An attempt to keep a diary!

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Yeah, I'm gonna try this.

So today I'm 95kg (209lbs). I'm not gonna weigh myself all too often, mainly because my scales are lousy. I'm not working on my muscles these days, so I don't expect I'll be gaining any muscle weight, but I'll get to that asap. I just don't live close to a gym, so all I can do for now is walking (and jogging, once the snow+ice is gone).

I haven't eaten much today, but I've been sick lately with low appetite. I woke up really late so I didn't have breakfast.

(Late) lunch: Herbalife shake in fruite juice
Dinner: Almost half a cantaloupe

Then I drank a big glass of the herbalife green tea. It's really good for getting rid of excess fluids in the body.

I took a 30 minute walk, half of it was uphill and there's a lot of snow, which adds to the intensity. I'm going to try to do this every day, the main problem is the lack of sunlight. It gets bright late and dark early around here, this time of year. Quite depressing.

Then I got home and found some yoga exercises for beginners on youtube. I only lasted 10 minutes, but I blame the fact that the laptop speakers aren't good and my neighbours were making noise, and I need to find a better place to position the laptop than a table. I can't really see what I'm supposed to do when I'm doing some freaky position on the floor. Need to find a solution for that, 'cause yoga = awesome.
 
Ok realized I *must* eat something more than just that today.
Cooking whole wheat pasta + tuna as we speak :)
I <3 tuna
 
Yay, a new day!
Woke up full of energy, surprising considering I didn't sleep well.
I had a shake, then went out for a walk. I walked two circles around my village, which took about half an hour, then I walked further into the valley I live in, which took about 20 minutes each way. So all in all around 70 minutes of brisk-ish walking, in snow. I couldn't find anyone to walk with me this early, our classes don't start until after noon, so nobody was awake - except for the horses that looked at me funnily :p

Then I got home and shoveled snow off of 17 steps.

I feel awesome! Now I've just gotta shower and then walk to uni to have lunch. There's a vegetable-bar there, then I'll spend the rest of the day skipping classes at the library.
 
Thanks :)
Yeah it's pretty awesome here. I live in a village of 150 people, and all of them are somehow connected to the university - either students, staff or their families. Then there's an elementary school and a kindergarten for the kids of students/staff.
 
Iceland! How interesting! I'd love to go there :) We had a load of Icelandic horses at the stables I worked at and I loved them :) Tough little buggers!

Good luck :)
 
Sunflower said:
Iceland! How interesting! I'd love to go there :) We had a load of Icelandic horses at the stables I worked at and I loved them :) Tough little buggers!

Good luck :)
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Iceland is nice, especially for tourists.
I live in a place that has TONS of horses, it's like the horse-mecca of Iceland. The university here is the only university in the world afaik that teaches BSc in Icelandic horse science. So I'm surrounded by horses and horsemen, even though I don't ride myself, unfortunately.


Ok so to the diary, I've finally gained my appetite back after being sick. At lunch, I had a disk of mixed veggies with some nuts (not sure what they're called actually!), and broccoli soup. Yum!
Then for snacks, I had a sandwich with cheese and pepperoni. It wasn't the best choice, I think, but it was the only thing I could buy except for candy or chips. Then I got home, had some baby carrots, and went out for another walk! I can't believe it. This time for 30 minutes and with three human friends and two canine friends. It was nice, but it was much colder than this morning because of the wind.
For dinner I had chicken noodles with cheese, very yummy.

I check in at ca 1370ckal, which leaves me 30kcal before I go to sleep lol! Maybe I'll have some baby carrots if I get hungry ;)

Tomorrow me and at least one friend have scheduled another walk, this time at 8am. Yikes! I'm definitely wearing thicker clothes than today, it's gonna be around -6°c and some wind, according to the forecast.

I really love the fact that I actually enjoy walking out in the nature. Both with friends and also on my own with music in my ears. I hope I manage to keep it up.

Me and my friends have set some goals. When the snow goes, we'll start jogging. Maybe just jog a bit and walk a bit, just jog as much as we manage. By the end of April (I'm moving to another place in the beginning of May) we're going to walk up to a mountain that's just above the village :)


I've been thinking about all this a lot today and yesterday, the whole losing weight and setting goals thing and all. I told my friend that I'm 95kg, and she didn't believe me, she said I look much thinner. I guess I've got heavy bones or whatever, "a light pound" as we call it here :p She said I look like I weigh definitely less than 80kg. I've heard this from other people as well, and I'm sortof happy about it. I've been reading some posts here where people say that their goal is to become way below 75 (which is my goal for now), and I was starting to doubt my goal. But we're all different, so I'm just gonna stick with that goal, maybe I'll feel happy at 80 or maybe I'll decide to go down to 70 :) Who knows!

