Emily's weightloss diary

Okay I haven't posted for the last few days (getting ready for start of uni for the year = hectic couple of weeks). The last couple of days have been pretty dodgy, my calories have probably been up around the 2000+ mark but that's because things have been so disorganised. I'm the kind of person that has to have their week scheduled into half hourly slots (along with other residual OCD tendencies) so when my schedule goes out the window, so does diet and exercise. But now that I have my timetable I can plan what and when I eat the day before and I'm about 100 times more likely to eat healthily.

Anyway on a fantastic note my shin splints seem to have healed :hurray::hurray::hurray: so I can exercise properly again. Went for a 5km run this morning, was dying to go further but thought I shouldn't push it until I was absolutely certain my shins splints were healed.

Sooo excited to be back at uni, and the new Subway they just built next to the library will make eating healthy(ish) a lot easier those days I dont have time to pack my lunch (in replacement of the Thai restaurants that border the entire west side of the uni)

Until next time
Emily x
 
Got my eating back on track today happily.
Breakfast: Healthwise for Heart cereal (I could live off this stuff, it has wheatflakes and dried cranberries and dried apple and is soooo good) (250 cal)
Snack: Muesli bar (100 cal)
Lunch: Small salad, corn thins with honey (350 cal)
Snack: Cup of instant soup (100 cal)
Dinner: Salad with chickpeas and kidney beans (300 cal)
Snack: 1/2 cup trail mix (100 cal)
Snack: 2 nectarines (100 cal)

=1300 calories

I've started to make sure I have a bunch of 100 calorie snacks around so I can eat regularly instead of being hungry and eating excessively at lunch/dinner.

Also I ended up walking/running a total of 9km (bout 6 miles I think) so I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Oh and I packed my lunch for uni tomorrow (first time I've packed a lunch in a loooong time) so I can calculate my food intake for tomorrow too (most likely wont have the time to post tomorrow)
Breakfast: Healthwise for Heart cereal (250 cal)
Snack: 1 1/2 cups watermelon and grapes (150 cal)
Lunch: 8 corn thins with honey (300 cal)
Snack: Muesli bar (100 cal)
Snack: Subway smoothie (120 cal)
Dinner: Whatever mum makes, approx 300 cal serve

Total calories = 1220
I know it may seem premature to post this now, but I know that when I have thoroughly planned out what I will eat the next day I'm more likely than not to stick to it, it's when I leave it until I'm hungry to decide what to eat that I'm likely to make bad choices.

Wont be doing any exercise tomorrow unfortunately, but I'll be on my feet for 8 hours or so and walking around so it shouldn't be too bad.
 
Love days like this :)

Don't you love those rare days where you wake up and your confidence is just unshakeable for some reason? Today was one of those days for me. Yes I know my body has a little extra jiggle at the moment but in a lot of ways that actually makes me feel more confident and womanly than I did as a stick figure. People are so afraid of coming across as conceited that they adopt a manner of self-deprecation which exacerbates existing insecurities to form almost a mantra of self-loathing. So, from now on I'm gonna stop thinking "I need to lose my fat ass" and start thinking "I'm going to make my ass even better". It's gotta be a much healthier attitude right?

Anyway, just like to clarify that I am not in fact high right now lol. Also this currently positive self-image is not entirely unprompted, 1st day uni for the year + getting hit on by many a hot freshman = big confidence boost :)

Anyway, moral of the story (rant) is that I'm gonna try be more positive about things from now on... (even about being at uni for 17 hours tomorrow :willy_nilly:)


Also, I ate as a predicted today (seriously, if I write it down beforehand I do it, no question about it) with the addition of one small 80% cocoa dark chocolate bar. So tomorrow I'm gonna have:
Cereal
Muesli bar
Corn thins with honey
Dark chocolate
Japanese style ramen
5 bourbons and diet cokes

Not a great diet, but we have no fresh fruit or veges in the house, and I wont be home anyway, plus I'm going to dinner with friends at my fave ramen place, and out to a comedy club and then to a nightclub so the drinks are kinda inevitable. Hopefully 3 hours or so of intense dancing should make up for it a little. Anyway, until Fri or Sat,
Emily x
 
I've tried various low-carb, low-calorie, and low-fat diets for the past couple of years. Although the Atkins diet is very popular, it made me feel somewhat unhealthy.
The diet plan I'm on right now is the Medifast Diet. The caloric intake is roughly 800-1000 calories. However, it doesn't make my body feel weak. It is a bit of a pricey diet, but there are plenty of coupons available on the internet (i.e. ). You should never pay full price.
My advice is just choose a diet plan which your body reacts positively to. No one knows your body better than you do!
 
