A new me! (hopefully, with some help)

AYay!!! i figured it out!!!!!!

To get your ticker you need to go to your profile then 'edit account details' go down and change the box that says 'rich text' to 'BBcode editor'

Fhew!!! I was not happy without my ticker, proper sulking lol

Loch Heya, thanks for stopping by :) I started doing crunches cosRainbow said she did 100 sit ups every day. I can't manage proper sit ups (yet) so crunches it is. My belly is sooooooo horrid and wobbly i desperate want to do something about it. Hopefully i will get into the habbit of doing them every morning.

I have been doing this healthy eating plan for over a month now and yesterday and today have been the first time i have felt hungry since the first week or so. Hopefully it will go soon :)
 
I think it happens to all on new diets.

Have you checked your calorie intake.Cause im thinking that if you increase your exercise you have to get a little more calories in.

If your running,exercising more and eating the same Maybe that is the reason?

I also have really hungry days but it ony lasts like 2 or 3 days and then all is fine!

Try to not give in,if you do give in though be sure that it is ok and get on track again!

You have been so fantastic is incredible!

I really hope the hunger goes away

Try munching on carrots or maybe have a low cal soup?
 
ADAY 47

Breakfast: 2 wheatabix
Lunch: ham, lettuce and light mayo wholemeal sandwich, yoghurt and 97cal crisps
Dinner: Small bowl of chilli & rice
Snacks: Melon, apple and 80 cals of chocolate

Exercise: 50 crunches and a 25 MIN RUN!!!:hurray::hurray::hurray:

I Haven't felt hungry today so hopefully that's it now. I did talk to Gemma at the gym today about the last few days and she said that i might have to up my calorie intake if it carries on cos i am burning more cals running now (today was 450) but to see how it goes for a bit. I really don't want to up my cals, up til yesterday and the day before i have been fine. Well, we will see.

ANYWAY........Todays C25K was a 25 min run and I did it!!! The first 15 mins was totally fine and then it got harder. The last 6/7 mins was hell. I had a stitch for most of it and spent the time telling myself not to give up, i could do this and i did. Once i got my breath back and stopped feeling like i was gonna throw up i felt great!!! Who would have thought i could run solidly for 25 mins?!?!?! Certainly not bloody me, that's for sure! So so pleased that i didn't give up. YAY ME!!!!!!!!!

Jasper Cheers for the advise hun, you said pretty much the same as Gemma. I feel loads better today so i'll give it a few days and see how i am doing. Thank you for all your support hun, You rock :)
 
You will disappear if your carry on losing weight at this rate! I seriously can't wait to join the gym nd start running, you've really inspired me :)


Glad you only had the hungries for a day! I missed it, arrrgghhhhh.


Your doing fabulously with the crunches. I have been super lazy with them this past week tho... will go and do them now (do i havvve tooooo).


Oooooh, and you figured out the ticker! Brilliant!!!!
 
ADAY 48

Breakfast: 2 Wheatabix
Lunch: Ham, lettuce and light mayo wholemeal sandwich, yoghurt and 97cal crisps
Dinner: Chicken salad with new potato's and light ceaser dressing
Snacks: Melon, granola bar

Exercise: 50 crunches

First of all... Here is how to get your ticker on here......You need to go to your profile and 'edit your account details'. Scrol down to where it says 'rich text' and change it to 'bbcoder' and click on save at the bottom. Then when you get your ticker you need to copy and paste the 'bbcode' one, not the 'html' one.

Secondly....I forgot to mention yesterday that someone brought a massive box of THORNTONS chocolates in for everyone and i had to walk past them at least a dozen times and didn't have one all day!!!!!!!! They were still there today and still didn't have any!!! Get me!!

My legs ached this morning after my run yesterday but was still buzzing that i did it.

Rainbow I am far from disapearing lol I look very unatractive when i'm running, very very wobbly lol Hopefully, one day i'll be one of those super fit woman that run without effort but i think that is a bloody long way off so for now i will just have to wobble my way thru it lol
I am doing crunches cos i can't pull myself up to actually do a sit up!!!! I aimed to add 10 every day but i still hurt doing 50. I am trying to be realistic, i have only been doing them since monday and i have remembered to do them every day, i just need to stop being so bloody impatient with myself.....I am one of those people that want to be able to do something straight away, like be skinny :)

Ok, i had better go, i am doing a party tonight. Really can't be bothered but hey ho!! I'll look in when i get back. Love to all :grouphug: (i am loving that i have figured the smiliey's)
 
GIRL!!! Sorry I've been AWOL!


