Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

A:) THANKS guys! :grouphug:

I do think that my top half is looking great! I feel skinny! But you can see a glimpse of my legs still in the first photos and they still look... huge. But.. well, it's not OKAY but I think it was great that I felt alright about standing around in my bikini. So I am happy that my self acceptance is really getting there! I think my man constantly telling me that I look fantastic helps... :)

Went for a big 47km ride today and another swim. Incredible weather here at the moment! Felt like I was hit by a bus when I woke up, but went for my ride anyway and felt way better afterwards.

Ate too much... but did stacks of exercise... my breakfast was a bit of a hangover breakfast, despite not having a hangover. But felt awful and had only five hours sleep...

FOOOOOOOOOOOD
- 2 slices french toast with cinnamon and maple syrup
- small milk coffee
- eggplant and halloumi sandwich with tzatziki, lettuce and tomato
- 5 grapes
- pad thai with stacks of cabbage, edamame, not much rice noodles.
- small scoop lemon sorbet.
 
AWow, amazing pictures! I agree with everyone else- you look fantastic (from what I can see similar bugbears to me, but it really doesn't detract from the whole picture)
 
AYay! Tete - you gave me three S compliments! I love those! :) Thanks, lovely.

Thanks Amy! Though... I don't know what 'bugbears' are... or quite what you mean :( Lost in translation. But thanks for saying I am looking good!
 
AOoh, a Sydney-Perth lost in translation. Interesting. Not come across one of those before. A "bugbear" is something that annoys or frustrates you- so like me, you carry your weight in your thighs, it seems. But it doesn't detract from how good you look overall.
 
Hi Joh, You look positively radiant & happy. The fact that you are posting photos of yourself in a bikini is wonderful. Well done you!!! You look just lovely! xoxo Cate
 
Hey ruth looks like you've made huge news in the forum with your bikini photos lol. That looks like such a great place. A big pool in the middle of all that old city. What a juxtaposition.


Looking good as usual.


I had pancake this morning yum. thanks. :D
 
AAmy - yeah there are a few of those! 'Devon' was one I learnt not so long ago... and yes, this is definitely a big bugbear for me!
Shadow - :) THANKS! :)
Cate - Thank you, my lovely friend! Yeah, I think it meant more to me just feeling comfortable about posting them, than the pictures themselves.
Andrea - Hi! It's Joh here... hehehe. I bet Ruth would look HOT in a bikini too, considering her new body! The place we swam is the big river in the middle of the city that divides the old town from the new town. It stems off the lake and the waters are so crystal clear and clean. 80% of our drinking water comes from the lake, it's so good! Glad you're enjoying the pancakes :)

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Got so peeved with the ticker that I just made up my own. Thanks for the idea, Cate!

Seems my weight isn't doing anything this week. Every day I go up, then down then UP then down, then up then DOWN. All the while staying pretty much the same. But that's okay - I haven't had the greatest week, food wise. I'm still winning the battle of conscious eating, though, which is a big lifestyle change for me.

I've got a good feeling about getting preggers this month, but I have to wait and see. All the fun is in the trying :)
 
AAbout to go for another big bike ride and swim. Bikini under lycra. Hot.

p.s. For all you stalkers out there, I just wrote a blog update about my writing, if you're interested. xxx

http://confessionsfromthebathtub.blogspot.com/2011/08/writing-novel-is-tough.html
 
AOOoohhhhhhh i didn't know that you had a blog about your writing. I have just saved it to my favourites and i'm gonna go take a looksy now......Exciting!!!!!! Knowing you, it will inspire me to drag my writing from behind the chest of drawers and actually do something with it.
 
A:) Kate, it's more of an escape from my writing than a blog ABOUT my writing... just that one last post in particular :) And you SHOULD get your writing out of the chest of drawers and do something with it!

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THE DAY OF THE MAAAAAAJOR HEALTHY LIFESTYLE (deleted the word 'diet' in there) FAIL!

The bananas that I bought as fuel for my ride a few days ago? Well we didn't bring them on our ride yesterday... so I was going to bring them today... but they were all mooshy.

How did I deal with this situation? Not go for a ride and make a banana bread instead. FAIL!!! One thing I did, though, was to substitute half of the butter with light philly cheese, and half of the other half (so a quarter - I'm a mathematic genius, can you tell?) with sunflower oil... which is a little better than butter. Definitely not healthy, but not as bad. Will get my man to take the rest to work tomorrow.

