Camy's diary

Midweek weigh in was not as encouraging as one would have thought, I am up half a pound, but I am still under 60 and that is what matters ;)! I know I am eating and exercising to have a significant deficit, so it must be waterweight, but I always get angry when I work out hard and see now results on the scales. I know I know scale mentality yadayadayada but I really need to see the no.s to FEEL thinner.

My food of the day:
Breakfast: some pineaple and papaya
Midmorning snack: 1 apple
Lunch: half a tin of leftover black beans, spinach (kind of a skimmed milk-spinach paste), 1 hardboiled egg, 3 pickles
Dinner: rice and sauce (we are having dinner at friends, but they are eating lasagna, so for me they made rice and some of the lasagna sauce I guess)

Exercise:
I will go to the gym and /or pool, but I am shattered, I may just do 15 minutes of alliptical and 20 lanes or even just some stationary bike, my neck hurts a lot and when I swim it hurts even more... want to be in shape to properly exercise tomorrow again.

Camy
 
HI!!!!!!!!!!! I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been keeping up with you through my subscriptions, but being sick with pneumonia really took a damper out of my daily writing on here. I've been reading how things have been going for you. I hope your tendon is better, that is something that is hard to get over. It always seems to creep back in to your life. I over-pronate and have the same problem with my inside ankle. It flares up off and on (lucky for me, it is flaring up lately!). I'm so glad that you are keeping up with your amazing weightloss. When are you going to go see your parents? They are going to be thrilled.

Keep writing and I hope you had a great day!
 
lol im the same Camy. i like to SEEE the numbers change, its motivating. I hate it when they dont :O
 
Bucks I am so glad to see you back! woohoo!
Wishes, yeah all those people who are like ignore the numbers... I don't get it! I mean sure I look better, but the small changes you can't really see, while the numbers going down is a clear sign that something is happening!

Yesterday I ended up eating WAY too much, had 2 cokes and 3, no I am lying, 4 reese's peanutbutter cups (OMG how did I live to this day without ever having one, I missed out on SO much). But I will work it all off today, will do an extralong session at the gym to make up for it (elliptical, stationary bike, sit ups and swimming).
Gotta go to work, have no breakfast in the house, so may eat an egg on the way there, then have lunch somewhat earlier with the man, hopefully it will be fish, since we are going to a sea restaurant, but can't really tell, and dinner should be just salad.

Camy
 
You are the cardio queen! Are you doing your own mini-triathlon today? haha I love sea food, obsessively, so have a good dinner! We'll just pretend the Reese's incident never happened. Put that into the vault. hahaha

Keep up the great work!
 
Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 hardboiled egg
Lunch: 2/3 of 1 cup of boiled rice with tomato, onion and papaya stew, 1 tonic water
Dinner: 1 tin of mackarel, greek salad, 1 banana

Exercise: (drumrolls please!!!)
15 minutes elliptical (1 mile)
30 minutes stationary bike (5 miles)
20 lanes swimming (half a mile)
30 push ups

I am so tired! But so proud
Camy
 
OK was away for the weekend, we walked a ton (in the exhausting heat) and ate very well. I am still (sort of) 131... I was really hoping to be under 130 this week, but my period is due the day after tomorrow and my boobs are already swollen, which makes me think "water weight" (hopefully). Maybe next Monday, on my next official weigh in I have lost all the extra weight!
Today I am not at work, because I had a fever and a bad headache yesterday and needed to get a malaria test. I am waiting for the results, but I am fairly confident, that I am malaria free and it was just a little cold. Anyhow, can't go to work like this!
I have 7 days only to get my act together (call my grandmother and aunt to have someone pick me up from the airport, buy presents, send my secret santa something, etc...

