2011 - Year of the Kate

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Katiebug33

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For those who don't know me, I'm Kate, 5'11 and 21 years old from South Australia, been overweight for a long time, but I have put on heaps since I stopped playing basketball about 3 years ago. I am halfway through my physiotherapy degree and unless I lose weight, i'll be injured before I even start my career, that is, of course, if anyone will hire an overweight health professional, as i'd be a walking, talking example of how NOT to look after your body. I'm super positive about 2011, it's gunna be my year :)

Starting weight: 130kg

Short term aim: 125kg by 31st Jan (12th Feb - my bday, very latest)

Long term aim: under 110kg by the end of the year (may change to under 100kg if i'm amazing and out-do my first aim :p)

Most important aim: change my lifestyle so healthy eating and exercise are my HABITS, I want to enjoy healthy food and miss exercise if i have a few days off

long story short, after much debate, will be worrying less about calories and more about organic, unprocessed food. upping the fruit and veg, lean meat and dairy, and decreasing the pre-packaged stuff with uber amounts of preservatives in it. will, of course, have a few lean cuisines stashed in the freezer for emergencies, and some dark chocolate for those cravings, but all in all, more fruit and veg, less deep fried crap and take-away.

feeling positive :) bring on 2011

xx
 
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You have a plan and now all you have to do is follow it! Great job!! Your right, it's kinda hard to tell people to live a healthly lifestyle while not following it yourself. Keep that postive feeling burning and you'll do great!
 
note to self: read fine print on packaged salads. just bought one from the supermarket "thai green and noodle salad" looked amazing but the noodles were a bit hard. halfway through the salad i read the label and it says ur supposed to cook it in a frying pan for 3 minutes before eating... oops? once cooking the remaining salad for 3 minutes, i put it back in its plastic container and it tasted much better, it wasnt until i was almost done that i realised the hot noodles had melted the plastic container WHICH... leads to my question...

how many calories in plastic? :S
 
Lol Katie Reading your post cracked me up. I’m sure I haven’t found a calorie counter that can tell you the amount of calories for plastic, but I’m sure eating half the salad uncooked more than made up for it.:smilielol5:
 
OK diary, game on.

the last few days - not TOO bad, and props to myself for not indulging in alcoholic beverages at all the recent social events, nothing but water for this little black duck in the festive season. oh except for the one 'light' bottle of wine at a family friend event on sunday... still, fair effort beverage wise, and food wise... better than last year, but not great.

So, new year, now that things have calmed down, gunna get back into the swing of things. Going to attempt to walk the Mt Lofty trail this week sometime (currently procrastinating doing it today) its only supposed to take under 2 hours, i get the feeling i'll be closer to 4 though, as my fitness is a bit shot... it would be nice to time myself now and try again in 10kg time though, a nice benchmark to see how far i've come.

Have avoided eating unknown calories worth of plastic in recent days too... lol


Kate
 
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Hey Kate, bloody good plan you've got there - that's pretty much all I'm doing too. Very little processed food, loads of water and heaps of fresh fruit and veggies. Don't forget the nuts too (natural nuts of course).

Lol at the packaged salad! :smilielol5:
 
Whyyyyyyyyy does my motivation come in waves?
If I took that literally... today is a still day on the Kate-motivation ocean. Not a wave in sight.
How can I go from 100% confidence and motivation to absolutely zip... overnight?
 
Best of luck with your new diary, hope you reach your short term (and later long term!) goal :D
 
OK, motivation is back, in the form of an overseas holiday. New Zealand actually.

Me and Braedan both want to go at the end of the year, and some of the activities we wanna do include climbing glaciers and mountains and this huge canyon swing and white water rafting etc.

I know it's stupid but every time I think about activities like that my weight stops me from doing them. For example "I WOULD climb that glacier, but im so heavy i might crack the ice if i fall" or "I would ride the canyon swing but i might snap the lines and die a horrible death because i'm so fat, imagine the headlines 'fatty boomba dies on canyon swing, it closes down and she is hated by all adventure seekers'"

maybe SLIGHTLY unrealistic, but stupid as it sounds, thoughts like that actually cross my mind.

Yesterday i went out for coffee with a friend, she is stick thin and was curled up in her seat, hugging her knees, the seats were quite narrow and actually dug into my thighs as we sat there, it was horrible.



So.. yes, totally motivated to lose weight now, and with what feels like good reason too. I want to go and do these activities so badly, i dont want to be held back by 'weight limits' for the activities, or, possibly worse still, my own unrealistic weight-related fears.

