Kily's Rambles.

My adventure started today.

It has been an interesting day for sure. I woke up at 7:30 AM&did actually walk. It was nice but it was a little tiring but hopefully, if I stick with it, my sleep deprivation will be worth it.

For breakfast I ate my usual bowl of life cereal along with a cup of black coffee&two cups of water. Then while in class, from 9:30 to 12, I drank another two glasses of water.

Then for “lunch” I ate a small brownie and drank two more cups of water. Once I got home I walked again. I wanted to walk closer to dinner because, on one of those websites from yesterday, I read that it makes you less hungry. It looked like rain so I just decided to walk whenever I got home. I walked with my brother, it was fun.

Then for dinner we had pasta&peach iced tea. I should have only eaten half of my pasta but I was hungry, brownies really do nothing for the hunger problem. I did drink two cups of peach iced tea as well. This is because the cups in my house are sixteen ounces. The tea actually had three peaches and two ice cubes as well.

So altogether today has been a rather successful day as far as my new plan goes.

Having coffee with breakfast certainly made for an interesting day. I was sitting in my classes just rocking because I couldn’t sit still. I was so restless.

I also forgot to add that in between my classes I took time&got up&walked around for a couple minutes. This is because the one website I read said to walk around for five minutes every two hours&classes are about two hours apart.

Back to what I was saying, aside from being restless drinking more water also added some more adventure to my life as well. During my cataloging class, which is my second&next to the last class of my day, I had to pee seriously every so many minutes. Needless to say, I missed some class today. I think I left probably about two or three times during the class. The class is an hour&fifteen minutes&I peed right before the class started&right after the class started. I think I may have bladder issues? No, I’m just probably not use to that much water in such a short amount of time. I am actually two to four glasses short for my water in-take today. It’s because I didn’t truly eat lunch&for supper I had peach iced tea. I should get at the very least two more cups of water today. I’m going to try&sneak in another two cups but I don’t know if that will happen.

So all-in-all it was a good start.&now I have to wake up tomorrow morning&do it all over again. Hopefully I’ll stick to it. Thanks to everybody who has offered me support so far. I know its only been one day but I feel supported enough, for the time being.

Also, hopefully tonight I don’t “cheat”, there is still quite a bit of evening left. I think I have taken in the right amount of calories at the moment, I don’t really know. I can’t seem to make myself count them.

I also forgot to tell you about my food diary. Keeping one is difficult business. Today I wrote down everything that went into my mouth. I now understand why it might make you eat less, it’s so annoying to write everything down. The less you eat, the less you write down. So I guess that probably only works for lazy people, like me.

Like I said before, tomorrow I plan on doing the same song&dance, except tomorrow I only have one class, which means I’ll get to eat lunch. I’m also thinking about doing a daily weigh-in. I just need to pick a time&clothing to do this in,so I’m still in the planning process. Maybe I’ll only do a weekly weigh-in, that seems like it might be more encouraging. Who knows? We’ll see,I guess.

Well, I think this is all I have for today. Hopefully I have time to write tomorrow, I should but who know what can happen…

Thanks for reading,

Kily Riley

I know that pretty much nobody reads this,for I am new here&I have no idea what this even really is…But I’m going to start writing here,like a diary slash blog. 

So here is my topic, losing weight. Here is the story… 

Recently&I know it, I haven’t been eating or exercising the way I should be. I didn’t really think anything of it though. I mean I have been maintaining the same weight for about the last 4 years&I didn’t think I really changed anything but apparently something has changed.

For Christmas my family bought a Wii&as such I demanded Wii Fit because I had used it before&I was hoping it would encourage me to be more active. Now whenever I weight myself on the Wii I always take 4 pounds off because that’s what I have always done&I wear basically the same clothing all the time&I feel for it to accurate I need to do both, wearing the same clothes&taking 4 pounds off. So I started using Wii Fit right around Christmas&It put my weight around 168/169. Which is about 9 to 11 pounds over my average weight. I didn’t think anything of it though because Sometimes scales like that can be crazy. I never did think to weigh myself with my usual scale to check the accuratcy, I was happy thinking Wii Fit was just crazy. 

&this brings me to today/tonight…First, this morning I ate a small bowl of cereal as I always do. I didn’t drink anything all day&whenever I got home from class I ate a brownie. I was really good, I will not lie! It actually probably better than good because I was so incredibly hungry. The my family got home&my mother made dinner, we had salad. Of course it wasn’t a healthy salad, no, no! We had the lettuce, sure&chesse&chicken but those items didn’t stand a chance against the crutons,french fries&the quarter of a bottle of ranch dressing I loaded on it. I probably ate enough food for about, well let’s see, the plate I had was very large&I had about two of them, so I would say I probably ate four servings at the very least. I justified eating this much because I did not eat breakfast, I also only had one class of water with my meal too. Then I passed up going for a walk with my mother&sister because I was too cold&too tired. 

