Fat to fit - diary of a food lover

thanks anna, and cheers cabbie, digi-hugs are always lovely :)

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Definitely hating the stress... i threw up yesterday morning, and again this morning, and almost in the exam tonight too. I dont know WHY my stomach has decided that stress = vomit but I definitely don't like it. And i know its not morning sickness cause i've had this before, every time im crazy stressed i feel sick, and eventually chuck :(

had my third exam tonight. it went ok, pretty sure i passed. the next two, over the next two days, are going to be the worst. i'm terrified about my exam on thursday, i havent even started studying for it yet, and its a huge subject. if i sat the exam now the only mark i would get would be for spelling my name right. OH THATS RIGHT YOU DONT GET MARKS FOR THAT?! I'm actually devastated, in preparation for how badly i will fail on thursday, aeeerrrgh??!!

OK, back to books
 
Okie dokie,

I have now finished 5 of my total 6 exams. The last exam I have is a prac exam, it only goes for 15 minutes and I feel pretty confident about it. And, just like magic, my mysterious stomach problems have disappeared. Infact, within hours of finishing my last written exam I felt almost 100% better, AND, for good measure, I took a pregnancy test, mostly for peace of mind of myself and Braedan, and it was negative, as expected, but a relief none-the-less. We both agree babies are a possibility, but not for at least another 5 years.

So, weight loss, which is what i'm online for, something which may have slipped my mind recently... Exams are never a good time, weight-wise, for me, but i guess throwing up everything (water included) for a few days in a row kinda made up for the take-away i indulged in and the ice-creams braedan kept bringing me; "study food" he calls it, very nice of him, but i probably didnt need it.

Long story short, my current weight, as of this morning, is 130.3kg, so yes, back over that annoying 130kg mark, and hence back over the BMI of 40 mark, but it's given me good incentive for my first week back on track. I'm aiming to be back under 130kg by next saturday, and under 125kg by christmas, both reasonable goals I reckon.

The weather is starting to get absolutely beautiful here at the moment, and is even getting up to 35 degrees on wednesday (thats about 95 for you non-aussies)!! So me and braedan will be heading to the beach we reckon :)

Really gunna up my game for eating and exercise. More meat and salad, less carbs, more cardio. The aim is for MINIMUM 30 minutes a day exercise, but i will allow myself to do like an hour one day, then have a day off if i get lazy the next. So i guess aiming for 3.5 hours of exercise this week.

The pantry and fridge are looking a bit sad today, its been a while since i've been shopping, so will stock up on fresh fruit, veg and meat when i go shopping either tomorrow or tuesday (monday is being written off as celebratory drinking day, as me and a bunch of my uni friends all finish our last exam by midday, and intend to be drunk by 1pm)

And thats about all for now i guess, feeling really positive about this healthy thing again, feel good about my exams (think i passed all of them) and am looking forward to getting healthy for all my placements next year :)

With love

Kate

PS - I apologise if my negative posts brought anyone down over the last week or two. I'm not going to delete them - i think they're a good reminder of what i never want to feel like again. But yes, reading negative posts is never nice, so i apologise.
 
Katie, sweetie, don't delete them, any negativity is best left here and out of you right? Catharsis, thats part of why we're here.

Support is the other, and we don't care if you are in a negative thought loop for a bit, we're here to be supportive, that's a part of this I know I take pretty seriously.

I'm a bit of a perv, occasionally sarcastic, likely to come in and leave innuendo in diaries.... and also hugs and support and any time you need an ear...

Your goals going forward look good. Do you do any kind of strength training too? I'm a huge proponent of adding some in if you haven't added some already.
 
Its good to see a few negative posts... proves you're human :)

Well done on all the hard work to get through your exams, sounds like you've got a good week of exercise planned.

Have some fun!
 
