Byebye Big Bum!

I don't think that it's a bad thing that Mr X sees an old photo as he will really be able to appreciate how much weight you have lost. Definitely sounds as though he is very interested in getting to know you better but as you say might be scared to make more of a move in case he is reading it all wrong and ruins a good business relationship.
I get lots of people commenting on my weight loss lately as well. It's great for your confidence. :)
 
Just a quick post - just did a 4.3 mile (nearly 7 km) run down to the lake - my first in soooo many weeks as I've been ill and then was on holiday before that. It was ok - I was much slower than before and stopped halfway round at the cafe for a drink but I ran steadily other than that and my new heart rate monitor watch showed me ranging from 155 bpm to 210 bpm so a good workout I think all in all. Mapmyrun says over 500 cals burnt.

I'd really recommend one of these heart rate things - mine is a cheap karrimor running watch with a chest strap which is suprisingly not uncomfortable. I don't even realise I am wearing it as it sits just underneath my bra strap. It definitely pushed me to try and pick up my pace when my heart rate dropped too much. I thought only the really expensive ones would work well so I've just been running so far with the watch for the timer function and not using the heart rate strap. Never again will I leave it behind!

However, I really really enjoyed the run - I have missed just churning stuff over and over in my head. Thought through some stuff and feel well exercised and more at peace with the world!
 
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Hi Jay, I've been toying with getting one. Is this the one?

Well done on getting back into the running. I've ran a couple of time in the last week but only a couple of kms. I love that feeling that your are saying of sorting things out in your head as you run.
LOL was just thinking that now that I've posted that link anybody reading this thread might start bidding against me :)
 
Yup that's exactly the same one Ecky, I think I paid about £20 for mine in a sale reduced from a fair bit more - you can edit the link out now I've seen it!! LOL! You do need the instruction booklet to work it out but once I had understood it, its simple to use now - I can always explain it if it doesn't make sense!

I meant to say before - I'm not THAT upset about the photo! I guess he's seen me looking like that before as he knew me (but not well) when it was taken. I do know that I look SO much better now though - my friends at work put it like "It looks like your real face is a bit lost in the photo compared to how you look now" i.e. hidden by the fat I think!

Yeah, although its very nice to feel wellworked out and have that achy but well-used feeling in my limbs, its the mental effects of a good run that I ABSOLUTELY love. All I did today in my hour was think about this article I am writing, plan my call next week, daydream a bit, think about some friends and family - you know, just dissect the last couple of days and THINK ABOUT STUFF...I never get the time or space to do this in normal life - there's always something to be done. This is one of the reasons why I'm not sure that I'd like running with somone else - I think it would disrupt my "sifting through life's rubbish" rhythm!!!
 
Hi Jay! Thanks for stopping by my diary.

I wish I was as good as you at running! Seven km is almost impossible for me right now! But I do relate to the thinking-things-through-feeling you get while running!
 
Good luck! Hopefully you'll pick up a bargain!

Ok, today...

Food:
Breakfast - 2 slices of low fat chicken before my run and a couple of pieces of grilled chicken from last night (150 cals)
Small cheese and tomato oatcake half way through my run! - 180 cals
4 cups of tea - 40 cals
Chocolate/sweets - 300 cals
Small minute steak ciabatta for lunch - 500 cals
Low cal rehydrate drink - 50 cals
Low fat/low cal ww meal - 330 cals

Total - 1550 cals

7km run - (509) cals plus walking around town for half an hour

So all in all, a well balanced day I think even if I did eat some sweets!

OOOOH IT'S SO NICE TO BE RUNNING AGAIN!!! And amazingly, although one of my hamstrings feels a little tight, I don't feel completely dreadful or like I've overdone things. Although I was FAR slower than my normal pace - I think I was running at like 6km per hour average, when I am normall over 7kph (not a fast runner anyway to be honest...must work on shorter distances at higher pace).

It seems very quiet on the boards this weekend - or is this just me? Lots of the regulars disappeared in the last month whilst I've not been around so much?!
 
I've been missing a couple of people who stopped posting :( Although some of the people that posted when I joined in Jan have been gone since March or so and none of my pleading and poking seems to be persuading them back! Guess life gets in the way! Know that's how it got for me..When you stop posting every day you get out of the habit of keeping track, I suppose.

