A new me! (hopefully, with some help)

You're so close Kate, I'm sure you'll be able to get there by Christmas!!!!!!! I love the idea of clothes shopping when you get there too!! How exciting!!


Sounds like you had an awesome weekend- don't beat yourself up about the food though, you're allowed to be a bit bad every now and again. If you did see a bit of a gain, remember you CAN'T put on several pounds overnight (no matter WHAT the scales say) and it's likely to be fluid retention. I'm sure you'll be back to what you were by Sunday (if not less!!) Remember 3500cals = 1 lb, and I'm pretty sure you didn't get anywhere near that on any of your days... let alone that much over maintenance!!
 
I just love that you are upgrading the crunches!!!!!That must be real hard,i dont think I can do that yet.Will continue with the regulars for another 2 weeks straight and then i'll give it a try!


See you are back again after your lovely weekend ready to fight for your goal!!


The stew you had i guess you made it and calculated the cals?Is your plate a normal plate?or a really tiny french fisrt class restaurant plate?
 
ADAY 144

Breakfast: 50g porridge & banana (270 cals)
Lunch: Ham salad with light salad cream, 97 cal crisps and a yoghurt (271 cals)
Dinner: 2 Sausages, 100g mash potato, peas, brocolli & gravy (396 cals)
Snacks: granola bar and a babybel cheese (246 cals)
Total calories = 1183

Exercise: 100 crunches (varied), 50 bridges and 30 min upper body aerobics

I feel fat today. There is no way i am gonna be happy with what i look like after losing 8lb. My stomach and hips are just gross!! Actually i am hating it all!!
I think i am definatly going to lose another 10lb and see what i think then. I'm not sure whether i will ever be able to get my stomach to look acceptable as i'm gonna have buckets of excess skin. :( I have just got out of the bath and while i was in there i have been able to grab handfuls from everywhere!!!!!
I won't change my ticker until i reach it as it was the target i had set myself when i started but i will carry on and not tell anyone as i am getting people saying 'you don't want to go to far' already. I will just tell you guys.

I've had a good food day, still really motivated, just struggling with how gross i look!!

There is a huge tin of chocolates and 2 boxes of mince pies at work today and i didn't want any :hurray:

Jess Mark made the stew and i don't really know how many calories it was so i found one on my app that was for a medium bowl and i doubled it. I didn't actually eat much of it cos i wasn't hungry. I left well over half.

Thanks guys for all your lovely words and encouragement, i'm sorry for being grumpy, hopefully i will feel better tomorrow.
 
AArrgghhh, how you manage to resist all your workplace temptations I don't know! I' so jealous!

I was like tat the first time I lost weight... I thought that I had a big bone structure seeing as I was tall and wide and had been chubby since about the age of 13, and that I coudn't possibly go any lower than size 12, so that was my aim... But I got to size 12 and realised I still had blubber. I don't think you can properly know at the begining of your diet what size is going to be right for you. But you'll know when you reach it.

And yep, I know, SSS (Saggy Stomach Syndrome) is shit. It doesn't seem fair tat you put all your effort into a diet and looking good, and then you are left with loose skin. It does suck. Maybe you could start saving for a tummy tuck in two years time or something. About £50 a week if you get it done in the UK. Sorry if I am being rude by suggesting cosmetic surgery- But you know what I'm like haha. I'll probably end up getting a different thing done each year till I'm 60 and looking like this.... :D

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Ah, it'll be lovely Rob coming over on christmas :) How he getting on at uni? Did he meet his gf there?
 
Kate I think everyone has days like that. But you also have days where you feel really skinny too, I think it's more how you're feeling emotionally and hormones that affect it. Fat is SO a feeling, no matter what ANYONE says!! It's entirely your decision as to how much weight you want to lose, no one knows your body like you do. Just keep focused on the short term goals. Even if you feel like you still have a long way to go you can absolutely do it... just look at how far you've come!!!


I think poopy moods are just going around, I was in sad sack mode yesterday... maybe it's contagious! In the meantime...


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And no matter what you think of yourself today, you are BEAUTIFUL!! You've come SO FAR and I'm so incredibly proud of you!!!
 
