{"id":293,"date":"2006-07-04T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T07:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/293"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:02:12","slug":"the-diet-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/293","title":{"rendered":"The-Diet Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/cdevroe.com\/the-diet\/\">the-diet<\/a> Weigh-In Week 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Week 1 -&gt;  0 lbs lost<br \/>\nWeek 2 -&gt; 2 lbs lost<br \/>\nWeek 3 -&gt; 2 lbs lost<br \/>\nWeek 4 -&gt; 2 lbs GAINED<br \/>\nWeek 5 -&gt; &#8230; *drumroll*  7 lbs LOST!!!<br \/>\nTotal Lost -&gt; 9 lbs<\/p>\n<p>Holy shit!!   *Happy Dance*  I certainly wasn&#8217;t expecting that when I got up this morning!   Although I did try quite a bit harder in this past week than I did in previous weeks, because last week sucked hardcore when I gained back 2 of the 4 lbs I&#8217;d lost.  It&#8217;s all a learning process and since I&#8217;m not following any set diet it&#8217;s all about lifestyle change&#8230; it will get better as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Changes I&#8217;ve made so far:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gave up gaming, which was pretty much demanding I spent at least 4-5 hours a day sitting at my desk without really getting up much at all.<\/li>\n<li>Gave up cola&#8230; ouch this one was tough.  I loved my Coke and would drink glass after glass each day (while GAMING!)..  after about 3 days of not having any I suffered terrible headaches (caffine addiction?) but with a lot of water and ibuprofen I worked through it and am now 100% cola free!<\/li>\n<li>Gave up french fries!  Yup, that&#8217;s right&#8230; no more french fries for me!<\/li>\n<li>Bought yogurt, carrot sticks, oranges and frozen yogurt with my groceries instead of chips, chocolates and ice cream.<\/li>\n<li>Also got low fat things if possible.  Low fat cheese rather than regular cheese, etc<\/li>\n<li>Water, LOTS OF WATER!  I have 2 1-liter bottles of water in my fridge and have a sucky 1\/2 liter bottle I refill from them and carry around with me.  I drink as much as humanly possible every day. (Yesterday I drank over 4.5 liters!)  I hope there is no such thing as drinking TOO much water!<\/li>\n<li>Learning to bake things instead of frying when possible.. ex. Sunday for a bbq I was going to boil potatoes and let them cool and then fry the potato hunks in butter. So yummy!  Instead I cut them into hunks, put some herbs and spices on them and put them in the oven.  Equally yummy and less fattening!<\/li>\n<li>Doing something every day that makes me sweat like a hog for at least 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Still need to learn:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To not use so much ketchup, ugh&#8230; don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll ever be able to do this one.<\/li>\n<li>See above and replace with Mayo.<\/li>\n<li>Actually, I need to just generally learn to use condiments in moderation.  Whether it&#8217;s ketchup, mayo, dip for nuggets, whatever&#8230; I need LOTS of it.  Really need to find a way to curb that.<\/li>\n<li>That it&#8217;s ok for people to see me sweat.  For some reason I hate it, if I&#8217;m out walking or doing something being active and I come across people I get weird about them seeing me red faced and sweaty.  Like I imagine them thinking how horrendously fat and sweaty I am and thinking I&#8217;m disgusting.  (Bad, I know)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone has any tips for other things I could learn and could do please feel free to drop them in a comment.  Remember though, I&#8217;m quite out of shape so suggestions like &#8220;Go jogging or biking for 2 hours a day&#8221; are more like suggestions on how to commit suicide at this point! haha  Be gentle!<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to lose 2 lbs a week, to take it slow and easy and create a lifestyle change rather than a temporary starvation to get the weight off.  Basically as long as my weight is going down rather than up, I&#8217;m happy.  Even if it&#8217;s just 1 lb at a time.  Last week sucked, this week was awesome.  My weight fluctuates terribly depending on my menstrual cycle, the heat, and other things that make me retain water and bloat.   So I know some weeks will be disappointing, I just need to not get discouraged by it.  Which I didn&#8217;t this week and I&#8217;m totally stoked with my 7 lb loss!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the-diet Weigh-In Week 5 Week 1 -&gt; 0 lbs lost Week 2 -&gt; 2 lbs lost Week 3 -&gt; 2 lbs lost Week 4 -&gt; 2 lbs GAINED Week 5 -&gt; &#8230; *drumroll* 7 lbs LOST!!! Total Lost -&gt; 9 lbs Holy shit!! *Happy Dance* I certainly wasn&#8217;t expecting that when I got up this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,401,877,382],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-randoms","tag-changes","tag-exercise","tag-weightloss","tag-weight-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}