A new me! (hopefully, with some help)

ADAY 236

Breakfast: 50g porridge & blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Left over roast & a yoghurt (418 cals)
Dinner: Veg lasagne & light salad cream (307 cals)
Snacks: 5 coffee's!!!!!!! 2 kiwi's, granola bar & a banana (428 cals)
Total calories = 1354

Exercise: 5 mile run!!!

I woke up in a really good mood for the first time in ages. I lay there and they played a few songs on the radio that i love which made my mood even better :) Tuesday is a Rachel day at work :hurray: We had a really good laugh, we had some really nice patients in today that we had a proper silly time with :)

I wasn't going to do any exercise today, i was supose to have a rest day cos i did a run on sunday and a run and weights yesterday but i just couldn't help myself :rolleyes: I looked at the times on my App that i have managed with my running and decided that i was going to go up the railway line and try really hard at getting a faster time. Running on the way up was a bloody killer!!!! (actually running back down wasn't much easier to be honest) i had to stop twice cos i thought i was gonna throw up and i didn't manage to go all the way to the pub!!!! It was easier on the way down but still hard work. I was beetroot red, so so sweaty and a shaking mess when i got home lol I haven't been like that in ages. It made me realise that i haven't been pushing myself at all recently!!!! Anyway here is how it went:-
Mile 1 = 11.15 mins
Mile 2 = 12.55 mins whoops!!
Mile 3 = 10.33 mins
Mile 4 = 9.19 mins YAY!!
Mile 5 = 9.55 mins

Average 10.48 mins a mile :)
Total time 54.25 to run 5.04 miles
Calories burnt = 654 :)

I'm pretty chuffed with that :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: I am gonna aim to improve my up hill speed and try and get each mile under 10 mins. I think i will do better when i do it after a days rest but i had worked hard the last 2 running sessions i have done so i think that didn't help my poor legs today. I'm going to the gym again tomorrow and doing a 'toning class' too :eek: i have turned into an even worse fitness freak but i am in a much better head space today too so maybe concentrating on exercise (ie, obsessing lol) is good for me.

Oh i forgot to say yesterday was Perfect day 1 done. 9 to go :hurray:

Perfect day 2 done. 8 to go :hurray: :hurray: And i helped Jack make pancakes this evening and didn't have a taster!! Oh, Lizzie at work brought in lemon drizzle cake!!!! :drool5: and i took some up to Rach to have with her coffee. None for me :hurray: Really motivated at the moment. Yay!! :)

Cate Pushing myself has definaltely help lift my mood. I am excited about what i can achieve :) Which is an awesome feeling :D

Rosie I am sooooo up for improving my running!!! I was so gutted yesterday when i felt i was slow and rubbish but today i'm like 'i'm gonna do something about that' :hurray:
I suppose it is a bit like that where i live but not so wonderfully beautiful and perfect but yeah i do know an awful lot of people. It can be hard sometimes when i don't feel in a 'chatty' mood and all they want to do is go on about my weight, i know i sound ungrateful but it really does get a bit much, especially when i am not coping with compliments :eek:
And regarding the 9.5....it's in KM :( one of the guys at the gym worked out for me that 9.5km an hour worked out to be about a 10 min mile. But it's all good, i am gonna do this. 'marathon man' was at the surgery today and we had a really good chat about what to do to improve my speed if i want to. The reason he couldn't run with me is cos he is so tall and couldn't go slower if he tried. He said that he struggles running with his girlfriend cos she is 'too slow' too.
 
Haha you couldn't help exercising?? I feel so lazy at the moment, I'm planning on beach walks at least while I'm on hols... You're putting me to shame though!!! Awesome that you're feeling so motivated at the moment, for some reason I'm happy to help cooking most days without tasting too... mm and pancakes smell so good! Nom nom!!!


I'm sure you'll smash these 10 days out with no probs!!!!!!!!!!!
 
