Forced Eating Habits Changed

Went to the doctor the other day... Nothing too good to be said about that since I have sugar, and all the stuff just in the limit... Apparently I also have androgyny (I have an excess of a male hormone), polycystic ovary and hypothyroidism...

The doctor gave me a specific diet tho... And I have some food prohibited: pasta, flour, sugar, ice cream, fats, chocolate, beer, candy, diet soda and regular soda, cassava, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bread, rice, banana, pineapple, grape, watermelon

That and the diet that I need to go thru it's not going to be fun but it's also not an option not to do it... If I want to get better I need to do it... Here I leave you the general diet for all the things I have...

Day 1
Breakfast 8:00hs
Black coffee or with a little milk
A portion of cheese Port Salud
A fruit (papaya or melon)

Middle of the morning 10:00 hs
A slice of cheese Port Salud
A fruit

Lunch 12:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
2 Steaks grilled fish or 1 grilled steak
Abundant salad of lettuce, carrot and tomatoes
A portion of dietary gelatin (jelly)

Half afternoon 15:30 hs
1 Glass of freshly squeezed orange juice with water or
A fruit

Other half afternoon 17:50 hs
A pear or an apple

Dinner 19:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
1 vegetable soup dish
White cabbage and carrots salad
Vegetables with 2 scrambled egg whites

Before bed 23:00 hs
A portion of dietary gelatin (jelly)

Day 2
Breakfast 8:00hs
Black coffee or with a little milk
A portion of cheese Port Salud

Middle of the morning 10:00 hs
A slice of cooked ham scouring with white cream cheese

Lunch 12:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
A portion of vegetables to the Neapolitan
½ Grilled churrasco
A portion of dietary gelatin (jelly)

Half afternoon 15:30 hs
An aplle

Other half afternoon 17:50 hs
A portion of melon

Dinner 19:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
Vegetable salad
1 churrasco

Before bed 23:00 hs
A portion of strawberries with sweetener

Day 3
Breakfast 8:00hs
Black coffee or with a little milk
2 portions of cheese Port Salud

Middle of the morning 10:00 hs
A fruit

Lunch 12:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
2 Pumpkins stuffed with minced meat
2 slices of cooked ham
A fruit

Half afternoon 15:30 hs
1 low-fat yogurt

Other half afternoon 17:50 hs
Black coffee
1 slice of cheese

Dinner 19:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
1 vegetable soup dish
White cabbage and carrots salad
Chicken breast with mustard

Before bed 23:00 hs
A portion of dietary gelatin (jelly)

Day 4
Breakfast 8:00hs
Black coffee or with a little milk
A portion of cheese Port Salud
A fruit (papaya or melon)

Middle of the morning 10:00 hs
100 grs of cheese Port Salud

Lunch 12:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
2 Boiled fish fillets
Abundant salad of lettuce, carrot and tomatoes
A portion of fruit salad without sugar
Tea

Half afternoon 15:30 hs
A fruit

Other half afternoon 17:50 hs
White coffee with a slice of cheese Port Salud

Dinner 19:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
1 vegetable soup dish
A grilled steak (120 grs)
Strawberries without sugar

Before bed 23:00 hs
A portion of dietary gelatin (jelly)

Day 5
Breakfast 8:00hs
Black coffee or with a little milk
A fruit (apple, pear, kiwi)

Middle of the morning 10:00 hs
A slice of cheese Port Salud

Lunch 12:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
2 Boiled fish fillets
Abundant salad of lettuce, carrot and tomatoes

Half afternoon 15:30 hs
1 Glass of freshly squeezed orange juice with water or

Other half afternoon 17:50 hs
Tomatoes juice

Dinner 19:00 hs
500ml of water or sparkling water
1 vegetable soup dish
White cabbage and carrots salad
Vegetables with 2 scrambled egg whites

Before bed 23:00 hs
A portion of dietary gelatin (jelly)

PROHIBIT FOODS:
Pasta, flour, sugar, ice cream, fats, chocolate, beer, candy, diet soda and regular soda, cassava, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bread, rice, banana, pineapple, grape, watermelon

Weight Lost Journey - February Review

 Hello again boys and girls... I can believe it's the end/beginning or another month already but here we are... Saying Bye-Bye to February and Welcome to January *smiles* This past month of February much has happens, many goals to reach and we will see in this review, what actually was done and what wasn't...