Wow, your running is truly incredible. Just absolutely bloody incredible! The fact that you wrote this completelt blows me mind:

"i have started to zone out while running. My mind wanders and i just run, i supose it's a bit like driving, when you first start it takes a lot of effort and concentrating and then before you know it you have driven for miles and haven't noticed that you have done it. That's is how running feels now. "


This is my dream. Really. You are living it, darlin!
 
Ahmmm stil yet to figure out my ticker :( Have done what you said and changed it from richtext to bbcode but nothing works. Bugger
 
AMorning

OMG how incredible could my morning be......I must remember to tell you about a conversation i had with Mark this morning, later. BUT..........Guess what pair of jeans i am wearing!!!!! yep!!!! :hurray::hurray: I got Mark to take another photo today!! I am so chuffed that they fit proper comfy too. So i got the other jeans, the ones that have the tag on still cos they never fitted and thought 'i'll squeeze them on as far as i can and get Mark to take a photo and i can work to get into these now' well.............I got them on!!!!! and done up!!!!!!! :hurray::hurray: The legs are really tight and you would have laughed watching me trying to get them up my legs (they are skinny jeans) but when i went to see how far they did up, they fitted really well around my belly!!!!! :hurray: So i have a photo of them too. Ooooooh and i weighed and was so chuffed with what it said, weigh in day is tomorrow so hopefully it will still be that good. I am so squeally this morning, clapping my hands like a child and everything tee hee :hurray:

I have got a mega busy day today and i have got a party to do tonight but i will try and post later and check out your diaries too.

Joh I went back and had a look at what i did to get the ticker and the only thing i noticed was above the box that i changed from 'rich text' to 'bbcoder' was.......'enable auto remove nested quotes in reply' there is a tick in the little box next to it and i can't remember if it was always like that or if i did it but it's worth a go. That is the only box ticked in 'site preferences' and there are no boxes ticked in 'forum preferences' Hope you manage to get it sorted hun.

Update 12.30pm
While we were up town this morning i saw my allotment neighbour, who i went for a run with a few weeks ago and she didn't recognise me!!!!!!!! She said she saw Mark and didn't realise it was me from behind!!!! How cool is that, she said i looked amazing!!! Yay :hurray:
I've just got back form the gym doing my second 25 min run! and i coped with it much better, i only struggled with the last 2 mins and that was nothing....Could my day get any better.....Off into Barnstaple to sort Jacks school uniform after i have had a shower. I might even go try some clothes on (oh god, Mark is not gonna like that tee hee :))
 
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THEY FIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! And you allotment neighbour didn't recognise you and she only saw you three weeks ago!!! That's epic. Well bloody done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will go top play with my ticker again, and look at the boxes. I think I've done exactly what you've said tho. I'll have the mega hump if I don't get my ticker up again.

And I actually can't believe that you resisted thorntons choccies, not for one day, but two. You are made of strong stuff m'deary, I seriously couldn't do that. And well done of the second 25 minute run!!! Who cares if you wobble? Your wiggling that wobble away!

Loving all the happy vibes :D
 
ADAY 49

Breakfast: 2 small slices of wholemeal toast with light spread and marmite
Lunch: granola bar and an apple
Dinner: quiche, jacket potato and salad with light ceaser dressing
Snacks: 2 alpen light bars and a chocolate covered toffee ball

Exercise: 50 crunches (10 of them with my legs in the air, they are a bit of a killer!!) and 25 min run!

I didn't forget the conversation with Mark this morning......We were still in bed having naked cuddles, i had got up and weighed and got back into bed and told him about my loss and he was saying that i definatly felt really different. He likes my smaller bum and tummy but is worried that my boobs will get too small lol Anyway, i asked him whether he likes the 'new me' and he said 'i don't know, it's still you' But a little while later he said ' yes, i do like the new you, you've got a new sexier body but its still you inside it, only you're happier and that makes me happy!' Bless him, he's so sweet.

Ok, back to my awesome day......We went into Barnstaple and got Jacks uniform, Jack was at the skate park all day so it was just the two of us, which was lovely. We went for a coffee and Mark had a bacon sandwich and coffee and i had a skinny cappicchino!!! I didn't even eat the little biscuit thing that came with it. We then went to clothes shop for me and he didn't complain!!!!! I picked up loads of size 14 clothes and tried them all on.....I must be officially a size 14 cos they all fit, i just got tops cos that's all i needed. Anyway i bought 8 t-shirt type tops a jumper thing in a small!!! and a fancy top. It was really odd trying on size 14, as i tried each one on i kept thinking 'this wont fit' and they all did. I think it is gonna take me a while for my brain to register my size. ooooh and i bought some size 14 tracky bottoms for the gym and they fit really well too! The ones i have been using are an 18.
I had a party to do tonight and they had nibbles there and i didn't have one single thing even though they were like 'go on help yourself'. I can't believe i am still so motivated.
I wore my jeans all day today and they made me feel really slim.

