Frankies Diary

Hi Natalie Jo,

Thanks for stopping by. The toe is fine - I used hypericum oil on it, a natural antibiotic and nerve healer. It's all good, a bit painful in shoes but ok. On the kayaking front, I am huge and unco-ordinated, and make a real dork of myself but just don't care. I love being on the water and outside and so what if people laugh at me or whatever, I'm still out there, and feel bloody lucky to have access to the beach and can do it. I have spent years living by this beach fat and depressed locked in my house (my own doing) embarassed to go out - no more. I am going to enjoy it as much as I can. Especially as we might be moving soon.

Well food was great yesterday, except for the wine with dinner, but I am not going to beat myself up about that. Could have been way worse. I actually cooked dinner, grilled skinless chicken breast and veges, instead of ordering pizza or thai takeaway, which I must say, I was very tempted to do (especially home alone on a friday night). Exercise was about 2 hours of walking all up.

Today the rain is back and just got in from walking the boys who are now enjoying a well deserved sleep. We all got absolutely soaked but that's ok. So that's half my walking for the day. I plan to do the rest of my walking by going to get a dvd to watch tonight, some fresh salad ingredients and fish for dinner. So that should take me up to 3 hours walking.

You know, this weather is just insane. It's the first of December, the middle of summer here, around 8.30am and it is dark outside, pouring and looks like winter. Too bizarre.

Last night the nerighbours had a party with a live band - she was pretty good actually, but they were loud and so had a broken night's sleep. Am excited as hubby is home tomorrow, can't wait. He's been gone for about 2 months, excluding one week when he was home. The first trip was to Europe for a holiday where he did a sailing regatta, of course I was invited (never been to europe) but couldn't go because of school commitments, and this past 3 or so weeks for a work trip around south east asia. It will be so nice to have him home.

Anyway, at least with this nasty weather it's good for study, although I was hoping to sit in the sun and study working on a wee bit of a tan. I am glaringly white. Oh well.

Thanks for your support everyone. This place keeps me motivated, and I am sooooo determined.

Frankie
 
Hi Frankie

I am pleased that you are so determined. It is a good feeling isnt it?

It will be wonderful for you having hubby home after so long. My hubby has never been away for as long as that without seeing me. When he used to go away - I used to try and go with him if it was at all possible.

You have really embraced the challenge of a weight loss project. You are doing a good amount of walking (and I do not use terms like that lightly as I am sure you will guess). You are also being good with your food.

It is annoying that your scales have broken. The fact that you are working so hard combined with the fact that your clothes are looser makes me sure that you will have lost some weight - whatever the scales say.

Have you started taking measurements. It can be a good idea - and it is something that is technology proof. Of course there is always the question of whether you can find the tape measure.

I know just what you mean when you say that sometimes you havent liked to leave the house. I was just like that in February.

We can both blossom together into the unlikely athletes that we have now become.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thanks for stopping by Margaret and offering such warm encouragement.

I was really pleased with yesterday, I ate to plan completely and managed to walk for over three hours. I got soaked in the morning - a horrible, miserable day again, and spent most of the day studying. I knew in the afternoon that I needed to do another walk, but it was so awful, but I thought, no, just gotta do it. Noone else is going to do it for you and this fat is not going to come off by itself. So I just got up, and went.

Picked up fresh salad ingredients and some salmon for dinner and a dvd, and came home. It was a lovely relaxing night.

Stewart (hubby) is just about in Australia, not sure exactly what time his flight arrives, but he said he should be home late morning. Yaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!
Margaret, it is highly unusual for him to be away this much, but that's just what happened. Funnily enough, his boss called him and told him to extend his trip and go to Kuala Lumpur, but he just wanted to come home. Let's hope he doesn't have to go back prior to christmas.

Well, I have been for one of my walks today this morning with the boys and for once - no rain. I tell you, at 5.30am in the morning on a sunday, there isn't much traffic around!!! It was so peaceful.

