A new me! (hopefully, with some help)

I totally agree with everything that Mady said!


Originally Posted by mady

KATE, YOUR BACK!!!!!!!!!!!:hug2::hurray::hurray::hurray:
It’s so nice to have you back. And even on track with the food….(how do you do it, woman?:confused:)
I’m sorry you’re feeling sick and in pain. Maybe tomorrow you'll feel better. Sleep is indeed a good way of getting better faster. I think there’s an unwritten law that says it’s ok to be grumpy when you’re a little sick and recovering from an op.:biggrin:




That said perfectly what I would have said! Don't worry about our diaries- they can wait. Sleep & relax & get better soon lovely lady, xoxo Cate
 
Hi


I am new to the forum. My name is Paris. I have been trying to loose weight for over six months. It is very hard for me to stay on diet and exercise plan because I am a stress eater. This forum is very inspiring.


Thank you.
 
ADAY 203

Warning!!!! another comfort food day!

Breakfast: 50g porridge with blueberries
Lunch: 2 flatbread with 30g brie and chutney
Dinner: Turkey stirfry with veg, edamame beans and noodles
Snacks:This is where it all goes wrong! about 10 spiced ginger biscuits, cereal bar,2 kiwi, 2 chocolates & small peice of christmas cake!!

I have felt lots better today :) I got up at 7 like normal but was a good girl and curled up on the sofa after breakfast but........i slept solidly until 12.40!! I really don't think i have slept so much in my life. I must have needed it. My stomach is definatly not as swollen today but the bruising is looking LOVELY!! It hasn't been too sore for most of the day but it is quite sore now. I helped Mark unpack the shopping and cook dinner, maybe i shouldn't have done that.
Mark and Jack went and did the food shop. Bless them they bought me a big bag of milky bar button chocolates and a chocolate mouse :) aahhhh well, i'm gonna HAVE to eat them aint i? :)

I then spent the afternoon reading and posting on diaries and it took all afternoon!!! I'm glad i've caught up, i was surprised how much i've missed you guys :grouphug:

As you can see i have had a pretty bad food day and i haven't counted calories, well, i did up until dinner and 4 biscuits and that was up to 1149 so i don't think i have gone over maintenance but i do definatly feel like i have eaten too much. I'm not going to worry about it though, i will get back on track before i start back at work on monday. Mark keeps telling me that i am still recovering and that i need to build up my strength :) i'm not gonna complain lol pass me that chocolate mouse :)

Mady Aaw thank you for your lovely words. I have tried to get back on track with food but feel i have failed quite badly, i suppose i have kept account of everything i have eaten and i haven't gone completely off the scales.

Sarah Thank you hun. I hope you have a great holiday and look forward to hearing all about it when you get back :)

Cate Aww thank you sweetie. I've missed you lots :grouphug:

Mona :seeya: Thank you for stopping by :) I had been trying to lose weight my entire life!! and have failed and yo-yo dieted until i found this forum. I sugest you do a diary for yourself. It is great to do one, it really keeps you on track and you can pour out all your feelings in it. Also write on it everyday so you don't let things slip. Check out other peoples diaries, their success is very motivational, read their journeys, and take that journey for yourself. We are here to help you get to the person you want to be :)
 
AHi Kate. Don’t worry too much about food these days. Mark’s right about building your strength. It will be easier to get back on track once you get back to work. Well, at least for me, that works really well. :D
 
:grouphug:So so so soooo glad you are feeling better ,and seems like you have great hepl at home with your men!!!

S\Dont stress about food.I belive when we are sick ,or even worse had op that we can do what w like till we get better.!!!

Dont go doing things if you feel even better tommoroww or the next.Wait till you back at workl to start getting things back to normal.Enjoy your weekend and sleep , rest , realx and get better!


and again DONT DO THNGS around the house..................
 