I just wanted to say another huge thank you to you guys. Look how you have changed me. :grouphug:
 
AMorning!

Check out the ticker.....Another 3lb loss this week AND i reached my second mini target :hurray: :hurray:

My next target is gonna be to reach 30lb loss but 1st October. 9lb in 6 weeks is quite a challenge so i will be happy to reach 25 but i am going to aim for 30lb.

I feel really bad that i seem to be the only one who has managed to figure out the ticker. Mark said 'You are bloody usless with computers. How did you manage to sort it?' And i really can't quite remember. Sorry :(
 
ADAY 50

Breakfast: 2 slices of wholemeal toast with light spread and marmite
Lunch: 2 Alpen light bars and 95 cal crisps
Dinner: Chicken breast stuffed with light philli, basil and garlic wrapped in bacon with new potato's, french beans and peas
Snacks: 3 choc covered toffee balls

Exercise: 50 crunches and 2 hours of digging up 4 tons of mutant potato's

OMG i can't believe i have made it to day 50 and i'm still doing so well! I had that argument in my head this morning, you know the one. 'I have done so well, i have reached my mini target, i have reached day 50, i could have a day off today or even a really nice big treat' I managed to win the argument, thank god, but i still had it. I was talking to Mark about it and he agreed with me, he knows me, he knows that i might struggle to get back on track if i had a day off and he is loving how happy i have become.

We went to the allotment today and Mark has hurt himself, query broken rib, so i did the digging up of the potato's and OMG it was really really hard work, i was sweating as much as i do at the gym. It was by far the best crop of potato's we have had and they are frigging huge!!!! The majority of them are large jacket size but there are half a dozon or so that are the size of bloody melons!! I am gonna put a picture on here as well as a picture of the view at the allotment.

I was gonna put my 'jeans before and after' photos on but looking at them, they disgust me, i'm not ready to do it yet. Oh, and you know i said that the even smaller jeans went on, did up and felt like they fitted ok round my belly. Well, Mark took a photo and they look bloody terrible, i nearly deleted them but will keep them and hopefully take some more soon that will look ok.

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Sunflower Thanks for your congrats sweetie. I hope i can manage the 9lb, that would be so awesome!! Xxx



 
AWWOOOOOW What an incredible view! I love the concept of allotments. I saw a film at the Perth International Film Festival about allotments... I think it might have even been called The Allotment? It was fantastic! :)

Where is this? It looks like a fantasy place to me... I just can't imagine it being real!

AWESOME work with all that digging! And your dinner sounds to die for.

OH - and yeah, I wish you could share your incredible intuitive knowledge of computers!
 
AI dont think there is any need for me to say that you



absoloutly ROCK!!!!!!

Ok i know i know...ill keep calm not over do it .....but its true...I just LOVE your aproach!to everything!!!YOu lost another 3lbs!!!OMG!
That exercisising is SURLY PAYING OFF as well as all your hard work!!!!!

I know EXACTLY what it is to fell good in something then get your pic taken and not liking it.Keep the pics for the future Before and after , its coming soooo fast !!!!
 
ADAY 51

Breakfast: 2 wheatabix
Lunch: ham, lettuce and light mayo seeded sandwich (we didn't have any wholemeal, I love seeded bread but the cals are so much higher, luckly this one is a tiny loaf so diddy sarnies) yoghurt and 97 cal crisps
Dinner: left over quiche and salad with light ceaser dressing
Snacks: crispbread, alpen light bar and 2 apples

Exercise: 50 crunches and a 25 min run!!!!! It was loads easier today, sort of, one of my legs was killing after digging up potato's yesterday so that really ached but actually keeping going was much easier.

Joh Yeah, the view is lovely isn't it. I have sat there listening to the birds, staring at that view with a glass of wine on many occasions. I live in a small seaside town in North Devon called Ilfracombe and the allotment is on the edge of town. We can see the sea from our bedroom window and the sea front and beach is a 5 min walk away, it's weird we really take it for granted sometimes. I will take some pictures of Woolacombe when i go camping next week and that is 5 miles away, it is stunning there!
I feel really bad that i seem to be the only one who can do a ticker :( Have you tried all the things i have mentioned over my diary?

Jasper Aww you are a sweetheart. I don't think i am doing anything special, i am just totally inspired by you guys.


