Emily Rose: The Reboot

  • Glad you're enjoying the discussions here Rob!
  • I got back to the scales yesterday, more about that below Amy. And yes, I have a soft toothbrush. I just need to use it more. :)
  • Definitely LaMa.
  • Thanks Petal, I might purchase those at the weekend.
  • Weekend went very well Cate, it is lovely being home.
Time for some food and weight tracking.

Sun 3rd Nov - 178.2 - 41.6%
Mon 4th Nov - 177.3 - 41.8%

Sun 3rd Nov
Exercise - Yoga
Food -
B: scrambled eggs (2 eggs, salt, milk), slice toast, butter
S: 8 raspberries, greek yoghurt, mini mars bar
L: crayfish soup, black pepper, salt, 1/2 slice brown bread, butter (I threw out all the crayfish soup after a few sips. It was truly disgusting. Never again.)
S: 10 sea salt and black pepper cashew nuts, 2 mini mars bars
D: Rib-eye steak, honey-glazed roasted carrots and parsnips, broccoli, onions, onion gravy, boiled potato
D: Coffee/whole milk x2; Tea/whole milk; 1 pint Hophouse 13; 1 pub-size Fanta; 1 Britvic orange

Mon 4th Nov (so far)
Food -
B: porridge, 10 blueberries, milk, 1 slice brown bread with butter and marmalade
S: 10 cashews, mini mars bar
D: Glass of orange juice; coffee and milk
 
Emilyrose said:
177.3
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Is that a new low? Good for you!
Emilyrose said:
crayfish soup, black pepper, salt, 1/2 slice brown bread, butter (I threw out all the crayfish soup after a few sips. It was truly disgusting. Never again.)
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What do you call crayfish? The small freshwater creature, the clawless lobster, or something else? I have always spelled and pronounce it crawfish, but in parts of the US it's crayfish. I really like crawfish, hopefully it was just badly prepared soup.

You are doing well, keep it up.
 
Emilyrose said:
Mon 4th Nov - 177.3 - 41.8%
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Great! And managing to head on down, despite it being a stressful week for you - with opening night coming up, etc, I mean, though being back home must be giving you an oasis of calm to return to. Anyway, good for you, re the weight - and good to salute another member of the 170s Club. :) (We are very close in weight - I was 176-and-a-bit this morning.)


overlandflyer said:
wondering if this is this essentially correct...
oatmeal is a porridge, but not all porridge is oatmeal...?
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Oatmeal is the ground oats used to make oat porridge, which is what I first think of when someone says "porridge" but people do call the similarly mushy dish made from rice "rice porridge" - though of course it has other names in the languages of the various countries which eat it - congee, okayo, chao... I guess there could be porridge made from any of the grass-type grains?
 
  • It's not a new low Rob, but a slight improvement. I think crayfish are little crustaceans. It was a supermarket brand soup, so horrific. I could still get the smell for hours afterwards.
  • Haha, yes I do Hana. I ate the last of the mini Mars bars this morning! :D
  • We call it porridge here Flyer, it's the processed oats version I mean.
  • Yep, sure they're only small Petal. :)
  • That's cool we are around the same Amy, hope we keep moving down the same path towards our goals!
I'm going to continue the food diary here, even though it's incredibly difficult to stay on plan at the moment, because I am out of the house for so many hours every evening. I also had a few drinks last night, the stress is getting to me a little! But I will be driving for the rest of the week so that should stop that.

Weight -
Sun 3rd Nov - 178.2 - 41.6% - 27.1
Mon 4th Nov - 177.3 - 41.8% - 27
Tue 5th Nov - 177 - 41.7% - 26.9

Really nice to see my BMI under 27 this morning. I really want that body fat percentage to go down, I think that's when I will really start noticing it in my body, but at least I feel I am trying again. Moving home might be great for me, as I can't really order takeaways or come home and binge on loads of food without comments being made. So that's probably good.

I saw photographs of myself yesterday - loads, from our dress rehearsal - and I'm a little bit sad about them. The positives are that my face looks good, which I guess is a massive positive. The bad is that I just look so heavy, I hate it. My head and legs look too small for my mid-section, if that makes sense. I guess the part I'm playing is quite an imposing one, but I looked at the pictures and all I could see was the Trunchbull. :( Not cool. Still, it's motivating me for the future as it's too late to do much now. But I can see why actresses are so skinny. It's just so easy to scrutinise yourself when you have photos taken of you all the time. And no one wants to look fat on stage.

Mon 4th Nov
Exercise - 30 minute run (2.94 miles) 10'16''/mile - Haven't been for a run since August, so I was very happy with this.

Food -
B: porridge, 10 blueberries, milk, 1 slice brown bread with butter and marmalade
S: 10 cashews, mini mars bar
L: Vegetable lasagne, carrots, boiled potato, broccoli, 2 chips, spinach
S: Sunflower seeds, 2 mini mars bars, 1 choc biscuit, 1 viscount biscuit, piece of pineapple, 1 jelly baby
D: 3 slices pepperoni pizza
D: Glass of orange juice; coffee and milk; 2 glasses of red wine (well, someone stole one of them after I'd only taken a few sips - annoying!), 2 pints Hophouse 13

Tue 5th Nov
Food -
B: scrambled eggs (2 eggs, milk), 6 cherry tomatoes, slice of brown bread, butter
S: mini Mars bar (finally gone! - Dad just discovered the empty pack, haha), cholesterol yoghurt drink, 8 raspberries
S: 2 pieces yellow snack
D: orange juice; coffee and milk; coffee and milk with dash of cream
S: cod liver oil

I have added a new 'Supplements' section, as my throat is sore and I need to start taking some boosters.
 