I want to thank this forum and all the people here, I have achieved so many of the little goals I set myself this past week, and alot of that is from finding this forum and realising there are others out there on similar journeys. It makes me feel I am not on my own.

Frankie
 
Hi Frankie

Well done for getting those walks in. You are certainly not alone on this journey. It is 10 p.m. and I am up to 10.79 miles for the day. It was dry for this morning's walk - but wet this afternoon.

It certainly does work. In all honesty you sound like you are doing just about as much exercise as me - I don't time these things exactly and have turned into a bit of a local eccentric and so often pause and talk to people that I see en route who have spoken to me in the past. I go by distance mainly and it tends to take as long as it takes.

Since you are also keeping your food under strict control you can reasonably expect a better rate of weight loss than I get. This is because I am a PCOS lady (like Natalie Jo and Amber) and my hormones work against me.

When you get some new scales I am sure that you will find that you are losing weight well.

Salmon is one of my best weight loss meals - I hope that it works for you too. With weighing every day I analyse what I have eaten with the effect that it has had on my weight. Some very interesting trends emerged - and I must admit that my diet has become more focused on the meals that give me a regular good rate of loss.

When you know your weight - you should put a ticker up for your postings. It reminds you how far you have come. I think that mine helps to motivate me and am sure that yours will motivate you. Some people just put a short term goal or a quantity to lose.

You will be so pleased to have your hubby home. Try and get him to walk with you and see how much exercise you are getting. I am sure that he will be impressed that you are not sitting inside the house while life passes you by. You are making things happen.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
I guess you are about to have a giant happy catch up with your husband now. I hope his arrival was smooth on the formalities side and joyful on the personal side.

:D Scales can be temperamental, but yours sound pretty much psychotic!! :eek: I'm not sure what to suggest there. (maybe :smash:)I didn't have any scales at home when I started so I weighed myself at a shopping centre once a week and I still do that. When I first got my home scales they used to fluctuate by about 2 kg - and not just day to day - minute to minute! For some reason they have settled down now. Someone reminded me about just looking at the highest in the range, or the lowest in the range and I found that helpful - I just started looking for when a new number would come up that was lower than before and would take that as encouragement that overall it was dropping. Conversely a new higher number that I hadn't seen would be a warning!! Your scales .... :ack2: I don't know!! LOL!! I hope they were just having an off week, but WOW!!

It's clear that you have been managing great control over your eating and exercise and refusing to let circumstances deter you. Well done!! :)
 
Hi Margaret and Felici,

Great to hear from you guys. And yes - the scales, goodness knows what I really weigh. But no matter, when exams are over next week I will buy a new set.

Hubby is home - yayyyyyyyy!!!!!! He was exhausted and slept most of the afternoon while I got to study on the balcony in the shade, but at least it was warm and not raining for a change. I got at least 2 hours of walking in yesterday, not quite as much as I hoped, but today will make up for it.

I ate very well but did have a treat dinner with Stewart - a few glasses of red wine, steak and salad, no dressing, and some mashed potato. I have not had mashed potato in ages, it was heaven. But it can remain a treat - there is no room for it at the minute, but husband needs it, he does not get enough carbs and does not consume enough calories, and he doesn't need to lose weight (the nutrition assignment taught me quite a bit, infact, am about to make him poached egg on toast for brekky.)

Already got my morning walk in, great morning, no rain, and about to have my shake for brekky and then go do yoga and kayaking. Bliss. Then finally finish nutrition assignment (just tidying up) and study all day and night for exams. This afternoon, another big walk to get fish and salad ingredients for dinner.

Oh, and have booked 2 personal training sessions for next week - weights and HIIT so that will complement the walking I am doing.

Oh, and forgot to say, scales might be wacko, but hubby said I have definitely lost weight and that he could see it in my face and especially the upper torso waist area.