All in all, I'm happy about this day. I feel great.
 
I just did quick guesstimation on the distance I walked today, and I believe it's about 9km. I like it.
 
Triple post! :p

It's 7:53. I haven't been up this early since I don't know when. I can hear the wind blowing outside and see snow everywhere. And I'm going out there. Geez. I'm still rather energetic, had a shake earlier and added mixed fruits. Lol I don't own a freezer, so I tied a bag including two zipper bags of fruits on the doorknob on my back-door :p Hoping it won't blow away and the mice won't get to it.

Anyways, in five minutes or so I'm going out walking with at least 2 other friends.

Tonight I'm invited to not one, but TWO cake parties. I'm gonna eat a bit, it's okay (I believe) to indulge every now and then. I just need to know my limits. I think that over the past few days my blood sugar levels have reached some sort of equilibrium, at least I crave less than I did. I've even got some candy and chips here at home that I don't give a second glance. That's progress.

Soon I'm gonna start swimming. I just need to get to a town that sells swimglasses, my eyes are very dry after my lasik surgery last month. There's a swimming pool in my village, free entrance and a friend of mine is the one with the keys to it.

Added: 1kg gone in about a week :)
 
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I feel sortof bad now. I was at a friend's birthday-cake party earlier, and I had two slices of cake and a big cinnamon bun. In 45 minutes I'm going to another place where there will be cakes, and I'll probably have some. Even though I know it's not the best thing to do. But it's not like this happens every day...

I'm also feeling bad because I won't take a walk tomorrow. In the morning I'm driving to a town 120km away from here to visit one of my best friends. She was visiting there when she got really sick, and now she's got to go to the hospital three times a day for IV antibiotics. I'm gonna hang out with her for a day or two and help her get to the hospital. I'll walk extra when I get back home, be it late tomorrow night or Thursday morning...

But I'm happy about the kilo I've lost. Hopefully I'll never see it again.
 
Sunflower said:
Don't beat yourself up too much about the cake :) xxx
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Thanks, and the cake: sooo worth it ;) And it's not like I get cakes often. It just happened to be a bday party + handball party (our national team is doing great things at the world championship right now).

I'm gonna try not to slip today. So yeah I'm going to a pretty big town that has lots of restaurants (compared to where I live, at least. Compared to zero). Last time I went there, in October, I had cheese bread sticks that were to die for, and I've been craving them ever since. I'm gonna ask my friend that I'm going to meet to help me control myself :p

For three days in a row, I had 1-2 walks a day. Today I won't take a walk... I could've this morning before leaving, but the weather is really bad for walking. It's so icey everywhere that it's dangerous just getting to the car and back. And when I get to the other town, I'll be with my friend who's got an injured leg, so I doubt I can trick her to take a walk with me ;)
 
I found that the only way to make this work is to have a total lifestyle change not go on a 'diet'. For this to work for life we have to be realistic and realize that there will be parties and special occasions where we will eat food with high calories. The trick is to not let this happen too often so that it jeopardizes our weight loss and to make up for it in the following days by lowering our calories or upping the exercise.
If we deprive ourselves too much we won't be able to stick with it.
You are doing great so far :)
 
Thanks, ecky!
Yeah I was thinking about this when I was driving back home tonight. I can't beat myself up every time I go to a party or visit someone or whatever and have a cake/candy/something unhealthy. I'm gonna focus on controlling the portion sizes. I just got back home from the town where I my friend is. Her mother cooked us a lovely dinner last night, and there was ice cream. I had a scoop, with chocolate, while I usually have way more. And know what? I didn't die ;) hehe
I also had some candy last night (finished it today actually). As soon as the weather gets a bit better, I'm gonna walk to a bridge 4.5 km from here and back. Right now it's way too dark and way too windy for it, hopefully it gets better tomorrow :)
 
I've probably gained that kilo back, and some more. I haven't checked. The last few days have been a bit chaotic, what with visiting people who offer me food :)P ) and then constant stress because of uni. Tomorrow I'm going to the city to stay with my parents for a week and work on a huge project that's due in 9 days. It's hectic and freaking me out. Good thing about going to the city is that I'll have an access to a treadmill at my parent's house, bad thing is that there are more temptations there.

I'm a bit frustrated, I don't feel as in control as I did a few days ago. I blame the project I'm working on. The teacher is really inadequate, so he's not much help. This would be easier if I was actually learning anything at uni. The students are pretty much on their own in this case. I've got a good partner on this, thankfully!
 
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