Journey to my dream body by the time I turn 30! MY DIARY

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As LaMa said to me the other day 'your diary, your rules'. You should feel free to post WHATEVER you like and not question it (minus nasty stuff obviously :p). Great reduction! It will be awesome to see how weight training has changed your December body.
 
Weight today: 56.2kg (123.8lbs)

Food Intake:
1 small banana
1 small piece of papaya
7 seed crackers with strawberry jam
2 slices of cheese
1 pork sausage (186 calories)
1 egg
200grams of cod fish
salad: cabbage, carrots, green peppers
10 fries
1 tiramisu (small slice)
1 shredded chicken salty pastry
1 close fist of Brazilian nuts
1 apple

Exercise:
10km on treadmill
240 abs variation

*Lower Body Training*
BASIC SQUATS - 3 sets of 15 using 8lbs dumbbells
DEADLIFTS - 3 sets of 15 using 8lbs dumbbells
KETTLEBELL SWINGS - 3 sets of 15 using 10lbs weight
DONKEY KICKS - 3 sets of 15 for each leg
FIRE HYDRANTS - 3 sets of 15 for each leg

Note: went out to lunch with my brother and had some indiscretions =/ 10 fries (1/3 of the portion that came with my meal which was the fish with the salad), the chicken pastry and the tiramisu...besides I'm still eating my dad's cheese, Dear Lord give me strength to avoid this cheese...it's so good, yet so bad for me!
 
Delsid said:
As LaMa said to me the other day 'your diary, your rules'. You should feel free to post WHATEVER you like and not question it (minus nasty stuff obviously :p). Great reduction! It will be awesome to see how weight training has changed your December body.
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Hahaha...I know this, but despite my rambling here I tend to be a very private person...I am always a bit skeptical of what should be posted on the internet...you know, once it's here (on the web) it's here forever...even if you eventually delete it (which to be honest with you...I actually DO consider deleting this diary after awhile)....I guess it proves my point that I am truly doing this for me, but on the other hand I've "met" the most incredible group of people here in this forum - the social worker in me loves hearing everyone stories and how we are all here trying to be better versions of our present self, I find AMAZING the support that we give one another, each with their goals and struggles, yet all in a common purpose - BE HEALTHIER AND STRONGER inside-out...so whether I may or may not delete my diary in the future, I think I would still like to keep some sort of relationship/coming here and checking on everyone posts after my birthday/goal date...we shall see!! ;-)
 
Well I hope you stick around :D and continue writing!!

Yeah, I know what you mean about things being OUT there forever, once you post them...but I don't see how putting stuff on here could be in any way 'harmful'...although there's most likely stuff I have no idea about so you're probably right to be a bit cautious... The thing with your pictures though, unless someone knows your knickers very well you're not likely to be recognised if that's what worries you? ;)

Totally with you on the LOVE for this place!!!
 
Hi caligirl. I love having you here in the forum as you are like a breath of fresh air. I think it's great that you felt comfortable enough to share your plan & photos with us. I agree with Delsid. No-one would recognise you from your photos unless they had intimate knowledge of your knickers. It's good to have different stories & goals. It makes this quite a well-balanced forum. You are able to be an inspiration to some of the younger members, in particular, I'm sure. You will always be welcome here, xoxo
 
sWeight today: 56.6kg (a .4 increase from yesterday.......not surprised, fries and a dessert involving chocolate are killers, whoops!!)

Food Intake:
small slice of papaya
1 small tapioca w/ teaspoon of butter
1 close fist of Brazilian nuts
5 mini-strawberry
1 mini cheese bread
10 reg. table spoons of paella (it equals 1 med. plate and a half) - I made the paella with a seafood mix and 7 grains ritto - see attached pic - it includes linseed, quinoa, red rice, long rice, oatmeal, pearl barley, wheat, rye.
1 teaspoon of Philadelphia cream cheese
1 mini apple (42 calories)
1 banana
2 spoons of lactose free powder milk
1 thin slice of watermelon
5 onion Pringles chips

Exercise:
100 calf raises
100 reg. squats
800 abs variation
30 mid-bridge elevation followed by 30 pulses
300 mini-jumps

