Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Glad it isn't only me :cheers2:

Sorry if i made light of your eating disorder, it must have been hard for you to say anything about it. Maybe you allowed yourself to mention it as your now feeling a lot happier, and stronger. Just wanted to say that i understand that you don't want to air all your feelings on a public forum, but please talk to someone about it, it could really help you to come to terms with it xxxxxxxxxx

You play for Switzerland????! Oh my god! Thats brill. Hows your ankle? x
 
Thanks, Rainbow :) You are right, I did allow myself to mention it because I am feeling so happy with my life at the moment. And yes, I did sit there looking at it for a ridiculously long time before I posted it... But now it's out there, and it's a step towards self-acceptance. I know I should talk to someone about it... but I'm feeling really great, and haven't had a problem for years, so there's no major drama. But that means this is probably the perfect time to deal with it. GRR! :) Thanks for your understanding. x
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TODAY:
Yup! Another tournament with netball Switzerland :) I was put in GS the whole day (five games) and kicked BUTT!!! :hurray:So happy with myself! I figure I'm allowed to brag a little bit in my own diary, right? We only came 4th though, but not too bad out of 14 teams. I felt really fit and feel like I could have played for many more hours! It's an awesome feeling. The tournament was in Lausanne, a gorgeous small city in the French part of Switzerland (I live in the German part) with mountains going straight into the big beautiful lake... Ah, what a gorgeous train ride!

It was a bugger that we all went out to dinner afterwards, and the only option was pizza. I was starving... could have had a whole pizza, so glad I only had half. I also managed to avoid the many many tins of cakes and lollies and things that all the kids bring around throughout the tournament (so cute!). But MAN it drives me nuts that all my skinny-rake netball buddies can eat all the cakes, a whole pizza, lollies on the train... and be so skinny!

FOOD
Breakfast
- Small bowl bircher muesli with 1 slice wholemeal bread
- Milk coffee

LUNCH
- Bretzel with butter
- 30g dried apple chips
- 1/2 bottle iced tea

DINNER
- 1/2 thin crust vegetarian pizza
- small beer
- Kiddie's cup Lemon Sorbet
 
AURGH!!!!!!!!! I just wrote a HUGE POST about my goals and achievments, now that I'm one week into my 'healthy living' plan, and then I CLOSED THE BLOODY PAGE!!!! I was meant to open my ticker in the bookmarks, but hit the 'x' accidentally. RAWRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

Sigh.

The first half of my post was about what a grumpy I am today, about the fight I had with my hubby last night, about how all I want is a soy latte and a raspberry muffin instead of bloody bircher muesli, and about how my hair is a freaking disaster. And then I actively decided to change my mood and talk about all my achievements over the last week and all my mental and physical goals for the upcoming week.

BOO!!! BACK TO GRUMPY!!!

So I'm 1.2kg down this week. Which is good. would love to be 85 next monday, but that would involve drastic measures , and this is a 'lifestyle' plan for me, so I'm going to remind myself about the slow and steady.
 
Still grumpy. Just grumpy at German now too.

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sunflower Hi! Ooo - being captain is awesome! Our coach made me captain for the tournament of Sunday, and I felt so happy about it. There are so many boxes you have to tick to be considered 'captain-worthy', so yay for us! Are you still playing? I was always GD throughout school and when I was playing very seriously after school (before my stupid chronic fatigue hit me), and then one day I was randomly put as GS and totally kicked butt! Surprisingly! So now, here, I'm usually GD, but occasionally GS. I was GS for the whole tournament on Sunday though... I even got named 'best player' for three out of five of our matches! Ha, if I can't brag in my diary, where can I? :) What's your position?

Trusylver, Thansk for stopping by! Yeah, five matches, and all in a row... it sure was tough! But I still felt great afterwards, which was really surprising. Today I feel like hell though...
 
I was going to pretend to 'forget' to post my food today... it's been a terrible day. I felt like absolute shit, physically and mentally... which somehow manifests itself in me watching a video and eating junk.

But this time, one bad day isn't the end of the world. Tomorrow I start again.

FOOD TODAY:
Breakfast:
- 4 wholemeal crackers with low-fat cottage cheese and sliced tomato

Snack:
- Soy latte and a raaspberry muffin

Lunch:
- Wasabi ravioli with orange butter sauce (maybe seven pieces) and a green side-salad

Snack (? Ridiculous... was kind of my dinner)
- 2 pieces left-over pizza
- 100g chilli pringles and 50g hazelnut chocolate (no comment) :banghead:

Dinner:
- boiled cabbage with nutmeg
- one stolen nibble of hubby's tandoori chicken breast (20g?)
- 1/2 glass white wine

EXERCISE:
None. Felt awful all day. Will hopefully sleep well tonight.
 
I played for my primary school netball team lol, and i was always envious of the gs and ga. And the c (if thats what its called?!) of course! I was wing defence, boohoo.

Go and have some passionate make-up sex with your hubby to burn off the cals! You know you want to....... ! This is just a day like you said, and tomorrow is a fresh new shiny start. You have done brill losing 1.2 kgs, well done!

