Byebye Big Bum!
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jjjay
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Thanks for teh post Amiba!! When I started, my bum was the thing I hated most but actually now, on some days, in the right trousers, in the right light, I actually catch myself looking at it in the mirror and wiggling it at myself going "YEAH!! LOOKING GOOOD!!!" I never though I'd be doing that!!
URGH I am really ill now!!! Mega sore throat - aparently I sound all seductive and husky on the phone...work have been taking the mickey out of me all day so tomorrow I am going to make lots of phone calls to men I want to sound sexy to hahahah!
Seriously though, i just want to feel back to normal so I can have some energy and go for a run and do stuff. BLAH! I was going to lie in bed tomorrow and recoperate but I have some important work meetings scheduled in now so I'm like hmmm if I can't take the day off then bugger it...I AM going to go sailing in the evenign to reward myself for crawling into work...why shouldn't I also get to have some fun. Will probably curse myself for doing it but BLAH I say again!!
Food good and bad today....did very well until I ran out of energy in the mid afternoon then ended up eating a chocolate bar...
1 english muffin with low fat spread - 150 cals
1 skinny latte - 75 cals
1 small cup of hot chocolate - 80 cals
1 chicken pho soup - 330
1 pack of potato snacks - 97 cals
1 chocolate bar (sigh) - 230 cals
2 very small slithery slices of cheese - 30 cals
4 mini meatballs (must stop eating my daughter's left overs!!) - 200 cals
Total - 1192
I might have a snack before bed time of a couple of hundred calories - maybe a plain grilled chicken breast or something...I feel very in need of protein today!
On the positive note, my size 16 work trousers are getting a bit loose! Plus the ring I usually wear that i sized down around 6 weeks ago is now getting loose again...a good indicator of weight going on my fingers! W00h00!
Can someone kick me up the ass every time I reach for that chocolate bar please?!? I just got to kick the habit! At least this illness has kind of killed off my appetite a bit though - I just want to drink really hot drinks to burn off the sore throat pain!
URGH I am really ill now!!! Mega sore throat - aparently I sound all seductive and husky on the phone...work have been taking the mickey out of me all day so tomorrow I am going to make lots of phone calls to men I want to sound sexy to hahahah!
Seriously though, i just want to feel back to normal so I can have some energy and go for a run and do stuff. BLAH! I was going to lie in bed tomorrow and recoperate but I have some important work meetings scheduled in now so I'm like hmmm if I can't take the day off then bugger it...I AM going to go sailing in the evenign to reward myself for crawling into work...why shouldn't I also get to have some fun. Will probably curse myself for doing it but BLAH I say again!!
Food good and bad today....did very well until I ran out of energy in the mid afternoon then ended up eating a chocolate bar...
1 english muffin with low fat spread - 150 cals
1 skinny latte - 75 cals
1 small cup of hot chocolate - 80 cals
1 chicken pho soup - 330
1 pack of potato snacks - 97 cals
1 chocolate bar (sigh) - 230 cals
2 very small slithery slices of cheese - 30 cals
4 mini meatballs (must stop eating my daughter's left overs!!) - 200 cals
Total - 1192
I might have a snack before bed time of a couple of hundred calories - maybe a plain grilled chicken breast or something...I feel very in need of protein today!
On the positive note, my size 16 work trousers are getting a bit loose! Plus the ring I usually wear that i sized down around 6 weeks ago is now getting loose again...a good indicator of weight going on my fingers! W00h00!
Can someone kick me up the ass every time I reach for that chocolate bar please?!? I just got to kick the habit! At least this illness has kind of killed off my appetite a bit though - I just want to drink really hot drinks to burn off the sore throat pain!
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jjjay
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heh. Its funny how your perception changes so quickly - like I was 185lbs on the scales tonight - my "heavy at the end of the day full of food and drink" weight....and my thoughts were pah. ok. I should be back down to 183 tomorrow morning...whereas just a couple of weeks ago I was over the moon to reach 185 first thing in the morning...
In fact, jeepers I remember 189 being the COOLEST number to get to...now I can't wait until 179 LOL. If you had told me 4 months ago how much my expectations of myself would shift...I wouldn't have believed you!
In fact, jeepers I remember 189 being the COOLEST number to get to...now I can't wait until 179 LOL. If you had told me 4 months ago how much my expectations of myself would shift...I wouldn't have believed you!
It's the same with the exercise. A couple of months ago I wouldn't have believed that I would ever run 4 kms now I'm dissapointed when the air con isn't working and that's all I can manage.
Sorry to hear that you aren't managing to get rested even though you are feeling poorly. Hope you're better soon.
Sorry to hear that you aren't managing to get rested even though you are feeling poorly. Hope you're better soon.
