Camy's diary

Well, my family is argentinian, I have never properly lived there but because we moved around a lot my only "stable" home was my granny's house in Argentina.

I gave the man some antibiotics yesterday and he was cured... that was easy enough! So we are going swimming today, woohoo!

We moved, it was really nice to wake up in our own home, only thing is I had to unpack everything today, I have done about 90% by now but there is still stuff everywhere, all the small things, like pictures and rememberalls and cards and stuff is still lying around. And I had to scrub the fridge because it was yucky (it smelled) but now it is clean and functional! So I walked to town this morning to buy some essentials (febreze, because it smelled really humid, cleaning products, water...) and then cleaned up for a few hours.
Now I am in an internet cafe, but it is really hot here and the connection is slow... I can't wait to have internet at home.
I spoke to a Dr. and all the clearance is going to be much slower than I thought it would be, so another week at least until I can start doing something in hospital, maybe more... had I only known... I don't know what I'd done differently, but I am quite bored!

We may or may not be going to the Volta region tomorrow morning, I am really excited, can't wait to take a trip! But it depends on the dude who owns the car if he is still going, still has space for us etc...

Food of the day:
Breakfast: orange, peach and passionfruit juice
Lunch: 1 pineapple
Dinner: ?? It is our anniversary (the man and mine, 4 years...) and he may be taking me out, not sure yet

Exercise:
1 hour of walking
1 hour of swimming

Camy
 
Mood is not great, I am a bit resentful of the man and his shitty attitude towards life and everything else... I am giving him till christmas to pull himself together. Not sure what I'll do if he doesn't but he is so not the person I fell in love with these days... rather a moneycrazed ass...

Ok, yesterday we went on a daytrip to a few places, was nice, tiring, I sweat my weight in sweat and ate very little.
Today we are going shopping (for house stuff and possibly some scales) and then we will go and lounge by the pool of a big hotel near here for the rest of the day... this way I get my swimming done and some sunbathing too! Woohoo!

Yesterday's food of the day:
Breakfast: 1/2 pineapple, 1/4 of a papaya
Lunch: 1/4 of a grilled plantain, 3 small bananas
Dinner: 1 cup of rice, beef and vegetable stew

Exercise:
Crazy amounts of walking and sweating!

Today's food of the day:
Breakfast: 1/4 pineapple, 1/4 of a papaya
Lunch: 1/4 of chicken, half a portion of french fries
Snack: 200 ml of passionfruit juice
Dinner: tiny bit of goat meat, fufu, light soup (fufu is a starchy mash made out of cassava and plantain, I guess it is really high in calories!)

Exercise:
1 hour of swimming

Camy
 
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oh no, sounds like you guys are a tad stressed from moving house etc. Give yourself a few weeks or even months to settle in.
My man stresses out and becomes a horrid monster at the slightest wiff of change. When we moved house about 2-3 months ago it took him a week before he even said yes to the move at all!
And even after that he was super mega horrid to deal with for some time. Hes pretty high strung i have to admit. Since we moved it took about a month or more to settle in, and even still he gets stressed out and blows up for no reason.

Least you have your own place now though! well done!
 
Thanx wishes, yeah I guess I have to give him some time, it just pisses me off royally that we are here to live HIS dream of living in Africa (yes, I wanted to come too, but only because he was coming, if it was up to me I would have done my elective in south america where I feel more comfortable with the people and I know it already) and he just seems to be very crabby. He behaves like I owe him and I have to be his mom and his wife and his nurse, because poor baby boy is in a new continent all alone with no friends and he needs to be taken care of.
Anyhow, let's give him time.

About my weight, I feel (and look I think) thinner than when I arrived but yesterday I weighed myself and in the evening, dressed, with dripping wet hair and after drinking a lot of water and juice I weighed 141 pounds. I am guessing that dry and naked in the morning I would weigh about 138 or 137, so no loss so far (or maybe I was up a few pounds before coming... actually I think I may have weighed 141lbs 3 weeks back when I went to the doc... ok now that I remembered this I am actually kinda glad at my weight!).
So the goal is 10 pounds in 7 weeks! On the 22nd of December I want to weigh 58 kg, or 128 pounds. I think that is doable, and I am very very committed to this. I have already been good with the sodas, didn't drink any the past few days and I had no nuts either!
After christmas (from the end of january onwards) I want to resume my weightloss and lose the last 8 pounds and maybe by easter be 120.