ADAY 237

Breakfast: 50g porridge & blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Veg lasagne, 97 cal crisps and a yoghurt (421 cals)
Dinner: Chicken salad with light salad cream (241 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffee's, 2 kiwi's, granola bar, 2 ricecakes (366 cals)
Total calories = 1229

Exercise None, my legs dont work today :(

Perfect day 3 done. 7 to go!!

No chocolate for lent day 1 done :)

OMG my legs ache sooooo much today :( It's a 'i've worked hard' kinda ache so it's good but i thought i had better not go to the gym and class tonight!!! I was really looking forward to this 'toning class' but i know i will ache lots after it and i ache loads already so, no!!!

I will go to the gym tomorrow and do something gentle :)

I've had a pretty good day, mega busy at work but i have been in a good head space. So, all good :)

Lucy I know!! Only a freak like me could say something like 'i couldn't help it' sad huh lol. I am hopeful for these 10 perfect days but we are taking Jack out for pizza for his birthday this weekend :eek: That is gonna be really hard!!!
 
Hi Kate, My legs are killing me today too- aching like crazy! You are doing so well sweetie, resisting lemon drizzle cake(YUM!!!) I think I would have had trouble there! What a girl! xoxo Cate
 
Kate do what I did and see if the pizza place you are going to has a website with nutritional info on it... you can check out the pizzas and go in with a plan of what exactly you are going to eat. Actually I didn't need to go searching for nutrition info on mine, when you order online each pizza comes up with a 'per slice' calorie count in the menu!! So that was handy. Pretty sure our laws here have changed though, fast food places need to display calorie counts on every item by the middle or end of each year or something. Haha I went into Hungry Jacks (Burger King everywhere else!) with my husband while we were down south, it's pretty eye opening!! I don't eat HJ's (used to work there!! One word: EW!) some of the burgers by themselves had 1000cals (or MORE!!)


Haha don't mind my rant!!! If it's really an issue move your cheat day to that day, and just count every slice of pizza with meat as 200cals and every vegetarian slice as 150, it usually kinda works out like that. Good girl having a rest day too!!
 
Hey Kate, sorry I've been neglecting your diary this week...just really swamped...no real excuse, just reality!

You've got a good string of perfection going there Kate! Keep up the good work and looks like luzdafuzz has a good suggestion on the pizza outing to keep the string going!

You're doing great and very well balanced and you are becoming quite the runner!! Great job!!


Sarah
 
ADAY 238

Breakfast: 50g porridge & blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Ham, lettuce & light mayo wholemeal sandwich, 97 cal crisps and a yoghurt (331 cals)
Dinner: soup and wholemeal bread with light spread (350 cals)
Snacks: 4 coffee's, 2 kiwi's, granola bar and a ricecake (361 cals)
Total calories = 1243

Exercise: None, still achey and soooo tired

Perfect day 4 done. 6 to go!

Day 2 of no chocolate done :)

I spent most of last night up with Mark!! Bless him, he has flu or something, he was burning up, delerious, throwing up etc. So today at work was really cafine fueled lol. He was still in bed when i got home but i managed to persuade him to come sit on the sofa, he looks awful but is awake :)

Princess Thanks sweetie :) I'm Kate, Lucy is the stunningly beautiful aussie girl :smilielol5: Yeah, i gave up chocolate for lent!!! What a stupid bloody woman huh!!!! I'm regretting it already :smilielol5:

Cate Lemon drizzle cake!!! I know!!!! Just totally to die for! I think i am gonna have to find some when i go away next weekend. I'm still achey today too, they should be ok for tomorrow so will go for another run then.

Lucy Jack wants to go to Pizza Hut but they do have a salad bar. I am a pizza snob so am able to resist average pizza but when it comes to pizza hut it is gonna be a struggle. BUT i will have salad and gallons of diet coke to bloat me so i wont want to eat any lol

Sarah We all have lives to live sweetie so no apoligies needed :) And that you so much for your lovely comments :)
 
ADAY 239

WARNING!!! Food fail!!!!
Breakfast: 50g porridge & blueberries (201 cals)
Lunch: Granola bar, 2 kiwi's, banana & 97 cal crisps (409 cals)
Dinner: 3 Breaded chicken strips wholegrain roll with light mayo and lettuce....dough balls with garlic dip!!!! (700 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffee's, 97 cal crisps, rice cake, 95 cal crisps, granola bar and about 250 cals of french bread!!!! (732 cals)
Total calories = 2042!!!!!

