2010, the year I danced myself thin!

Hi! :)
I love the fact that you dance and are interested in doing gymnastics, I know I love both and like you I danced a lot when I was younger and I also did some gymnastics. Although I do dance from time to time, it's a lot less than before and I miss it! :)
You can do it girl! :hurray:
:hug2:
Lilia
 
Congrats on all of your hard work - you are doing great.

And I'm so glad that you now see yourself as pretty. At 140, you must be. I can't really see any difference yet but I think in about a stone I will so I have to keep going.

wish I had something as fun as dance classes to do but I think I'm gonna wait until my weight drops a bit!
 
So many visits, yey! Whiskeytangofox, had someone told me 2 years ago I would be dancing like this I would have told them they were crazy. I was so insecure I could barely walk on the streets... leotards? Jumping around in front of people? Not so much! But 20 pounds later I am happy to do it. And I am more selfassured, because of the weight loss in part and because I have been working on myself in part too.

Sunflower, the epileptic fish thing had me laughing loudly. I do look quite spastic sometimes, but I just call it "my style". Nobody will krump my style!!

Lillia I wanted to visit your diary but I gt home so late, so I hope to manage tomorrow. Thank you for your comment and if you loved it, definitely attempt it again. I had taken a 6 (!!!) year hiatus from dancing before this year and now I can't even think how I survived without it. I think about it all the time, I dance in my head, I even dream of dancing.

Not much to tell, still no period, though definitely tomorrow. Food was ok, nothing amazing, nothing too terrible. Dance was good, I may have pulled a muscle in my back, but i will give it a day or two before I get freaked out about it. It mubght just be sore.

Food log:
Breakfast: yoghurt with muesli, 1 banana
Snack: 1 pear
Lunch: small salmon fillet, creamed spinach, for pudding 3 small cookies
Dinner: 1 portion quinoa salad, 1 mug of soup, 3 small cookies

Calories: around 1400 I think

Exercise:
90 minutes of contemporary dance
90 minute walk with baby in sling
 
I did indeed pull a muscle so no dance today. I was actually upset about it. Not thrilled like I would have been usually but sad, because I miss my people from dance and I miss... well dancing. I hope that sitting this one out and staying in my warm bed will heal the muscle and then I can go Friday.
Also got my period this evening, woohoo!

Food:
Breakfast: 1 banana, muesli with yoghurt
Lunch: 1 large dish of quinoa salad
Snack: 1 banana
Dinner: 1 egg + 2 eggwhite spinach omelette, large green salad
Treat: 10 gummy bears

Exercise:
nothing, baby was not in a good mood, my back and shoulder hurt... tomorrow I hope for good weather and a nice long walk.
 
Lol I have never known anybody excited to get their period, but each to their own!!

Your food sounds really good, and it's no surprise that the good diet combined with all your dancing is seeing you drop the lbs :) how long have you been at it? x
 
I just like the fact that if I have it now I won't have it for a while!! And I used to have the most horrible cramps, like disabling lying in bed screaming in pain, passing out in a tube stop, puking my guts out from the sheer pain-cramps! And they have got so much better, I mean today I was a bit crampy but I functioned fine... this still makes me happy each and every time.
Oh and the two weeks after my period are my best weight loss weeks, so woohoo!

Today I didn't do much, had an hour long walk with baby in the stroller, no dance because thursday is my rest day, my back is much better. Oh and my self-birthday present arrived, a hoodie and a t shirt (and some foot thong things for dancing). I love both of them, they are so pretty!

Food log:
Breakfast: 1 banana, muesli and yoghurt
Snack: snickers, 1 pear
Lunch: 1 large dish of quinoa salad
Dinner: 160 cals worth of smoked salmon, 200 cals worth of broad beans, 1 banana
After dinner sweetie: 3 vitamin C bonbons

