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Spookyfoxx · 06-12-2006, 09:07 PM

Hi!

My name is Jessica and I am 25 years old. This is my first time posting on this website, although I have looked through it many times in the past. I have always been up and down with my weight and I have always been very conscious of it. I have tried different dieting and excercise programs in the past and the only thing that seems to have given me any real results has been the Low Carb way of eating. After a long haitus from being strict to the game, I've decided to come back, and hopefully this forum would help motivate me and keep me truthful!

A little about my past eating habits..

When I was a child, I was normal weight. I guess once I hit the teen years, I started to gain more weight. Dealing with the stresses of teen years, I would turn to food to console me. I could easily go through a family size bag of candy bars in one evening. However, despite my appetite, while in high school I was very active in the marching band. From freshman to senior year, every day after school was dedicated to 4 hours marching practice (which is a pretty intense workout for anyone who has done it!). Every Friday night was a football game, and when we were getting ready for various competitions, every Saturday would be more marching in the hot sun. My eating was pretty irregular during those years, however I never ate breakfast, usually never had lunch (maybe snagged some fries from a friend) because my lazyness to pack anything in the morning, and no money to buy lunch from the school. After practice, I would be so tired, i would come home and go straight to bed. Around 8 or 9 pm I would wake up and heat up leftovers. This was pretty much my routine for most of high school.

Even though I was very active, I still was heavy. I didn't feel overweight, but my lowest weight was around 170 pounds on my 5'4 frame. After high school, and starting college, I began to eat more and excersize less. After a few years and at my heaviest I was 220lbs. I had tried eating healthier, but I've never been one to stay motivated, and I remained around that weight. My mom hear about the Adkins Diet around that time, and started to do it hard core and was losing weight. I decided to try it with friend of mine. This was before all the commercial products and before all the hype. We managed to stick with it for a while, and I lost around 20 pounds. Of course, it fell by the wayside as my personal life got a little crazy. A couple years later, I gained back the weight and felt more miserable then ever.

Now living with a steady boyfriend (not exactly a happy romance) I felt in a rut. I was not in school and worked my full time job and had alot of extra time on my hands. I decided to go back on the diet, but made it very strick so that I would be more likely to stick with it. Every morning I would have sausage and eggs with coffee, lunch a salad, and that evening a meat product of some sort (hamburger w/ no buns, steak, sausage). I did this consitantly for months along with minimal excersize (I loathe workingout). I eventually dropped down to 180 and friends from the past that I havn't seen in a while would always comment me on how much I lost. I felt pretty good.

A few years have past and of course the diet has gone by the way side. I never gained back all those pounds, but have fluctuated up and down by 20 pounds. During last fall, I started to work out at our school's new Fitness Center with the state of the art equipment. (It's free for students so it would be stupid for me not to go!). I was going at least 3-4 times a week for 30 minutes on the eliptical machine. At first working out was this thing I dreaded all day and just went to get it over with. It was very hard to make it through only 30 minutes. But I kept up with it and felt pretty good about it. I tried to eat healthy (cutting out sugary drinks and fast food) but at most only lost 10 pounds. After the holidays I tried to go back to my routine but I kept getting one cold after another, and it made going back hard. By the beginning of this summer my weight was around 185. I decided to go back to gym and really start focusing on working out regularly since school was out. I worked out on the same machine, this time for 45 minutes each time. Work outs aren't as tedious or hard to get through anymore, and I felt good when I worked out for the day. I average about 3 times a week. But after about 3 weeks, I managed to gain 10 pounds. I didn't eat more then I usually did, and I though perhaps it was muscle gain since I did feel alot stronger. However my pants were tighter, even that pants that used to be lose are now tight. It really discouraged me because I thought I was doing really well.

So, here I come back to low carb, the only thing that ever worked for me. I always felt great on it, but I do have an emotional attachment with food, so that was the main thing that kept me from doing it. My friend is also doing it with me, so it's motivated me to try again. I will keep working out, and hopefully I can see results this time!!!

If anyone has any words of wisdom or has been in a situation like mine, I'd love to hear feedback (especially from anyone my age!)

Good luck to everyone and your weight loss goals!

-Jess

Spookyfoxx · 06-12-2006, 09:23 PM

Day 1

Breakfast: 2 eggs and 2 sausage patties
Lunch: Salad w/ham, tomatoes, black olive and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
Snack: Some pepperoni slices w/ham and mozzerrella cheese heated in the microwave--so good!
Dinner: 2 pieces of bar-b-q chicken

No work out today,.. been feeling under the weather the past few days. Maybe tomarrow!

