Camy
New member
I am starting another diary, new year, clean slate so to speak.
For those who don't know me, a recap so far:
pretty much exactly 2 years ago I decided to change my life. I had gained a ton of weight, felt depressed, never did any activity and was afraid of people, including my boyfriend, to see my body.
I had 45 pounds to lose and through conscious eating, informed choices and physical activity I lost slowly and steadily 25 of those, then my career took me to Africa where I found out that not only could I not really count calories as we ate out every single day, but also I could not exercise as gyms were few and far between. I lost intially mainly through sickness another 10 pounds but put them back on once I was not sick anymore. I have moved back to Europe now, have a job, continue my professional training and have found a wonderful dance school and now that I do have a routine I can concentrate back on my ultimate goal, to lose the last 20 pounds that stand between me and the figure I wish I had.
I work 6 hours a day in the morning, taking care of someone else's baby and household, this means I am relatively active, I also try to get an hour long walk in every day with the baby in her sling. I have no time to cook lunch, but I precook and then heat it up in the microwave, so I still eat homemade food. I walk to university and back which are a combined 40 minutes worth of brisk walking every day and I dance 4 days a week.
My plan is to eat a good healthy breakfast, mainly a yogurt with muesli and fruit, have carbs and protein for lunch, pasta with tuna sauce for instance, or chicken and rice, or a potato omelette, then have a light dinner. Salads, soups or similar. I snack on fruit and veg.
On the exercise front, I am dancing 4 times a week at a fairly good level, two days one hour, and two days an hour and a half, I do jazz and contemporary ballet. I also wish to regain the elasticity I lost so I am going to try to do a pilates video I bought, once each saturday and once each sunday.
I walk a combined hour every day just naturally to get to and from where I go, I also want to walk for at least an hour with the baby and in march I will try to bike-ride the 2 long stretches I currently do by bus and by subway.
All in all I am pretty happy, confident that I can do it and motivated. As far as goal dates go, the first 25 pounds took about 9 months to go. Of course ideally I would be by goal in the summer to wear bikinis to the beach, but I have had 25 years of summers without the perfect body and I know I will be ok even if I am not at goal yet. However we have a dance recital at the end of june and I would like to be at least 12-15 pounds lighter than now, just for confidence reasons.
Oh and I count on this diary to keep me on track, because I will write down everything I eat on here and I know I will shy away from sweets and treats more if I have to see it black on white recorded later on.
Ok, so here we go!
For those who don't know me, a recap so far:
pretty much exactly 2 years ago I decided to change my life. I had gained a ton of weight, felt depressed, never did any activity and was afraid of people, including my boyfriend, to see my body.
I had 45 pounds to lose and through conscious eating, informed choices and physical activity I lost slowly and steadily 25 of those, then my career took me to Africa where I found out that not only could I not really count calories as we ate out every single day, but also I could not exercise as gyms were few and far between. I lost intially mainly through sickness another 10 pounds but put them back on once I was not sick anymore. I have moved back to Europe now, have a job, continue my professional training and have found a wonderful dance school and now that I do have a routine I can concentrate back on my ultimate goal, to lose the last 20 pounds that stand between me and the figure I wish I had.
I work 6 hours a day in the morning, taking care of someone else's baby and household, this means I am relatively active, I also try to get an hour long walk in every day with the baby in her sling. I have no time to cook lunch, but I precook and then heat it up in the microwave, so I still eat homemade food. I walk to university and back which are a combined 40 minutes worth of brisk walking every day and I dance 4 days a week.
My plan is to eat a good healthy breakfast, mainly a yogurt with muesli and fruit, have carbs and protein for lunch, pasta with tuna sauce for instance, or chicken and rice, or a potato omelette, then have a light dinner. Salads, soups or similar. I snack on fruit and veg.
On the exercise front, I am dancing 4 times a week at a fairly good level, two days one hour, and two days an hour and a half, I do jazz and contemporary ballet. I also wish to regain the elasticity I lost so I am going to try to do a pilates video I bought, once each saturday and once each sunday.
I walk a combined hour every day just naturally to get to and from where I go, I also want to walk for at least an hour with the baby and in march I will try to bike-ride the 2 long stretches I currently do by bus and by subway.
All in all I am pretty happy, confident that I can do it and motivated. As far as goal dates go, the first 25 pounds took about 9 months to go. Of course ideally I would be by goal in the summer to wear bikinis to the beach, but I have had 25 years of summers without the perfect body and I know I will be ok even if I am not at goal yet. However we have a dance recital at the end of june and I would like to be at least 12-15 pounds lighter than now, just for confidence reasons.
Oh and I count on this diary to keep me on track, because I will write down everything I eat on here and I know I will shy away from sweets and treats more if I have to see it black on white recorded later on.
Ok, so here we go!