So my mother&sister went for a walk&my father&brother went to boy scouts&I stayed home all alone on my computer. I was going to get on Wii Fit but my brother had his PS3 on&I thought I would mess up whatever game he had on it(I was really fooling myself to be lazy because I knew it would mess up nothing.) I tried to do some stretches&sit-ups but they just weren’t working out for me. Then for some random reason I decided to weigh myself with my scale that I use to use. Now keep in mind, I have no weighed myself in months, I usually weigh myself in the morning when I very first wake up,&I have just eaten a meal worthy of four people.

When I looked at my weight my stomach dropped. I weighed in at 173 pounds! I have no been there in nearly five years! How could this have happened? I have changed nothing! or so I thought… 

Once I started thinking about it I started to notice that I had changed my habits. In the last couple of months, ranging anywhere from 3 to 9 months, I have been eating out a lot more, I have exercised way less than I have in years, along with eating out, I have not been eating healthy at home,&my stress level has skyrocketed, Add all these factors together&they equal my weight gain. 

After seeing my weight gain, which was about 10 or 11 pounds, I decided to start researching ways to lose weight. let me tell you, I found a lot of random&weird information 

For example on http://www.rd.com/health/easy-ways-to-lose-weight-50-ideas/ One of the facts said to put as much blue around yourself as possible when eating or that passionately kissing your partner can burn XX amount of calories. Those were the fun ones but there were other useful tips, like walking for 45 minutes a day or making your dinner plate smaller. 

I also found some useful information on http://allwomenstalk.com/7-fastest-ways-to-lose-weight/, they just had like seven facts to use. They were pretty cool. 

I also discovered that to maintain my current weight I should consume a little over 1,900 calories a day but if I want to lose weight I should consume about 1,700 calories a day. All the sites I looked on warned me against eating less than 1,200 calories, which is fine with me considering I would probably starve. 

So here is my game plan, after considering everything I have read, which has been too much but has been enough (Tonight is not the only night I have done research, in the past I have spend many hours on this subject). I have deided that I want to: 

1. Keep eating my cereal for breakfast, I felt this was the only good part of my food intake. I also want to drink a cup of coffee, black with breakfast followed by 16 ounces of cold water. 
2. Then after breakfast, throughout the morning I want to drink another 16 ounces of water. I also want to do this between lunch&supper as well&possibly another 16 onces before bed.
3. I would like to try&find time to eat at least a small lunch around noon. This will be difficult for me considering Monday, Tuesday,&Thursday I have class during this time&Friday,Saturday,&Sunday I sleep pretty late so I usually combine lunch&breakfast. This leaves me with only eating lunch in Wednesday. I am going to try to change this.
4. My plan is to try to start eating healthier&also less of the foods I do eat healthy or not. I’m not sure about snacking yet,I haven’t decided. So loot for that later.
5. I am going to keep a food diary. It says that this helps people eat less, so why not right? 
6. I want to spend less time on my computer&more time exercising. Being a college student might make this a little difficult. Sometimes I have to be on the computer to get schoolwork&I have no control over that but I do control the amount of time I spend on facebook&sites like it. My current thought is to skip getting on facebook in the morning. I want to walk in the morning&I know my body cannot handle waking up earlier than what I already do. I usually wake up at 7:30&I have class at 9:30 Monday through Thursday. I usually shower between 7:30-8. Then from 8-8:50-9 I get ready to leave for school. This usually includes a lot of time for being on the computer. Then I have to leave for class between 8:50&9. So here is my number plan. I will still wake up at 7:30 but instead of getting in the shower I will walk from 7:30 to 8. Then shower&get ready for class between 8&before I have to leave. I am going to try this tomorrow to see how it works. My plans also include eating before my meals. Obviously if I am in class I cannot eat before lunch but for breakfast&supper this can be done. 
7. I am also looking for a partner to do these with me&to keep me accountable. I plan on writing an update every day or every few days in order to be accountable. Heck I don’t even know if anyone will read this but if you do feel free to share anything you’d like.(: 

I think that I all I have for the time being. I want to make sure everyone is aware that I am doing this for myself. My family doesn’t care what I look like slash what my weight is&neither do my friends or that special someone I have in my life. I have decided to make these changes for myself for my own health&well-being.

Thank you for your time, 

Kily Riley.((: