Eerika's Diary

Hi Eerika, Well done on your weight loss so far! I don't think the weight loss is as noticable at the begining of a diet as it is at the end... After another 5 kilos evryone'll notice, don't worry.

I love your outfit for your sisters graduation, and i also love that you've resisted the tempation at your moms house till the big day. :)
 
Hello there! Thanks for your comment Overtherainbow! It made me smile today :) And you're right, weightloss will be more noticeable in the end, of course. Im just being impatient.

This has been second day preparing the big graduation party and Ive been baking all these sweet stuff. But I did resist the temptation and didnt eat any. Even the caramel cake was very seductive... Tomorrow I will taste it!

Maybe I should list today's eatings (I dont have exact quantities of all foods because my parent's dont have digital scale) :

Breakfast: 250g Quark, some sugarfree juice soup and muesli. (+Omegas)
Lunch: 1 Boiled egg, some turkey fillet and sallad with drop of sallad sauce.
Dinner: 2 Wheat tortillas with grounded meat, sallad, avocado and sour cream sauce. (+Omegas)
Evening meal: 250g Quark, some sugarfree juice soup, muesli and strawberries. (+Omegas)

Ive drunk as much water as Ive remembered, I would say about 2-3 litres.

Hmm.. I didnt have time to go for a walk today, but Ive been on my feet all day baking..

My parent's scale showed 87,5 kg this morning, but the scale shows always about 1 kg less than my own scale... I weight probably 88,5kg at the moment. I dont want to eat too much tomorrow because I will gain instant 2-3kg of fluids. Sucks..
 
Oh my.. Sister's graduation party is over (THANK GOD!!) My control with food, what would I say. I ate too much salty cakes I think, but I avoided the sweet stuff mostly. I knew this was going to be "free eating day", because there was no possibility to eat diet wisely. Im feeling puffy because of eating, I hate this feeling, but what can you do. Tomorrow I will continue the diet. Im waiting for getting back in the city (to my own apartment) and to my own routines.. My weight better stay under 90 kg!!!!
 
It'll be alright!!!! As long as its only one day! Even if you ate 4000 calories at the party, it would only mean that you would lose a quarter of a kilo less than you would have done! I Yeah, I hate that puffy feeling too. I notice it most in my cheeks, I feel a bit hampster-ish right now after eating some cake this afternoon. How have you done today?
 
Hey there!

My sunday did not go exactly as I wished for... I didnt follow the diet yesterday, because our house was full of left overs from the party. So I ended up eating sandwich cakes and some sweet stuff. I had weird stomach-ache the whole day. In the evening of the party's (saturday) I took some laxative which helped A LOT to lighten my state of being. Yesterday I obviously locked my bowel again.

Today Im going to live diet wisely again though. No more junk food for me! It is very interesting how food makes you feel physically.. Today Im heading finally to my own place. I would love to stay at my folks for few more days, but my diet is suffering here. It feels like my family dont even care about my diet, they almost encourage me to eat like they do!

At the moment Im feeling like Ive lost ZERO kilos. Not a good day! But thank you for leaving comment Overtherainbow! :)

P.S. Pic of me today! And there is a photo of some food I ate on saturday.. and sunday. :D
 
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Im sweating here! It is +30 here in Lapland! Im not a big fan of this kind of climate, but rather this than rainy cold weather.

Ive followed the diet for few days now. Ive gained 1,1kg from my sister's graduation party.. I HATE this when the weight goes up and down, makes me crazy! But it didnt go over 90kg though. :hurray: And In a week it will go down again. I set next free eating day to beginning of july.

So I have 5 weeks time to lose weight and make my physical condition better before ARMY! I shouldnt stress about getting my weight down so bad. I dont want to fail. I have to remind myself all the time that things wont change in a one night. And Im making this for good, I dont wanna come back in this state.. So Im trying to enjoy the journey as well. If Im too strict with eating, I will fail. Thats why I still use sallad sauce, feta cheese and protein bars! :rolleyes: But it hasnt stopped me losing weight! So I must have some foods allowed to eat, otherwise I get bored.

I wonder how much I could lose this weight in five weeks.. Is 5 more kilos too much in 5 weeks? Maybe losing will get much slower now? I dunno, I wish I knew the answers already. :D

My muscles are pretty sore because I worked my butt off yesterday in body pump. Maybe I will keep a rest day today and just taking it easy...

I found such a delicious protein bar (HyPro strawberry-yogurt)! I also bought new recovery drink including creatine and leucine, muscles should start to grow now! :D lol
 
You are skinny! I think the only large part of you is your boobs, and your arms are muscular as well, which could be making your weight show up as heavier.

I get a bit obsessed with the numbers as well, but just eat as well as you can, and you'll lose what you are meant to lose. Maybe you could set a target of 0.6/0.7 kilo's a week, and anything over will be a bonus.

That food looks yummy.

I didn't even realise Lapland had an army! Are santa's elves in it armed with toy guns? Just hold up some mistletoe and the people you are fighting will fall at your feet. Only joking, I know it will be hard work :) Are you excited?
 
overtherainbow said:
You are skinny! I think the only large part of you is your boobs, and your arms are muscular as well, which could be making your weight show up as heavier.

