A new me! (hopefully, with some help)

Oh hun, I am sooo thrilled for you that your run went so well!! You're a star!!!!! One pound pft!! Is that all? OK- look out for Kate in 2012! Also glad you had that xmas cake. It's good to have something that you really wanted & to have it as an indulgence. The difference now is you don't eat like that every day & you sure earned it with your exercise. WHAT A GAL!! Every Sunday night we have a little chocolate/sweet biscuit treat with our fruit & I eat it so slowly & savour every morsel & I'm sure I enjoy it more now than I ever did before. Wee hoo Kate. Excited for you sweetie, xoxo Cate
 
I'm so glad you're feeling so much better!!! Well done on the run, you'll be zooming around as fast as before in no time!


I'm sure you'll smash that extra pound of without a problem this week too!!
 
Congratulations on your run Kate! Glad you are feeling better! Just got back from vacation myself...not feeling up for a run yet! Still just zenning from Hawaii (or is that jetlag?!) Well done girl!


I'll get my groove back by the weekend!

Sarah
 
YAAAY KATE YOU RAN!!!! :hurray:So, so excited for you and really glad to hear that you are healing properly.


I have to tell you something completely ridiculous. So a couple posts ago you said that you would get a "bollocking" from us if you over did it, I had never heard this term before so I had to look it up. I then spent a good half hour reading the Wiki article about the meaning and the origination, and how it came from bollocks, which I had heard before and thought that it meant like something is BS, but literally it means testicles, so then I had a good 10 minutes debate with my boyfriend over whether or not the term "balls" had derived from bollocks or if they were called that just because they were shaped like actual balls (I decided the former, he went with the latter.) And then another 7 minutes or so looking it up to see if I could find an answer, the results were inconclusive. Haha, so I just had to share with you how your post kept me busy and why this post actually ended up taking me like an hour to write! At least I can say I learned something new today ;) :rotflmao:


Keep on running! ;)
 
ADAY 213

Breakfast: 50g porridge & blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Left overs from yesterday's dinner (305 cals)
Dinner: Ham & cheese salad with light salad cream and courgette relish (316 cals)
Snacks: 5 coffee's (whoops!) 2 kiwi's, ricecake, banana & a granola bar (458 cals)
Total calories = 1280

Exercise: 15 mins cross trainer, 3x12 chest press, 10 mins bike, 3x15 peck flye, 3x15 tricep extentions, 200 reps on the abs machine, 10 min walk & 10 min run.....sorry, i couldn't help myself

Perfect day 1 done......5 to do :)

OMG my feet and legs hurt!!!!! They have never done that before!! and the back of my left knee too. I never ache like this after running!!!! I woke up this morning and i noticed that my feet were aching before i even got out of bed. It felt like the bones were hurting when i wiggled my toes, never had that before. It pretty much went away when i got up and started walking around but now they and my legs feel sore. I am having a rest day tomorrow so hopefully they will be ok by the time i go to the gym on wednesday. Sophie text and asked if i wanted to go running with her tomorrow but Mark put his foot down and said that i was not allowed. Oh, ok. It's very unlike me to do as i'm told but i know he is right.

I had a good day at work today. I'm fine now :) no pain at all really :hurray: and i wasn't tired when i finished and i was ok at the gym, it was harder but i expected that. Ooooh i noticed that my tummy is soooo much flabbier and WOBBLED lots when i was running. I can't believe the difference in 2 bloody weeks!!!!! Well that is gonna bloody stop as soon as lol.

I had quite a few compliments today and i was totally fine with it. I just said thank you and either carried walking on or changed the subject. :) get me!!

Cate It was sooooo good to get back to running, it has seemed like ages since i have been able to run. I was very cautious :) knowing what a telling off i would get from you guys if i kept going if it hurt but i was fine :)
The christmas cake was totally lovely :drool5: and i hadn't really thought about the fact that i dont eat stuff like that 'every day' where as i use to. I really have changed my eating habits :hurray: And like you said, i really think we do enjoy it more, as a treat. I use to scoff things down with out even tasting it really, just to get it gone, if that makes sence.

Lucy Thank you sweetie. I can't wait to be able to be back to my '7 mile straight' running, i really can't. I would love to be able to lose 2lb this week, that will take me to my lowest weight. I haven't managed to get past 50lb loss yet and i got there the week before bloody christmas!!!!! It's been like 6 weeks loitering around that weight Gggrrrrrrr!!!