Thanks for your continued support,

Frankie
 
Wow! Frankie you sound like you are calmly pwning this thing! Of course you have lost weight!

I hope you have a great time at the beach. The personal training sessions sound like an excellent move too.

Good luck with the exams! It sounds like you have quite a lot of excitement going on!! :)
 
Thanks for the encouragement Felici.

Yesterday my food was perfect except for the two glasses of wine I had. I didn't end up getting fish for dinner, but did go for an afternoon walk. Hubby invited people for dinner (as he does regularly) telling me when he walked in the door after the pub at 7.30pm 'so and so and so and so are coming for dinner'. Not what I needed to hear on a monday night when all I wanted to do was study. Always great when you are in a tracksuit with hair in a pony tail looking your best. Hubby said when he comes home I have to stop studying as it is his time and that I have plenty of time in the day - what do I do all day. Let's just say he said alot of very derogatory comments and leave it at that. ALOT.

People arrive, happy face on, and we had speg bol but I had no pasta and had the sauce over steamed veges instead. I had the couple of glasses of wine to relax a little. And am still furious with myself I did. But I was so upset on the inside. Anyway - let's change the subject.

I am so sore across my back from yoga and kayaking yesterday, but loved it. And I did tonnes of walking as well. So all my food and exercise was great yesterday, just the alcohol was crap. And I didn't get all my study done.

Hubby also keeps accepting on our behalf all these social invitations in December without talking to me, and I mean something on every night for a week. Things I don't want to go to like cocktail parties with people I have very little in common with (they are into being seen, famous people, and lots of money). You know, all small talk no substance, not the real deal - kinda like nutrasweet. My happy face is going to have to stay in place from about the 18th December till 28th December. Let's hope I don't crack. I loathe this time of year.

Well, food great so far today, have walked the dogs this morning. I am finding I must be going quicker - the circuit that was taking me an hour 15 to an hour 20 now takes me an hour 5??? So I may have to modify the route to get in some more mileage, but am mindful of my wee dogs and not wanting to overexercise them. Will have to think about it.

Goals today:
- no alcohol
- food on plan
- long walk in afternoon
- pick up fish and salad for dinner
- study lots

Sorry for the long post everyone

Frankie
 
The important others in our lives can be very disruptive, can't they?

I work unpredictably doing relief teaching, it amounts to part time, and I have had the "you're home all day ...", thing from my husband rather too often. Of course the days I am "home" are often full of me actually running (figuratively) from place to other place... I do relate to that one - and too the lack of understanding about study - though that was a few years back for me! Plus you get no notice dinner guests? ... oh boy View attachment 5230

Full credit to you for staying on track with your eating after that. It must have been very disappointing in more than one way!!

The non-stop week before Christmas does sound painful. I guess when it actually happens you will try to take what is best from it - a nice view, patch of sunshine, the one other guest who has something in common with you? Strawberries? The crudities? Mingling so fast that you can count it as walking? :ack2:

I hope this post hasn't turned out longer than yours! (Yours didn't strike me as long, actually). This is your diary though. It's really up to you to post as it suits you.

Nice one on the faster walking!!!!!!! Very nice!!
 
Hi Frankie

Well you are discovering both the good bits and the bad bits about having a hubby at home. The good bits are fairly obvious - we can say someone to appreciate the fact that you have lost some weight.

Much more flattering than a set of dodgy scales.:D

The bad bits are all those opportunities for compromise that enter every marriage. You have been apart so long that you have forgotten that these opportunities crop up.

Maybe hubby has forgotten a little about the need to discuss things too. After all things have been different during the last couple of months for him too.

What do you do all day? - well I would say that all that exercise kind of cuts into your day a bit. It certainly chops my day to bits.

Your exams are so close so maybe it is worth easing back on the exercise slightly for a few days in order to juggle everything. And explaining to hubby that you have to do some studying in the evening.

Maybe he could help you with studying - help test you on things - that type of idea. Then he could feel involved when you study.