FOOD
- large skim decaf coffee
- chilled vegetable soup with 1 slice wholemeal bread
- green salad with 40g halloumi and 55g edamame, lemon and olive oil dressing
- pasta with spinach, sundried tomato, edamame, pesto and lite philadelphia
- 1 large slice banana bread.
 
AWOW!!!! You look so sexy! Please, please accept that you look sexy, without constantly putting down your thighs! Arrrrrgghhhhh!!!! We would all love to have your figure, so stop it! STOP IT :D

I think that you shouldn't edit yourself as you are working on your writing any more. Just do it every three days or something. I think that might give your some more perspective to look back on it with fresh eyes, as well as saving you time. I have read a couple of books about writing and they both said the same thing, not to tell anyone your plot, and that your story could lose something with each telling. Which is why I haven't asked you. I can't wait until I can read it. And what is your main character like? :D

Ps. while on the subject of books, Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals has the best opening page ever (considering he had just been diagnosed with Alzheimers).
 
ARUTHIE Oh no! I'm not a Terry Pratchett fan, but that's tragic. :( And ja, I know I have to not edit my work. It's my major struggle! And it's the one everyone talks about. How to switch off that internal editor... you'd never know it with the drivel I write on here! Somehow that is a different part of my brain though...And thanks for the metaphorical slap. I feel sometimes that I need to let everyone know that I KNOW my thighs are still huge, as some kind of screwed up way of pre-empting criticism. It was really hard for me in an earlier post to say that I thought I looked good and that in my bikini pics I think my top half is looking skinny... weird how giving yourself compliments is so much harder.
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Actually DID go for a ride and a swim today! And I BUSTED it! I did 32km with an average of 28.7km/hr, which is great for me, especially for a solo ride with no-one to slip-stream. And it was dead still too, so no tail wind. ANDREA-THE-CYCLING-MACHINEwill appreciate that! It sure was nice to throw my sweaty body into the lake on the way back :) And hey, on a side note, I've noticed that I'm getting freckles on my belly! Wow - my belly has never been exposed like this before...

It's date night :hurray: and it's my man's week to choose what we do. So he is taking me out for a degustation meal because I'm his 'deliciously golden, beautiful wife' apparently :) Gold star for that one. We actually bought this voucher for this great place for dinner AGES ago, before my diet (oops... 'lifestyle change') and it runs out in two weeks, when we are away. We've already paid for everything, so now we just have to go. YAY!

FOOOOD TODAY so far (I'll edit it when I get home)
- porridge with dried cranberries
- skim milk decaf coffee
- Asian noodle salad (242 Cals, apparently, and TOTALLY YUM!)

EXERCISE
Big hard ride (woah... says I burnt 789Cal)
Little swim

EDIT six course meal was lovely, and I wasn't too full at the end. Just lots of little yummy things. And I had only water. BORING.
- green salad with proscuitto
- 3 spinach ravioli in sage butter sauce
- carrot soup and cucumber soup
- plum sorbet (I had a tiny tiny bit)
- small veal medallion with roasted baby carrots and baby zucchini, with rosemary gravy (didn't have all of it)
- fruit platter wth chocolate mousse (had one spoon, gave the rest to my man
 
AGetting over this diet business. I feel like a fraud being on here. I haven't had a 100% "good" day in ages, and I'm currently not even desiring a 'good' day. I'd rather a potato gratin or something. With bacon.

Really. I'm in the land of chocolate and cheese. There are incredible smells everywhere. And this green tea just isn't cutting it.

Haven't lost anything this week... surprise surprise. I have put on a little bit. Back to where I was two weeks ago, that's all.

I'm going to San Fran on Friday... I don't know what my plan of attack is for that. Which means I have none. I have no idea what kind of food to expect... lots of bagels?
 
ADon't be so hard on yourself. You've made some big improvements, right? You're eating fruit, you're making some amazing meals for pretty much nothing calorie wise (I have no idea how you do it), there are probably things that slip my mind at the moment, I'd say you're doing pretty damn well. And look how far you've come! You've got a healthy BMI, you're just over a point off where you want to be- all in the land of chocolate and cheese, and doing some major socialising to boot! Plus you're doing heaps of exercise with what must be still a pretty bad injury.