Sleep is such a good healer Kate & your body knows that it needs it. You are probably much more in tune with your body these days. Take it easy sweetie & enjoy being pampered. I think we have a really good, supportive network happening here in the forum at the moment & you are a very important part of that. So nice having you back sweetie. Take care & get well soon, xoxo Cate
 
ADAY 204

Breakfast: 50g porridge with blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Baked beans on 2 slices of white toast (357 cals)
Dinner: 3 breaded chicken strips with salad, oven chips and courgette relish (499 cals)
Snacks: 2 coffee's, special k mini bites, 2 kiwi and 2 satsumas (235 cals)
Total calories = 1292

Exercise: None :( Mark won't let me :(

Yay, i had a good food day!! :hurray: :hurray: And i didn't crave biscuits or chocolate like i have been all week :) And.......I have stayed awake all day today :hurray: I have only had 2 lots of painkillers too today so all in all a good day. My tummy is an array of amazing colours, ranging from yellow to black!! and the stiches in my belly button are a bit yucky but all in all i think i am healing really quite well :)

I am desperate to go out and do some walking/running but Mark thinks that i should stay in and rest all weekend to make sure i am completely recovered before i start doing any exercise :( I know he has my interests at heart but i am getting soooooo desperate and bored now!!!! Then i come on here and you are telling me the same as Mark......I hate it when he is right!!! :smilielol5: It is so hard for me to do nothing, especially these days, i get proper twitchy!

Mady Cheers my lovely :) I hate it when you guys agree with Mark cos i always ignore him but would never ignore what you guys say. I told him that you, Jess and Cate all said i am to take it easy and he said 'SEE, i am right' Smug bugger lol. I shouldn't complain, it is lovely that he is giving me the time to recover properly, some men would expect their other half to just carry on. I know i have a keeper :)

Jess I love the fact that you know me so well that you said on your diary that you expected me to try and go for a run (you were right, i was trying to figure out whether i would be able to do a bit of interval running) and then on here put an extra 'don't do anything round the house' and Mark has been telling me off for doing washing or unloading the dishwasher lol. I feel like a naughty child getting caught doing something :rolleyes:
You are such a sweet sweet person :grouphug:

Princess Thank you hun, i'm getting there. Hugs back at you my lovely :grouphug:

Cate Aww thank you Cupcake :grouphug: You are right, i think that we are more in tune with our bodies these days. I think my brain is a step ahead though but maybe that's the impulsiveness in me :) I am so desperate to go for a run!!
I was saying to Mark yesterday, after i had caught up with everyones diaries, that i am so blessed to have such an amazing bunch of people in my life. The friendships we have formed on here are just unreal when you think about it. I can seriously say that you guys do mean as much to me (if not more because i can be totally open and honest with you) as my closest, dearest friends i have 'in real life' You all ROCK!!! :grouphug:

Much love to you all Xxx

Oooh, i forgot to say. I'm not gonna weight tomorrow, i thought it would be a good idea to leave it until next week considering the week i have had.....Don't wanna piss myself off and make myself do too much next week to try and quickly undo what the scales say!
 
Once again you made me laugh hunibun! "Mark thinks that I should stay in and rest all weekend to make sure I am completely recovered before I start doing any exercise :) I know he has my interests at heart...." GOOD FOR MARK!!! :hurray:

We all have your best interests at heart & I'm so glad that Mark is a keeper & that you know it. :grouphug:

Smart girl putting off weighing for a week. If you give yourself another week to recover & just take it easy around your home & still keep within your cals for the week you may surprise yourself. Isn't it wonderful to know that when you are expressing & sharing your true self that you are loved & supported. That's what being a real friend should be all about. I'm sure many people in this forum have suffered from low self esteem & thinking that no-one would like them if they really knew them. We now know that this is not true. There is nothing better that we could do for one another. There are those who only want facts & information & there are those who really want & need support & encouragement & I know that I'm somewhere in between but that love & friendship are way up there in my list of priorities.

With support from one another & a lot of determination on our part I feel confident that we are going to kick some serious arse in 2012!!!

Lots of love, xoxo Cate
 
Having a rest for a week is a really good idea, because you need to heal but also giving your body a rest from exercise won't do any harm... You'll be fully rested and ready to go by the time you get exercising again!! I know you'll get back into eating healthy too, so don't even stress what the scales say. I'm not!! (Don't know how I'm going to survive the 3 full weeks away from the scales, but I'm doing ok so far! Lol!!)
 
AHello beautiful! Hope you are starting to feel a bit better, lovely.