Well done on the running, Jay. I can't even run a mile despite being quite fit in other ways! I used to be a cross country runner at school when I was like 14 but I've lost it :(
 
Yeah, me too Sunflower - a couple of the guys I first "met" on here - Xenon and Bedsy are not really around (Xenon pops in every now and then but Bedsy is offsky!). Funny to miss people that you only knew in this context, but I guess if they gave you the support right at the start when you needed it most, then you feel grateful to them. :cheers2:

As for the running - I never thought I'd be ever able to do this much - I couldn't run for 60 seconds when I started out and I just built it up really slowly. The big milestone was running beyond 10 mins...then 12 mins or 15 or 20 mins...didn't seem to make much of a difference - just affected how knackered I felt at the end, rather than hitting a point when I literally COULDN'T run any more. I am slow though. I mean like 45-50 mins for 5km when the norm I think is like 35 mins. So 6km per hour kind of speed for me in treadmill talk.

So today has been not very good from a food point of view (but could have been far far worse I guess) - went out to dinner with my cousin and her family:

Food:

Breakfast - 2 slices of low fat ham, 2 toasted tea cakes (42 + 165 x 2 = 372 cals)
4 cups of tea - 40 cals
1 pack of potato snacks - 97 cals
Small amount of chocolate - 150 cals
Chicken breast in BBQ sauce with bacon and chips :ack2: (I'm just going to say 1000 cals and leave it at that)
1/2 rubarb crumble and custard (250 cals)
Dinner - low fat/low cal moussaka ready meal - 230 cals (my penance!!)

Total - 2139

But on the upside, I did get up at 8am and went for a walk (more than 5 km) at a fairly speedy pace with my mum this morning - so around 350 cals burnt.

So on that basis, I don't feel like it was the worse day ever in the world...but equally I could have eaten a lot less. Ironically (and I always try to tell myself this after a bit of a high cal day)...its NOTHIGN compared to what I would have eaten on a daily basis a while ago - I mean, this would be a low cal day back in those days!

Got to go up north to another city tomorrow (right near where Mr X works and where I meet him, when we meet...), plus I know he's out of the office tomorrow too and will have to come through the same central station as I'll be arriving/departing at...who knows...we might bump into each other...so I am making sure I look nice just incase!! Am getting a bit nervous now preparing for our call this week - it should be good fun though, and I know he is INTRIGUED as I wouldn't go into detail as to what we'd be debating. I don't think he is going to agree and allow me to do what I am proposing to do technically...but we'll have fun getting to that point :D

Been buying a few pairs of new shoes on ebay today - I'm now able to wear "less sensible" heels and switch from cuban / kitten heels for work, to proper nice stilletos and such like!! Far more sexy struttin' my stuff!! Its quite cool because i now easily fit into any size 7, whereas before losing so much weight, I was a size 8 most of the time on my toes/width but wouldnt know whether a shoe would be too long in the foot for me - i.e. not too tight but a gap at the heel. Now, obviously, even my feet have lost weight!!! So I can buy shoes on ebay knowing they will most likely fit, plus less pressure on my feet and I can wear heels all day without dying in a heap of pain. W00H00!

Off to do my abs dvd again - surely this should start getting easier at some point?!! hehe.
 
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I missed out on the heart monitor. I was too busy watching X factor and forgot to do a last minute bid. It went up to 16 pounds anyway so with postage to Spain wouldn't have been much of a bargain.
I can't believe how much I miss and worry about people that stop posting, especially when they have mentioned some sort of personal or health problem just before they stop.
Would be fun if you bumped into Mr x while you are in his area.:)
 
That's a shame Ecky - hopefully another one will come along on ebay soon!

I worry about people too - mostly because they came here because they needed to lose weight and if they stopped coming, its probably because they gave up on the weight loss and didn't want to be reminded of the whole thing...so I kind of want to say "come back! we'll support you!"

As for Mr X...who knows!! LOL...stranger things have happened. He has to change trains there to go anywhere pretty much...
 
okey dokey!

Busy old day today so not a great amount of time for eating!

Food:

Wholemeal toasted bagel - 240 cals
skinny latte - 75 cals
small bowl of steak and ale stew with brown bread - (goodness it was a very small and watery bowl too with only two pieces of meat in it - big disappointment) - 400 cals (at the very very most)
skinny latte - 75 cals
chocolate - 205 cals
low cal ham sandwich - 215 cals
low cal/low fat chicken noodle meal - 357 cals

Total - 1567

30 mins of fast walking today to and from the station

What else? OOoh exciting call tomorrow...funny isn't it..how you can look forward to something so little!
 
