23 Weeks to Wedding Fit (and Beyond)

Paladin-Cleric

Paladin-Cleric

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Hi...

I was here a long while ago and then sort of dropped out. I don't even know why I did, but I did, and I skyrocketed back up in weight. So I'm starting fresh, and I'm sticking to it this time, because as you can see, I have only 23 weeks to my wedding... well 22 1/2 now, but it's vitally important that I shed some pounds and slim myself down.

What sparked me to return I hear you say? Well, I had been Best Person at my brothers wedding, and only a few weeks ago did the pictures of that wedding come back. Well, as you can imagine, I was mortified to see myself (and if I can bear to look at them again to get you all a picture to show you I will). And then a few weeks later after thinking about it and thinking about it, I realised I only had 24 weeks exactly to my wedding and that I couldn't bear the idea of looking like I had in my brothers photo's.

So This is it, crunch time. I've spent the last week (week 24) working out my fitness level and my calorie intake and setting up a workable plan to lose weight and get fit for my wedding.

As always my downfall is food, and I'm going to need to really keep on top of it, eat healthier and cut my calories right back to give me a proper starting point. Exercise (which I've been doing 6 days a week for a week and half now) is actually getting to be sort of fun, I just have to keep it up and hopefully I'll start to see some results.

The countdown is on and I need this to work. And I just knew that with all the wonderful support on offer here that if I really stick to it this time, it will work.

Thank you.
 
Good luck! Hope you stick to your plan and that it makes you happy again. I'm cheering for ya!
 
Hi PC & welcome back. I'm glad you decided to come back to WLF. It's not just the support that keeps me going, but typing in my diary regularly helps keep me focussed. Weight can just sneak back on so easily. You can do this! You have something very positive to aim for. How exciting!
 
Ok, so here we are on the last day of week 23. Now I did start this technically on week 24, which was my fitness checking and calorie working out week. So this week was the first proper week.

There's no point in saying this week went smoothly, because it didn't. I've had a whole lot of issues with work, and stress and stuff, all of which didn't help me stick to my diet, but I did my best and for the majority of the week I managed to stay within my calorie budget and managed my exercise.

I'm not very sure that I lost anything, at all, or that I look any thinner. I might try and convinve my fiancee to take a picture of me every week to see if I can see any real results.

You know what I hate though, is people saying "Wow, you've lost weight" when the scales don't change and your clothes aren't any looser. It can be so disheartening not to see any change. Mmy fiancee said last night that he could see the weight I've lost in the past two weeks, but I've seen no change at all. I just wish that the changes would be obvious enough, more in terms of me fitting into something smaller, for me to notice.

This is why I never stick to my weight loss regiemes, I never see results myself. I'll have to keep with this one though, I really can't afford not to if I don't want to end up looking like I did at my brothers wedding.
 
May I suggest keep a log of what you eat? And if you want post it here. Keeping a log has been helpful for me, it makes me feel accountable and also I realized I was eating more than I thought.
 
I have been doing that, from week 24 and I've been pretty successful at staying below 1600 calories most days and just slightly over 2000 on my bad days. Which thankfully have been less. Both of which are massive improvements on my previous over 3000 calorie days.

And I've been doing six days s week worth of exercise. Ranging from 20mins to 3 hours. Depending on the exercise I'm doing. Eg my circuit training workouts are short but my walks are long. But I'm not seeing any results. My fiancée has dropped s jeans size just by cutting out fast food. So jealous!

And ice been stressed a lot this week and last. Even had a mini crying breakdown yesterday. Don't know if that's work related, home related or because I've started this diet and am sticking to it. I just don't understand. I'm not depriving myself or anything. I let myself have the odd tea cake or chocolate biscuit so long as it fits into my calories remaining for the day.

Losing weight is horrible sometimes. Lol.

Thank you for listening to my rant.
 
I suppose I haven't really given an overview of what I'm eating and exercising, so I'll do that now!

Food
Today;
Breakfast -: Ham Omlette (2 eggs, 50 grams of gammon, water) - Around 300 calories
Lunch -: Burger Wrap (Tescos frozen burgers, tescos plain wraps, tspn mayonaise) - Around 490 calories
Mid Afternoon snack -: Tuna Mayo wrap (Tescos tuna, Helmans mayonaise, tescos plain wraps) - Around 332 calories
Dinner -: Sausages and Veg (Tescos Finest leek and pork sausages, birds eye steamed veg mix) - Around 375 calories
Drinks -: Water

Total planned calories = 1497 calories
Which leaves 103 for other snacks. I always have a kids Fruit Factory pack of sultana and raisins on hand both at work and hope incase I get the snacking urge, and if I really must have something chocolately I try and find something within those extra calories.

I'm using up the last of the wraps in my house this week, so next week I'll be taking them out, and the mayonaise will be halved, and I'm trying to find other ways to have veg and fruit in my diet... I'm not good with eating them consistantly.

Exercise
This week;
Saturday -: 15 km walk (broken down into 10km and 5km) (Zombies Run)
Sunday -: 15km walk (Zombies Run)
Monday -: Rest day
Tuesday -: Circuit training (Superhero workout)
Wednesday -: 1 hour exercise bike, 100-150 situps (2 episodes of the xfiles)
Thursday -: 1 hour exercise bike, 160-240 squats (2 episodes of the xfiles)
Friday -: 1 1/2 hour exercise bike (2 episodes of the xfiles)

My weeks change obviously because of my shifts at work and things like that, so no two weeks look the same, which shakes things up a bit thankfully. I'm also very careful to ignore the calories I supposidly earn from my workouts otherwise I'd try and pig out on stuff I shouldn't have.

So as you can see, I'm doing my best to stick to my calories and my exercise, and even allowing for the fact that fat can turn to muscle and therefore the scales won't change very much, shouldn't I be seeing that my clothes are looser? Shouldn't I be loosing weight off somewhere and slimming down? What am I doing wrong?
 
Keep going just as you are PC & the weight will start to come off. Try to introduce a little fruit each day if you can & maybe some lean protein like raw almonds as a snack. Be patient honey. It will happen xo
 
Fingers crossed. I'm heading finishing up week 22 tomorrow and I'm still not seeing any change. In terms of fruit, I don't like to buy fresh fruit because I'll maybe have one or two pieces and then the rest will go to waste, and even if I buy only two, somehow I still end up letting them go to waste.

Well, I have a non-negotiable doctors appointment next friday (who knew you had to go at least once a year to keep your place at a doctors?), so if I'm still not seeing results after what is effectively a month, then I'll bring it up to my doctor and see what he says. I can imagine what he'll say though. "You'll just have to try harder to cut out junk food and eat healthier", which yes, is a valid point, but it's a lot harder than he thinks it is. I wish there was a way to just turn off food cravings. that would make my endevours so much easier! lol.
 
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