Camy's diary

Camy said:
Non scale victories:
- my upper body looks the way it should look, front and back! You can kind of see where the ribcage is (without seeing the single ribs I want to be skinny but not concentration camp skinny!) and my bra doesn't leave me with a partition in the fat anymore
- my face is smaller, the chins are disappearing and because of that my eyes look bigger. Plus I seem to have cheekbones afterall!
- my belt, who I could barely close when I started 11 months ago, now closes nicely and I have a good 3 or 4 inches of spare belt.
- I can do sports and nobody questions my capability (other than me), they seem to have stopped thinking "the fatty won't be able to ... (insert sport)"
- when I look in the mirror I don't see someone fat anymore, I see someone who could do with losing 10 pounds or so, but I am not horrified or disgusted anymore.
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Hah aint that the truth! I get that a lot "the fatty won't be able to ... (insert sport)".
Doing a 160km race on the weekend i started in the same group as one of the fitness instructors at my GYM who takes Spin classes. I finished only 30mins behind him and in far better condition (he was cramping bad). It was totally awesome to be able to keep up with a PT!
 
Wow, you really have come far, we all have!

I think we've basically gotten to "the good place" when we sart feeling comfortable with ourselves and how we're treating ourselves. damn bumpy road though!!!!
 
Wishes you are amazing! I mean 160 km... that is just beyond anything I can even imagine!

Anke, you have doen so well too, I am always a bit jealous because you started so much later than me and you went to quickly down... but you really deserve it, you worked so hard for it! Well done.

Anyhow, I soent the morning tending to a friend, she was robbed from a car and dragged on the streets yesterday and is full of scraoes and bruises, so I went over, cleaned and dressed her wounds, brought her to the embassy, then to her workplace, then to the police station... took all morning (7 hours!).
Now I am beat, I just want to lie around but my man wants to go swimming... I might go for a little teeny tiny while.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 apple
Lunch: 3 little happy cow cheese triangles, half a bowl of soup
Dinner: (will hopefully be) fried rice and chicken

Exercise:
walking and maybe swimming

Camy
 
Hey there!!! Good Job on losing those 2lbs!!! You are a really good friend for doing all of that for her!!! It sucks, sometimes we just can't prevent things that well! :( Hope your boyfriend is feeling better! You've spent a lot of time lately in the hospital! :angelsad2: Hope you got the POOP problem squared away too!!!:iagree:

I love reading about your surfing!! Sounds fun, my brother rants and raves about it all day, and his body is AMAZING!!!! You'll be looking HOTTER and HOTTER any second now!!! Be careful out there! :D:
Take care LOVE!!!
 
Thank you Alta for popping in, I was feeling a bit lonely (although I always have my homies wishes and Anke!). I am hoping for the hot surfer body but I have been surfing for a whole day and it hasn't happened yet...

I did my midweekly weigh in and unsurprisingly I am up a pound but midweeklies don't count, so I am hoping that I can lose 2 pounds from today to sunday... we'll see.

My foot is swollen and hurts, I think I probably have a touch of tendon inflammation, I will try to swim and see, it is low impact and I barely use my feet, so maybe I am able to, if not, well, at least the man will be happy because he is desperate to swim.
This weekend is a long weekend (4 days) and we are just going to chill and go to the pool and chill some more. I am really happy, I wanted to spend some time with the man, just the two of us for a while.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1/2 papaya, small banana
midmorning snack: 1 apple
Lunch: tomato and green bean salad, 1 hardboiled egg, 2 cheese triangles
Dinner: ?? (we are invited to a friend's place)

Exercise:
swimming??

Camy
 
I am feeling pretty awful, nothing is majorly wrong with me but my bowels are still torturing me, and I am sick and tired or being sick and tired. The doctirs are only open again on tuesday, so I either selfdiagnose and selfmedicate or I wait it up. Not sure yet which one it will be... our local pharmacy doesn't have the med I want, so I can either go to a different pharmacy or well, wait. I hate waiting to feel better!

yesterday's food:
Breakfast-Lunch: 1 apple, 1 hardboiled egg, 1/2 a pack of popcorn
Dinner: rice with veggies and some beef (not a lot)

Today's food:
Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch:
Dinner:

Exercise: ?? maybe swimming, although my foot also still hurts and swimming didn't really do it any good either. My body is falling apart man! I just hope that soon I will be feeling my best again...
Camy
 
Camy,
I saw some of your posts and just wanted to stop by to say you are doing a great job with your weightloss. Hope that foot is feeling better soon. It is possible that you have been working so hard that you do need a few days of to rest.