Exercise: 10 min walk, 20 min run, 3x12 chest press, 3x12 pec flye, 3x12 back deltoid,3x12 tricep extentions and 150 reps on the abs machine

Day 3 of no chocolate done :)

Perfect day.............failed!!!!!!

I have been soooooooooooo hungry from the minute i woke up this morning. I felt like a scavenger, searching for food to eat :( I managed pretty well all day but totally fell apart at the supermarket. Mark is still ill so it was just me and Jack, we ate half of the french bread stick before we left the shop.....Whoops! I have craved carbs big time today, well, i probably craved chocolate but that is banned so bread it was lol

Anyway, it was just one of those days and i will move on. I'm gonna try and be awesome for the next 5 days!!!

I was at the customers services desk at the supermarket getting Mark's work's lottery tickets this afternoon and the young girl behind the counter, who i didn't recognise let alone know, said to me 'wow, you've lost loads of weight. How much have you lost and what is your secret?' After the initial shock of a stranger bloody noticing i actually talked to her about it and told her about myfitnesspal and C25K app's. She seemed really realy interested and seemed genuinely blown away with what i had acheived. I hope she goes for it :)

I wasn't going to write about this but today i felt i should for some reason......
Yesterday i got a text from Rob (one of my best friends who is at uni about 4 hrs away) Anyway, i hadn't heard from him for a few days and i then get this:


Thank's 4 adding 2 my life, i'm glad ur in it​
Remember u mean lots 2 many people​
and that is good. X​

My first thought was 'he has sent that to the wrong person' cos it's not the usual kinda text i get from him so i text back:


Aww that's very sweet :)​
did you sent it to the right person? Xx​

He replied with:


Yes i did. Just had a feelin​
u needed 2 hear it. Lookin​
4ward 2 c in u next week. X​

Initially i thought 'oh,ok' then i started thinking about why i thought he had sent it to the wrong person by mistake and i realised that i was surprised that anyone would think that about ME!!! And i realied that my self worth is still pretty crap. I realised that i always thought i was worthless because i was fat but i am not (well, very nearly) fat anymore and i do still feel worthless. It was so strange that he knew that i was struggling with this even when i didn't understand it myself. Anyway, i am really going to try and change that, i don't have a clue how but i will :) I will talk to Rob about it when i see him and i will read stuff and just try and improve my self worth and learn to stop hating myself. What an awesome friend i have there huh?!
 
Hi Kate, "There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert Hubbard" You will never be a failure sweetie as you will never give up. That was one day & one day only & there is no such thing as perfect. We ALL have those days. Re: accepting nice comments and friendship- It is my biggest battle too, & probably most of the people in this forum, that we don't love ourselves enough & don't think that we are worthy. I have to read positive quotes & talk to myself & tell myself that I am worth loving. I think that I will have to work on this forever. We are worth loving Kate. It is not conceit to say & think so. Sending you lots of hugs & lots of love as you are one very special woman,(YES YOU ARE!!!!!!) xoxoxo Cate.
 
Kate,

Ok, I actually have tears in my eyes right now from reading what you wrote about yourself ... I hope you do make working on loving yourself a priority because you are incredible and sooo worth it! You are so funny, and charismatic, and caring, and generous and I could go on, but you're probably already blushing by now, so I'll stop!! ;) You have so much love here and of course I am sure that caries on into your non-forum life too, and that we all want to see you think as highly of yourself as we do! So, try and use positive words when you talk to yourself because you deserve it :)


And oh yeah.... kilometers *facepalm* damn metric system!! ;) Nevertheless, I am still impressed!
 
hiya. sorry your hubby is sick. sounds like that virus everyone has had is still making its rounds. That was a nice text message you got. he sounds like a good friend.
 
