Today…
Food:
Peanut butter (100)
Toast (50)
Banana (100)
Cereal (100)
so 350, in my range. I did not hit my goal of 19, I’m at 120 but I started out a little higher than expected so I should be hitting my goals soon, or at least losing.
Exercise:
Body Works class at the gym (like lunges with weights and stuff) and I ran 2 miles
I’m back :/
Well my ABC didn’t work out; eventually I just gave up on it, I will attempt it again at some point though. I have just been too frustrated with myself to post since then. I’m still trying to get over it -_- But for now, this is my plan and these are my goal weights. I decided to just give myself a goal weight for literally every single day so that I can’t have room to get off track and just say “oh I had a bad day” … I literally have a month left before I leave to Cornell. It’s f-ing critical at this point that I lose the weight.
300-400 cals per day; fast at least one day a week
Today, Mon 7/16: 119.5
Tues. 7/17: 119.0
Wed. 7/18: 118.5
Thurs. 7/19: 118.0
Friday 7/20: 117.5 (4 weeks to departure)
Sat. 7/21: 117.0
Sun. 7/22: 116.5
Mon. 7/23: 116.0
Tues. 7/24: 115.5
Wed. 7/25: 115.0
Thurs. 7/25: 114.5
Friday 7/27: 114.0 (3 weeks to departure)
Sat. 7/28: 113.5
Sun. 7/29: 113.0
Mon. 7/30:112.5
Tues. 7/31: 112.0
Wed. 8/1: 111.5
Thurs. 8/2: 111.0
Friday 8/03: 110.5 (2 weeks to departure)
Sat. 8/04: 111.0
Sun. 8/05: 109.5
Mon. 8/06: 109.0
Tues. 8/07: 108.5
Wed. 8/08: 108.0
Thurs. 8/09: 107.5
Friday 8/10: 107.0 (1 week to departure)
Sat. 8/11: 106.5
Sun. 8/12: 106.0
Mon. 8/13: 105.5
Tues. 8/14: 105.0
Wed. 8/15: 104.5
Thurs. 8/16: 104.0
Friday 8/17: I arrive!
I think once I settle in I will try the ABC to get from 103-ish to 88 for a total 15lb loss. I know almost for a fact that once I get there I will lose weight because I won’t have a kitchen full of crap food and I’ll be busy/ stressed, so I think that my ABC will succeed there. There’s all sorts of salad in the dining halls so I’ll lose rather than gain the freshman 15 as long as I stick to the healthy, low calorie options. However, I may decide to take a slower and healthier approach to weight loss once I get in the low 100s and 90s range, more like 600-1000 calories per day.
So now for a little self-assessment. I always believe that you should learn from your mistakes. So, here’s my analysis of what I did wrong on my ABC, and what I did right:
MISTAKES:
1. Trying to cut out too many foods. I was trying too hard to eat “perfectly.” Combining paleo and vegan left me almost nothing to eat. I tried to cut out grains, which I decided against ultimately. I’m still vegan but I tend to cheat a little here and there (basically my attitude with things that aren’t vegan is I won’t buy it, but I’ll try it). Not forgiving myself for that just led to a downward spiral.
2. Not allowing myself things I enjoy. Kinda the same concept, but basically when you get no satiety out of eating you crave the foods you want even more. That led to a lot of slip-ups. I personally have quite a sweet tooth, but it can be taken care of by things like a square of dark chocolate or a couple M&Ms for like 30 calories, which isn’t too much, or even oatmeal, cereal, or yams for meals but I was not allowing myself that. Also, I was trying to cut out bread which didn’t work out too well. Now I got some low-carb flax bread for 45 cals a slice, again not too much.
3. Cutting out fruit. Since my low-carb attempt a while ago I’ve been severely limiting how much fruit I eat. That was fucking dumb. I love ze fruit :3
4. Not enough veggies. When I first lost weight I made an attempt to get veggies in every meal if I could, and at least a lot at lunch and dinner. For example, I would have eggs with bell peppers (pre-vegan) for breakfast, carrots and celery with hummus or a salad for lunch, and frozen mixed vegetables or zucchini fried with a very small amount of oil with dinner. Since we haven’t had our own place though, I spend a lot less time prepping food because I don’t like to be in the kitchen. This has led my diet to lack vegetables like salads which I always used to enjoy, and which go a lot further calorie per gram (for the same number of cals as a teeny tiny square of dark chocolate I could have a whole serving of frozen mixed broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots)
5. Still chewing and spitting. This often leads to binges. Instead of trying to cut out like everything processed and cleanse my system (which I would love to do at some point but am not really ready for) , I should have focused on my other bad habits like c/s and eating at odd hours.
