Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

It IS yum! If you have the ingredients, you should defiitely do it. SO tasty.

:) yup. Sure am! Living out my dream, and getting incredible feedback while I'm doing it! :)
 
:( Oh shit. Really hope your ankle gets better with the physio. Do you think you'kll find it tough not being able to play netball?

That edamame salad looks delicious.

I am so glad you treated yourself to some lovely accessories! You are really skinny, I don't think you need to lose any weight, so buy yourself some clothes as well!

Sorry I didn't reply earlier on, I did read you thread, and I thought I had. I've got a horrible habbit of doing that all the time eeek.
 
Ach, no problem - I do the same. I think about my response and then assume I've already written it.

Yeah, I know I really really will find it tough wihtout netball. It's a bunch of close friends, it is my only outlet to be quite intimidating and physical, and it is something that I'm bloody good at. I was playing GA in international tournaments! BOO! So yeah it'll be hard.

:D Me. Skinny. :) Don't agree yet (speak to me when I hit the 70s) but it's a definite improvement!
 
TODAY

So it was the annual Google summer picnic today, started at 5pm. Another bloody social event where all food and drinks are provided. Bloomin 'eck. Tried not to eat too much before we went, and managed to stay away from all that glorious free booze...

Was a lovely day actually:) And incidents in the ball pit (yes, really) saw laughing fits that most of us wouldn't have had in decades. Ankle's hell sore though. Thought I'd just walk a little bit down to the train station instead of taking the bus - 10 min max - and it's sore. BUM.

FOOD: 1588Cal. Pretty happy with that, for the kind of day it was.
- Herbal tea and a plain pancake with 1tsp sugar (270)
- milk coffee (130)
- Asian vegetable soup thing (above) (70Cal) and boiled egg (70cal)
- low fat chocoalte yoghurt - 77cal
- apple juice - 50cal
- 1 small piece bbq chicken, no skin, (130) 1 small piece lamb backstrap (120), 1 piece corn (80), 1 baked potato (110) with 1tsp butter (35)
- 1 large scoop pistachio ice cream (280) in cone (110)
- 8 blueberries (6)
- 1 black tea with tsp sugar (20)
 
You've done incredibly well for that kind of day. Me? That would've been a "sod it" day.

And I'm sorry to hear your ankle's giving you such trouble :(
 
Its so shit :( I feel so bad for you, and I really hope it improves soon. I wish that bloody doctor hadn't sent you away in the first place.

You are really slim! I think you are being too self critical. If you were someone else looking a picture of you, you wouldn't in a million years think you were not slim!

I wanna work for google!!!!!!!!!! So badly!!!!! Ball pits :D That sounds like so much fun! Someones just written a book about working for google, can't remember the name of it, so if anyone knows, tell me.

You did SO well today :hurray:
 
Thanks guys. :( Stupid ankle. And pretty much everything they told me to do was totally wrong for a bone bruise. Right for torn ligaments, but it's made the whole thing a lot worse. Grr.

So I've been trying to keep myself motivated... I seem to be in struggle town a bit lately. So I've been looking at some old photos... from when I was at my biggest, which was ... 19.8kg heavier than what I am now. It makes me realise how far I've come, and all the things in my life that I'm capable of doing now that I'm smaller (well... not with a busted ankle. boo).

And then my lovely man asked me how much I weighed when we got married, and it was just one kg less than what I am now, which is pretty darned good, right? I just have never been able to get below.... 84.5kg. Not since I've been a fully grown person. I'm starting to believe it's not possible, and that I don't have the determination that I need to be able to do it. And that there are so many things attempting to sabotage it - last time I was around this weight, I got injured. This time, too. And even after SOOOO long cycling and camping, I was never weighing under that. I think that my avatar's legs will forever remain an enigma to me.

But thought I'd share some pics with ya, seeing as I've been looking at them myself.

1. This was about 5 years ago and I look hideous (especially next to my gorgeous best friend!) - I had no idea I looked like this at the time... I seemed to avoid photos very well.
2. My official 'before' photo, where I was 105.1kg, 2.5 years ago
3. Same clothes, two months later, almost 20kg down (Cohen's)
4. Me now - about the same weight as my 'after' photo, in my netball switzerland gear
5. Our wedding :) 1kg less than what I am now. My dress nicely hides those legs though :)
 
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Small victories... I gotta praise myself where I can at the moment.

- I had an omelette for breakfast with a little cheese, but didn't have any bread.

- Had a really low cal lunch (more of the veggie pho with a little extra tofu and I popped in a few rice noodles. had it with lots of Asian greens.)

- Was really desperate for some sweet carby thing... cake etc... but even though I went out for a coffee to do some writing, I just got myself a low-fat moccha, which totally satisfied my chocolate craving, all for just 165Cal instead of about 500.


All of these are things I wouldn't have been doing before, so it's good to know that I'm changing.
 
