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raevan_sky

raevan_sky

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How many times have I said to myself (and others) - Yeah.. today's the day.. it's DIET TIME... i'm NOT going to eat the cake I have in my fridge.. I'm NOT going to buy that chocolate... ...

You know what I end up doing?

I'll eat at LEAST a quarter of the cake..
I'll buy the chocolate... and the chips... and the ice-cream... and then I'll binge.

Let's try and change it for real this time... shall we?
 
Monday, July 6th 2009

Gah! What a fail day!

yet - also a good day.... this is DAY 1! And i'm sharing it with you all! ^_^
Hopefully this sharing will result in success, rather than dismal failure as is the normal result of my attempts at lifestyle changes.

So - lets get this started... Let me explain the whole idea about the unhealthy lifestyle I've lead up to this point...

My name is Anna... and I tend to fluctuate +10 / - 10 Kg's every few months or so... and never under any form of control. This usually just kind of "jumps" at me.. and I'm either depressed or thrilled about it.

As you may have already guessed.. I've been gaining weight recently.. and currently weigh 68.7kg's.

I've had to pack away 3/4 of my wardrobe (all my pretty clothes are GONE!! :( ) and I'm stuck in my "fat jeans" and large black mainly unflattering T-shirts... feeling incredibly self-conscious whenever I step foot outside my apartment.

That "eathing" thing I did today:

Breakfast... TWO large ladle-fulls of oatmeal I made a while back... not a bad breakfast.. but I didn't really need to eat so much of it...
Snack.... My housemate handed me a slice of bread with chicken and mayo on it...
Lunch/Afternoon Tea: .. Chocolate cake... 1/4 of it.. Not a healthy lunch at allll!
Afternoon Snack: Housemate went to Macca's (McDonalds) and brought me back Large Fries... (BAD Anna.. BAD!)
Dinner: Cold Chicken wing.. small because I was feeling bad about what I'd eaten during the day... coupled with a mug of Ice-cream...

Drinks: 3 cans of Coke Zero...


So - summing all this up.. I've only decided to start this weight loss diary AFTER I'd consumed ALL that food... and I wish NOT to touch the remaining 1/2 a cake that remains in my fridge (Housemate at the other 1/4) ... and I'd like to make a conscious effort to include SOME FORM OF VEGETABLE >.< Into this "Diet" / "health" plan I'm haphhazardly trying to create.

This time.. I'd like to weightloss to be a result of the efforts I'VE put in... rather than odd luck what happens to occur within my life.

I'd like to add that today i've done NO exercise. None.. nada. I own a treadmill too.. an expensive one. I'll attempt to make an effort to use it more and get off my seemingly ever-expanding backside :) and I'm going to inform you ALL of my progress!!!

:3
Now.. I'm off to the fridge to fetch a carrot... :coolgleamA:
 
Hey Anna. Welcome and good for you for starting a journal and being accountable. That's a big step.

One thing I'd suggest is that you plan out your food for the day - either the night before or maybe on a weekly basis. At least at first.

Planning REALLY helps me a lot. I find that if I plan out everything I'm going to eat - including my snacks - I don't give in the urge to eat things like cake and chips and fries and so forth. If I don't plan, then I get hungry and I wind up going to the fridge and thinking ... ooh, look ... CAKE. :) And then I feel bad because I screwed up.

For example, last night I packed all my food for the day in snack bags and put it in the front of the fridge. This morning I had yogurt and blueberries. I already have a sliced up apple and a wedge of cheddar in a baggie in the fridge - so if I get hungry, I know that I HAVE to eat that. It's there and made. So I don't even give myself the opportunity to look at the cake. I have stir fry for lunch, already in a container in the fridge. And then I have a boiled egg and a can of tomato juice right next to it, so in the afternoon, if I get hungry again, that's what I have to eat.

And what I do is I promise myself that AFTER I eat my healthy snack, if I'm still hungry, I can have a piece of cake or some chips ... and usually after the healthy snack is gone, I realize I don't really want the junky stuff.

It seems like a lot of work, but it really only takes me about 20 mins each night to put together all my food for the next day and it's made a HUGE difference in how I eat.
 
Wow Kara! ^_^
Doing all that (even though you say it's not much) is pretty amazing, and I'm going to give it a good shot the next time I can get to the grocery store :3

It looks like you've got a good variety of things going on there as well. As a student, I find it hard to afford a lot of foods - but I'm probably not looking hard enough!

Thank you for the welcome and the support! :D
 
hiya ^_^

loved reading your posts, always nice to see someone who is motivated !