Sarah Heya :) welcome back. I hope you had a lovely holiday :) I do feel better, but it has taken alot longer than i thought it would and i was really surprised at how impatient i was with myself. But i'm all good now and loving being back at the gym and running, even if my legs and feet aint lol

EDIT.........

Rosie OMG!!!!!!!!! i laughed soooooooooooooooo much at what you wrote :smilielol5: :smilielol5: :smilielol5: To the point that my face hurt and i had tears in my eyes :smilielol5: :smilielol5: You snuck that post in after i had done mine so i have had to edit. Bollocks are indeed testicles but 'a bollocking' is 'a good telling off' and ' you're talking bollocks' is 'you're talking bullshit/rubbish' I really didn't know that it was only an English saying, it is a really common saying here :smilielol5: :smilielol5: Sorry, still laughing. I can just imagine the web searching and serious conversation you had with your BF!!!!! So so funny!!!!! You have made my bloody day sweetheart :smilielol5:
 
ADAY 214

Breakfast: 50g porridge with blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Slim-a-soup, granola bar & a yoghurt (295 cals)
Dinner: Vegatable lasagne (272 cals)
Snacks: 4 coffee's, 2 kiwi's, banana & a skinny cow chocolate brownie ice lolly (311 cals)
Total calories = 1079

Exercise: Rest day.

Perfect day 2 done....4 to do

My legs, feet and left knee hurt quite a lot this morning but they are fine now :) Hopefully they will still be ok tomorrow as i'm off to the gym :)
Had a good, non descript kinda day today. Choc chip cookies at work and not only did i not have any, i took two up for Rachel to have with her tea :) I also cut a peice of christmas cake for Jack earlier and sooooo wanted some but didn't :hurray: I aim to be an uber good girl this week and have a treat on sunday after my long run, haven't decided what yet but i'm thinking :) I will probably see what i lose (if i manage a loss) before i decide what i deserve :)

Mark's awesome super duper EePad tablet arrived today so i am proper sulking :mad: I am totally jealous and want an Ipad NOW lol
 
You're doing so well Kate & are really putting your 'resistance muscles' to the test & passing with flying colours! Well done on keeping within your calories. You're made of strong stuff! Re: the Sunday treat thing- it's really good to have something in mind (& put aside) as a special treat once a week. I don't feel deprived at all as I know that I always have a sweet treat on Sunday night, even though my 'official' weigh-in is Monday. It's never a huge pig-out, just a little platter of sweet things, including some fruit. Glad you're not hurting so much. I'm back into the bike & weights again today. I simply have to get back into a routine with my exercise!!

Lots of love xoxo Cate
 
AHi Kate, congrats on perfect day 2 and resisting all those sweets!!! You’re doing so well, you’ll be reaching your mini-goal in no time…:hurray::hurray::hurray:
 
ADAY 215

Breakfast: 50g porridge with blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Veggie lasagne & a yoghurt (332 cals)
Dinner: Veggie Lasagne with salad, light salad cream and courgette relish (358 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffee's, 2 kiwi's, granola bar, ryvita & a banana (415 cals)
Total calories = 1306! Whoops, i have gone 6 over...that's ok to still be a perfect day isn't it? :)

Exercise: 10 mins cross trainer, 3x12 chest press, 3x15 peck flye, 3x12 tricep extentions, 200 reps on the abs machine, 10 min walk and a 20 min run.

Perfect day 3 done...3 to do

My stomach hurts a bit today but i reckon it's because my period is due rather than any problems due to my surgery. But on the plus side my legs and feet don't hurt, even after going to the gym :) take note that i only did a 20 min run........I was a good girl and took it easy, i am going to consider doing 30 mins on friday but i'll see how i feel.

I have gone over my 1300 calories by 6!! But i think that that's ok cos it's only 6 and i did go to the gym :) So still gonna class it as a perfect day, if that's ok with you guys :)

At work today the dentist i work with went to the travel agent down the road at lunch time and when she got back she said that one of the girls in there said 'your nurse looks amazing, she is so inspirational' I have no idea who this person is but aparantly she sees me walking past and has noticed the 'transformation' i have gone thru!!!! It's weird for people i don't know to notice too.