6. Eating between meals. I used to force myself to wait at least 6 hours between meals. I absolutely would not put a single thing in my mouth or if I did I would add more time to the period I had to wait to eat again. That was a very effective approach.
7. Too much planning. Hard as it is to believe, I’ve never been one to actually follow the food plans I make for myself. Before when I lost weight, I would just follow the intuition of what my body craved. Generally I would figure out early in the day what I planned to have for dinner because I was hungry all day. Then I would know the night before what I wanted for breakfast because I was hungry again. But if I wanted cereal, I had cereal. If I wanted a yam, I had a yam. Arbitrary food plans never were a factor.
Basically I thought back to my old days, when I got down to 80 lbs. I don’t want to go that far again. But the approach worked. Rather than obsessively trying to control what I ate, I ate what I wanted in tiny amounts, just enough to be satisfied. I focused on what I ate, and drank water between every bite so I was satisfied. I enjoyed my meal times and relaxed and watched TV or went on the computer during them rather than eating standing up in the kitchen randomly. I waited it out between meals. I didn’t c/s, at least not habitually. I made yummy low-calorie food. I ate freaking starches and bread and fruit, and still I lost a lot of weight because of HOW MUCH I ate. I remember when breakfast was a small bowl of peas, lunch was carrots and celery with hummus and an apple, and dinner was half a pita bread with hummus (lol I like hummus). Maybe instead of starting a new plan every 10 seconds and failing, I should focus on what I did before that worked!
As for what I did right, the main thing which I mentioned in a prior post, was that I got myself out of the binge mindset. The first week, which was very successful, reset my appetite. Basically I realized that if I ate 200, 300 or even 500 or 600 calories of ‘bad’ food like chips, there was no point in going on to eat three times that much. Plus I can’t stand that awful post-binge hangover. Another good thing was I kept my liquid intake high, but I’ve sorta always done that.
Sorry for the long post, hopefully you got something out of this. I’ll be back posting up every day again, with what I ate, how much exercise I got, and whether I reached my goal each day. Thank you for following
~Sarah~
I’m back :/
Well my ABC didn’t work out; eventually I just gave up on it, I will attempt it again at some point though. I have just been too frustrated with myself to post since then. I’m still trying to get over it -_- But for now, this is my plan and these are my goal weights. I decided to just give myself a goal weight for literally every single day so that I can’t have room to get off track and just say “oh I had a bad day” … I literally have a month left before I leave to Cornell. It’s f-ing critical at this point that I lose the weight.
300-400 cals per day; fast at least one day a week
Today, Mon 7/16: 119.5
Tues. 7/17: 119.0
Wed. 7/18: 118.5
Thurs. 7/19: 118.0
Friday 7/20: 117.5 (4 weeks to departure)
Sat. 7/21: 117.0
Sun. 7/22: 116.5
Mon. 7/23: 116.0
Tues. 7/24: 115.5
Wed. 7/25: 115.0
Thurs. 7/25: 114.5
Friday 7/27: 114.0 (3 weeks to departure)
Sat. 7/28: 113.5
Sun. 7/29: 113.0
Mon. 7/30:112.5
Tues. 7/31: 112.0
Wed. 8/1: 111.5
Thurs. 8/2: 111.0
Friday 8/03: 110.5 (2 weeks to departure)
Sat. 8/04: 111.0
Sun. 8/05: 109.5
Mon. 8/06: 109.0
Tues. 8/07: 108.5
Wed. 8/08: 108.0
Thurs. 8/09: 107.5
Friday 8/10: 107.0 (1 week to departure)
Sat. 8/11: 106.5
Sun. 8/12: 106.0
Mon. 8/13: 105.5
Tues. 8/14: 105.0
Wed. 8/15: 104.5
Thurs. 8/16: 104.0
Friday 8/17: I arrive!
I think once I settle in I will try the ABC to get from 103-ish to 88 for a total 15lb loss. I know almost for a fact that once I get there I will lose weight because I won’t have a kitchen full of crap food and I’ll be busy/ stressed, so I think that my ABC will succeed there. There’s all sorts of salad in the dining halls so I’ll lose rather than gain the freshman 15 as long as I stick to the healthy, low calorie options. However, I may decide to take a slower and healthier approach to weight loss once I get in the low 100s and 90s range, more like 600-1000 calories per day.
