Byebye Big Bum!

wow!
Thanks for pointing it out Tigs, I didn't even notice...although I did read your post the other day when you hit your 1000 and I rememebr thinking oooh I bet I'm nowhere near there! LOL.

hmmm my 1001th post...better make it a GREAT ONE!

Ok, well, 1000 posts ago, I didn't think I'd be here, like I don't know, some 55-60lbs lighter. Its just over a year and there's no going back. A year of achievements :D

- I love how losing weight makes me feel and how nice it is to go and pick from a load of clothes, the majority of which look good, so I just buy the ones that look great...rather than try on 20 outfits and end up getting the only one that looks ok...for the weight I am...

- I love that I became runny - that I can just throw on some trainers and run 5 miles...like that...no worries...even when I haven't been running for 4 weeks. I NEVER thought I'd be runny.

- I love that I'm not afraid to walk around in a vest top...ok so I don't look HAWT just yet, but I'm not ashamed of how I look any more!

- I love that I got myself into a position where I can just pick up the phone to Mr X and have a chat...thinking back to a year ago, when I was really worried that I'd have no reason to keep in touch with him and that I might never see him again?! Definitely not the case now. Oh, and did I mention theres a new guy at work that looks like X but 10 years younger? Not the same as the original I know, but I'm not complaining (I caught him at the coffee machine yesterday staring at me whilst I was working!! w00t! Gotta have someone to look good for every day ;) )

- I love getting rid of all my old jumbo clothes and fitting into some old favourites that I haven't worn in years. That was cool :D

- most of all, I think I am learning to love being me again :D

This year has been pretty darn good. Roll on the next 1000 posts!
 
What a cool idea to review all your great accomplishments over the last year! Very inspirational!

I might have to copy your idea....
 
i have so much catching up to do with your diary jjjay! I just read the mr X update and the teeth whitening thing. If you're still curious, I had a boss that did it and it made her teeth sensitive but that feeling went away in a short time...like a few days or a week I think and then she started drinking coffee again LOL crazy!
 
I like your list and can apply most of them to me. Except for the Mr X bit ;)
I saw that Tig is now a senior member as well and it didn't even occur to me that I might be but it seems I have been for ages. I always did talk too much. I still think of myself as a newbie round here but of course I'm not.
I hope that you are feeling better now. I'm going to make a point of posting more again once I get back from my little break.
 
hey guys!

Thanks Jennifer, that's very nice of you to say! I try to get up with a smile each day and enjoy things as they come...but today I have a stinking cold!!!

So update-wise. Not great this weekend - ill and staying at friends on Friday and Saturday night so wine and chocolate, plus lunch out on Saturday. I think I was around 2,500 cals each day but did a fair few miles walking on Sat (around the biggest shopping centre ever!! LOL). I bought a georgeous dress - its like a grey wool with long sleeves and a red and black decorative print - hugs in all the right places and come down to just above the knees. I've always wanted a dress just like it and I finally found one that fitted and looked great! I need to lose another centimetre or so on my upper arms as its slightly too tight there but it will be fine. Gosh, wearing dresses and skirts...this really is a life-transformation!

185 this morning but this week is the week I start running...and exercise DVDs...the diet was going fine (until this weekend) so need to get the exercise bit in there too as I'm eating 1200-1400 cals most days so should start moving downwards.

Had a really long chat with X on Friday - it was very very nice. He is mega busy, as am I so I'm not reading too much into him not replying to my email - he probably doesn't trust himself to meet me casually and still keep those professional boundaries! He was super-chatty and friendly and jokey and flirty. It was back to being quite an intimate conversation - definately not a rapport that I have with anyone else in a work situation and I'm absolutely sure that is even more so true for him in his position i.e. that he doesn't speak to others people like me like this. He was also ill and was telling me about lying awake in bed not able to sleep the night before (see what I mean?!?). I was teasing him about stuff and he said I was being mean to him...it was all along those kind of lines - just nice little intimate bits and also teasing jokey bits. We're meeting (on official business) in a month's time at my offices, although he will have to bring a colleague with him so it won't be the same as us chatting over coffee or over the phone. At the end of the call I couldn't remember this other thing I needed to discuss with him, so he said "well, when you remember, just call me back, I'm here until...." - he's such a sweetie, we'd been talking nearly an hour by that stage...and he wanted me to phone back later!

SO...I now have two targets - in a month's time for this meeting...I want to look H-H-H-HOT and this 10km race in May time. It all equals just one thing...time to get SERIOUS!

And on that note, I'm off as I have shedloads of work to do today - big legal deadline so once this day is over I will feel SOooooooo much better!
 
Good luck on meeting your deadline jjjay :) Hope everything goes well and I hope you feel better soon!
 
Is the 10K for a charity benefit of some sort? I've been thinking of looking into something like that around here - might give me something to work towards. I feel like I'm just floundering around with no real goal in mind lately, and it makes it hard to stay on track.

Hope your day goes well and that you can relax after it's over!
 
