wendyrae

Well it’s been months and months since I’ve wrote anything on here… I’ve been on and off again with the weight loss battle. I tried to keep on track to lose weight for my recent wedding, however…I was not anywhere near my goal weight on my wedding day =(. Now that all that stress is gone I am really going to try and focus on getting healthier… and I just purchased a Total Home Gym, literally minutes ago! I can’t wait for it to arrive.. does anybody out there have any experience with the Total Home Gym? I am really hoping this will help me incorperate exercise into my life…on a regular basis…consistently!

Well I haven’t really blogged much since joined buddyslim about 3 weeks ago…however I have found the site very helpful! I have logged on just about everday and kept a food journal for everything I’ve eaten over the past 3 weeks. I have been working hard at making sure I workout on my elliptical atleast 3 times a week for forty minutes…and sometimes even more than that! And so far I have lost eleven pounds…in just a little over three weeks! Yay me!!! Hope everybody else is doing well!!!

Ok, well I am finally finally home from working a VERY tiring 24 hour shift. There is definitely something “going around” at work…rather it be a stomach bug or some type of food poisoning I am not sure…but let me just say that when you are a nurse taking care of a large elderly population…it really does bring a whole new meaning to “something going around” at work! If I never see or smell any more vomit in my lifetime…it’d still be too soon!!! So after having a rough shift at work…On the 20 minute ride home I’d already talked myself into “eating whatever I want” and “doing whatever I want” today (aka NOT exercising)…Because I felt like I deserved it…deserved some sort of treat for just making it through my crazy, awful shift at work lol…AND then it came to me…junk food is NOT a reward, not a treat…it is nothing but plain and simple sabotage!!! I really need to change my way of thinking….eating sugary, high-fat junk is not rewarding… if I really want to reward myself I need to reward my body and get on my dang elliptical for atleast 40 minutes!! Having my favorite jeans fit me again would be a REAL reward!!! If I hadn’t logged on here, and literally spelled out how I was feeling…I am sure I would be eating some sort of junk by now….but putting my thoughts out here for everybody to see, including myself, really makes me realize how silly it is to feel that I deserve to eat junk!!!

Does anyone know a rough estimate right off the top of their heads of what percentage of carbs, protien, and fat should make up our caloric intake?

I am trying to do the Weight Watcher’s Point System…and for the most part I find it very easy to follow. As it does not put any foods “off limits”. However, I often find myself craving sweets…I LOVE chocolate and it seems that I often times am trying to talk myself into “cheating”. I can’t seem to just stop at one cookie, or one “whatever it is”… I have a bad tendency to binge….and I even eat when I’m not really even hungry! Does anyone else seem to have this problem? It’s like I KNOW that I’m not even hungry and probably am just eating out of boredom…and yet most of the time I can’t seem to get motivated to go do something to get my mind off it..instead I obsess over wanting something sweet, or some type of junk food…as I am a self-proclaimed “junk food junkie”!!! I literally talk myself right into eating what I want….I seem to rationalize it in my head and make myself feel as though I for some, unknown reason, “deserve it”.

I have done good today on my points…and even worked out 40 minutes on my elliptical….hopefully I can keep it up. I hope blogging and being on this website help to keep me accountable! Because I surely need SOMETHING to keep me in check!!!!

Does anyone have the slightest idea how many revolutions on an elliptical equals a mile??? I have an ProForm XP 420 Razor Elliptical and am using the 16″ stride setting. However, the machine only tells me how many revolutions I have gone…I’d love to figure out how many revolutions equals a mile….

I am new to this website as of yesterday. I am just now trying to figure out the food journal. I have figured out how to add the foods that I’ve eaten so far today. However, this summary part tells me to “aim for -250 to -750 calories per day. When I clicked on the “what’s this” button, it said in order to lose 1 to 1.5 pounds per week, I need to aim for -250 to -750 calories per day??? I am no nutritionist…but this can’t possibly be suggesting I only eat 250 to 700 calories a day…can it??? If it means I need to eat 250-700 calories less…less than what? Someone please help!