Lama Cadbury’s do snack bars . I can’t show you but there are purple ones and yellow ones . Purple are my favourite. Yellow nice too . Like a shortcake covered in chocolate .

There used to be pink ones which were the best but I have not seen them in years .

You are doing well Em
 
aiminglow said:
... Oatmeal is the ground oats used to make oat porridge, which is what I first think of when someone says "porridge" but people do call the similarly mushy dish made from rice "rice porridge" - though of course it has other names in the languages of the various countries which eat it - congee, okayo, chao... I guess there could be porridge made from any of the grass-type grains?
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that seems to fit in with what i've read... porridge can be made from most grains. i have heard of the rice version.

i've recently switch from the flake (rolled?) oats oatmeal to the steel cut version.
longer cooking time, but a better taste to me... somewhat crunchier.
 
Hi, Em. You sound like you are back on an even keel. I couldn't have mars bars in the house. Being back with your parents for a while won't do you any harm. Are you still looking at share houses? I bet the photos of you are not as bad as you think. I think we are all too self-critical of our bodies. How many shows do you do? Is it just this weekend?
 
Oh, great, about the BMI getting under 27! :) Yes, we are about the same in weight, but I'm way up in BMI - the reason I'm so keen to get to underish 175 is to get a BMI of underish 30.
I'm sorry you felt badly looking at the photos - the angle they're taken from makes a huge difference, of course, especially if it was taken looking up at you. (Roald Dahl is often pretty nasty about body shapes, with anything deviating from a very narrowly-defined norm being presented as indicative of bad character - I look with very jaundiced eye on a fair bit of his work. )
 
I’m about 4 lbs heavier than both of you I think. Are you not tall Amy ? The scales I weigh on at class calculates my BMi . I started at 33 I think and am about 29 maybe now . I don’t focus on that really more on how I feel tbh . And I feel good even though I want to go another 12 lb which will be a total of 40lb . Then I will reassess . But I feel happy in myself at the moment feel I look well . Maybe I need to see some photos though lol .
 
- Purple snacks are my favourite Petal. I still see pink ones around the place but with only 2 fingers instead of 3. You should look out for the snack family on your next trip to the UK LaMa.
- I prefer the flaked oats Flyer, I guess I'm just more used to them.
- Hey Cate, I will start looking again after Christmas. I don't think I want to move again before then. Show starts tomorrow night for 3 nights! :jump:
- I actually love Roald Dahl Amy, and his adult short stories are brilliant, kind of twisted and sometimes a bit mean. I don't take what he says personally, it was a different era. And he did have a great understanding of people and what makes them tick.
- Petal, please don't let my goals influence you or how you feel. I honestly think everyone's set point is completely different and what looks good on you might not look good on me. If you feel happy, the numbers don't matter. I know that I look better a stone or two lighter, it's what my set point really is, so that's why it's frustrating that I am not there when I want to look my best.

Weight -
Sun 3rd Nov - 178.2 - 41.6% - 27.1
Mon 4th Nov - 177.3 - 41.8% - 27
Tue 5th Nov - 177 - 41.7% - 26.9
Wed 6th Nov - 177.2 - 41.7% - 27

Tue 5th Nov
Exercise - Managed to fit in 20 laps in the pool and 10 minutes in the jacuzzi. Badly needed!
Food -
B: scrambled eggs (2 eggs, milk), 6 cherry tomatoes, slice of brown bread, butter
S: mini Mars bar (finally gone! - Dad just discovered the empty pack, haha), cholesterol yoghurt drink, 8 raspberries
L: lemon drizzle cake
S: 2 pieces yellow snack, 4 chewing gums
D: ham wrap
D: orange juice; coffee and milk; coffee and milk with dash of cream; cappuccino; peppermint tea; vitamin tea (kind of made me feel sick)
S: cod liver oil

I had a really brilliant day yesterday and I feel really happy and excited about life and the possibilities ahead for me. I've felt like things were stagnant for so long, but I guess sometimes you have to make things happen, and now I've realised that I can achieve so much and I don't have to be doing everything 'perfectly' in order to do that. I am feeling very content this morning.

I'm thinking about taking the free trial and going premium on my Fitbit. Has anyone tried it?
 
Emilyrose said:
I had a really brilliant day yesterday and I feel really happy and excited about life and the possibilities ahead for me. I've felt like things were stagnant for so long, but I guess sometimes you have to make things happen, and now I've realised that I can achieve so much and I don't have to be doing everything 'perfectly' in order to do that. I am feeling very content this morning.
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That is excellent, Em xo
 
overlandflyer said:
a perennial favorite name for crossword puzzle constructors, though.
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Lo! hard lad is a confused British author! ;)

He was also a rather hot-shot secretish agent in WW2, and I expect much more besides.

That's wonderful about the
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Emily, and even more, about the happiness and excitement about life and the possibilities ahead. Yes, you're really making things happen - I'm admiring that very much! And agreed about not needing to do things perfectly - a lesson I keep needing to learn.

When is opening night? Friday? or Saturday, maybe? Break a leg, for sure! (and reviews, or pics? That'd be great, if it's possible.)
 
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