Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Hey, I never thought of it like that! I'm coaching the Swiss Netball team! :) Awesome. Yeah it is really frustrating, particularly when a stray ball goes past about three metres for me and i can't just jump the three steps over to get it... :nopity:

I KNOW! MUFFINS ARE BAAAAAAAAAAAD! and realllllly, I know that a blueberry 'muffin' is really just a cupcake in disguise. :reddevil:A cupcake with an ugly top = healthy, right? :willy_nilly: Yeah, yesterday I ate hardly anything... but I wasn't famished today, which I was worried about! So not too disastrous.

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Made an AWESOME dinner today! Very happy with such a yum, healthy dinner, and my man LOOOOVED it! :)

FOOD TODAY: 1204
- soy latte (170Cal) and a 1/2 cup of johannesbeer (red currents? I think? 32 Cal)
- vegetable curry soup with 1 large slice of rye (240) with a light Rivella (soft drink - made with milk protein! WEIRD!) (23Cal)
- Iced Chai, made with 3% milk (205)
- 150g cottage cheese (142)
- 2 large vietnamese rice paper rolls (filled with grated cabbage and carrot, bean sprouts, rice vermicelli, coriander, cucumber, shredded hoi-sin marinated chicken breast), 6 edamame, and half a steamed pork bun. (392)

Whoops. Too low for me. I was REALLLLLLLLLLLLY hungry when I was getting ready to make dinner so I had the cottage cheese... should have had some wholewheat crackers with it.
 
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Now I have to do all the things I said I'd do when I reached a healthy BMI :)

Measurements (in cm):
Waist:73 (-1)
Butt: 112 (-1)
Hips: 111 (-1)
Thigh: 66 (-2)
Calf:43 (-1)
Bicep: 28.5 (-1.5)
Boobs: 90 (-1)

The last time I did my measurements was not very long ago, when I was 87.0kg, so the change isn't very big, but I'm happy with anything.

And here are the pics of me today. I was going to post my old pics too but the difference is barely noticeable, I think.
 
AHAAAAAAAAA!!!!! GO OOOOON!!!!!!!!!

YOU DID IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Just shrieked at the computer. I'm so happy for you!!!!!!!!

You are a veryveryveryveryveryvery good girl for buying fruit. I am also obscenely jealous of your edamame beans (which they don't sell in asda, I shall have to investigate), and your dinner looks delicious. I am going to copy it.
 
:D Thanks babe! I've been waiting for you all day! hehehehehehehehe. You can throw in as many exclamation marks as you want for that post! hehehehe. :) :) :)

The dinner was DELICIOUS, and it's really fun making them yourself. I just put some boiling water in a shallow tart dish or something, and then pop the rice paper in there for 30 secs or so. You can take it out with your fingers, if you're tough, or use an egg flip. It's funny to see how everyone makes them differently too :) My man makes ENORMOUS ones about the size of his wrist, and I rather make teeny little tight ones. Interesting... haha. Must not read too much into that...
 
Out of all the days possible, You just HAD to pick the only day in ages that I have been out all day to get to a healthy bmi :) I bet it feels AMAZING to have the numbers telling you that you are a 100% bona fida completely fit and healthy lady :D

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You must have a good sex life then lol. My boyfriends rice paper rolls would probably be quite limp and small :). And mine would be snaring and hissing because i had accidentally put a monster in it.

I love it when there are loads of little bits and bobs on the table like that, all suggestive and tantalising :D
 
LOL!!! :D don't ever let your boyfriend onto the Fat Forum to read that! ahahahaha. :)

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FOOD TODAy: 1195 Edit: 1265
- spinach and onion crepe - no cheese. (280Cal)
- 2 x lite milk coffees (210)
- 2x leftover vietnamese rice paper rolls (200)
- handful of berries (15)
- spinach and red capsicum risotto with parmesan (1/3 of 1470Cal total = 490Cal)

hmmm... a bit low again. Surprises me! I suppose I'll just have to go have some more risotto (yay!) or some lemon sorbet. With berries :)
Edit: Had two squares of dark chocolate: 70Cal
 
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Don't you just look fabulous!!! Congratulations!

Reaching a normal healthy BMI is such a huge milestone! Well done, matey!

And the rice paper rolls? I reckon my old man would be making huge ones as well.
 
:D Thanks girls! I'm so so soooo happy with that! And really motivated to keep it going, now that I'm not on a plateau anymore!

Mrs S: :smilielol5: You should make them, not tell him, and just see what happens! hahaha.
 
Oh, by the way, I forgot to put the sauce in the picture - it was hoisin, but watered down a bit (it still stays really thick) with some finely chopped peanuts in it. YUUUMMM!
 
:waving: I go away for a few days and all these great and fabulous changes...way to go on the healthy BMI...I can't tell you how happy I am for you...it is such a motivation for me and others I am sure to see you doing so great!!
Just freaking AWESOME!!!:willy_nilly::willy_nilly:

:hurray::hurray:You look wonderful in your pics...so healthy and fit..just great!!
 
