Tracy Weight Loss

August 31, 2011

What to Eat Tomorrow? Starting My Weight Loss Journey!?

A tough weight loss question this week. Let’s dive straight in

Question: Hello, I am starting my weight loss journey. I have about 100 pounds to lose and my goal is to lose it in 10 months.

For breakfast - I am having a fresh fruit salad. Peaches, strawberries, blueberries, grapes and apples.

What should I eat for lunch or dinner?
I am trying to avoid all bread because that is my weakness.

Answer: First: Good luck and congratulations. The first step is the biggest!

A few tips that helped me:
Stay hydrated. Try to drink a liter of water day at least.
Hot liquids help fill you up, so drink hot tea (try herbal or fruit without sweetener) or a cup of low-sodium broth with your meal.
Oatmeal is awesome-healthy, easy to make, and it will help to keep you full. Try the little instant packets of plain and you can add fruit to it.
Try to avoid artificial sweeteners. They make you crave sugar worse later on.

A good meal for me was a chicken breast and steamed veggies.

Good luck hon!

November 5, 2010

Help with My Weight Loss Journey?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: , , , , , — Tracy @ 7:01 am

What’s this week’s question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: so last year i had a baby and gained alot of weight during my pregnancy. so at the beginning of this year i weighed about 191 and was able to get down to 180 and plateu there for the longest time. now i weigh 167 and i eat very healthy exercise about 4-6 days a week for 2 hrs. so now im at a plateau again and i need tips on how to stop plateauing

im 19 years old and only 5′1 by the way so i am obese although i def. dont look it

Answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaL03V3YNEE
this is what i did. its really working for me and ppl ask me abt it all the time so i made a video. i havent had to work out either… hope it helps

August 28, 2010

What Do You Think of This Blog Title for Weight Loss?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: , — Tracy @ 7:05 am

What’s this week’s weight loss question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: I’m starting a blog for my weight loss journey and am having trouble coming up with a name but think I have one. I just don’t know if it sound corny or not: "Count Down to Scale Down"

I plan on losing 60lbs in a year and tracking it online with my blog. What do you think of the name? Is it appealing, corny or misleading?

Thanks

Answer: I like Silver Clayton’s answer. and in response to your question, princess, I think blogging your weight loss journey is a wonderful idea. Kudos to you on embarking on a more healthy lifestyle, journey, and body. Sound body, sound mind I always say.

Start off by drinking plenty of water and taking your vitamins, minerals, and necessary supplements daily. If you are not allergic, drink plenty of milk (vitamin D and calcium). Eat oranges and drink orange juice (not that immitation sunny D stuff with all that sugar and corn syrup and junk your body doesn’t need). Eat healthy small portions throughout the day, not 3 large meals and try to avoid large meals past 7pm if you can help it. Not eating right before you sleep with help with the weightloss. And eat an apple shortly before every meal. Studies indicate eating apples does keep the doctor away, or at least keep your body’s hunger mechanism off for a while.

When you wake up, first thing in your mouth should be two glasses of cold water to boost up your metabolism and get your digestive juices flowing. Eat healthy, exercise regularly, sleep, and work to eat.

Well, dispirited princess, 60lbs may seem like a lot to lose, but I’ve lost 30lbs in a few short months by cutting out my medication regimen. The two medications I took were on a list of five provided by a Kaiser doctor as causing the most weight gain as a side effect.

Thank God I don’t have to take those medicines anymore! Screw the psychiatriac world and the pharmaceducal companies! Those dogs just want our money!

Sorry for that rant. Okay, yes, I agree "Count down to Scale down" is a good, catchy name. Good luck! You can do it! We’re all behind you!

May 1, 2010

My Weight Loss Journey Has Gone Too Far?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: , , , — Tracy @ 7:01 am

What’s this week’s question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: im 23 and since last year i have lost 83lbs by just eating healthy well for the last few months i have been stuck at 218 so to jump start it i have been making myself throwup and its working but i know this is not good and i thought.i could stop any advice
btw i have tried laxatives enamas i lose a pound here and there i feel like im failing at losing weight all i can think about is i have to lose more weight thats all i can think about how can i lose the weight ugh! i suck!
Answer: Dearest Janey,
I am so glad you know it is not good. Can you stop? It is not at all uncommon for compulsive overeaters to switch to bulimia and/or anorexia to control their addiction to food. I remember a woman who lost185 lbs and then got so obsessed with losing that she became anorexic, only eating bite size pieces of candy 3 or 4 times a day. She died at 85 lbs. Conversely many anorexics become compulsive overeaters. I read an article about such women who became plus size models. The problem is that the disease isn’t obesity, the disease isn’t anorexia or bulimia or compulsive overeating or binge eating disorder. The real disease here is addiction. And most good girls (lots of food addicts try very hard to be "good girls") can’t reconcile with the image of themselves as no different from a heroin junkie. It is known now that sugar and chocolate and flour that quickly turns to glucose in our mouths (put a saltine in your mouth and let it melt…sweet?) all effect the dopamine receptors and the serotonin neurotransmitters in he brain. It is too complex for me to keep in my head and explain as I am not a neurologist. But it is these same pleasure centers that are lit up on PET scans when narcotics are used! Food addiction kills (I just got word today that my friend died from this disease) not just because of the physical side effects of all the permutations of his disease but from the horrid emotional pain that it causes. I have personally known 3 ppl with food addiction issues who have committed suicide. I am a sufferer of food addiction myself and have attempted suicide because of it. I am happy to say that today I am in recovery and grateful to have learned that this is a real disease, brain disorder, mental illness; and I am not a bad person with a weak will. Most food addicts have strong wills and that is our real problem. We have to learn to surrender our wills to a power greater than ourselves. It is a long process and some of us need more than just www.foodaddictsanonymous.org or www.oa.org (overeaters anonymous) or www.ceahow.org (compulsive eaters anonymous) or www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org for help. Some 85% of food addicts (anorexic, bulimic, coe) have been sexually and otherwise physically abused. And abstaining from compulsive eating behaviors and addictive foods can bring up memories that we tried to bury with the food. Sometimes the pain is so bad that more help is needed than just the meetings, tools and step work. That is when it is time to call in a professional for help. Sometimes it is necessary to get professional help just to be introduced to the meetings. That is how it was for me. I went to treatment for bulimia in 1984 and went to my first 12 step meeting there. There are very few places that treat food addiction as an addiction instead of a psychological only problem. www.milestonesinrecovery.com, www.shadesofhope.com and www.tpoftampa.com (Turning Point) are the only ones that I know of www.placeofhope.com is another place (The Center for Counseling and Health Resources) that treats eating disorders as a spiritual, emotional and physical problem but I am unclear about their understanding of the disease/addiction concept. I live near them and personally know several of the staff and clientele. www.foodaddiction.com is a business that brings recovery intensives to your city for much less $$ than going to a treatment center.

Janey,I pray you will get the support and help you need. If you can stop, do it now before you can’t. If you can’t stop, don’t wait to check out these websites and call and talk to someone. You were brave to break your isolation this much (addiction, esp. food, is a disease of shame, secrecy and isolation) now break it a little more and call one of the toll free numbers listed on those websites. You can also write me thru my profile on yahoo answers. And you can always call a pastor or prayer group at a church for support too. If you don’t know Jesus yet, call 1-800-NEEDHIM. If any of the problems, issues or thoughts that I have mentioned fit you, please find help now.

I am praying for you, Joy

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