Spookyfoxx · 06-13-2006, 10:59 PM

Day 2

Breakfast: Salad w/ham and pepporoni, 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
Lunch: Taco salad (without the shells)
Dinner: 3 scrambled eggs and 2 sausage patties
Snacks: Few pieces of cheese and pepperoni

Also, I had a low fat, splenda sweetened hazelnut latte from Starbucks. My friend brought it to me at work, so I just had to go by what she said on carb content.

Again, no work out. Might start up next week.

Spookyfoxx · 06-14-2006, 09:54 PM

Day 3

Breakfast: Salad /ham and pepporonie, 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
Lunch: Pepporoni w/mozzerrella cheese
Dinner: 2 sausage patties and 3 scrambled eggs
Snack: Ham/Pepperoni/Mozzerella creation

Also had some hot tea with sweetner

*I also feel less bloated, must be losing excess water. Work pants feel less tight on my butt, gives me motivation.

Spookyfoxx · 06-15-2006, 10:33 PM

Day 4

Breakfast: Handful of broccolli w/ranch dressing
Lunch: Italian Salad
Dinner: Disgusting omellete w/two sausage patties
Snack: Two hot dog weiners

I attempted at cooking the omelete and it just ended up making my stomach hurt. I will try to read a recipe next time.

wisnowbird · 06-16-2006, 03:26 PM

Quote:

If anyone has any words of wisdom or has been in a situation like mine, I'd love to hear feedback (especially from anyone my age!)

Looks like you're off to a great start! Some of your food (ham, pepperoni, sausage, hot dogs) might be a little high in sodium, but if it works for you - great! If you start to stall or aren't losing as fast as you might like, maybe try cutting back on those.

I have to admit that until I bought Dana Carpender's low carb cookbook I never had made an omelet before. Now I make them quite often. Here are her instructions (condensed by me

)

1) Have all your fillings ready before you start the egg portion
2) Spray your pan with cooking spray & set over medium-high heat
3) Crack eggs & beat in a separate bowl
4) Test pan for hotness - a drop of water should sizzle. Add 1 T of oil or butter & slosh it around to cover the bottom of the pan. Pour the eggs in - they should start to set right away
5) When the bottom layer of egg is set around the edges, lift the edge using a spatula & tip the pan to let the raw egg on top flow underneath the edge. Do this all around the edges until there isn't any raw egg left to run
6) Turn burner to low - or if you have electric, move to another burner that's been set to low. Put your fillings on 1/2 of the omelet, cover the pan & let sit for 1-2 minutes. Check to see that the top of the egg doesn't look raw anymore & the cheese (if you're using it) is melted
7) Fold 1/2 of the omelet without the fillings on it over on the other half & slide out of the pan

Keep up the good work!

Spookyfoxx · 06-16-2006, 10:18 PM

Thanks for the advice!! So far, it's been working and I've been feeling great and full. I make sure to to drink my water and so far so good. I would like to add more chicken and turkey in there, but being on a budget, I take what I can get. Actually, I'm started to crave some chicken... maybe I'll make that happen soon... mmm... chicken.. lol. Oh yeah, and I made an omelet again tonight and it turned out SOO much better! I think the secret was low heat, lol. (I'm such a bad cook!)

Day 5

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 sausage patties
Lunch: Salad w/ham and 1/2 cup cottage cheese
Dinner: Omelet, 2 sausage patties

Today I found I wasn't hungry for a snack at all, maybe that was also attributed to my hecktic schedule will little time to sit around and think about eating. Didn't feel fatigued, other then PMS symptoms,.. blah...

Spookyfoxx · 06-18-2006, 01:57 PM

Day 6

Well... today wasn't the best day... but at least I had fun. Here's what I had:

1 piece of fried chicken breast without the crispy skin part
1/2 of a small hamburger WITH bun,.. and ketchup (someone else ate the other part while I wasn't looking fortunatly)
Iced Caramel Mocchiato from Starbucks.. with sugar free vanilla, however the caramel wasn't SF

I also had some liquor drinks, here's what I had:

1 glass of vodka on the rocks
1 vodka/diet coke
2 rum/diet coke

So that was basically it. I hardly ate, but my cramps were killing me today, I didn't have much of an appetite. I was afraid the carbs I did have would stop my weight loss, but since i hardly ate anything, the scale showed a significant drop. At least I don't feel too horrible. Tomarrow should be a more balanced day!

Spookyfoxx · 06-18-2006, 10:15 PM

Day 7

Lunch: Small salad w/red onion, cheese, tomato. A couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese
Dinner: Bar-b-que chicken breasts, grilled bell peppers (red, yellow, orange), grilled onion, spoonful of coleslaw

Spookyfoxx · 06-20-2006, 01:31 PM

Day 8

Lunch: Chicken breast w/grilled peppers and spoonful of coleslaw (leftovers)
Dinner: Grilled chicken caesar salad from Applebees w/crutons and slice of garlic toast (I can't resist if it's in my face)

Shortly after eating dinner my stomach started hurting,.. heartburn or gassy, but I didn't eat anything the rest of the night.

Spookyfoxx · 06-20-2006, 11:01 PM

Day 9

Lunch: Salad with chicken breast and grilled peppers, couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese
Dinner: Sloppy Joe meat w/lettuce
Snack: Ham slices w/mozzerella cheese

06-12-2006, 09:07 PM	#1
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Spookyfoxx Journal Hi! My name is Jessica and I am 25 years old. This is my first time posting on this website, although I have looked through it many times in the past. I have always been up and down with my weight and I have always been very conscious of it. I have tried different dieting and excercise programs in the past and the only thing that seems to have given me any real results has been the Low Carb way of eating. After a long haitus from being strict to the game, I've decided to come back, and hopefully this forum would help motivate me and keep me truthful! A little about my past eating habits.. When I was a child, I was normal weight. I guess once I hit the teen years, I started to gain more weight. Dealing with the stresses of teen years, I would turn to food to console me. I could easily go through a family size bag of candy bars in one evening. However, despite my appetite, while in high school I was very active in the marching band. From freshman to senior year, every day after school was dedicated to 4 hours marching practice (which is a pretty intense workout for anyone who has done it!). Every Friday night was a football game, and when we were getting ready for various competitions, every Saturday would be more marching in the hot sun. My eating was pretty irregular during those years, however I never ate breakfast, usually never had lunch (maybe snagged some fries from a friend) because my lazyness to pack anything in the morning, and no money to buy lunch from the school. After practice, I would be so tired, i would come home and go straight to bed. Around 8 or 9 pm I would wake up and heat up leftovers. This was pretty much my routine for most of high school. Even though I was very active, I still was heavy. I didn't feel overweight, but my lowest weight was around 170 pounds on my 5'4 frame. After high school, and starting college, I began to eat more and excersize less. After a few years and at my heaviest I was 220lbs. I had tried eating healthier, but I've never been one to stay motivated, and I remained around that weight. My mom hear about the Adkins Diet around that time, and started to do it hard core and was losing weight. I decided to try it with friend of mine. This was before all the commercial products and before all the hype. We managed to stick with it for a while, and I lost around 20 pounds. Of course, it fell by the wayside as my personal life got a little crazy. A couple years later, I gained back the weight and felt more miserable then ever. Now living with a steady boyfriend (not exactly a happy romance) I felt in a rut. I was not in school and worked my full time job and had alot of extra time on my hands. I decided to go back on the diet, but made it very strick so that I would be more likely to stick with it. Every morning I would have sausage and eggs with coffee, lunch a salad, and that evening a meat product of some sort (hamburger w/ no buns, steak, sausage). I did this consitantly for months along with minimal excersize (I loathe workingout). I eventually dropped down to 180 and friends from the past that I havn't seen in a while would always comment me on how much I lost. I felt pretty good. A few years have past and of course the diet has gone by the way side. I never gained back all those pounds, but have fluctuated up and down by 20 pounds. During last fall, I started to work out at our school's new Fitness Center with the state of the art equipment. (It's free for students so it would be stupid for me not to go!). I was going at least 3-4 times a week for 30 minutes on the eliptical machine. At first working out was this thing I dreaded all day and just went to get it over with. It was very hard to make it through only 30 minutes. But I kept up with it and felt pretty good about it. I tried to eat healthy (cutting out sugary drinks and fast food) but at most only lost 10 pounds. After the holidays I tried to go back to my routine but I kept getting one cold after another, and it made going back hard. By the beginning of this summer my weight was around 185. I decided to go back to gym and really start focusing on working out regularly since school was out. I worked out on the same machine, this time for 45 minutes each time. Work outs aren't as tedious or hard to get through anymore, and I felt good when I worked out for the day. I average about 3 times a week. But after about 3 weeks, I managed to gain 10 pounds. I didn't eat more then I usually did, and I though perhaps it was muscle gain since I did feel alot stronger. However my pants were tighter, even that pants that used to be lose are now tight. It really discouraged me because I thought I was doing really well. So, here I come back to low carb, the only thing that ever worked for me. I always felt great on it, but I do have an emotional attachment with food, so that was the main thing that kept me from doing it. My friend is also doing it with me, so it's motivated me to try again. I will keep working out, and hopefully I can see results this time!!! If anyone has any words of wisdom or has been in a situation like mine, I'd love to hear feedback (especially from anyone my age!) Good luck to everyone and your weight loss goals! -Jess