Ok, on to my day.....I don't know how to explain this properly but i will give it a go. Yesterday i was going to put some pictures on here of my 'before' and 'wow they fit now' jeans then came and checked out everyones diaries and was totally blown away by how totally fucking (s'cuse the language) awesome Ruthie and Joh looked in their pictures! I was so so chuffed for them, they have truly done it, ya know, they are proper slim.
I then looked at my pictures of me with my flabby, wobbly, discusting belly hanging out and thought 'who the fuck do you think you are, thinking that having a little less flab is anything to get excited about' And my self loathing mind went into overdrive and i so nearly just deleted all the pictures that i had ready to put on here.
Joh and Ruthie, please please please don't think that my self loathing breakdown was your doing at all and please please keep putting the pictures on here cos you are so sexy and inspiring!! It's me that is a mental self loathing freak lol!!!! Anyway today i managed to have a serious conversation with myself (yep, i am insane) and decided that i was being stupid and that i am on a different stage of my journey and hopefully i can post pictures like that in time so decided that i was going to put at least the jeans before and after pictures on.
This evening while i was at the gym, Jo, the owner, came over while i was doing my cool down walk and was saying how amazing i was doing and that my weight loss was really noticable now. I was saying that i am still discusted with what i look like and she pretty much told me off. I said that i don't feel i have the right to feel proud of myself cos i am not worth it and she proper shouted at me 'who is coming to the gym on her own all the time?' 'who is being so dedicated to eating healthy?' 'who has made the decision to change the way she looks' 'YOU!!' 'damn right you should be proud of yourself'
I wasn't going to say anything about how i had felt yesterday but i wanted to be honest and hopefully i can look back on this when i am in a better head space and see the improvemt there too. (i am on medication for it, you can imagine what i was like some months ago!)

Anyway onto the photo's. I have decided to be brave and i am posting one that was taken 2 weeks before i started my healthy eating and fitness plan. I hate having my pictues taken so there aren't many (unless i'm pissed) and that is the most recent but is totally rubbish. I didn't take a before photo cos i really didn't think i would stick with it as i had been trying and failing to lose weight for 2 years but i am putting the jeans before and after on and one of my litlle black size 14 dress too

Oh, before i do i just need to say that i am 38 and i have had a child and i have been a size 24 so belly is horendously flabby......Oh, i'm gonna shut up and just do it!!!!!!!

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AOMG! i didnt have time to actualy read what you wrote(i will though just a moment!) you look sooo good!!!
Look at the brfore / jeans and after...the sides of you!!!!
The photo w/dress u look fantastic!!!!
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:hurray::hurray::hurray::hurray::hat::hat::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

Ow just think that this is 21 pounds....the difference..now imagine the next 20 pounds!
YOu are looking better and better and better girl!!!
So happy and proud!!!!
 
Aok...i will tell you off too if i must...

We all start somewhere and all have our journeys.
None of us started with the gorgeous photos!!!If you look at mine somewhere in the beggining (its the terible one with the pink knicers./...) i hate it...
I felt bad but said I am DOING THIS...there will be succes and i was right!!!i have made a collage of my pics!!!im so happy about it.I actually LIKE looking at the really bad ones!

So what i am saying is that someone thats startin now or has lost less than some one else must feel like "i dont deserve to feel good" cause its really silly!

We all come in different shapes and sizes.
You speak of your tummy.I speak about my big hips....so what????we all are on here to get inspired and keep up our good work!

and you dont look disgusting (how do you spell that i DONT KNOW!) no way girly!i shal say you look great and those jeans fit so nice!!!!!
 
AYou've just had me shouting at my computer- YOU DID IT GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (That's what I shouted :)) And you look FABULOUS!

You've lost so many inches off everywhere, your legs, stomach and hips, you should be really goddamn proud!

And don't make apologies for your stomach. Your stomach is normal, we have been brainwashed into thinking that normal tummies are like the ones pop stars have, but only 1% of the population are that way. You said to me that it was horrible, and I have to reply that that is bullshit ;). My tummy is disgusting, all wrinkly and nasty, and my belly button is shaped like a cross with four sections of dead looking skin around it.

I'm just so chuffed you put pics of yourself up :D
 
A[quote name="overtherainbow" url="/t/50044/a-new-me-hopefully-with-some-help/160#post_803568"]You've just had me shouting at my computer- YOU DID IT GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (That's what I shouted :)) And you look FABULOUS!

You've lost so many inches off everywhere, your legs, stomach and hips, you should be really goddamn proud!

And don't make apologies for your stomach. Your stomach is normal, we have been brainwashed into thinking that normal tummies are like the ones pop stars have, but only 1% of the population are that way. You said to me that it was horrible, and I have to reply that that is bullshit ;). My tummy is disgusting, all wrinkly and nasty, and my belly button is shaped like a cross with four sections of dead looking skin around it.

I'm just so chuffed you put pics of yourself up :D[/quote]


Omg rainbow that was really detailed.!!!!!!:cool:I am sure your are making a bigger matter of what it really is!As i go on about my fat arms abd you say they are not fat....
 
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