General hysterical diet related rambling: From Flab to Fab.

AHeya Hotstuff

Hope you had a lovely christmas :) And i want to wish you A Happy New Year!!! I really hope 2012 is a real turning point in your life. You are such a wonderful person, you deserve love and success :)

I also wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for all the love, kindness, support and encouragement you have given me over the last 6 months. You really have made such a massive difference in my life. You are responsible to the new me and i will be forever grateful. :)

I look forward to us reaching our targets in 2012. And we will!!! I'm here for you all the way.

Sending you lots of love and squishy hugs my lovely Xxx
 
Inspired by your weight loss Ruth :)


I was curious, do you still eat 1200-1400 calories a day? And how many do you burn off a day?


I'm trying a plan where I eat 1200-1400 and burn 300 calories a day. It's supposed to help me lose over 2 pounds a week, and my caloric intake reduces by 10 calories every week. It sounds like yours might be a similar plan (outside of maybe a reduction of calories) but I figured why not ask the source herself :)


best luck!
 
AThanks so much everyone!!!!!!! xxxxxx

Well I have just had my cheeks done on Tuesday and I look like a total monster! Now the kids are at school and nursery and I have the next 3 weeks off uni, I will at last be able to come to the internet cafe and come on here again whoop whoop, I hope you all forgive me for disappearing. Its been quite hard work with my son of late, he literally needs the same amount or less sleep as I do, so its just been constant without any time to myself. I am still completely fogged up from the painkillers, the last one I took was at three this morning, so I am hoping the dazed feeling goes soon.

When I woke up from the op I had swollen more on one side of my face than the other, but it was still an improvement and I was quite pleased. However, now my lower face and neck are swollen and covered in bruises, and each side of my face has swollen completely differently, giving me a horribly distorted look. It isn't cold today, but I have come out with my hood up and my scarf wrapped beneath my lower eyes. I have been getting some LOOKS lol.

Most of the food I ate after I broke up with nick wasn't too bad. The breakfasts were fine, the lunches were fine, and the dinners were fine. The things that weren't fine were eating an entire packet of biscuits/cakes/both to myself every night. I weighed myself last week and I had gone up to 12 stone 5... 173 pounds... But since Monday night all I've had to eat is a small omelette, A carton of soup, weetabix ,and two large mugs of smoothies. I am about to do my shopping online, and there will be lots more soup! I thought I would use only being able to eat soft food as an opportunity to detox. I might have to eat some cottage pie or something tonight though, to check if me feeling so faint and horrible is just down to lack of food or not though.

Will catch up with you all the best I can today.... Sorry :(
 
AHi Ruthie,

First of all, congrats on the op.:hurray: I’ve read that’s something you really wished for and you had to quit smoking so you can get it done. Sometimes, that’s even harder than losing weight.
Sorry to hear about your face and bruises. The good part is they’ll completely disappear in time.

About the small weight gain, don’t worry about it. You’ve lost so much until now, you’ll lose these extra lbs in no time.:seeya:

Mady
 
A:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

Yay!!!! You're back......Just as i dissapear for a few days!!!!! So so glad hun :)

Come on, we want to hear about everything, well, i do cos i'm nosey :)

Hope you are recovering well. I had an op on tuesday (was steralised) and i'm feeling pretty good today!!! Haven't slept so much in my life :)

Can't wait to catch up and i have missed you soooooooo much :)

Sending you lots of love and hugs Xxx
 
Don't be sorry hun. I cant believe you had your operation. Thank god it went well. I say you are so sore at the moment.


Take care of yourself hun. So happy to read your post!!:)


loads of supportive hugs hun xxxx
 
AOy Hot stuff!!! :D So nice to see you back here again! I also can't believe that you really went ahead and got the cheeks done... insanity! I hope that you are really really happy with them and that they make you feel exactly the way that you had wished. Now. PHOTOS! haha. Even a photo of your black and blue squishy eyes would be awesome ;) but I'm never one to say no to gore! haha.

Don't beat yourself up about the snackage after your split with Nick. I really think (and I'm sure everyone here would agree!) that it was absolutely the best thing to do for your overall well-being, and for that of your kiddies too. Having to deal with a huge life change like that will make any diet difficult! Just remember that it's all one day at a time, one meal at a time (pfft look who's talking).

Missing you, lovely. Can't wait to hear your life updates and your general ramblings and shenanigans again.xxx
 
Hi Ruth, i was looking for you the other day but couldn't find you. Now i know why. Glad to hear or your breakup after all. Well glad since its what you wanted and i suspect it is an improvement.


So you've got your new plumpy cheeks. Like Joh, i hope you are pleased with the result.