NOTE: So, I ate what I was not supposed to (gluten from the paella ritto and sooo much of it) AND the "here and there" small amounts of cheese continue AND the 5 onion Pringles chips...PLUS, I didn't make it to the gym today - so you know tomorrow will be a bust AGAIN...hahaha, I won't be mad at me though...LET'S FOCUS ON THE POSITIVES, today I didn't eat any refined sugar - let's try to do that for the next 10 days. I succumbed into buying powder milk (albeit lactose free, still not the healthiest thing because I just like it WAY TOO MUCH) - my dad brought more than 15 bananas from his farm and he expects me to eat all of them...I usually either eat my banana with my lunch meal (together) OR I smash it with a fork and add two spoons of powder milk and that my friends, is my CHILDHOOD HEAVEN...hahaha, anyways...tomorrow I will be better, a trip earlier to the gym before I weigh in so I won't feel too bad and then weight training later in the day ;-)


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Weight Today: 56.6kg - same as yesterday, so this was a total weight loss of .9kg - 1.9lbs since coming back and writing on the diary this last week!! I'll take that!! 0/

Food Intake:
1 medium tapioca with teaspoon of butter
1 fat free/sugar free greek yogurt
7 Brazilian nuts
150 grams of tilapia fish
Salad/Veggies: lettuce, tomatoes, arugula, white asparagus, red-yellow bell peppers, broccoli
1 slice of ricotta-crab quiche
3 onion Pringles chips
1 banana
1 spoon of powder milk (lactose free)
1 thin slice of watermelon
5 mini strawberries
1 mini apple

Exercise:

8km on treadmill
200 abs variation

*Upper Body Training*

3 sets of 15 pushups with renegade row using 5lbs dumbbells
3 sets of 15 strict shoulder presses using 5lbs dumbbells
3 sets of 15 alternating front/bi-lateral raises using 5lbs dumbbells
3 sets of 15 lawnmowers using 8lbs dumbbells
3 sets of 15 overhead triceps extensions using 10lbs dumbbells
3 sets of 15 staggering bicep curls using 5lbs dumbbells

NOTE: 2 days OFF of refined sugar, wahooo, overall a good day...I was so surprised I didn't gain any weight from yesterday that I only worked-out later today, Lol =)
 
Weight Today: 56.2kg

Food Intake:
1 plum lactose free yogurt
2 pork sausage (272 calories total)
salad/veggies: tomato, spinach, red-yellow bell peppers, lime, olive oil drizzle
1 1/2 bananas
5 mini strawberry
1 spoon of powder milk
14 onion Pringles chips (130 calories total)
1 medium tapioca with chia seeds, a slice of cheese, a spoon of diet strawberry jam
1 slice of watermelon
2/3 of cup of pumpkin soup

Exercise:
8km
240 abs variation

*Lower Body Weight Training*
PLIE SQUATS WITH CALF RAISE
Using 10lbs dumbbells
(3 SETS OF 20)

PULSING LUNGES
Using 5lbs dumbbells
(3 SETS OF 20 EACH LEG)

STRAIGHT-LEGGED DEADLIFTS
Using 8lbs dumbbells
(3 SETS OR 20)

GLUTE BRIDGES with PULSES
Using 15lbs dumbbell
(3 SETS OF 20)

PULSING SQUATS
(3 SETS OF 20)

NOTE: Ok, maybe I overdid on the Pringles...I NEED TO FINISH THE BOTTLE I GOT, thankfully it's not too high on calories, haha...I still have 1/3 of it left so expect me to finish within the next days. Otherwise I feel it was a good day...as mentioned before I am on a mission to NOT EAT refined sugar until the last Sunday of May (5/29), but today as I was reading the label for the pork sausage I saw that they added refined sugar there :banghead: seriously, as much as I want to be strict, I am going ahead and won't consider that cheating...pork is possibly the only "kinda of red meat" that I can have (tsc tsc - intolerance to cow's meat) - and my issue truly is the SWEETS, so that's what I am counting into avoiding till 5/29...cake, chocolate, elaborated desserts, cookies and such. My diet strawberry jam does not have refined sugar, nor the yogurts I take........so for the next days, sweets only thru fruits, yogurt, and milk - 3 days down, 9 more to go...THIS IS HARD, but on 5/29 and on June 2nd I have parties and I will eat ALL THE CAKE AND DESSERT I WANT!!! This is a good prep for it! ;-)
 
You wouldn't expect sugar in a sausage, would you.