ADAY 145

Breakfast: 50g porridge (180 cals)
Lunch: Ham salad with light salad cream, 97 cal crisps, yoghurt and a granola bar (456 cals)
Dinner: Jacket potato with baked beans (372 cals)
Snacks: granola bar and an apple (249 cals)
Total calories = 1257

Exercise: 60 crunches (legs up) 45 MIN RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, 15 min walk, 3x12 peck flye, 3x12 chest press (on level 2, which made my arms totally useless for 2 days last time) and 100 reps on the abs machine.

I have felt a bit better today, still feel disgustingly fat but have had some really sweet comments which have helped. One of my oldest friends, who works with Mark, had an appointment today (haven't seen him for months) and he reached out and squeezed my waist and said 'check you out' and when he left he gave me a kiss and a hug and said 'see ya later skinny' I didn't mind, he did it such a nice way that i coped with it. Had 2 others mention it too today. Ooooh and Mark was complaining that he needed another belt (he has one but is betting fed up with having to take it out of his work jeans and putting it in his 'non' work jeans, he has lost weight due to the healthy lifestyle i have imposed on him :) not that he needs too) and i said i had one and fished it out. I tried it on and looked at the holes that i use to have it on (you can tell by the wear on them) and the one that was the biggest could have fitted round both of us and the smaller one (from when i lost weight before) was still bloody massive. Now there are no holes where i would need one!!!! :hurray: :hurray: That cheered me up a bit but i still see the old huge me when i look in the mirror, maybe it's cos i am use to what i look like now.

Still mince pies at work....Still didn't have any. I looked at the cals on them and they are 252 each!!!!! At christmas i use to probably have about 4 a day!!!! That is so not happening this year. I was given a box of Thornton chocolates as a christmas pressent from a patient and i made Maureen take them!!!! Mark and Jack were very un-impressed!!!!!! There was no way i was bringing them home!!!!

I loved my run tonight!!!!!! I ran 45 minutes in one go!! :hurray: :hurray: My legs felt proper weird when i stopped running and walked but they did do 10 mins more than i have ever done. I kept the random hill setting on level 4 the whole time but after 20 mins i had to slow from speed 9.5 to 9.0 but hey i ran for 45 mins!!

Ruthie Hey sweetie, no you aint being rude for sugesting surgery. I would love to have it but i just can't afford it so i will just have to get some bridget jones pants or something lol. I know it's my own fault for being such a fat fuck in the first place and i am pushing 40 so i really can't expect to look like a bloody model lol If i had the money i would get my tummy and boobs done, they look like spaniel ears now too!!!! Love the picture of you at 60 lol very slim :smilielol5:
Rob and Rachael have been together for over 2 years. They went to Thailand together and she is still there, she has got another 2 years to go. She is a teacher in a posh school there. I saw her last easter and she is coming back for christmas.
He is doing good at uni. Getting really good marks for his work but he still has a low opinion of his ability and gets quite stressed when he gets an essay to do but always gets top marks. I read some of his stuff when i was there last weekend and it was amazing, made me feel a right thicko!!!!

Lucy Has anyone told you how fucking wonderful you are????? Have they??? Cos you totally are. You say the right things all the time and are always there. You rock!!!!!! I feel that i don't have the right to keep going when people are telling me that i shouldn't lose too much more but i really want to get to 10 stone something so i reckon on another 10-15lb after i have lost this 8lb. Thank you for being such a sweetie, saying i am beautiful :blush5: Luv ya :grouphug:
 
Kate! !!


Boy you have been productive since I was gone!!


You look great and damn girl......you are really upping the workouts..hardcore!!! that is inspiring!
 
AA 45 minute run? Eeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!! That's total craziness. WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!

So happy that you were okay with being complimented on your weight loss today!

I love seeing weight loss progress on belts :) Its belting.

If I had been bought thorntons chocolates, I would have cursed the person who bought them for me and muttered hissy utterences to myself. But then I would've sat down one evening and eaten the lot.

Its no wonder you and Rob are such good friends, you've got loads in common both not thinking as highly or yourselves as you should!
 
ADAY 146

Breakfast: 50g porridge (180 cals)
Lunch: Ham salad with light salad cream, 97 cal crisps, bag ricecakes and a yoghurt (377 cals)
Dinner: Cottage pie (380 cals)
Snacks: granola bar and a bag of monster munch crisps (297 cals)
Total calories = 1234

Exercise: Rest day :) Boy did my legs need it!!!!

