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Peepop

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So, I don't fancy writing down 'my story' so to speak (at this present time anyway) but it's hit me that I now appear to be at a time in my life when I feel that to move on with everything, I really need to lose weight. It's holding me back in many different ways and although I've always appeared happy with myself, the reality is I'm not and I know the only way I can be is to lose weight.

17/3/08
Yesterday was a good day, I didn't really think about food that much, mainly because I went shopping in the morning and then worked from 3pm-11pm so I didn't really have the opportunity to think about it and the food that I did eat was necessary to 'keep me going' (I eat when I'm bored, I know I associate food with far too many emotions and am now trying to re-educated myself with the whole 'food is your body's fuel, and that's it' kinda thing.) One of the girls at work also said 'You look well skinny today' which was a nice boost.

I'll post some more later, I've haven't really talked about how I feel about my weight/image since I was in my early teens (I'm now 19) and it's quite theraputic.

Feel free to say hi, etc. :blush5:

breakfast: 1 piece of seeded toast w/ reduced fat peanut butter
lunch: baked potato w/ chilli & salad.
tea: bowl of minestrone soup, 1 piece of seeded toast, bowl of fruit salad n activia yogurt.
snacks: tiny square of galaxy chocolate.
 
welcome to your diary... and to the site...

How much weight are you intending to lose and what are your current stats?

Is that all you ate yesterday? depending on portion sizes, that could be a bit low... you might wantt o get yourself an account at to keep track of your calories...
 
Okay, so I've dithered about for long enough and this is really it. I need to do this for myself.

I'm 5ft6, and currently weigh 224lb. I'm 19, so hopefully I won't be left with a load of saggy skin. I'm in this for the long haul now - it's far too easy for me to just carry on and pretend that one day I'll wake-up and I'll have lost 6 stone but in reality, it's not going to happen, so this is it.

I'd like to have lost a small amount of weight before the time I go away in August (any suggestions as to what a realistic amount of weight to lose before then would be greatly appreciated) I want to do this properly.

After all that 'I want to do this, etc.' talk, I'm rubbish at being really good for a stint of say, a month and then slowly reverting back to my old habits. Anyone that would like to offer support (I've noticed there's a lot of you around) would be a good thing.

This is the first time I've ever wrote down my weight and height and actually thought properly about how I'm gonna shift this weight and hopefully be happier/healthier in the process. :blush5:

The daily food diary for today is;
28/5/08
B: wholemeal finger roll with small slice of cheese, cherry alpro soy yoghurt.
L: small chicken breast with grilled peppers, onions and couscous.
D: 65g wholewheat pasta and small amount of bolognese sauce. another alpro soya yogurt with half a pineapple.
Sn: apple, 1 square of green & blacks dark chocolate.
Dr: loads of water, 1 coffee, 1 skinny cappucino, 1 oj.
Ex: walk around town and small amount of housework (yay for hoovering.)
 
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I'd like to have lost a small amount of weight before the time I go away in August (any suggestions as to what a realistic amount of weight to lose before then would be greatly appreciated) I want to do this properly.
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If you're paying attention to what you're eating and exercising moderately (not killing yourself or starving yourself) 1 percent of your body weight a week is a reasonable expectation...

It's entirely possible you'd be below 200 by then - but - whereevere you are - you'll be a lot closer than you are today..
 
Hi :)

I had the same goal - lose a bit of weight before my summer holiday :D I started abt 6 weeks ago at 248lbs and i have lost 18lbs so far - abt 3lbs per week...and that includes a really bad week when i gained a freaky 4lbs then lost it the next week! Everyone loses at different rates but Mal is right when she says 1% is realistic per week. You would be under 200 by the time you leave :) I would love that but think i will manage to get myself to abt 218 ish...much better than when i started tho!

Good luck on your weightloss journey, this is a great place to come for support :biggrinjester:
 
200lb itself would be amazing! Thanks for the encouraging words guys. :biggrinjester:

I'm feeling really positive today, just had a really good driving lesson where I feel as if I'm actually moving somewhere now with that as well as the new healthier life style. I also find that when I'm eating foods that are good for me e.g. more wholegrains, vegetables, more water, etc. that I sleep a lot better too.

I'll post later my food diary for the day. Hope you're all well. :]
 
Well, lots of walking today. My friend and I went in town and walked for ages, uphill too. Shocker. I really can't wait until I can finally drive, then the gym shall be mine. I'd also like to get back into swimming as I used to love it (and without being big headed, I used to be quite good at it.)

So, daily food is;

29/5/08
B: bowl of sugar-free alpen with sem-skimmed milk, banana
L: baked potato with beans and side salad.
D: roast chicken (no skin!), 3 new potatoes, heaps of broccoli, 3 mushrooms and combination of mixed peppers & onions. alpro yogurt & half a pineapple.
Sn: 1 square of green & blacks dark chocolate, apple, 7 tiny pieces of satay chicken & a piece of wholemeal toast with l/fat peanut butter.
Dr: loadsa water, 1 oj, 1 coffee, 1 small bottle diet coke.
 
