I've been doing Weight Watchers on and off for years, back when I was 22 years old (over 10 years ago), I did it for the first time...I lost 45 lbs, my goal weight was supposed to be 132 lbs..I was at 135..and stuck, I was unhappy because I was always hungry and people said I was too skinny. But I was unhappy because I couldn't get to my WW goal! What? Yeah..well, obviously I couldn't stick to it. I didn't exercise back then either..okay some walks...but I just ate my points for the day full of fat free, high fiber stuff and moved on, boring and not maintainable!
Flash forward 5 years from that...I did WW again..but I also was learning to do lots of cardio! The WW foods I ate didn't change, but I was at least getting more fit because I had a personal trainer and I worked my tuckus off at the gym...I looked better, but still, it wasn't maintainable, the food wasn't a good balance for me and I had to work out WAY to much and life got hectic.
Boom...here we are...I'm 34 years old, at my pretty much highest weight ever, and guess what, even though WW has changed, its not something that I can stick to, probably cause its easy for me to bend the rules and if I can't get to a computer its easy for me to throw a weekend or a vacation out the window. I forget to log one day and its out the window for the week sometimes. Or, I log and I go over my points and I give up...also, its just online, nobody else is really in my court...nope not working for me.
So as I discussed a little yesterday, I'm now counting calories using My Fitness Pal I even have the little "how much weight have I lost" tracker at the bottom of my blog. I started it at zero because I want to track from the beginning of this blog :) This program also has a very easy to use android app for my phone, which pretty much works everywhere (other than WW which was hard on my phone).
I worked out a level of calories (1300-1400), and a workout plan 2x a week weights, 3x a week minimum cardio with my personal trainer. She also helps me choose the right foods to make up those calories, I am wiping out as many processed foods from my life as possible.
Wanna see what I did yesterday?
Exercise:
30 minutes of legs/core using free weights and body weights
Food:
Breakfast:
1 cup skim milk - 86
Thomas Bagel Thin - 110
1 TBS Creamy peanut butter - 95
2 cups of coffee - ? 0?
Viactiv soft chew - 20
Banana 00 105
Snack:
1/2 cup blueberries - 41
Lunch:
5oz can of chunk light tuna in water - 80
1/2 a cucumber sliced - 10
4 dill pickle spears & juice - 0
(mixed the juice in with the tuna and the cucumber slices)
Snack:
Chobani Black Cherry 0% Greek Yogurt - 140
Dinner:
6 ozs of rotisserie chicken breast, no skin - 162
Medium sweet potato, no skin - 194
5 g of parmesan cheese - 20
1/2 cup of edamame - 120
Snack:
1/2 cup 2% Cottage Cheese - 100
4 medium sliced strawberries - 15
Total calories: 1297
What do you guys do? What do you eat? What do you think of my plan?
5 comments:
the android app is awesome because you can scan a bar code and it will find it
Hey Mer-
I was in pretty much the same place you are--you know how long I've been on WW and I'm 30 pounds above my original start weight. I've since moved on to SparkPeople exclusively. I'm glad that you've found something that works for you! Your meal plan looks great--very balanced.
Don't worry, I'm in your court here...cheering you on!
I love that barcode scanner Misty! Although one time I tried it last night and it told me that the yam I was holding in my hand was chicken, haha, oops!
Mindy, thank you for your support, man we've definitely been through the ringer with WW and weight loss plans! I'm glad you found Sparkpeople, I liked for awhile, too..but just getting to the computer all the time derailed me.
I think your plan is terrific as long as it's what works for you!!! I look forward to reading about all of your successes and cheering you on throughout all of your challenges!
I think your plan is great, if at first we don't succeed try try again! Right? Right!!!
I did weight watchers years ago, long before this whole points thing... infact, I still have lots of the source materials at my parents house piled up in the cabinet. I started at WW when I was about 11 years old. Back then I was going to both the "teen meetings" yeah, what a joke. I never had success with WW ever. I followed the program to the letter and the weight wouldn't come off, infact it often times went up when i would eat everything in the check boxes we had.
I like the idea of calorie counting, I did it non-stop for over a year and had great success with it. I am coming off a break from it, I hit critical mass burnout with my overdoing things... hello... i was weighing my sandwich thins... really? Really! I think if it works for you then it is awesome!
I have been using LoseIt but I am looking into some of the other tracking programs out there for something different now. Maybe a new tracking program might let me feel less pressure. Who knows, either way I am super pumped to see you blogging and making some new changes that will hopefully spell out some successful feelings and results for you.
Oh! as for what I eat... i try and avoid processed foods, yes a calorie is a calorie, but I like mine to come from real things... however there are things like lean cuisines in my freezer because lets be honest... sometimes you just need to have that stuff on hand at the end of a long craptacular day.
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