My main motivation is how amazed my family will be when they see me. They haven't seen me for a while and I was around 150 when they last saw me (not my heaviest but pretty stocky for my frame) so being 128 would be amazing.
Ok little secret: I have a beautiful aunt. She is 16 years older than me and she is absolutely stunning, really skinny, really nice figure, very fashion-conscious. She always takes me and my sis out for shopping and I never buy anything because I am embarrassed. In Argentina sizes are tiny, last time I went I would not fit into their largest size! It is not her fault, she doesn't really say anything about my weight, just seeing her used to make me really uncomfortable, which has to do with my own issues not with her! So, I have adressed these issues, and I do feel much more comfy in my body now, but I would feel even better and would feel less self conscious if I was under 60 kg (that for me is a bit of a mark between "ok weight" and "too much weight"). My mom weighs 55 kg, my sis weighs 51 kg, my aunt probably also 52 or so, so being in the 50ies, would make me feel very good, very comfortable! And would make shopping a lot of fun!

So bring it on, 50ies here I come!

Today's food:
Breakfast: 2 small bananas (I am thinking that that would probably be the equivalent to 1 normal european banana)
Lunch: 1 piece of chicken, rice, 1/4 of a fried plantain, pineapple and ginger juice (I was so full I could barely move)
Dinner: cucumber and tomato salad, 1/2 pineapple (or 1/2 papaya)

Exercise:
it rains so no swimming, but I did walk for 1 hour and will try to walk another hour after the rain stops

I have added a picture of myself from Saturday. That is me in the rainforest north of Accra!
Camy
 
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ohhh, beautiful pic!

Aww, I sometimes feel like I don't know my man anymore... usually passes... good luck to you 2!
 
Thanx wishes and Anke, I look so skinny in that pic (not all that accurate clearly... ;)) that I just had to brag!

Tried to get an update on my medical papers, they are still lying around, woohoo! So another few days at the very least until I get an answer. I know I will get a placement but just waiting is killing me, and I am bored!

Anyhow, today it is nice and sunny so off to the pool I go this afternoon, I walked another hour and a half yesterday, bathed literally in sweat. I am wondering if my body will ever adapt or if I will just sweat like this for the rest of my stay. I think nr. 2 is more probable! I also got a nice little sunburn, nothing major just some pinkness (I am beyond white as you guys know) and I am hoping pink slowly goes into soft brown... I don't have high hopes though, I know my skin!

Anyhow to today's food:
Breakfast: half a pineapple, half a papaya
Lunch: cucumber and tomato salad, 1 1/2 bowls of dry corn flakes, 1 small banana for pudding
Snack: french fries and a passionfruit juice (I know bad bad me)
Dinner: chicken, veggies and rice and 1 coke (again...)

Exercise:
1 hour of swimming (almost 1 k, got faint just before finishing the 1 k)

Camy
 
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oh i soo like hummus, nothing beats it!
and you do look skinny! thats you! its not a trick of the photography :D

Take the time to explore your new country since you cant work, take pics for us so we can live vicariously through you :)
 
COOL picture!!!!!!!!! I'm so envious of you two!!!!! And I agree with wishes, more pictures!!!!!!!! I don't care what it is!

YEAH OBAMA! Or GOBAMA! I'm going to the official Obama party for Columbus Ohio at a nice hotel downtown, so we're going to get all dressed up and go. I'm sooooo nervous! I hope he wins. I could barely stomach food today (I mean, I still ate, but still....).

Can't wait to see how tan you get!
 
OK, so yesterday I got really light headed while swimming. This had never happened before, I mean I had eaten enough to keep me afloat I'd think, but still weird. And then I got such a terrible hunger, I couldn't stop eating. I ate and ate and ate and ate and ate and ate and ate... well I ate half a portion of french fries, then dinner, then another half portion of french fries and I would have kept eating if there had been anything to eat.
Thank god there was no free food at the Obama party, I would have raided it.
Maybe I was ovulating?

