A few ramblings to get the ball rolling...!

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Sare502

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Hi guys,

Right, so I'm new here. I've been browsing through the forums for about a week or so, trying to get motivation and trying to convince I can do it myself without being spurred on from others ... turns out I can't! So now I'm hoping that this sort of diary thing will keep me on the straight and narrow.

I'm 22, not sure exactly my current weight (scales are in my parent's room and they're sleeping!) but I'll post all that tomorrow. This post is just to get the ball rolling for me ... I don't want to wake up tomorrow and persuade myself again that I can manage this fine without help!

I basically have until May next year to lose roughly 90lbs I would guess (although, again this will be confirmed tomorrow!) ... I'm going to Florida with my friend and I want to be able to be in a bikini without cringing and buy loads of gorgeous, little summery clothes! Not only is Florida going to be my inspiration ... but today I also saw my ex properly for the first time since we broke up, and next time I see him, I want to be looking skinnier and slightly fabulous! Haha. Pathetic reason (I know I should be doing this 100% for myself!) but whatever spurs us on right?

Anyway, I'll stop my rambling now, but I will check in tomorrow with more concrete stats on my CW and goals!

Hope everyone is well,

Sare.
 
Sare502 said:
Hi guys,

Right, so I'm new here. I've been browsing through the forums for about a week or so, trying to get motivation and trying to convince I can do it myself without being spurred on from others ... turns out I can't! So now I'm hoping that this sort of diary thing will keep me on the straight and narrow.

I'm 22, not sure exactly my current weight (scales are in my parent's room and they're sleeping!) but I'll post all that tomorrow. This post is just to get the ball rolling for me ... I don't want to wake up tomorrow and persuade myself again that I can manage this fine without help!

I basically have until May next year to lose roughly 90lbs I would guess (although, again this will be confirmed tomorrow!) ... I'm going to Florida with my friend and I want to be able to be in a bikini without cringing and buy loads of gorgeous, little summery clothes! Not only is Florida going to be my inspiration ... but today I also saw my ex properly for the first time since we broke up, and next time I see him, I want to be looking skinnier and slightly fabulous! Haha. Pathetic reason (I know I should be doing this 100% for myself!) but whatever spurs us on right?

Anyway, I'll stop my rambling now, but I will check in tomorrow with more concrete stats on my CW and goals!

Hope everyone is well,

Sare.
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Hello and welcome to your diary! It looks like we have similar goals and time frames. (I want to lose about 80 by next June) I have to say that this is an awesome website for keeping yourself motivated and on track. There are a lot of people here who are going through, and have gone through the weight loss thing.

do you have a plan for reaching your goal? Its always good to have a rough idea of what you need to do to accomplish what you want.

anyway, welcome again!
 
Hi Xorie!

xorie said:
Hello and welcome to your diary! It looks like we have similar goals and time frames. (I want to lose about 80 by next June) I have to say that this is an awesome website for keeping yourself motivated and on track. There are a lot of people here who are going through, and have gone through the weight loss thing.

do you have a plan for reaching your goal? Its always good to have a rough idea of what you need to do to accomplish what you want.

anyway, welcome again!
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Hi Xorie! Thanks very much for the welcome! :)

Oh it's nice to know someone with similar goals! Any particular reason why you're aiming for June? Or have you just set yourself that target? I hope you're right about the website - and I reckon you will be!!

When you say plans to reach my goal, do you mean how I'm going to get there (i.e. exercise, no. of calories etc) or how much I want to lose by which dates? To be honest I haven't really laid out concrete steps for myself yet - do you think that's a good thing to do? I'm not really sure how to do this haha. But I guess I want my calorie intake to be around 1300 (or is that too low?) and I'll do exercise on top of that. I can't afford the gym at the moment but I do have an exercise bike at home, the wii fit and a running app on my phone! So I guess I'll work out some kind of routine for myself once I get going. Ultimately by Christmas I would like to be about 35lbs down (but hopefully more!) - that way I'll be well and truly in the 'overweight' category of BMI and not 'obese' (this makes me want to cry!). So then I think I'm going to set myself a target of losing 20lbs by Bonfire Night!

Sorry this is all very vague but I will keep you posted more if you want me to! :) Thanks very much for the welcome again, I hope you're having a good, successful day!
 
Right, diary entry no. 2!

