Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

:D Blooming heck, they are some of my favourite authors you have been compared too! I love reading your posts, and I love the way you write. So you might be able to write full time for a living? Thats incredible. Not many people can do that. Go GIRLLLLLLL! :party:

Don't worry that your only 0.2 down, any down is an up :)

Glad you managed to get some sleep. My bf is like a radiator as well, nice on the cold nights, but not on the hot ones :D
 
Ha, Rainbow, well YES, any down is a down, but that's the problem - it wasn't a down! I was UP 0.2! So you can scrap all that motivating talk of yours ;)

I feel a bit weird talking about my writing on here, because this is just horrific writing on my behalf. YOUR writing, Rainbow, is fantastic! But when I turn my 'writing brain on' and actually do it properly, it's good. I promise! Here is where I can just offload... totally different!

And, I am SO glad that you like those writers! It made me cry when they said that - that is really the greatest praise I could hope for! :)

AMY - well, the problem is that I alwyas feel cold, but my man says I'm hot. So I always have another little nanna blanket over my side of the bed. It's always a problem, eh? I heard of this 'mars and venus' duvet you can get where one side is twice the thickness of the other... good idea! :)
 
Oh shite. I am officially "one of THOSE people" who don't read things properly. Shame upon me!!! I take back my motivational talk. And give you some replacement talk instead: You never know, maybe yesterday was your true weight and today was a fluctuation.

Thanks! I can quite happily type away a message or an essay, but a book.... thats something else. I lose the plot just thinking about it.

I am so looking forwards to reading your book now, so write fast woman. goddamit WRITE!
 
I'm so glad to hear you aren't dropping below 1200! I'm so short its tempting to go below it, but as I sit here starting to work up an appetite I don't think I have to worry about that much. lol. .2 can be water weight. It's going to fluctuate! :)
 
Awww, you guys are the greatest :) :grouphug: Thanks so much for reading my rambling all the time. I know I'm not the greatest at just getting to the point... hehe. Hence a novel, as opposed to a short story.

WOW Netball training was tough today. But good! Our couch threw in a lot more competitve little competitions, especially into the endurance and the sprints part of the training, so it really kept everyone pumped and motivated, despite the rain. I feel like I really am getting a lot fitter, and despite the fact that four of our team members are marathoners, I'm keeping up with everything pretty well. :) Plus, I played GA and did lots of running, and managed to shoot pretty well today too. All good!

We went for 'a' drink after, and most of us hadn't eaten dinner... so it just happened. Really, I probably could have done without food, especially with the beer... but my cals were not too excessive. It really does undo all that effort though. BUT everyone else ate enormous pub style burgers with chips and wedges and the lot... I got a grilled chicken breast with a red curry sauce (it was this option or a butter sauce... not sure what is better) and steamed veg. Left all the rice on the plate. So it could easily have ended up a lot worse than it did!

Tomorrow I jump into day 2 of my C25K programme. More running :) Looking forward to it, actually (weird)

Breakfast
Bircher Muesli with a small slice light rye bread- 260Cal

Lunch
Vegetarian chilli with rice and beans, a little lite sour cream (300Cal)
1 scoop lemon sorbet (80Cal)

Pre-training 'snack': 6 pieces spinach tortellini with garlic, olive oil, fresh herbs and parmesan (400Cal)

Dinner:
1/2 grilled chicken breast with steamed vegetables in a red curry sauce (400Cal)
1 1/2 lager beers (300Cal)

Snacks
Milk coffee - 120Cal
Decaf soy coffee - 130Cal


Exercise:
2 hours hard slog netball training - 1hr 20 of training (sprints, skills, endurance, etc), 40 min game (- 500Cal)

Total Cal
1970 - 500
= 1487
 
Thanks Amy! I don't think I cope using particularly healthy measures, mentally... It's more-so that I always think I am the biggest and most unfit of everyone (especially my netballers) and I worry what people would think if I ordered something huge and fatty. Not a good way to be, really... I thought that this self-consciousness was meant to disappear with adolescence, you know? Anyway, whatever works...

So I was meant to meet a friend for lunch today, but I woke up at 11.50!!!! WHOOPS! So couldn't make our 12 o'clock meeting. Seems I'm making up for all my nights of insomnia!

