Fat to fit - diary of a food lover

Hey Kate

Have you worked out how many cals you are going to aim for? I'm not sure of your height. I'm 5'11 and I'm eating 1800 cals and am losing (although not losing super fast). The nutrition section of this forum has good ways of working out what how many cals you should aim for.
I do have avocado, but usually only a quarter of one (I used to eat the whole thing!), it adds protein and some really good fats. I don't add up my vege cals (can't be bothered) I figure that they get taken up by my regular daily activity (going up and down stairs etc). I do add my fruit cals cause they can add up to quite a bit :)

I eat extra (not too much though) when I do good quality exercise, and I always exercise before going out drinking. It's a firm rule for me now, no exercise no alcohol.

Sorry I've written so much, thought I'd share what works for me. :)

Good luck with it all. anna
 
Last nights food:
Afternoon tea: chips (200 cals)
Dinner: curry and rice (about 500 cals)
Dessert: chocolate muffin (250 cals)
Yesterdays total: 1800 (yay!!)

Thanks Anna!! I'm 5'11 too... I just calculated mine using the forum and it said i should consume 2820 calories a day :S I think i'll give myself and absolute limit of 2000 a day to start with (i was first aiming for 1400 cause thats what i saw others doing, but that just isnt gunna work for me), and 2000 is realistic if i skip the alcohol :p

I honestly cant see myself exercising every day, it would drive me bonkers, i'd hate it, resent it, and knowing me, binge eat my way back to 'happiness' if i tried to do it every day. HOWEVER... I think ive worked out how to trick myself.. because i love stretching, and if i promise myself i'm just going to the gym to stretch, when i get there i always do the whole 'well im here now, i may as well do SOME kind of exercise'... and tadaaaaa exercise complete :)

But thanks heaps for the advice anna, I can give up avocado, it's not exactly a favourite of mine, i just eat it cause its there, like most things. And i feel much better knowing i'm not the only one eating more than 1400 cals :p

anyway i have split shifts today at coles (a supermarket for those across the pond) so i've just gotten home from work and i go back in like 3 hours... sigh... *think about the money kate*... i served the ANGRIEST woman this morning, who came to my register with what i assumed was her daughter standing next to her, her 'daughter' was carrying cigarettes and the woman asked to buy some. now, some background info, it is AGAINST THE LAW for us to sell cigarettes to someone if we suspect they are buying them for someone underage... so i asked the daughter for her ID.. and the mother went BOONTA at me, saying how she wasnt in the mood and how did i know she was even shopping with the girl next to her and yaddah yaddah swearing yelling etc. I calmly told her it was my job to ask and against the law to sell if i thought she was buying for someone underage and she just stormed off in a huff. My heart was thumpin away in my chest and there was a nice woman following her who asked if i was ok and congratulated me on doing my job. still sucks to be in that position at like 8:30am though, really dampens the mood for the rest of the shift :(

Food today:
Breakfast: sultana bran + milk (300cals)
Lunch: minestrone + parmesan cheese (250cals)
Afternoon tea: MUFFIN!! (250 cals?) home-made choc chip from mum :)
(edit - had a lean cuisine before work - another 289 cals)
(edit - had a tomato with boccocini cheese when i got home - another 150 cals)
Dinner: pasta (2 cups + lean meat + tomato/basil sauce - 550 cals)
Total: 1789 cals... i'm happy with that :) under my 2000 limit :)


xx
 
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One of my biggest struggles losing weight is having started dieting about 6 months after my 21st birthday. I definitely feel your pain there; I'm often slipping up on my daily intake, or sacrificing food for booze.

It's rough, but working around it is a testament to your strength; best of luck in the fight, Kate!

I've skimmed a few pages of your journal and like how honest and personal you are; I look forward to stopping back in from time to time to see how you're doing.
 
