Camy's diary

Yes YMCA, I am, in fact I weighed in again today and I am not quite a pound heavier than last week, so it is not the end of the world. I thought I would be maybe 2 or 3 pounds up and that would have sucked.
I would have wanted to be under 130 when we leave for Italy on Friday... I know a bit optimistic, as I now have to lose like 3 pounds for it... well, I am not one to get too upset when my goals are not hit.

Food for today:
Breakfast: 250 ml of juice, 1 jar of apple sauce (still a bit upset stomach)
Lunch: green bean and sweetcorn salad, spinach with 1 slice of cheese mixed in
Dinner: big omelette, green salad

No exercise, no time.
 
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Just quickly food of the day:
Breakfast: 200 ml juice, 2 cheese sandwiches (cheese on rice crackers)
Lunch: 4 pickles, 1 cheese triangle, sweetcorn (from a tin)
Snack: pure apple sauce
Dinner: fish and banku
 
Hey Camy, seems like you have been up and down lately, I hope things settle down a bit for you, if you are so unhappy in Ghana, can you just leave?

Have a lovely time in Italy!!!
 
Hey there! I haven't been around in a while, sorry to hear work sucks for you right now... but almost in Italy, right!?

I think you're just in a rut... break out a bit, go mad, then get back to basics, maybe that'll work?
 
OK, so Itay was great but I ate way too much way too often. I knew it while it wa happening but my mother in law bought me tons of cookies and treats (without gluten), they took me to have massive pizza (without gluten) and pasta and and and

Result I am at a high of 61.4 kg (and really rather unhappy about it). I wanted to be 53 in September but that is clearly not going to happen, I am still going to try for 55 though. I am going to get my period in the next days (hopefully), so I know I am bloated, but still, I am hovering around 61... cry!
So now I am in Spain, which means more caloric control, and also means working out can happen again. This week I have to travel to Barcelona and stuff, so I don't think I will manage, but for the 2 weeks afterwards I have 2 weapons of choice: 1.) kelloggs gve me a free work out dvd that I plan on doing (it is just 20 minutes long, but that in the morning with some stretching etc, will do me a world of good already, I can start with that this week actually), 2.) I found a dance academy and I will start on the 27th of june and for 15 days more or less have between 2 and 3 hours of dance a day.
The first 2 days (weekend) are lyrical jazz (2 hours each day), then a week of contemporary I think (3 hours a day), a weekend of lyrical jazz again (2 hours a day), then a week worth of breakdance and streetdance (3 hours a day again). The I am sadly returning to Ghana... if I could stay longer I would do this program that is a training for a video, it is between 4 and 6 hours daily of dance and it looks SO awesome, but it starts when I am already supposed to be back in Ghana... I really don't think I can leave the man alone for even longer (and I don't think my ticket is changeable, but I will dream of this!).

This coupled with the fact that I will be alone at home all day (except dinner and I will be in charge of that), I can really control my food intake (salads, etc... rather than huge meals with the family), I hope to get down to 58 kg. I know it is very optimistic of me, but I am an optimistic person! And I am determined to work against the bulge!! Plus my all time low was 57.5 kg, so I know I can do it.

So let's start!
 
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Hey, this is why one day my ideal weight WILL be 2 kilos under where I want to be, because then I can go on holiday!!! Insurance, hehe... or buffering!

You can do it! and hey, why not get back to 58, GO DO IT!!! JUST DO IT! :smash:
 
All around good news:
1.) I got my specialising training in Barcelona! I just got word today, I am so happy, because I was told they only had 8 spots for what I wanted to do and now finally I know where my professional future lies.
2.) I lost a kg, so I "just" weigh 60.5 as of yesterday, for next week, I am hoping for 59!

Ok not all around maybe, but mostly all around, because things with my man are going very badly. I am nt sure we will manage to pull through as a couple. It is hard, because I really lik the stability of being together but we (and with we I mean mainly me) haven't been happy for a while together. We will talk about it again, nothing is written in stone yet (and we have holidays booked for october that I plan on doing no matter what, as his family is paying for it and it will be awesome, I will never be able to afford such holidays for ages and ages!), but I feel quite at peace with going separate ways, I hope we will both be happier this way.