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06-12-2006, 09:23 PM	#2
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 1 Breakfast: 2 eggs and 2 sausage patties Lunch: Salad w/ham, tomatoes, black olive and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese Snack: Some pepperoni slices w/ham and mozzerrella cheese heated in the microwave--so good! Dinner: 2 pieces of bar-b-q chicken No work out today,.. been feeling under the weather the past few days. Maybe tomarrow!

06-13-2006, 10:59 PM	#3
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 2 Breakfast: Salad w/ham and pepporoni, 1/2 cup of cottage cheese Lunch: Taco salad (without the shells) Dinner: 3 scrambled eggs and 2 sausage patties Snacks: Few pieces of cheese and pepperoni Also, I had a low fat, splenda sweetened hazelnut latte from Starbucks. My friend brought it to me at work, so I just had to go by what she said on carb content. Again, no work out. Might start up next week.

06-14-2006, 09:54 PM	#4
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 3 Breakfast: Salad /ham and pepporonie, 1/2 cup of cottage cheese Lunch: Pepporoni w/mozzerrella cheese Dinner: 2 sausage patties and 3 scrambled eggs Snack: Ham/Pepperoni/Mozzerella creation Also had some hot tea with sweetner *I also feel less bloated, must be losing excess water. Work pants feel less tight on my butt, gives me motivation.

06-15-2006, 10:33 PM	#5
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 4 Breakfast: Handful of broccolli w/ranch dressing Lunch: Italian Salad Dinner: Disgusting omellete w/two sausage patties Snack: Two hot dog weiners I attempted at cooking the omelete and it just ended up making my stomach hurt. I will try to read a recipe next time.

06-16-2006, 10:18 PM	#7
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Thanks for the advice!! So far, it's been working and I've been feeling great and full. I make sure to to drink my water and so far so good. I would like to add more chicken and turkey in there, but being on a budget, I take what I can get. Actually, I'm started to crave some chicken... maybe I'll make that happen soon... mmm... chicken.. lol. Oh yeah, and I made an omelet again tonight and it turned out SOO much better! I think the secret was low heat, lol. (I'm such a bad cook!) Day 5 Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 sausage patties Lunch: Salad w/ham and 1/2 cup cottage cheese Dinner: Omelet, 2 sausage patties Today I found I wasn't hungry for a snack at all, maybe that was also attributed to my hecktic schedule will little time to sit around and think about eating. Didn't feel fatigued, other then PMS symptoms,.. blah...

06-18-2006, 01:57 PM	#8
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 6 Well... today wasn't the best day... but at least I had fun. Here's what I had: 1 piece of fried chicken breast without the crispy skin part 1/2 of a small hamburger WITH bun,.. and ketchup (someone else ate the other part while I wasn't looking fortunatly) Iced Caramel Mocchiato from Starbucks.. with sugar free vanilla, however the caramel wasn't SF I also had some liquor drinks, here's what I had: 1 glass of vodka on the rocks 1 vodka/diet coke 2 rum/diet coke So that was basically it. I hardly ate, but my cramps were killing me today, I didn't have much of an appetite. I was afraid the carbs I did have would stop my weight loss, but since i hardly ate anything, the scale showed a significant drop. At least I don't feel too horrible. Tomarrow should be a more balanced day!

06-18-2006, 10:15 PM	#9
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 7 Lunch: Small salad w/red onion, cheese, tomato. A couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese Dinner: Bar-b-que chicken breasts, grilled bell peppers (red, yellow, orange), grilled onion, spoonful of coleslaw

06-20-2006, 01:31 PM	#10
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 8 Lunch: Chicken breast w/grilled peppers and spoonful of coleslaw (leftovers) Dinner: Grilled chicken caesar salad from Applebees w/crutons and slice of garlic toast (I can't resist if it's in my face) Shortly after eating dinner my stomach started hurting,.. heartburn or gassy, but I didn't eat anything the rest of the night.

06-20-2006, 11:01 PM	#11
Spookyfoxx Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Gallery: Spookyfoxx	Day 9 Lunch: Salad with chicken breast and grilled peppers, couple spoonfuls of cottage cheese Dinner: Sloppy Joe meat w/lettuce Snack: Ham slices w/mozzerella cheese