Hey hey.

So, I did eat exactly as planned yesterday, cept instead of Japanese I had Chinese chili pork noodle soup, the REAL Chinese kind, not the crappy western interpretation of Chinese food. Yummmm. Also 5 Jack and cokes turned into more like 10 Jack and cokes and 7 champers (yes I understand this is excessive, but it was over 8 hours and I'm afraid that any anti-alcohol recommendations will fall upon deaf ears.

Exercise for the day, well there was no set exercise as such, but the night kinda turned into a city-wide pub crawl so there was a lot of walking, and I danced like an absolute maniac at my fave dance club for 2 hours, not to mention standing for 9 hours during the day. Unfortunately I twisted my ankle and so exercising today was out of the question (not that I really had any inclination to do so). Also today's diet was not so impressive, I had a bowl of cereal, 2 fundraiser Freddo frogs, a toasted ham cheese and tomato sandwich, and a light yoghurt. Not terrible calorifically, but not many nutrients in there.

Aaaand now I am going to hit the hay (at the late late hour of 6:30pm haha) and sleep for a good 14 hours or so. Isn't sleep amaaaazing. G'night x
 
SUCH a pain in the ass

Was so looking forward to having some free time today and tomorrow to get in a good workout. Then I went ahead and dislocated my kneecap. Looks like the only exercise I'll be getting today is hopping to the freezer to get new icepacks every hour...passing the caramel swirl icecream every time I do. :banghead:

Grrrrr.
 
Well todays food was some of the most delicious I’ve had in a long time. Gotta love those lazy summer barbeques by the pool. Unfortunately the night took a turn for the worse at the end, ugh, it was going so well until then, whyyyy.
I had:
Breakfast: Cereal (200 calories)
Lunch (over a period of about 4 hours): Roast macadamia and pumpkin salad with cherry tomatoes and avocado; grilled salmon cutlets; honey-soy chicken; rocket, parmesan and balsamic vinegar salad.
I kept the portions tiny because I wanted some of each, but boy was it delicious (I’m estimating 600 calories to be generous)
Snack: Cup of grapes and 2 peaches (200 calories)
Dinner: Thick slice of fresh homemade bread (absolute heaven) with margarine (150 calories)
I figured that would be it, at a nice 1150 calories. But then I went out and ate a whole large bag of honey soy chicken chips, which I think is almost 1000 calories. NOT GOOD. Tomorrow I’m going to do about 500 crunches and a tonne of weight based exercises to try and make up for it seeing as I wont be able to run for at least a week (dislocated knee, ugh).
 
OMG OMG OMG first day of uni classes for the year tomorrow, sooooooo excited! However not keen to have to cancel my morning coffee and donuts with friends, or our weekly Thai food lunches, or end of class drinks and snags at the uni bar etc etc. Ah well, maybe I can get some of them onto healthier habits too!

Breakfast: Cereal (200 calories)
Snack: 1 peach (50 calories)
Lunch: Sweet chili chicken wholegrain wrap with spinach, tomato, and capsicum (300 calories)
Snack: Fruit and nut snackpack (150 calories)
Dinner: Teriyaki beef with capsicum and rice (500 calories)

= 1200 calories. Decent effort, hopefully make up for yesterdays slip-up a little.
Feeling good about Tuesdays weigh-in for the biggest loser comp, I'm hoping for a pound loss even though I'll only have been doing it 3 days.
 
I figure my knee should be okay to do some decent walking on tomorrow, so I can finally do a little working out yayyyy (I know less than a week seems like a short healing time for a dislocated knee, but I've done it a few times before so the injury seems to be less intense each time).

Today I ate:
Cereal (200 calories)
Muesli bar (150 calories)
Fruit and nut snack pack (150 calories)
Tuna sandwich on rye bread with rocket and tomato (350 calories)
Apple and cinnamon muffin...whoops (400 is my estimate, don't know)
1/3 a kitkat (I bought it, then realised it was a bad idea so threw 2/3 out, so proud of myself for that willpower) (100 calories)

= 1350. Not terrible numberwise, but it wasn't the healthiest day by any means.
 
