Emily's weightloss diary

I totally agree with how hard it is to maintain a social life with living a healthy lifestyle - ok it might be possible if all my friends were health nuts who liked to go for hikes when we get together instead of drink and eat our faces off. I found before when I was losing what worked for me was being extra good Monday - Friday and then Saturday morning I would get a really good work out in and then Saturday night was my cheat night where I would enjoy myself and not stress about calories or weight gain and then back to the grind on Sunday - if something was happening another night I would just make that my cheat night and try to only go out once a week where drinking is involved - it is not possible for me to drink a lot and not want bad food! That worked before so I am hoping to get back to that - it's harder than it sounds.
Also about not wanting to wash your hair - just rinse off at the sink or put a shower cap on when showering - the sweat doesn't seem to make my hair greasy - just wet for a bit. Or do an exercise that won't make you sweat too much - yoga, abs, moves on the mat or just a brisk walk. Something to get your heart rate up but not to the point of dripping sweat.
Welcome to the forum - I look forward to reading more! Keep it up!
 
Boslo said:
Hi Mizzie. Unfortunately I don't think we actually have those in Australia, they sound good though.
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Bummer. Sorry, I didn't notice your location. Want me to send you a box?

I would look into the WW snacks you saw. Sometimes they'll have a chocolate granola bar or something. I haven't tried them, but I've heard they can be pretty good. Good luck!
 
Given that I cant imagine anyone is willing to give up their social life to achieve their weightloss goals (and no-one wants to be "that girl" that asks the host for an apple when everyone else is digging into some grease hangover morning pizza)
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Turn this around. Imagine you are the host. You have set out pizza and keebabs and chips and deep fried kangaroo and whatever. One of your guests comes along and asks for an apple. Would you really get offended just because someone asked for something different? Or what if you noticed someone snacking on some fruit or something that they brought with them? Going to kick them out of the house and de-friend them on Facebook.

Assuming the answer is no then you probably should not be worried about being "that girl". You might even start a trend.

By the way, you might try going to a party and not drinking. It's fun watching people get wasted while staying sober.
 
cerad said:
By the way, you might try going to a party and not drinking. It's fun watching people get wasted while staying sober.
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I totally disagree - I think it's the most annoying thing in the world! I'd rather stay home. Sorry if that sounds really bad I'm just being honest and that is just my opinion. Good for you for being able to do that!!
 
cerad said:
Turn this around. Imagine you are the host. You have set out pizza and keebabs and chips and deep fried kangaroo and whatever. One of your guests comes along and asks for an apple. Would you really get offended just because someone asked for something different? Or what if you noticed someone snacking on some fruit or something that they brought with them? Going to kick them out of the house and de-friend them on Facebook.

Assuming the answer is no then you probably should not be worried about being "that girl". You might even start a trend.

By the way, you might try going to a party and not drinking. It's fun watching people get wasted while staying sober.
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Hahahaha deep fried kangaroo. Well it's probably a bad thing, but I think I would judge them as one of the other guests, in a similar way to that I'd judge a girl that wouldn't go swimming at the party when everyone else does for fear of ruining her hair, as in a little uptight or a bit of a buzzkill. Then again I'm fairly sure that everyone isn't as judgemental as me so you're right, I'm probably not going to get de-friended over it or anything haha.

Oh and I'd have to agree with Chubbygirl with regards to not drinking. I mean I don't drink at all if I have dinner with friends, or go to an engagement party or something, but if it's 6am and you're still at the club, or an impromptu under-stars campout at the beach, watching the other wasted people isn't really gonna cut it.
 