Matt
 
Thank you matt and stocksandbonds,
it is nice to have comments in my diary. At today's official weigh in I weigh 133, but I refuse to change my ticker. But it is no wonder, I mean I have been unwell and unable to work out all week so just a pound gain is probably quite good.
My foot feels better, I decided to take the meds and my tummy albeit not healed feels better too, so this week (and next, as my countdown is down to 2 weeks!) I will work as hard as I can. I will go to the gym, I will do the elliptical and I will swim every day of the next week (5 days, since we will be gone for the weekend) and I will eat correctly, I really want to lose 2 pounds next week and see the 59 on the scale!

Yesterday I ended up going to the pool but not swimming (I know...), didn't feel like it, today we may go, I am nto sure. I am in a pissy mood, the man is annoying me terribly, our "friends" conveniently forgot about us (we were gonna watch a movie at theirs, when we txted asking when it was going to start were told: uhoh already started... f&%£ off!) and I miss my real friends back in London and generally my whole london life so much.

yesterday's food:
Breakfast: 1 banana
lunch: 1/2 nicoise salad
Dinner: 1/2 a portion of french fries, small portion of fried rice, 1/2 portion of ice cream, 1 tonic water (yeah I know all the best most nutritious food ever!)

today's food:
breakfast: some pineapple and papaya (probably about 1/4 of each)
lunch: scrambled egg and spinach, 2 slices of cheese, 2 pickles
dinner: big salad (mainly lettuce but with some potato)

Camy
 
Camy said:
Thank you matt and stocksandbonds,
it is nice to have comments in my diary. At today's official weigh in I weigh 133, but I refuse to change my ticker. But it is no wonder, I mean I have been unwell and unable to work out all week so just a pound gain is probably quite good.
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Camy,
You have done an amazing job!!! Why refuse to change your ticker? Why care that you put on a pound? Change it and be proud you have lost 27!!!!! It's all about a lifestlye and you will have many one pound gains thoughout your whole journey. Dont worry about what a scale says. Keep exercising and eating right and you will get to your goal.


Matt
 
Thank you Matt, I am proud of every single pound but I am most proud to say... I weighed in this morning again (felt that maybe yesterday's was a weekly high... always the optimist that I am) and... I weigh 59.5 kg!!!!!!
I can't believe it, I am under 60!! For the first time in probably 6 years or so (or more). I feel wonderful! And now I have 2 weeks to lose 3 more pounds, which is not impossible. I am so happy, I didn't think this day would ever come (or rather feared it would never come).

To celebrate we are going to the brand spanking new cinema today to watch "High school musical 3"... I know, not the classiest of movies, but they don't show anything else, plus I kinda like Zac Efron!

Yesterday I tried to eat my spinach omelette for lunch and the salad in the evening and could only manage half of each. My stomach must have shrank a lot, because usually I would be able to finish 1 omelette by myself! My man complains that this weightloss thing is making him fat because he has to eat for both of us these days... who cares, I am under 60 and nothing else matters ;)!

Today's food:
Breakfast: pineapple and papaya
Lunch: hummous with some beef and veggies, 1 tonic water
Dinner: greek salad and steak
Snacks (I decided sort of halfway into the day that it should be my cheat day): 1/2 milkshake, 1/2 a bag of popcorn

Exercise:
walk a lot (like 3 hours or so)

Camy
 
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Awesomeness!!!! You got the "elusive" under 60!!!! WHOOOT WHOOOOOOT!!!!

Well done! And tell your man to shush, he shouldn't be complaining :p
 
Thank you Matt and Anke, I am still beyond proud of myself for the weightloss, and I can't wait to weigh 59 and then 58... ;). I am so much more confident in my body since I lost weight, the man says I look completely different, because I walk straight now and look into people's faces. Which is true, I used to duck a lot because I wanted to be invisible in my fat fat body. But then told myself that 160 pounds was fine... it is fine, it is not huge but only if you feel comfortable in it! If you refuse to undress in front of your bofriend, if you hope you'll get really sick and suddenly lose weight, if you pospone going home to bge with your parents because you have gained weight... it is not FINE!