Yeah, its a 10km charity run - for a big cancer hospital near by so a very worthy cause. My company "team" has around 50 people running in it so lots of cameraderie and we just have one big sponsorship page on justgiving so less pressure to get lots of people to sign up for YOU personally, if that makes sense? I'd almost just rather give the money myself - I always feel awkward asking people for sponsorship.

Well, my big legal report got submitted in time...just...7pm on the day of the deadline! Nevermind! Things havent' calmed down though - just as busy yesterday and today. I don't know what to do as I can't keep working at this pace. Going to be so busy in the next 4 weeks for another deadline that I think I am going to have to ask X to rearrange our meeting for another time.

Food - great on Monday, 1100 cals over all. Yesterday was a bit worse as I ate out at lunch and dinner but tried to make the best choices in the circumstances at dinner as I hadn't done so at lunch!
breakfast bagel with cheese - 400 cals
apple crisps - 75 cals
grapes - 50 cals
lunch - gyoza dumplings starter and (very small portion of) Pad Thai - 800 cals?
dinner - small started of hallomi (200 cals), 1/2 pitta bread (80 cals), grilled chicken and lamb, no sides (500 cals), one small glass of wine (200 cals) = 980 cals
Overall -2300 cals

Anyway, around 184lbs at the moment. Feeling ok though.
 
Glad to hear that you got everything in on time :) OMG your food looks so good lol I've never had halloumi! Sorry to hear that you may have to change your meeting with Mr. X and also that you are so busy. I totally understand how that can be, and 4 weeks is a long time, but at least there's an end in sight :) Keep up the good work jjjay! You're doing fantastic with all what you have going on.
 
I'm amazed that you aren't too stressed to ever have time to worry about food and exercise. I'm starting a real big weight loss push as from today so we can do this together. I can't wait to get running again.
 
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Sounds like things will be pretty insane for you for the next month or so. We'll be here cheering you on helping you to stay on track with food and exercise!

Go Jay go! You can do it!!!

(just be careful that you don't work so hard that you get burned out)
 
hey guys, thanks for all of the encourgement. I do feel a bit like I am running on adrenalin at the moment - not sure how long I can keep this pace up for!! I haven't got much time for exercise at all, but am trying to be good on the food front to at least stay the same weight or lose a little bit.

I had a meeting today with my new "coach" at work and he said that he thinks I am already performing at the grade above which I am currently (and I only got promoted last summer...!) so I was really pleased - all good signs for going for promotion next year when it usually takes at least 4-5 years at this grade to move up to the next one and I could do it in 2! Also bodes well for getting a top rating this year (my coach decides this and represents my case with the senior partners) - which would mean like a 10% bonus :D woot!

What else? ooooh I discovered who new "cute guy who looks like younger mr X" is...and messaged him at work (we have like an instant messanger thing) and he's meeting me for coffee tomorrow...hahaha... I am INCOURAGIBLE!!! Well, actually, its with a couple of other people too...not just like me and him, but I invited him along to our monthly get together as he is new to the firm and he was really pleased I asked him. We talked via messenger for a while but I'm not sure if he knows the girl that he smiles at when he goes to the vending machine is the one that messaged him!! I Unless he has gone off and found out my name. I got up today to make a cup of tea when he went to the machine and he look up and gave me the most dazzling nicest smile..hehe

I shall pretend tomorrow to not know what he looks like and that I didn't know who I was inviting i.e. which guy he was..just that I knew the name and that he was new.

ZOMG. By losing weight I have unleased the inner jezebel! I shall have to learn how to BEHAVE!!! LOL! So, what shall we call new cute guy younger Mr X..he needs a nickname!!

What else? Food ok today..here and there...

toasted cheese and tomato sandwich on brown bread - 400 cals
veg pot meal - 380 cals
potato snacks - 125 cals
apple crisps - 75 cals
spinach cannoloni - 385 cals
cups of tea - 45 cals
very small piece of my friend's homemade cake - 200 cals?

Total = 1610

Still way below my maintenance cals amount of like 2400 cals but the running is the key! Ecky, you are right, we got to get back on the wagon and PUSH!

Xenon, you have to buy some (you can get reduced fat halloumi) and grill it - it is the NICEST thing in the world - thinly sliced and under the grill til it starts going crispy.
 
Maybe he should be Mr Y? People called my generation the generation X, but the generation after me I've heard referred to as generation Y.

What ever you decide to call him doesn't matter - you know the whole a rose by any other name would smell as sweet type thing - we just want to hear ALL ABOUT HIM!!!!
 
Tig - I was thinking the same thing....Mr. Y.

jjjay - I don't know how you keep pace with so much work. I used to be that dedicated....but my other half put a stop to that early on in our relationship...and I am grateful for it.

I like reading about your inner jezabel being released.....please, don't BEHAVE....save that for us married gals.
 
I am shocked, Miss Jay! Look at you flirting and being all temptress like! You would not have been doing this 6 months ago! Your posts make me happy :) Hope you're not too stressed--My diet seems like it's on a permanent break right now with how busy I am--Nice to see you still logging and doing well :grouphug:
 
Oooh a new Mr X :)
Yeah I agree, it should be Mr Y :)

Glad you've found all this confidence, you're stunning woman it's about time you realised!! xx
 
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