I did the dreaded weigh-in this morning ... 198lbs (Yeah I'm doing this the non-U.K. way, I just reckon it'll spur me on more as losing stones takes so much longer! ... In my head it does anyway!). This number makes me want to crawl right back into bed and not emerge for a good few months! Ugh. I knew it was around that but there was still that little part of me living in hope! Haha.

I went on a BMI website as well, turns out I have to lose 60lbs to entry the 'normal' category ... I still want to lose 80lbs though, then I will be well and truly cemented in there. I'm also quite little-boned, so I reckon I could look quite petite without looking dishevelled haha.

So as I said to Xorie in my previous post, I have no concrete goals, but being made to think about it I have set myself 2 somewhat-vague benchmarks. My first is Bonfire Night (Guy Fawke's night - so 5th of November for us in the U.K!) and I would like to have fallen into the 170s by that point.

And my second goal is Christmas - I'd like to have dropped at least 35lbs by then (let's say, the 23rd of December!) which would get me into the lower 160s. Do you guys think this is achievable? I lost weight once before, a few years back and it sort of fell off me. However, I can't really use that as a guideline because I wasn't all that aware it was happening! I knew I was losing weight, but it was no conscious effort on my part really, something just clicked in my brain and I didn't need to eat all the crap ... I wish it would click again!

So yeah, I'd love to hear if you guys think this is achievable, or if you think I could lose more, or if it's too much to lose too fast - whatever your opinions are really! Also for the fact I'm dealing in pounds now and not stones - I may have got my figures muddled. Let me know your thoughts, anyway :)

Hope everyone is doing well!

Sare.
 
Hi guyssss,

Today has been a good day. Not perfect, but good!! Although I didn't do as much exercise as I would have liked, my food intake overall I thought has been pretty good!!

Okay, so here's what I had:

Breakfast - a small apple (not small out of choice though it has to be said - just the bigger ones looked 'fluffy' if you know what I mean. This apple I had was pretty diddy though!)

Lunch - tuna salad, with a dollop of coleslaw for added measure. Wasn't really needed but it made it a bit more interesting for me.

Snack - about 6 dry roasted peanuts and a Swedish hard bready thing (they're very small, and pretty low in calories I think!)

Dinner - My nan's homemade tomato soup - very healthy, just tomatoes, onion, celery and water. No cream! I also had a bread roll and butter with this.

I then succumbed at my friend's house to two pieces of scampi. However, usually while working our way through episodes and episodes of grey's anatomy we get through crisps or chocolate or cake or whatever. And we had none of that today so I'm thinking two pieces of scampi is an improvement right?

Drinks - only water all day =) except for one glass where I had some blackcurrant squash with it.

As I said, exercise-wise wasn't as good as I'd now like it to be - only 3km on the exercise bike. Still, 3km is better than 0km.

So in total I think I had about 1100 calories (this includes minus-ing the calories I burned on the bike). Not a bad first day's work I hope! As long as I can keep it up =)

I hope tomorrow will be as good as today ...the only problem is I'm meant to be going out clubbing for my friend's leaving do, which generally results in a LOT of alcohol and then some greasy crap at the end of the night which ultimately gets stored straight as fat! So I'm thinking these added calories need to be avoided which is why I'm going to be designated driver! My evening will consist only of water and dancing!

Night all!!
 
Sare502 said:
Hi Xorie! Thanks very much for the welcome! :)

Oh it's nice to know someone with similar goals! Any particular reason why you're aiming for June? Or have you just set yourself that target? I hope you're right about the website - and I reckon you will be!!

When you say plans to reach my goal, do you mean how I'm going to get there (i.e. exercise, no. of calories etc) or how much I want to lose by which dates? To be honest I haven't really laid out concrete steps for myself yet - do you think that's a good thing to do? I'm not really sure how to do this haha. But I guess I want my calorie intake to be around 1300 (or is that too low?) and I'll do exercise on top of that. I can't afford the gym at the moment but I do have an exercise bike at home, the wii fit and a running app on my phone! So I guess I'll work out some kind of routine for myself once I get going. Ultimately by Christmas I would like to be about 35lbs down (but hopefully more!) - that way I'll be well and truly in the 'overweight' category of BMI and not 'obese' (this makes me want to cry!). So then I think I'm going to set myself a target of losing 20lbs by Bonfire Night!

