New beginnings, new journey

Another great day Lucy for ya! well done chick:)


P.S i loooooooove sex and the city! Great call!


only 2 more days for weigh in and i know you've lost a good number

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I think I'm going to start doing upper body workouts again after next week (for the new month). I haven't been because I don't like the thought of getting on the floor to do push-ups or bending down to pick up my barbell with my knees dodgy... anyway, I've got a fair bit more strength back, so I figure I'll at least start doing that. Lost soooooo much of the arm muscle I built up over those few months! They've turned to squish already! Hopefully at some point during the next month I'll be able to start walking for exercise again too, but I'm so not going to push it.


Want to be able to work longer hours again too! Not going to spend any money on clothes for a while (unless I get desperate and have to online shop so I have something to wear when I go shopping on holidays, haha!) so really want to save lots for when we do go away... I can't WAIT to go shopping in Perth again, and out to dinner somewhere nice... Booked our holidays so we'll be home for my birthday, but in Perth in an awesome hotel for Valentines Day. So can have awesome dinner out somewhere that I can dress up! I think the nicest restaurants in this you'd fit in wearing T Shirts and shorts!


Kinda why I'm so desperate to be able to exercise by then... plan on spending hours on my feet shopping, plus I actually want to look fit and toned as I'm planning on spending a lot of time at the beach and in the pool... fitness has always been so much more important to me than weight, which is why I ended up studying it! Actually I'm thinking of applying to study something by correspondence next year, like nutrition or naturopathy. I have so much spare time up here that I waste, and some days I feel like my mind is turning to mush. May as well make the most of my time!


Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend, hope I didn't bore you... felt chatty this morning, haha!
 
Thanks Irish!!!!!!!! I'm really truly hoping so!!!!!!!


Yea I love SATC, funny watching the old seasons, everyone is so young! Eek and scary 90s fashion, lol!
 
AHeya cupcake

Don't apologise for being 'chatty' i love reading your diary :)
You are definalty right about being toned. This is the first time i have lost weight and worked hard on my fitness as much as on my food and the difference in my body and mind is just amazing. Sometimes i think that the reason i have kept going for so long is that i feel mentally much better and fitness has done that.
Reading your post about studying fitness made me remember that you gave me a work out session to try!!!!! I feel really bad, i totally forgot about it!!! :blush5: My only defence is that i am proper dizzy (i am the person who forgets she has a days holiday and goes to work)
You are gonna have to hassle me this week to start it, once i get into the routine of it i will be fine, it's just remembering. So so sorry for being a dits!!
 
Hahaha all good Kate!! I can give you an easier one to remember if you want, I still think what you are doing now is great. Can't believe how much of a runner you are now!! Seriously inspirational. I think people don't realise how good exercise can make them feel, even BEFORE they see results. I turned to exercise when I was 17, depressed, and weighing 80kgs/180lbs+ (worked really hard for a few months before I dared face the scale, and it was 80kgs... that was a bit of a wake up call!) It took me a year before I really lost much weight, but I felt so much better about myself. There was a period of about 6 months that I actually didn't leave the house and I was having horrible anxiety problems, I'd had them for years (along with insomnia, panic attacks, all sorts of fun stuff) but that was definitely me at my lowest. I believe exercise saved me! So yea.. sitting on my butt all day drives me insane.


I've been to the supermarket already... I spent about 45mins walking around the house trying to find clothes to wear, clean underwear etc... then maybe 20mins walking around the shopping center getting what I needed... and now I'm at home with my feet up again, because that's all it takes for one of my knees to tighten up. Don't get me wrong, it's a helluva lot better than it was even a week ago, but this is just so annoying! So eating my popchips and feeling kinda sorry for myself, haha!
 
Got off my ass and organised lunch for the week... so here's tomorrows food plan:


Breakfast: Homemade icecream with almond milk, banana, amazing grass choc powder and choc peanut butter

Snack: Caraway crackers

Lunch: Salad with buckwheat pasta, tinned salmon, cherry tomatoes, spinach, and artichoke and parmesan dressing

Dinner: Instant lentil pilaf (also another non-nasty instant thing I found... these taste awesome!)


Not sure when I'm working tomorrow as yet, I'm guessing I'll either be starting at 6-9am and just working 6 hours.
 
Eeee... one more perfect day down, one to go... then weigh in! I'm working 6:30am- 12pm-ish (when someone can take me home) tomorrow. One of my knees has been extra dodgy today, iced it a few times and massaged it. Gah frustrating.
 
One more perfect day? You've so got it! Looking forward to hearing your results for your perfect week! :)
 
At home feeling sorry for myself again...! That knee that was bothering me yesterday didn't take long at all swelling up today, so I only did 4 hours at work. I thought maybe I'd torn the cartilage or something, but from my google research there's always pain listed as the top symptom, and I don't have any? It's just annoying, because my other knee is almost completely better, so when my right one swells, I hobble on the left and then that one swells from the extra weight. Getting so irritated, and I'm so angry at myself for not getting health insurance right after this happened like I told my husband we would. I guess even if down the track it requires surgery for whatever reason there'd be a waiting list anyway... tomorrow is pay day, maybe should get health insurance online with extras. I think waiting lists are around a month or two... who knows, hopefully I could be better by then. Still need health insurance anyway!!


I need a cuddle :cry:
 
Plan for tomorrow:


Breakfast: Homemade icecream with almond milk, amazing grass choc powder, banana, and choc coffee coconut butter

Snack: 1 row of raw dark almond chocolate

Lunch: Salad with buckwheat pasta, artichoke and parmesan dressing, tinned salmon, tomatoes, spinach

Dinner: Vindaloo (pre-pack sauce) with lean beef and chickpeas


Hey if anyone is interested, a lot of the stuff I buy now I get from iherb.com, it's an online health food store. It's based in America but they ship internationally (like to me, in Aus!) which is awesome for me cuz I can't get ANYTHING out here. Anyway if anyone is interested in purchasing from them, put this code in QUV271 and you get $5 off your first order. Just thought I'd share :biggrinjester: Fully addicted to Larabars and Popchips hey! Yum, and Peanut Butter and Co flavoured peanut butters... they're the ones I put in my ice cream some mornings!


Arrrghghghgh weigh in tomorrow... I'm being optimistic about it, but guess I'll have to wait and see!
 
AHeya Cupcake :)

:grouphug: Big hug for you. Sorry it's a bit late.

Got everything crossed for you weigh in sweetie.

Just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your help and advice. You are a truely beautiful person :)

Love and and extra hug :grouphug:
 
OMG people, had a bigger loss this week than expected... 65.4kg on the scale today!! I lost 1.1kg this week! :hurray: (And I would've had just under a 6000cal deficit for the whole week, whaat? Thank you weight loss fairy! Wonder if it's from all that chilli and fiber in those lentils I ate all last week... hmmm) That means... that next week, at my end of month weigh in, I could potentially see 64 point something. Which I haven't seen since I was 18 and once for like a day when I was 19, lol. Eee!! I'm aiming for a deficit of 850cals every day this week I've decided, almost reached the goal for the month so no point in pushing myself extra hard. Would really like to lose 700g-ish (it is TOM week though which hasn't always fared well in the past!)


Also... I keep an excel spreadsheet with my weights every week/ measurements every month... this is the beginning of week 12, so when this week is over I've been officially doing this for 3 months. Time has flown like crazy!!!


Food plan for today is as is in post above, which gives me a deficit of 878cals.


Have a great day all!!!
 
Hahaha. how did you sneak in there between posts?? Thanks Kate, I have no doubt you'll be pulling big numbers again too!!
 
So dinner was AWESOME. So glad I came up with the genius idea of putting chickpeas in there with the beef instead of having rice/pasta/starch of some kind. The chick peas were perfect! I'm still all about lazy dinners at the moment, so I got a pre-made sauce (the brand is Passage to India- don't know if anyone else has used them but I buy them from my local supermarket... no nasty ingredients and naturally gluten free. And they taste amazing!) I got hot vindaloo. Just whacked the beef, chickpeas and sauce in the slowcooker and walked away. Lunch on the other hand... the new salad dressing is FOUL. I felt sick for a few hours after just thinking about the taste, ew! When I make pasta for salads I dress it at the same time... so there goes lunch for the next two days! No matter, I have much tastier alternatives!