When i got my years gym membership this year i get a free class a week with it and i wasn't sure what class to do. Anyway, Jo, the owner is a patient of ours and she had an appointment today so i said that i wanted to work on my hips, tummy, bum and arms, what did she sugest. She said to do the 'toning class' which is at 6.30 on a wednesday. So from next week ( i thought it was a bit soon this week cos of my surgery) i am going to go to the gym after work at about 5.45, work in there and then go upstairs for 6.30 to do a 1 hr 'toning class' which is aparantly rock hard!!!! I am sooooo excited about doing it. It's weird, i asked Jo if it was all skinny, fit woman that go and she laughed. 'What?' i asked. 'You are one of those slim, fit people now Kate' Oh yeah. I still have that fat, insecure person in here who panics at the thought of walking into the class full of woman!! Will i ever got over that!!!

I am not hungry but i want to eat!!!!!! I want christmas cake!! 3 days, 3 days, i only have to wait 3 days.......If i keep telling myself that then i might manage to stay out of the kitchen but i am home alone!! not good!

Cate I am struggling to keep within my cals this evening. I know i'm not hungry but i want naughties :eek: I think i am going to have to have some christmas cake on sunday, it is calling to me. I'll probably end up having some for bloody breakfast, i'm that desperate lol. Mind you i can then go for my run and burn it straight off!!! I can't decide whether to have some Ben & Jerry's or some pitta and cheese & chive dip (i really miss that) I'll see what the scales say on sunday morning and decide what i have earnt :)
I am loving being back at the gym, i've really missed it sooooooo much and i am so excited about doing the class next week. Wednesdays are gonna be a hard core workout night!!!!
Ooooooo and thank you for totally make my day this morning :)

Mady Thank you sweetie. I really don't struggle resisting stuff at work too much, it's at home where i have the problem...Especially on a wednesday evening when i am home alone!!!!!
 
6 over!!! We'll have to think about it!! :smilielol5:Oh, ok, we'll let you off! Especially seeing as you don't put your exercise in. :blush5: I do.

Isn't it so much harder to resist that pantry demon when you're home on your own! I have been going into my pantry, looking about & then quickly shutting it lately. There's not much to tempt me at the moment while I try to sort out what I should & shouldn't eat, (according to the Naturopath.) I go to buy gluten-free cereal bars or fruit bars but then I'm not meant to be eating dried fruit! :svengo:Yesterday I walked away with a golden delicious apple instead! :Angel_anim:

Thank you for the generous compliment sweetie, about making your day. That's lovely, xoxo Cate
 
Haha, glad you enjoyed my post! Yeah, bollocks is not something we ever say over here, neither is chuffed, this forum is this first time I had ever heard it (had to google that one too!)

I'm with Cate, I guess we can let you slide on the 6 calories, especially considering you burned that off just writing your post! :D

That must be such an awesome feeling to have a total stranger recognize all your hard work, and the woman from the gym too, what a great day!! (oh, and I didn't realize you worked at a dentist's office, I have terrible irrational fears of dentists!)


STAY AWAY FROM THE CHRISTMAS CAKE!!!! ;)
 
ADAY 216

Breakfast: 50g porridge with blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Last of the Veggie lasagne & a yoghurt (332 cals)
Dinner: Beef broth soup and toast (290 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffees, 2 kiwi's and a granola bar (306 cals)
total calories = 1129

Exercise: Rest day

OMG Mark got me an iPad!!!!!! Food fine, everything fine, gonna go play :)

My laptop is being really bad now (i think it is sulking that i have a new toy!!) GGrrrr

I'll try and come back in a bit and edit to reply to you guys and check out other diaries but gotta play
 
AHello!!!! :leaving: Eeeeeeeek :eek:

Sorry I've been away for so long my lovely. I knew that as soon as I read your diary you would have me totally inspired again. And you have, goddammit, you have. Humph. You made me feel incredibally guilty about the two choccie bars I've just eaten, and that never happens any more!!!

I think its amazing that you've signed up to the great south run! You are going to win it at this rate, I can just see you elbowing all the pro's out of the way. I am really worried about you going running after your op though, TAKE IT EASY!!!!!!

I just l;aughed so much when you asked asked your friend Jo if it was all skinny fit women going to the tonig class :D How did you forget that you are one of "Those" people now lol.

I am SO JEALOUS. I NEED AN IPAD!!!!!!