Well, I'm still sticking to it but back at work now so I've less time to update. It's currently that time of the month so I'm not expecting to see a lot of difference on the scales.
Off to have a cup of coffee now and then have a go at Davina's Power Of 3 Work-Out video. :]
 
Meh. Does anyone 'get' this BMR thing? I've lost like... 1lb this week and really feel I need to up my game so any help re. calories and such e.g. how many I need to eat to lose weight rather than maintaining would be great, thanks. :]
 
I'm back again but this time it's seriously for the long-haul. I've faced a lot of demons recently, issues with my self-esteem and have also stopped smoking but I've saved the biggest hill to climb until last... My weight!


Thankfully I've only put on 2/3lb but I think that's down to it being the TOTM and maybe a bit of over-eating due to stopping the dreaded cigarettes.

Any support would be really great, I'm easily motivated in the beginning but just need to keep the momentum going. There's so much inspiration on this forum that I'm hoping with that and a bit of will-power, I'll start to see some results. :D:blush5:
 
So yesterday was going really well until I ate a stupid amount of garlic bread.

B: 2 weetabix with s/s milk, 1 tsp sugar, 1 glass OJ
S: Banana
L: Cottage pie w/ mixed veg
T: 2 pieces of toast, small tin of spaghetti hoops, apple, yogurt & seed flapjack
S: Almost 1/3 baguette of garlic bread :eek:
Dr: 1 mug of skinny hot chocolate, 2 mugs of tea with 2 tsp sugar each

Today's been a bit stupid, I was in a really good mood until I failed my driving test for the second time - 3 minors less and I would've passed. :cry: Anyway, this resulted in me meeting up with a friend for lunch at Prezzo's and eating foods that I know aren't particularly good for me - this hit me when eating my main course and I ended up leaving half of it due to guilt/not wanting about it once I'd thought about it. So, today's been as follows;

B: 2 weetabix with s/s milk, 1 tsp sugar, 1 glass OJ, 1 x toast
L: garlic bread with a blob of mozerella and half a big bowl of linguine carbonara. :(

It's annoying 'coz it's pretty damn obvious to me now that the reason I wanted to eat crappy food was because I was in a crappy mood.

Oh well, we live and learn. I'm going to eat something light for tea to hopefully make up for lunch-time and then start again tomorrow.
 
Hey! are you still wondering about BMR? I just calculated mine, so here's how you do it:

655+ (4.35 x your weight in lbs) + (4.7 x your height in inches) - (4.7 x your age)

This is how many calories per day your body burns just by...well, being a body. Technically, eating fewer calories than this will result in weight loss. But to give yourself more freedom, you can figure out how many calories are burned in exercises you do (FitDay is great for this) and then add that on top of the BMR. That's how many cals you'll have burnt in that day.

Just always make sure you're not TOO few calories. It won't help at all!

Good luck!! hope to hear more soon
 
Today's been a lot better, really. I'm also feeling generally happier as have been moved onto Step 2 of nicotine patches by my stopping-smoking advisor.

B: 2 x wholemeal toast with scraping of butter & marmite, 1 glass OJ
L: Ham sandwich on wholemeal bread, 2 pickled onions, l/fat hazelnut yogurt, apple.
T: (Yet to see.)
Dr: 2 mugs of hot Ribena, 2 cups of tea with 2tsp sugar - boo!

Too many carbs, oui?! :blush5:


I'm going out to an Indian restaraunt with a few friends for tea so have been looking up healthy choices e.g. avoiding creamy sauces, biryani etc.

Hope you're all feeling motivated and well.:biggrinjester:

Ooh, PS. Thanks for the message tinysara, I managed to find out my BMR on a website the other day but that information on how to work it out is also really useful!
 
Tomorrow is a new day, I'm going to go for a walk for atleast half an hour. I'm going to eat atleast 5 portions of fruit and vegetables.

(There's so many bad points I could focus on right now but I'm moving forwards with it.)
 
Well, today's been a little better but I haven't had enough fruit or vegetables - hopefully gonna sort this out by having something nutritious later on. Fruit smoothie perhaps.

Brunch - 11am: 1 grilled sausage, 2 baked hash browns, tbsp baked beans, 1 piece grilled bacon, 1 piece toast & large flat mushroom.

Tea - Bowl of homemade tomato soup & two pieces of granary bread

My mood's also been a bit rubbish of late, partly down to changing nicotine levels on the patches e.g. I was on 21mg and I'm now on 14mg - I know I can conquer this I've just got to hang in there.

Back to work tomorrow so here's hoping that'll keep me busy and my motivation will keep flowing. :grouphug: - Haha, that reminds me of the Power Rangers.
 
So it's almost nice to be back at work - I'm lost without routine and consequently it appears I need routine to eat at least half properly.

Today's food intake looks a bit like this;

B: 6am, before work: 1 piece of white toast with l/f peanut butter
10am, break at work: two weetabix with s/s milk & 1 tsp sugar
L: 1pm: Bowl of chicken muligitawny (sp?) soup, brown sub roll with l/f peanut butter
T: 7pm: Large bowl of chicken jambalaya including peppers, onions, chicken, chorizo and rice.
Sn: Apricot low fat yogurt, 25g seeded flapjack, small big of crisps, two flumps - oh deaar.

A serious amount of unnecessary snacking, but atleast I've been really active today at work. More exercise tomorrow though. :piggy:
 
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