Hello

I hope your knee is starting to feel better. It's good that you are doing some exercise even if you are injured and not using it as an excuse. I am so jealous that you are enjoying summer BBQ ...I can't wait for the winter to end it's easier to exercise when it's nice out!
 
Verobc said:
Hello

I hope your knee is starting to feel better. It's good that you are doing some exercise even if you are injured and not using it as an excuse. I am so jealous that you are enjoying summer BBQ ...I can't wait for the winter to end it's easier to exercise when it's nice out!
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Hey Verobc, thanks for dropping by...my diary was starting to look a little lonely! Yeah I found for the first couple of days after hurting it I was itching to get out and exercise but after a couple more days I'm not quite as pumped so I'm definitely gonna have to push myself to get into it. Yeah summers just ending so the temperatures kind of perfect for running outdoors and stuff (77ish). Ah well, a in a few months the tables will turn and you guys will be reveling in the sun while us Aussies cower in the heated gyms haha.
 
Killer day. Knee finally felt healed enough to do some exercise :party:
So I:
Went for a 10km walk (6 miles) (I thought running might be pushing it)
Skipped rope for 1/2 hour...man how did I not think of skipping before, this s**ts sooo much better/more intense than running, and doesn't feel like it puts as much pressure on my knee either (although on the negative side I did whack myself in the forehead with a rope a couple of times...no more attempts at backward skipping for me!)
200 crunches
200 lunges
1/2 hour yoga
I'm feeling an awesome post-workout buzz right now, especially in my arms and shoulders (the skipping rope had 1lb weights for handles).

Also, exciting news: I lost 2lbs!!!...in the week that I wasn't able to exercise, go figure. But still yay!:hurray::hurray::hurray:


Today I again ate within my calories, but not exceptionally healthily, must not let this become a habit.
Breakfast: 3 pieces of toast with honey (300 calories)
Lunch: 1 slice turkish bread with chicken breast, pineapple and cheese (300 calories estimate)
Snack: Berry scone (200 calories estimate, man I hate eating out and not knowing exact values)
Dinner: Tuna, vegetables and rice (400 calories)

= 1200 calories, although I was just taking a guess with a few of those so I cant say for sure but I think I was pretty generous.

Anyway, biggest loser comp weigh-in tomorrow, heck I'm keen to be able to record a 2lb loss :)
 
Whoops forgot to post yesterday. Here's a brief rundown: Yesterday I ate about 1500 calories, today 1200. Exercise was only walking, probs about 4km each day. Tomorrow is slightly less crazy hectic so I plan on getting in a decent 1-2 hour workout. Also need to eat lots of fruit/veggies. As in lately too many of my calories are coming from carbs. I mean they're not the worst (cereal, rye bread etc), but I still need to step up the fresh veggies. That's all for now folks.

Emily x
 
Congrat on the 2lb loss!!!!:hurray: you are doing great..... I never thought of jumping roap myself, I have been trying to find some fresh cardio exercise that I could do while watching tv, I could do my toning exercise while my shows are on but when the comercials come on skip roap, thanks for the idea!!!!! As for the summer the last two I didn't even buy summers clothes cause the weather wasn't that hot, so I am hoping for a good one this year!!!! I have a hard time fitting Fruits and vegies in too, I usally pack my lunch on the go in the morning, I should do it the night before! Talk to you soon
 
Grr, such a fail day:
Breakfast: 3 pieces of toast - 350 cal
Lunch: Mashed potato with vegetables- 250 cal
Snack: 1 peach one nectarine - 100 cal
THEN: I was for some reason still hungry, and even after I binged on chips (500ish cals) I was still by some miracle hungry, so I had a muesli bar (150 cals), and then a glass of milk with about 50% milo (300 cals). Its not even like those times where I just keep eating when I wasn't even hungry, I WAS hungry for some inexplicable reason. I definitely should have just had something more substantial like a sandwich and left it there but as I said, today was an epic fail. Anyway, then
Dinner: Roast lamb and vegetables (300 cals)

Overall that's a whopping 1950 calories (roughly). Grr.

I also ran for 4km, did yoga for 20 min and skipped for 20min, which now feels like a waste. Dammit.

Ah well tomorrows a new day, I'll make up for it etc, etc.