chubbygirl said:
I totally agree with how hard it is to maintain a social life with living a healthy lifestyle - ok it might be possible if all my friends were health nuts who liked to go for hikes when we get together instead of drink and eat our faces off. I found before when I was losing what worked for me was being extra good Monday - Friday and then Saturday morning I would get a really good work out in and then Saturday night was my cheat night where I would enjoy myself and not stress about calories or weight gain and then back to the grind on Sunday - if something was happening another night I would just make that my cheat night and try to only go out once a week where drinking is involved - it is not possible for me to drink a lot and not want bad food! That worked before so I am hoping to get back to that - it's harder than it sounds.
Also about not wanting to wash your hair - just rinse off at the sink or put a shower cap on when showering - the sweat doesn't seem to make my hair greasy - just wet for a bit. Or do an exercise that won't make you sweat too much - yoga, abs, moves on the mat or just a brisk walk. Something to get your heart rate up but not to the point of dripping sweat.
Welcome to the forum - I look forward to reading more! Keep it up!
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Oh I agree, my friends are more the type to suggest cowboy shots and chocolate than wheatgrass and walking which makes it hard. Cheat night is a good idea though, it will make looking forward to the weekend even more exciting knowing that there's (almost) guilt free junk food to look forward to.

With the hair, I can get away with not washing it after exercise in winter, but in Aus summer any little bit of exercise is gonna cause pretty profuse sweating so I tend to have to wash it every time I exercise. I've come up with a semi-solution to that one though, I just jump in my pool for a bit after exercise and voila, sexy-messy beach hair haha.
 
Okay fellow weight loss peeps, here's what I had today:

Breakfast: (as always)
1 fresh fruit juice
1 bowl muesli
Snacks:
Soooo many cashews
2 peaches
About 15 pizza shapes
Dinner:
Buckwheat pasta with homemade garlic and vegetable based tomato sauce and grilled salmon cutlet (yum yum yum best dinner)

I didn't go for a jog cause it was too humid in the garage for the treadmill and too rainy for outside. Tried out Wii yoga though, which I cant see myself doing on a regular basis, found it pretty boring.

So, I've decided to set myself the mini-goal of being 60kg or under in 2 weeks, ie the start of uni. It requires about a 1.7 kilo weight loss so I think it's safely achievable, but will be tough.

Okay, I'm off to go out and NOT end the night with pizza and fries :)
Enjoy your Sat nights everyone :cheers2:
 
Hear those tiny violins? Yes that's my euphoria at going out last night and NOT pigging out on greasy crap. Which I must say has put me in quite a chipper mood today especially combined with the refreshing jog I just went for (about 4km (2.5miles) it's really time I upped that number and pushed myself a little though).

I also ate okay, and from now on I'm gonna calculate the calories of my meals and include that too:

2 nectarines - 140 cal
80g cashews (oh boy, these have well and truly replaced my chocolate addiction, need to look at cutting back) 400 cal
Buckwheat pasta with the vege sauce I made last night - 500 cal (estimate)
1 cob of corn - 50
1 serve brocolli - 50
Raisin snack pack - 60 cal

Total: 1200, pretty much right on my intended daily total. I know there doesn't seem to be many 'real' meals in there, but it was a pretty mammoth serve of pasta (which isn't necessarily a bad thing 'cause I tend to eat my dinner at like 5pm and then not eat afterwards)

Overall, a good day :)
Oh and I've decided to hold off weighing myself until Tuesday morning (which will make it a week since I've weighed myself) seeing as Monday night I have to go out for Thai food with friends and Pad Thai is my all time favourite, so maybe a weigh-in the next morning will persuade me to just get a soup entree instead. Also if I'm 134lb or under on Tues I'm gonna reward myself by buying an expensive shirt I've been coveting in a size 8 (I think that's a US size 4) which I should be able to fit by the time I reach about 128lbs

Oh and on a side note, I expected my enthusiasm to fade after the first week and I'd slip-up, but rather I'm finding that healthier habits are forming (especially with regard to snacking) so that healthier eating becomes more of an unconscious thing, even in the absence of strong motivation.
 
Ah s**t, I knew the last couple of days we're too good to be true, I was due for a slipup. On that note:

Breakfast
1 peach
1 bowl muesli
Lunch
Salad with smoked salmon
Dinner
Salad with brazil nuts
Snacks
Bag of salt and vinegar chips
3 subway cookies

Turns out eating a whole bag of salt and vinegar chips on an empty stomach causes a rather epic stomach ache until you eat something else (swear I must have almost used this as an excuse to eat the cookies)

Looks like I wont be hitting my intended weight when I weigh myself tomorrow, but I just bet my little sister MY CAR that I would be 132lbs or under 10 days from now. Now if that's not an incentive then I don't know what is!

