Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Naw.... Thanks Cate!!! xx


So it's my time of the month. BOO. Don't know how my weigh-in tomorrow will go after-all. I meant to just go for a coffee this morning to do my writing, and ended up ordering a whole bunch of bad food... byebye willpower. So I figured, okay, that'll be lunch too then. But now I'm STARVING again.

BOO hormones.
 
Apparently you burn an extra 500 calories a day on your period, natures way of allowing ourselves to console ourselves with naughty foods, with no reprucussions. I bet mother nature is stroking your hair right this second, and saying "Its okay dear, I will burn those calories for you".

I dunno about you, but I see weigh day as a fresh start, so luckily you had bad food today, rather than tomorrow. And you were 0.3 down yesterday anyway, which is great! Just 0.3 of your BMI to go before you are officially a healthy weight, yeeeehaaaaaaa!

Well done on the bike ride! x
 
RAINBOW: wow, that's a nice thought! An extra 500Cal, eh?? I wonder how much bacon and ice cream and cheesey puff things that equates to... ;)

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TODAY
Like I've already said, I felt totally BLAH today. Aaaages ago we planned to use this evening to move some unwanted couches from a friend's place to our own, but it's complicated without a vehicle... So at 6pm my man calls me, while I just started a bath to try to distract myself from food and general self-pity, and says "Okay! It's all sorted! We're signed up for a car-sharing thing here - you just have to go to Enge station (?) first to pick up the key before 6.30 and sign some stuff, then get yourself to lagerstrasse (?) by 7 to pick up the car, then come and pick me up (no map? no GPS?) and we'll collect the couches. Done!" Um... what? It is not possible for me to lift two verrry heavy couches down three flights of stairs, into a van, and then up three flights of stairs. impossIBLE.

But I'm a pushover. So however difficult that whole process was (and trust me... it was :puke:) I did it. We now have couches. and I feel even more like shit. I don't think my man realises how lucky he is to not have a woman that makes him come to Ikea with him on a saturday, choose a couch, and pay someone to deliver and make it. I'm learning, though, that this time of the month means I should keep my mouth SHUT about pokey things like that.

FOOD TODAY = 1810
(I don't want to post it, but I will. Don't judge me. I usually NEVER have bread)
- 2 slices of rye bread (180)with a little butter (40)and some sliced gruyere cheese (120)
- 1 big pancake with maple syrup and a (400???)milk coffee (170)
- steamed broccoli with corn, beans and a slice of proscuitto (120) and an 80g slice of leftover frittata (100)
- 125g chocolate ice cream (320)
- steamed green beans and cabbage. (50)
- 3 more slices of rye bread (240)with butter (70)

EXERCISE = 280Cal
- 45 min walking (180Cal))
- LOTS of heavy lifting. YOW. (100)


Tomorrow is weigh day. Feeling bloated and guilty. Not looking forward to it. I am guessing I will be +0.6kg from yesterday...
 
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I reckon you've done extraordinarily well for a bad day. Sounds like you feel rotten. Well done for getting through.
 
Thanks, Amy. Actually, when I added it all up at the end of the day, it wasn't AS bad as what I had thought. It's just... all that bread and butter and pancakes and maple syrup and chocolate ice cream... the SCREAMS "TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAY" to me!

Meanwhile...
WEIGH IN DAY

So you know how yesterdlay I said I'd probably be +0.6kg today? Well, I'm down another 0.1. WOAH. I didn't eat anything after 5.30pm, and stayed up past midnight, so that probably helped. :)

Last week's weight (8/6): 87.0kg
Today's weight (15/6): 85.7kg

This is the lightest I have been in ages! :)
 
So I'm meant to be getting ready for my hard core netball training, but only four people could make it today, so it's cancelled. BOOOOO!!!!! Where are my thousand calories going to go? As I said before, I simply have no motivation to be able to exercise alone, with no goal, or game, or competition! GRRRR!!!!

AND, to make it worse, I JUST had my really early dinner to stock up on my energy for the training, AND I just had some more chocolate ice-cream, thinking that I COULD! That I'd burn it off in an hour's time! GRR! :cuss:I know, I know, if I'm that frustrated about it, I could go and run. For two hours. Alone. 'Just for fun'. BLAH.

FOOD TODAY
- 6 cherries (24Cal) , 70g cottage cheese (55Cal) , milk coffee (130Cal)
- Salad with lettuce, sliced beef, olives, kidney beans, green beans and corn - balsamic dressing (300Cal)
- Glass of ginger ale (85)
-65g gnocchi with 120g stroganoff (made with lean pork, low fat sour cream and lots of veg) (450Cal)
- 2 scoops Chocolate ice cream (305Cal)

Total = 1349

yup... that's if I don't eat ANYTHING else today... hmm...