February Review!

First things first... Measurements:

	February 1st	February 28th	Difference
Weight	75,4 kg	74,5 kg	0,9 kg
Bust	103 cm	103cm	0 cm
Under bust line	89 cm	88 cm	1 cm
Waist	105 cm	103 cm	2 cm
Hips	108 cm	108 cm	0 cm
Left arm	30,5 cm	30,5 cm	0 cm
Right arm	30 cm	29 cm	1 cm
Left leg	63 cm	61 cm	2 cm
Right leg	60,5 cm	60 cm	0,5 cm

Secondly we have... Goals:

No drinking Coke for a Month

This was the crazy goal of the month. Being a Coke addict I can say with proud I did 100% accomplished this goal!

Eat more fruits

Not so much done, you can say 45% done this month because I didn't ate to much fruit to be honest, but I did ate more vegetables *smiles and stick her tongue out a little*

Excercise 60 minutes a day

Only 54% done... this month was a really slow one and need to get better for March, that's for sure

Keep a daily food journal

Another goal that was really not finished... I can say if I did 47% was more than what I spected, but I will get better, here we are to learn *smile*

Try a new recipe for a meal or shake every week

Only two times, meaning I only accomplish 50% of this goal but I like it so I will be putting it again for next month *smiles* And I will find some new recipes to learn and try

March Goals

Regulate my coke intake to only weekends

Eat at least one fruit a day

Excercise daily and regularly at least for 30 minutes

Keep a daily food journal and be honest in it

Make a new recipe for myself once a week

Thank you all that are here with me, supporting this journey and keeping me on track :)

Weight Loss Journey - Food Diary

This post it's a better response to Joy. She asked me the other night on twitter if I was keeping a food journal and I said I do. She asked me then how do I keep it so I decided to make a video, but I think that putting the pictures of my two layouts here will be more helpfull.

First of all I have to admit I'm not the best to keep a food journal. I forgot about writting in it most of the time and then I just feel like if I didn't stick to it before I won't do it right this time... but I kept on trying so...

Well this is one of the first layouts I've used before and has worked for me. I made little circles to check my watter intake and I writte down the time and what I ate, with some little notes at the bottom of the page. This is a pretty simple way to keep track of your food if you are like me that forgets to writte down what you ate and on top of that, if you have to remember the calories... for me it's crazy so...

Because I wanted to keep track of how I spend most of my time and try to keep myself in a time frame to study as I need too instead of keeping me up all night, the night before the test, I change my layout for the weekend and did this. A time table, a remember to do and a food journal section in one page with the date on top. Like always the writting it's just time and what you ate but I like the way this looks a little better than the other so... I will try to use this for a few more days so I can see...

Another thing that I will be trying it's to colour coordinate my food journal. But what that means? I still don't think I should writte down calories but I do believe I need to know when I'm eating because it's time, like lunch or something, or I'm eating because of something else, like a feeling that keep bugging me and I ate to keep it in control. That's what I will be trying to add to my layout this week :)

I hope this was helpfull... I know you can add calorie counting at the side of every food or drink you get in yourself, I just can't do it, don't know why but I can't so... :)

My Weight Loss Journey - January Review

Welcome, Welcome again to my weekly Weight Loss post with my updates and because you are so cool with me I've decided to put some pictures of my horrible feets on the scale this morning. So.. if you pinch on the picture of my feets and put it in the normal size for the photo you will see that the scale it's actually marking 73,6 kg but at that you have to add 2 kg to have the accurate weight so it is 75,6 kg.

After that I have to say I'm very proud of myself and my journey. It's not been an easy road for me this month but I stick to my goals, my wants and I did accomplish a little. I have to admit too that I didn't do it alone, I've pretty little gorgeous people behind me, helping, pushing, keeping me on track and accountable of my workouts: Alice, Sandra H, Preethi (Filofit) and Romi Morris. This girls have been with me and giving great ideas for not get bored and keep working out so I have to say it...