I've been a negative nancy for ages, hun, please don't apologise <3 So glad exams are nearly over. I have 4 essays to write before xmas hols so best get moving, I think! Have fun at the beach, pretty lady :)
 
naww thanks guys :) cabbie, u can leave all the innuendos you like, i have a dirty mind myself, i've been holding off for a while on this site, want to make a good impression, but once i've lured you all into a false sense of security, the conversation is likely to drift to the gutter regularly :) and as for strength training, yup yup, working on upper body and core strength at the gym at the moment, cause im gunna need it for work next year (massages, manual handling etc)

Thanks for the support anna, definitely have a good week planned, its so nice to think 'oooooh who am i going to catch up with today?' rather than 'what social plans do i need to reject today so i can study?' :D and this WEATHER??! gosh it's like mother nature is rewarding me for working so hard!!

And best of luck with your essays sunflower!! xx

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OK, so, while exercise didn't happen yesterday (unless you count scrubbing the BBQ getting ready for summer, which i have to admit, got me worked into a sweat), i have eaten very good food, i've been having chicken and salad wraps for the last 2 days, om nom nom. Slept for 12 hours on friday night (fell asleep during harry potter, which is just insane for me, i <3 HP, and braedan couldn't wake me up no matter how hard he tried, so i clearly needed the zzzz's) and then slept for another 11 hours last night. Finally starting to feel like my old self again, not the zombie I became in swot vac.

But yes, today will include a few laps of the oval across the road before a bit of study tonight. And tomorrow my STRENGTH (for you cabbie) training will be one-handed bicep curls using beer, wine, metho, whatever is cheapest... as weights :D

But for now, back to my low-joule cordial and TV while half-arsedly writing notes for tomorrow :)

Have a great weekend guys xx
 
Great diary Katie, I definitely wish you the bestest of luck with it all.

Aussie myself here... summer around the corner... oh boy need to try push to lose a bit extra haha... really is hard to go gym during summer.. it gets so damned hot. Wish we had more 24/h gyms in Australia.
 
Hey Katie, I just popped in to say hi.

Don't beat yourself up over being negative and eating badly whilst doing your exams - that was always my worse time too...I lost count of the amount of chocolate bars and pastries and packets of crisps I must have eaten in hotel rooms whilst revising for my chartered exams...at the time it was the only way to keep going at such a high level of work and energy and get through it. In fact, I didn't get serious about weight loss until after I passed them all...then I had the energy to focus on something else! So you do what you have to do to get through!!

Sounds like they went ok though :) and now you can de-stress and chill and pat yourself on the back for getting them over and done with.
 
EXAAAMMMMSSS AAAARRREEE OOOOOVVVVVEEEERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

Wooooaaaaaah, it has been a wonderful few days, had a few hiccups in my last exam, but I reckon I passed :D AND I handed in a form for 'special consideration' which means if i fail the last written exam i did (the one i feel like i did worst on), but only fail by a few marks, they'll bump me up to a pass. Feels like a bit of a safety blanket so i'm happy :)

Anyway, as planned, we went out for lunch (and cocktails) after the exam then went back to a friend's house and we were all drunk by 3pm, 6 of us girls sitting in an inflatable pool downing vodka+cranberry juice, beer, cruisers, you name it, we drank it. We laughed over the stupidist things and fell over each other and screamed (yeah, not sang, screamed, they were passionate and we all got really into it) along to lovesongs on singstar and Nic, who stayed sober cause she had to go to dancing that night, drove 3 of us dripping wet to pick up pizza, which i would feel guilty about, but due to drinking so much, it didnt stay in my belly long, lol :p

AND LAST NIGHT I WENT AND SAW HARRY POTTER?!?!?!!!! OMG <3 OMG <3 LOVED IT!! When the snake jumped up at them I jumped so high i got clearance off my seat and smacked myself in the face with my hands... then had tears rolling down my face cause me and Braedan were laughing so much.