Today I'm down 0.2, so back to what I was last week. I thought for sure I'd be up today after drinking beer and having a late dinner... I wonder if my calories for netball training are accurate - wouldnt surprise me if it was actually a lot more than that...
 
The Battle of the Brownie
So I trotted off to my local coffee shop today with compulsive thoughts of their incredible brownies... I'd been thinking about them for hours before I went. But when I walked out of the house, notebook and pen in hand, ready to hit the writing and the brownie hard, I got kind of anxious. I knew that I would have to put it on here... But worse, or actually BETTER, I knew that as much as I wanted it, I'd feel bad about it afterwards. Oh how grown up of me!

So on my little walk there, I wandered past a little kiosk and spent 1.60Francs on two little squares of lindt dark chocolate with orange. As my back up. I had plans of having my coffee and, instead of having the brownie, munching on this dark chocolate instead (hopefully without anyone noticing I'd brought it... not sure if that's totally acceptable...). I knew it would have a lot fewer calories, and actually have some health BENEFITS too. So that was a good compromise.

Turned out that once I got there and ordered my coffee, I'd thought so long and hard about the guilt trip and the repercussions, that I had absolutely ZERO desire for my chocolate. So it sits in the bottom of my handbag, unloved, waiting for the next brownie crisis.
 
A good day today with my food. Still don't have much of an appetite, even though I'm sleeping again. I'm hoping it's simply because I've been eating (MOST of the time) really healthy, low GI foods, whereas otherwise I often eat crappy high GI foods that make me hungry as soon as I've finished them. Salt, sweet, salt, sweet... the cycle continues, and I feel like I've finally broken free from it.

Breakfast
- none (I woke up WAY too late)

Lunch
- Curried vegetable soup with 1 slice rye bread (275Cal)
- Linden blossom tea - that's a new one for me! (2Cal, ha)

Snack
- small cappuccino (115Cal)
- 193g stewed apple with cinnamon (160Cal)
- 1 wholewheat cracker (18Cal)

Dinner
- Spaghetti bol with STAAACKS of veg and wholemeal pasta (480Cal)
- 2 glasses red wine (for my anti-oxidants, haha) (230Cal)
EDIT - actually had 4 glasses. Whoops. +230

Total: 1280Cal. Perfect. Edit: 1510 Cal

Haven't had the wine yet - we're going out for a couple of drinks with some of the netball girls (one of them just completed three months without drinking!) so that's my plan. Better than beer. And we're going to eat before we go, in case everyone decides to get pizza or something. My man's trying to lose 5kg too :) We can be strong!
 
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Congrats on resisting temptation :) That's really well done. (I tend to decide to do something then do it because I've decided to do it, whether it's a good idea or not)
 
Thanks gals! Need to adjust my calories for yesterday because *ahem* I actually had double the amount of red wine I accounted for. It was a great night though, and I avoided all those yummy pastry covered nibblies, and then all of the chocolate that came out! So, despite the wine, I'm happy. And I'm still down 0.3 for today, so that's good news!

Plus I made a new friend :) I always thought it was hard to make new friends when you are older and not in school anymore and forced to sit next to new people... but for some reason, in a country where nearly everyone has been a new arrival at some point, it's quite easy. Yay! :)
 
Hi Decisionmaker, I live in Switzerland too. I see that you are in Zurich. I am in Villars sur Ollon (Vaud). How funny that we are living in the same country but your area speaks German and mine speaks French. Thats always amused me about switz. I've been here for 8 years. I met my hubby here. He is also originally from Australia. He was born in Perth but grew up in Sydney.
Good luck with your weight loss neighbour!!
 
Hooray for making new friends. Congrats on being down 0.3. that's great news.
I think we have similar bmis.. even though you're taller so you probs look way thinner. xo
 
Doingit4thekids - Well howdy there, neighbour! Wow, eight years, eh? Were you also one of these people who only planned on being here one or two years? It seems to be the trend :)

caffeinehigh You're right! BMI Buddies! And, actually, when I started my 'weightloss journey' (not such a fan of that phrase, haha) my BMI was also JUST above 30. So we seem pretty similar! But all this talk about me being tall and therefore looking thinner ... I don't really udnerstand this. Isn't that the whole point of actually having a BMI? That it takes your height into account? It annoys me, actually (not your comment! haha. just BMI in general!) because lately I've been feeling like I'm in a healthy weight range, but apparently I still have a way to go. I cant' find any other form of measurement that really records it... hmm

I think I have about 3kg to go before I am a healthy BMI - can't wait for that day! :)

Congrats on your enormous loss so far! How incredible it is to go from over 30 to nearly 25. Good on you!!! :waving:
 
Now i know we're similar bmis.. i'm totz gonna be regularly checking out your blog. Hmm i don't know about how height/bmi works. We should look into that. You've lost so much already as well. Basically, we're awesome.
 