So, here we go.

First stop: the doctors, to get my stomach sorted out once and for all, indigestion, ulcer, newfound allergic reaction to some kind of food... whatever is causing all these stomach problems, i'm gunna find out and get it fixed once and for all.

For now though, off to work.

Kate
 
OK, so i didnt like counting calories much, but at least the guilt of knowing i had to admit everything that i ate stopped me from visiting fast food places and having a binge of chips or whatever, so might write up my food from now on to keep me focused.

Food:
3 cups pasta with tomato based sauce (over 2 meals... leftovers from mum n dad)
4 salt n vinegar chicken strips and boccocini/tomato/basil salad
Lots of cordial (actually feel a little bit sick cause ive had over a litre in about 15 minutes... thirsty, much?)

Exercise: nil.. unless an hour of speed shopping at the local shopping centre counts?
 
yesterday i worked 8.5 hours, threw up in the morning but then kept down a ham and cheese croissant, for lunch i had a wholemeal roll with turkey, cucumber, mayo and sprouts, a ham and tomato roll for an afternoon snack and home made gourmet pizza for dinner. lots of water.

today i went to the doctors, blood test and a poo sample to try and suss out whats wrong with my tummy, should have the results later this week. fingers crossed its something easily fixed :s

food today:
3 pieces leftover homemade pizza
footlong meatball sub, 4 cookies
a handfull of gummi bears
bbq dinner with friends, sausages/chicken/salad

I'm really not doing too well at the moment, i could make excuses... but realistically.. im just not trying hard enough.

Time to up my game I reckon...
 
Dear diary,

Today was better. Sausage sandwich for brekky, minestrone soup for lunch and a chicken... thing? with 3 kinds of salad for an early dinner. If we ignore the mini magnum we enjoyed this afternoon, today was excellent.

EXERCISE: Yeah, i actually did some proper exercise today... I attemtped to climb mount lofty, its the closest thing we have to a mountain in our state, personally it doesnt look big enough (from a distance) to be a mountain if you ask me. Turns out up close its pretty fkn huge. I walked up the steepest climb of my life for 20 minutes before my legs turned to jelly and i stumbled back down to the base. Pretty sure i didnt even make it half way :s but i am SO keen to finish it now, even if it takes me months :)

Kate
 
Thanks for the support everyone, those who followed from my old journal and the new faces on here :) it's always nice to think i'm not the only one battling unhealthy habits, with everyone on here we pretty much have an army, how could we possibly lose?!

Breakfast: 1 piece bread with vegemite
Lunch: 1 chicken.. thing.. again, and 3 kinds of salad
Dinner: ?? Hasn't happened yet

Will probably be a bit dead around here for the next week or so, i'm heading to a beach house down south with braedan for a week, getting some sun and surf :) we're planning to go for walks/runs/hikes and swimming and fishing too of course :) see you all in a week!!

xx
 
I'm hoooo-oooome.

Robe was good fun, except for the indigestion, bladder infection, massive sunburn, tongue ulcer and arriving home to find out my housemate would rather i leave so she can find someone new to pay more rent than I do... lol

But in all seriousness, was a great holiday. The bladder infection stopped the romance side of it, but we still went fishing, body boarding, lots of naps and board games and reading and relaxing, it was beautiful weather :)

So now comes a new adventure of finding somewhere new to live, have already emailed half a dozen replies to ads, gunna be fun with only a week before uni starts, lucky i have one week on, then a week off before placement starts... still gunna be tight though! Oh well, everything happens for a reason, maybe theres a better (cheaper?) place out there for me, it would be nice to not live in quite as much poverty as i currently am...

As for weight... we ate reasonably well in Robe, except for some tim tams and some fish and chips on the way back... will still weigh in tomorrow although i'm not confident for a big loss.

Going grocery shopping tomorrow, re-stock all the good stuffs, salad and meat and veg :)

Glad to be home, looking forward to my own bed :)

xx
 
Not really sunflower, all i did was suggest to her if we could possibly invest in a washing line we wouldnt have such huge electricity bills from using the dryer, or if we got those water saving shower heads our water bill wouldnt be double what it's supposed to be... and she pretty much said she cbf changing anything and if im struggling with money i should go live with my parents because she can get more for this room than i'm paying... nice eh? So i'm looking for a place to move to asap, seems to be a few good ads out there, hopefully the houses/people are nice too!! I just hate the whole not knowing where i'll end up bit... the interviews are a bit nerve racking, and this week was SUPPOSED to be all about uni revision, now it's about interviews... sigh..
 
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