lilliangimmelli wrote:Wow that is awesome. I am also over 200 and would be thrilled to see the scale at under 200 pounds. What does your daily menu look like?? What have you been eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner?? I need to get back on and living this lifestyle for good. I am 4'11" and 220 pounds, yuck!!! You have been losing pretty fast which is awesome. Have you been doing any exercises??
Keep up the great work.
Thanks lilliangimmelli,
My daily menu varies a little but is quite simple. I don't eat breakfast because even though it goes against some advise it really does make me consume a greater amount of food during the day. By noon I am pretty hungry so I eat steamed red potatoes with veggies, or maybe a bean based soup or chili with a few small potatoes and mock sour cream. Some days I may just have a "fruit lunch" of a banana+3/4 c soy milk+cherries+1T cocoa or other fruit (all frozen) made into a big bowl of ice cream in my high speed blender. That fills me up. Then for dinner I usually have a soup+potato or some starch but last night I had church late so I made tempeh burgers for my hubby and I using gluten free hamburger buns. They are from white flours (if my family did not have to be gluten free it would be the whole wheat berry kind) and are just done once a week for a quick treat on Sundays. I love tempeh tacos those so we do have those once in awhile. The other day my lunch was a whole bunch of veggies boiled and then I ate them with their broth made into a miso soup (I used low salt veggie broth powder and powder shitaki mushrooms in the cooking water). That was very good and filling so it is very flexible but just try to keep a sort of calorie limit in my head and try not to go over about 1300 a day but I am sure I do at times. That helps me stay within some eating limits though.
I don't do any exercise because of some leg pain I was having but that is better so when I can I will start walking some.
You can do it if you just decide that you are going to take one day at a time until it becomes what you eat and then make sure that you focus on never giving up and feel good about your path. Just stay motivated and don't let what other people eat or do sway you off your course. Don't even talk about it with them! Oh and do something in your life you are passionate about, I am a musician and am very involved in my church so that keeps my mind of bad things and I believe that mental health is so important to success.