Sunflower2
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I'm totally Queen Of The Crumpets 
The ones I buy (in bulk, may I add) are 75 each! I have them with cream cheese sometimes as it's low-fat stuff! Or marmite. Mmmmm, marmite.
*sneaks off to dream of crumpets*
The ones I buy (in bulk, may I add) are 75 each! I have them with cream cheese sometimes as it's low-fat stuff! Or marmite. Mmmmm, marmite.*sneaks off to dream of crumpets*
Tigpuppy
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What I don't get are the times that you weigh before bed when you are full of food and drink, then get up in the morning, go to the bathroom, then step on the scale and you've gained 3 lbs during the night! 
Is is possible that the 8 oz chocolate bar I treated myself to turned into 3 lbs of blubber on my butt while I slept???
Is is possible that the 8 oz chocolate bar I treated myself to turned into 3 lbs of blubber on my butt while I slept???
jjjay
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heheh. I sit here eating my english muffin for breakfast (sorry guys the crumpets lost out to the muffins this morning)....I think I am starting to feel better..you know when you've had "the worst day of it" and are turning a corner? Hoping to actually get out for a run tomorrow or the weekend!
Food...not had a great appetite during the day but my parents cooked a BBQ for us last night so I felt I had to make an effort to eat...
Brekkie - toasted english muffin - 150 clas
2 cups of hot blackcurrent drink - 50 cals
1 chocolate bar - 240 cals
1 pack of potato snacks - 97 cals
1 apple - 60 cals
1 BBQ steak - approx 300 cals
1 BBQ skewer - approx 180 cals
Bit of bread - 100 cals
1/2 homemade burger - 120 cals
Few dry roasted potato wedged - 50 cals
Total - 1347
Back to 184lbs on the scales this morning so the 183 wasn't just a momentary blip...I am going down from 185 which is great - just a few more lbs til I'm under 13 stone and then out of the 180s. Tigpuppy, you are right - it is so weird how the scales go from one day to the next...I bought a really accurate pair of electronic scales but they are starting to give me two or three different weights so I have to stand on them 5 or 6 times until I start to get the same weight over and over again...hmmph...never more than 2-3lbs out but it makes all the difference!
I need to do another clothes clear out soon! Still clinging to a couple of size 18 tops that I really love but now getting a bit ridiculous to wear!
oh well, off to work...will try and avoid having a chocolate bar for lunch today!! Have a nice day everyone!
Food...not had a great appetite during the day but my parents cooked a BBQ for us last night so I felt I had to make an effort to eat...
Brekkie - toasted english muffin - 150 clas
2 cups of hot blackcurrent drink - 50 cals
1 chocolate bar - 240 cals
1 pack of potato snacks - 97 cals
1 apple - 60 cals
1 BBQ steak - approx 300 cals
1 BBQ skewer - approx 180 cals
Bit of bread - 100 cals
1/2 homemade burger - 120 cals
Few dry roasted potato wedged - 50 cals
Total - 1347
Back to 184lbs on the scales this morning so the 183 wasn't just a momentary blip...I am going down from 185 which is great - just a few more lbs til I'm under 13 stone and then out of the 180s. Tigpuppy, you are right - it is so weird how the scales go from one day to the next...I bought a really accurate pair of electronic scales but they are starting to give me two or three different weights so I have to stand on them 5 or 6 times until I start to get the same weight over and over again...hmmph...never more than 2-3lbs out but it makes all the difference!
I need to do another clothes clear out soon! Still clinging to a couple of size 18 tops that I really love but now getting a bit ridiculous to wear!
oh well, off to work...will try and avoid having a chocolate bar for lunch today!! Have a nice day everyone!
jjjay
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Things getting better - feeling like the worst of my illness has gone and i'm on the up. Good thing too as work has been SO busy that I just haven't been able to crawl into bed and take a day off even though I have been genuinely ill enough to do so!
The big boss came by yesterday to our office and I had a catch up with him - he usually rubs me up a bit the wrong way i.e. when I first told him of my good relationship with X from a commercial point of view his response was "why is X interested in networking with you? Is he after a job here?" and I was all like (in my head) "how rude! yes, someone might actually think I have something to say of value and if he wanted a job, he'd call you because he knows your number, but he doesn't call you, he calls me!" Of course I didn't say any of it!!
However yesterday he was lovely and said that he always enjoys coming to our office and me and my boss (the one below him) are always so happy and motivated and getting on with building our business in this region and positive and busy. This was lovely to hear! Lots of praise for my networking wth X's firm as well - the commerical value of this is starting to show in what I know that others don't!!
So being busy also has another good effect - I forget about eating during the day...I was even too busy yesterday to go down to Costa with some other managers for our monthly coffee and catchup - so that's another 100 cals saved!! On a busy day I literally eat breakfast at 6am then a low fat/low cal sandwhich or salad miday, a bit of fruit for a snack in teh afternoon adn then nothing until dinner time...I just forget to crave stuff...unless I am particuarly tired then I raid the chocolate vending machine to keep me going...