Sorry this is all very vague but I will keep you posted more if you want me to! :) Thanks very much for the welcome again, I hope you're having a good, successful day!
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Its not vauge its a rough outline. :) I was talking just about basic plans, what your eating, and just a simple idea of how much you're going to exercise. I personally like simple plans, because then if I fudge a little on them, I dont beat myself up. The best thing is for you to find something that fits with you and your schedule.

I am aiming for June because I'm going to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. And I dont want to be her only "heavy" friend. I want to look and feel sexy, and not be ashamed to dance and have fun with her.

As for wanting to lose 35 or so lbs by Christmas, that's totally doable. I think there are about 15 weeks until christmas, so thats about 2.5 lbs a week.

Keep up the good work and you'll be well one your way to your goals. :)
 
Hello everyone :)

Hope everyone has been having a good couple of days. Mine haven't been so successful ... well, yesterday was pretty good but today wasn't great.

I weighed myself this morning however and scales showed me to be 5lbs lighter ... I'm not sure how accurate this can be after only 3 days! Especially as it's not like I've been really well behaved! There is also a high likelihood that I put a few back on today, but I'm going to get back on the horse and go for a really good couple of days this weekend. I've made a pact with myself that I'm not going to weigh myself everyday, maybe every few days instead or something. And then I'll probably try and train myself to weigh myself only once a week.

Anyway this is only going to be a short entry today because I am mega tired - I did end up going clubbing last night, and as I promised myself, I drove =) But I didn't get in till 4am and for some reason I have felt so much more tired today than I usually do after clubbing when I have had alcohol!

But still, I had a really good evening and am happy to be designated driver ... it's also so much cheaper!! Maybe I should start a 'money-I-would-have-spent-on-taxis/alcohol-on-nights-out' fund and use it instead to by skinny clothes once I've lost the weight! Haha. I'm also thinking 5 hours of straight dancing in heels has got to burn a fair few calories right?!

Night night guys,

Sare xx
 
Love your diary Sare C: Your goal to lose 35lbs by Christmas is simular to my first goal. It is totally do-able. Keep with it!! I'll be sure to drop by and check up on your progress C:

Cheers,
Gulianna
 
I'm totally there with you Xorie - Im attending a wedding in May and it's set on the beach ... so I want to look like I fit in! Haha.

Thanks for your words of encouragement - let's hope that on Christmas Eve I can say 'Yep, Xorie was right. Totally doable!' Haha.

I also agree with your simple plan comment - I'm someone that does take it hard if I didn't do as well as I could have, so if I lessen the rules then there's less for me to break! So I'm basically gonna take each day as it comes - exercise how and when I can (it'll be easier when I can afford the gym!) and just eat a lot less of the bad stuff and more of the good stuff!! How's that for a simple plan! Lol.

Gulianna - (love your name btw!) Glad you like my diary and thanks for reading! It's nice to know other people with similar goals - then we can spur each other on!! =) Also, ta for your words of encouragement!! It really helps! From your signature thing, I see you've got a good 25lbs!! That's fab, so really well done! You must be so chuffed. How long has it taken you to drop that much if you don't mind me asking? I might be able to answer that for myself in a sec though, as I'm gonna check out your diary myself! (As your signature tells me to do!! Haha).

Hope both you girls are doing well!!

Sare xx
 
Another diary entry...

Today could have been a disaster!! I went shopping to buy some work clothes and it was completely and utterly depressing! So I got all dark and gloomy for a bit, especially standing in those horrid changing rooms with mirrors pointing at you from every bloody direction!! But I had a mental pep talk with myself and imagined buying a high-waisted pencil skirt and a little blouse ... so this is what I'm going to do! Come Christmas I WILL have lost 35lbs, and then once January sales start I am so going to treat myself to a new work wardrobe! Brrriiiiiinnnggggggg it onnnnn!! (Admittedly I also picked myself up by buying a cute little scarf and new shoes ... a girl's gotta glam up an otherwise drab and dull outfit hey! ;) Haha!)

