Ranting and raving on a sunday afternoon
okay, today was supposed to be a workout day and i got all ready and dressed up to leave then it started raining
and since i take the bus that totally sucks so will stay home till it's stopped, or at least raining less. so have decided to rant abit to occupy my time.
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WEIGHT LOSS PROGRESS SO FAR
TOTAL WEIGHT LOST IN 40 DAYS IS: 11.4KGS (25.1POUNDS) 
29th march 2009: 159.1kgs(350.8pounds) - highest weight (since buying my scale)
10th may 2009: 147.7kgs(325.6pounds) - current weight
i think i'm really glad with my progress so far, to have lost 11.4kgs(25pounds) in 40 days....a whole lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into that.
i can only hope that the next 40 days will be just as good to me as these have, but i also have to prepare myself mentally that the rate of weightloss will slow down the longer do it for.
i also need to mention that since i'm starting at such a high weight, it's a drop in the ocean in comparison to what i have left to use, but step by step and slowly and surely will get there. the other thing is that when i look in the mirror it's like nothing's changed i still look the same....however as i mentioned to someone before all my clothes before were super super tight, and have now progressed to super tight.....little progress but progress and i'm glad about that. and waiting for the day they actually start to become loose.
i'm still basically eating clean and exercising 5times a week. i don't count calories (which is like criminal on here...lol!) which is why i never write down my meals, just my exercise. all i know is that i eat right and i eat clean. i cut out junk foods completely. the last 4 weeks i've only had one treat meal, i now eat lots of fresh and raw fruit and veges (i add veges to all my main meals), my protein source is lean meats basically skinless chicken breast, extra lean beef mince or fish. for carbs i take wholemeal everything, for now i eat a lot of wholemeal bread to accompany my protein, mostly because i'm too lazy to cook the brown rice or pasta, but also getting used to the taste as well. for breakfast i either eat oatmeal (and add 2 tbsps of natural wheat bran) with skim milk, OR i have kellogs all-bran cereal which i love because it has 10g of fiber in it for every 30g portion. about 3 days a week i'll be too tired to make dinner so will instead just have some all-bran with skim milk instead.
ummm i think that's pretty much all for now.
oh, the whole cheat meal/treat meal business, let me address that for a minute. in my case, the first few weeks i started my health eating i'd have a cheat day at the end of the week which would extend to two cheat days then three and next thing i'd be at square one and then start all over again with the health eating, i realised i'd gotten out of control with the cheat days. so as of a month ago decided to quit all treat meals for as long as i could to teach myself the discipline of eating right, and i've succeeded. i had my first treat meal last week (no longer a full day just one meal), and i had a slice of cheesecake. i however noticed that for 2-3 days following it i had severe cravings (but didn't give in). so for now will be giving myself a treat meal after about 3 weeks because it seems when i feed my body with sugar it turns into a monster. but for now i'm really happy with where i am.
in addition to the forum, i also log my weight loss progress in an excel sheet i created with a graph to show my progress to make sure i'm keeping on track. as i keep saying it's the first time in my life to ever have lost 11kgs, and everyday when i see the graph go down down down it makes me happy and want to work harder. i can only pray my next progress update 40 days from today is just as good. thanks for reading if you've gotten this far...and all the best with your journeys as well. xoxo
