I eat too much

I have tried every diet out there, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Jenny Craig and Spark People. And it's always the same thing...I diet, I lose, I diet, I lose and even now I am munching on some Riceworks Brown Rice crisps.  So I decided, VERY PUBLICLY, to post my food journal, one more to log my journey.  And I also decided to try natural food, because it's like, maybe there is something to all those preservatives that are making me gain weight?  (well, it's a thought).
So, a little about me:  I am fortyish (the ish can swing either way) and weigh, OK,  enough to lose 10 or 20 lbs.   I know it's not the biggest thing to want to lose 10 pounds, but you know what?  I used to weight 120.  So it seems with every year, I gain 1 or 2, which means more and more and yes, guessed it MORE.  I ain't getting any younger, so it's MY time now baby!

 

Will I really lose weight: Day I on the Only Natural Food Diet 

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:27:16 PM

Maybe this time, with the world watching, I will do this.  I will lose the weight.  If not, well, the world will still be watching.  More motivation?  Hey, at least it's not The Biggest Loser, right (although that WOULD be nice)-- no one paying me $250K to lose 10, but whateva.  Here I am again.

The morning starts out OK with my usual, yogurt and raisins—I always have the same thing, you might say that I am a Dannon Coffee Yogurt addict.  Not organic, but no additives no preservatives.

Lunch isn’t bad either—Grilled Tuna on a bed of lettuce, dressing on the side, no bread.  Looking gooood!  Ah yah, until that is, of course, I needed to provide my co-worker with chocolate birthday cake.  With ice cream, with syrup, with whipped cream.  So, how many calories does that all add up to? (only let’s say 4 forkfuls?)  I won’t cheat.  I will count it.

Next, let’s see, it’s 8 o’clock, I am still at the office and yeah, there’s that bag of Rice Works Chips, just the crumbs, but how bad can it be?  Only a few, certainly not adding up to a whole portion of a whopping 150 calories, right?

But then, I get home, and since I am a food reviewer (ok, I admit, I work for Only Natural Food), there’s this box of “candy”, and I’m like who the heck sent me candy (hidden admirer?) Yeah, fat chance.  So I take it upstairs and HOLY CRUMBS (fill in other words here if you want) it’s the most awesome toppings from Sanderson and they are all natural and she sent me like FIVE FRIGGIN’ flavors:  Swiss Dark Fudge, Cinnamon Pear, Milk Chocolate Hot Fudge, Bittersweet Fudge, and Butterscotch & Carmel And I’m like, are they kidding me??  They are.  Ok, the lucky thing is I HAVE NOTHING IN THE HOUSE TO TOP.  Whew.  Saving grace.  Maybe.  Unless I take a tablespoon (50 Calories, 2 grams fat—not awful)—but I am really, really trying to get it right this time. 

OK, on to dinner:  Chicken meatballs, salad, dressing on the side.  No kidding.  So here you have it:

Total Calories:  1,325  Carbs: 78g    Fat:  47g  Protein:  124 Oh yeah, plus one teaspoon (heaping) of Swiss Dark Fudge—50 Calories.  I couldn’t resist.

 

 

 

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re: Will I really lose weight: Day I on the Only Natural Food Diet

Monday, March 29, 2010 4:51:34 PM chelsea

also if you have any recipes, please share them with me, anything raw, natural, just stuff like that, I still eat chicken, just not covered in oil or flour, just grilled and stuff.


re: Will I really lose weight: Day I on the Only Natural Food Diet

Monday, March 29, 2010 4:49:35 PM chelsea

I just started today! I feel great, its as if I finally realized the sky was blue. All my life I have been counting calories and ect, and once I lost weight I would "reward" myself because I had a mind set that if I did something good,  I deserved something. That's not how it works. I was laying on my bed, falling asleep and it just hit me that I didn't know what was in the "baked" supposedly healthier chips I was eating, its full of bad stuff, and is in no way healthy. I decided to make it easy and live by one rule, and one rule only : if its not natural, I probably shouldn't be eating it, if I don't know what is in it, it shouldn't go in my body.

good luck!! I'm chelsea btw, I'm 19 and it would be awesome to have a friend like yourself, please email me at chelsea_peyton_sawyer@yahoo.com


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