So yeah, today could have been disastrous because I am very much the type of person who will see this as defeat and gorge myself silly on naughty food! But instead I'm feeling positive and so far I have had quite a good day food-wise. I've eaten half a roll (no butter or anythingggg), half a cup of tea and half a sandwich!! You may be asking why the hell I'm doing everything in halves... and I can assure you it's circumstantial and not deliberate!! (Except maybe the roll!) Basically I was running late for shopping this morning so I grabbed half a roll, purely because I tend to eat a lot of bread ... I'm very much like Joey from Friends - I love my sandwiches! Bread is definitely my downfall. But as for the tea ... I bought a whole cup at a cafe with my parents, but I burnt my tongue on the first sip and got halfway through it and didn't fancy any more of it with my tingly tongue! Haha. And then I split off from my folks for a bit and when I came back my dad handed me half a sandwich for lunch!

So yeah, so far so good. I think I've eaten roughly 500 calories tops so far, which gives me a bit of leeway later as I may be going out for dinner with my brother tonight and as much as I'm going to order something relatively sensible, I'm not the type to buy a salad when I go to a restaurant! Ha.

I was also hoping to go for a long walk this afternoon. I live about a mile and a half from a reservoir and it's so pretty down there. So I was gonna walk there with my book in tow, walk round the reservoir for another mile or so and then settle down somewhere and have a good read before I came back. However, in true English fashion, it's p*ssing it down. Bravo England!! Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow so I can go then. I find that so much more enjoyable than sitting on the exercise bike! Oh well.

I hope everyone is having an enjoyable Saturday!!

Sare xx
 
Oh I love how British you sound XD I'm sorry if that sounds stereotypical >.< Just love your diary because it's so readable =) I'm totally cheering for you! I know you can do it!
 
Hahaha that actually made me laugh out loud! Thanks for all your sweet words!! I'm glad you enjoy reading it and it's nice to know I'm being cheered on! =) Means a lot!

I'm gonna hit the sack now as it's pretty late over here and I was up waayyyyy too early for my liking today!

Night!! xx

P.S. Still chuckling away to myself haha!
 
hahaha, on the contrary, i have a hard time following your vocabulary! HELLO AND WELCOME! I started at 198, so we have pretty similar goals! I want to lose a huge chunk of weight as well!

If you're not sure about calories, try using a website to find the calories of an item..totally helped me! Although I am a super organized OCD type person though...

well good luck! and stay strong-- journaling helps!!
 
Yes I agree. It is a great thing when you find someone who started in a simular place and have roughly the same goals. We can totally motivate eachother C: As far as the 25lb weight loss it has been split up in time quite a bit. I lost 17lbs back in March-April but then I quit. :piggy: It took me 1 1/2 months to lose it. I was losing 2.5-3lbs each week.

Then I started back up August 9th and have lost 8lbs since then. Hope that wasn't too confusing C:

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Good job on not letting the dressing room get you down! That place can feel like a tourture chamber when you are overweight. I am the type to get really discouraged from that type of situation too so I know how hard it is to keep your chin up about it!
 
Haha sorry Laura! Let me know if there's anything I can translate for you! =) Thanks for the calorie help ... I think google is going to be my saviour for thee next few months haha. How are you getting on with yours? Hope you're doing well!! I'll scope out your diary!

Gulianna - I am very much up for motivating each other!! I haven't really mentioned it to people that I'm trying to lose weight ... not properly anyway. I guess I just get worried what they'll think of me if I fail, which to be honest is probably more motivation to tell everyone so that it spurs me on! Maybe I'll get a good solid few pounds off and then start spreading the news! Haha no that wasn't confusing at all - great work! That's such a good loss. Yeah I was quite pleased with myself for getting out of the doomy depression stage so fast - usually I'm wallowing in it for a good day at least! Just gotta keep thinking of the time when we can be in the changing room and fit into every item of clothing we pick out and look GOOD in it!! Haha.

Sare xx
 
For a typically lazy Sunday I have been decidedly not lazy today, and you know what ... I feel goooood!!

I got up and got showered straight away with no milling around at a reasonable time, which generally means I'm in for a productive day! Haha. After playing taxi service for my brother (what a legendary sister I am!) I went on a 4.5 mile brisk walk to the place I was writing about in my post yesterday. And it was sooo nice. I took my book and once I got there I sat in a little 'bird watching' hut, with the water lapping around beneath it and it was so peaceful. There were loads of wind surfers and sailing-folk out on the water and it was so nice to watch them have fun and fall in! Haha.