I'm in the south of China and they love sweet food. Which means they put sugar into EVERYTHING.

Your self control around Pringles does not cease to amaze me :D
 
It's been such a busy weekend...didn't find much time to keep track of food or working out (though, for the most part it was a clean eating weekend - today, I did eat more and more unhealthy - mainly rice/some bread/3 chicken nuggets - in addition to the usual fruits and seafood). Feeling successful being 5 days OFF sweets, survived a party and today with PLENTY of opportunities to eat cake and chocolate, but didn't. ;-)

Does anyone else find it harder to work-out in the day AFTER an unhealthy meal? Even if I wait a few hours and am feeling sort of well, these type of foods just get me so uncomfortable (with cramps, bloating, etc.) that for the rest of the day all I want to do is NOTHING, my mood goes down considerably...I was ready to walk out the door right now for a work-out, but feeling that this day has been such a bust I just hadn't in me the energy to going, even though I already felt bad for not working out yesterday and I love working out. I feel that I ALWAYS prefer to work-out my way to an unhealthy meal - in the sense that I earned it - rather than having an unplanned unhealthy meal happen - like it did today - and then I have to work-out after to burn it off.

Weight Yesterday: 55.9kg (123.2lbs)
Weight Today: 55.8kg (123lbs)

Will squat now in order to get something something going...tomorrow you know it will be 56-57kg, I would be surprised if not =/

But here is to a WONDERFUL NEW WEEK...let's make healthy food choices, and may we work hard on our fitness too...and I will work EXTRA hard because I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO looking forward to next Sunday!! =)

Xoxox
 
Weight Today: 56.2kg

Food Intake:
1 small slice of papaya
half of a banana
2 spoons of powder milk
4 spoons of brown beans with pumpkin and pork sausage
4 spoons of white rice with herbs and mini shrimp
1 burger beef (just beef, no buns or add ons)
1 white asparagus, 1 mini-corn, 1 palmetto
1 small apple
6 seed crackers with lactose free cottage cheese and diet grape jam
2/3 bag of microwave popcorn
1 fat free passion fruit yogurt (49calories)

Exercise: 8km on treadmill
400 abs variation
Upper body strength training #1
 
Weight Today: 56.1kg

Food Intake:
1 small papaya with chia seeds
1 small tapioca with teaspoon of butter
1 lactose free yogurt (55calories)
1 banana
2 table spoons of lactose free powder milk
7 seed crackers with lactose free cottage cheese and diet grape jam
100grams of fish
1 small cut of pork loin
1 cup of vegetable soup
1 table spoon of brown beans
1 small apple

Exercise:
3km on treadmill
12 min. of HIIT
180 abs variation
10 min. on stationary bike
*Lower Body Strength Training #1*
 
Weight Today: 55.7kg (122.7lbs)

Food Intake:
1 banana
1 small tapioca with chia seeds, teaspoon of butter
2 thin slices of turkey ham
1 lactose free yogurt
1/2 spoon of powder milk
1 small apple
7 seed crackers with lactose free cottage cheese and diet grape jam

NOTE ABOUT LUNCH: I went out to meet with my cousins, I ate one FULL plate with fish, a huge variety of veggies (seriously, all the veggies you can think and imagine of, I had it today...too many to list), and a small cut of lamb. All healthy items within my diet but, as you know, I exercise no portion control, I just went for 1 full plate and did not repeat because that got me satisfied. At this point, I feel like I'm not too bothered with the numbers on the scales because they seem to drop (albeit very slowly) no matter how much I eat, as long as I eat healthy...that being said, I feel that I always gain weight when I eat out...even when it is the healthy stuff...the fish is not prepared the same - probably with butter and olive oil (I do mine on a non-sticky/copper pan, so nothing goes on it besides water and the pre-seasoning of lime and garlic that my dad freezes his fish), the lamb also had some sauce in it, the salad had a lot of things that I don't eat as regularly (carrots, white beans, green beans, peas etc. etc. etc.) - so I don't know what to expect for tomorrow, and to be honest, that's one of the main reasons why I HATE eating out - I love knowing all the ingredients that go into my meal, not knowing specifics makes it hard for me writing about it at this diary.

Exercise:
6km on treadmill
400abs variation
*Upper Body Training #2*
 
Wow, just remembered...today is day 7 OFF sweets...I definitely miss it, and have been feeling extra dizzy (well, it's over 95F/36C where I am at, so THAT IS THE MAIN REASON...I'm always dizzy due to natural low blood pressure). However, I also feel that eating all the fruits/the yogurt/the diet jam/powder milk have been covering for some of my cravings...as long as is out of sight, I don't seem to be thinking much of it...the problem is when I go out and see it, then I'm reminded...and once a day I think of this coming Sunday, and the cake, and the candies I will have then, haha...but other than that, I'm cool as a cucumber with this little challenge and super proud of myself for sticking to it despite social events/temptations I've had these last 7days, and 3 more days to go.
 
CaliGirl said:
I don't know what to expect for tomorrow, and to be honest, that's one of the main reasons why I HATE eating out - I love knowing all the ingredients that go into my meal, not knowing specifics makes it hard for me writing about it at this diary.
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I fully understand that, but I also think the uncertainty is a reason to keep eating out with some regularity: to check if we don´t get too obsessed with control over our food. A little extra fat once a week isn´t the end of the world :) I just saw that you´re a week ahead of me on ditching the sugar, I never thought I´d make it after day seven so kudos to you for keeping it out for twice that!
 
Weight Today: 56.5kg - Lol, seriously...NO COMMENTS!!

Food Intake:
1 apple
1 small papaya
1 banana
1 cup of tomato and basil soup
salad (see attached pic): lettuce, tomato, basil, mini-corn, white asparagus, pumpkin, beets
2 eggs
7 seed crackers with butter
1 thin slice of cheese
1 thin slice of turkey ham

Exercise:
6km on treadmill
200 abs variation
*Lower Body Strength Training #2*

NOTE: Thanks everyone for the lovely comments and feedback. As you can see, my predictions about today's weight were right...it's funny how, as years go by - and you learn a bit about nutrition and fitness AND about yourself too, you know what to expect/what works for you and what doesn't. For many years, whenever I would eat out, I would have to rush back home or to the hospital...because I would get SO SICK, as I have come to learn about my intolerances and health issues, today when I eat out I have 2 concerns: 1) If it's an unhealthy meal, am I prepared to deal with the consequences?!? 2) if it's a healthy meal and I am eating out, to observe whether it has any difference on how my body reacts to it. Other than the numbers on the scale, I AM EXTREMELY HAPPY TO REPORT that yesterday's meal choice was a WINNER, no pains/no bloating/no food poisoning...the number is just a number, and easy to recover...I see so many people get discouraged by the numbers on the scale, NOT ME...I'm motivated by knowing whether I am making good food choices despite the circumstances and keep improving on my fitness skills, I see this as a lifetime thing - because as long as I have control (and right now I can still control what my body ingests and how much it moves) I view the other details as consequences. If you treat your body well, you will see the results sooner or later, but you will see it as long as you keep doing it...I've never been healthier or more fit in my life, and I am so proud to achieve this level of self-control and awareness. The only thing that yesterday's meal proves is how, the exact same meal - cooked at home compared to cooked at a restaurant - can hold different calories/be prepared differently. Which is why, at least for me, I try to keep outside eating to 2meals per week and no more than that...it gives me some window to eat whatever I want/am craving, with moderations, while still understanding that because of my health condition I should not over do it. ;-) It took me 29yrs, but today - more so since I have started writing here - I have learned that that's the key to a healthier ME!!
 
LaMaria said:
I fully understand that, but I also think the uncertainty is a reason to keep eating out with some regularity: to check if we don´t get too obsessed with control over our food. A little extra fat once a week isn´t the end of the world :) I just saw that you´re a week ahead of me on ditching the sugar, I never thought I´d make it after day seven so kudos to you for keeping it out for twice that!
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Lol, girl I am counting the days to Sunday (did you cut ALL SUGAR, or just refined?)...I thought about it today, on Sunday I will TRY - note that try doesn't mean I will achieve BUT - to keep it to 1 slice of cake and 3 small sweets! Then I have to go another 6 days without refined sugar till my niece's bday party. Hahaha...in all honesty, I know sugar is an addiction for me, need to have it after every meal - I think I would collapse without the fruits/yogurt/milk at this point - but at least it feels good to know that I have some sort of control over it though, specially with the unhealthy sugar - which is really the only one that worries me.
 
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