Had loads of comments today!!!! I was really good with it too :hurray: The friend of ours that works with Mark (the one that had an appointment yesterday) mentioned to him today about my weight loss, he called me 'the amazing dissapearing Kate' :)

Ken Heya :) Nice to see you back and thank you so much for your lovely comments :grouphug:

Ruthie My legs are soooooo not talking to me today!! My arms are pretty achey too but no where near what they were like last time, i must be getting stronger :)
I am definatly getting better with compliments, well, for the time being anyway, no doubt i will be a headcase again soon lol.
I was blown away with the belt, it never occured to me that i would notice it. I might even got Mark to take some pictures :)
If i had brought the chocolates home then i would have eaten them and i have got 8lb to lose by christmas so i thought i had better not!!!!
Yeah, Me and Rob do have lots in common. He keeps telling me to be less crytical of myself and i am the same to him lol. He is as much of a headcase as i am but it is great talking to someone who 'gets me' and he really does. He is my own personal therapist!!
 
ADAY 147

Breakfast: 50g porridge (180 cals)
Lunch: Granola bar and 97 cal crisps (286 cals)
Dinner: Chicken stuffed with light phillidelphia, wrapped in bacon with salad, light ceaser dressing and courgette relish (397 cals)
Snacks: Granola bar, apple and a banana
Total calories = 1202

Exercise: 45 min run!! I did the whole thing on speed 9.5 but did do it on level 3 random instead of level 4, will go for level 4 next time. Actually looked at the distance this time and i did over 7km!!!

Pretty average day today. Plodding along and hoping to not have gained on sunday cos of my totally scrummy terrible food weekend. Secretly i am hoping that i have lost, even a tiny bit would totally make me jump around squealing like a child :)

Going Knicker shopping tomorrow. I don't have any that fit. I haven't bought any new ones since i started losing weight and they are all friggin massive!! I might even get a few sets!!!
 
ADAY 148

Breakfast: 3 small slices of wholemeal toast with light spread and marmite (238 cals)
Lunch: Ummmm..............Whoops, forgot!
Dinner: Small bowl of spag (466 cals)
Snacks: ricecakes, granola bar, a bite of Jacks choc biscuit thing and a bag of monster munch crisps (430 cals)
Total calories = 1134

Exercise: Rest day.

I went to superdrug to get some cotton buds this morning and managed to spend £77!! I have been thinking about changing my hair back to dark brown again and they had an offer on dye, so got 4! and they had some amazing offers on perfume!!! I ended up getting 2 bottles! :eek: Mark is gonna give them to me for christmas but OMG!! That was an expensive tub of cotton buds lol

Went into Barnstaple to get some new knickers this afternoon and...........I got some 10/12!!!!!! I didn't know what to do, it was either 10/12 or 14/16 and i'm a 12/14! I tried a pair on (over my leggings) and you would have laughed at me jumping up and down silently clapping in the changing room when they fit!! I also got another pair of size 12 jeans, that fit better than the others i have, i would be happy to wear these now cos they don't give me a huge muffin top :) YAY!!

Got everything crossed for weigh in tomorrow!
 
AHaha, I can just imagine yours and Robs conversations :) There arte plenty opf people in this world who should be critical of themselves, but you are not one of them!

I had the same 10/12 14/16 knickers dilemma recently too, did you get them from peacocks?

And on the 7th day, she rested :) About bloody time! I don't think I have even stood upright for 45 minutes for the past few days let alone run for it.

I hate it when I go into the shop for one thing and come out with loads! I went to buy myself some new foundation last week and came out with blusher concealer, eyeliners, lipsticks, lipstains, nail varnish- the works lol. We deserve it tho :D

You've done brilliantly with the food over the past few days, looking forwards to seeing how much you've lost!
 
Weigh day is here!!!!How did that go>????


I can just imagine you in the dressing room!!!I did that too with the size 14 jeans i tried on!!!!!

Well i tend to go to the super market for milk and some bread and come out with BAGS of stuff!!!I love spending money!!!!I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you going to run today?I am starting to really seriously think about running myself.Its just a bit difficult though i have to plan it and see how i can manage the time ect....My sister mentioned it to me and i was like NO WAY i am going to run!!!Then i thought of you!And i am now really thinking of it!!!!
 
YAY how exciting for you!!!!!!!!! It's so annoying how they size underwear like that! I really need to buy new ones too, mine are sosososo baggy. It's not a good look lol.