So now for a little self-assessment. I always believe that you should learn from your mistakes. So, here’s my analysis of what I did wrong on my ABC, and what I did right:
MISTAKES:
1. Trying to cut out too many foods. I was trying too hard to eat “perfectly.” Combining paleo and vegan left me almost nothing to eat. I tried to cut out grains, which I decided against ultimately. I’m still vegan but I tend to cheat a little here and there (basically my attitude with things that aren’t vegan is I won’t buy it, but I’ll try it). Not forgiving myself for that just led to a downward spiral.
2. Not allowing myself things I enjoy. Kinda the same concept, but basically when you get no satiety out of eating you crave the foods you want even more. That led to a lot of slip-ups. I personally have quite a sweet tooth, but it can be taken care of by things like a square of dark chocolate or a couple M&Ms for like 30 calories, which isn’t too much, or even oatmeal, cereal, or yams for meals but I was not allowing myself that. Also, I was trying to cut out bread which didn’t work out too well. Now I got some low-carb flax bread for 45 cals a slice, again not too much.
3. Cutting out fruit. Since my low-carb attempt a while ago I’ve been severely limiting how much fruit I eat. That was fucking dumb. I love ze fruit :3
4. Not enough veggies. When I first lost weight I made an attempt to get veggies in every meal if I could, and at least a lot at lunch and dinner. For example, I would have eggs with bell peppers (pre-vegan) for breakfast, carrots and celery with hummus or a salad for lunch, and frozen mixed vegetables or zucchini fried with a very small amount of oil with dinner. Since we haven’t had our own place though, I spend a lot less time prepping food because I don’t like to be in the kitchen. This has led my diet to lack vegetables like salads which I always used to enjoy, and which go a lot further calorie per gram (for the same number of cals as a teeny tiny square of dark chocolate I could have a whole serving of frozen mixed broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots)
5. Still chewing and spitting. This often leads to binges. Instead of trying to cut out like everything processed and cleanse my system (which I would love to do at some point but am not really ready for) , I should have focused on my other bad habits like c/s and eating at odd hours.
6. Eating between meals. I used to force myself to wait at least 6 hours between meals. I absolutely would not put a single thing in my mouth or if I did I would add more time to the period I had to wait to eat again. That was a very effective approach.
7. Too much planning. Hard as it is to believe, I’ve never been one to actually follow the food plans I make for myself. Before when I lost weight, I would just follow the intuition of what my body craved. Generally I would figure out early in the day what I planned to have for dinner because I was hungry all day. Then I would know the night before what I wanted for breakfast because I was hungry again. But if I wanted cereal, I had cereal. If I wanted a yam, I had a yam. Arbitrary food plans never were a factor.
Basically I thought back to my old days, when I got down to 80 lbs. I don’t want to go that far again. But the approach worked. Rather than obsessively trying to control what I ate, I ate what I wanted in tiny amounts, just enough to be satisfied. I focused on what I ate, and drank water between every bite so I was satisfied. I enjoyed my meal times and relaxed and watched TV or went on the computer during them rather than eating standing up in the kitchen randomly. I waited it out between meals. I didn’t c/s, at least not habitually. I made yummy low-calorie food. I ate freaking starches and bread and fruit, and still I lost a lot of weight because of HOW MUCH I ate. I remember when breakfast was a small bowl of peas, lunch was carrots and celery with hummus and an apple, and dinner was half a pita bread with hummus (lol I like hummus). Maybe instead of starting a new plan every 10 seconds and failing, I should focus on what I did before that worked!
As for what I did right, the main thing which I mentioned in a prior post, was that I got myself out of the binge mindset. The first week, which was very successful, reset my appetite. Basically I realized that if I ate 200, 300 or even 500 or 600 calories of ‘bad’ food like chips, there was no point in going on to eat three times that much. Plus I can’t stand that awful post-binge hangover. Another good thing was I kept my liquid intake high, but I’ve sorta always done that.
Sorry for the long post, hopefully you got something out of this. I’ll be back posting up every day again, with what I ate, how much exercise I got, and whether I reached my goal each day. Thank you for following
~Sarah~
ABC Day 12
I messed up again. Part of me wants to quit, but I just can’t. I feel so frustrated with myself. But I will go on! Haven’t regained everything yet. I need to learn to be black and white, to follow my own rules, to prove to myself I can.
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