Exercise:
1 hour walk with baby in buggy
 
Weigh in day and I am 600 g lighter. Woohoo. That is huge for someone my size. It also means that I have lost nearly 4 pounds in the last 2 weeks, yey!! If I keep going like this I could be at goal weight for my dance festival in late june. Oh how I hope I will be...
Also my boyfriend gave me a new goal, well sort of boyfriend, we were together for years and are now on a kind of break while we work out our issues seperately. He has commitment issues and also some of his views of himself clash with reality so he needs to make some changes or accept who he is to be happy. I have depenency issues and selfesteem issues. I am always dependent on him to feel happy and if he isn't happy I get really down really quickly. Moreso than him even. I need to understand that my happiness depends on me and that I cannot depend on other people to be happy. I need to love myself first to be able to love other people and have relationships with them. So you see we are at a weird moment in life, however, I do love him and miss him and he loves and misses me too. So he wants us to go on holidays for easter, for a week to Kenya. I would LOVE to go to Kenya, I think I could probably get money together for the flight and some for like the safari but he would pay most of my cost over there and he wants to do that. So, we are still thinking about it and calculating how much this will cost us, but I will just put it out there.
And this would be in 9 weeks... I would love to be 129 by then, so about 12 pounds to lose and out of the 130ies. I don't do well with time goals, but I always wrote some down that I then don't manage to match. So I hope this time is different and I do get to the goals.
So my first goal would be to be 129 by the first week of April for Kenya (or just for the holidays if Kenya doesn't happen).
Second goal would be to be 120 for the last week of june. This is more important technically but i am ok if I don't reach it as long as I don't look fat on stage ;)!

Otherwise not much to report, my back is still achy but I am going back to dance today, wouldn't miss it for the world, I love the friday class... well I love all of my classes but the friday class is really really cool!

Food log:
Breakfast: yoghurt and muesli, 1 banana
Snack: 1 soy latte
Lunch: 1 plate of maize spaghetti with bolognaise sauce (about 500-600 cals)
Snack: 1 yoghurt
Dinner: 1 portion of creamed spinach (115 cals), 1 packet of asparagus (50 cals), small left over of quinoa salad (?? cals)
Late night snack: 1/2 packet of popcorn


Exercise:
walked about an hour with the baby in buggy
90 minutes of lyrical ballet
 
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Did barely anything all day, just needed the rest, went our for a few hours, but mainly stayed in not doing anything. Tomorrow I need to study hard, I have exams in less than 3 weeks and have not started, argh! Also I want to do the Pilates DVD tomorrow, I didn't today... bad me!
Oh also I got the worst chocolate craving today so I went and bought a pack. I ate half and then threw the other half away (I am kind of regretting that now... mmmhh chocolate). I am pretty proud of myself for doing that, I really wanted to eat the other half, it took a lot of willpower.

Food log:
Breakfast: fruit and yoghurt (165 cals)
Lunch: 1 plate of maize spaghetti with bolognaise (500 ish cals)
Snacks: 1/2 pack pf popcorn, later 1/2 pack of choc (a gazillion cals ;))
Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast, 1 portion of creamed spinach (whole thing 320 cals)

No exercise
 
Hey Camy,

All your food looks really good.

I keep trying to tempt my other half into a summer holiday... the thought of donning a bikini or swimsuit would be THE BEST motivation for me. (Plus it's nice to have that to look forward to.) I haven't given up working on him. :D

Keep up the good work so far - you dont need me to tell you but you're doing really well. x
 
Thank you Tutti, I may not need it but I do really like to hear that I am doing well. Did I mention I am like freakishly insecure?

Did absolutely nothing today I should be ashamed of myself, I didn't study (I did download what I need to study... but that is not the same!), I didn't do Pilates, I didn't do anything. I am so tired as well, I think an early night is in order. My food was good, though my lunch was a "what should I eat I am just going to throw what I find together" situation and my creation was disgusting. But it was relatively low in calories and since I am not moving, I really did not need that many cals!

Food log:
Breakfast: fruit and yoghurt (165 cals)
Lunch: 1 plate of rice noodles with tomato and sweetcorn (350 cals), 1 apple (60 cals)
Snack: 1 yoghurt (100 cals)
Dinner: 1 egg 1 egg white 100 g of spinach omelette (180 cals), big green salad with 1 tin of tuna (120 cals)

So around 1000 cals... that is ok considering I did not move.
 
Thank you very much for all of your support and encouragement. I am very impressed with all that you do! You are a good example!

I look forward to seeing you reach all of your goals and fulfilling your dreams! Shoot for the stars!

Jessie
 
Aww Jessie, that was a really sweet post. I feel quite moved that you see me as a good example.

I had a ton to write, all these ideas go through my head all day long and then I don't have enough time to post anything... damn.

Food log:
Breakfast: 1 yogurt with muesli
Snack: 1 banana
Lunch: 3 oz of salmon and a portion of russian potato salad
Dinner: green salad and 1/2 portion of potato salad

Exercise:
60 minutes of walking with the baby in the sling
90 minutes of killer jazz dance class
 
Good day overall in the end (had a really interesting day at the hospital), not such a good day foodwise, I knew I was limited in my choices as I was nto home to eat lunch. It wasm't too bad though.

