someone critique my daily eating/diet!!!!

NOOOOO!! Don't be sorry Candi! I think your point is so well taken and very well said! Of course I am in that same boat so I know the frustration that goes along with it, and therefore I appreciate it probably from a somewhat different perspective.

It's just so hard to learn and take the time to see what works - esp when experiencing what doesn't work! Hang in there Cbelle - you will find the right mix.

Lorrie

Pain is temporary - quitting lasts forever
Candace Grasso, CC-V-6
 
Cbelle-
S- zone bar

D- Lean cuisine/Amy's frozen meal and salad with light dressing

My suggestion is to first exchange out these 2 meals w/ real food. You've been given fabulous ideas on how to do this. For me any bar/frozen meal on a regular basis just stalled my wt loss. Once I switched that one thing and kept free from preservatives my body seemed to process the food I ate much better. I think its amazing to "test" the real food theory and watch a body respond. Its sometimes just the ticket for breaking thru the weight issue barriers.
Good Luck and thanks to all for the interesting read!
 
Ok how about instead of a zone bar I have one slice of ww bread and 1T peanut butter. still not sure on dinner.....thinking on it....
 
Thats much better... How about Peanut Butter and banana or big apple? The apple fiber will keep you feeling full longer.
 
I did WW for a while, lost the weight,... and believe me you need to load up on fruits and veggies. If you spend your points on things OTHER than those and some healthy protein at each meal/snack....baby, you gonna be HUN-GREE. Apples, oranges, vegetables...a LOT of them. Salads and then researched the low point salad dressing (Salad Spritzers are good).

Gotta eat clean and make sure you get the recommended servings of fruits/veggies and lowfat dairy. It does work though. It really helped teach me portion control, I lost 20 lbs. I usually allowed myself a 1 or 2 point treat (fat free pudding or a few animal crackers) at night to keep from reaching for the Ben and Jerry's. There is a water requirement and that really helped drop the weight too.

I had to be careful about adding too many points on the days I did exercise. It is easy to overestimate and I would stall.

Jen
 
Hi Cbelle,

I am also hypothyroid and even on the meds, I need to keep my calories low (1100 to 1200) to lose weight and still not that high to maintain (between 1600 and 1800). Like Candi says, we are all different. I've also tried adding calories, and it just doesn't work for me. However, staggering my calories does work for me, maybe that will work for you (eating more calories one day, then eating less the next).
I also find that from a workout standpoint, I can lose weight more easily if I do circuit workouts say on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and then do an interval workout (like the IMAXS) on Tuesdays, run for 45-60 minutes on Thursdays, do a Kickboxing on Saturdays and yoga or stretch on Sundays.

Good luck finding the right mix for you. It is hard and even once you figure it out, you have to keep tweaking.

Take Care,

Becky
 
Hi Cbelle,

I'm hypothyroid and am following weight watchers. I've been on thyroid medication for 11 years and have basically always struggled with my weight. I am trying to lose approx 30lbs and am a lifetime weight watchers member-not at goal of course. I definitely understand your frustrations.

In order for me to be satisfied within my daily points allowance, I need to eat a lot of raw or steamed vegetables. A sample day for me:
meal 1-protein shake w/ 1/2 C oatmeal, 1 C berries, and 12oz water (this is my post workout meal)

meal 2-1/2 C oatmeal cooked, 3/4 C eggbeaters with peppers, mushrooms & 1/2 tomato.

meal 3-large salad w/peppers, cucumber, mushrooms, celery, tomato and one can tuna

meal 4-Either and apple w/peanut butter or 1/2 C cottage cheese w 1/2 to 1 C berries.

meal 5-family dinner could be chicken burrito using lo carb tortilla or wrap, pork tenerloin & steamed veggies, basically a lowfat protein and non starchy carb.

Good Luck,

Diana
 
I definitely agree with those that said 1137 is too few calories.

If you have thyroid problems you should have your diet supervised by a physician. I have three complete meals that are around 500 cals (if I'm not exercising that day then I eat less calories I'd say about 400-450 cals on my three full meals) each and 2-3 snacks that are about 100 cals (if I have 2 snacks then they are about 150 cals each). I eat my food as fresh as possible and I have complex carbs, protein, and fruits and/or veggies on my three full meals. Sometimes frozen meals can be an alternative if I'm really busy, but often those are loaded with sodium so I always read the labels to see if they're worth eating or not. I buy frozen pasta salads at Costco and Sam's club, vegan pasta, vegan burgers, fish and others that I can fix easily and are healthy, but it's not something I do every single day.
 
thank you so much for your ideas! I think I will start the WW and see what happens. Do you guys eat your APs and/or Flex points? AS for the workouts, funny but I JUST made up a rotation utilizing pure cardio and circuit workouts only. I figured this was the way to go. Glad to hear someone else agrees!
 
I have not tried WW, but I know many people that love it and I've seen the results. And there's also the fact that WW teaches things that you can use for the rest of your life. Good luck with everything. We are the same height by the way (I'm around 140 now, but I need to lose a couple more :) ).
 
Cbelle:
I ate my flex points, but saved them for the weekend so I could eat a nice big calzone while DH ate his! LOL! It was weird because my weight in was Monday (I did WW Online) and I usually had plenty of flex points to have a really "great" weekend, food wise...and step on the scale monday, I had lost my 2lbs for the week. It was freaky, but great.

Every time I used AP's I ended up stalling.

