I went to the gym after my last post and plugged my headphones into the treadmill and turned on the TV. And lo and behold, they were counting down the top 100 celebrity weight loss stories. And guess who was no. 2?
Anna Nicole Smith.
Seriously?
She supposedly lost 67 lbs. by using Trim.Spa. I don't know what Trim.Spa is, but I'm quite sure there was no exercise involved (unless shaking your ample bosom before TV cameras burns a LOT more calories than I think it does). And I'm thinking that Trim.Spa might be a euphemism for crystal meth?
Know who was no. 3? Nicole Ritchie. Uh - seriously? She looks like the poster child for an eating disorders clinic. But I'd take her Before pictures any day.
I've been checking out FreeDieting.com - a website to help you figure out how many calories you should be eating. According to this website, I should be eating 1200 calories a day, to lose weight. (1400 to maintain.) So I tried to go with 1200 yesterday.
I wrote down everything I ate, looked up the calorie counts and by noon, I had hit my 1200. Ack. Depressing. And that was some healthy eating too.
I'm pretty sure our goldfish ate more than 1200 calories a day. Although he died. Maybe it was heart disease?
I think most of my contraband calories are thoughtless things I stick in my mouth. Three Girl Scout cookies while I'm making lunch - 200 calories. Doesn't sound like that much unless you realize that's 1/6th of my allowed calories for the day. Bottled Frappuccino? 190 calories. In about 2 minutes, I had 1/3 of my calories for the day.
I think I'm going to try something else.
I've done the South Beach Diet before. I like it better than anything else I've ever tried because it makes a lot of sense to me. And the main goals of the plan are to improve cardiovascular health and prevent metabolic syndrome. The hard part is that you have to start off with two weeks of NO CARBS. No fruit. No wine. No crackers.
It's enough to make a grown woman weep.
But it's only two weeks. And if I make it, without cheating, I'm buying myself a Wii Fit. (Ok, I'm probably going to buy it even if I cheat - but I'm really, really, really going to try not to cheat!)
But first, I have to eat all the FRUIT I bought at the grocery store yesterday.
7 comments:
ooh wow good luck
I know it's 'yet another diet' but look into The Zone. Where I view South Beach as 'realistic Atkins', The Zone focuses on balancing out your carbs, proteins, and fats.
I'd call it downright irresponsible to show Nicole Richie (or Lindsay Lohan) as a weight loss success. I could vomit off 10-20 lbs pretty easily, too.
Nicole Ritchie? Seriously? Wow. What an awful example to hold up for girls.
Good luck!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Wii Fit. I don't do Southbeach -but something really similar- breaking the fat loss code - same 2 week no carb start. Good luck! YOu can do it!
I lost 15 pounds on south beach 2 years ago and have kept it off.
You can cheat a little on South Beach-
for me - the most imp. part was making a protein and veggie for dinner and that's it-
Weight just comes off :)
Good Luck :)
Good luck! I need to do this too. I'm flailing badly on my dieting resolutions.
Last year I had great luck with myfooddiary.com. I counted every blessed thing that went into my mouth and was shocked to discover just how little food it takes to reach 1200 calories. Still, I got used to it and, given enough time to obsess about it, was able to lose 20 lbs. And I felt fabulous.
(I will stop short of offering the excuses for regaining most of the weight... but it's my own fault.)
good luck with this - once you set your mind to it, you'll be able to succeed, and I will watch and wait for my mind to make itself up again.
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