THANK YOU GIRLS!

Off course when it comes to my measurements I have decided that it's not so cool to be putting them here week after week and I finaly made a template for my Filofax to keep myself in check and post it here as a picture at the end of every month. In that way I can keep myself in check and also show you what and how I have been doing in my measurements.

Here we have the review of my measurements in the easy, simple template I made in Excel for my Domino A5 and I will be putting it in my Personal size too. According to my measurements I have lost 2 cm of my bust, my hips are the same, my waist it's 2 cm less and my arms and legs are about the same. I do know now that I took wrong the measurements of my arms and legs, that's why I say they are about the same. For next month I will be making sure I take them correctly.

I lost 1.4 Kgs

YAY!

When it's time to check my Goals I realized that maybe I'm being a little too... Don't know how to say it but I imitated a pretty girl when about Goals it's concerned so I have decided to make my own Goals at my own way and keep it like that, in my Filofax too and show you guys an update with my measurements at the end of each month.

Weight Loss Goals for February

No drinking Coke for a Month

Eat more fruits

Excersise 60 minutes a day

Keep a daily food journal

Try a new recipe for a meal or shake once a week

Next I leave you with a few pictures of meals I ate this past week between saturday and today, wich is thursday... Hope you enjoy (n.n)

This I ate the 25 at the Pinedo Shopping... fdafs

This I ate last Friday at my home, in a family dinner...

My Weight Loss Journey - Take 4

Well my fellow friends and followers of this journey... I know, I know... I should have posted this on Tuesday but didn't feel like it and also couldn't find my measuring tape so... I did weight myself on tuesday and today again and also take my measurements... So lets start with that...

This week my measuments were:

Weight: 76,8 kg

Waist: 105

Bust: 106 cm

Hips: 110 cm

Belly: 111 cm

Reviewing my goals...

Lose 10 kg by the 10th of August, 2013

    -Gain 200 grams again

Be able to jog 4 laps around the plaza by the 10th of August, 2013

    -Started to walk again around the plaza on tuesday

Eat more natural fruits and vegetables

    -Still with problems with emotional eating, more now that I have the finals so close and decision to make about people in my life

Reduce only to weekends the intake of frizzy drinks and only up to 2 glasses

    -Drank 1 liter of Coke since Sunday until today

Workout at least 4 or 5 times a week without excuses

    -Like I said before, started working out again on tuesday, not taking more breaks though

Being honest and fair, it's not going to be easy. I couldn't keep up with the food journal thing but I really need to do it because with all the stress on top of me I will end up getting heavier and gain more weight instead of loosing it. Need to be more relaxed but since I made up my mind about a friendship situation I won't be getting any time fo myself and I need more time for myself.

My Weight Loss Journey - Take 3

Today I'm writting from Corrientes, Argentina. We just arrived and it's 12:03 hs (using military hours) and I also just weight myself, considering that the only food that I ingested today until know it's half a cup of coffee with milk and one tea spoon of sugar, 3 coco cookies and half a plastic glass of soda...

The important thing it's this... I just realized that my weight in my previous post was wrong... *sigh* I know... You may ask: How it's that even possible? And the answer it's quite simple... My scale it's not digital and I forgot that I needed to add up 2 more kilograms to the weight that my scale marks...

This means I actually weighted 77 kg this past two weeks and know I'm proud and happy to say that I weight 76.4 kg *jumps of excitement* I lost 600 grams and I'm so proud of myself and I have some extra good news... My cousin's wife goes to a gym, so I will probably expend a little money and go with her for the time that I'm here so I won't stop excercising and I will be able to eat, with control, but not have to restrain myself sooo much *jumps even more*

I don't have a measure tape right now so I can't take my measurement's but I promise I will do it tomorrow  morning, I will ask to my cousin's wife to give me hers for a few minutes and then I will update again this post and I will let you know over Twitter that I did. My aunt said that she notice that I lost centimeters of my belly and my face it's not so fat as it was before when she saw me prior to Christmas.

Reviewing my goals...

