating healthy & starting some excercise. I wanted o start at the beginning of the year but it's this damn heat that's put me off (one of the ups/downs of living in good Ol sunny Australia) but there's no time like the present ! Gonna get myself some workout gear & start walking at least a half hour each day & cut out all the junk food (no more potato chips & savoury bikkies for me). Good luck to everyone & congratulations to everyone who's managed to reach their goals !!!

[bizi]

good luck bigroller!
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[bizi]

In my mind I know I would lose weight if I quit drinking as I am eating healthy.
We did take a walk in the neighborhood last night. 2 miles so that was good.
I confessed to my husband about my addictions. Being on the internet too much. and he said he noticed too.
I blacked out monday night and fussed to him about the cat food running out. I apologized the next morning, of which I had a terrible hang over. First one really. I am surprised about that.
I see my new therapist again tomorrow. Am going to ask her about Dialectical behavior therapy DBT. It said it was good for substance abuse issues.
The work book came in yesterdays mail.
I started looking at it and it seems good so far.
have a nice day yall!
bizi

Started the day off well (or at least I think so).

I went to Dunkin Donuts before my therapy appt and bought myself a toasted bagel with butter. (It was 6:30 in the morning. Couldn't be bothered to make anything.) I didn't opt for any kind of donut despite my cravings for one. (My fav is chocolate cake donut with chocolate frosting, for those who are wondering! Yeah, worst kind, I know.)

I'm feeling much better and more motivated today than I was yesterday. I think therapy helped. So now I'm going to eat a healthy lunch. I'm thinking breakfast food: eggs, toast, yogurt. Why not? Breakfast food is my favorite food

[Sad Mermaid]

I now eat the same breakfast every morning on workdays: a bowl of buckwheat with reduced fat milk. Very satisfying.

[Unrigged64072835]

Breakfast: oatmeal with milk and raisins, and a slice of ham
Lunch: Cream cheese sushi roll with smoked salmon and brown rice (yum!)
Snack: Cheese stick
Dinner: Italian Rubbed Pork Chops and green beans.

Missed taking my blood sugar at lunch so will have to do before dinner. My clothes are becoming loose, though, so that's good.

[wildflowerchild25]

I just made cheesy cauliflower "bread" for dinner and it was pretty good! Riced cauliflower, mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, eggs, garlic, and basil. Baked in the oven for about 20 minutes. Not crunchy like real garlic bread but pretty tasty. I dipped it in sugar free marinara sauce. Finally used that riced cauliflower!

[Naynay99]

@wildflower- sounds yummy!

So. I finally went food shopping. It's been like weeks of either eating out or
staying in my house and subsisting on kfaft singles cheese, English muffins, and chicken cutlets. I have lots of fruits and veggies and food to pack lunches, so no more excuses to
eat crap! Here I am, starting over. Again.

[bizi]

good luck ladies to us!
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[Naynay99]

Oh- I'm also planning on rejoining my gym tomorrow and getting back into swimming. And unlike how I usually try to change 50 things at once and make ridiculously grand and unattainable goals (like working out every day and learning 10 new healthy recipes and keeping a food diary and cutting out sugar and getting more sleep, etc.), I am going to just focus on drinking lots of water, eating more produce and real food, and working out 3x per week. It feels against my nature to not go overboard but maybe this time I will have success.

[bizi]

good luck nay nay!!!!!
going to the gym 3x week is a big effort!
you go girl!
bizi

Tara, good on ya for cooking! Naynay99, good on ya for shopping. Having a stocked kitchen is a good feeling. I know what you mean about 'starting over... again.' But what can we do? If we keep trying at least there is the chance that something will change. If we don't try at all, it surely NEVER will.

I got weepy tonight after i lost two online Scrabble games. I've worked really hard on competitive Scrabble and it hasn't really paid off. I'm willing to do the work, i just don't have the talent. It's upsetting how talent is shared out so unfairly. I rarely cry.

But then i got up and KILLED IT in my walking video! I so enjoyed it! I added arm movements to make it more intense. I did aerobics all thru my 20s and even taught it briefly so i know all the moves. It felt good. I sweated lots. Moving 218 pounds takes a lot of energy, i guess. I look forward to doing more advanced videos but this was a great one to start with.

It's three hours til bedtime at 2:00am and i am on plan with my food journalling. Just an apple and cherry tomatoes left to go. I'm real pleased with myself! Yay dieting! Yay exercising!

Naynay, i guess we cross-posted. If you're happy with going to the gym 3x a week i wish you all the best. I know that you plan to swim so you need a pool. But have you considered doing something at home? I've found that getting organized and getting to the gym is half the workout and can be quite frustrating. I'm having good luck with doing something at home, tho i have just started this week. Just something to think about and i'm with you whatever you decide!

[bizi]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

Started the day off well (or at least I think so).

I went to Dunkin Donuts before my therapy appt and bought myself a toasted bagel with butter. (It was 6:30 in the morning. Couldn't be bothered to make anything.) I didn't opt for any kind of donut despite my cravings for one. (My fav is chocolate cake donut with chocolate frosting, for those who are wondering! Yeah, worst kind, I know.)

