Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Dieting.

So I've always been pretty unhappy with my body. I'm tiny but I never do anything so places where there should be muscle my body has replaced with fat.

My goal is to lose basically all the fat on my body. I don't really want to replace it with muscle either, I just want to be stick thin. My height is 5'3" and my weight is somewhere around 115 pounds (I really need to invest in a scale). My goal weight as of now is 100 pounds. I plan on achieving this by dieting and exercise.

I've downloaded an app on my iPhone called 'Lose It!" that generates how many calories a day you can eat based on your current weight, height, sex, your goal weight, and how many pounds a week you want to lose. You can log all your foods into it as well as your exercise, it's pretty neat.
My calorie budget is 1, 212 calories a day. I love to eat so I am going to try to be careful about what foods I eat- low calorie foods are good because then I can eat a lot more. ^^

Foods I Eat:
  • There is an instant rice noodle soup from Thai Kitchen called Bangkok Curry and it has 170 calories. I eat this for dinner because it warms up my tummy and makes me tired as well as helping me feel full. 
  • Grapefruit is delicious as well as low calorie (one half a grapefruit has 39 calories). I eat it as a snack and share the other half with Jesse.
  • For lunch or dinner I have a half cup of brown rice that is boiled with a bouillon cube to give it more flavor. I put that at the bottom of a bowl and then add a half the breast of a chicken that has been boiled for an hour (we make a bunch at once) and add some of the broth from that chicken as well (we season it with a garlic powder when it is cooking). I also add a lot of pepper and sriracha sauce because I love spice! This meal has a total of roughly 275 calories. It's very filling though!
  • *Note: hot sauce helps your metabolism work faster. It's delicious too, so I try to put sriracha on as much food as I can!
  • I love raspberries and they are low calorie; one cup of them only has 64 calories.
  • Salad is delicious and has almost no calories (one cup of lettuce has 4 calories). I add two tablespoons of Newman's Own Lite Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing which has 45 calories. 
  • Mcdonald's salads are good on the go and are relatively low calories. I get the grilled chicken caesar salad but swap out the caesar dressing for lite balsamic dressing to lower the calories.
  • I absolutely hate water but I have to drink it now u___u I also drink Sleepytime tea which has camomile in it so it tastes like heaven and has zero calories. I like it sweet though so I sometimes add two teaspoons of sugar which has 33 calories.
  • Zucchini is also a good snack, an entire medium sized zucchini has only 20 calories.
  • I take multivitamin gummies (I can't handle pills, they are hard for me to swallow) which are 25 calories. The brand I use is "Alive!" multivitamin adult gummies.
Keep in mind that I'm only listing foods that I myself eat, there are obviously tons of other good healthy foods that I either don't like or haven't worked in to my regimen yet; I've been doing this for only five days!

I also work out. I do elliptical at the gym but running around outside and exploring the forest behind my apartment is fun and burns a lot of calories! Also, house cleaning burns more calories than you think so you could always count that as your exercise. The Lose It! app even has that listed as an exercise option that you can log. It's pretty great.

I'd also appreciate if no one commented anything about how 100 pounds is unhealthy. It's where I want to be and I'm not starving myself to do so. Negative comments won't change my mind about dieting.



12 comments:

  1. You should download the app "myfitnesspal" its amazing! Its helped me lose 20 lbs so far :)

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    1. Ooh is it similar to this? Like, what are its functions lol

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    2. It does sound similar. You log all your food and exercise. and they give you a calorie goal. It has a TON of features that make it really easy. The best part is you can add your friends and get updates on how they are doing so it gives you tons of motivation and makes you not wanna screw up lol. You should definitely check it out! Good luck!

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  2. Sam, do you know where is Poland? XD

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  3. You sound like a picky eater haha I am incredibly picky, it's difficult for me to diet so what ends up happening is I get depressed and eat all the Taco Bell... I feel creepy commenting on almost all of your posts ugh sorry, man.

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    1. Yeah I'm super picky... Had taco bell last night lol.
      And you're not creepy! ^^

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  4. You should buy some stevia. It's sugar but it has 0 calories and it's all natural. It doesn't have any chemicals like sweet n low and other sugars. Also you should try to stop eating processed foods like the cup of noodles jawn you were talking about. Try to eat a lot of green vegetables and chicken and what not. And don't be fooled by the whole "low-fat" label. Almost all of the time, foods that say low fat are loaded with sugar which is bad for the body and makes you gain weight. That's why when people go on low fat diets they usually end up disappointed and with little results. Eating fat doesn't make you fat, as long as they're good fats like avocados. Okay sorry for my novel and it's probably really annoying. I'm not trying to lecture you, just trying to help you achieve your goal:)

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    1. Thanks boo :* DUDE THAT SOUP IS SO GOOD THOUGH and its rice noodles instead of wheat... Idk it's like heaven and its so easy to make... That will be a toughie. But that stevia thing sounds like an awesome plan. And yeah I've been trying to eat veggies and stuff but back in Illinois I literally ate fast food and processed food EVERYDAY. That's not an exaggeration. I'm actually pretty worried I got addicted because at night I will want McDonald's and stuff so bad that I literally start crying and get mood swings. Oh and I love avocados, about to eat one right now actually ^^

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  5. Haha I think I'm just addicted to food in general. Don't try to completely change your diet overnight because you'll just end up binging on McDonald's or something. Just make changes here and there. You can still eat McDonald's or taco bell or whatever but try not to eat it all the time ya know?

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  6. You should go to panera if there's one around you! They have alot of good salads and sandwiches and it's all healthy !!

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  7. You should use the app 'Couch to 5k' it's amazing to get you running :-)

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