Anyhow, I am happy obama won, all is good. I also have noticed a change in my body, my upper body (above my breasts) is quite thin now. I can see shoulderbones and collarbones and tendons. Now if I was just as thin from my breasts downwards... that would be great! I still have the Winnie the Pooh tummy though! And fat on my hips. But I know I can't sepectively lose weight, I will just hope my body will start eating the fat from the bottom half once it runs out of top half fat!

The plan today for food is:
Breakfast: 1 small banana, 1 1/2 bowls of dry cornflakes (there is almost nothing in the house!)
Lunch: jollof rice and 2 eggs (hardboiled)
Dinner: HUmmus shawarma (which means hummus with shredded lamb in it), eaten on veggies, 1/2 a pineapple as dessert

Exercise:
1 k swimming (took about 40 minutes)

Camy
 
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I tried to figure out Spark.com but man, I have now an account but it is really difficult to see your progress, I think I had a fitday account but I am not sure, I had an account somewhere for sure. It calculated my exercise as burning 500 cals (which I think it slightly over) and my food intake as between 1300 and 1500 (which I think is slightly under the real deal).
But well, it does not have jollof rice obviously and other food I usually eat. But my eating today has been fine actually, I am quite happy with both my exercise and my food intake today, the weekend plan is still not clear, I really want to get out of town, but if our friends are not coming I still want to go!!! But I will get bored to tears if I spend 3 days just with the man on the beach... I love him, but we live together, I have few friends here so my main social exchange is with him, I do not want to to have to spend 3 days all alone on top of that. But then neither do I want to spend 3 days alone here with him, so I can really only chose between bad and badder ;)!

Maybe we can still pull the kitesurf thing off, even if it is just the 2 of us... we'll see!

Anyhow, if anyone can tell me how to make Spark easier, that would be awesome!
Camy
 
lol ive had days like that. The eating and eating and eating thing - its insane.

And wtf are you on about being skinny in places, you look skinny in ALL the places compared to me lol.
I got the huge belly fat&skin thing going on and my butt .... gah!
 
Hey!

Hmmm, I've only used fitday... They recently changed their whole look, it's a lot cooler than it was before. Also, if you know how many cals a portion of a certain food is, then you can add your own custom foods, plus re-use them in the weeks and months to follow.

I just could NOT carry on logging EVERYTHING EVERY day!

Anyway, hope you manage to have a good time with just your boyfriend or hopefully your friends too! Ciao!
 
Thank you Wishes, I still feel roly poly... also my breasts are saggy, but I don't think there is anything I can really do to make them perk up...

Yeah, Anke, I agree, I don't think I can record every single item I eat into there, it is just such a hassle! Much easier to write it on here, instead of having to search through a list of things, chose unit, chose meal, etc...

We managed to get some friends on board for tomorrow, I am so excited!! It is really happening now!
Unfortunately I have the runs today, probably a touch of enteritis, or just a bad tummy because I ate the world's hottest pepper. I honestly thought my mouth would fall apart, I drank over a litre of water immediately afterwards, but it just hurt so bad, I was crying and my nose was running, even my ears hurt! So maybe that chili pepper from hell has ruined my stomach lining.
In any case, I am just taking it really easy today, only fruit and rice (if I manage to get the gas to work today!) and just a day of relax, so that by tomorrow I am cured and can enjoy the beach to it's fullest!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1/4 of a pineapple, 1/4 of a papaya, 1 tiny banana
Lunch: rice (I guess), the other 1/4 of pineapple and papaya, 1 small banana
Dinner: 1 beef kebab (not so nice, I had 2 initially and gave one of them to the man), tomato and cucumber salad, 1/2 a papaya

Exercise:
nothing, I am such a sloth!

Camy
 
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We are going away but only tomorrow, because the man had to work today in the end. So we are leaving tomorrow morning and coming back sunday evening, hopefully getting 2 whole(ish) days at the beach. I am not sure we will manage to kite surf but we will check out if there is a place to do it and then we can come back in a few weeks and kitesurf then.