Jen
 
Cbelle,

Be careful with fruit. Very healthy for you but lots of sugar. I limit to to portions per day and I pick low glycemic fruits like apples and peaches!

Weight Watchers is a great plan, I agree and you should definitely give it a go. But, when I reached 42 it did not work for me anymore. I had to find my own niche :). Lauramax also experienced this phenomenon. I think I am carb sensitive so I have to watch my carb intake very carefully. On the up side, nuts seem to really help me to keep full and not be detrimental to losing fat.
 
Just wanted to chime in as another one who can't eat over 1200-1400 calories and lose weight. I too was told I was in "starvation mode" so I slowly added 200-300 calories/day in lean protein. I hate chicken now as a result! I gained 15 pounds.

I'm also hypothyroid and just now getting my dose (Armour) optimized -it's taken almost a yeat to figure it out, and I'm about 32 pounds heavier since I first started having symptoms. Grrrrr.

But now that I'm hopefully adequately medicated, I'm trying to balance eating about 1200 calories a day without letting my workouts suffer. I found the best way to do this is to eat a small snack about 1-2 hours before working out. Sometimes I drink a whey protein shake with a little low-glycemic fruit (I miss bananas!), or an ounce of lowfat cheese and half an apple, or a small bowl of high fiber cereal, or half a pita with peanut butter.

It's easy to get by on few calories if I don't work out, but I've noticed that since starting the January rotation, I could eat my arm about an hour afterwards, so now I've started making my last and post-workout meal a protein shake. They tend to fill me up and post-workout is probably the best time to drink them.

It's SO frustrating to constantly count/monitor your calories - but I'm afraid with thyroid disease it's necessary. I eat lunch with a woman who's literally half my size who literally eats twice as much as I do. x( x(

I agree with allowing yourself to eat more on some days than others to keep your metabolism guessing.

Maybe we should start a hypothyroid check in? I'm almost embarrassed to suggest this because last time I suggested a check in (new a.m. exercisers) I totally flaked on it, <blushing> but it seems there are quite a few of us on here who struggle with thyroid disease, and it's he!! to lose weight. We might benefit from shared experiences and support. I'm happy to get it started if anyone is interested.

Joni
 
I joined a 12 week challenge at my gym and my sometimes trainer told me I should do Body For Life. She knows about my history of thyroid stuff. I'm not sure why but I've really been fighting with her suggestion for hte past 2 wks. I cannot wrap my head around the cardio principles of BFL (20 mins HIIT 3x/wk). But while taking a bodypump class just now I rethought it. Why don't I just give it a shot? I just plugged in a sample BFL day into fitday and this is what I came up with...

B- 4 egg whites 2 slices light ww bread
S- zone bar
L- chicken breast, brown rice, veggies
S- zone bar
D- tuna on a salad
S- cottage cheese and 1/2 an apple

Re: the zone bars, I'm starting a new job in 2 wks that will make it VERY difficult to eat outside of lunch hours. I'll be able to sneak bites of this though.

Calories 1103
Carbs 119
Prots 106
Fats 24
Ratio 40/40/21

It works out pretty perfectly actually. And I suspect the higher protein would be good for me, esp if I'm lifting heavy.

I'm thinking of this as a tweak....do the BFL program but add 3 extra tradition cardios to the week....so it would be like this

M- weights/60 mins cardio
T- HIIT
W- weights/60 mins cardio
TH- HIIT
F- weights/60 mins cardio
S- HIIT
S- free day/rest

I know this really doesnt have a whole lot to do with the topic I originally started LOL. I"m not sure why I can't seem to commit to one thing for 12 wks. I'm lucky to do the same plan for one week. My only other thought was to do CAthe's 12 week 20-30 fat loss plan she did for someone some time ago. Do you remember it? It consisted of 3 wks of SH plus 6 days of cardio, 3 wks of PS plus 6 days of cardio, repeat the SH weeks, then a week each of circuits, CTX, SS/PP and something else.

Anyway, I'm a lost soul looking for some help! Help!
 
Joni,

I would love to participate in a hypoT check-in. I thought I would just lurk on these boards, but this I would love.

I'm frustrated because I had been losing 1-1.5 pounds per week averaging 1400-1600 calories a day. My doctor asked me to lower my Armour dose because my blood test came back too high. And I haven't lost a single pound since (3 weeks).

I guess I need to adjust my calories downward. But I've been in denial. Anyway don't want to hi-jack the post, but just wanted to let you know I'd be interested. Jenny

>Maybe we should start a hypothyroid check in? I'm almost
>embarrassed to suggest this because last time I suggested a
>check in (new a.m. exercisers) I totally flaked on it,
><blushing> but it seems there are quite a few of us on here
>who struggle with thyroid disease, and it's he!! to lose
>weight. We might benefit from shared experiences and support.
>I'm happy to get it started if anyone is interested.
>
>Joni
 
Sorry, Cbelle, I don't mean to hijack, but Joni, I'm interested in this as well. I just had my rx revised with a higher dosage of synthyroid. I haven't been able to lose a pound for several months, despite weighing & counting my calories and working out 60+ minutes a day, sometimes twice a day. Anyways, I'd love to see how others with hypothyroid deal with this problem.

Terri
 
Cbelle, I've heard lots of positive results from BFL - I just don't get the 20 minutes of cardio 3x/week either. Frankly, that's not nearly enough for my mental health! Have you checked out Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle?

Ok, I'll post a call for thyroid chicks in the open discussion forum and rally up some fellow sufferers.
 
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