ADAY 240

Breakfast: 2 small slices of wholemeal toast with light spread and marmite (155 cals)
Lunch: 50g porridge with blueberries & a little muesli (251 cals)
Dinner: 1 slice of ham & pineapple pizza and salad bar!! (545 cals)
Snacks: 3 coffee's & a granola bar (260 cals)
Total calories = 1211

Exercise: Rest day

Day 4 of no chocolate :hurray:

Yay!!!!! I did it!! :hurray: :hurray: I went to Pizza hut and was in control :) I was really worried that i would end up thinking 'sod it' and have too many calories but i was a good girl :)
I was really impressed with Pizza hut. The had the calories per slice on the menu and the salad bar was awesome, loads of stuff and really fresh. We will definalty go there more often, i will be able to eat in there without having to worry too much about what i can eat. It was really really impressive, i love that they catered for people trying to watch what they are eating. I've never found that anywhere else.

I've had a nice day, had my nails done and waxing. Read my book and had a snooze :) then took Jack and his friend out for pizza for His birthday. Matty is staying over tonight too, they have dissapeared in Jacks room on the Xbox now. I cant believe my baby is 13 on tuesday!!! Where has that time gone?

It's weigh day tomorrow and the scales in the bathroom haven't moved all week, they are even 1lb up so part of me doesn't want to weigh but i probably will, i know that this close to my target it's gonna be hard and come off slower.

Jane can't make our run tomorrow cos she has a cold so i am gonna go on my own. I will go when i wake up rather than setting the alarm to get me up, which will be nice. I have been thinking that i might run to the pub and do the extra bit 3 times before come back cos that would make it 10 miles, which is how long the great south run is. We will see how i get on.

Cate :blush5: You are too sweet :grouphug: It is weird that i tell others they are worthy but can't manage to think i am, i am such a hipocrite, we all are i supose lol. You are so right though, we do need to figue out a way to feel worthy. I'll work on it, i promise :)

Rosie Aww sweetheart, don't feel like that :( And yep, you did make me blush :blush5: I will work on improving :) Thank you for your lovely lovely comments. :grouphug:

Mark Thanks for stopping by :) My Mark is doing better, bloody grumpy now but that is a good sign, he was pathertic to start with so definate improvement :) And yeah, Rob is an awesome friend :) Everyone should have one of him in their life.
 
Hi Kate, That's really good that you can go somewhere & eat healthily & know what you're having. Well done Pizza Hut! Well done you!There should be more of it. In some places it's hard enough just finding out what's in your food, let alone the vague calorie content. Re: my comments- You do deserve lots and lots of love xoxo Cate
 
Hello Kate, Wow, I'm so impressed with being able to go to a Pizza place and stay in control...I don't think I'm there yet! Those places are still off limits for me! I'm so proud of you and in awe!! So motivating...and yes, I did run a little this morning and thought of you!

Sarah
 
AMorning all :)

I weighed this morning and...............i lost 1LB!!!!! I am soo so chuffed with that cos it means........

I only need to lose 9LB so i am now in single figures!!!!!!!! AND I am now in the 150's!!!!!!!!!

So so pleased :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

I am off for my run in a minute and i am going to have a go at doing 10 miles. I am gonna take it slow and steady but i really really want to do it so....fingers crossed :)
 
Congratulations Kate!! :cheers2:


Awesome YOU in the 150's! A girl after my own heart and soul!! So very proud of you!! One of these days, I'll be there too...quite a ways to go for me...but you remain my inspiration!


Keep up the great work!!!


Reading your post made me go down to the gym and get some more km's in on the elliptical tonight!!


Sarah
 
AOMG!!!! I only went and bloody did it!!!!!!!!

10 miles in 1 hour 38 minutes!!!!

:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

I am a little bit squealy excited :) :) :) I am sooooooooo so chuffed that i managed it......Yay!!!
 
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