Stephanie Manley » diet

So it has been about a month

Stephanie Manley — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:27:58 +0000

I can’t say I am making large progress on the diet. I haven’t gained since the last posting, that’s a miracle. Since I wrote last I went on three vacations. Once up to Missouri for Christmas with my family. Dodged holiday dinners, and drinks that go with dinners. Went to Austin for New Years, lovely dinner there. When to Club Med for a week. Not gaining there was a miracle, I came back 1 pound up from there, but considering I drank mostly calorie filled drinks and ate an incredible amount of food I am satisfied.

Upon coming back I am still doing diet gourmet meals, and I joined another gym. Managed to make it to work out today. So hopefully I will be moving forward on this again.

My life has been uber crazy for the past month. During all of these vacations, I have turned in about 80% of my book to the editor, and this weekend I hope to finish the rest. I have class one night a week, and still do volunteer stuff on the weekends. I honestly don’t know if I am coming or going. I hope things slow down soon!

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Diets and the Holidays

Stephanie Manley — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:36:40 +0000

For me diets and the holidays don’t mix. I like to over induldge. Being on a low fat calorie diet, then eating much richer food doesn’t go so well for me. I have had wildly different food in my house this past weekend with having company over, and having a holiday party this weekend. The last several days has been filled with latkes, cabbages, smoked fish of multiple varieties and so much more. After having ate light for about a month now, I have been feeling quite under the weather with more savory indulgences. This is minus the gin and tonics I have consumed in the past couple of days.

Normally I have logged everything that I have ate, but not for the past few days. Thankfully the scale hasn’t moved in the upward direction. I have tried cutting way back on portions, and then also keeping in mind to take each day at a time. I am hoping to lose a few more pounds in December, and start the year off running!

Now, down 7.8 pounds since November 19th.

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Diet Purgatory

Stephanie Manley — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:30:41 +0000

So I find myself in “Diet Purgatory”, actually I am going to be there awhile. With the New Year coming along, got to me thinking what do I want out of the next New Year? Well my first and foremost would be I would like to start dating again. It has been almost 18 months since Michael passed away, and now that I have moved back, gotten settled, and gotten a few other things in my life on track, the dating thing came into mind. So that brought about the whole I am really not happy with my weight. I have always been heavy, but I have been in much better shape, and much lighter.

So for the past two weeks I have been following something between Nutrisystem, and Weight Watchers. I actually ordered the Nutrisystem monthly supply, but it took two weeks to arrive, so I joined the Weight Watcher program online. I can definately tell you there are large differences between the two programs. Large. The Nutrisystem food while isn’t horrible, at times, isn’t tasty either. I find the Nutrisystem concepts of breakfast not to be that satisfying, but their lunches, dinners, and snacks range from ok to decent.

Weight Watchers gives you the opportunity to eat regular food, or if you want to use one of their frozen dinners, or anyone else’s for that matter that tends to work out fairly well. My thoughts on this are to eat up my month’s supply of nutrisystem and not re-order at this point. For me, frozen dinners seem to be more healthy and cause me less gastric distress than shelf stable food.

My results so far, in about two weeks I have lost 6.3 pounds, which isn’t too bad. One thing is for certain, I am eating a lot more vegetables, and lettuce than I have in a long time. I also thankfully am not suffering from what I thought were pretty large pangs of hunger that I did for the first week or so. See me around lunch time, and unfortunately, I can’t balance out breakfast, and a morning snack enough to keep me from needing to eat lunch because I get a little light headed and feel like I am starving. One thing though, taking my lunch to work, is less expensive even if I am buying special meals. I work in an expensive side of town, so inexpensive lunch options are not to be had.

Additionally I have been taking the dog for walks in the evening, so there is more exercise going on there. My life is unforunately fairly sedentary, and it is hard for me to break out of this. I work during the day at my regular job, and my nights are spent working on the website, and getting my book together. So I do a lot of sitting.

We are so educated today that you think we would know how to diet properly, and we would know how not to over indulge, but it seems so difficult to do. It is difficult for me to do. Reading about food, writing about food, and not having run from too many meals means that I have struggled with my weight for quite some time now. So hopefully I can hang on a little while, and drop some of the excess weight, and enjoy cycling again!

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