Amy's weight loss diary

I'm on a bit of a downer this evening. No specific reason, just feeling a little bit lonely. The people I would normally talk to are either out, not wanting to talk, or asleep (asleep being my family, it's getting on towards 5am there). I hate it when I get like this.
 
Meh, I know how you feel. Sucks when you get down and can't get yourself back up. Especially when there seems to be no reason for it. Have a nice hot bath and read a good book, things will seem brighter in the morning. x
 
Thanks :) I opted for the comfort food route in the end :leaving: (a dessert I used to make for myself as a kid- chopped up apple, sultanas, brown sugar, covered and bunged in the microwave for a couple of minutes, then putting yoghurt on top. Came out at 285 calories and I'm still under for the day, so that's pretty good), still not feeling great but a little better.

I just wish I had more people to talk to. I have a very small group of friends who I can normally rely on for that sort of thing, and it doesn't take much for me to be pretty much alone for awhile (and the nature of the work I do is pretty isolating).
 
Thank you Trusylver, and thank you for stopping by so regularly. I really appreciate it :)

Food diary time (today with pictures showing what I've had and how I get the stats for each meal- speaking of which, I've ordered a new SD card for my camera off Amazon)

Sunday 8 May
Breakfast: 45g oats, 422ml milk, and 80g summer fruit mix. Subtotal: 331 calories, 20g protein, 52g carbs, 4g fat
Snack: tea with 64ml milk and a 78g kiwifruit. Subtotal: 60 calories, 3g protein, 11g carbs, <1g fat
Lunch: 2 slices rye bread with 59g cottage cheese, an 88g tomato, and spices- basil, oregano, pepper. 193ml of ice tea concentrate. Subtotal: 250 calories, 12g protein, 44g carbs, 2g fat, 51% of sodium allowance.
Snack: 75g peach. Subtotal 29 calories, <1g protein, 7g calories
Snack: 2 wholemeal rice cakes with 8g Vegemite, an 111g apple. Subtotal: 130 calories, 3g protein, 29g carbs, <1g fat, 20% of calorie allowance.
Dinner: serve of lemon chicken (calories worked out on online calorie calculator) with 50g basmati rice, and 200ml ice tea concentrate. Subtotal: 503 calories, 50g protein, 52g carbs, 9g fat, 11% of sodium allowance.
Dessert/ comfort food: 115g apple, 20g sugar, 75g yoghurt, 30g sultanas. 285 calories, 5g protein, 62g carbs, 2g fat, 5% of sodium allowance.
Total: 1591 calories (84%), 94g protein, 261g carbs, 19g fat, 87% of sodium allowance.
 
One of the reasons I'm really pushing myself to lose weight is to get back into some of the clothes that I brought to England. I have some very nice, relatively expensive jeans I bought in the few months before I left Australia, which I'd planned to wear all the time but I just kept getting bigger. I must say I have no idea what I weighed when I left Australia, but those jeans fit me then. I'm trying to work out when a good time would be to try them on again. I'm slightly scared I'll break them, or won't be able to get them on.

Oh, and I sent some pictures from my outing last week to my mum. She says I'm looking really good. Means a lot coming from her.
 
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I'm definitely going to be doing that myself, I have a bit of a skeleton wardrobe at the monment.

Two good news pieces for today. One is that a friend of mine on Facebook and I got talking about diet and stuff, and I've given her some advice on how to start. She's made one of my low calorie dishes for dinner tonight (she's in Australia)- the spiced orange chicken- and she really likes it. I hope I'm helping her change some things.

The second is that I thought about the jeans I talked about earlier, and went and tried the bigger pair on (after looking up the sizing guide for the company). It's a tiny bit tight around the waist, but I could easily wear it out. I'll leave it a couple of weeks before I start doing that, though.

Having pizza for lunch before I go to the gym (similar to what I made before).
 
I also have a sectin of my closet with nice/new clothes I hope to fit in this summer. I am using this as a motivator. also when something gets too big i will donate it quick so as not to return to that size again.


enjoy your jeans
 
I'm going to try your pizza dish tomorrow, Amy, if that's okay. Pizza is my biggest weakness so hoping it'll fill the void for me!!
 
amy1985 said:
I'm definitely going to be doing that myself, I have a bit of a skeleton wardrobe at the monment.

Two good news pieces for today. One is that a friend of mine on Facebook and I got talking about diet and stuff, and I've given her some advice on how to start. She's made one of my low calorie dishes for dinner tonight (she's in Australia)- the spiced orange chicken- and she really likes it. I hope I'm helping her change some things.

The second is that I thought about the jeans I talked about earlier, and went and tried the bigger pair on (after looking up the sizing guide for the company). It's a tiny bit tight around the waist, but I could easily wear it out. I'll leave it a couple of weeks before I start doing that, though.

Having pizza for lunch before I go to the gym (similar to what I made before).
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Such great news about the jeans. You'll be in the smaller size in no time. Gosh, you're doing so well. Hope you had a good work out. I'm with everyone else, i definitely want to give that pizza recipe a try.
 
imaninjadangit (sorry, I don't know your name), the recipe is this one: (I adapted by using less chicken- 5-6 chicken thigh fillets, or a little over 1lb, rather than 1.2kg, which is over 2.5lb. I also skipped the chives- presentation? pah- and rather than basting, as I don't know how, I cook with foil over the top for half an hour then without for fifteen minutes)

Anyone's free to steal, adapt, etc any of my recipes or ideas (I find most of them on the internet anyway). And I'd love to hear the results :)

Had a kickarse session at the gym today. Did the upper body work, and jumped up to the 4kg weights. Feeling really good about it (except pushups- I can't go down very far and my wrists really hurt when I do them, I think maybe I should think about doing something else instead of that). Then did 10 min on the stepper (climber? There are pedals and you step up and down, and it tells you how many floors you've climbed), harder than I've done it before, 15 min on the crosstrainer (same as my program says, resistance 7, hard hill setting). Then I went to the pool and swam 40 laps (freestyle). I gave in, given my eyes hurt for hours after my last go in the pool, and bought a pair of goggles. I noticed a difference in the intensity of my swimming immediately- I could swim much faster, so I got a much better workout out of it.