Think I might aim for 5 perfect days very soon xxxxx
 
ADAY 217

Breakfast: 50g porridge with blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Granola bar & a yoghurt (245 cals)
Dinner: 4 breaded chicken strips with salad, light salad cream and courgette relish (428 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffee's, 2 kiwi's and a granola bar (306 cals)
Total calories = 1180

Exercise: Another rest day. I was going to go to the gym but have been having problems with my stomach :(

Perfect day 5 done...1 to go :hurray:

Last night, my stomach hurt, it felt like period pain but my period hasn't come yet so i was a bit worried about the exercise i was doing!!

Pretty average work day.

I had a doctors appointment after work today to get some more meds (anti-depressants) I was going to stop them because i feel pretty good most of the time now but i am going to potentially be unemployed at the end of May which is a bit of a worry and i think i would be stupid to stop them for the time being. Anyway, the Doctor i saw has been at the practice for as long as i can remember and he knows my family so he knew me and he has seen me at my very worst! We were talking about when i started to feel 'well' and i said that i wasn't too sure whether it had anything to do with my weightloss but i said 'about september' He then got really excited and said that he thought the wrong person had got up in the waiting room to go thru with him when he called my name!!! It was kinda like he was waiting for me to mention it so he could talk to me about it and OMG it was so strange having a Dr (who in the past has given me a hard time about my weight) totally gushing about how well i have done and how amazing i looked! He was also massivly impressed with how i was doing it!!!! I did tell him about how i struggled with compliments and he was really sweet but he did say that i was going to have to deal with it as there is nothing i could do to stop it but soon enough everyone will see this as ME and it wont be mentioned anymore. I said to him that i am getting quite alot of people saying that i don't need to lose anymore and that i wanted to reach 150lb and asked what he thought.He had this BMI thing on the computer and it showed you the 'weight range', it even had a little person that got fatter and thiner depending on you weight. Anyway, it said that the top end of my ideal weight is 154lb so getting to 150lb is fine. I was really chuffed that the weight i was aiming for is correct and not still 'overweight' either. he showed me the little 'person' at my weight now and it had a little yellow line around the 'healthy' green person. Then he put it to the weight i was at my worst and OMG it looked like the stay puff marshmallow man but in bright red, it was awful!!!!
I also asked him about the pain i was having in my stomach and am i being stupid doing the exercise i do and he said that the running is fine :hurray: but not to do any weights or crunches etc for another 3 weeks!!! I was a bit gutted but at least i get to run still :)

My Dr's appointment totally made my day :)

Sorry for neglecting you all for my iPad. I will be a good girl and catch up :)

Cate Thank you for letting me off that 6 calories :) Yes it is definatly harder not raiding the fridge when there is nobody around to answer to. I have been totally fine yesterday and today, i think the closer sunday and christmas cake comes the easier it gets, also i have a new toy to play with!!

Rosie It really made me giggle that you googled 'chuffed' that is soooooo funny!!! How funny that we both speak 'english' but say suck different things. I will have to think of other saying for you. I think someone on here says 'sweetie' more cos of me!!!
I have been a dental nurse for 20yrs!!! And you are not alone, i'd say that 75% of people are the same as you (me included) but that is the best part of my job, making it as easy for people as i can. We have a great reputation for being caring and getting people over their fear! We have quite a few patients who couldn't bring themselves to get thru the door on their first visit and now they are totally fine and come in asking how my family is etc.l I love that side of my work :)

Princess Thanks for your congrat my lovely :) And OMG my iPad is just awesome!!

Ruthie :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: Yay!! She's back. It's so good to see you girly :) I do hope i can inspire you to get back on track and get to what you want to and don't worry about being away, i totally understand my lovely, i hope life is getting more stable for you :)
Who would have thought me entering a 10 mile run back when i was stressing about running for 3 mins!!!! I have reached 7 miles already and it feels wonderful to be that person who 'just runs and runs' It took me 1hr20m to do 7 miles :) I really have come a long way huh.
Sending you positive vibes for your perfect 5 days!!! And it really is great to see you back, i have really really missed you :grouphug:
 
Hey luvvy!!! Glad you had a good day! I'm happy you have such an awesome doctor too, sounds like he cares properly about you and your health. Also good to have the support of a doctor behind your goal, it means you have something to say back to the people who think you have done enough (not that it's their business what you do with your body anyway!! Lol)


Sorry to hear you're having stomach pain again, I'm glad to see you're listening to your body and resting though. It might take a couple of weeks to be fully recovered, but then this will all be far behind you and you can start smashing out the running again!!