Yesterday spark says I consumed less than 1000 calories, and today I am again struggling to get to 1000 (even putting in my dinner and all)... which is ridiculous, never have I struggled to eat enough! I always struggled with eating too much. I'll have to look into that!

OK, not much to tell, but I'll make a food plan:

Breakfast: 1/2 pineapple, 1/2 papaya
Lunch: 4 scrambled eggs, 4 smallish tomatoes
Dinner: chicken (drumstick and leg), either rice or salad

Exercise:
swimming, not sure how much yet, but we are definitely going to the pool today

Camy
 
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Thanx Anke, that is a solution...
But I think maybe I am calculating portion size wrong, because I am not losing any weight (or at least not notably so... I know eye sight can be deceiving, but without scales it is hard to know) and if I was eating 1000 cals and exercising every day I would be losing some.

This week I am going to be very careful with my diet, after having a bad tummy on friday evening, I felt ok saturday, but ate very little and erratic, and then could not digest my dinner at all, felt sick all night, then ok all day sunday until the evening when I had diarrhea and a lot of nausea, so I think that eating too much fried stuff is upsetting my delicate system (it could also be because where we were on weekend trip the people washed plates and cutlery in this filthy lake, so I may have parasites now, but I thibnk it is probably the fatty food thing!).
So this week it will be fruit and veg and boiled rice mainly, so that my intestines have a little break from fatty food.

Saturday food:
No breakfast
Lunch: 1/2 sardine, 1 snickers
Dinner: 1 chicken drumstick, rice

Sunday food:
Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs
Lunch: 1 piece of barracuda, yam chips
Dinner: small bowl of tomato and broccoli salad, 2 tiny bananas

Monday food:
Breakfast: 1/2 papaya, 2 mini bananas
Lunch: boiled rice and 4 tomatoes
Dinner: we found a lovely salad place, so I had nicoise salad and for dessert 1/2 papaya, 1/2 pineapple (and shame on me: half a snickers, but that was my last snickers and I have no more so won't be tempted anymore)

Exercise:
well, saturday and sunday I swam in the sea (only really I tried to walk in the very rough ocean and had to fight against very strong waves), took long long walks on the beach (unfortunately one of them in the midday sun and scorched parts of my back), played beach volleyball and had a lot of fun.
Today, because of the scoched back, I will try to walk a tad, but no swimming or anything that exposes my poor ouchies to the sun. I am going to the ghana health service once again to see if they managed to place me in a hospital and maybe maybe I can start working soon. If not this week I will try to go to the gym for 30 mins before my daily swim, just to up the exercise up a notch, because I really really want to be skinny in 6 weeks time!

Camy

P/s: I think I figured why I do not lose weight or rather why I am not starved to death with my (wrongly calculated) calorie intake, I never realized that when they say a cup of rice, they mean cooked rice, I always assumed I just had 1 cup of rice (uncooked) and that is like 250 cals, but really it is more like 700 cals!!! Who'd have thunk!! So rice portions need to shrink!
 
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hmm i do that without scales, my batteries are dead but the portion sizes seem to creep up all the time.
 
wishes, I know, the portion size thing is a pain in the bottom... why can't we just decide that a food has x calories no matter how much you eat of it? for example any amount of chocolate has 12 calories... ;)

I am very frustrated with the health services as they refuse to stamp my papers until at least another week. what a pain! so here I am another week of just existing in the house... really I could tidy up and finally empty the suitcases, I want to decorate too, but we are waiting for our money to arrive so I feel that if I can't buy anything to decorate I don't have to empty the suitcases either.

Today we are going swimming, yipee. The sunburn is now a pale pink (or so the man says, it itches like it is a violent red but I can't really see it) and so this evening, once the tough sun is gone we are going for an hourlong swim. And tonight we will have hummus yumyum!

So food of the day:
Breakfast: 1/2 papaya, 2 tiny bananas
Lunch: broccoli, carrot and cawliflower salad, 1 hardboiled egg, 1 tiny banana
Snack: 1 glass of juice
Dinner: veggies on hummus, maybe some greek salad (yumyumyum)

Exercise:
walking 1 to 2 hours
swimming 1 hour

Camy
 
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