You want motivation girly? Or is that girley? girly,girley, girly, girley? I can't decide. You pick....but here is some motivation and a success story I'm finally happy to share. Putting tada first to truly motivate - TADA
I started eating breakfast EVERY morning.
I exchanged anything that had sugar in it for sugar free items.
I started eating less bread and pasta - if I do eat bread it's wheat and calorie reduced.
I went to 1% milk - actually when you start doing sugar free? Whole milk will taste too sweet.
I use a smaller plate and make 1/2 of my plate vegetables - steamed.
I have one portion of meat
I use Splenda Blend (I hate Splenda)
I still have my coffee with 1/2 & 1/2
I have a snack of 130 calories at 10 or so or a fruit like an apple cut up to make it seem like I'm having MORE - (hint)
I made sure that the crackers I have as snacks have no more that 4g of sugar. Like Wheat things - Artisan cheddar, Kami rice crackers (you can have 11 of the sesame kind), Sunchips - I think you can have 15 of those.
I have Weight Watchers Frozen dinner for lunch or a bologna and swiss on 45 calorie a slice bread, with a Jello sugar free jello for dessert
I have a snack around 3
o PM like another bunch of grapes or another pack of crackers or some cheese cubes -
I have a nice dinner, and then have Jello Moose sugar free WITH SUGAR FREE HEAVY WHIP CREAM *mmmmm * and a glass of 1% milk
I drink WATER all day long - 4-6 bottles (I like Dasani I think it tastes best and treat myself to it)
and I don't eat ANYTHING after 7:00 PM - NOTHING.
THAT is a killer for women - eating after 7:00 - especially if you have issues with sugar. It takes your body about 12 hours to process the food you've eaten - if you keep eating after 7:00 - it's like trying to cram more paper in a shredder...that you never empty. What happens to the shredder????? Same thing happens to the body - (Its gotta go somewhere)
Other great hints - Frozen veggies are better than canned. Canned has higher sodium and sugar content to preserve it. Frozen can be microwaved - the equivalent of steamed.
There is a popcorn out now that is endorsed by Weight Watchers - in the right hand corner it says 1 point by WW. It's lower sodium and calories than other popcorn.
PRETZELS ARE HUGE WEIGHT GAINERS.......Salt, dough - bad bad bad.
Start reading the SERVING SIZES....and stick to the calories and Sugar grams.....Try to keep it under 20 grams of sugar a day.....to loose and at first try to keep it under 1600 - 2000 calories. You can get on the government web site to get a free calorie diet guide. I got mine by asking my doctor. But it had a lot of stuff that had sugar in it ......
Dropping Sugar and Starch which TURNS IN TO SUGAR - like potatos and pasta was key for me to drop weight. I'm not a big meat eater....so that wasn't a problem. Bread? Well I like bread....But I learned a saying here that I have kept on my fridge since the first time we opened healthy living.
NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS.......
and whomever gave me that.....??? I love you very much and thank you so so much. It's helped in moments of weakness.
I've also found Sugar free candy at Walmart - like Mounds, and Turtles, and all kinds of stuff. Sugar free GUM......sugar free hot chocolate. now it's become FUN for me and DF to find Sugar free stuff. He's gone from a size 44 pants to a 38 .......
And not that we've exercised tremendously.....but you FEEL better and you start MOVING more and when you don't eat after 7:00 PM.....YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING FEELING LOADS BETTER and I AM NOT GRUMPY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. It took about a week and a 1/2 before I really felt the effects of that and I've NEVER been a breakfast person - but - we have three kinds of cereal we rotate - that are good and low in sugar grams: Cheerios, Rice Checks, Bran Flakes. Also good is Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat. You can have Eggs and bacon - Scrambled eggs and cheese - and pancakes with sugar free syrup - but FYI????? I bought 1 bottle of Kroger Butter syrup and 1 bottle of Kroger sugar free syrup and poured 1/2 and 1/2 into our old bottle that says - Butter syrup.
NO ONE KNOWS......AND....in the SUGAR bowl? I put Splenda Blend. LOL....No one knows that either. hahah. Everytime DF fills HIS sugar bowl? I dump it back into the bag of Dixie crystals, take out the splenda blend fill HIS sugar bowl and he has been using Splenda blend for six months - but will SWEAR to you me and his buddies that he can't use that Splenda junk because it's just too sweet.
again.
For desserts - we have Popsicle sugar free fudgesicles. There is no such thing as sugar free icecream that we've found. There is No sugar ADDED - but if you check the sugar grams in it - it's pretty high.
Activia also has a sugar reduced yogurt - three flavors - peach is my favorite. I think per container it has 3 or 4 g of sugar. DF likes the Yoplait thick and creamy - but he swears he's doing those to save the lids for breast cancer. (uh huh)
We found out too that you can have Baked lays - like 14 chips....for a snack. Actually once you start doing this lifestyle - you can't really EAT 14 chips- you'll stop around 8 or so. Especially when the weight just starts falling off. It's incredible. I went so fast from 16 to 14 to 12 it freaked ME out. I like it.
Another thing you have to give up? Fast food. Do you know it takes 3 solid hours of exercise - intense exercise of sweating and really moving to work off ONE Big Mac??? Not worth it. Besides their beef is full of MSG. Headache city. And french fries? Ugh.
Peanut butter is good, Tuna is good, Salmon is good. Fish is good. We usually do Captian D's once a week - While my Dr. would tell you that battered fish is not good I disagree.
If you like nuts? Your serving for a snack is about 1/4 a cup. That's not much.
But just watch your sugar content.
I would highly recommend going to your doctor and getting a complete physical before you do this just to be sure that you are healthy from the get go. Also - to be weighed in and talk about your intentions on weight loss.
Have you considered a Mommy and Me Gymboree? Or a jogging stroller? You looked pretty svelte before the twins. Active and all - Or maybe you could get someone to give you a 30 minute break a day so you could just go for a walk and have some ME time.....you know around the block? Or try Craigslist and beg for a treadmill and set it somewhere in the living room where there is a tv and put on a DVD of some exotic place and jog there - lots safer?
T- If I can do this - YOU can do it. Wait .....I'm supposed to say that like that crazy guy with the frizzy hair.......ahem.....
YOU CAN DOOOOOOOOOOO Eeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttt.