Matt's Girl's Diary

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Matt's Girl

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I will compose a proper introduction post later, I want to get up and running with this diary in case I forget what I have done today!

Basically, I am new to weightloss having been quite happy with my UK size 12-14 frame (I am 5' 8") for the last goodness knows how many years. Yesterday however I went shopping for some new clothes and was shocked to find nothing to fit me in my usual sizes. Medical issues and a major change of lifestyle this year has meant that the weight has crept on and I didn't even notice. My clothes must have stretched with me or something!

So, here goes. I don't know my weight and I am going to try one month being super healthy before I even think about getting on the scales as I think itwould depress me rather than motivate me. Unlike friends, I have never weighed myself on a regular basis and think this was (at least part of) the reason why I have never had hangups about my weight before KWIM?

So, here goes...

Day 1

Exercise:
20 minutes gym (various)
20 minutes walk (just about to go... will walk quickly!)

Food:
Breakfast - Large M&S fruit salad, coffee
Lunch - Bowl home-made chicken and vegetable soup :angel:, pint of water
Afternoon - Brunchettas snack (129 calories!), coffee
Dinner - Poached haddock and vegetables :angel:, coffee


Glad to be here! Hope everyone is having a great day!

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Hiya
I'm a UK-er too :)
I think not weighing yourself is a good idea for now if you don't wanna get depressed but I am sure that you look great anyway - I think size 12/14 on a tall lady is a perfect size.
I'm a size 16 and 5'7'' and aiming for a size 10/12 (but more 12 because I like curves!) but unlike you I weigh myself everyday and it does get depressing if I haven't lost anything for a couple of days so good choice you've made I think :D
What I have noticed is if I have a jug of peach or lemon barley by my side all day (I am on study leave for A levels atm so I am revising at the computer/desk all day so it's easy to have a jug of drink with me) then I can drink it throughout the day and not feel hungry as much because it has flavour and it is quite filling between meals instead of a snack. And it's only 10 cals per 250 mls :)
Good luck in being healthy :D Sounds like you are doing really well so far :D
 
Thanks Karmann. :waving:

I will try the jug of drink, I too am at home studying - older than you though, I'm a "mature student" (charming name!) at uni - and expect I will be chained to my desk for most of the rest of the year writing my thesis.

I have just bought fresh fish and asparagus for dinner (although my other half wants chips with his! :eek:)
 
Day 2

Exercise:
20 minutes walk
Couple of hours dancing!!! :party:

Food:
Breakfast - Cereal bar thingy, coffee
Lunch - Cheese salad
Dinner - Pita bread with vegetables
Later - Vodka and diet coke

Gosh, looking at yesterday, I think I drink too much coffee :blush5:
 
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Eek yesterday I drunk 6 cups of tea throughout the day, not very good and I was up til 3am :| Haha.
Which cereal bar did you have? I am never too keen on them, the healthy ones are always too dry or boring for me but they're good to have as a quick breakfast on the go so it's a pain.
 
Hey, I'm Anke. I'm 20 and am size 16 also 5"8. I'm going for a 10 or 12, I'll see when I get there.

I also don't obsess with the scale, to keep my sanity, hehe. An hey, being tall we can eat quite a bit, wooo!
 
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Eek yesterday I drunk 6 cups of tea throughout the day, not very good and I was up til 3am :| Haha.
Which cereal bar did you have? I am never too keen on them, the healthy ones are always too dry or boring for me but they're good to have as a quick breakfast on the go so it's a pain.
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It was a Nature Valley Crunchy Granola - 194 calories - and actually now I read the label, not as healthy as some! They were giving them out at the station last night so my boyfriend got a couple on the way home :D I grabbed it because I was in a rush this morning! I had to go to the doctors (I am having some hormone problems and need regular blood tests) and he laughed at me when I said I didn't want to know my weight!

wishes said:
Im guessing your other half is Matt? :)

wow lucky to be tall! , i always like tall people.
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Hi, gosh you have done so well with your weight loss! Yes, Matt is my other half, how did you guess? lol!

Ankebuzz said:
Hey, I'm Anke. I'm 20 and am size 16 also 5"8. I'm going for a 10 or 12, I'll see when I get there.

I also don't obsess with the scale, to keep my sanity, hehe. An hey, being tall we can eat quite a bit, wooo!
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How long do you think it will take you based on what you have lost so far? I am new to this and so do not have a clue about how long it will take me to get to a size I am happy with.

I am so glad I found this board. I'm a late night snacker and it will give me something to do instead of going to the kitchen!
 
Day 3

Exercise:


Food:
Breakfast - The other cereal bar thingy, coffee
Mid morning - Apple, diet coke
Lunch - Pita bread with salad
Afternoon - yoghurt drink
Dinner - Baked potato with creamy cheese filling (at someone else's house so I didn't know what was in it. Tasted very fattening though!); and a (tiny!) bowl of ice cream
and (a tiny!) bowl of ice cream

I can't believe that I ate all those times today - I think it was because I had nothing much to do. (I often forget to eat when I am busy.)
Hmmm... perhaps I ought to start counting calories properly as I am sure today added up even though everything was relatively healthy.
 
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Well, let's see, in 6 weeks I lost 13.7 pounds, so that is about 2.2 pounds a week.

I weigh 194.5 now, and my goal is 165 pounds.

I still need to lose 29.5 pounds. By my calculations I should be at goal in 13 and a half weeks. That means the first week of September. And that is "Spring Day" in South Africa... just in time for bikinis!!!
 
Ankebuzz - that's brilliant. And a great incentive to have a goal date to aim for.