Good to see you are still doing your course too. I started my paitning at last. I made a picture for my caravan. Its very simple but i like it. When it gets too hot and my other more urgent work is done, i will resume painting. I've got heaps of ideas and am looking forward to it.


In january i did a 10 day meditation retreat. Very good. What is bad is that i am not meditating daily so much now. I need to get back to it.


Hope you can keep popping in from time to time. Its nice to see some old faces about.
 
AMady Thanks a lot, I do hope so!

Kate I will try and give lots of details to quench your nosiness :D

Princess I will be checking up on you shortly, hope your still here!

Joh I enclose a pic of me looking gore-geous :) Its not even the worst pic of me... Just one that I put on the computer, the worst was even more awful but my phone broke so I lost my pics.

Andrea Wow, what was the retyreat like? Really glad your doing some painting :) I would love to see a photo of them. I'm soing a few sessions of burlesque life drawing soon and I can't wait! Its a shame your not meditating every day. I will be checking up on you soon!

Hmmmm.... Well people, do you want the good news or the bad? The good news is that I have a computer again so I can come on here and do my uni work and buy lots and lots of impulse buys on ebay :) The bad news, ahem, is that Nicks just moved back in lol. It didn't really go too well for the first few days but I had a bit of a rant and threw him out again, and now he is being nice. I hope the stressiness goes. As long as we can be friends, and share housework and child care, I think life will be better with him than without. I still haven't got a strong loving feeling towards him, but I am no longer disgusted with him, which is something. He has been great with the kids and they are really happy to have him back, and it means that I get to do things like going to the life drawing class, and I have time to myself. I fell so far behind with uni work because it was the kids half term but not mine, plus I had no time, energy or computer for uni work, so it makes sense al round really. It was the right decision I think, as long as he isn't an arse, I think we will muddle along okay.

The cheeks... Well, this is what I looked like, just for Joh lol...

fatface.jpg


I haven't got a camera to show you just yet (lost my old one and bought a new one today on ebay), but y left cheek is quite a lot bigger than my right one, unfortunately. The surgeon is a weasily arse and I hate him. He was lying to try and get himself out of it. My right eye is slightly bigger than my left, and my right cheekbone was a tiny bit bigger too, and he said that he will carve the right one smaller so I am less unsymmetrical, but he made it much too small, and there is loads less sideways projection, and when i am wearing sunglasses they sit on one cheek and hover a few mm's above the other one. He said that maybe we could do fat grafting to even it up if its still like that in late may, he didn't say if it would be free or not, but I should bloody hope so. That said, I do think I look loads better overall. Here's an after pic, sorry it isn't better, but I have no camera or phone at the moment and Nicks lost the wire for his phone pics.

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Now I guess I should tell you all about my food eeeeeek. Well, I have gone up a dress size and put on 11 pounds altogether. Its incredible the difference that little bit of weight actually makes on me. Without it I have a tummy that looks reasonably flat in clothes, and no double chin, and with it, I turn in to a lard arse. I can no longer fit comfortably into size 12 clothes, although I am managing to shoe horn myself into them somehow... I just don't want to admit defeat and buy fatter clothes! I sad to myself I would never buy clothes above a size 12 again, and I MEANT IT!!!!

I think my biggest problem at the moment is sugar. I am getting through a big packet once every two days I am at home! Really! I am no longer measuring it in spoonfuls in my tea, not even tablespoons, I am measuring it in inches. It makes me feel quite sick thinking about it... I have just stopped tasting sugar, even eating it out of the packet it doesn't taste quite sweet enough. I am having at least 10 cups of tea a day... probably more. All I ever think about is SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR. I have even been eating chocolate in the mornings, how bad is that? I am in complete and utter panic mode at the thought of giving it up. I have done a weekly healthy shop, and I bought two jars of sweetener, and coffee, which I haven;t been drinking much of, because I hate the taste of tea with sweetener, but don't mind it in coffee. I have also got some cappuccino sachets for uni which is less calorific, and will save me money. I really think if I win my battle with sugar that everything else will just fall into place. I am totally in love with the eclectic mixed prints clothes out this spring, and I want to be buying loads of them, in a size 10! I don't like spending much money on clothes whilst chubby cos I think "what's the point, I'll just look shit anyway". Ooooh, and also, I don't know if anyone remembers my silly weight loss visualisation story thing for them 30 days of questions, but I imagined myself in a posh restaurant, and on groupon I've just bought a lobster and champagne two course meal for two in a posh Chelsea restaurant. Which expires in August, so I am going to wait till I'm a size 10 again, then use that to celebrate. I haven't tried lobster before, and I'm quite looking forwards to it :) Well, I would be, because its food. And I always look forwards to food lol, which is why I'm NOT looking forwards to the next few months lol.