Hi Tetemcg! Thanks so so so much for the compliments :) I'm pretty happy myself! I've been working towards this forever... And now I think about it, I'm lighter now than I was at our wedding, and I'm even lighter now than I was after we finished our crazy six-months of cycle-touring. :hurray: And the fact that I've done it kind of slowly, without anything drastic - just trying to be healthy - is awesome. I still look at my pics and only see my legs though - those big thighs. But that's just me, I know. and hopefully they will still go reducing in size!

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So I have been a busy busy busy bee and my weekend is fillllled with social events. Didn't eat a single meal at home yesterday and I think the same will happen today. Grr.Trying to make healthy choices though...So, lunch was someone's birthday at a brewery - I drank water all day and then one lemonade. everyone else had pizzas - the ploughman's lunch seemed the healthiest, and it was yum! Dinner was when we met a bunch of people at a local international festival. I had some dumplings in the afternoon and then a pastie - which sounds bad, but I can only compare it to what my horrific options were, so I feel pretty good about that.



FOOD (not sure, but I'm estimating about 1750Cal)
- 2 slices french toast and 1/2 light hot chocolate
- Ploughman's lunch - 3 cheeses (smoked, cheddar, blue) with saurkraut, pickled onion, beetroot, celery and tomato. Came with masses of bread - I had half a piece.
- 1 small lemonade
- 3 small steamed vegetable dumplings (made with rice paper or something thin)
- Small home-made chicken and vegetable pastie (I got my man to eat a lot of the pastry around the edges, haha)

Probably won't be a healthy weight again today though! haha Edit: Too freakin' right - I put on 0.6kg. GRR!
 
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Thanks Amy! :)
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So today was bad. I should have known to just stay in bed - there were signs. Firstly, I woke up from a really really terrible nightmare and was actulaly fully in tears when I woke up. Then when my man was hugging me, he forgot about my bad foot and used my ankle as some kind of lever to pull me in closer - OUCH my god it hurt. Poor man for the way I was yelling. Then when I DID get out of bed I kicked my toe on the doorframe... :nopity:Should have stayed in bed.

I got really, disproportionately mad and my lovely husband because he'd been promising for ages now to go to breakfast at this new place around the corner, and last night we agreed we'd try this morning, but while I was in the shower he had a big bowl of muesli - he forgot. But my favourite thing in the WORLD it to go out to weekend breakfast with my man. So as some kind of weird-arse passive agressive bullshit of a reaction, I refused to eat any breakfast at all (I told you it was a bad day). Which of course was a recipe for a food disaster later on (see, I'm learning.)

So despite the horrific nature of everything that is to follow, I will write it all down in shame. Publicly shame myself. MEanwhile, we've been out and about since 10am and just got home-it's midnight - so a long day of public eating...

STILL - I could have gotten burgers, wedges, nachos, chips, schnitzel or pizza like everyone else for dinner... but I didn't. That's the only props I can give myself today.

FOOD - Calories: Irrelevant. Way too many. Just have to be good to make up for it, however much it was. Counting it will just depress me.
- take-away macchiato with a free little chocolate, 2 sesame snaps
- 1/2 bratwurst sausage, 3 small slices halloumi cheese, green salad (no dressing)
- Apple juice, 1 cup lemonade (home made)
- 1 big slice chocolate cake (netball switzerland's birthday party)
- 8 mini spring rolls with a side salad (though these, on the menu, were 'fresh spring rolls', so I figured they wouldn't be fried. I always make mistakes like this)
 
I wasn't known about the real effect of chocolate and cheese. But here in this post and discussion, I informed how these items work on body.
 
;) Every day is a new day. You asked me if I had been making healthy choices while stressed.....maybe. I thought so, but I haven't been weighing as I didn't want to add to the stress. It's time to concentrate on my diet/weight but without being too obsessive. It's doable & I will. Enjoying your diary Joh. Are your parents there yet? Must be soon, xoxo Cate
 
Hi Calotren - this is just my weight-loss diary while I am living in Switzerland (which I call 'the land of chocolate and cheese'), nothing to do with the effects of chocolate and cheese!
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cate - I hope that me asking you this didn't cause you to worry about it! I'm just curious as to whether you notice anything in particular, seeing as so many people are such stress eaters. I think it's a great idea that you haven't been focused on it - anything to help you deal with those tough times of late. Looking forward to hearing how you go with your healthy choices! My folks are coming on SATURDAY! :) :) :)
 
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Really want a brownie. REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY want a brownie. I've tried substitution. I've tried distraction. I've tried....
Edit: Didn't have one! Came bloody close... just had a soy decaf coffee and it satisfied. I never feel like it WILL satisfy when I get it, but it always does.
 
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