Cheers soco!! Yep, feel free to drop by whenever you like :) and totally understand the alcohol or food dilemma, wish i had a 'calorie bank' so if i was good for a week then a night of drinking would be free of charge :p

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Yesterday i made the silly mistake of going to the gym inbetween my 2 shifts, by the end of my second shift, i was a zombie. like, an actual zombie, "mmm brains" kinda thing. not doing that again.

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with corn kernals, basil and kabana (SO yummy) 450 cals
Lunch: small bowl leftover pasta (550 cals)
(edit) Afternoon: lean cuisine (290 cals) pear (100 cals) and chips (200 cals)
(edit) Dinner: cup of soup (150 cals) kabana (100 cals) and yoghurt (73 cals)
TOTAL: 1913 cals

Working this arvo for 5 hours, gunna try and behave in my break, might bring a yoghurt or a lean cuising to keep me full so i dont binge when i get home.

feeling less of the cravings now, havent felt like KFC aaaaall day, and even drove past maccas this morning, super hungry but just 'not in the mood' for maccas... madness!! :D

okie dokie, time for some movies, books, sleeping :p man i love holidays :)

xx

(edit) yes, almost hit 2000cals today, but 5 hours on my feet has to count for something!! i'm pooped!!
 
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Hey Kate, sounds like your are doing really well this week. I used to be a checkoutchick (back in the dark ages when I was at uni), man thats a tough job, and split shifts are the worst. Poor you.

Do you have to do super long shift before xmas? I used to have to do 14 hour shifts the week before xmas ugh!

anna
 
400 cals of subway 6 inch goodness, im glad they have all the nutritional values on their website, makes it easier :)

I love that about Subway too! I wish all places did that. I also wish restaurants included this info on the menu - wouldn't that just make life so much easier!!
Keep it up Kate!
 
cheers chubbygirl!! and yes, definitely wish restaurants had nutritional values!! i'm new to calories so have no idea how to even estimate general calories!!

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I'm pretty awesome, just quietly. Last night i came home from work at 9:30pm, felt SO hungry, but instead of binging, like the old kate would have done, i downed 100 calories worth of kabana and had half a litre of low calorie cordial, and felt much better, and slept better too!! Had horrible cramps all day yesterday and again today though, so have been on the panadol, BUT to add to my awesomeness, i didnt use cramps as an excuse, i went to the gym this morning and did a 'body pump' class... a combination of weights/lunges/squats/abs all to music :) i was literally dripping with sweat, it was dripping off my nose like a leaky tap when i was doing pushups, and at the end of the class i had a nice long stretch with stacey and now i feel amazing!! all bouncey and relaxed at the same time!!

I didnt eat before i went to the gym, but had 'brunch' after :)

brunch: 2 scrambled eggs with corn, basil and kabana (450 cals) and a diet yoghurt (73 cals)
lunch: bowl of leftover pasta with parmesan cheese (550 cals)
afternoon: 1 tomato with boccocini and basil (180 cals)
Dinner: going out with steph - will try to behave, i dont have much money, so unlikely ill over-do the food or alcohol :)

Total: 1253 so far, aiming for about 600 cals for dinner (including a drink, maybe vodka and coze zero?)

xx

(edit) - dinner was amazing, but pretty high in cals, we had a share platter of dips (80 cals), grilled chorizo (200 cals), pita bread (150 cals), turkish bread in balsamic/oil (200 cals), dukkah coated chicken breast (200 cals), olives and salt and pepper squid (100 cals). there were only small portions of each, but i think i still hit around 800 calories (as the above cals are estimates... hard to guess when there are no weights/labels/nutritional values)

as promised, only had one vodka with diet coke, and resisted the urge to pick up a mcflurry on the way home (i even drove the long way home so i would drive past the mcdonalds, it wasnt until i saw the golden arches that i thought "i've already gone over today, now i can either go way overboard and throw today away, OR, just a quick session at the gym tomorrow and all of a sudden today is no big deal) so, yet again adding to my awesomeness, skipped maccas, laughed as i drove off at how good it felt to not NEED maccas, and went to the gym this morning, 200 cals on the cross trainer only took me about 14 minutes, then i had a big long stretch (still so so sore from body pump yesterday, it must have done me good!) and came home feeling GOOOOOOOOOOOD :)

off to work, will start a new post for today's food :)
 
