my favorite chick-fil-a meal
chicken sandwich no pickle: 410cal; 16g fat
1 packet of mayonnaise: 90cal; 9g fat
small waffle fries: 270cal; 13g fat
med. dr. pepper: 150cal; 0g fat
cookies & cream milk shake: 790 cal; 33g fat
grand total for my favorite fast food meal: 1710 cal; 71 g fat - are you serious?!?!?!
keeping it real chick-fil-a meal
grilled chicken sandwich, no pickle: 270cal; 3.5g fat
honey mustard: 40cal; 4g fat
half of the fries: 135cal; 7.5g fat
water or diet dr. pepper: 0
grand total for my keeping it real chick-fil-a meal: 475cal; 15g fat
ok, so 475 calories and 15g of fat used to not look so good to me. until i realized that that’s 72% less calories and 79% less fat than i was consuming 1-3 times a week before i started paying attention!!!! shoot, for that matter i can eat all the fries and still come out skinnier at the end of the year.
i’ve decided to do this about my weight…
- i’ve decided to eat things that i want while staying away from the things that will kill me at least 85% of the time. that’s 6 out of 7 days.
- i’ve decided to arm myself with understanding about what i am eating and basing my choices on that knowledge compared to what i know my body has been able to endure in the past.
- i’ve decided that i don’t have to choose the healthiest thing on the menu to be a success. i just have to choose something better than i would in my blissful ignorance.
- i’ve decided that if i have a bad day, or week, or month… it doesn’t matter. no longer will i just quit. i’ll just start again.
this is my theory. diets don’t work. i haven’t found one yet that i’m still on. but, if i can eat 72% better (how about 50% or even 25% better), 85% of the time…. someday i will be lean and mean. and i’m finding the more i start doing the math… the harder it is for me to justify putting ridiculous food in my mouth. i have yet to walk into a restaurant and fail to find an alternative to what i originally wanted that was not waaaay better for me… and it still tasted good!
today i put on a pair of size 8’s. i started this journey in size 12’s. now, these 8’s aren’t straight out of the drier or anything. and i’m sure they are a “big” 8. but 2 months ago i couldn’t get them on. and today i am wearing them to work without fear of being sent home.
i choose the slow boat to skinny. i look forward to waking up one day and wondering who the new girl is and how she got here! i’ll keep you posted to let you know if my theory works.
alright! who’s still out there fighting the good fight for
being healthy, looking great and living long???
haven’t heard from you all in a while!
weigh in…
OK. What you are doing and the way you’re doing it will soooooo work. Take it from one who’s done it. Last year, 6 months after having Jackson, I was tired of being slightly chubby and was gonna stop complaining and do something about it. So I signed up and did Weight Watchers Online for 3 months and then just continued it on my own for the other 2. It basically teaches you to change your thinking about food to exactly what you are saying here. Not to force you to eat things you wouldn’t normally eat, but to simply find healthier alternatives of things you already eat. And like you, I was shocked to find out what I was putting in my body on a regular basis was adding up to. Thus explaining my ever expanding rear and thighs….lol.
I’m impressed! IT CANNOT be about a diet or you will fall off the wagon and give up. But if it’s simply a lifestyle change, you WILL succeed!!….oh, and don’t forget the exercise, which it sounds like you’re already doing. That was key also.
LOL….I feel like a weight loss and healthy lifestyle campainer now that I’ve experienced the bliss of feeling “unfat” for the the first time, well, in my life. I wish you the best of luck with it. Love <3
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Oh, I forgot to say this… You may find that much to your pleasant surprise, that your slow boat to skinny won’t be a slow as you thought. I started doing exactly what you’re doing at a size 10/12 in March 07′ and was in a 2/4 by Sept. That actually wasn’t my goal. But I got so used to eating healthy alternatives and exercise had become a habit, my goal flew on by me. Then I was like, how do I push the stop button on this thing? I actually had to level my weight loss off by FORCING myself to drink more Starbucks (non-skinny, full fat!…..ugh!) to put some meat back on my bones….or at least keep what was left on.
Yeah, I know, it just KILLED me to HAVE to drink all that Starbucks and eat Krispy Kreme here and there………NOT!!! :)…ok. I’ll shut up now.
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Been reading your blog for a while now, but this post demanded a response. That’s incredible! And challenging! And congrats on the EIGHTS!! Yeah! 
I agree that the “slow boat to skinny” is the best path. You have to make choices that become habits that you can maintain. About a year ago, I made some tough choices about what I’m eating. I dropped about 10 pounds within the first couple of months and I’ve been able to maintain the weight loss. Congrats on your progress thus far!
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