I found a fabulous old clapped out vintage bike a while ago, which I love, but I have bought all the stuff I need to make her beautiful and functional again today, and I am intending on riding the 5 miles to uni and back every day I'm in, which is three days a week, plus another day if I go there to study. I thought that'll save me money on travel, plus get me some exercise, and you'll never believe it, it'll actually be quicker than buses and trains if I do an average of 10 miles per hour. Its two long straight arterial roads I have to ride down... Its a bit scary, but only 10 people a year die on their bikes in London which isn't too bad, so I reckon it'll be fine. But I am worried. I have bought a bright pink waterproof poncho so I am more unmissable.

Am also looking at running machines on ebay.

I had vegetables today! Yeah, I knoooooow! Amazing!!!! Haha. I also did loads of walking and looked in all of the ridiculously expensive antiques shops in Angel. Whih probbaly means nothing to y'all, but its a poshish part of my borough :) 60 grand chinese vase, anyone? "YES PLEEEEASE" I hear you chorous. Ahem. Anyway, I walked for at least two hours today, shame about the three lunches, but such is life. Tomorrow will be day one. I am going to eat fruit now!!!!! Yup, really!

Love to you all xxxxx
 
Hmmm... So day one of eating no shite :jump:. I have had the hungries big time, and there is absolutely nothing more I would like to have right now than cake or biscuits. I wasn't going to count my calories, but I spose i should.... *goes off to count calories*. Oh dear, I haven't done very well. I thought I had! That just shows the amount of rubbish that I've been eating! 40% on calories today has gone on fat, which probably explains it- I'm as full up as I would be on 1000 calories, because obviously fat is calorific and doesn't fill you up. I've had 2096. Ooopsh-a-daissshy.


I hope my appetite goes down soon. Getting back into it is SO HARD!!!!!


Food.

Small portion of porridge with sultanas 296

Ham and cucumber granary sandwich, apple, bout 14 grapes, and a satsuma 533

Eat natural bar 223

3 egg parmesan and onion omelette with a salad 503

Banana and pear 201

2 sachet cappucinos 240

4 coffees 100

=2096


Exercise.

45 minutes walking.





EDIT.... Had a very small bowl of cornflakes instead of the banana and pear cos they weren't quite ripe. Ooops.
 
Day number 2 of eating healthily. I am really struggling. I have been hungry all day, and I'm even hungry when my belly is full. The urge to rip into a packet of wagon wheels is irresistible, and every pack of biscuits in the world is singing out a sad sweet song only I can hear. I just want to eat junk so badly, and what I wouldn't give for a cup of tea with two inches of sugar. I decided to get myself a small pot of full calorie yoghurt to help my urges, hopefully it'll work.


How on earth did I let my diet slip? Whywhywhywhywhywhy OH WHYYYYYYYYYY? Even if I had only maintained for all this time, I would only have 16 pounds to go before skinniness, now I have 27. Really hope this is going to get easier soon.


Food

Porridge with sultanas 296

Mixed bean salad, kiwi, banana and some grapes 470

Skinless chicken with stuffed peppers and tomato basmati rice 362

Strawberry yoghurt 130

Packet cappucinno 86

=1343


Exercise

40 minutes walking.
 
AHeya Girly :)

OMG i have so so missed you and your diary. I giggle thru those last two posts!!!! Sorry, i know you are going thru hell but they are so so funny. :smilielol5: :smilielol5:

You know that your body is in withdrawl and you know that it is screaming at you because you have stopped it's addiction to sugar!!!!!! Get past the first 10 days and you will be fine. that's 2 down only 8 to go. AND when you have reached 10 days i reckon you can curl up on the sofa with a nice steaming mug of hot sweet tea!!! BUT only if you manage to do 10 perfect days.
Just tell your self that Kate with scream obsenities at me if i cave in. Kate does not want to be a size 10 without me!!!!!

Seriously though sweetie. You can do this!!! You have done this!!!! You will do this Or big beaty stick come out :cuss: look you even get a rant face :)

Keep it up my lovely, you are doing great :)
 
AWay to go girl! Dont give up! Ive been asking that from myself too, WHY THE HELL I GOT MYSELF SLIP LIKE THISSSS WHYYYY!! But we just gotta stop telling it and DO IT! Do the fucking weightloss again. Thats the only way to go. :D Yesterday I wanted candy so bad but I ended up eating some pistachio&honey bar and orange with whipped cream. After getting something sweet in my mouth I forgot how badly I had wanted candy. We can do this! xo
 
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