Food of today:
Breakfast: 200 cals worth of gf whole grain cookies (I know not ideal bu not too bad either)
Lunch: big salad, 1 large(ish) dish of rice with asparagus and squid
Snack (bad!): 1 Minimagnum
Dinner: big salad, 3 maize crackers with some pate
 
Had my first master class and it was real good, I was not the biggest in the room (phew) but not one of the smallest either (obviously). I am a tad soe but not terribly so yet, it was not the hardest class I have ever had, to be honest. Popping and locking is not my favourite style either so whatev... today it is poping and house (again not my absolute favourite) but I have a lot of fun. The weekend will be lyrical and I am much more in tune with that.

I feel quite ok about my man, about breaking up and restarting my life. It is hard and it will be especially hard that I will have to love with him for 2 more months before we can go apart, but well, I have no choice and I think we really can be adults about it.

Yesterday I ate quite well, breakfast was my full grain cookies (200 cals) and orange juice (another 100 cals), lunch was white asparagus and then a mini magnum, snack was a piece of fruit and jello and dinner a salad. I drank over 2 and a half litres of water, so that is all going well.
Today I am just not hungry at all, I had breakfast (same as yesterday, cookies and juice) ad for lunch I will eat half a sandwich, because I don't want to dance for 2 hours without having eaten anything. Dinner will probably be another salad. The dance class is from 8:30 to 10:30 in the evening so I finish and have to have dinner soon afterwards and I am just not hungry after working out (another reason why I should work out more!).

Camy
 
Yesterday's class was bad! I mean good bad! Hard hard work, and to be honest House... not what I would listen to if I had to. But today the class is called "gangsta" so we will see, it will definitely be entertaining! And hours of exercise.. which reminds me I have to google how many calories you burn dancing!

In the end yesterday's food was:
Breakfast: 200 cals of whole grain gluten free cookies, 1 glass of OJ
Lunch: half a ham and philadelphia (light) sandwich
Snack: 1 peach, 1 lemon fanta
Dinner: other half of ham and philadelphia sandwich, 1 yoghurt, treat: 1 minimagnum

I guesstimate I consumed about 1500 cals and I drank nearly 3 l of water.

Today's food:
Breakfast: 200 cals of whole grain gluten free cookies, 1 glass of OJ
Lunch: asparagus, 1/2 a tin of sweetcorn, 1 minimagnum
Snack: 1 apple
Dinner: black rice and salad, then another minimagnum (this one was really unnecessary, and I regret it)

Exercise: 2 hours of streetdance

Tomorrow I start lyrical jazz, I am excited!
 
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Lyrical jazz was incredible! OMG I forgot how much I love this stuff. It was really really great and it was over so quickly! The first hour was hard I have to say, I was sweating so badly, and he had us do crunches and sit ups and stuff. But then the choreography was so nice... I am glad that next year hopefully i will be able to dance this stuff every week!

Food for today:
Breakfast: 1 peach, 200 cals of cookies, 1 glass of OJ
Lunch: 1 lean steak, few tomatoes with some minimozzarella, 1 peach
Dinner: ??

Exercise: slightly over 2 hours of lyrical jazz.

Oh I looked up how many cals you burn dancing hip hop and it was around 400 an hour, which is great, lyrical jazz should burn around 350 cals an hour. I will be ridiculously sore tomorrow, I can feel it already, but I kind of feel like my abs are already mroe toned (which I don't really think they are, but I feel like they are).

Oh, I love the developed world! Camy
 
hey camy...sounds like your doing absolutely great! i'm totally so envious of all the dance classes coz they sound like so much fun! i can almost picture you smiling as you type out your updates coz it sounds like your having a blast...keep up the great work!

i hope to do some dance classes when i'm at a smaller weight coz i absolutely love it so will come to you for advice because your clearly the master...lol!
 
Thanx cherry! I totally am having a blast!
Today's class was even more awesome than yesterday's, I am so in love with this dancing and I am already crying inwards that I have to leave so soon. In a week I am back in Ghana, yuck! And then I will have to face the music, talk to the boyfriend, etc... Thank heaven I will be back soon and I will dance my little soul out next year, it is so therapeutic!