:iagree: with Kate - I also laughed about Mark not letting you do exercise! He's a good egg, that one. You should keep hold of him ;) hehehe. You just had a big operation, sweety! Let your body work only on healing itself first. But you know that ;)

Meanwhile, you are a smart sausage for not weighing yourself this week - there is absolutely no point, and you are right - it will just make you grumpy and either desperate and angry about exercise, or eat more ginger biscuits ;) haha. Don't be so hard on yourself, lovely. You've had it tough!

Sending you lots of healy vibes (cough cough ;) I'll try to cover my mouth when I'm sending them! ) xxx

(wow, I didn't realise I'm such a winker! ;) )
 
AHi Kate, I totally agree about not weighting yourself today. As the girls said, don’t stress about what you ate while recuperating from your op. You’ll have plenty of time to run, eat healthy and lose weight when you’re 100% recovered. Lots of positive vibes for the week to come :grouphug:
 
ADAY 205

Warning, yet another comfort food day!!
Breakfast: 2 slices of white toast with light spread and jam (340 cals)
Lunch: Cream cake (whoops but soooooo yummy) (290 cals)
Dinner: Roast chicken, dry roast potato and butternut squash, cauliflower, brocolli, carrots, peas, stuffin and gravy (396 cals)
Snacks: This is where it really goes wrong :eek: 3 coffee's, 2 cereal bars, 5 spiced ginger buscuits and 6 chocolates! (722 cals)
Total calories = 1748 I suppose it hasn't reached maintenance!!

Exercise: Does sulking and feeling sorry for myself count?

I woke up feeling really sore and grumpy. I felt better yesterday than i did today, what's that all about?!?!?!?! I just wanna be better already!!!! I had to go up to the shop, that is only about a 5 min walk and was so shocked with how totally worn out i was when i got home, i even felt a bit sick. I have been grumpy for most of the day. I know i am being really impatient but i am fed up with feeling :ack2:
I want to go for a run and am so pissed off that i was so whacked after just walking to the freaking shop :cuss: when the hell am i gonna be able to run? i't doing my head in!
OK i am gonna shut up about it now.

Cate I'm glad i make you laugh, i wish i could make myself laugh at the moment, i am such a grumpy cow today. I told Mark that you guys agreed with him and i got a 'i'm always right, it's about time you started listening to me' lol yeah like i have ever done that :smilielol5:
Reading what you said about being able to be yourself on here and people stil likeing 'the real you' really made me think. I had not really thought about it but you are so right, we always strive to behave in a way that makes us accepted by others but on here we are us, as in, you get what you see kinda thing and we are still liked. It really does boost your self esteem :)
And oh yes we will definatly kick so fat butt in 2012 (well i will when i stop eating ginger bloody biscuits!!)

Lucy Heya sweetie, i have just about started getting use not weighing every day, get you for aiming for a month. I admire you, i would love to be able to do that.

Joh Beautiful???? Yeah like i feel that, even my mum said i look awful!!! i feel ok, just grumpy and impatient! Maybe i should have weighed, it would have given me something to actually be grumpy about rather than just grumpy for grumpys sake :eek: Hopefully the ginger biscuits will be gonne soon so they stop shouting 'coooeeee' at me :)
;) ;) Lot's of winks back at you my lovely :)

NO MORE EXCUSES!!! Tomorrow i am going to stay under 1300 cals a day and i am going to do that every day until sunday!
 
I'm telling you it's freaking hard and I'm going mentail!! Arggh!! Lol :biggrin: The idea was to stop me from weighing myself so often. Being tired all the time has made me a crazy person and I started weighing myself like 3-5 times a day for about a fortnight... So I decided to torture myself instead!! Actually it's going ok so far, I can already see I've lost most of the fluid I was retaining. I suddenly have a waist again! Lol!!


Aw sweetness your day really wasn't that bad, I know you can pump out awesome days for the rest of the week too!!
 
You didnt have such a terrible day KAte, iok it wasnt really a good one,lets say it was a so and so day.

9i love ginger biscuits............just eat them all of make someone else do it so you dont have them around anymore.I hate having Marios chocs in the cupboard ,its like they are alive and know when i go in for a glass of water,i think they wisper at me!!!!!)

I feel you really just feeling grumpy and "its enough already" , you cant really do anything ,the day is coming soon that you will be yourself again and dont worry.I think its normal to feel worn out even for a 5 minute walk , dont forget you had an oreration,and your body had\s gone through a lot!Doesnt mean you cani run ,the wort senario is that you feel rusty the first 5 minutes and then just really fly!