Edit: Doing good with the food. Haven't eaten anything else and it's 9.30pm. Reckon I can make it.
EXERCISE:
15 minutes of jumping around like an idiot and attempting a bunch of crunches / squats / leg lift / push up things. Like an idiot. But at least I did something. No freaking idea how many calories... won't count them.
 
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Your cals for today aren't bad!!!! Just have a humongous salad for dinner, and you'll still have a big deficit. :) Whats the time difference between Switzerland and England? Its 6'oclock here now.

I think exercise sucks when you can produce exercise endorphins, god knows what it must be like without them :svengo:.
 
:) It's only one hour difference... so it's 7.40 now here. LOVING this long sunlight business though! Silly Perth people voted against daylight savings, so we never have very long with sunshine... probably 8pm is the latest. But we are a lot further north here than we were south in Aus. If that makes any sense.

Ja... I know... about the calories... but I just feel like if I go over 1200 at the moment I'm bad. Which is silly. OKAY re-jig my head. Anything under.... umm... 1500? Then that's okay. Alright. Off for more ice cream then. HA! :smash:Joking.

yup. no endorphins. no comment. It's really fecking hard. Meanwhile, I just tried to do that 100 workout that Caffeinehigh has been doing, and PFFFFT NO WAY. I'm exhausted! I did like... 100 jumping jacks, 50 crunches, 10 squats (then my knees hurt... which is weird because they never do), 15 leg lifts on each side, 20 MAJOR cheat pushups and then I did a downward dog for as long as I could.
WEAKLING! I need to do some more muscle stuff. I never ever do!

p.s. Rainbow I just took some pics of me too for comparison to my first, but I don't think I look any diff. Feel better about myself though!
 
CONGRATS ON YOUR WEIGHT LOSS. You feel crappy but the numbers are going down.
SO proud of you.
I wanna see those progress pics.
Mmm i want chocolate ice cream. I want a bath of chocolate. I want a massive bar of chocolate and someone sexy to feed it to me.
Lalala you're doing so well.
 
HA hahah
I just read your post to my husband to explain to him 'the kind of thing people post in my diary' haha and he pissed himself laughing. Awesomeness. I think you just managed to sum up what every woman in the whole world would want. :)
 
:D hehehe. Read that one to him too. He thinks you're trying to pick him up ;) little does he know... haha. Let the man dream :)

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In other news:

Went onto the Mayo website everyone talks about,
and they say that my recommended calorie needs are 2200!

2200!!!

What the? That's humungo! But then again, I am an abnormally large giant...

I'll post photos when I get down to a BMI of 24.99 :)
 
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Muscle exercises are good! I'm definitely a lot stronger now. It gets easier :)

2200 cals does seem like a lot, but we are in diet mode, so anything over 1700/1800 does! It only a slice of toast with mashed banana on it more than the 2000 average for healthy bmi women.

I just asked the boyfriend if he will feed me something. As he never has and I am feeling deprived now. He said he will feed me his willy. Its a shame I'm not craving salt.
 
BOOOOOO!

I put on +0.4!!!!

GRRRR.
That's what 1350Cal will do to ya (when apparently I should be 2200), eating nothing after 5.30pm, throwing a bit of exercise in (also did an hour of wii tennis and 30min of wiifit later on)...

GRRRRRRRR.

Now. Not to fall off the wagon today. Do NOT fall off the wagon.
 
decisionmaker said:
WEIGH IN DAY

So you know how yesterday I said I'd probably be +0.6kg today? Well, I'm down another 0.1. WOAH.
Last week's weight (8/6): 87.0kg
Today's weight (15/6): 85.7kg

This is the lightest I have been in ages! :)
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decisionmaker said:
BOOOOOO!

I put on +0.4!!!!

GRRRR.
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Hi DM, You had thought you would gain 0.6, but actually lost .1, then gained only 0.4. Count that as a loss. It's called creative accounting! :rofl: Mwah! xoxo Cate
 
decisionmaker said:
:D hehehe. Read that one to him too. He thinks you're trying to pick him up ;) little does he know... haha. Let the man dream :)
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Ahaha.

Oh :( Booooooo. 0.4. To be fair, it's clearly water weight cuz you're PMSing right? Stay on track. You can dooooo this, girl.
 
Yep... you guys are all correct... weighing myself everyday DOES drive me aorund the bend, and YES I should still see this as a total loss, and YES it's probably a lot of water weight. But boo anyway.

Went to the doctor today about my ankle, seeing as its now 3 months later and still not anywhere near better. she seems really worried, but is confused by the x-ray. When she wiggled it around it was making a lot of cracks and pops and things...

She seems to think that I've ruptured the joint capsule, and that it just didn't get picked up immediately. Which is shit. So I'm off to get an MRI on Monday to really check out what's going on.

Not writing my food today.
 
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