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breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with corn, kabana and basil (450 cals) and an apple (130 cals)
lunch: minestrone with parmesan (200 cals)
afternoon: kabana (100 cals) diet lemon cheesecake thing (99 cals) a taste of the chicken i cooked (50 cals)
dinner: ROAST!! mmm

exercise: 15 minutes on cross trainer, 20 mins stretching :)
 
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Hittin' the gym... with cramps. I salute you.
I try and do so as well, because I figure I can't make an excuse for 25% of the next 30 years of my life, but you just feel so bloated, and you're like, what's the POINT? EUGH.

Glad to hear you're having a good week!
 
Cheers soco... going to the gym with cramps is not something i ever thought i'd do. I've cancelled everything from birthday parties to sitting exams because of them, i used to get horrible cramps every month when i first started my monthlys, but mum couldnt stand watching me in so much pain, so i went to the docs and now i'm on the pill the cramps are nowhere near as bad or as frequent, about once or twice a year i get very bad cramps for a day or two, this month being one of them. But, like you say, i cant use my monthlys as an excuse for 25% of my life, eh? I could probably use a little toughening up :p

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Definitely over indulged last night. in my defence, braedan's mum had slow cooked beef, pork AND chicken all day, and served it with roasted veg and peas and it all tasted like heaven. oh and did i mention the gravy? *drool* quick calculations adds up to 600 cals just in meat, then add another 200 for roasted veg and 50 for gravy.... 850 calorie meal... aaaaaaaand to make it worse she made these AMAZING mint slice truffles for dessert... which i had no less than five of over the course of the evening.... (quick calc - about 100 cals each... add another 500.. eeeek!!) BAD KATE!!

sooooooo yesterday, not so good. (2380 cals... ish :s)

But, that was yesterday, moving onwards and upwards, aiming to go to the gym today, AND aiming for a total of about 1500 cals (for today only) just to make up for yesterdays fun. Maybe i'll aim for 380 cals on the cross trainer, just to make me feel less guilty.

Must practise self control infront of company. I felt like a pig last night :(

Today, work got cancelled, so i'm going to go read, or enjoy the good weather outside, might go to the beach :)

<3 holidays

Kate


(edit) food today:
breakfast: 'summer bar' at the servo (180cals) then 1 egg, corn, kabana + basil at home (350 cals)
snack: 1/4 pack delites rice crackers (100 cal)
lunch: teriyaki chicken, rice and salad (550 cals)
afternoon: kabana (100 cals) and 2 diet chocolate mousetubs :( (260 cals)
dinner: thai beef salad and salt n pepper squid (shared with mum) (400 cals)
dessert: diet cheesecake thing - 130 cals, 2 glasses of wine (210 cals) and a handfull of chips (150 cals)

total: 2030
 
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so last night the whole 'just having a lean cuisine' thing didnt exactly happen. it was a friday night and i didnt feel like being alone, braedans up by the river with his folks so i called mum and we went for a walk on the beach. we sweated it out for 25 minutes, it was still so damn hot down there. then we had dinner at a cafe down there, we got thai beef salad and salt n pepper squid, then split it halfsies, was so yummy.

after that i went to my friend neville's place, he is the lovliest man, we've been really close ever since we met. the night we met (at a mutual friend's 21st) we flirted like crazy, couldnt be separated for the night, until i got a phone call saying my dog wasnt breathing properly... i rushed home (and to make a long, sad story short, we ended up getting her put down a few weeks after that) anyway nev was worried bout me and we went to catch up one night a couple of weeks after we met, jut movies at his place, and when i got there he was lying on the grass out the front, i asked what he was doing and he said his heart was beating really fast and he didnt know why. His heart didnt slow down and his sisters couldnt drive so i dropped him at the emergency room where they said his heart was beating at 260 beats/minute, all these alarms went off in the hospital, and medical staff came running down the hallway, they attached a bunch of stuff to him and gave him an injection to STOP his heart (like a reset button) while i stood terrified outside the room and then they monitored him well into the night, and i stayed by his side, talking to his parents (one of which was interstate, the other away on a holiday a couple of hours away) and 3 sisters, until about 2am when he left the hospital against medical advice and his mum had driven back from her holiday only to make sure nev was ok, then she drove back to her holiday THAT NIGHT?! i was mortified, so i refused to leave, told nev to set up the couch cause i wasnt leaving him at home when no-one there could drive incase something happened. nothing happened that night but he had it investigated and has since then had heart surgery and now seems to be in the clear :)