Congrats on Triumphing in the battle of the brownie!!!!! I am not sure I could be so strong if I was obsessing over something. My current obsession is seaside doughnuts... and I know for sure I will give in (even though I'll feel awful after, and I know its SO not a good idea now) and have a paper bag with 5 of them in it :>O

Theres another chart-y thing that is based on BMI, but isn't bmi. If that makes sense....
 
Having your bodyfat % measured is a better method than BMI, BMI is just a height/weight chart which fails to take into account your lean mass which consists of muscle and bone etc. so those who may have a heavy bone structure or carry more muscle than the norm will always show as having a high BMI but still may be at a healthy fat level.

eg for me having been a national level weight lifter I have a BMI in the morbidly obese range due to both muscle and heavy bone structure (confirmed by surgeon) but actually have bodyfat in the low normal range. Just my lean mass without the fat being counted puts me at obese according to BMI.
 
Ha ha! nope but my hubby is. He came for 2 days and stayed 13 years and counting. I knew I was coming for minimum 5 years but stayed because our kids were born here and we are waiting for them to get their swiss passports then probably back to Australia.
I am hoping to lose a lot of weight but its so hard with all of these lovely pastries, croissants etc. Phew, I think the bakery might go bust now I have changed my eating habits!
 
:) Ah, I love having visitors!:cheers2:

Caffeinehigh HA! You make me laugh! 'Basically, we're awesome' - yep, that's pretty much the size of it! :)

Rainbow Thanks! Well, the reason I wrote about it is because it is definitely not the norm... I usually think that if I've been obsessing for X number of hours, that gives me the right to just do it... So I was pretty happy about that! But, meanwhile... what the hell is a 'seaside doughnut'? I bet they're awful. Horrible. Taste totally gross. ;) And that BMI chart is still telling me the same info.... thanks for the link though!

Tru ABSOLUTELY! I don't think I have ever met a gal as tall as me who is naturally as big as me. I have very little weight on my upper half, and yet I still have wide shoulders... I will never be one of these rakey tall people. I've read a lot of criticism about BMI, but sure, it's something good just to motivate me, anyhow. A good 'guide', so long as you're not a professional weight lifter! ha :)

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Today

Well... seems my appetite is back. It was nice while it lasted. Boo. And now I feel like a complete IDIOT :iamwithstupid: because I went and got a chocolate muffin. After all that talk yesterday of not having a brownie! :svengo: I did feel the guilt half way through though, and didn't have it all. Ah, food guilt. Such a terrible and wonderful thing.

But, I went for a run. I did my third session for the Couch to Five Km programme, and this time I actually felt really ill afterwards. I think it was because I had just had lunch a half hour earlier? But the last five minutes were a real damn struggle. BUT, on a funny note, there was a bunch of 5 women running together at the track, nice and slowly, and I managed to lap them TWO TIMES, even though I was doing my speedy walk/run combo! I thought it was funny :)

FOOD
Breakfast:
- 4 wholewheat crackers with 90g cottage cheese (170Cal)

Snack
- Soy coffee (130Cal)
- 2/3 chocolate muffin (not even the low-fat one. 215Cal)

Lunch
- 70g cooked wholemeal pasta with 100g bolognese sauce and a little parmesan (500Cal)

Snack:
- 120g Steamed broccoli and green beans (35Cal)
- 1 scoop lemon sorbet (80Cal)

Dinner:
-1 tub (200g) low fat cottage cheese )190Cal)
- Vegetable sticks (capsicum, zucchini, carrot, radish) (15Cal)

Snack:
- Flavoured water drink (60Cal)


EXERCISE
- 35 minutes power-walking and running combo - 60 sec power walking, 90 sec running, repeated = 280Cal

TOTAL
1395Cal - 280 = 1115Cal
 
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