That being said, is it time to rethink methods? You probably know what I'd suggest- what works for me. But think about what works for you, what doesn't, and why.

Oh and for god's sake don't be hard on yourself when you go to the US- don't go crazy, but enjoy it rather than looking at every single calorie. (Speaking of which, a lot of restaurants in the US are now required by law to list calories, that should help enormously)
 
AThanks so much, Amy. I think it's the weather that makes me just want to lie down and eat ice cream and go into some kind of heat hibernation... I know... healthy BMI is a huge deal! But yeah, still a little bit to go, but I'm losing hope that it will happen. Also, as far as the possible baby situation, I don't know if it's good for me to be losing weight when I may possibly be preggers. I need to look that up. As long as I'm eating healthily and not skipping out on stuff I suppose.

Yeah my ankle is bad again. :icon_bs: So I'm not even taking the stairs anymore, and trying not to walk very much... that probably has something to do with it.

I thought about what you said - to try to fidn the things that work for me and motivate me... and in this weather I'm stumped. I thought that photos motivated me, so I took some pics of me imitating my dream figure (my avatar) and DELETE they look terrible. Terrible idea. What was I thinking?

Great to know that about cals in the US. I wonder if there will ever be anything under 400. I think the important thing for me is to keep tracking, no matter what. That's all.

Thanks lovely girl. xx
 
Hi Ruth. I can't offer any help at the moment as you know i am in a bit of a diet mess myself. But i am here and checking up on you so that you are not alone. Well you are not alone even if i don't come along but that's by the way.


I am still reading your other blog too, the biking one.


And yeah i do appreciate the meaning of 28.7km average. That's' very good especially if you had all your panniers on but i don't think you'd have been that silly. I haven't put my bike together since i got home. I hope it doesn't seize up this time like last time - i forgot to oil the chain after getting home. sheesh that could be one of my significant jobs.


You are off on a plane somewhere? I hope you have a good trip and come home feeling fresh and motivated. Enjoy yourself.
 
AI read something to the effect that a fetus in the first trimester only needs something like an additional 100 calories a day- I don't know what that means in terms of a calorie deficit, but eating around maintenance when you're at the higher end of a healthy BMI probably isn't going to be too bad in the couple of weeks before you find out. (Later in the pregnancy it's more like 500 calories, iirc) Have you/ can you ask(ed) a doctor about that?
 
AHi Andrea - by the way, it's Joh here, not Ruth ;) Thanks for stopping by for the support.. No, I wasn't fully loaded with panniers the other day, but I did have one! And I have switched my pedals to ordinary ones, not the clip-ins (makes short rides in the city easier - I can wear whatever I want), which makes it feel so much less efficient. Do you oil your chain every time? Damn! That's a sure-fire way to stop me riding altogether! ... And yep, we're headed to San Francisco on Friday - a work trip (with lots of fun too!) for my man, and a cafe-hunt for good writing territories for me. :)

Amy - thanks for spurring on my research! It seems in the first trimester you need really no extra calories, just extra micronutrients. So WHAT you eat is really important. A great plan I found looks something like this:
- 7am- one organic egg cooked in 1 teaspoon coconut oil, blueberries, ginger tea
- 9am- one organic egg cooked in 1 teaspoon grass-fed butter, steamed carrot with a pat of butter
- 11am- small apple with 1 tablespoon almond butter
- 1pm- small mixed green salad dressed with apple cider vinegar and olive oil, 3 oz. hamburger patty
- 3pm- small banana
- 5pm- one chicken drumstick, zucchini sauteed in butter
- 7pm- leftover vegetables (mixed green salad with apple cider vinegar and olive oil, carrots and zucchini in butter
- 9pm- one chicken drumstick, ginger tea
I felt really motivated by this, actually, and was going to go out and buy stuff... but I'm runnign down the fridge to go away, so it'll have to wait. And I don't like chicken drumsticks anyhow. ;)

I reckon that'd be great for anyone really! I don't see many carbs though... and quite a bit of butter. As far as seeing/talking to my doctor... *sigh* things like that are so much more difficult when you don't speak the language. I have a great gyn now, though, but I won't see her again until *things* happen. Otherwise my insurance doesn't cover it and it would be over 300 Francs (equal to Aussie dollars)
 
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