Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Have you looked at something that takes your weight and activity levels into account? This is what I use: (it puts my maintenance at between 1748 and 2258 between sedentary and moderate activity)
 
Awesome - thanks for the link. It says that mine is between 2016 and 2604 (from sedentary to moderately active). It says for me to lose 0.5kg each week, I need to be consuming 1566Cal. That is a lot more, on average, than I have been having...
 
Telling my sister

Warning - this post has pretty much nothing to do with food or exercise or fitness or anything. Just a bit of life stuff. I think it's my first post like this, so please forgive me!

So my sister and I have such an incredibly close relationship, and it is so difficult for us to be apart from each other. We have always been really close, and only really ever fought about the washing up (we both wanted to wash). Our relationship kind of reached a different level when she suffered for five years with Hodgkin's Lymphoma - I was eighteen and she nineteen. (funnily enough, this was also the period where I put on about 35 kilos and developed fibromyalgia... stressed much?)She has always said that I was the only one that really GOT it. That really udnerstood her during this process. And that I will now forever be the only person that really knows the ins and outs of her, through everything. (I'm crying like an idiot, by the way). Saying that, she is always my big sister, and always looks after me still. She sees through me if I say things are fine and they aren't - she just gets me.

So telling her that we're planning on having babies so far away from her is really hard.

I wouldn't tell her at all - wouldn't tell anyone - but she is a naturopath. I've spent ages on the net doing research on how to prepare my body, what I should and shouldn't do, vitamins to take etc. And it is completely ridiculous, because this has been what she does for a job for, like, ten years. This is her area.

After talking with my man abotu it, we decided we should just bite the bullet and ask her about it. Just make sure she doesn't tell my parents anything yet :)

So I just called her and talked to her, and I was such an idiot. I just pretty much broke down crying straight away which made her panic and think that something is wrong, when really it is the complete opposite. I just worry so much that my decisions will cause her any amount of pain or sadness.

But she was great, of course. Really excited, and told me to stop being a total idiot and worrying about everyone else so much. I should just worry about myself and my man being happy and nothing else matters as much as that. That she will always be there and me being happy is the thing that will make her the happiest in the world. So now she wants me to have ten babies. :)

Realllllly bloody hard conversation though. Surprised me how upset it's made me.
 
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:) You and your sister are my dream flatmates, I would never have to do washing up ever again teeheehee. I would have thought that being so close in age there might be more sibling rivalry, its lovely you two are so close. I bet she's so excited that she's going to be an (un-comfirmed and un-denied) auntie in the foreseeable future :hurray:

I think you are right to lay off the Bikrim Yoga till you've talked to your physiotherapist, I would imagine that gentle stretching excersices would help but its better to be on the safe side.

du ist wonderbaar at! Deustch! Haha.

Hope you plateu doesn't last any longer :(

I'm glad you've changed you ticker to show your whole journey, I did it from my highest ever weight not including this particular diet, as I did work hard to drop them pounds in the past, even if healthy food went on holiday for a while.
 
I'm glad things worked out so well with your sister. I can empathise a little on the being so far away from home front (although at this stage it may only be temporary- I haven't settled here, there is a date by which I do have to leave the UK), and I can understand why it would be so much harder making such big life decisions in your/ our situaiton, but I can't begin to imagine what it must feel like to actually go through it.
 
Thanks for the support, girls, as always.

Can't whine about being on a plateau when I have just shared a pizza with my friend. Sadly. I actually didn't really even want it... I just have to learn how to say no and that I won't be offending anyone... other people seem to be able to say things that are just for their own benefit, but I can't. Gotta fix that. I tried to stay low on cals earlier in the day though, just in case.

FOOD: 1443Cal
- 2 egg omelette (180) with 1 small slice bread (60) and a milk coffee (130)
- light caramel frapuccino (158) and 5 strawberries (10)
- 1 cup edamame (150), 20g feta (55), 150ml apple juice (85)
- 1/2 thin crust pizza with parma ham, rocket and mascarpone (615? Guessing, hopefully over-estimating, using ingredients and the calories for other similar pizzas)
 
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That she will always be there and me being happy is the thing that will make her the happiest in the world. So now she wants me to have ten babies. :)

Realllllly bloody hard conversation though. Surprised me how upset it's made me.
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Your are truly lucky to have that relationship..I am completely jealous. What a treasure!
 
:) Thanks Tetemcg - We both really know it too. Which is nice :)

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WEIGH DAY TODAY

Guess WHAT?!?!
Okay, so I won't keep you in anticipation any longer.
I lost negative 0.2kg! That's right... I LOST NEGATIVE 0.2kg. Two negatives make a positive, right? So that's right. I'm +0.2kg this week.
No freaking comment.

I tend to eat between 1200 and 1500 every day. I drink lots of water. yes, I'm not exercising (bloody ankle is really sore lately), but APPARENTLY I, as a sedentary person, should be eating 1566Cal to lose 0.5kg eat week. I'm not too bummed. Strangely enough. I'll keep doing what I'm doing for another week and see if anything happens. If not, I'll deal with it then and try to come up with a solution.

I joined the July challenge, and while my very short term goal (HOPEFULLY by next week) is to have a healthy BMI, I would really love to be 83kg by the end of July. Don't know how that'll go because my parents will be here from the 15th, but we'll see.
 
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Wow. Just realised that when I hit 85.1kg, I will have lost a total of 20kg on this big journey of mine. I hit that milestone (got to 84.8) for our wedding, but then put on another 5 kg in the year following it. So I can get there again! Sooooon!
 