The Christmas period is going to be a challenge for many people. Maybe you will find someone interesting to talk to at these gatherings. You can do no more than try to limit your alcohol and manage as best you can with your food. If weight does go on it should come of fairly quickly if you regain your focus as quickly as you can and try to mix plenty of exercise with healthy food choices.

Forgive yourself for the alcohol. There is nothing gained by feelings of guilt. The calories in a couple of glasses of wine is not enough to reverse a day with lots of exercise and an otherwise excellent diet. A couple of glasses of wine also falls well inside guidelines regarding appropriate levels of alcohol consumption. You made a choice and that is that.

It is excellent that your walking pace is improving without you even trying. :hurray:This shows that you are getting healthier. It is a wonderful feeling isnt it?

I wouldnt worry too much about taking your dogs beyond their limit with exercise. I suspect that they would be sure to let you know if that was the case. I imagine that they would love to walk as far as you wanted to walk. We know from our own experience that we can walk much further than people would ever imagine.

Take care:seeya:
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Felici, and Margaret,

Thanks for the support and wise words.

Well am very pleased to say I stuck to all of my goals yesterday. This morning I have school so only one walk today which I have already done with the boys. The rest of the day is boring study but it's only till saturday, so not much longer now.

The thunderstorms here are pretty bad but at 5.30am this morning out walking was very lucky to have an interval of no rain.

Hubby is out tonight for a work dinner so am having grilled chicken and veges - yum. And YES, I know how boring I am but it's the only way I am staying on track.

Well of for the weekly weigh in for the challenge and a shower - post yo-yo scale result later.

Frankie
 
Well, yo-yo scale says I am 79.8 kilos, a loss of 2.1 kilos, but I don 't trust them (and neither should you) but I do think I am down, just because I have made so many positive changes and have really committed to this.

It is pouring here at the minute. I have just got back from school and about to hit the books. Hope all is well with everyone, and I just want to say thanks to everyone for all their support. Just having to be accountable in this journey is making such a difference to me, and knowing there are so many others like me on this journey.

Take care,

Frankie
 
Hiya!!

frankie said:
Well, yo-yo scale says I am 79.8 kilos, a loss of 2.1 kilos, but I don 't trust them (and neither should you) but I do think I am down, just because I have made so many positive changes and have really committed to this.

It is pouring here at the minute. I have just got back from school and about to hit the books. Hope all is well with everyone, and I just want to say thanks to everyone for all their support. Just having to be accountable in this journey is making such a difference to me, and knowing there are so many others like me on this journey.

Take care,

Frankie
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Hey Frankie,
I have to say you are a pretty wonderful person. You are so happy and work so dilligently and hard.

You inspire me ...
And Thanks for the great hug in my journal... :)
***hugs***

Well I am finally ready to do this!
and thanks to your support and everyone elses
I am more than ready ...and I just want to thank you for stopping in my diary ...

love yas
always
natalie jo :grouphug:
 
Hi Frankie

Well done for keeping up the project. I am sure that your husband will be both surprised and impressed with the more determined and confident woman he has come home to.

It goes without saying that the dogs will be loving the walking too.

It is good that you are hitting the books too. You want to succeed with your course too and we all needed to study at exam time.

It is infuriating that the scales are so dodgy. With all your hard work - and with noticeable changes to your figure / clothes fit - there will definitely be weight losses. It is quite possible that the scales are telling you the truth this time.

If I were you I would get some new scales. We got ours off the internet and they got delivered to the house. I think that the whole process took 3 days.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Certainly the scales are dodgy but your commitment, care, loose clothes, compliments and undoubted weight loss are all unquestionable! Well done on all the successes you are achieving daily. :)
 
Natalie jo, Margaret, Felici (love the Santa hat),

Thanks all for stopping by. Yeah, my day doesn't seem right if I don't walk now. This morning we had thunder and lightening and I had to walk the boys to the vet for their grooming. So off I went and got absolutely drenched. I am tired today for some reason and am over studying completely, but I have a chemistry exam tomorrow and its not exactly my strong point. So when I log off here will make a cup of tea and get stuck in.