I get a bit obsessed with the numbers as well, but just eat as well as you can, and you'll lose what you are meant to lose. Maybe you could set a target of 0.6/0.7 kilo's a week, and anything over will be a bonus.

That food looks yummy.

I didn't even realise Lapland had an army! Are santa's elves in it armed with toy guns? Just hold up some mistletoe and the people you are fighting will fall at your feet. Only joking, I know it will be hard work :) Are you excited?
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Hello!

Me skinny? Ha! I dunno.. Im 175cm tall and 89,4kg heavy! Cant look skinny :D But I do have some muscle and Ive always done sports... So I know Im not full of fat.

Lapland dont have army itself, I will join the finnish military forces. But the presidio where I will be located is one of the northest bases in Finland. So our speciality is arctic training because of the varied climate.

I dunno how much you know about Finland, but northern part of Finland is just called Lapland. :)

And what a joke there! :D It will definitely be hard work, Im a bit scared and excited.. Will see how I will survive. Year is a long time in army though..
 
I had some problems to stay on my diet foods yesterday. I had a huge hunger at times so I ended up eating more food than I was supposed to eat. I also did 2 rough work outs yesterday (1h jogg and 1h body pump) so those put me eat more.. And now it feels like I cant handle the hunger?! Beginning of the diet I was absolutely starving and I did handle it! But I wanted to eat some sweet stuff yesterday so I guess I kind of shutted my mind up eating more normal food... Yesterday everyone were walking ice creams in their hands because of the heatwave outside. It made me so pissed.

I could list the foods I ate yesterday..

Morning jogg 1h

Breakfast: 250g Quark, 1 can pineapple and muesli.

Lunch: 1 Whole weat tortilla with 100g grounded meat, lots of sallad, some guacamole and 10% sour cream taco sauce. I also ate 45g Protein bar...

Body pump 1h, and I drunk recovery drink after work out.

Dinner: 2 Whole wheat tortillas with 100g grounded meat, lots of sallad, some guacamole and 10% sour cream taco sauce.

Evening meal: 73g Protein bar. (I guess calories are around 300-350kcal in the bar..)

THEN I was supposed to not eat anything later.. BUT what happened?! I found myself from the fridge few times. I dunno was I even so hungry, I just wanted to eat I guess.

So I ate 1 fried egg, turkey fillet, paprika and some cottage cheese. I drunk also 0,5l light soda and almost 1,5l pepsi max! Gosh.. Sounds like Ive eaten a cow or something. :D

My weight didnt go up from yesterday though.. It was 89kg yesterday, and this morning it was going to show 88,.. something but it stayed still in 89kg. Soo this is a new day!! And Im fighting with a Eerika inside of me, who wants to be still a emotional eater! Cos the new Eerika doesnt want to be one... :)

Im actually very surprised of myself, that Ive been able to stay on my diet now. Im really amazed. This has happened once before! And I lost back then 10kg in 3 months-->12 weeks! At the moment it is my 6th diet week! And Im so proud of myself not giving up! This has worked so well now. Even there has been a bad day, but Ive tried to solve those and make them better.. Kept on going. And even it hasnt felt good at the moment, it has felt Soooo Good afterwards!

When I started this diet, I made a few videos formyself. Telling about things and facts why I wanted to lose weight and feel better. When Im having a bad days, I will just look the videos and I know why Im doing this. I did those videos usually when I felt like shit and I totally feel bad looking at them. Its like this depressed Eerika in them.. Huh.. So sad.

Well.. My day didnt start well today, but after writing this it will get better! I will make it better!! And I truly hope you all who are struggling with weightloss at the moment HAVE A GREAT DAY!! <3

 
This day has been better. I didnt really work out though, because it is to damn hot outside! Makes me feel sick! But Ive controlled much better eatings.
I took some 6th diet week photos also.. Hmm, I think Ive got a little more muscle. Or got more toned, firmed?

Foods:

Breakfast: Oatmeal with cottage cheese and juice soup. (As usual)

Lunch: Chantarelle soup and sallad with cantaloupe melon.

Dinner: 1 Whole wheat tortilla with 100g grounded meat, sallad, guacamole and sour cream taco sauce.

I think I will eat a protein bar for evening meal.
 
eerika said:
Me skinny? Ha! I dunno.. Im 175cm tall and 89,4kg heavy!
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Are you sure you aren't getting pounds confused with kg's :) So not only are you joining the army, you are doing artic training as well? Bloody hell! Its just as well you don't like it being hot.

I am so proud that you are feeling proud of yourself- you should be, you've done really well. I also wander to the fridge cos i am bored, it has nothing to do with hunger. And I am an emotional eater as well.

That video is SUCH a great idea. There is a youtube channel for this forum, maybe you could upload it there? I think a lot of people could relate to it.
 
overtherainbow said:
Are you sure you aren't getting pounds confused with kg's :) So not only are you joining the army, you are doing artic training as well? Bloody hell! Its just as well you don't like it being hot.