By the way I can't wait for my folks to see me now. I lost almost 5 kg (10 pounds) since I arrived in Ghana! And if I manage to lose another 3 pounds, I will be my skinniest in all my adult life, and I can't wait for them to be completely mindboggled about this. And then I will go shopping with my mom and get a lot of cute new outfits! Woohoo!

Last night I couldn't sleep at all, and by the time I fell asleep it was 6, so when the alarm went off at 7 I wanted to kill myself. So I decided to skip work, nobody misses me there anyhow, it is not paid work and I have a killer headache, which would just be stroger if I went to work. Instead I will manage to upload the Ipod and today do my 25 minutes elliptical before the 30 or 40 pool-lengths.
I am so motivated, I want to see the 58kg now, I can't wait to see the 58 kg...

Yesterday I had my cheat day, had a milkshake and popcorn, so for the rest of the week I need to be extra-good and I am sure I can do it. Will try to eat in as often as possible, because eating out is always more calories!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 apple, 1 banana
Lunch: tomato, green bean, asparagus (and possibly feta) salad
Dinner: chicken breast with provencale sauce, rice and veggies

Exercise:
25 minutes elliptical
30-40 lengths pool

Camy
 
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I am gpoing to update in a new post:

I did 30 minutes of elliptical!! I am so proud of myself, I was done after 10 and then oushed myself to 15, then my favourite songs came on and I just continued to 30!
Then I did 20 laps and 40 press ups (my arms need some toning).

For dinner I had chicken breast with tomato sauce (one breast) and boiled rice and veg, but only manage 2/3 of the chicken before feeling completely full and about 3/4 of the rice. Honestly my stomach must have shrunk!

I am happy and proud of myself, we went for an hour long walk after dinner too, so yey!
Camy
 
Thanks for the birthday greeting Camy. And congrats on losing 29lbs! I enjoyed reading your diary. How do I go about getting a ticker? Please share.
 
Thank you sunny for visiting. There are tons of websites out there to get tickers (just google ticker weightloss and it is pretty straightforward from then on).
I am about to go to the gym/pool in about 20 minutes. I will try to repeat yesterday's awesomeness on the elliptical, tomorrow is my midweekly, and I'd like to see a little loss. Lunch was whatever could be found in the fridge so rather uninspiring, but dinner will be doubly great (don't know what yet, but I am sure great!).
By the way the last pound I lost threw me into the 21.9 BMI category. Woohoo!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: some pineapple and papaya (not 1/2 of each, less)
Midmorning snack: apple
Lunch: salad made out of lettuce, green beans and asparagus, 3 pickles and 1 small banana
Dinner: chicken thigh, salad, black beans

Exercise:
30 mins elliptical
30 lanes swimming

Camy
 
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wishes the thing is I clearly have a freakishly small frame, I mean honestly me at 56/57 ... still larger than anybody else at that weight! I think my bones weigh nothing! My mom is 53 right now and she has belly chub (we are about the same height... I am a tad taller)!
I remember being 15 and my aunt asking me (remember the beautiful aunt?) how much I weighed and I said "well fiftie..." (thinking if it was more like 6 or more like 7) and she said "59.99999??" clearly implying she thought I weighed well over 60.
Which sucks! Because I am aiming for 120 pounds (or 55 kg) because that gives me a BMI of 20 but I know that to have the figure I really would like to have I would have to go as low as 52 or even lower, which gives me a BMI of like 18 and a half... ridiculous!

Anyhow I did 30 mins elliptical and 30 laps in the pool, I am very proud of myself. My dinner will be chicken (ovenbaked) and salad (and some beans... I am totallly on the bean trip). Then we may or may not go out but i will stick to water (or diet coke if they have it but they usually don't).
Camy
 
hehe im the opposite, Im 80kg and people think i look like im 65. So at 60 id be somewhat anorexic looking more.

My goal is 65-70 , last time i was at 70 it looked good
 
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