Food log:
Breakfast: very big yoghurt with fruit and muesli, 1 banana, 1 cappuccino
Lunch: 1 portion of russian potato salad
Snack: 1 nur bar and 1 200ml juice
Dinner: vegetable stir fry and 1 egg

Total is about 1600 calories I think, I am not sure though.

Exercise:
90 minutes of contemporary ballet
1 hour(ish) walk with baby in sling
 
Lol at your "disgusting creation" the other day... we live and learn! :D

We all like the support that's why we're here. As you say, it really helps to see other people who know how hard it is to lose looking at how you're doing and reassuring you that you're on the right track. (I for one live with a man who is underweight despite eating at least twice what I do and who has never spared a moments thought for what goes into his mouth his whole life, so supportive or not he cant really understand the challenges involved!!)

Keep up the good work :) xx
 
Hey girlies,
sunflower a russian salad is a salad made out of potato, carrot, green peans, peas, tuna and hardboiled eggs, it is usually dressed with a ton of mayo but I just used a spoon full of mayo and then 1 no-fat natural yoghurt (40 cals instead of 250!). It was yummy!

Tutti, I totally know what you mean. My boyfriend is also so skinny, actually at 165 I was 10 pounds heavier than him and I am 5'4 or 5'5 and he is a little over 6 feet! But he was a fat child and lost weight during puberty, he is extremely health conscious (or rather weight conscious). He will tell me not to eat stuff and he works out like crazy, he swims 3-5 k a day, every day! So I don't blame him for anything.

My day was good, my class was especially good, I am starting to get stuff. Not yet top level but I am not as lost as I was last week. I skipped my uni clases they were doing topics I have done like 50 times already, there is no point in me going! They are doing basics of maternal care and I worked for over a year and a half delivering... I think I know a thing or two about maternal care.
Also I know I have only lost 4 pounds but I can really see in my leotards that my central bit (sort of belly but all the way from my ribs to my iliac crests... like the hipbons) is a lot more contained, less flaccid. This makes me very happy! That is my problem zone and I can wear a leotard and I am not totally embarrassed to dance in front of people. Also I may have made a couple of friends in dance. I really like these girls, they are so beautiful when they dance I think they must be lovely... I know it is not a great way to judge people but they are always really sweet when we crash into each other ;)! They want to go for a drink some time next week. Yey!

Food log:
Breakfast: muesli and yoghurt, 1 banana
Snack: 1 apple no skin
Lunch: 1/3 of a chicken breast, 1 portion of russian salad (finished it!)
Evil snack: 300 cals of choc
Dinner: 1 mug of soup and a spinach skinny omelette

Exercise:
30-45 minutes of walking with baby in sling
90 minutes of jazz dance
 
Mmm that salad sounds delicious.. There is a polish salad i used to pick up at the deli, very similar.. boiled Potatos, eggs, peas, carrots, pickles, mayo. I have made it myself also using lite mayo, but have never thought of using plain yogurt!

mmm adding tuna sounds good.
 
Yeah beadz that sounds pretty much exactly like my salad! Thank you for popping in, I have been so crazy busy that I have not really visited any diaries, something to look forward to tomorrow!

The day was good it was my rest day and I walked for about an hour with the baby even though it rained. I think she may be getting sick, she was very sleepy and just nto her usual happy self. We will see how she is tomorrow. Foodwise all was good, I have been planning next week and looking for a nice rice salad recipe, because the one I usually make again involves mayo and I just would like to go easy on the mayo for a while. I am sure I will fidn something.
I FBed with the girls from dance, it is nice to know that they like me enough to be my FB friends at least. I kind of miss good friends to hang out with here. I mean it kind of helps with the weight loss because I always just eat by myself, but it is starting to get a bit lonely. I had never had social problems before... well nto since high school anyhow, I always make friends really easily. I am friends with a few people from my course and with 1 mommy from the playground, but they are not really that close. Maybe in time, but not right now. I would love to hang out with the dancers more, I always found it boring to just be with people from my same environment study or work wise, I think it is more fun to hang out with people from various different places and jobs and stuff.

Food log:
Breakfast: muesli with yoghurt, 1 banana
Snack: 100 cals worth of surimi
Lunch: 1 serving of spaghetti with a tomato based mushroom sauce
Snack: 1 banana
Dinner: vegetable stir fry with 1 egg (250 cals), 100 cals worth of surimi, 1 yoghurt

Pretty much 1500 on the dot

Exercise:
walk for 60 minutes with the baby in pram
 
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