As I'm new to this I am learning as I go along. For instance, I was out all day yesterday and now cannot remember everything I ate - I did have a ham and salad sandwich for lunch and I was about to have a packet of crisps with it when a friend mentioned that I had said I was going on a diet - I had completely forgotten! :eek: . This is going to be my biggest problem, REMEMBERING! After a lifetime of eating what I want with few consequences, this has come as a shock!!!

The other thing is that I have no idea of the calories or whatever in some foods. I am not as bad as my sister who believes pizza is a health food ("because there is lots of protein in the cheese" :rolleyes: ) but we had a buffet type thing for dinner last night with falafels and kofta and stuffed vine leaves and I had NO IDEA of the calories in them. I tried to look it up on the internet when I got in but the recipes vary so much you can't really tell. I think it may be a lot though :smash: but they are so small!!!

How do you cope with eating out? Just stick to salad and things you know?

I am away for a couple of days, so will have to keep a notebook if I can't get to this site to log what I have had. The bad news is that I will be at the mercy of college caterers (I am doing some research at another college) unless I take my own picnic type meals but I don't know if there will be time to prepare them. The good news is the place has a gym!

Back on Wednesday - hope everyone has a good 2 days :waving:


Whoops forgot to put today's meals (so far) down!

Breakfast - Muesli, coffee
Lunch - Cottage cheese, apple, celery
Dinner - haven't a clue what it will be but am not having anything else until I get there just in case!
 
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How do you cope with eating out? Just stick to salad and things you know?
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I'd find eating salads regularly would get boring... Never be afraid to ask how things are prepared when eatng out -and ask for adjustments to be made (this tends to be easier at non-chain resturants but even some chains will try to accommodate)
 
When I go out I swap the usual side fries for rice/ potato /veggies and I try get grilled chicken (or normal and eat it without the skin).

It gets easier, I promise!
 
Thanks for the advice everyone :cheers2:

I'm not even going to try and add what I ate over the last 2 days because I only wrote down one meal in my notebook and then kept forgetting to do it! I did eat healthily though - luckily I do like salads and I have discovered the convenience of Ryvita!

Think I will start again with my diary now I am a bit clued up.

Exercise
40 mins gym - various :angel:

Breakfast
2 x Ryvita and cottage cheese and tomato.
1 pear
Coffee

Lunch
Green salad :angel: with small poached haddock fillet (107 calories!)

Afternoon
4 x Ryvita and cottage cheese and tomato (starving all of a sudden! :D )

Dinner
Roasted vegetables


*off to check out fitday.com*
 
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Exercise
20 mins stepper
20 mins fast walking (shopping etc.)

Breakfast
Apple (I know, I was in a rush!)
Coffee

Lunch
Shapers Ham, Soft Cheese and SunBlushed Tomato (Chose the lowest cal one I could find :angel: @ 265 calories)

Afternoon
2 x Ryvita and cottage cheese and tomato
Glass of PJ fruit smoothie (150 calories)


Dinner
Salad (cottage cheese , lettuce, tomato....)
3 x pear vodka and (diet) lemonade!!


Early hours
Apple muffin :eek: My excuse is that I looked up how many calories I had had and apparently it wasn't enough. Oh, and I've had 3 vodkas! :D
 
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Exercise
3 miles walk (walked rather than took tube into town!)

Breakfast
2 x toast (Weightwatchers bread which is really odd and full of air!)

Mid morning
Coffee

Lunch
Ramen noodles

Mid afternoon
Fruit salad

Dinner
Curry on salad rather than rice - which was surprisingly tasty!
Several small poppadoms (only 37 calories each!!)

Only one coffee today! I am trying to treat coffee as a treat to have when out rather than a habit every couple of hours! I am drinking plenty of water though. Might start putting down my water intake to remind myself to drink it. I cannot remember having anything else today but it doesn't seem a lot when written down. I wonder whether I should start looking at portion sizes/more exact calories now I am getting into it...

Oh, and today I felt hungry for the first time in ages! I rarely feel hungry, I don't think I do enough exercise on a daily basis to feel hungry!
 
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3 vodkas has plenty of calories :D

Mind you, you cant restrict yourself too much or deny yourself too much otherwise you will end up doing the binge thing (or going nuts!).

Though i have to admit, i dont drink or eat as many muffins as i used to, i definatly still have them! :D
 
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3 vodkas has plenty of calories :D

Mind you, you cant restrict yourself too much or deny yourself too much otherwise you will end up doing the binge thing (or going nuts!).

Though i have to admit, i dont drink or eat as many muffins as i used to, i definatly still have them! :D
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I suffered the next day for the vodkas, so that was my punishment! :D

Matt says that when other girls drink they may sleep with strangers or dance on the tables... whereas I eat carbs! :smilielol5:

I love your bike. I used to cycle everywhere (I don't drive) until I moved to the city and then daren't because of the traffic. It is those lifestyle changes that mean weight can slowly creep up I suppose. Goodness, I just looked at your progress pics (I am managing to find my way around the site now) - you are amazing!

Exercise
Not a lot - loads of housework though!

Breakfast
2 x WW toast
Pear
Cottage cheese
Tea
(250 calories)

Lunch
Chicken salad sandwich with extra chicken salad!
Pear

Dinner
Pita bread with salad, tuna, usual stuff.

Too much bread today - boring boring. Will have to plan better!
 
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Well an unexpected turn put paid to my eating practically anything the last couple of days! The return of some medical problems has meant I have had bedrest and lots of fluids and that's about it. My skin is looking horrid from lack of fresh air and a default detox! Oh well, if I feel better tomorrow I might continue with a real detox as I'm halfway there!

Hope everyone else is fine and enjoying the sunshine (those that have it!).
 
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