Do you count your carbs? Proteins? Calories? Sugars? What do you concentrate on?
Do you ever have a slice of pizza? Ever have a snickers mini?
I have to know! I need to hear it. To make me feel better.
I hear so many ppl on the forums who never eat carbs ever. Never eat bread of any kind. I can't live like that. You girls are great. I love your attitudes and how you eat in moderation. You're not too militant. Those militant people freak me out and push me in the wrong direction. Not that i'm looking for the green light to eat junk because i'm not. I swear I'm not. I look forward to eating fresh flavorful foods and experimenting with substitutions. That being said I just want to know that once in a blue moon its ok to indulge. One slice of pizza. Just one. All I'm asking. lol. right now i feel like i'll never have regular pizza ever again.
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No food is off-limits for me. That mindset is how I got to 338 lbs in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI've indulged a few times since getting banded and I've lost nearly 70 lbs since March. Not too shabby! :)
I try to focus on protein, but I make sure to check out calories and fat. When I feel like I need a bit of accountability I use dailyplate.com to log food. I used to do it every day, but since I'm not interning anymore, I don't (such a pain to log on every day, all day to track every little thing).
I know you are going to do great. Do what is best for you and within the guidelines of your doc! :)
thanks grace! i know a lot of you lovely ladies are doing really well with moderation. and you're right, thinking something is off limits is a sure way to get you in trouble. can't think of this as a diet.
ReplyDeletei'm all about checking for protein, calories, fat, and sugars and make sensible choices. but i would be happier to just make good choices and not to have to stay under a certain amount of carbs. that would just drive me up the wall. never have potatoes? come on man. i'm only human. lol
I feel like I am winging it too. I have annother 2 to 3 weeks of mushies and I have a major texture problem with food. I have been living off of refried beans with fully loaded cheese. I know, not a good choice, but yummy!
ReplyDeleteI make sure I get my protein in at each meal. Thankfully, I can eat just about anything. I do pay attention as to how many calories are in a particular food though. I usually have oatmeal w/chopped walnuts at breakfast and a nice salad w/ chicken for lunch. For dinner, I cook for my husband and eat a very small amount of most things. I make sure that I do not eat more than 1 cup of food at each meal too. Hope that helps!
ReplyDeleteI don't track anything in a "is this ok" type of mindset but rather, I track everything so that I know how my week is looking. I try to make sure I get enough protein each day but I don't care about fat at all and carbs are what they are. I have found that I have a minimum amount of carbs I HAVE to eat or else I start to get really down and depressed and lethargic.
ReplyDeleteI am like Grace, no food is off limits. I also learned just last month that being too tight, too restricted, put me in a bad place as I was eating around the band, sliders like chocolate and chips, to ensure that I was getting "enough" calories.
I put all my information into the GoWear Fit website since I wear one of those at just about all times (only take it off for the shower or for swimming). And I can see where I am on protein for the day. As for calories, I don't have a magic daily number I strive for, but rather a magic weekly number (which works out to an average of 1200 a day). If it works out that one day I want to eat 1500 calories and the next I want 900, then so be it. I've found that works better for me. I like numbers and I like graphs so I keep track of everything but it's because the science nerd that I am is constantly wanting to correlate my calories burned to my calories eaten to my weight.
Just some thoughts...
thanks for the feedback. i like that attitude and you seem to be doing well with it. gives me hope. i'm not going to obsess.
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