I really want to lose this weight and walking is manangeable for me so I feel I can do it this way. When I lose a few more kilos and feel a bit lighter on the feet I will safely add in some jogging on the flat and down hill only. But that will most probably be in the New Year.

It's funny how a forum like this has affected me so positively in such a short time. It has really helped me and I do think of everything going in my mouth, and I am not slackening on the exercise front. For the first time in absolutely ages I am sticking with consistency, and just checking off day by day.

I have some wonderful clothes and I can't wait to wear them. There is a certain pair of jeans that are a small size and they are my longterm goal, and this time, I am NOT going to stop until I can wear those smoking jeans, and it could take me well over a year. But I have said it here, this is my goal.

So there you go,

Frankie
 
Hi Frankie

I have no doubt that you will get to your goal. Walking as a means of losing weight is under-estimated by so many people.

All that really is needed is the determination to eat sensibly and go out walking every day - and things that seemed impossible really do happen.

Remaining consistent as the days pass will get you where you want to be.

It is a long time since I did my degree - but I can remember the endless study in the final week before exams. I do not envy you - but certainly understand the need to get stuck into the work. I hope that the exams go well.

In so many ways we are so alike. I have two skirts that I really loved wearing when I was young (19 or 20 years of age). I refused to part with then during all my years of morbid obesity (my mother even led a campaign some years ago for me to allow her to cover a pouffe with one of them because it was so obvious that I would never be able to wear them). I have checked and I know where they are. If I can only retain my focus I would love to be able to wear one or both of them again. It honestly doesnt matter to me how out of date they may be - for me it would be what it represented.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thanks Margaret,

Yes the old study. I remember back to my first degree and I don't remember it being so hard, now - well, as an adult student, and feeling priveleged that I am finally getting to study something I am passionate about and feel so lucky at my age I am able to not work and study something so worthwhile, well, I really take it seriously. I can't wait till tomorrow afternoon when I can relax.

So I did heaps of exercise yesterday,but unfortunatley no yoga. As I said it was pouring and so no yoga on the beach. Bummer. It cleared up in the afternoon so I did manage a long afternoon walk instead. So beautiful.

Today, and tomorrow, will only manage one walk. Exam this afternoon and inlaws arrive for the weekend so that will affect me until sunday. House will be full of people and have to entertain them, so that will be fun - once my exams are finished tomorrow afternoon.

I ate well yesterday so that was good, but the weekend will be a challenge. And am happy I am being healthier in my choices. I was not a fruit girl at all and now I have at least one piece of fruit a day. A small change, but significant for me as it has replaced a refined bad for me carb like a bag of chips. The good news is come sunday I am on holiday and so can really focus on my exercise.

Hope everyone is going well, take care,
Frankie
 
Hi Frankie

Good luck for your exam, enjoy your break and the company of your visitors, and well done for keeping up the exercise at a busy time.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thanks for stopping by Margaret.

It's 7.20am here and took the boys to the park this morning so did not do my big walk for the first time in weeks. It's my final exam today and my hardest so am going to write this and then get stuck in. We had the biggest thunder and lightening storms yesterday - amazing, and you can tell - so much stuff is washed up everywhere.

The in-laws are here, everyone but me still in bed. So off to make a cup of tea and cram for my final. Come 1pm today it will all be over for this year and then we are going out for lunch and yes, I intend to eat/drink and be merry.

Tomorrow I will get back into my routine.

Chemistry yesterday was surprisingly good so I know I passed that one with flying colours.

See you all tomorrow. Oh, and The Biggest Loser was on last night - will watch tomorrow. Thank goodness for Foxtel IQ.

Frankie
 
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