On the one positive note, I can now comfortably jog 2 days in a row without feeling any muscle tightness from the previous day. I have been soooo looking forward to this!
 
Owww

Good news is that I've upped my daily run to 5km without feeling at all out of breath when I finish, and I should be getting that number to 6km (3.7miles) within a week.

The bad news is that I keep getting pain in my calves I've identified as posterior shin splints. I think if I'm gonna do this 'get fit' thing seriously I'm going to have to invest in some proper equipment like new running shoes with support for my flat feet because I strongly suspect this is the cause of the shin splints. Does anyone know of other ways to prevent them?

Until then I'm just gonna ice my shins after running and make sure I really warm up before exercise because I know that I'm about ten times as likely to eat healthily when I exercise so cutting back would no doubt wreak havoc on my eating habits.

P.s I know it's a common gripe but I cant help but have a little whinge about calorie counters. I find it impossible to believe that a 40 minute run on the treadmill apparently burns 45 calories, whereas 40 minutes on the WiiFit burns over 200. Those have got to be too low and too high respectively right?
 
Today....started well.

Brekkie: Muesli
Snack: 4 Ryvitas with honey
Lunch: Salad with salmon
Snacks: Ktime bar, Watermelon, Fresh fruit juice
Dinner: Vegetable kebabs in honey-soy marinade

Then, my 10 year old brother decided to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch, and in order to prevent him from adding a cup and a half of baking soda I took over the process, and ended up eating about half the cookie dough in the process. I tried to compensate by doing 1/2 hour of situps/lunges etc but I'm still so frustrated at my lack of willpower.

Ah well, tomorrows a new day and I'm gonna prove to myself that my willpower may bend but it will not break (to sound as grossly cheesy as possible). I'll start tomorrow with a 6km run and hopefully that will get me energised to stay on track for the rest of the day.
 
Oh boy, last night I dreamed about roast lamb allllll night. Time to reintroduce lean red meat to my diet in moderation? I think so.

On the exercise front I told myself I would just go for a gentle walk this morning and do situps and wall pushups etc so as not to exacerbate my shin splints, but I got so bored and ended up running for just 15 minutes or so which is probably a bad idea but I iced my calves afterward so hopefully I haven't done too much damage. Also I was wondering, does anyone out there know what your pulse should be when you're working out? Cause on the treadmill it gives a rather wide range (80-140)
 
your pulse will depend on your age and fitness level. Do you know what your resting heart rate is ? if so I can work out your HR range for you with a bit better accuracy than the 220-age method. the other option is to use the percieved effort scale which in some ways is a better way to work out if your training hard enough.
 
Trusylver said:
your pulse will depend on your age and fitness level. Do you know what your resting heart rate is ? if so I can work out your HR range for you with a bit better accuracy than the 220-age method. the other option is to use the percieved effort scale which in some ways is a better way to work out if your training hard enough.
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I just tried counting my resting heart rate then (although I heard that perhaps you should only do that when you first wake up because it's most accurate?) and I got 71. I'd never heard of the perceived effort scale before but I just took a look at it and I think it would still be a good idea to have a general idea for where my pulse rate should be during exercise because at the moment it's about 110 when I jog which seems kind of low to me. Thanks for your help.
 
it is best to take resting HR before you get out of bed but using the Karvonen Formula for your stats

220-20 (age) = 200 (MHR)
200-71 = 129 (Heart rate reserve)

if your aiming for around 60% range (moderate exercise level) your target HR would be

(129 X .6) + 71 = 148.4 target heart rate

the talk test

when exercising at a moderate level you should be able to talk, if you can't your training is more likely to be anaerobic and of a higher intensity than is needed for aerobic training unless your doing HIIT
 
Thanks for that Trusylver, I think I'll try and get my heartrate up a bit higher from now on. The talk test seems quite a handy little trick.



Okay: Todays diet entry:

Breakfast: 4 chocolate chip cookies (I swear it gets better from here!)
Snack: 1 cup watermelon + grapes
Lunch: Salad with salmon, kidney beans and chickpeas
Snack: 6 Ryvitas with honey
Dinner: Salad with brazil nuts, kidney beans and chickpeas

Adds up to 1300 or so, pleasantly surprising given the less than admirable breakfast choice.