guess thats one way to solidify a friendship real damn fast. his dad still calls me 'nevs guardian angel', i didnt do much though. anyway, we had a number of DnMs since then, turns out he was questioning his sexuality when i first met him, he has since then come out and experienced the wonders of men, i cant blame him, i like men too :p and i love chatting to him about his relationships because we have the same taste in men, dark hair, tall, broad shoulders, masculine, dominant :p so we can go shopping and oogle at the same guys :) we even kissed once (maybe twice?) on pubcrawl one night, it was the medical science pub crawl, i didnt know many people at the start of the night but by the end we were all chums, and i had kissed a few of them, but nev hit double digits, boys, girls, gay straight, everyone was sharing kisses, it was crazy!!

so all of that is completely unrelated to my weight loss but the jist is, me and nev are close, and we always have wine and snacks when we catch up, hence why yesterday hit the 2000 mark, not the 1500 as planned.

OH, and now for the important bit, i weighed in today and im 128.7kg :D that means ive lost 1.6kg this week (just over 3.5lbs) i'm back under 130kg and under the BMI of 40!! i'm stoked!! i guess all this hard work pays off!!

now im only 3.8kg away from the 10kg mark, when ill take new photos :D i dont feel like my clothes are loose yet, but i feel more energertic during the day which must be a good thing :p

working 11-2:30 today so meals will be a bit weird timing.

food:
breakfast: 2 eggs, corns, kabana and basil (450 cals)
brunch: 1/2 cup rice and some teriyaki chicken (200 cals) piece of kabana (100)
afternoon: diet dessert (130 cals)
dinner: 2 pieces battered fish, 9 hot chips (yes, i counted) coleslaw and tartare (850 cals) AND a bottle of moscato (400 cals)
TOTAL: 2130... not bad considering we had this fish and chip night planned for a while
 
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so this morning, just for fun, i jumped on the scales (as my weight tends to fluctuate a bit and i thought maybe i was just having a lucky day yesterday for the weigh in) AND i weighed in at 128kg!! thats 700g less than the day before, maybe i was dehydrated or something but DEFINITELY a confidence booster :D

yes last night was not great (food wise) with fish, chips, tartare and an entire bottle of wine to myself. good times were had though, and i didnt eat much during the day in preparation for the greasy dinner, only went about 200 cals over, and we were on the beach chasing each other, swimming, chasing fish, throwing rocks and jumping on each other, so i think the 200 cals was worked off :) it stayed over 30 degrees well after the sun set, so we were chillin on the beach until like 10pm, with the warm breeze, man, it felt like paradise :) its also nice to know i can lose weight and still have fish and chip nights, very reassuring :p

last night braedan stayed over, and if the extra 200 calories wasn't worked off before we got home, it certainly was a few hours later :D teehee but after a few hours of snuggling the heat was getting to me and i camped out on the lounge infront of the airconditioner, and braedan slept alone in my room, how romantic!! :s i just rang him to apologise, but he's great, he understands i cant sleep if its hot, and i dont think it ot below like 25 degrees last night, and our house is made of stone, the stones heat up in the sun during the day and stay hot all night, the only air con we have is down the other end of the house, and even if we leave it going for hours, the cool never reaches my room :(

anyway, got my 'biggest loser calorie counter' book in the mail yesterday, it has calories of heaps of different takeaways and squillions of aussie supermarket stuff, so it will be very useful :)