Not related so much to my weight loss, but I need to find a way to get my boyfriend away from the goddamn kebabs. After we went to the gym today he had to be dragged almost kicking and screaming away from the shop (which unfortunately is about 100m from the gym). Whether it's a question of a substitute, I don't know. It got me quite upset that I can't help him get over this- I've helped him change a lot of his other destructive habits.
 
I actually bought the 'perfect pushup' dealies just because I had so many issues with push-ups and my wrists. It seems to have gotten better over time, but... it just wasn't something my body wanted to do! Another option at the gym is to get some of the dumbells and use them as grips when you do push-ups - helps keep your wrists straight.

How many calories in the kebabs? Is there some way he could... eat like half or something to minimize the damage? I admit I have to carefully not look at the damn pizza place right across from my gym when I leave!
 
Thanks for the suggestion :) They seem like a good idea but perhaps a little out of my budget range. I think I might go back to the drawing board for that muscle group and find something else for the moment. Or use the dumbells- I tend to carry them with me anyway as I do all my strength/ weights at once and there are only one set of 4kg dumbells, which is annoying.

I've got no idea how many calories are in the kebabs, unfortunately listing nutrition isn't a requirement in this country, so very few do. I suspect I don't want to know. I think he has big problems with his willpower so the best way to get him not to eat it all (and get a Pepsi to wash it down with) is not to go in there at all. The big problem is that coming out of the gym (which isn't far from his place) we have to walk past his favourite pub (where he used to eat a lot. As in most evening meals and up to 3 meals a day at weekends kind of a lot), and straight ahead of us is the place where he likes to get his kebabs (there is another way to get back, but it takes three times as long).

I might try to make him this (it's too high calorie for my diet, but it's probably a heck of a lot better than the alternative): and see if it's anywhere near good enough and can keep him away. The pizza I made him (the first pizza photo- BBQ sauce, mushroom, brown onion, chicken breast, lean ham, and reduced fat cheese) was a complete success. (He even conceded that, although he did ask for bacon, the ham was a very good substitute)
 
Food diary. I really need to go to bed, I meant to get an early night.

Monday 9 May

Breakfast: 45g porridge with 421ml milk and 81g summer fruit mix. Subtotal: 331 calories, 20g protein, 52g carbs, 4g fat
Coffee: 600ml coffee with 182 ml milk. Subtotal: 69 calories, 6g protein, 9g carbs, <1g fat
Lunch: pizza. Weightwatchers wholemeal pita bread, 20g Cathedral City lighter cheese, 28g brown onion, 39g mushroom, 3g fresh basil, 15g black olives, 12g sundried tomato (oil patted out with paper towel, although I didn't adjust calories on that basis), 2 slices light ham (33.4g), and 19g tomato puree (aka tomato paste in Australia). Subtotal: 285 calories, 20g protein, 29g carbs, 9g fat
Pre-gym snack: 115g granny smith apple. Subtotal: 59 calories, 16g carbs
Post-gym snack: Graze "Little Figgy went to Market" (dried apple, baby figs, cranberries- quite liked this). Subtotal: 98 calories, <1g protein, 23g carbs, <1g fat
Dinner: adaptation of orange spiced chicken (with lemon, as I've discussed before), with 50g couscous, 163g steamed carrot, and 172g steamed zucchini. Also had ice tea- 200ml from concentrate. Subtotal: 578 calories, 38g protein, 82g carbs, 11g fat.
Total: 1423 calories (76%), 86g protein, 213g carbs, 25g fat, 53% sodium allowance.
 
using the dumbbells as pushup bars is an excellent alternative, great work on the climber, a lot of gyms don't have that machine and it is the most hated cardio machine in the gym I go to because it is HARD lol. the difference between the climber and the stepper is the climber is like climbing a ladder and involves the arms as well.
 
This one's a stepper, then, not a climber (it's described as a climber in the gym, I wasn't sure). It's definitely hard though, and deceptively so (I saw people on it going slowly, and I thought "they're wasting their time!". Until I tried it myself. Oh god, it's hard. But good for me. I can feel my knees improving every time I use it)
 
I wish I wasn't so groggy in the mornings. I really need more sleep, but the sun's waking me up earlier and earlier (this morning it woke me up at 5:45am, although after I'd checked the time I rolled over and went back to sleep), and I really function at my best after about 10pm.

Also, my bathroom smells like golden syrup this morning, which is baffling.
 
And more- I think I've busted my goggles trying to fix them, or am on the way towards doing so. The nose bridge (made out of cheap plastic) keeps popping out of the plastic and I struggle to get it back in. The plastic is starting to get warped from me trying to put it back in. Not sure what to do because although it came with spare nose bridges, this is the size that works for me. Does anyone know if there's a glue I can get (that will survive in the pool) so I can attach it a little more permanently, or if there's a good DIY substitute for nose bridges?
 
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