God, i hate it when i lose what im writing, its got to the stage now that if i am writing a really long message i will just do it in word so i can save it every minute, we have an electricity meter and the electric always cuts out mid message. It knows.
 
having a poor day is not so bad after all those games, way back when I played as a teen lol I always played centre.
 
Hahaha, Rainbow... WD, eh? Well, I tell you what, we have one hell of a WD for our team, and she absolutely rocks! So don't underestimate the importance of your role, hehe.

Yeah... gotta get it on with my man tonight to burn those calories from yesterday, hehe. I felt terrible yesterday and went to bed really early... but tonight, for shiz!

Trusylver - a centre! Woah... You guys scare me... :willy_nilly:Our centre for the Swiss team is a marathoner... so I doubt I will ever get to that point! haha.

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I said that today was going to be a new day. And guess what? It was. Put on 0.4 overnight - that bloody afternoon binge! There was another MAJOR point of weakness this afternoon, but I hit it on the head, grabbed my notebook and headed to starbucks (no comments required... the coffee in Switzerland is :puke:) for a black coffee and some writing. I sat there for... two and a half hours. Did STACKS of writing, and didn't eat anything! Woot!

Now my joggers are on, and I'm about to head out to the Sporthalle, meeting my hubby there so we can go for a jog down the river. I'm a bit scared - I haven't been running with him since we first got together, as he is stupidly fit and I tend to break myself trying to keep up. But I've warned him this time, and he says he's going to stick with me, even if it means he's just walking fast while I'm 'jogging' (technically... but SO slowly!)

So let's hope it works! I will be happy if I last fifteen minutes... eeeeeek... wish me luck!
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Run with hubby went really well! He's got these fancy new running shoes that are meant to be like barefoot running, so he's eager to try them out. I did six laps today - 18 minutes (plus the 5 it took to get therE). SLOW but I did it! All running - no stopping! We did two laps together and then started laughing when he started power-walking at the same rate as my jog (I told him that I said on the forum that would happen, haha), so then he took off for a sprint and did two laps in the time it took for me to do one. BOO - but all good :) I'm just happy I can run more than 100m now! End of lap 4, and I was buggered, so I asked him if I could put in my music. I did (Florence and the Machine) and I reckon I sped up at least 50%. And whenever the chorus came, I'd sprint... he really noticed the difference. So, after lap 6, I was STUFFED. But happy :) I had to wipe the pollen off my black pants afterwards though... I think I burn at least 1000Calories a day with my sneezing at the moment!

So, TODAY'S EXERCISE:
- 20min running (I've been trying to round down exercise and round up food... for a change)
- 20 min cycling
- at least 70 sneezes ;)


TODAY'S FOOD (it's 7pm and I'm determined not to have any more)
- 2 wholemeal crackers with low fat cottage cheese (100Cal)
- 1/2 tub raspberry yoghurt (60Cal)
- Veggie wrap (capsicum, carrot, onion, beans, mushroom. In a pan with spices and a little bit of tinned tomatos. served in a corn tortilla with a teaspoon of lowfat sour cream) (300Cal)
- Banana (100Cal)
- Asparagus risotto with artichokes and roasted tomato (500Cal)

Total Calorie Intake: 1060
Total Calories Burned: 250
 
Well done on both the exersice and the sneezes :rotflmao:! I'm off to run.... a bath. All i am of capable right now with my poor aching body! You've done really well on the food today- made up for yesterday, yay!
 
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Thanks girls! :)

I haven't posted my food yesterday, so here it is. I was really hungry all day and really struggled, especailly because there were a bunch of social situations that popped up unplanned. But, one of them was where everyone was eating beer and pizza and chips... so I did okay avoiding the worst stuff.

Breakfast:
- 3 whole-wheat crackers with lowfat cottage cheese and sliced tomato

Snack:
- 1/2 orange and a milk coffee

Lunch:
- one whole-wheat wrap with spiced vegetables (capsicum, beans, carrots, onion, mushroom)

Snack:
- Vegetable broth with a slice of rye bread

Dinner:
- beef stroganoff with lots of veg and a little pasta
- 1 beer

Snack:
- lemon sorbet
 
I'm so impressed that you cope so well around naughty foods. They don't have gold star smilies on here. But, if they did, you would be getting one. :)
 
Hahahahaha Ranbow I totally stuffed it up last night!!!! Yep, I figure those social situations are the hardest, but they are the ones that I feel most proud about afterwards. PLUS I have this issue with the public/private eating thing (though not too bad anymore) where I assume if I eat pizza like everyone else, people will look at me and think 'Now, SHE doesn't need to be eating pizza...' which I know is totally crap. BUT this is getting better and I don't worry so much about other people any more.

SO last night - off the wagon I fell. For starters my day had been pretty tough - I have been very very unmotivated with my learning of German, and my exercising hasn't been so good. This is pretty much because my allergies have been so horrific. I'm trying out some new medication - maybe that is why I'm feeling so totally CRAPOLA. I can't even begin to explain how bad it has been.