On a random note, I was watching home videos of me when I was younger tonight (the kind that were actually still recorded to video not harddrive!), and apart from being a tyrant of a child who commanded the neighbourhood children like my own personal army/slaves, I couldn't help but notice how insanely skinny I was and how much I ate! Between the ages of like 10-15 I shot from 5 foot flat to almost 5"9 yet didn't go above like 100lbs. I think in a way this is a part of my problem. As in my sister (2 years my junior) was never as skinny as I was, and only about 5"3, so she has always had to eat sensibly, and now she's still pretty thin because she has good habits. I on the other hand could eat absolutely anything in my teens and not gain a pound, a fact for which my friends hated me (one even claimed she was anorexic because of being compared to me!), but which set me into some really bad eating habits once my growth spurt/metabolism began to slow. Just a random thought of mine: Maybe it would have actually been helpful to be a chubby child so I didn't form these habits. Who knows.
 
Verobc said:
I never thought of jumping roap myself, I have been trying to find some fresh cardio exercise that I could do while watching tv, I could do my toning exercise while my shows are on but when the comercials come on skip roap, thanks for the idea!!!!!
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Oh yeah definitely try it it's fantastic...Just don't blame me when you cant sit down the next day because your bum and back of thighs are too sore!!! (Also try getting a skipping rope with weighted handles if you wanna work out your arms at the same time):)
 
Hello

I just read your last entry, you still good you went over your cals but not by too much and with the exercise you did it probably ballanced out! I was looking at what you ate before you started your snack attack and notice that there was hardly any proteins so mabe that is why your hunger would not go away. I find that is I have protein in everymeal it keeps the hunger away.
I use to be very skinny myself in old pic I can see all the bones in my ankles, but as soon as I hit the teen years I started to gain (I think that is around the same time I stopped eating breakfast)

As for the skipping roap I am using my dauthers for now but will eventually buy the ones with weight, and yes my legs and behind are killing me, but it's a good kind of pain, if such a thing exist :coolgleamA:
 
Whoopsie, haven't posted in almost a week. This does not mean I've gone drastically off course or anything, I just haven't been home for more than 8 hours in a day in the last week so updating has slipped my mind. Anyway, food has been generally good, but the last 2 days I forgot to pack my lunch for uni (well actually I packed a rather delicious lunch yesterday, which I then proceeded to leave on the counter...d'oh!) and had literally no money on me so I had to rely on the various types of free food available around uni, which usually takes the form of sausage sizzles, cakes/muffins/cookies and beer. I didn't go crazy with portions or anything though, calories still would have made it at under 2000 (just)
Anyway, I'll start posting everything I eat again, including today which was not the best
Brekkie: 3 pieces toast with honey (300)
Lunch: 3 slices pizza (700ish?)
Snack: Grapes (100)
Dinner: Crumbed chicken fillets and veges (400)
Total: 1500

The big problem is that my shin splints are totally messed up again. I got sports shoes with special support for my arch (I have flat feet), and have been stretching heaps and icing my legs whenever I do any exercise, but I still cant jog for even 10 minutes without my legs feeling totally fucked up. Grrr. I really want to be able to workout properly, situps and lunges just aren't cutting it, and I feel so lethargic when I don't exercise.
 
there are several ways to strap to reduce the severity of shin splints but it may be of benefit to you to strengthen your Tibialis Anterior by doing some reverse calf raises because when your calf becomes a lot stronger than your shin muscle you get an imbalance which causes pain. which stretches are you doing ? there are diferent stretches to target different parts of the lower leg.
 
Trusylver said:
there are several ways to strap to reduce the severity of shin splints but it may be of benefit to you to strengthen your Tibialis Anterior by doing some reverse calf raises because when your calf becomes a lot stronger than your shin muscle you get an imbalance which causes pain. which stretches are you doing ? there are diferent stretches to target different parts of the lower leg.
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Someone suggested I strap/tape them but I thought it seemed like a lot of effort if I'm just going for a half hour run which is what I do most days. I've been doing some exercises for my Tibialis Anterior that a physio gave me when I went there a few years back (and obviously didn't keep up the exercises or I probably wouldn't be having this problem). My big problem is that as a child (and made much worse by years of ballet dancing) I always walked on tippy-toes for some unknown reason, like to the extent of my legs and feet forming a straight line so my calve muscles are super strong and the front of my legs are not. So I'm doing stretches at the moment focused on my calve muscles because I figure the fact that they're so tight I can hardly stretch my foot above a 45 degree angle has got to be a big part of the problem.
 
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