Hope your call goes well! And I think it would be awesome if you ran into Mr X! He could see how much you've changed and how smokin' you are looking these days!

I know what you guys mean about missing people that stop posting. I always wonder if something bad happened to them, how would we ever know??? We just assume they gave up on the healthy lifestyle (at least that's what I do).

I'm so glad getting back into running is going so well for you. It's funny because I remember a time when I could never have pictured myself running. And now I can't picture myself NOT ever running again!
 
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:D Looking forward to hearing all about it.
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heheh yeah I've been doing my technical prep all morning and he's been left wondering all weekend what we are talking about!

Off for a long run at lunch time to clear my head and then I'll call.

Didn't bump into anyone yesterday! LOL - but at least it made me get myself dressed up and looking smart! I'm not sure how much I've changed in the last couple of months - I think I am around 4-5lbs lighter but not much more. A bit tanned, healthier looking in terms of toning and no spots is about it (this new clearing gel treatment I've been using is fantastic)

I know exactly what you mean Tig, I can't imagine not being runny. Heck, I even take my running gear with me now when I go away for work and stuff...it feels weird if I am not running for more than a couple of days.
 
5km done and dusted this lunchtime - not in bad time either given how slow and coughy I've been lately.

and...OH...he's so lovely!
 
Awesome that running seems natural to you now. I am now up to 15 minutes of running at a time. I never thought that would be possible Tomorrow morning, I'm going for 17. Hope you call goes well!
 
I'm sure yuo can do it nyoyabl!! Just put your watch away when you reach 15 mins and see how long you can hang on for without looking at the time...you'll be pleasantly suprised!

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and...OH...he's so lovely!
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Sorry, this was a brief comment on my call!! I called him a few minutes late and he snatched the phone up before it had even had a chance to ring more than once - a bit keen I think!

After a bit of telling each other about our weekends, we had a very business like chat. Then he said he'd come back to me later on this week. To be honest though, that he was considering what I was saying at all demonstrated that we have a good close relationship and so I didnt expect anything more and it would have been inappropriate for us to have been jokey - almost like I would have come across as trying to make him abuse his position.

He'd gone off right away to work on the matter....and then emailed me and called me again and this time we were a lot less serious and he'd actually come up with another way that might help me achieve what I was trying to argue. What a sweetie. We then had a much more "normal" conversation around lots of different non-work stuff. It was quite weird talking to him whilst I was at home rather than in the office - it felt far more personal.

Only another couple of weeks until we meet up for coffee most likely. Pah. Not doing too well on the weight-loss front. I feel like I am trying to slow and turn around a very slow moving tanker...I was heading in the weight gain direction after holiday and being ill for a month so no exercise.....I've got back into running and turned around any weight gain back down to 182-184lbs rather than heading upwards...but still frustrated that I'm not going down into the 170s... I'm just hoping that the increased exercise will start to have a knock on effect soon - always seems to take me 3-4 weeks to see results once I've been off for a while.

Food today:
cheese on toast - 400 cals
4 cups of tea - 40 cals
2 slices of ham - 42 cals
WW meal - 320 cals
pack of potato snack - 99 cals
2 rich tea biscuits - 76 cals
fish (took all the batter off) and chips with mushy peas - usually 600 cals for the whole thing, I'm saying 500 without the batter...

Total - 1477

Ran 5km - so around 350 cals, plus walked to pick my daughter up from school there and back (car was in for a service today) - 1.2 miles so not much but another 100 cals or so burnt. So total exercise today (450 cals) - add to calories eaten and I'm happy with the overall effect today.
 
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HEY!!!!
How have you been??? It's nice and late and I have to be up early tomorrow so don't have time to look through your posts. Will try catch up soon though!

Strange you should have posts on the page I decided to reappear on!!

Been up my neck of the woods then? :p Seen the travellers I was on about? They're in the train station car park now!

Sorry I've abandoned you all! I'm not back properly, but I'm gunna start a new thread now and explain all!

Great that you've got all runny again, especially as you've been ill by the sounds of it. Probably the thing thats been going round up here.

redpiggy xx
 
HELLOOOOO!!! Have left you a nice long post on your new thread! Nope, not been to the delights of up north just yet...but will soon...travellers in the station carpark? Goodness me - I will mention that in my next conversation!

183lbs this morning and back to feeling toned and stretched which is really nice compared to the flobby feeling I've had recently. Roll on running and abs dvd and weightloss! I'm feeling in a POSITIVELY POSITIVE MOOD this morning!
 
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