Diet Diet Diet.....

[erin_anderson]

So yea...I need to go on a diet. And since I have tried it and can't seem to stay on it by myself I have decided that in order to hold myself accountable and ask for help with dieting, I am going to blog daily on my eating habits and exercising

Comments

[mercury973]

\o/ (haven't seen you on here for a while) and maybe see you at ECCC. I'm not working the event but will be running around with other old skool SGA fans. See ya there!

[erin_anderson]

I hope to see you there to. I think I will be working in the AV crowd, the volunteer head has asked me if I want to blog for the weekend. Dunno if that will happen or if I will be asked to do something else. One thing is for sure, if you see Michael Shanks, you know I will probably not be far behind, LOL!

[swirlsofblue]

Good luck with it :). I myself have to lose about 50 pounds for health reasons so I too am trying to do the whole exercise thing.

[lmichelle599]

You might want to try and wean yourself off of fast food and junk food. To cut it all out in one fell swoop would be hard. I know it'd be for me. I like my fast food. :)

Sodas are a big culprit. I only drink water and diet sodas. I know there's controversy on diet drinks making you hungrier due to artificial sweeteners, but someone would have to pry the Diet Coke out of my cold dead hand, dammit. :P

Good luck with your weight loss! *sends encouraging thoughts*

[erin_anderson]

Well I really don't eat that much fast food, my idea of fast food is usually Subway. So yea that shouldn't be too hard. As far as junk food goes I am not much a chip eater or cookie eater or candy. My weak spot is cheese. Mmmm cheese. Yummy. I also don't eat large portions either so I doubt diet sodas will make me hungrier. I am with you though, folks can have my Mountain Dew when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!

[mazzmatazz]

Prebag snacks. I sometimes weigh out a bunch of corn kernels into brown bags to air pop in the microwave. You can toss in salt, spices or splenda to make it sweet or savoury, and it kills a craving fow low calories.

Also carbs aren't so great. I love them too much to go Atkins style, but I found that switching my bread to a lower cal version and eating less of it helps a lot with shifting weight. Load up on veg obviously, less so on fruit because of sugars, and lean meats if you eat those, poultry is pretty good. I have a good friend who does atkins and it is extreme but he has lost over 80lb on it.

[mazzmatazz]

Also, if you have a smartphone, there are a heap of awesome food tracker apps. I love MyFitnessPal, it's online too if you don't have a smartphone. I've lost about 9lb this year with it, and since my parents started it a few months ago, they've also lost around 40lb each.

[erin_anderson]

Yea I like carbs too much as well to go Atkins, though I am trying to cut down the carbs. I like your idea about corn kernels, where would I get something like that?

[mazzmatazz]

Hmmm, good question. Over here they are usually in the world food aisles with the Indian foods. Wholefoods shops tend to do them too.