Food of Saturday:
Breakfast: papaya and pineapple
Snacks: plantain chips, 1 fanta
Dinner: chicken yassa, salad, 1/2 cup of rice, 1 coke

Food of sunday:
Breakfast: omellette
Lunch: fish and sauteed potatoes, salad, 1 coke
Snack: 1 apple
Dinner: 2 tomatoes and 3 pickles with hummous

Food of monday:
Breakfast: 1 apple, 1 banana, 500 ml of crystal light
Lunch: sauerkraut, green beans, mackarel (tin food)
Snack: (once I get the final diagnosis of the malaria test as a cheer up if I have it or celebratory if I don't): 1 small toblerone
Dinner: beef stir fry and fried rice, some coleslaw, 1/3 of a papaya

Camy
 
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Weigh in this morning still 131... oh well, I am going to not weigh in until after the period comes and then on monday again... I don't like daily weighings.
I feel better, I obviously do nto have malaria and my life goes on as usual. Work, computertime, swimming, sleeping... oh and eating!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1/3 of a pineapple
Snack: crystal light (it is supposed to have added vitamins to support your immunity... I dunno it tastes nice though!), 1 apple
Lunch: left over sauerkraut, 1 hardboiled egg, mackarel
Dinner: big greek salad (yum... and I have leftovers for tomorrow lunchtime!), 1/2 a toblerone bar (mini) because I am worth it!

Exercise:
I am very proud because I did not feel like exercising at all (last week I busted my arse and nothing moved on the scales...), but went anyhow and then decided to take it easy, just go on the stationary bike slow paced while I did a sudoku. Well I am terribly bad at sudokus and it took me 30 minutes to solve it, which means that when I looked at the reader it said 8 km, 30 mins, 155 kcal burnt! Go me!!
Plus 30 lanes in the pool

Tomorrow I am taking a exercise hiatus (have to cleanthe house because we have guests and then the guests will arrive) but I will try to go Thursday to Sunday! I really want to be 128/129 pounds when I leave on Monday and I have high hopes that once I deflate from my period, I will be there... if I work hard of course!

Camy

Camy
 
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I HATE when I kill myself working out and watching my calories only to not lose any that week. I think those weeks make me want to cry. One time I GAINED when I was watching my calories and working out like a dog. UNFAIR!

By the way, I love soduku. I hated it at first, I thought they were so stupid. Then I was in a horribly boring genetics class and would sit in the back and do the school's version everyday. It got addicting and couldn't stop doing them!! I've never done them working out. I would probably poke myself in the eye with a pen. hahaha
 
Bad bad day, lost 2 patients in 4 hours... ugh! There wasn't really anything I could do but that doesn't make it any easier.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: papaya and pineapple
Midmorning snack: 1 apple
Lunch: greek salad, 1 small mango
Dinner: if I manage to bake it, some gluten free pizza...

Camy
 
I'm so sorry about your patients, I can't imagine how tough that would be.

Gluten free pizza......hmmmmmm......please do tell what that little gem is!?

I hope the rest of your day went better!
 
Awww, sorry about the work stress :(

But well done, wow, almost into the 120s!!!! I am confident you'll be there by Monday!!! Glad you don't have malaria!
 
We couldn't find any of the ingredients for the gluten free part of the gluten free pizza 8no brown rice flour, no tapioca flour and definitely no xanthan gum), so we decided to make empanadas out of maize flour, but the guy who bought the flour bought maizena instead of maize flour and when we mixed it with water it turned into non-newtonian fluid (something that when touched slowly is a fluid but when touched quickly is a solid! Amazing, we had so much fun, slowly sticking our fingers in and then quickly punching it!). So we ended up eating a modified version of chilli con carne. And icecream! Yum!

I am skipping work today, I have to prepare a big secret santa gift and need to go shopping for it plus make a power point presentation for it (prnting pictures would cost me a fortune), and I don't feel like going to work. I know bad, but who cares! Tomorrow I will give all my colleagues christmas cards and make up for it!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: pineapple, papaya, later apple?
Lunch: a few spoonfuls of left over chilli (no rice), a piece of cheese, 1 apple
Dinner: oven baked fish fillet (small), salad, 3 chocolate squares (have period! So choccy is A-ok!)