FOOD TODAY: 1285 Cal
- 2/3 Omelette with cheese (380)
- Milk coffee (130)
- Asian soup with tofu, 1/2 egg, lots of veg and a few rice noodles (150)
- 60g lemon sorbet (60)
- Low-fat moccha (175)
- Chicken Cacciatore (110) with egg pasta (260- woah!), beans (15) and zucchini (5)

EXERCISE:
guess?
 
You look amazing in your wedding picture. Not that you don't look pretty damn good now!

And I don't know how you do it either. Everyone just seems to eat so much less than me. You go out and everything, and you still eat less calories than me!

Do you have aquarobics in your area? Could you do that with your ankle?
 
And yet, you still lose weight! and I don't! BOO! I think that you are so much more constant with everything than me, though. I'm thinking of monitoring my salt intake...

Thanks for the compliment on my wedding pic! My aim for our wedding was to be able to look at the photos and think I look beautiful, so I did that :) I felt so gorgeous and the pictures are great!

I don't know if there are aquarobics... it's hard to find out information like that when you live in a country where everything you knew does not quite exist the way you knew it before... and it's all in another language.... I dunno. It just seems to hard at the moment.

I'm seeing the physio in a few days. She apparently speaks good english, so I'll speak to her about those kind of options.
 
:) Thanks so much. The English Forum is great, but it's often out of date. Really appreciate the help though! I'll check them all out.
 
Bloody hell, you have come such a long way! You have been a dark horse about that!

I know you think that you are struggling, but I think you have done fabulously. You went to a lavish picnic with free booze, and the only naughties you had was an ice cream! And you had a muffin a few days ago, but that was a really shit day for you, and you got on the bandwagon the next day. And, OI! What makes you think you won't get your avatars legs? You have got her arms, and her torso. So you will get legs that you are happy with one sunny day soon. YOU WILL! You're always aware of what you eat, and you always get back to it straight away (like today!). You are only 0.4 teensy little bmi points away from being healthy! That is such a big achievement. You have got a totally different figure to the girl in figure two, and you should feel really proud of yourself. So what if your weight loss has dives then plateaus? Every month you weigh less than the previous months :) And your weight loss won't be as dramatic now your a healthy weight.
The first picture is just a bad picture!!!! You look gorgeous in the rest :) And so happy in your wedding photo <3

I hope that you feel more positive soon x
 
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It makes such a huge difference when you write me a message like that. I was bawling like an idiot when I wrote the message where I was a bit defeated... but you are so right. I should look at each month and see that my weight is going down, however quickly or slowly. And yeah, I think my arms and my torso are already little... In fact, I know that there is such a tiny amount of fat left to lose from my ribcage - But I wish that the rest of the fat would distribute itself evenly! I did that terrible thing last night where I went to bed first, I lay myself down naked on the bed and assessed my body. I can't poke a finger in anywhere in my top half, but then I get to my hip bones and BAM. Whole hands, hell, whole ARMS disappear in there. (Okay, not really... but definitely the whole length of my fingers).

I know this is a dreadful thing for me to do... but, like I said, yesterday I was in struggle town. Even as a teenager, I always had chunky legs, so it is hard for me to believe that they will get smaller. Little by little...

And yeah, we really were so happy in those wedding photos. Can I put up another one? Am I breaking any rules? I have to remind myself... I was only 1kg lighter in this photo! :)
 
I always read your diary.
I don't know why i didn't write here before.:confused:

But i HAVE to say that you are a really natural beauty. you're stunning in these wedding photos.
 
:D Hi Italian Girl! A newcomer! Welcome! I kind of forgot that anyone besides Amy and Ruth would be reading, haha.

Thanks so much for that lovely compliment. :blush5: I really love the last one I put up because it has my great grandmother's picture in the back. I look a LOT like her, and the realllllly old wedding photos of her look so similar to me. Everyone says so. And I'm named after her too... So I really like that one.

I'll have to go check out your diary too, now! :) Thanks so much.
 
A really good day so far! I'm having green tea with orange at the moment, and it is TASTY.

My hubby and I have gotten into the weekend ritual of going to the cute little cafe across the road and playing chess over breakfast. That's right - chess before coffee. Insanity, right? But I love it. These are the kind of things that remind me we are perfect for each other. haha.

We used to play chess all the time when we were traveling, and in my little notebook I'd take a tally of how many times each of us won. He beat me twenty-nine times in a row before I finally won. Now, out of the last five times we've played, he has one once, we have drawn once, and I've beaten him three times. It drives him crazy! Love it :)

I'm about to head to the lake for a swim down near my lovely pregnant friend's place. She's due in just two weeks! I hope she doesn't go into labour when we are out in the middle! Haha. I think I'll bring my waterproof camera to take gorgeous pictures of her belly sticking out of the water as she does backstroke with the mountains behind her. :)
 
Wow your before/after photos in the same outfit??? You've lost so much weight. You look so slim now.
And you look absolutely beautiful on your wedding day. Like a princess <3
 
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