Today I counted the crunches (my brother told me he did 90 in football and he thinks football is harder than dancing, hahaha), I lost count at about 200 but I am guesstimating about 250 crunches, stretches, etc... I have lost all my flexibility (and I was never that flexible to start with!), and I was definitely the least stretchy of everybody in the class. I have a very random overextensible lower leg, to I can do some stretches that not even the teacher could do, but most all other stretches I just suck at! I will google some good exercises to increase flexibility as fast as possible!

Food of today:
Breakfast: 120 cals cookies (whole grain), 1 apple, 1 glass of peach juice
Lunch: lean meat, 1 1/2 potatoes, some salad, treat: ice cream
Dinner: 1 sausage, sauerkraut, another ice cream

Exercise: 2 hours of lyrical jazz

Camy
 
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I had a pretty shitty day... I mean it wasn't really a bad day, everything that happened was fine, my classes were good albeit hard, but that is sort of what I expect, food was ok, there was nothing really bad, but I just felt awful and fat and totally unhappy.
I weighed myself and I do know that after 6 days of exercise I can't really expect huge changes but I weigh 1 kg (2 pounds) more than last week and I have been good, have been eating fine (not perfect but pretty much in my limits), have exercised at least 2 hours a day and still I gained weight instead of losing!
SO unfair! I am clearly not going to be at goal for september which depresses me, plus today I saw how fat I look in every single mirror out there. My belly fat just hangs out there, I can't properly stretch because it lies in the way! I don't know if I have distorted view of my body today, when I see myself as fat or the last few days when I saw myself as rather thin.
I just hope that tomorrow is a better day, a day where hopefully I do not feel fat fat fat. I will not weigh myself until friday.

Food for yesterday:
Breakfast: 120 cals in cookies, juice... something else I can't remember
Lunch: salad and 5 white asparagus
Snack: 1 apple
Dinner: 2 eggs and 1 eggwhite scrambled eggs with some ham and cheese, then got a sweet hunger attack and ate like 300 cals in cookies with some toffee plus about 2 spoonfuls of icecream

Exercise: 45 minutes contemporary dance, 90 minutes funky

Food for today:
Breakfast: 3 maize crackers with ham (guesstimate at 120 calories total), 1 glass of fruit juice
Lunch: salad with crabsticks, 1 soy pudding
Dinner: 2 eggs and 1 eggwhite scrambled eggs with sweetcorn, 3 artichoke hearts and 2 slices of fat free turkey, 1/2 portion of salad, 1 soy pudding

Exercise 90 minutes contemporary dance, 90 minutes funky

Camy
 
good on you for realizing that the relationship you were in wasn't working. sometimes people lose 20 years before coming to the conclusion that you did.

and i agree with cherry, those dance classes sound like so much fun! but i am sorry that you had a shitty day. hopefully your week will improve and the scale will be kind come friday. :)
 
Thank you YMCA, I am still kind of struggling with the idea of being single again after 5 years with him, after having lived through so much together, giving up that part of my "family", the future, the wedding, the kids that I used to see in our future together.... but we aren't happy.

Today was better, I still feel fatish, but it is not as bad. I am ridiculously sore, not just muscle soreness but also physical pain, I have big haematomas on my knees, elbows, hipbones, feet, and shoulders from contemporary dance which is much harder than I ever imagined. And I can really feel that is has been 7 days with no break, my body is just really tired!

Food for today:
Breakfast: 4 maize crackers with 1 slice of turkey each, 1 peach, 1/2 glass of juice
Lunch: medium fries and meat patty from inside a hamburger, 400 ml of diet coke
Dinner: 1/4 spanish omelette, 7 white asparagus, 1 soy pudding

Exercise:
60 minutes of contemporary dance, 90 minutes of funky.

Camy
 
Just to prove how up and down this is, I feel perfectly skinny today! God only knows why I feel like this one day and like a fat pig the next...