I had the lemon pepper squid and we shared an ice-cream, it was my celebratory meal for finishing all my exams, and we both promised to get more serious about our health kicks starting today, which is going well so far, I finally went shopping and got lots of lean meat and fresh veg. The only snacks i got was fruit and rice crackers :)

Going xmas shopping with mum again tomorrow, i'm almost done, gosh, hate xmas shopping, it is SO HARD to shop for boys!! Was thinking about going to an adult store for braedan's gift, maybe buy him a "stress boob" (stress ball with a nipple, haha) hmmm might have to keep thinking :p

Anyway, mum bought me a bunch of clothes on tues when we started our xmas shopping on tues, and I bought some of the biggest sized clothing i've ever bought, it was really embarrassing actually :( definitely good incentive to lose weight.

OK, i'm off to work

xx
 
Everyone seems to be counting calories, so i'm going to do the same. Just so i'm cool like the cool kids.

Food: 1 bento box (teriyaki chicken, rice, cabbage and broccoli) with a vitamin water (94 cals just for the vitamin water) at home I had probably half a packet of those rice crackers (214 cals) and a lean cuisine chicken risotto (314 calories)

so, as i have never counted calories in my life, i googled rice, and it was about 200 cals, and teriyaki chicken was about 100, so with the vegies im guessing my brunch was about 350cals, total. How do you guys count your cals? Vegies dont have nutritional info stamped on them :(

for the day, thats about 970 so far, soooo, ill try and keep it under 400 cals for afternoon snacks and dinner tonight... hmmm gunna go google 400 calorie meals :) <3 google

OH, didnt include my low joule cordial... but... upon inspection, its like 4 cals per 100mL, so add another... 20 cals, ish...

I promise to be painfully honest with food on here, no more 'leaving bits out', afterall, who am I lying to? Myself? No point.

Kate
 
Are you thinking of trying an online calorie service? I have used both dailyplate and fitday. Both are pretty effective. Daily plate has more listings for commercially available food (name brands), whereas fitday requires more user input to customize foods. Fitday however will break down your macro and micronutrients better so you can see how you are doing on things like vitamin levels.
 
Ok, I lost my huge entry about my journey to discovery about calories. The summary is:

LESSON #1: never eating avocado again. There were more calories in my 1/2 avocado than my entire bread roll.

LESSON #2: 200mL of OJ = 70 cals. No more OJ with breakfast.

LESSON #3: there are more calories in ONE TABLESPOON of my favourite mayo then there are in an entire bowl of sultana bran. more sultana bran, less mayo from now on. Maybe time to swap mayo brands.

Thinking maybe I should have started counting calories a long time ago. I've probably been eating hundreds, if not thousands more calories each day than I should. Today i'm already at 1200 cals and havent had dinner yet. Will prob end up on 1600 after dinner.

At least i'm learning?
 
Just found a list of "zero calorie foods" (takes the same/more energy to digest these than is contained in each item) for my own reference, i'll post them here.

Vegetables
Asparagus
Beets
Broccoli
Green Cabbage
Carrot
Cucumber
Cauliflower
Celery
Dandelion
Hot Chili Peppers
Cucumber
Endive
Garden Cress
Garlic
Green Beans
Lettuce
Onion
Radish
Spinach
Turnips
Zucchini

Fruits
Apples
Blueberry
Cantaloupe
Cranberry
Grape Fruit
Honey Dew Melons
Mango
Oranges
Peaches
Papaya
Pineapple
Raspberries
Strawberries
Tangerines
Tomato
Watermelon
 
OK, food today:

Breakfast: sultana bran and lite milk (166 cals)
Brunch: 2 pieces toast with basil/tomato (300 cals) huge glass of carrot/apple juice (180 cals) and a custard tart the size of a 50c piece (150 cals)
Lunch: small diet yoghurt (73 cals) and leftover steak with cabbage salad (300 cals)
Dinner: 6 inch low fat sub (no cheese or mayo!!) (400 cals) chips and chocolate (pre drinks at my house, eeek) (250 cals)

1800 calories?! eeeeek!! it's insane how much i've eaten when today felt like a good day, at the cafe this morning i usually would have downed another entire breakfast, lunch would have been a huge pasta and i have ZERO doubt that subway would have been a meatball with cheese and mayo... again, makes me wonder how many calories i was eating before i was thinking about it. Well from now on i'm going to limit my beverage intake to water and diet soft drinks/diet cordials, because, tasty drinks are wasting my precious calories, and I love food too much to donate calories to the beverage fund.