Lose 10 kg by the 10th of August, 2013

    -I already loss 600 grams in 2 weeks

Be able to jog 4 laps around the plaza by the 10th of August, 2013

    -This week I varely went to the plaza, I stayed playing StepMania most of the days

Eat more natural fruits and vegetables

    -Doing good, my eating habits are quite healthy, it's my emotional eating problems the ones making me fat with my thyroid situation too

Reduce only to weekends the intake of frizzy drinks and only up to 2 glasses

    -Drank 1 liter of Coke since Saturday until Monday night

Workout at least 4 or 5 times a week without excuses

    -Was doing ok until I took a break on Saturday and haven't re-started again yet

I think that if a digital scale it's not too expensive here, I will get one because I need it to be more accurate in my weight loss journey... This week it's gonna be a challenge since I'm gonna be here, in Argentina until Saturday, so... we will see what happens...

My Weight Loss Journey - Take 2

Hello again girls and boys *stick her tongue out in a funny way like a child would do*

This is me update post after my first week in the Weight Loss Journey and I'm really excited because I feel good and I'm keeping this up and doing the things that I need to do, excersise regularly even on the week end. Talking about that. I promise some pictures of my plaza just around the corner and didn't take them yet, sorry, I will be doing that this afternoon if I can go and walk because it seams like it's going to rain.

Some little story about what happend yesterday. My cousin send me this sms to my phone: "Today at 6 pm on the plaza we walk, if you don't show up, I will charge you a fine". I right away send it to her: "jajajajaja I hope you don't stood me up like in December". I was really mad, who was she to tell me that? I'm walking since January 2nd and... then it hit me... the night of the Sunday another cousin came to visit and I told her that I was walking, so probably she told her sister in law that was the one who send me the sms.

By 6 pm I was at the plaza, because that is my regular hour of walking even with so much people, because earlier it's too hot now to walk. I looked and they weren't there, what a surprise *irony* I started walking around and made my 5 laps for the day, I started with the same amount of Friday and then I will go up. After I finish they didn't show up so I went to my aunt house a block from the square and drank some limonade and talk. Wile I was there I got a call from the cousin who send the sms saying that I wasn't walking and it was already 7:15 pm when she called. I told her where I was, that I end up my walk long ago and that she said 6 pm and she wasn't there. She made some lame excuse and I hung up. Walking home I cross the two of them, my cousin that was on Sunday at home and the other wich is my cousin's wife but I said cousin to her too. I was mad because she said again that I didn't workout, that it was no way I was going to walk alone and that I went to my aunt's house and just said that was walking. I told them that I finished and I was going home and so I did, really mad.

My dad said I shouldn't care but I did... They make me start walking last November/December and them dumped me and I did it alone for 3 more weeks until the final's at Uny make me stop. I don't know if I'm being silly but I hate when people think I'm not capable of doing something on my own and that I will stick to my workout routine. I won't depend on them, I will do it my way and they can kiss my ass (sorry for the language) when I reach my goal in August.

Something fun to notice... My brother and I bought this carpet game a few months ago and never used it, until now. The game it's Step Manía and basically it's a game where you dance you ass of on the carpet that we bought and gain points to go up in levels. It's a game that make you jump, move, and all of those amazing stuff that makes you excersise at the same time. Over the weekend I played for half an hour at a time and let me tell you... I end up more worked that with my laps around the square around the corner.

Total honesty here before I put my measurements and the changes comparing to it with last week. I didn't stop drinking fizzy drinks like Coca Cola but I manage to do it in a lower level than what I was doing it. I'm a huge Coca Cola addict but I know I can stop, I did it before, and I can do it again with a little time on my side. Another thing that got my attention was that last night a 2:40 am I weight myself and have half a kilogram less that what I had this morning when I woke up *raises an eyebrow* Does anyone know what's up with that?