I am so proud that you are feeling proud of yourself- you should be, you've done really well. I also wander to the fridge cos i am bored, it has nothing to do with hunger. And I am an emotional eater as well.

That video is SUCH a great idea. There is a youtube channel for this forum, maybe you could upload it there? I think a lot of people could relate to it.
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Let's not talk about the army.. Feels difficult to explain about it in english. :D And the videos Ive made are in finnish, soo cant upload them here.. And I think I wouldnt do it anyway cos those are some sad videos! But maybe I will make some more cheerful video to the WLF chanel...

And Im definitely not confusing kg's to anything else! :D We use only kg's in Finland, Ive never used pounds..!
 
Is it sort of like in Germany (I studied a bit of German at school and we learned a bit about the culture) where when you get to a certain age you have to do a year's worth of public service, in the army (armed forces/ police or something) or in another form of public service? That's what this is making me think of.
 
Amy, in Finland men have to serve in army for 6-12months after they turn 18. For women in the other hand military service is voluntary, but the training is of course the same as men have. Germany and Finland are very different in a many many ways. :D
 
Sorry, just trying to see if there was a way to explain it, if it was at all similar. (Germany and Finland are probably more similar than Finland and England or Finland and Australia)
 
amy1985 said:
Sorry, just trying to see if there was a way to explain it, if it was at all similar. (Germany and Finland are probably more similar than Finland and England or Finland and Australia)
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No reason for a apologize! :) Good you shared your knowledge about Germany because I dont really know about Germany, been there just once and it was a really short visit on my way to Brazil. :) But probably you re right about Germany being more similar with Finland than England or Australia.
 
Im a bit embarrassed of myself. I ate more food yesterday also than I was supposed to. The emotional eater came out. I have some stress in my life at the moment, and yesterday it felt like couldnt handle it anymore. I felt like eating junk food.. But I didnt. I ate extra protein bars, turkey fillet and sallad. Hmm, my weight got up +400g immediately this morning! Shit!

So maybe I can list the foods what I ate and just get over it...

Morning jogg 1h

Breakfast: 35g Oatmeal, cottage cheese, juice soup. Coffee..

Lunch: 1 Whole wheat tortilla, 100g chicken, sallad and some sallad sauce.

Snack: Protein bar (300calories)

Went to the gym for an hour and drunk a recovery drink afterwards.

Dinner: 1 Whole wheat tortilla, 100g grounded meat, sallad and some sallad sauce.

Snack 2: Smaller protein bar (135calories)

Evening snacking: Sallad with sallad sauce, soem turkey fillet, cottage cheese and a protein bar-> 300calories.

Holy..*. Seems like Eerika has been eating again. So I guess I dont need to wonder why the weight goes up and down (mostly up) now! :banghead:

Maybe today I will do better..
 
Ive been reading other people's journals here and it seems like you eat much less than me! Hehh.. My calories are around 1700-1800 and most people's calories are something 1200? Huh..

Anyway, today Im back on track:

Breakfast: 35g Oatmeal, some sugarfree juice soup.

Dinner: 100g Chicken, 200g veggies, some cottage cheese.

Dinner: Protein bar 73g -> 300 calories

1h jogg, recovery drink afterwards

Evening meal: 2 Fried eggs, 70g cottage cheese, 80g turkey fillet.

Drinks: Water, pepsi max

So today has been better, tomorrow I will weight myself and see how much Ive lost in my 6th diet week or have I lost anything! And my 7th diet week can start! Im excited. :)

Im also proud of myself today, because I jogged about 7km in 55minutes today. No walking, no stops, just running. :D Im feeling awesome!!
 
Bloody hell! Go you!!!!!! You seriously are superfit!

I reckon you can easily get away with the extra calories with all the exercise your doing. If you ate 500 calories a day less, you would lose an extra 1/2 kg a week, but I reckon your body needs them extra calories to do all that exercise.

I hope your problems are sorted soon :grouphug:
 
overtherainbow said:
Bloody hell! Go you!!!!!! You seriously are superfit!

I reckon you can easily get away with the extra calories with all the exercise your doing. If you ate 500 calories a day less, you would lose an extra 1/2 kg a week, but I reckon your body needs them extra calories to do all that exercise.

I hope your problems are sorted soon :grouphug:
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I dont consider myself superfit, Ive worked my butt off to get myself even in this point.. You know. But sure Ive always loved sports, and I think Im pretty ambitious about sports. But thats it, Ive never really cared about doing well at school or something more important. Hehh.. So this kind of little achievements, like running for an hour, makes me super happy! :D Im on my way to healthier state of being and the Eerika I want to be.

And yea, I get the calories.. I mean I work out and I couldnt live with only 1200 calories. Thats why Im wondering, do you exercise then if you eat only 1200 calories? My energy would be just gone. But sure I have to look that Im staying in a certain state when I still lose weight. I think some days Ive been like +/- 0. Ive eaten more, but Ive also worked out, so it has been like no weight loss.

Thanks for the message Overtherainbow. :eek: I hope also I could get rid of my stress ASAP.
 
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