What else? BBQ left overs at mum and dad's last night..mmmm...I knew there was a good reason they moved into the same road as me! I was good though - only ate a reasonable portion.
Since I spoke to him last Friday, lines of communication with Mr X have been OPEN. heheh we've been exchanging emails since the beginning of the week - mostly non-work stuff which is very nice. He is definitely getting more into writing about stuff which isn't work related - a big step for him as he'll do that on the phone but before, not where someone could see it written down i.e. on his firm email.
Pah got to go to work now - client meetings galore...oh well, weekend will be here soon.
The big boss came by yesterday to our office and I had a catch up with him - he usually rubs me up a bit the wrong way i.e. when I first told him of my good relationship with X from a commercial point of view his response was "why is X interested in networking with you? Is he after a job here?" and I was all like (in my head) "how rude! yes, someone might actually think I have something to say of value and if he wanted a job, he'd call you because he knows your number, but he doesn't call you, he calls me!" Of course I didn't say any of it!!
However yesterday he was lovely and said that he always enjoys coming to our office and me and my boss (the one below him) are always so happy and motivated and getting on with building our business in this region and positive and busy. This was lovely to hear! Lots of praise for my networking wth X's firm as well - the commerical value of this is starting to show in what I know that others don't!!
So being busy also has another good effect - I forget about eating during the day...I was even too busy yesterday to go down to Costa with some other managers for our monthly coffee and catchup - so that's another 100 cals saved!! On a busy day I literally eat breakfast at 6am then a low fat/low cal sandwhich or salad miday, a bit of fruit for a snack in teh afternoon adn then nothing until dinner time...I just forget to crave stuff...unless I am particuarly tired then I raid the chocolate vending machine to keep me going...
What else? BBQ left overs at mum and dad's last night..mmmm...I knew there was a good reason they moved into the same road as me! I was good though - only ate a reasonable portion.
Since I spoke to him last Friday, lines of communication with Mr X have been OPEN. heheh we've been exchanging emails since the beginning of the week - mostly non-work stuff which is very nice. He is definitely getting more into writing about stuff which isn't work related - a big step for him as he'll do that on the phone but before, not where someone could see it written down i.e. on his firm email.
Pah got to go to work now - client meetings galore...oh well, weekend will be here soon.
Jjjay, I would be willing to bet money on it that you will never be fat again in your life. You have got this so cracked.
Mr X sounds as though he's starting to be very keen. I'll be interested to see how this all goes.
Looks like all aspects of your life are going great at the moment. I'm so happy for you.
Mr X sounds as though he's starting to be very keen. I'll be interested to see how this all goes.
Looks like all aspects of your life are going great at the moment. I'm so happy for you.
mizzie
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Glad to hear you are feeling better and that the weight loss is going great! Looks like we are neck in neck with our total loss, lol. Also glad to hear that work is going well, that makes a lot of difference. Work stress can so easily carry over into other areas. And here's to being too busy to snack! 
jjjay
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Thanks Eycky and Flumes!! Yep, life feels pretty darn great right now - looking good, feeling good..can't remember being this size for a long time...determined NEVER to go back!! Mr X is starting to forget some of his professional restraint (hahah I'm such a temptress!). Although to be fair, I've been dealing with one of his colleagues who seems to think I'm very nice and I think Mr X is a bit jealous that we are establishing a working relationship...so perhaps he's trying harder LOL...
Mizzie, lovely to see you back around - you've been gone a few days!! I'm going straight off to read your diary update! We might be neck and neck with total weight loss but I'd give my right-arm-fat (hahha added the fat bit on there!!) to be 165lbs!! I can't imagine what I'll look like physically with another 20lbs off - I just can't think what shape my legs will be or my stomach or my upper arms...you know? As in I can't imagine having thin shapely legs but then again, its got to go from somewhere...or from all over...Will have to wait and see!!
Food today:
brekkie - toasted muffin with low fat spread - 150 cals
skinny latte x 2 - 150 cals
shapers homous and peppers wrap - 270 cals
1/4 of a chicken brown bread sandwich - 100 cals
a few crisps - 50 cals
1 single small chocolate - 30 cals
apple - 50 cals
Hoovering up my daughter's last bit of a beef tortilla wrap - nowhere near 50 cals but I'm going to punish myself and put it down as this!
2 cups of tea - 20 cals
Total so far - 870 cals
Will have something a bit weightier for dinner I think to bump up the cals. Too busy to snack during the day
Had a really good day at work today - a client came in to see me who I was a bit nervous about as he'd phoned up and had a go at me on the phone last week but he brought a box of chocolates to apologise for it - what a sweetie! I had one and then put them out for everyone back in the office to share so I wouldn't be tempted to eat any more...