Awesome work, as always :hurray:
 
ADAY 218

Breakfast: 2 small slices of wholemeal toast with light spread and marmite (147 cals)
Lunch: Ham, lettuce and light mayo wholemeal sandwich & 97 cal crisps (285 cals)
Dinner: lentil soup with 2 small slices of white toast (398 cals)
Snacks: 2 coffee's, 95 cal crisps, 2 kiwi's and a granola bar (376 cals)
Total calories = 1204

Exercise: Resting, i am going to do a run tomorrow if the weather isn't like it was today!!!

I had a pretty average saturday today, other than Mark working. I had my nails done this morning, did town stuff then went into Barnstaple to have an eye test and get Jack's new glasses, he needs them for school, reading, computer games etc. I need glasses :( I kinda knew really cos i have been squinting and have to really concentrate on focusing. I too only need them for work, reading, computer etc so it's not all bad. Am getting some funky one's, well, Jack said that they were nice.
In Barnstaple Jack was really hungry (as always) so we went into a bakery and got him a sausage roll and a cake!!!! I had nothing, how cool is that??? AND..... for dinner they had takeaway fish & chips while i sat there and had...........soup!!!!

I have been weighing myself on the bathroom scales every morning this week and i really think it helps me. I have been far more focused because i haven't seen them move at all (well, after my sunday 'treat' i went up 3lb) so i kinda knew that i couldn't slack at all. This week has been the best i've been for a long time. Hopefully my weigh in tomorrow will be a loss!! I would love to lose 2lb and get past that 50lb barrier!!!

Rosie asked me to put some photo's on here from when i worked in Africa, so here are a few. This was sept 09.

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340977/width/350/height/263 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340978/width/350/height/262 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340979/width/350/height/262 This was the queue every morning when we arrived to work!!

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340980/width/350/height/262 This photo caused me to have a real breakdown about life!!!

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340981/width/350/height/262 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340982/width/350/height/262 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340983/width/350/height/263 Yep, that's ME doing a filling!! It really was 'all hands on deck' to be able to see as many people as we could, each dentist had three chairs on the go at once!!

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340984/width/350/height/167 That's Mo (the dentist i work with) and Terese, one of our translators.
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340985/width/350/height/262 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340986/width/350/height/262 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340987/width/350/height/262 http://weight-loss.fitness.com/image/id/340988/width/350/height/262

Lucy Yeah, the Dr is awesome, he has been great for Jack too over the years. It really did feel odd having him praising me so much lol. My stomach is not too bad, just like period pain but so far, without the period!!! I am allowed to still run just not do any weights or crunches etc. As long as i can run it's all good :)



 
What a great experience to have had Kate! It would be a wonderful thing if every child could visit a 3rd world country while they're at High School to have them realise how lucky they are & hopefully be more appreciative & compassionate.

The lovely experience you had with your doctor should help you come to terms with compliments etc and also give you some ammunition for those who think you are aiming too low. I really enjoyed hearing about that! Sweets, you'll be right back into your running, with a vengeance, in no time at all. Good for you taking it a little easy though & being sensible. Good for you not weighing every day as well & keeping within your cals. Soon you will be back to 50lbs down & before you know it, you'll be in the 150's! xoxo Cate
 
KATE!!! Those photos are freaking amazing!!! Im in love with them, i plan on going to africa during the summer for volunteering:) what part of africa were you in? and also what programme did you go over with and for how long?


SUPER JEALOUS OF YOU!!! xxx
 
Hey Kate,

Thanks for your kind encouragement in my diary! You all are really helping me through something I didn't dream I would need help with!

I hope you will feel better soon and I know with our determination, you'll be back at it before you know it! Your pictures of Africa are really emotional...my sister (the one who is also on the journey with me and has lost +100 pounds) is going to Morocco this summer for the 2nd time. She is a RN and is going with her church group. She was really blessed by the whole experience the last time she went, hence has volunteered again. I'm sure she will be showered with complements about her weight loss like you are...and being like me, and my mother, we tend to shun compliments...why is that!?

Let yourself heal before you go at it girl...you may have needed this little break!


Sarah
 
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