Laura's Diary

cheeki119

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Hi everyone =)
I have already introduced myself in the newbie section but I will go into a little more detail here.
As I’ve already said I’m 20 years old and live with my partner of 5 years and my cat Angus =)
I’m expecting a good job coming my way in May that will put my mental abilities to the test. I know your maybe thinking ‘how does losing weight affect your mental abilities?’ Well at the moment I’m constantly feeling lethargic, unconfident and constantly deflated every moment of the day. This is now my second day of exercise and healthy eating and i feel great! Yes i can’t walk or sit on the toilet without pain due to swimming and my 1½h walk today, but my energy is still high!
Another reason to lose weight is I’m planning on getting married! =) A date won’t be set until i know about this job but at the moment it’s a huge motivation for me to look good.
At the moment I weigh and my target weight is . My plan to lose this weight is a combination of healthy eating with a calorie control, and daily exercise which mainly consists of swimming, walking and exercise DVD (Natalie Cassidy)
My diet is a limit of 1700 calories, 5 meals (sometimes 6 if i have enough calories left for pudding), no eating after 7pm, 2 litres of water and avoiding sugar as much as possible.
My exercise routine consists of swimming atleast 5 times a week (legths will increase with fitness level, i did 20 this morning), walking daily and 3 times a week exercise DVD (hour long). I’m hoping to add more activities as i go along such as yoga and the gym.
I’m not doing this alone, I’ve got my best friend Holly doing everything the same but she weighs 136lb. She’s part of my motivation and my rock in hard times. We did start swimming last year together but after 1 month she moved abroad from 6 months and i just couldn’t do it alone. This time its different tho, shes getting married next year so we have each other to keep us going.
As i said before this is my second day at this, yesterday i did the hour long DVD and kept to my eating plan.
Today because of been out of the house i slipped up with sugar content and 5 meals but i was under the 1700 calorie mark. I went swimming this morning and did 20 lengths (10 laps) tomorrow morning im aiming for 24 lengths (12 laps).
Thats it i think...anything else you want to know just comment =)

Love Laura x
 
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Sounds like you have an awesome plan laid out! Stick with it and I am SURE you won't have any problems losing that weight.
 
thank you bec =)

hello everyone =)
Ok day three wasn’t so good. It started okay, my friend and I went swimming and although I didn’t do the 24 laps I wanted to, due to time restraints, I did complete 22 (50 meters more than yesterday) I then went home to a few grapes a cut apple and a cup of coffee and headed out to college. Due to my lecture been cancelled I decided to go shopping with a friend and we stopped for some lunch in a small cafe. I had smoked salmon and cucumber sandwiches on brown and a cup of ear grey followed by a date cake (that I didn’t finish but still I feel guilty). Then we found out my friends sister’s friend had died so seeing her upset put me on a downer (she is like my little sister). I then had to go to the hospital A&E for myself (nothing too serious don’t worry =p) and after 2hours of waiting was told to go elsewhere. I know it’s no excuse but with all the running around and distress and let downs I was an hour away from home and decided to go for a Mcdonalds =(. I had 6 chicken nuggets, chips and a diet coke. In total my Mcdonalds came to 584 calories. So I may have been over today =(
So tomorrow I’ve decided (as I will have no time restraints) I will do 32 laps tomorrow (which will be just under 1 mile) and do my work out DVD. Hope tomorrow goes better diet wise.
Night all
Laura x
 
The fast food will get ya wont it? I was voted king of the drive thru window 2008 but not anymore. Bad McDonalds...BAD! You dont have any left overs around here do ya? Just kiddin,,,Bad McDonalds
 
Hehe I think a chip fell down the side of the seat if you want me to go fetch it? Just joking I would hate to be the one to blow all of your good progress. I won’t lie...it tasted amazing :drool5: but I feel rubbish now from it. Compared to yesterday evening my energy levels are low and I feel like I've let myself down :(
Even though I’m doing extra swimming tomorrow I can help thinking that if I didn’t have the McD's and did more laps tomorrow I could have lost an extra bit! :banghead:
Oh well I could fill my life with what ifs I need t change that to I’m glad I did!
Thanks for stopping by and posting =)
Laura
 
personally after like 1 week it was routine already to exercise and eat healthy,it nearly feels like an inconvenience to not stick to it and you are rock solid so far and will definatly go far especially with a friend,Good luck and best wishes!
 
personally after like 1 week it was routine already to exercise and eat healthy,it nearly feels like an inconvenience to not stick to it and you are rock solid so far and will definatly go far especially with a friend,Good luck and best wishes!

guess i need to keep going then =) thank you for your encouraging kind works
Laura
 
Keep up the good work. Even tho you feel like you slipped up, next time you feel like "cheating" think back to this time and remember how bad you felt afterward and ask yourself if it's really worth it.
 
everybody has slip up, but you don't fail unless you give up !

Keep up the great effort !!
 
I love that attitude.

'I' love that attitude!! thank you so much Bec and Trusylver next time i want to eat junk im just going to say to myslef: 'not onl am i letting myself down i'm letting all those on WLF who belived in me down!
 
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