General hysterical diet-related rambling: From Flab to fab; Part two.

Well I said I'd come here to post next time I'm drunk, so here I am.

First off, welcome to the land of the single. It's scary here but there is a degree of freedom that can be entertaining at times. At least that's what I tell myself.

Second off, when you got to bottle 13 of your Pepsi Max, did you think you would be able to finish the last three?

Third off, I haven't the slightest idea what a 'KA Mango' is. Is that an English thing like a 'lift' instead of an 'elevator', or a 'lorry' instead of a 'truck', or 'rain' instead of 'sunshine?'

Fourth off, well I don't have a fourth off, but for some reason it seemed wrong to just stop at three...
 
I used to put sugar and cream in my tea when I was younger because other people did it. But I realized I didn't care for the taste too much. One day I just had it without anything and preferred it! So I never put anything in my tea. The only exception is that sometimes I like to put real lemon in my my camomile tea with a tiny bit of sugar. Since I never have lemon, I rarely do that! LOL.... last time I did that was YEARS ago. I love camomile plain though too!

Now coffee... wish I could drink it black. The amount of cream I have to put in it is ridiculous! I try not to drink it more than a few times a week. Some weeks I don't have any. Depends if I have evaporated milk in the house or not.
 
MrVee :rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao: LOVE it!!!!!

A KA Mango is a carton of sweetened mango juice, I absolutely love them, perfect for summer, but I am promising myself that I will no longer drink my calories (Except nights out of course), so it was tsk tsk tsk BAD BAD BAD.

Risty That is amazing that you have a natural preference for teas without sugar :) I am the same with coffee, I didn't use cream, but I did use 120 calories (At least) of whole milk. Evaporated milk in it is absolutely beautiful, sooo goood, but noooo goood!

Yesterday was the first day that I didn't have two meals replacements and one meal. In the evening, and today, I feel like a giant water bed. I am also getting period pains (But no period), so I wonder if that has something to do with my retention as well. I also weighed myself and measured my waist, and omg, it's SCARY!!! I am telling myself that it cannot possibly be fat though. But I feel like Jabba the hutt.

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I am actually really going to clean and tidy and organise my pit of a house now. I want it perfect for the begining of the kids summer holidays.

Think I shall start doing my calories again. I always have this huge esistance to calorie counting, but once I start doing it, its fine :/

Chocolate shake...............................200
large fruit salad............................... 173
Jerk Chicken snackpot.......................363
exante thai soup...............................200
large strawberry jelly....................... 120
=1056
 

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:D We have to promise to both do little celebration dance to it in honour of each other, when we reach the magical land of the One-ders :)

Once again I am waiting on yet another new bloody cashcard. Stoopid cashcards. Why do I ALWAYS lose them?!

I have assembled my bike on my own (was going to pay £45!) it was easy peasy. Once I had unwrapped it from the packaging, it only took 10 minutes, can't believe I was going to pay to get it done! Going to take it out for a spin in half an hour.

My official weigh-day seems to be taking FOREVER to come around. I stepped on my non-precise numbersveryclosetogether non-digital contraption, which gets stuck at 13 stone, needs a gentle kick upon it, then very slowly, and anticipatingly snails round to my actual weight..... and it says I have lost my gain from yesterday, which is good. My face still feels all fat and bloated though. My chin especially. I swear my chin is the cause of my bad posture. It is so heavy, that it drags my head and shoulders down with it. I am going to see an osteopath soon. I really really don't want to be a hunchback! Nonono.

Only a three month barrier between me and non-hugeness now, have been on this diet for almost 6 weeks now, and the time has flown past. Me, you and everybody will be skinny before we know it!

I desperately need some summer clothes, I have nothing that fits, but at the same time, I don't want to buy big clothes. I still need a size 18. Can just about pull a size 16 on, but its uncomfy, and extremely very unflattering. I don't want to buy size 18 summer clothes, dammit!!!

Large fruit salad, exante shake, thai green chicken snackpot, Can of cream of tomato soup, lots and lots of jelly= 1000ish calories.
 
I did end up eating different stuff, which added up too more calories :) Weighed myself on the shop scales, and have lost another 4 pounds since last week, so that's 11 pounds in 2 weeks! Still not that much difference on my body tho, think when you lose the same amount of weight when you're already slim, there is a much more visible difference.

fruit salad 175
solero 95
thai green chicken ready meal 335
Shake 200
jelly 120
Small salad 100
Few leftover chips and spoonful of chilli 100
=1125
 
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I got accepted onto the third year of an interior design degree course, woooohoooo! So I am a happy bunny today. And it means that I can enjoy the break I'm having without worrying in the back of my head that I wouldn't be accepted because of my attendence, and I am wasting time not looking for work (I just finished a foundation degree which is only two years).

Going to potter about in the garden and de-weed now.

Exante porridge with apple and cinnamon 250
Singapore chicken noodles 286
White chocolate magnum (Eeeek) 240
Lots of fresh pineapple 170
Double vodka 120
=1066
 
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Great job on your weight loss and getting into the third year of school!! WOO!!!

You went below on calories again! Naughty naughty!!
 
Thanks :D

I was only going to be eating 600 calories a day on Exante, if I had actually stuck to it for the month eeeek, so I don't think 1000-1100 is too bad. But it probably will gradually increase.