Plus I then rushed straight to another quite serious meeting where my opinion as a specialist was obviously really valued and I felt very important and valued.
Now its the weekend!!! Taking my daughter sailing for the first time tomorrow...should be interesting! I hope she likes it! Want to go out for a run too...and get some sleep!!
Mizzie, lovely to see you back around - you've been gone a few days!! I'm going straight off to read your diary update! We might be neck and neck with total weight loss but I'd give my right-arm-fat (hahha added the fat bit on there!!) to be 165lbs!! I can't imagine what I'll look like physically with another 20lbs off - I just can't think what shape my legs will be or my stomach or my upper arms...you know? As in I can't imagine having thin shapely legs but then again, its got to go from somewhere...or from all over...Will have to wait and see!!
Food today:
brekkie - toasted muffin with low fat spread - 150 cals
skinny latte x 2 - 150 cals
shapers homous and peppers wrap - 270 cals
1/4 of a chicken brown bread sandwich - 100 cals
a few crisps - 50 cals
1 single small chocolate - 30 cals
apple - 50 cals
Hoovering up my daughter's last bit of a beef tortilla wrap - nowhere near 50 cals but I'm going to punish myself and put it down as this!
2 cups of tea - 20 cals
Total so far - 870 cals
Will have something a bit weightier for dinner I think to bump up the cals. Too busy to snack during the day
Had a really good day at work today - a client came in to see me who I was a bit nervous about as he'd phoned up and had a go at me on the phone last week but he brought a box of chocolates to apologise for it - what a sweetie! I had one and then put them out for everyone back in the office to share so I wouldn't be tempted to eat any more...
Plus I then rushed straight to another quite serious meeting where my opinion as a specialist was obviously really valued and I felt very important and valued.
Now its the weekend!!! Taking my daughter sailing for the first time tomorrow...should be interesting! I hope she likes it! Want to go out for a run too...and get some sleep!!
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mizzie
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That made me giggle. I'd give my right arm fat (and the left) for... well, for nothing at all. Anyone want it? Slightly used arm fat for free! Don't worry, you'll get there. But you may have to give a bit of that arm fat to do it. Hope you don't mind. ^_~ I can't wait until I'm 150... and then 135. I know what I'll look like at 135, since that's what I weighed when I graduated high school, but I'm still really looking forward to it.
Glad work today went well also and have a fun time this weekend!
jjjay
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Thanks Amiba!! So am I! I still have a nasty cough but have my energy back which is great!I am so glad you are feeling better!!!
LOL!! Look hon, if anyone is giving away arm fat round here, and anyone wants it...I'm first in line!!! hehe. It must be going though, because I can now wear shirts and tops that were too tight on the arms a little while ago...it just doesn't feel like its going! Actually, just got the measuring tape out and I've lost 3/4 of an inch on my upper arms since I last checked, so guess they are getting smaller!!! I have a theory that all that tooing and frooing waving my arms whilst running, although it seems a really small movement, I am doing it constantly for 60 mins plus each run...so maybe that is toning them in a very small but consistent way?
You are right, I WILL GET THERE!! 182lbs this morning, so creeping down towards to teh 170s and under 13 stone, which was unthinkable only a little while back. I can't explain it...when I started this journey - both back in 2008 at 238lbs and again at the start of this year at 210lbs, 176 was my target - I COULD NOT CONCIEVE of being that weight. It seemed so far off and unobtainable and now I am thinking of what my next target should be. I just can't get my head round it - I have done it. I'm within half a stone of that target weight.
Thanks Eycky - I haven't decided if I want to make partner at my firm yet...it seems like you have to sell your entire life for at least 5 years to do it! I'm hoping sailing will be ok today ...she's not sure about going at the moment and I don't want to force it in any way.LOL that's the way, make Mr X jealous!!!!
Have a great day sailing with your daughter. I'm sure she'll love it as she will catch your enthusiasm.
Good to hear how well you are doing at work. You'll soon be running the company
As for X...yeah, after I told him I thought his colleague Y was a real sweetie, he asked if Y was on my top 10 list of their profession who I deal with a lot - I told X a while ago that I had a top 10 list pinned by my desk) and then he said "I better be bloody on it. At the top!" and I told him he was in the top half of the rankings but had to try harder!!! And he demanded to know who was above him and why I liked them better!! hahaha.
So...going to be good on food today. Going to not go mad calories-wise at this evening wedding do I'm going to tonight. Going to get up and go for a long run tomorrow morning - there's a road that leads out to a village outside my town down and up a huge hill and must be around 8 miles so I'm kind of tempted just to run out there and force myself to do it because no way of getting back otherwise...