Exercise: 4km walk/jog and 1/2 hour WiiYoga (sooo boring but 2 weeks ago I couldn't bend over with my legs straight and touch my toes and now I can put my hands flat on the floor so it's really helped my flexibility)

By the way I finally took some before photos today, however I'm kind of unwilling to post them until I have some improved photos to compare them to lol.
 
Question for other females out there

I was wondering:
Would you go off the pill if you knew you would automatically lose about 5lbs and be rid of any cellulite, but gain mild acne and lose a cup size in exchange? (Consider contraceptive function irrelevant in answering). For the record I’ve been on then off it before so I know what to expect. Also 5lbs is about ½ my remaining weight loss goal, so a fairly significant amount. Ahh it’s a toughie.


Okay, food entry:
Breakfast: Sultana bran cereal
Lunch: Homemade pizza with ham and vegetables (red meat is back, yayyyyy)
Snack: Cup of grapes and a peach
Dinner: Spaghetti bolognaise (small serve) with salad.

On the exercise front I’m still trying to not exert myself while my shin splints heal, so I just went for a one and a half hour brisk walk on the treadmill whilst doing some pre-reading for uni (boy is this little multitasking gem going to save me a LOT of time during the semester!). I found it so unsatisfying though, I get so antsy these last couple of weeks if I don’t get to go for a run.

On a slightly frustrated note: I haven’t seen any weight loss in almost 2 weeks. I’d understand if I was overeating or skimping on exercise but I’ve been eating 1200-1300 calories daily (calculated from my bmr for a weightloss of about 1.5lbs a week) and exercising every day for 40 minutes - 1 hour. I’m not actually that bothered because I’m feeling healthier, definitely feeling fitter, and forming some good habits, but I’d really like any insights on why I’m not losing.
 
I think I would keep the pill and the 5 pounds - I can't afford to go down a bra size since I'm only an A and I never want acne again so I think my choice would be the 5 pounds because with some hard work you can take that off too! Good work so far - I know it's frustrating when you don't see the results on the scale but just remember you are feeling better and that should be all that matters - easier said than done I know. Be consistent and with time the scale will go down. Keep it up :waving:
 
chubbygirl said:
I think I would keep the pill and the 5 pounds - I can't afford to go down a bra size since I'm only an A and I never want acne again so I think my choice would be the 5 pounds because with some hard work you can take that off too! Good work so far - I know it's frustrating when you don't see the results on the scale but just remember you are feeling better and that should be all that matters - easier said than done I know. Be consistent and with time the scale will go down. Keep it up :waving:
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Yeah I was only an A before the pill so I cant really afford to lose the extra cuppage either! It's just tempting 'cause it seems like such an easy fix lol. Thanks, I'm staying pretty positive about it at the moment, it's just if I don't see any results over a long time I can see that affecting my motivation pretty badly.
 
Grr, I just mentioned to my mum that I'm not a huge fan of empire line shirts like the one she was wearing because they look a little like maternity clothing and she replies "Yeah well at least I only look pregnant in this shirt chubby" with a meaningful look at my stomach. Even though this call is probably a little justifiable at the moment it pisses me off because she has been saying things like this since I was barely 120lbs (at 5"9, skinny by most peoples definitions!) and talking about how at my age she was only 100lbs (but a full half a foot shorter than me!) ugh, anyway that's my little rant done :rant:



NOT a good day today yesterday, somewhere close to the 2000 cal mark I'm estimating. I had:
Breakfast: Sultana Bran cereal
Lunch: 2 ham and cheese toasted sandwiches
Snack: Corn thins with honey
Dinner: Salad
Desert: Apple and berry crumble with icecream
Grrrr, must not make deserts for rest of family or I will eat them myself.

On the positive side, after another day of just gentle walking my shin splints appear to be nearly healed, so I might be able to go for a jog today :hurray:

On a less positive note I can smell bacon and eggs and pancakes in the kitchen so I'ma just going to hide here in my room for the next 1/2 hour 'till it goes away :S
 
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