I've got everything crossed for your weigh in... waiting to hear how you went!!!!!
 
AMorning all

Weigh day today and.........i lost 1LB!!! i'm happy with that :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

But..........I've had another 'special kate and her amazing math' moments somewhere over the last few weeks, because i have added the lbs up wrong!!!! I am 11st 12lb which is 166lb but my ticker says 168lb so :hurray: i have lost another lb somewhere along the way!!! how awesome is that.....
Only 6lb to go!! :hurray: :hurray:
 
:party:What a great mistake to have made!!!!!!!!!!!ONLY 3 LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!how does it feel?????????


DO you SEE the difference , can ou feel it?Are you HAPPY and proud????

AAAAA SO HAPPY FOR YOU SUPERWOWAN!!!!!!!!
 
ADAY 149

Breakfast: 3 small slices of wholemeal toast with light spread, marmite, homemade raspberry jam and homemade gooseberry & rhubarb jam (not all on the same one!!)
2nd Breakfast: 1 large slice of wholemeal toast with light spread and goosberry& rhubarn jam (397 cals for both)
Lunch: Granola bar (189 cals)
Dinner: spagetti bolognese (545 clas)
Snacks: A slice of white bread with light spread and a slice of cheese!, snickers chocolate bar, 140g dark chocolate, chocolate biscuit thing and a bag of monster munch crisps!!!!!!!!WHOOPS!!! (881 cals)
Total calories = 2012!!!!!

Exercise: 5 mile run!!

I was really chuffed with my 1lb weight loss, especially after last weekends eating! Also really pleased to realise that i had miscalculated and was actually another lb lighter than i thought!!! :hurray:

Jane and I hadn't done our sunday morning for 3 weeks due to hangovers and weekends away so we were both pretty nervous at how well we would manage and it was awesome, we both totally loved it!!! Not only is the running good but we chat all the way and that is great too, we both find that part of it really helpful, kinda like a good therapy session :)

I can't believe i only have 6lb to reach my target........That is totally fucking insane!!!! 6lb!!!!!!!! I know i will carry on but it is so mind blowing that i am so close to the target i set myself at the beginning of this.

Had a nice day today.........Ate way too much but hey ho!!! It's weigh day and i needed chocolate...so had some. I am sooooo gonna feel like shit tomorrow after eating so much chocolate and bread, i bet you i am a proper gumpy cow!!!!!
Mum came round for coffee and then we went to visit Marks mum as his Grandad was going to be there. Marks mum was really nice again and said some lovely things. :)

Jess Heya sweetie :) I loved my run this morning, the weather was beautifully clear and was really quite cold, it was so lovely running thru the woods. If you are thinking about trying to have a go at running i would say GO FOR IT!!!! I really can't put into words how much i totally love it. I love what it has done for me physically but most of all i love how it makes me feel mentally. It is the best way to deal with stress, grumpyness, sadness etc etc. It really is. Have a go hun, take it steady and try the C25K but have a go :) I'll be right here to cheer you on. My sister in law has never done any kind of exercise in her life and she has reached 25 mins on the C25K, the squeally excited texts i get from her are amazing :)
6lb left to go lol not 3lb! you are as bad as me!!! Yes i do feel different, i feel more femine, i feel more confident, i feel more accepting of myself :) It still blows me away when i catch a glimps of myself in the mirror and i do forget all the time that i am smaller but yeah, i can say.....I feel great!!!!!!!! I have even coped with all the compliments this week :hurray:

Lucy Thank you sweetie :) So straight to the point, made me laugh. :)

Ruthie NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can i be as skinny as you.........That really did my head in when i read that!!!! That is crazy!!!!!!! You are so bloody skinny, i don't look like that.........Oh, just thought, you are loads taller than me, yeah, that makes more sence!!! But hey girly, i am so up for that challenge......Hope you're ready to lose that 6lb by christmas :) We can soooooooo do this hun.
 
Oooh....a challenge..... 6lbs..... As Catherine Tate says "I can do that!" I'll be in that! I don't know about the before Christmas bit, but I'm up for a challenge. It might be just what I need! Wee hoooooo Kate- only 6lbs to go!!! Well done! It's so impressive that you have changed your life around! WELL DONE YOU!!! xoxo Cate
 
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