This week my measuments were:

Weight: 77 kg

Waist: 106 (loss 1 cm)

Bust: 105,5 cm (loss 1,5 cm) (u.u)

Hips: 108 cm (gain 1 cm)

Right Thigh: 65 cm

Left Thigh: 65,5 cm

Right Arm: 28,5 cm (loss 2 cm)

Left Arm: 28,5 cm

Ok, here it's the bad side of loosing weight. My boobs are smaller now! *really sad face* I'm only proud of two parts of my body: my boobs and my hair (not all the time of my hair). But well, I need to keep going even more because this just started now and I wanted to be over but with me weighting like 10 to 15 kg less than now.

I didn't make so much goals for this journey but I realize I need to have some achievable goals and something to check if I'm doing alright or not and what better way than to do it here and now.

Weight Loss Goals

Loose 10 kg by the 10th of August, 2013.

Be able to jog 4 laps around the plaza by the 10th of August, 2013.

Eat more natural fruits and vegetables.

Reduce only to weekends the intake of fizzy drinks and only up to 2 glasses.

Workout at least 4 or 5 times a week without excuses.

Some short explanation about my goals, even when I know I don't need to do it. My 27th Birthday will be on August 11th that why I need to loose those kilograms by the 10th. I always wanted and envy those girl jogging at the plaza, honestly... How they do it without stopping?! About the fizzy drinks... I'm a Coke addict and specially when I'm upset or stress about something, but I also realize that in some situations it's good to give you a relax time and drink it... Like in a family reunion or something. The eating more natural and workout it's not such in need of an explanations, right? *smiles*

I hope to see the other girls updates too (n.n) Until next week with this Weight Loss Journey of ours.

Weight Loss Journey - Take 01

Ok... the infamous goal of... almost everyone for every New Year is to loose some of that weight that it's bugging you in your body and in your day to day life... And I have to admit that it's my case too... After my aunt past away on December 7th of 2011 I had 65 kg and I was loosing more, but since that event in my life I totally lost myself and start eating to compensate the lost of my best friend and loved aunt... I let it be too much now...

As you all know we are already 5 day into January and even if I did'nt told anyone out here about my goal of loosing some fat (not weight alone) of my body... I haven't told anyone eather that I started walking on the 2nd day of January.

I have a little plaza on the end of my street and if you take one walk around the path of that place you have been walking 500 meters. So that's the way I keep track of how much I walk every time I go there. I did walk before, on December but I stopped so I'm starting fresh and like I never walk before on that plaza.

I started with 3 laps around the square and I wanted to walk more but I thought that 1,5 kilometers was OK for my first day. Then I came back the next day and walked 5 laps and that was 2,5 kilometers and I was proud of myself.

Today (friday) was a little too different... I had a little argument with my love one and I cry and feel bad and everything so I just made 2 laps and went to my aunt house a block from the plaza and talk to my cousin, saw my nephew, play a little and went back home.

I'm not proud today but I did what I felt I needed to do to feel better and now my lovely baby and I are ok again so I feel better and happy. I do have to say this is a really hard relationship because of the distance and the way that my love one reacts to some stuff, and I'm pretty sensitive so... It affect me more...

Tomorrow (saturday) I plan to go for another 5 laps or 4 laps... I will keep going until I reach 10 laps... by the way I did the 5 laps in 35 minutes so... a little over and hour of walking will be great when I reach my 10 laps... and after that I want to be able to jog 5 of those 10 laps but not right know, in a future on 2013.

I took some measurements of myself and weight myself on January 1st. I was surprised that I didn't put on weight because of the Holidays, and at the same time I know I don't eat too much or badly, I just like to drink coca cola when I'm studying for finals or I get upset so... I'm controlling that and with exercise I think I will be loosing some body fat and with that some weight.

My measurements were:

Weight = 75 kgs

Waist = 107 cm

Bust = 107 cm

Hips = 109 cm

Right thigh = 65 cm

Left thigh = 65,5 cm

Right arm = 30,5 cm

Left arm = 28,5 cm

I will be updating you guys, just to have a way to be accountable about this and for those of you interested on knowing what I will be doing along the way. Also I'm aware of the reduction of cm's even when you weight is the same so I will be taking the measurements every tuesday and maybe weight myself. I don't want to become obsses about the scale so that's why I probably will be weighting myself every two weeks but for the rest will be every tuesday.