Camy
 
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We are in the holiday frenzy, buying pressies, packing, cleaning the house, washing a lot of clothes, etc... I can't believe tomorrow I will be on my way home. Wow...

Anyhow food of the last 2 days...
Friday:
Breakfast: pineapple, 1/2 a bounty bar
Lunch: 1 apple, a few pieces of cheese, 1 mango (they are really small mangos), 1/2 bounty bar
Dinner: jollof rice with chicken, 1 tonic water, 1 passion fruit juice

Saturday:
Breakfast: pineapple, 1 banana
Lunch: 1 kebab stick, plantain chips, 1 pieces of toblerone
Dinner: 1 tonic water, beans in tomato sauce, fried plantain (2 slices only), 1/2 cup of rice

Sunday:
Breakfast: tomato omelette
Lunch: beef stir fry, 1/3 of a cup of rice, 1 mango, 1/2 a mini toblerone bar
Dinner: hot and sour soup, szechuan shrimp and veggies, rice

as you can see I have not been excellent with my food, but not awful either. My weight has maintained and since I finally got my period (it teased me for 3 days coming and going, but now is in full blast) I hope to see a little descend in the scales tomorrow morning! No exercise thus far, but we will go today and we do do a lot of walking and so on (at least 2 hours of walking every day, friday, saturday and today), so I guess I am ok.

Remember when I said my frame was ridiculously small and light? Well it has been proven right! My new flatmate weighed herself on my scales and she weighs 152 pounds, so more than 20 pounds more than me and she doesn't look ANY bigger than me! She is not that much taller, maybe an inch at the most! How unfair! And she looked incredulous when I told her my weight, so I had to explain the whole tiny frame thing. Grr!!! UNFAIR!

Anyhow, I hope to be able to post tomorrow, but if not MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone, I will be able to post before the new year again for sure, but not before x-mas if I don't manage to post tomorrow! So have a wonderful wonderful time everyone!
Camy
 
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Ok, I did not make it to 128 (my goal for today), nor did I make it into the 120ies yet but I did lose one pound which means:

I have officially lost 30 pounds now

I am very proud of me, I did very well this year and I learned so much! I am happy I embarked on this journey, it was worth every challenging day! Now I have my last 10 pounds to tackle (and possibly another 5 after that, but we will see how I feel in 10 pounds) and I am sure I can do it too.
Thank you to everyone, wishes, Bucks, and Anke and all the others who have helped me along the way! I really appreciate it!

Merry christmas! Camy
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

30 lbs is a big BIG deal!!! I hope you are celebrating!!!! Anytime you need encouragement I will always be here!!! I've been spending the past couple of months trying to catch up with YOU!! YOU are amazing!!! GOOD JOB!!! GROUP HUG! hahaha

I'm SURE you can get down into those pesky 120s, but don't push it, especially with the great cooking you are soon to get at home! All this talk about grandmother's home cooking has made me so hungry! haha I can't wait to hear about your trip home, since it has been so long for you. I know when I'm away from home I get super emotional when I come back. When I was in Italy for 6 months, I hadn't seen my parents for so long and when I got back and saw them in the airport terminal I just started crying. I must have looked like a crazy lunatic, and I don't really EVER cry, so I can only imagine what it must be like for you.

I'm glad you skipped work, you had a rough day in there and needed some Camy time. Understandable, and I'm sure your co-workers appreciated their Christmas cards. What did you end up getting for your Secret Santa gift?

Don't worry about that 152 lb girl, she angers me.lol I always feel like that, but look at it this way, you weigh LESS than her, and you and workouts make you feel super healthy and great. Just focus on getting down to the goal weight, and pretty soon you'll be melting down in sizes. Personally, I haven't seen pictures but you probably look great! You probably have a healthy glow and you are happy! Don't get too hard on yourself, Ms. Fit, because your weight is something I am very envious of!

Anyways, sorry for rambling, but if I don't talk to you beforehand, have a safe trip and Merry Christmas!
 
CAMY?!?! Where are you???????????????? Hope everything is going alright!
 
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