OK, tonight was GOING to be a huge drinking night as i have a 21st to go to, now i only have $20 after huge bills/xmas shopping events, and i think ill stick to vodka+coke zero for the night, so with some quick maths... if im lucky ill get 4 drinks in *sigh* stupid student poverty. wheres that money tree i asked for?

xx
 
I feel your pain, my dear. I'm so poor right now! Makes healthy eating so much harder because I want to finish everything in the cupboards before buying more :( Hope you have fun at this birthday party :D xx
 
Congrats on being done exams!! Also great work on the start to counting calories and all the fun you learn along the way! When I found out a butter tart was 500 calories and it would take a 5 mile run to burn it off they became less appealing. There is lots to learn out there that will make make our journey's less painfull.
About the list of 0 calorie foods - I'm not 100% sure it's correct. Maybe if the portion was really small but I know if I eat a big veggie salad with a lot of those items in it it's still going to count towards my calorie intake for the day - I wouldn't omit those things in your counting. That's just my two cents though and maybe someone more knowledgeable about calories can clarify.
Good luck and keep it up!!
~Lisa
 
Oh i'm exactly the same sunflower, i wanna get rid of everything in my pantry/freezer before i go shopping, and ive got all this pasta sauce and makings for unhealthy food that i bought forever ago, my lack of money wont let me throw them away :s eeek!!

and chubbygirl - yeah, I agree, i always kinda figured that some of the food we take in is spent on things like breathing and digesting, healing injuries etc... and i figure, like everything, balance is key. I just figured i'm better off munching on something from that list rather than chips and chocolate or bread etc, because obviously it has a lower calorie count. I'll still include them in my daily counts :)

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Last night went down the gurgler after my post. I had a UDL (250cals and then no less than SEVEN free champagnes at the pub (emphasis on FREE)... sigh... bout 600 calories right there) AND, just for icing on the cake, i had some mini deep fried dim sims and crumbed chicken at the party... EPIC FAIL KATE!! so yesterdays total ended up over the 3000 mark I think, which is disgraceful and totally ruined my hard efforts. But, still feel like i'm learning the ropes of this calorie thing, and am currently on the hunt for low calorie alcohol altenatives. Have already promised to have the low sugar cruisers for pre drinks from now on... as for the vino..will have to keep hunting.

TODAY, however, i've had nothing but 2 pieces of toast with tomato and basil (300 cals) and lots of water, recovering from last nights efforts, and lunch is in the fridge, 400 cals of subway 6 inch goodness, im glad they have all the nutritional values on their website, makes it easier :)

Anyway today is dedicated to cleaning my room/kitchen/bathroom/wardrobe/desk drawers AND reading harry potter again <3 tomorrow i'll gym it up, then work, then mum n dads for tea :)

xx
 
WIN!! Just found out that a huge can of minestrone is only 200 cals. Will be stocking up next time I got to the shops :) <3 minestrone
 
just got back from workies, and convinced myself YET AGAIN to skip KFC on the way home (much to stomach's disgust) and am currently munching away on chicken and salad. Super proud of myself. Those cravings for KFC are so so SO strong and the fact that I havent had it in days is a good sign, i'm really hoping the cravings arent this strong for the rest of forever, cause its taking lots of willpower to be good at the moment.

Weighed in this morning and am the same as last week - 130.3kg... WHICH... considering i had 2 BIG drinking sessions and end of exam celebratory meals etc... i'm ok with. But aiming for one WHOLE kilo this week, i know i can do it, especially now that i'm armed with my yummy salads and basic calorie knowledge.

Breakfast: sultana bran + milk (300 cals)
Lunch: crumbed chicken breast and cabbage salad (550 cals)

gunna make some low cal jelly this arvo and having dinner with mum n dad, usually healthy, gunna try and skip dessert tonight, as that is usually much less healthy :s

feeling goooooooooood

xx
 
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