We went out for a poker night with a bunch of people we met through couch-surfing. It was SO COOL - One guy had managed to make friends with a lovely old man who let us play poker on his roftop, with the most incredible view of the city, the lake the mountains... the sunset... and then he brought us a bottle of whiskey to 'let the young ones live a little' hahaha. So I got drunk, ate too many bad snacks, and WON POKER! I love it! I was the only girl there, 12 men, and I WHOOPED their butts! Now I am $300 better for it! hehe. Going to have to do something nice for myself...

I should have brought something healthy for me to snack on instead.... something to learn for next time.

Breakfast:
- Soy latte and low fat blueberry muffin (yeah yeah...I know it... set me off to a bad start)

Lunch:
- Chicken cooked with ginger, lemon and tomato, served with green beans and a little cous cous

Snack: (met with a friend and lost all willpower)
- Soy latte and a small chocolate brownie

Dinner:
-spinach tortellini with garlic, fresh herbs and olive oil

Snack / Poker:
- 2 fun-size bounties, a couple of M&Ms, a handful of pringles, 4 jaffa biscuits
- 2 glasses of wine and STACKS of whiskey. mmmm whiskey....


in other news
Meanwhile, Hubby and I had another mini baby-chat last night. It's nice to know that we always seem to be on the same page. We'll wait a little while until we are more settled here, until we know how this all the little things in this country work (ok, not all, but more than we do now!) and until we both feel totally ready. One weird thing that occurred to me is that I STILL don't know how to ski. I injured myself in my first every snowboarding lesson last winter here, so I couldn't do anything else. Part of me is considering holding off on the attempted baby-making until after the next winter, so I can give that a try :) It's weird for me to be living in the Swiss Alps and have no freaking idea how to ski or snowboard...
 
So the summer weather is definitely here in Switzerland (I even agree, as an Aussie!) and it's time to bring out the bathers. :svengo:

Today some friends have invited us to their place today for a barbecue on their verandah, which overlooks the gorgeous lake and mountains, and we've been instructed to bring our bathers. I was really worried about this.... what with my hugely disproportionate body and my gross legs... but I remember once that my sister, having seen me in my bikini, said that with boobs and such collar bones like mine, no one will ever be noticing my legs anyway. Ha - I hope! She's good for my self-esteem, that one.

So yesterday I put on my bathers and stood in front of the mirror to assess. Risky, I know. The strangest thing happened... I looked there, and didn't hate what I saw. Sure, there is a lot of room for improvement, but it ain't sooooo bad. :) WOW this was huge for me. I think it actually has nothing to do with my current weight, and everything to do with my mind.

So YAY for a breakthrough. My Bikini Breakthrough. :)

Meanwhile, struggled again with food yesterday - another big social event last night with stacks of free booze and incredbile food (including pigs on spits)... it's a tough life ;) At least I made conscious decisions about my food - yes, I splurged, but I did it consciously and was very aware of the consequences. Didn't get home til 3...


Breakfast:
-3 wholewheat crackers, low fat cottage cheese, tomato

Lunch
-curried vegetable soup, 2 slices dark bread

snack
- cappuccino

dinner (5pm)
- two AWESOME sausages with a side dish of spinach risotto and a small multi-grain roll
- 2 big glasses red wine
- baked custard with fresh strawberries

snack (10pm)
- 1 slice bread with salami and cheese
- 1 glass sherry (really! ha.)
 
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Thanks Xenon!

So after winning $380 at poker (played two times this week, which is VERY strange for me, and won both times!) I went on a shopping spree. Woot! I found this AWESOME bright green mini-skirt that I'd wear with my black tights, but it didn't fit me. Boo. One thing I DESPISE about being a bit bigger is that you don't have the luxury of actually developing your own sense of style. If you are a bit alternative (like me) and want to wear A B and C, you simply can't. You just have to buy the things that fit you. Which is shite. I did, however, manage to find a cute little summer dress in a style that I've never worn before. Strapless, but very free and flowing, with a little brown belt pulling it in at the waist. It's perdy :)

So, regarding my Bikini Breakthrough:
I actually DID go for a swim! In Lake Zurich... with all that melted snow from the mountains... It was bloody incredible! So cold, but warm sun, the clock towers of Zurich to my left, the Alps to my right... It was heavenly. So I bared my white veiny body and it was great. My friend that I went with is 8 months pregnant, so it made me feel less conspicuous :) She is so beautiful... I think one of the most gorgeous things I have ever seen is the image of her floating on her back in the lake, her huge belly sticking way out of the water. So gorgeous.

So, another social event. Just tried to eat small portions (except for the prosecco, haha). We are going to a house-warming party tonight too... so we'll see what happens!


Breakfast:
- French toast and milk coffee

Dinner:
- 2/3 bottle of prosecco (whoops)
- 1/2 Bratwurst, Veggie skewer with halloumi
- tabbouleh, green salad, little bit of potato salad
- Small scoop raspberry sorbet
- 2 chocolate biscuits
 
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