I'm feeling much better and more motivated today than I was yesterday. I think therapy helped. So now I'm going to eat a healthy lunch. I'm thinking breakfast food: eggs, toast, yogurt. Why not? Breakfast food is my favorite food

I am glad that you had a good day. I love breakfast for any meal of the day!

[bizi]

I have been drinking a bottle of wine or more every night for weeks.
Getting these boxed wines has not been good for me.
When I come home all I think about is getting that glass and I drink it in seconds flat. Then have another. each jelly jar has 8 oz. so that is 1.5 glasses of wine each jar. I have 2 jars in less than 5 minutes so that is 3 glasses of wine very quickly in my empty stomach
(i ended up having the 3 jars of wine before dinner
so that is a bottle).
Last night I cooked boiled shrimp with potatoes and 2 niblets of corn.
I don't remember eating the corn. Here I cheated on my no carbs and don't even remember the pleasure/cheat.
sigh
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[bizi]

I fell and broke my collar bone 4-5 years ago. They tested my bone density and it came back osteopenia, borderline osteoporosis.
My results this time were great.
The technician said people would die for these numbers!
yeah!
I have been only taking 500mg of calcium a day so I thought it wasn't enough so I doubled it to 1000mg plus I started taking magnesium citrate in the pill form.
I was certain I was supposed to take this with the calcium.
(I already take magnesium oxide to treat my chronic constipation.)
Well the extra magnesium caused diarrhea.
so I will not take that.
Wasted money.
oh well.
I will go back to taking just 500mg, I must be getting enough calcium in my diet even though I don't drink milk.
I am very glad that my bone density test came out so good!
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[Moose72]

I had a protein shake in whole milk. Then I worked out (cardio and weights). Then I had a carb free roast beef sandwich. Now nap time!

Bizi, i'm worried about your drinking but i don't really know what to say. I mentioned AA to you before and how much it helped my sister and you didn't respond so i guess you're not open to that idea. A bottle of wine a day does not seem healthy to me. You're such a caring and loving person, i hate to see you destroying yourself this way. Please get help!

[Unrigged64072835]

Breakfast: Sausage, Cheerios with blueberries, and a hard boiled egg
Lunch: a PB&J
No snacks, hurrah!
Dinner: don't know yet. Was supposed to make baked chicken but may go out for BBQ chicken instead.

Blood sugar is still good. It's easier to get the rings off my fingers, so I must've lost some weight.

[Naynay99]

Bizi- that's great your bone density results were so good! But the quantity of wine you r drinking does sound worrisome. Please take care of yourself.

Me, I packed a lunch today so ate much healthier. But then just now I ate a bunch of raw sugar cookie dough I had bought to make cookies for work. I guess it's too dangerous to keep any junk food in the house.

And now I feel defeated and pathetic and like I am failing and I don't even want to go to the gym now. I felt really good today with the warm spring weather but now I feel like I am crashing. Im so tired and feel like I could sleep for a week. I suppose 1 single night of a good 8+ hours of sleep is not gonna erase all of the sleep debt accrued from weeks of getting only 5 hours. I am considering taking a bath and then going to bed by 8 pm... maybe I should. I dunno if exercise or sleep should take priority? I am exhausted.

Naynay, i found out the hard way too that i can't keep junk food in the house. But i got rid of it and am fine now. You will be too. It sounds like you're really tired. If it was me, i'd give sleep the priority.

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I had lunch out and ate more than i would have liked. But since then i've only had a zero calorie tea. I'm still not hungry but if i get hungry i will just have an apple and maybe a protein shake. I go to bed at 2:00am so there's still 5.5 hours to go. I'll just have to see how i do.

I felt more energetic today -- a combination of nice, mild weather and warm sun and exercising yesterday. It's the first day in months that i haven't napped! I'm sore from working-out yesterday but it's not too bad. I'm surprised at how sore my back and stomach muscles are -- it's a walking workout i do so i didn't think it worked those areas too much, but i guess it does. Yay! But i did have to get up and take a Tylenol last night because my right hip socket was so sore -- ouch!

[Wander]

Well after 6 days not exercising due to pain from fibromyalgia I went for a 20 min swim and 15 min walk to and from the beach. I feel good but still sore and fatigued. Funny thing is I lost 1kg (~2.5 pounds) in the last week! Don't know how as I have had the same diet, gosh I have even been drinking more beer but oh well, I will accept the loss in weight..lol.

Tomorrow I intend to exercise again and hope to get back to it 3-4 days a week but I start university next week so that will take up around 24 hours of my week. Will have to write up a timetable so I can fit everything in, including rest.

[Wander]

double post...sorry

[bizi]

Thanks ladies.
I know I have a problem with alcohol. Have for many years. I think my bipolar is out of whack and that is why I have been drinking so much and have been on the internet for hours!

I did one AA meeting, hated it.
They made me talk.
sigh
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