Looking for others like me...weight loss support! (Page 3)

I try to eat much more than I normal did for breakfast and sort of front load with food. Now my dinners are the calorie of my previous breakfasts. When I have a long workout, I probably eat 400-500 calories 45-60 minutes before my workout. I helps me keep from being starving and making bad choices after workout. Plus I try to take in around 200 calories per hour while doing 1.5+ hour workouts...a little bit more when I do 3-5 hour workouts. I normally eat 300-400 calories for breakfast...and I have found it really helps me from being hungry throughout the whole day.

I did a long ride once that I ate breakfast at home, drove 90 minutes to meet friends, road almost 5 hours, and was starved afterwards. I ate everything I could on the drive home. I learned the hard way that I need to eat enough before and during workout otherwise I eat more after than I should have during workout.

I try never to cheat....so I have an always no attitude. I never have french fries or fried food makes me feel sick. On occasion I'll have a bite or two of someone in my families tempting thing but only after I think it about it a lot. About every 2-3 months if I want something a lot, I'll think about it for maybe a week or two and if I decide I really want it, I will but try to have it as healthy as possible. Pizza fits into this category.

I also enlist all my family to help me. I give them guidelines of what I can and do not choose to eat. If I want something off what I normally eat, I have them encourage me not to. My middle daughter is the best at it. We sometimes play a game where I'll ask of can I have a french fry and my other two daughter say oh here you go....Shasha yells no Mom...Devil Hill...you want to get up that hill! I wasn't going to eat the fry just training my daughter to help me.

I was fat and overweight a long time, I now see what I eat as what I eat not a diet just a better/healthier way for me to eat. I struggle going out to eat...we went out today. Everyone else ordered hamburger or BLT or some type of sandwhich with fries. This was a diner type place..what to order? I choose a crab/blackbean/spinach wrap. I asked what the side was tortilla chips which I switched to a salad. I pulled off most of the wrap. Now if I looked at the menu there were about 50 things I'd rather have eaten but I don't eat that stuff anymore...so I tried to find the best thing I could given that I try not to eat processed food including flour or sugar.

oops dreaded double post

Tomorrow I'll start a new thread....we can introduce ourselves

Unless we get another option...let's go with tri-umphant Losers!

I was just reading through this thread and I would like to be part of it too...however, I am just curious how it will be different from the Fall Challenge?

I was part of the Memorial Day to Labor Day Challenge and this week was the end...and only 8 posters from the original 40 or so remained to the end. I am pretty new to BT and maybe this is typical...

the fall challenge that Autumn started seems like a great one too...I guess I am just wondering how they would be different...and if I needed to/or could be on both?