Kate's journey to being happy!

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Hi all :seeya:

I've been on this forum before, many times, failed many times and have been too embarrassed or pissed off at myself to post, inevitably giving up. But I'm sick of 'looking back' trying to achieve what I did years ago (actually getting slim for the one and only time) and failing so this is me.....a new effort, a new attitude, with a new account, now......trying my bloody best to get to being 'happy' not just slim and fit and healthy blah blah....but happy with who I am and what I look like! Which will probably be harder than actually losing the weight :rolleyes: but hey ho!

Ok, a bit about me. My name is Kate. I live in the UK, in a sleepy little seaside town in Devon. I'm 43. I've lived with my other half, Mark, for 26 years and we have an 18 year old son called Jack. I have a lovely family, amazing friends and I enjoy my job as a dental nurse. Everything is great.......... but I have some really serious self loathing issues which I am trying to work thru. Hence my new idea of trying to be 'happy' rather than 'thin'

I spent a lot of today at work thinking back and forth about whether to start a new diary (I argue with myself a lot!) and didn't want to fall back into the old trap of expecting too much of myself and failing, hating myself more and it all going to shit so.............I'm just going to post about my day.
If I do good, then great, but if not then, hey ho!

I read a quote yesterday that really made me think. I thought I'd share it with you guys.

Set some goals.
Stay quiet about them.
Smash the shit out of them.
Clap for your damn self.​

I really liked that....a lot. I hate people always asking 'how's the diet going?' etc etc all the bloody time. I've been on a diet all my life and I'm totally sick of that word!!! so, as far as anyone else is concerned....i'm giving up! you guys on here are all the people I am going to talk about it with. I'm gonna set some goals and share with you only.

I'm only going to set 1 goal today..........Use myfitnesspal (started a new account there too) every day and stay below my calories for 1 week. If I wanna eat more, i'm going to have to move more ;)

Baby steps :D

I've done a ticker and i'll measure tomorrow. Thanks for reading :)




 
Hi Kate, welcome back to the forum.

Happy is a great goal, I think it makes being healthier easier and then weight loss just follows!
 
Hello

I had a good day today. I counted calories and although I did struggle a bit I really tried to not obsess about food. I had 1334 calories today :)

On a Tuesday evening for the last two or so years I have been a helper at my local 'Weight Watchers' group, which means I get all the support, access to the app etc for free. I went along tonight and I had gained 1.5lb since last Tuesday (I was ok with that as I knew i'd had a good day today) I noticed that in all that time I had been helping out I have lost the grand total...........0.5lb :cry::cry::cry:
BUT...........I was really motivated by the group chat tonight, I actually spoke up about how i'd been feeling and they gave me ideas of how to just do one day at a time. I came away feeling really positive. I've decided to use the weight watchers app rather than myfitnesspal now and i'm going to follow weight watcher (it means I can eat fruit and veg without having to count it, yay!)
I'm still not going to talk to friends and work colleagues about my efforts. Just you guys and my weight watchers family :)
So, my little goals this week are to track every day (even if I go over my points) and actually stay within my points for a whole weekend:eek: The weekend is where it all goes to shit for me mostly.
Also, we talked about a goal to aim for. I am running a half marathon (I know, mental huh?!) at the end of September. I can run about 3 miles at the moment, slow, but I can run it and obviously I will be doing much more training too. I weight 16st 1.5lb today and my aim is to weight 14st something by the time I do it. I think that is a realistic goal to set myself. What do you think?

Heya Allthefoods. Thanks for stopping by and the lovely words :D

Cate, Love you :beating:

I've added my 1.5lb to my start weight on my ticker...........but hey ho, i'll get it shifted.



 
Hello peeps :)
Ooo, it looks like it's randomly changed the ticker thingy over night!

I've had a great day, really great day :D The girls at work know I go to 'fat club' on a Tuesday and they all asked how it went and I told them i'd gained but that I was not going to weigh anymore as i'm sick of it stressing me out. A few of them were like 'good for you' :) I will weigh, I just wont talk to them about it.

I've had a great food day, having 28 of my 32 WW points :)
I went for a run and I did my daily target of 10,000 steps.

I've also got Mark to take some photos of me :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: That was due to seeing the awesome pics Sunflower put up of her transformation......I want me some of that lol! And I took measurements. I will do it all again in a month.

Love and hugs to all



 
Heya :)

I've had a really good day, not obsessing about food. :D I'm well below my points 23 of the 32 but I had running club after work and i'm never hungry after running :rolleyes:
My back has been sore for about a week now and tonights run was lots of hills, great training but my back, right butt cheek and thigh didn't like it at all. Had a really hot bath with impressive painkillers to try and ease it but I feel really flat now. I don't want to cheer myself up with food, which is good, but I'm verging on grumpy :(

Weekend starts tomorrow and its a really busy one!!! I'm going to have to be really careful to stick within my points. I am usually utter shite at the weekends so i'm really bloody determined to get this one spot on :D

Love to all :)


 
Ooooh! Grumpy Kate? :frown:
:grouphug:
Fingers & toes crossed hun that you have a really good weekend. You can do this sweets xoxo
 
Heya
Didn't get chance to post yesterday as we got home really late but it was an ok day.
With weight watchers I have 32 daily points and 42 weekly points that can be used when you have days that you go over your daily's. You can also earn activity points that are calculated with my fitbit. Anyway, yesterday I had 46 points, which wasn't bad seeing as we went to a fish and chip restaurant. I had a veggie burger and didn't eat most of my chips.
The show we went to see was hilarious and we had a great night.

Today I worked this morning and then we went to the pictures to see 'national theatres live performance of Peter Pan' which was really good. I did have a small popcorn and then we went to the pub for food afterwards. I had a veggie curry and didn't drink :eek: I had 36 points, only using 4 of my weekly points. Happy with that. :)
I'm pretty grumpy, just feeling flat really but I'm not letting it get in the way of trying to eat well:D Just got tomorrow to get through and I will have managed a decent weekend.

Hope everyone is well and being awesome ;)



 
Hello Kate!

I did WW back in 2012 and loved it. I found the point system really useful and in some way satisfying hehe. I think WW also taught me a lot about portion control and eating more fruit and veg.

All the best of luck to you and if you're feeling a bit flat I recommend doing something you enjoy for a little while :) I recently discovered Louise Hay on YouTube and she's just lovely :D

Good night!
 
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