FOOD TODAY: 1154Cal Edit: add 142cal = 1296Cal

- Siedfleischsalat (salad with chopped roast beef stirred through lots of veg): 348Cal
- 2 milk coffees: 320Cal
- tub of low fat custard: 66
- veg curry (STACKS of veg, including some potato, with patak's madras paste and tinned tomato): 420Cal

Having a stack of protein for lunch really helped me out I think.
Edit: Had 150g of cottage cheese too: 142Cal
 
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decisionmaker said:
FOOD TODAY: 1154Cal

- Siedfleischsalat (salad with chopped roast beef stirred through lots of veg): 348Cal
- 2 milk coffees: 320Cal
- tub of low fat custard: 66
- veg curry (STACKS of veg, including some potato, with patak's madras paste and tinned tomato): 420Cal
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I hope thats not the whole day calories? I mean that's wayyyy too low for you! :)
 
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Ja, Eerika... but what am I meant to do? :( I've not been losing any weight at all for weeks now, and I'm injured, so I can't exercise at the moment...

*SIGH*

It's nearly 9pm, so I don't really think I should eat anything else. Though that lemon sorbet in the freezer is calling my name...
 
You should eat something which includes a lots of protein before going to bed.. Like cottage cheese or quark.

Hmm... Thats difficult one. Havent lost any weight in how many weeks? You have also pretty huge weight loss behind you, maybe body needs few weeks to recover? Ive had also few weeks not losing anything! Its totally normal. But you should check what you have been eating and how much. You cant eat too little, cos your body can go to the state, where it thinks you're not giving enough food for it and it starts to save all the energy whats possible! You can eat 1600 calories for sure to lose weight anyway.
 
:) Thanks for the tips - I just had some cottage cheese. YUM! I love it. Will edit my previous post to include it.

Yes I have lost a lot, but I recently changed my ticker to include my total weight loss - which is what you see now. I lost most of that about 18 months ago... I started trying to lose body fat again about eight weeks ago. So I don't think I should take a break for a while! I think I'd put everything back on!

Since then, I've been listing all my food and counting the calories, so I've been pretty aware that I'm eating okay. Every day my calories tend to be between 1200 and 1600, usually 1400.

I think I just need to do what I'm still doing... just keep trudging on.
 
you have already lost a lot of weight good for you!!!!Check out your calories from the link Amy gave you and dont go under,make sure u dont cause as eerika said your body can stop loosing weight when you get less calories.

Also not to forget your sister sounds sweet and understanding and i think she is right you shouldnt be sad,just be happy for the baby you want to make with your husband!!!she will always be in your head and heart even if she is in another country
 
Thanks Jasper. Yeah, I've checked out that link from Amy and I'm trying to stick to it... it doesn't really give you guidelines for your minimum though. It told me that to lose 0.5kg per week I should be eating 1566 calories a day, and to lose 1kg per week I should be eating 965calories a day. That's really not very much, and I don't think it's very healthy... so I'm kinda planning to stick to somewhere between 1200 and 1600 and hope that works.

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I'm babysitting today. Right now, in fact. Little bubba is just eight weeks old and I'm with her for six hours today. Little babies sure spend a lot of time sleeping! :) I think she is not normal though, because she is so contented... It did just take me a solid 45minutes to get her to sleep though... finally she went to sleep on my belly and I just had to do a transfer. Phew!

FOOD NEWS!- last time I babysat (the first interview for my friend - this is the second) they loaded the cupboards with chocolate biscuits and other things they thought I'd like. Thanks... but... hmm. This time I told them I was on a detox so don't bother buying me anything, and I just brought along some of my own food. I had to be there really early, so I had my crackers, cottage cheese and tomato for breakfast, and then just a snack of a low-fat yoghurt. I brought some fruit too, but, no surprises, didn't eat it.

So that's good! Learning to be organised and look after myself...

Feeling really positive today, despite the remnants of milk spew all over my shirt :) hehe. LOVE babies!!!
 
:) Awww. Glad you went prepared!

I am going to invent an anti-plateau dance for you, like a rain dance, but a lot of shaking of my fatty tummy, and a lot of going down. It might help if i start it off carrying loads of heavy things and throw them off one by one to the beat.....................

Right, I've just done it for you much to my boyfriends amusement. And I have 100% faith it will work. Its very spiritual, that anti-plateau dance. So next week, you will weigh less. Guaranteed.
 
LOL!!! :D "It's very spiritual, the anti-plateau dance." :grouphug:

You rock my socks, girl. :)

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FOOD TODAY

Got inCREDibly hungry later this afternoon... perhaps I haven't been eating enough? Don't know... Had to REALLY stop myself from running to the shops and buying some enormous cheese covered deep fried chocolate ice cream pizza with whipped cream (That's a specialty dish from this region ;) haha)


Total Calories: 1454 (a bit higher than what I'm used to, but I did a lot of snacking today... and I had PASTA! Woah...)
Breakfast - 3 wholewheat crackers (68Cal) with 50g cottage (40) cheese and 3 slices tomato (4)
Snack- Soy coffee (150) and low fat chocolate yoghurt (70Cal)
Lunch - Salad - lettuce, tomato, basil, mozzarella, apricots with vinaigrette dressing (230), light cafe latte (90)
Snack - instant cuppa soup (72), lemon sorbet (80)
Dinner - 80g pasta (dried weight - 280Cal), with 17g basil pesto (70), 1/2cup edamame (75), 50g feta (130)
Snack - dark chocolate lindt ball (95Cal)

Looks like I was an accidental vegetarian again :) Happening a LOT lately!
 
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