I only went to one of my classes, the other one is so hard that yesterday I felt quite dispirited and today I just felt like not going. But I did go to funky, which is good. So at least I did get 90 minutes of exercise in. Not 3 plus hours, but still good.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 4 maize crackers with turkey, 1 peach, 1 glass of OJ
Lunch: 1/4 spanish omelette, salad, 20 cherries
Dinner: panasian food

Exercise:
90 minutes of funky

Camy
 
Tomorrow I am leaving so today was my last weigh in, I weigh 61.5 kg. Just fucking ridiculous. I am close to tears.... how is this possible? I have worked my ass off 2 to 3 hours a day for 10 days and I have been eating well, no treats in the last week, nothing and I stayed between 1200 and 1500 cals more or less and still I weigh 1 kg more than 10 days ago. I am so frustrated, how on earth am I supposed to lose this weight if eating little and exercising tons is not going to work???? I really really want to weigh 55 or eventually 53 kg, I do, I am committed to it but how how HOW will I do it? I look at myself in the mirror and I am such a failure, what did I do wrong, what am I doing or not doing that keeps me chubby? Any normal person would lose weight when they go from no exercise to 3 hours daily of exercise, why not me? And don't come with the muscle is more heavy than fat crap, because we all know that is not it. By laws of thermodynamics I HAD to lose weight and fat and somehow these laws do not apply to me.

I measured and I measure about the same I did a year ago, chest 89 cm, waist at the thinnest part 75 cm and hips 98 cm. I will try to dig up what it was last time I measured but it was not very different from this I tell you!

I am completely desperate, what can I do? I want to be 55 kg in like 2 months and we all know that if in the last month I did not manage to even lose a single pound (rather put on 3) I won't manage to lose any in the next 2 months either. I was 57.5 kg but only sickness induced I think, I wish so badly I could go back there and weigh that again, then I would be so close to my goal. I was hoping that in these 2 weeks at home I would go down to 58-59, but no, here I am, at 61.5, like a fat lard that I am.

This makes no sense anymore, I have been working on this for over a year and a half now and while most people who work for a year and a half are at least at the 100 pound mark I still only managed to lose 25 fucking pounds. I am doing everything fucking right, why don't the pounds budge? What kind of sick kramic joke is this?

In october I want to start my new life, clean slate, a different person since the one I was depressed me. I want to be thin and spunky again, I want to change my hair, etc... but if I can't even manage to be thin, how on earth will I manage to get my spunk back? I need to be thin because for the first time in 5 years I will be single and on the catch again and I tell you, I was never a very popular girl, never had lots of guys, but I will need that. The person I want to be gets guys easily, the person I am is a stupid fatso who can't even lose 5 kg for her graduation.

I am SO depressed, I don't know what to do anymore, should I starve myself? Because that may be the only way I can lose weight, when I am sick or starving myself. I have tried the good way, with a good number of calories and a good amount of exercise and I only gained weight!

I hate myself and my life today!

Edited to add, these were the measures from a little over a year ago:
Chest: 95 cm = 37.5 inch
waist: 82 cm = 32 inch
Hips: 105 cm= 41 inch

And today:
Chest: 89 cm = 35 inch
waist: 75 cm = 29.5 inch
Hips: 98 cm = 38.5

So I am down about 2 and a half inches in each region... well better than nothing which I thought it was but still sucky! In a year you'd expect more!
 
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That vent was SO needed, I felt fine the rest of the day, just needed to get it out. In fact I went out and bought myself skinny jeans. That is skinny in two senses, first of all they are actual skinny jeans (with the thin leghole on the bottom), but also they just about fit now, I kind of struggle a bit with them to get them onto my thighs properly, so they are also my jenas for when I am skinny. Smart, huh? They are an electric blue and SO pretty! Totally fit the person I want to be and will be. Funkylicious!
I also bought a triple CD of music, for my work out at home. One is funky style music (think lady gaga, britney etc...) one is street dance and the last one is for lyrical dance. I want to try to do an hour and a half to two hours of dance a day at home, about 30 minutes of warming up and then maybe a lyrical choreography and then a more funky one. We will see how well this works, I am not good at dancing by myself to be honest, but I am taking a DVD of my sister's dance recital and I will try to copy that dance for starters.

Food for today:
Breakfast: 4 whole grain gluten free cookies, 1 glas of OJ
Lunch: small side salad, medium fries
Snack: 15 cherries
Dinner: seafood and salad

Exercise:
60 minutes of contemporary dance and 90 minutes of funky
 
lol sometimes we need a good venting. and i dont imagine it's very easy for you adjusting to being single again, but with time, as with most things, it'll get better. im still jealous of your dance classes, especially the funky dance. i wish there was something like that close to me.

anyway, have yourself a good week, and keep your eye on the prize ;)
 
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