$1000+ worth of bills due this week and i only got paid $600 means kate = broke. Healthy food is expensive, just quietly. trying to work out cheap alternatives to my favourites. i have makings for chicken wraps so i think thats gunna be lunch and dinner until tuesday, when i next get paid.

breakfast: 1.5 eggs (split 3 with braedan) with corn, basil and kabana (400 cals)
snack: diet dessert (79 cals)
lunch: lean cusine (450 cals) and some chips (150 cals)
dinner: chicken salad with ranch dressing (350 cals) apple pie with ice cream (300) one time tam (100 cals) and one mouthful of baked blueberry cheesecake (80 cals)

we went to my uncles for birthday celebrations after dinner at mum n dads, hence the extra cake and only ONE tim tam (took a lot of self control to stop at one)

TOTAL: 1909, better than i thought it was gunna be :)
 
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breakfast: 2 pieces of small toast with basil, bocccini, tomato (450 cals)
snack: diet dessert (79 cals)
lunch: chicken wrap with my favourite high calorie mayo, guh (400 cals)
afternoon: pita bread (100) with basil dip (50) and boccocini (150) and then a handful of chips (200)
dinner: grilled chicken with mushroom sauce, salad and hog fries (600 cals) plus, about half a dozen spoonfulls of this AMAZING chocolate sunday (it was huge, 6 of us split it and we were all so so full) (300 cals ish...) AND two champagnes (200 cals)

total: 2429?!? bah!!!
 
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Wouldn't dieting be, like, a thousand times easier if it weren't for all these stupid social functions?
UGH!

:) Hope you have a successful week, darling!
 
breakfast: eggs, kabana, basil, corn (450)
snack: diet dessert (99)
lunch: chicken, salad and mayo wrap (400) AND lean cuisine (350 cals) (i was sooo hungry)
afternoon: diet dessert (110)
dinner: nil... worked 5-9pm and cbf eating now, im going straight to bed, i'm exhausted

total: 1409, oh well, makes up for yesterday
exercise: 15 mins on cross trainer and stretches, and abs stuff at the gym
 
haha i agree soco (sorry missed ur post last night, was soooo tired) social life +diet = guessing games and hard times for calories.

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last night we had a giant storm. well, all of yesterday actually. despite being 100% exhausted, at 11pm i chickened out and drove to my bfs house, almost crying on the way because there was lightning every 10 seconds (yeah, i counted) and thunder rumbling and big strong winds and giant rain drops aaaaand yeah. i'm a giant wimp. i love storms... but not when im home alone and trying to sleep :( so went to braedans and he made me feel all safe and cosy :D

food-wise, after not having tea last, was starving this morning, and was on my way to the gym straight from braedans place, SO i gave in and had a mcdonalds bakehouse brekky roll, by itself, no extra hash browns, no juice, just the roll. it had bacon, egg, cheese and yummy onion relish stuff. looked up the nutritional info when i got home and it wasnt TOO bad, not to mention cranked out a bodypump session at the gym and almost died... twice.

SO

breakfast: mcdonalds breakfast roll (516)
lunch: mexican wrap with beef, beans and salad (400)
afternoon: diet dessert (100)
dinner: going out with braedan :) ??

total: 1016 so far

exercise: 1 hour of body pump (squats, lunges, arms, abs)

OH, getting my hair cut today, bout half the length it is now, new diet, new person, need new hair to match :)
 
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Man, I want mcdonalds now. The breakfast menu is such a weakness for me! Have fun going out with the boy tonight :)
 
i think me and braedan are on the verge of breaking up. i feel sick.

oh food?
yeah, white bread, icecream, coke, a gazillion calories WHATEVER. alcohol time.
 
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ok. me and braedan are 'on a break' and shall decide what happens with us next week.

will not be eating away my emotions today.

food:

seafood + salad wrap (450)
ice cream (150)

going to mum and dads this arvo i think, spend some time with my dog... and watching movies etc
 
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