I do admit I looked like a bit of a plonker walking back ... my shoe was rubbing the back of my foot on the way there, so on the way back I took it off ... just the one! So I was plodding about a bit on my way home haha. I really needed a wee too so it was a bit of a manic, one-sided plod! Anyway, moving on from the way in which I walked home, I googled how many calories walking burns and the page I was on said roughly 100kcal/mile for a 180lb person (is this right does anybody know?)... I'm a bit over 180lbs and the walk is pretty hilly so I'm gonna roughly guess that I burned 500kcal on that walk. =D

I've been good food-wise so far today too ... fruit salad for breakfast, cereal (with skimmed milk) for lunch (bizarre, I know, but I came back very hungry and for want of cutting back on bread as much as poss, I just had cereal cuz I couldn't be bothered to cook anything!) and a few 20 calorie cracker things. Which I reckon again roughly calculates as 500kcal. So it's been a successful day so far today and I may have even allowed myself enough calorie-related slack to have a little treat tonight ... maybe a glass of wine!

However, despite today's good efforts, I did end up going for a meal last night. And to a curry house, for added naughtiness!! But my brother really wanted to go there (it's new and verrryyyyyy plush!) and I don't get to see him that often as he studies in Denmark and is off to New York very soon as he's got a 2 month internship over there. Soooo I thought what the hell, it's not like this is a regular occurrence for me. I also only managed half of what I ordered which is better than pigging out on a whole curry and trimmings!! (Epic fail money-wise however! Although actually my brother finished EVERYTHING off, including his so the money wasn't too wasted. I am however totally boggled as to how he can eat a curry and a half, 1.5 rice portions and a whole naan bread and still be as slim as he is! Even now as I write this he's chomping away on a almond chocolate magnum ... literally unfair!) Then we went to the cinema after and I had nothing but water so I guess this is also a pretty good thing!

Anyway this has been a longggg post and my feet (well, foot) is very grubby so I'm gonna have a good old soak in the bath!!

Laters chaps and chapettes!

Sare xx
 
Hey Sare!
Just been reading ur diary. I'm also from the UK :) but i've lived in holland for the last 2 years now.
How much have u lost so far?
I started a week ago at 206 pounds.
Great that u had only water at the cinema!
I went last night avoided the popcorn and nice snack foods, had a few glasses of wine tho! ah well!
Good luck with ur weight loss and i'll keep checking up on you :D

becky
 
Haha. Oh getting up when you wake up is so nice, instead of just chilling in bed. Makes you feel productive! I've been working on that for the past month =)

Sounds like you're having a lovely day. That's great to hear!
 
Hiya Becky! How are you? How's Holland?!

Well last time I weighed myself I had dropped 5lbs but that seems like too much too fast (in about 3 days or something!) so I'm thinking a lot of that may have been water weight or something! I was planning on re-weighing myself tomorrow but maybe I'll push it until Tuesday - I don't want to be disheartened, especially as I have a job interview tomorrow so I don't want to go into that thinking all negatively! We'll see!

How has your week gone? Lost much? Haha well done on avoiding snack food at the cinema ... and I know how tempting wine can be! I may have caved tonight... ;)

Good luck with your weight loss too!

ImVam - Yeah, getting up at a decent time and get sorted does put me in such a productive frame of mind!! Still, I'm not gonna lie and say I don't enjoy getting all snuggly and cosy in bed in the morning, especially if it's cold and dark outside! Ha. Yeah today has been really good! I feel satisfied with how today has gone and that's such a good feeling! Hope you're having as good a day!!
 
Ok quick post - I have a job interview tomorrow which I sooo hope I get because I need money ... SO BADLY!! So everyone pleaseeeee not only keep your fingers crossed that I get it, but also that I don't succumb to my nerves and eat loads of crappy food haha! I've never been on a proper job interview before, as before it's just sort of been like 'turn up and we'll sort out shifts for you' ... definitely more my style! Ha.

Also I forgot to mention - you know how I said in my original post (I think) that next time I see my ex I want to be looking skinnier and ever so slightly fabulous?! Well, I saw him 2 days later when I went out clubbing. Didn't really give me much of a chance to shed the pounds ay?! Tosser!! Haha joking, it was actually really good to see him! Maybe NEXT time I'll be skinnier and ever so slightly fabulous! Here's hoping!! =)

Sare xx
 
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