Its also really good not to weigh this week cause you didnt have a normal Kate week.You had recovery week so no point in weighing.

Are you starting work tommorow i know you have mentioned it but i dont remember.

Plus you havent gone out for some days so its normal to be grupmy even if you were'nt recovering!

Have a good night sleep and just forget about today!
 
Well I've been gone so this is a little late, but I have to say:

:eek2:YOU IN THOSE DRESSES!!!!! OMG.:eek2: I can not even wrap my head around my jealous right now!! ;D You look amazing!!!


Ok, back to the current stuff. I know how frustrating it is when you are just sitting around unable to work out, I've been there the last few months and even though I am able to do some running now, I still have to limit it because it doesn't take all that much to send me right back to where I was. So, please, take it slow, let your body fully heal so that you can have the smallest recovery time possible, if you feel *almost* better and push it to hard, you could end up just setting yourself back, and then you'll be even more frustrated! Take care of you and you'll be back up and running in no time! I think it's so exciting that you signed up for a 10 mile run!!! (10 miles! What?!?! ;) ) Oh and I love all of your resolutions, a half marathon?? I know you'll do it, and you're going to feel so crazy proud of yourself when you finish! I recently picked back up C25K again with my bf, we're only on week 3, but I really hope we'll be able to sign up for a 5k or something in the upcoming months.


Good luck knocking out the rest of the week under the calorie limit - of course you'll do it, duh, you always do!! :D
 
ADAY 206

Breakfast: 50g porridge and blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Left over roast from yesterday & a yoghurt (421 cals)
Dinner: More left over roast (361 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffee's, 3 kiwi's, banana and a ricecake (223 cals)
Total calories = 1206

Exercise: i'm banned from doing any :(

:hurray: :hurray: Yay!! I had a really good food day :)

I went back to work today, I wasn't in surgery this morning so i just did paperwork and other easy stuff. This afternoon was harder and the last hour was really hard, i was proper worn out. Tomorrow is hygienist day so that should be a pretty easy day too.

There was biscuits and shortcake at work this morning and then when Mo came in she brought in a chocolate cake, coffee & walnut cake and a fruit cake because it was her birthday!!!!!!!!!! :eek: My first day after eating rubbish for a week and there is cake and biscuits shouting at me on my first day back at work!!!!!!!! There was even this lump of chocolate cake sat next to the cake where someone had cut it and left bits there, this bit was waving and shouting at me everytime i walked past!!! NOT BLOODY FAIR!!

I have been banned from doing any exercise this week!! You guys, Mark and everyone at work has said that i should rest this week :( So for once i am going to do as i am told and do nothing until sunday!

I don't have any goals set for myself and i think i need one so i am going to set a huge one......I am going to stay with my sister in law on 1st march for a few days and i am going to aim to be 11 stone for that date! That means losing 9lb (plus whatever i might have gained this last week) I think if i work really hard i think i have a decent chance of doing it but i am not going to beat myself up if i dont reach that much, i will be happy if i manage to lose 7lb :)

Lucy I'm glad you are coping well with not weighing. And a waist again (like it probably even went away skinny lol) :hurray: :hurray:

Jess I did have a terrible day, i ate more biscuits!!! but that day is behind me now :) There are still ginger biscuits in the house but i am in a good headspace today so i don't want any and i am so determined to lose as much as i can by 1st March that hopefully i wont want any from now on!!
Thank you for your lovely kind words, i know i am being impatient and i need to just give myself some time and i will do that, i promise :)

Rosie Awww sweetie it's so so so so good to have you back :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:
And thank you so much for your lovely comments about the dresses :blush5: :blush5: :blush5: And yes, i will do as i'm told and rest this week :) I'm touched that you have so much faith in my ability to stick to my perfect week :) Will i am more aiming for a perfect months now!!!
 
Hi hunibun, you are being told to take it easy because we all care about you. Being back at work will be enough for the moment sweetie. Good for you, once again, resisting all that temptation there. Do you have a resident :reddevil:? So much temptation, such strong resistance!! You'll be back in the full swing of things soon sweets. Sending you much love & a careful hug, xoxo Cate
 
Woohoo go Kate!!! It's so much harder to resist temptation after you've indulgeda bit, good on you for not giving in!! You rock woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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