I know what you mean when you talk about setting a start date for a diet, but i don't know if this helps or not but personally i think of a diet as just really learning better habits, then just denying myself from certain foods.

although once you start eating healthy foods, you reap the rewards its awesome ^_^

1. You feel better !

2. Does wonders for the skin !

3. More energy during the day ! ( enough to use ! marks )

4. Helps you focus ( at least it does for me, i can personally think clearer now)

can't wait to read any new posts, thanks for sharing !
 
I just started this accountability thing too, so I was interested to read your thread... but why I am really posting is to offer a cheap recipe or two, and to vouch for Kara's suggestion about meal planning and setting yourself up for the week or the day. I'm a student with no money too, so I look for recipes that I can make that will get me through the week between my larger meals. It really changes everything. One good example is a Protein Pancake recipe a friend passed onto me, it's a Body for Life recipe. I make a batch of 24 and eat 2, twice per day, as two of my meals with a bottle of water. It's cheaper than buying yoghurt cups, for sure, and it doesn't take long.

Good luck with everything :)
 
o0o Michael - you're very right! I've felt better today than I have in the last few cake/junk inflicted days! - enough to use !!!! <---- That many (!)s! ^_^
Thinking... clearer... hmm... well as a Wimminz (Woman) in general I'm guessing we think pretty blurry on most things... but a lot of people here, such as Kara, alphafemale and yourself seem to have some key points crystallised! :D

alphafemale :p your protein pancake mix sounds pretty awesome XD - is there a link somewhere where I can take a looksie at how to make it? Atm I'm in the process of making more oat/muesli porridge. Thanks for the support! :D


TODAY'S SUCCESS! *Jumps with joy!*

Well today was WIN! I'm guessing this is mainly because it was proper day 1 - so I poured all my motivation into it - but I'm very happy with the progress!

I managed to push the rest of the cake in my fridge at my Housemate - who quite happily conquered it for me... and instead I started my day with a yogurt and a ~4km walk on my treadmill... (after I resurrected it from it's assumed position as "hat rack")
then had porridge for breakfast (a REASONABLE amount this time! wheee!)

Follow that with the following:
Snack: - small thingo of corn kernals.
Lunch: - Sandwich (ham/plastic cheese/lettuce/tomato/cucumber/snowpea/Rye bread)
Dinner: - Palm-full of chicken, 1 egg, salad (as in sandwich minus the ham/rye bread)

yay! :3

I'm happy... but keeping in mind also that I stayed HOME today... so it wasn't like I was out and about with friends having the tasty option of yummy foods available to me that I had to fight really hard about avoiding etc/making good choices...

>.< :p

I'm hoping that my friend won't bring over junk food tonight when we watch movies... it will be hard to resist.. I may have to nipple-cripple him or something to get over the urge to indulge :p

(I know some indulgence is good.. but i'll save it for a nicer occasion!)
I'm in the JULY challenge! >.< lets hope this Friday's weigh in shows LESS than 68.7! ^_~

Oh.. on a side note...
If anyone has seen the new Transformers 2 Movie...(SPOILER ALERT)... check out this link for some funnies about it... (DON'T CLICK IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT AND DON'T WANT IT SPOIT!!!)
 
Good for you. It sounds like you're doing well.

I thought I'd post this - I made a screen shot of it a while back for someone else. This is how I manage my meals each day. I plan my whole week on Sunday and type everything into an Excel spreadsheet. Then I make my shopping list from my plan.

Some weeks I eat the same thing over and over and over again and the list is easy to put together - takes me 10-15 mins. Some weeks I feel like cooking so I take some time to go through cookbooks or websites and pick out new recipes to try or whatever ... when I'm doing that it can take me an hour or more to put together my list, but a lot of times I do it on my laptop on the sofa, while I'm watching TV.

Anyway, here it is ...
 
wow - your spreadsheet looks extremely well organised :3 I plan to a certain degree, but nothing as planned out as that. Perhaps I should try it harder.

Ok - I haven't had much time to myself the last few days, and writing this thing isn't something I tend to want to do in front of other people I know here, so here's what's been happening over the last few days..

I've gone walking for ~4km every day, bar one where I instead managed ~2km... Been eating well enough - though did have a mini session with some cheezels and chocolate.. (however, I DID manage to give away 3/4 of the block to my housemate, whom appreciated it greatly).

Yesterday was mainly cornflakes, noodles and a couple of drinks at the hotel down the road.. so not sure how that will affect me.. but I had a great time none-the-less :p

I actually managed to LOSE weight over the last week or so... only 800g, but that's improvement I haven't seen in a while. Much nicer than going to the scales and always seeing it higher! :p

This morning I've only had cornflakes so far... i'm kinda out of food.. so a sandwich and noodles is on the menu again after my walkies ^_^

Hope you've all been well on your dietry missions!

baii baii ^_^
 
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