I went to a small fete thingy at a lovely park just over the road today. Lily wanted a cake, and she picked my favourite, victoria sponge. She was too busy having fun to want to eat it, and gave it to me to hold. I had a little nibble, and my god, it was so delicious! Lily didn't want it in the end, so I ate half of it, then dumped the rest in a drink that had been abandoned on a wall. I'm not sure if I was really good for chucking half away, or really bad for eating the first half! I need to watch myself, I had a magnum ice cream yesterday, a solero the day before.... If I keep on allowing myself to have little treats, I will lose my food guilt.

I have got sick of eating a different dinner (usually at a different time) to everyone else. So... Going to do the shopping now, and get dinners we can all eat together. I am getting strong urges to start doing some fancypants cooking. The restaurant that I went to last week had such amazing flavours and presentation, I would love to cook like that! Obviously this will be more calories than the ready meals I'm having at the moment, so I will try to stick to a 200 calorie breakfast, whatever I want for dinner, and some jelly and fruit in between.

Exante porridge with cinnamon and apple sauce 250
Half a victoria sponge slice 250ish
Spanish chicken with chorizo, veg and rice 293
Small amount of chicken 130
Lots of strawberry jelly 120
=1043
 
Soooo.... Was just bad. I had a small chicken tortilla wrap, then I went downstairs and got another one and gobbled that too, even though I wasn't hungry. Fook. My belly is bulging with guilt and gassily digesting carbs.
 
I think cooking at home is great and so much better for you! It'll be good for everyone else too!

Yeah 600 cals a day on that exante thingy is so not good. It would be hard to up the calories from 1100 to 1200.... just eat a tablespoon of organic almond butter as part of your snack with your fruits! It's always good to have protein in a meal (snacks included). Plus the almond butter has the good fats the body needs. So that would be the easiest way. Or you can get some protein powder and drink it (I just mix mine with water, doesn't taste the best, but it gives me protein and without the extra calories of mixing it with something else). I like drinking it right after a workout because those calories go directly to help your muscles rebuild, replenish, etc!!!

I find I have to give myself treats too, or even eat a bad meal once in a while just to keep myself sane and stick to a mostly healthier diet. I just make sure it's within my calories. I think this will help me stick to eating a better balanced/healthier diet in the long run instead of depriving myself and then giving up like I've done in the past.
 
It is much better to have a home cooked meal :D I am so looking forwards to it, especial after eating one of my first proper dinners in ages today. What I did was buy the ingredients for four normal to high calorie dinners (although they have a lot of veg, mainly), then also three fresh soups, so that I can alternate high and low calorie days, kind of in the way you are suggesting Risty. Will take pics of all the scrummy lovelies I will be eating.

I do think that exante has given me a lot of food guilt- which is a brilliant thing imo, because without feeling bad about bad foods, I will just eat them. It was a good kick-start to my diet. Looking at peoples exante blogs on minimins though, after the first month the weight loss just stabalises to quite a normal rate, two pounds loss a week, sometimes three... For a not particularly spectacular weight loss each week when you get into the diet, I don't think its worth doing it long-term. My friend Charlotte is going to start a diary on here tomorrow (YAY!), she's going to do exante for a couple of weeks to kick start her diet too. It has got quite a lot of protein in it, so it would be good for post-workout. I tried a bit of my bf's protein shake, I agree, it is disgusting! But it does the job. I reallyreallyreally need to start exercising again. Did do some gardening today. Which is something.

I have not really noticed much difference in my body, BUT, today I painted my toenails (For the first time in a few weeks lol, SHAME ON ME!) And I could actually do it with no problems, usually my tummy gets in the way, and I swish the brush about blindly, hoping that some of it will actually adhere to my nails :) But, yup, today, it was easy. No excuse for bad toenails now!

I have no shopping in the house, and with my cash card not here yet we haven't got the money to get it delivered till tuesday evening. Red alert! Red alert! I always have diet fail and get pizza when this happens. You can get pizza on paypal. That is the problem. I might do exante for a couple of days til the shopping comes.

Have been craving a cup of tea today, probably because the weather is a bit cooler.

Exante porridge 200
Roast pork with 4 roast potatoes and lots of veg 550ish
Exante chocolate shake 200
Exante carbonarra 200
=1150ish
 
I am so stressed out right now, so going to keep this short!

exante porridge 200
2 sweets 50
Small carton of mango juice 100ish
exante shake 200
Large portion of pasta in a cheese sauce 650ish
=1200ish
 
I am afraid I have fallen off the diet train a little bit. Especially today. I don't think I have gone over maintainance calories tho :) Have had take-aways galore... A pizza yesterday, but I only had one slice, and some garlic bread. Some kebab shop chicken and chips (But I gave half to Nick), a burger king (No chips, left the bottom part of the bun), and a chinese! Although I only had a handful of noodles and 2 crispy duck pancakes.... So, although I have limited my portions, it is still not particularly good. As I am waiting on my cashcard, I did bank transfer to my bf's bank for the shop, but he didn't have enough money in his account,, so the shopping didn't come. I shall do my shopping tomorrow though... Being disorganised really is my downfall.

Weigh day in two days arrgghhh, need to get all the extra salt out of my body!
 
Oh dear.... Currently having a "One last bad meal, and then I start again tomorrow" syndrome. Whymakeitworsethanitalreadyis? Why make it worse? Because I am a fool, that's why. It will happen, it is about to happen. My clicky fingers are hovering over the take away menu. Shite.
 
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