Tomorrows plan

Breakfast: Homemade ice-cream with almond milk, amazing grass choc powder, banana, and a tablespoon of coconut cashew cream.

Snack: Row of raw dark chocolate with almonds

Lunch: 2 raw sunflower sandwich slices with vege spread (tastes kinda like salsa, but it's 100% veg... like vege jam?) and 2 slices of cheese

Dinner: Vindaloo with lean beef and chickpeas


This will give me a deficit of 886cals for the day! Kinda disheartening that whenever I lower my weight in fitday, I burn around 20cals less per day each week... got to hurry up and be able to exercise again! I like my food too much!


Overdid it at work today. Apparently I can't just sit in a chair for a long period of time either, which makes sense cuz when my knees are bent, my tendons are stretched and not relaxed... worked 8am-3:45pm (was aiming for 4:30) and came to the conclusion I'll need to stick to short days for probably a few more weeks. Also I think my legs are more irritated this week because the last few weekends I've just put my feet up and done nothing, but Sat I spent half the day sitting on the couch with my knees bent and sun I had shopping to do and did more walking around... so they didn't go down completely like they normally do. It's pretty fucked if you ask me! So yea, have squishy knees with ice on them right now!
 
Just knocked off work. My legs are a million times better than yesterday, actually this morning when I woke up they were the most flexible they've been since I injured myself! And I only just started to hobble when I knocked off. After how bad they were the past couple days though I wasn't planning on staying longer. So 6am-12pm, wasn't too bad. And I'm in again at 6am tomorrow. So a lazy afternoon hoping the parcel delivery guy will come today!


Food plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Homemade ice-cream with almond milk, banana, Amazing grass choc powder, tbsp of choc coconut butter

Snack: Row of raw dark almond chocolate

Lunch: 2 raw sunflower seed lunch slices with cheese and vege spread

Dinner: Vindaloo with lean beef and chickpeas


Deficit of 916cals tomorrow.


I'm learning payroll/invoice at work at the moment as it's the only truly seated job in the whole store... it's so freakin boring. I was always going to be relief at some point anyway, so they just bumped my training forward so I can still work without having to walk around. So hopefully after 3 weeks in there I'll be a helluva lot better and itching to move around again!
 
Haha... thought I'd come back and write that I had a bit of a nom nom piggy-fest this arvo, and ate as above plus 60g of raw dark coconut choc and a bag of popchips... so ended the day on a 190cal deficit. Which is fine, because 1000ish deficits every day for the rest of the week will still give me an awesome week... plus it's exactly what I did over last week (haha, Wednesday feast!) and I lost just over a kg... which for me is AWESOME. I'll be happy just to see 64 point something though with TOM creeping up on me sometime this week! So at least half a kg...


Urgh, the extra calories are weighing me down right now though. I can't imagine having a 4000cal+ binge like I used to, I only just ate over 2000 today and I have a very grumpy stomach telling me off! Hey, that's still with a deficit too!


O and I'm still waiting/hoping the postie will come today... I want internet purchases to brighten my mood, dammit!
 
I was thinking just today about how I'm having so much trouble getting 1500 calories in and how in the world did I used to tear through the calories like I used to! My (hardly an ounce of fat on him) boyfriend still eats like that and the other day, out of sheer curiosity, I offered to cook all his meals for the day so that I could add up the calories, although what I was really interested to see was the fat grams. For breakfast he wanted an omelet with 6 eggs, a mountain of cheese, and 4 sausages ... 1,750 calories and 121 grams of fat!! He had another 62 grams of fat for lunch later at which point I just gave up count -- yet he never gains weight, it's a scientific anomaly! To think I'm only eating around 35g of fat a day and I used to always eat when he did, ugh makes me kinda sick :p


That chocolate sounds delicious! Enjoy your noms guilt free today if it means you can still have a great week overall!


Awesome job on the loss, I know you worked hard for it! :)
 
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