vip0802
Brilliant_Rock
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i posted this in the LIW small talk thread, but i'm so excited to share the news in this forum!
this happened over the course of 2 weeks, and i'm hoping it was due to my better eating habits rather than losing water weight.
my eating habits weren't the greatest. i would only occasionally have breakfast, i'm usually serving lunch rather than eating it at work since i'm a daytime manager at a sports bar, but i would always have dinner. sometimes the food i ate was healthy and sometimes it wasn't, but the real kicker was that i always found myself hungry late at night and would eat and snack before i went to bed.
nowadays i eat some fresh fruit and low-fat yogurt for breakfast. i still don't eat a full lunch but i do snack on almonds, and instead of soda (although i do have a Diet Coke here and there) i drink a lot more water than i used to throughout the day. for dinner, i usually have grilled or baked chicken paired with a salad, or brown rice, or whole wheat pasta. if i have a salad, i try to put in high fiber items like baby spinach, chick peas, broccoli, beans or avocado to fill me up. apparently, it's worked since i no longer feel like i'm starving before bed. if i do feel a hunger pain coming on, i'll snack on a piece of cheese and that does the trick.
amazingly, i don't feel deprived of anything at all and i've found that i'm eating smaller portions of "bad" food. BF and i went out for burgers last week and i was totally satisfied after only eating half. we also had some Sbarro's pizza last night and i was totally full after eating about 3/4 of a slice. *shrug*
i don't go to the gym, i don't jog and i don't use exercise videos. my "work-outs" happen to be my everyday job duties - serving, bartending, bussing tables, washing glasses, lifting boxes, moving kegs, etc for 9 hours straight. from the time i get out of my car in the morning to the time i get back in to go home, i'm constantly moving on my feet. i read somewhere that waiting tables/bartending/serving food burns an average of 156 calories/hr but i think i burn way more than that. i'm looking into getting a pedometer to track my steps and calories burned, but i'm not sure how to calculate burned-calories for all my other physical activities.
i don't have an exact weight-goal that i'm trying to achieve at the moment, but i really hope that i'll stick with these better eating habits and food choices! i do feel a lot healthier and it's really flattering when people have already noticed a change.
ETA - i forgot to mention that i've been using the Lose It! app on my iPhone to help track my calories by recording my food intake and activity levels everyday. it has definitely helped as far as keeping me motivated and staying on track!
my eating habits weren't the greatest. i would only occasionally have breakfast, i'm usually serving lunch rather than eating it at work since i'm a daytime manager at a sports bar, but i would always have dinner. sometimes the food i ate was healthy and sometimes it wasn't, but the real kicker was that i always found myself hungry late at night and would eat and snack before i went to bed.
nowadays i eat some fresh fruit and low-fat yogurt for breakfast. i still don't eat a full lunch but i do snack on almonds, and instead of soda (although i do have a Diet Coke here and there) i drink a lot more water than i used to throughout the day. for dinner, i usually have grilled or baked chicken paired with a salad, or brown rice, or whole wheat pasta. if i have a salad, i try to put in high fiber items like baby spinach, chick peas, broccoli, beans or avocado to fill me up. apparently, it's worked since i no longer feel like i'm starving before bed. if i do feel a hunger pain coming on, i'll snack on a piece of cheese and that does the trick.
amazingly, i don't feel deprived of anything at all and i've found that i'm eating smaller portions of "bad" food. BF and i went out for burgers last week and i was totally satisfied after only eating half. we also had some Sbarro's pizza last night and i was totally full after eating about 3/4 of a slice. *shrug*
i don't go to the gym, i don't jog and i don't use exercise videos. my "work-outs" happen to be my everyday job duties - serving, bartending, bussing tables, washing glasses, lifting boxes, moving kegs, etc for 9 hours straight. from the time i get out of my car in the morning to the time i get back in to go home, i'm constantly moving on my feet. i read somewhere that waiting tables/bartending/serving food burns an average of 156 calories/hr but i think i burn way more than that. i'm looking into getting a pedometer to track my steps and calories burned, but i'm not sure how to calculate burned-calories for all my other physical activities.
i don't have an exact weight-goal that i'm trying to achieve at the moment, but i really hope that i'll stick with these better eating habits and food choices! i do feel a lot healthier and it's really flattering when people have already noticed a change.
ETA - i forgot to mention that i've been using the Lose It! app on my iPhone to help track my calories by recording my food intake and activity levels everyday. it has definitely helped as far as keeping me motivated and staying on track!
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