New Year, new habits

Hey guys!

Is it sad that I feel really really excited when people comment on my thread?

30 day shred is soooo hard but amazing. It's really really challenging and sweat is basically pouring off me after the 20 min. You do a range of things but even the cardio has me dying which is great because it shakes me up a bit. The thing is that Jillian has a bit of a 'mean' reputation on Biggest Loser but she is basically encouraging and lovely on the dvd. In fact, she's amazing! It does strength, cardio and something else (forgot) but it works out all muscles in my body. Last Wed did that and pilates and was dying. Totally recommend it.

And congrats Camy on losing again! I was a bit scared last week when I only lost 2lb that I was gonna slow down more and more but I think that exercise is the key to it for me and I just have to make sure that I do it. It's been hard as work has been really really busy the last few weeks and I've basically been exhausted + pre menstrual. Only got 2 hours of sleep on Friday night because I was working and last week was in work til 9 or so most nights. Only now beginning to feel human.

But looking forward to shopping - in fact I have to stop myself from looking now. I don't want to wait for my 'non fatness' to buy anything. My aim is to start shopping at the end of Feb. Not for loads of stuff, but for some transition pieces to make me look nice! So exciting! I think a good boost is necessary somethings.


Anyway it is good to keep accountable.

This weekend I've not felt too good. Work has dominated and to be honest, today I felt like I really needed to cycle and eat slightly more so I did. I'll have to eat light tomorrow but I think I can do that.

Will fill in the details tomorrow but need to eat about 1100 tomorrow to make up the difference.
 
YAY for shopping! I've been putting off buying anything new but my jeans don't fit anymore :( Want to wait til I'm down another size before wasting money on clothes that (hopefully) wont fit me in a few months!!

Glad to see you're doing well :D
 
This has been a crazy week - I haven't posted for 3 days but lots has gone on and some of it, especially losing weight related has been very strange.

Firstly I have been really concerned as I am hitting around the 5 weeks mark where people give up their diets and I really fell off the rails this week. Saturday I was 50 cal over. Sunday I hit 1700 cal. I intended to cycle the next day and made a whole bunch of food to take away with me (I was away on a work trip Mon + yest) and I left it all on the counter like an idiot.

So how did I eat:

Mon - breakfast - 4 sausages at home (210) + 2 toast (108)

Lunch: they served lasagne, chips, garlic bread and salad. I had lasagne (about 4x6 inches) and salad. And two slices garlic bread - I couldn't help it.

Dinner: they served leek and potato soup and bread, then a large breaded chicken cutlet thing with potatoes and broccoli and carrots, then a cheesecake. I ate half the bowl of soup, one slice of bread, half the cutlet, 3 new potatoes and some veg and no pudding

Breakfast Tues - 2 cups of tea

Lunch - they served a huge potato with tuna mayo and salad. I ate 2 white dinner rolls with 3 spoonfuls of tuna/mayo in each and salad.

At this point I went home. I got home and was so tired from the week that I went to bed for a nap at about 5.30pm. I woke up at 3.30am! I was starving so I had 2 pieces of toast with a tsbp of jam on each (?). And 400ml of orange juice (42x4) Then I then went to bed again until this morning.

Weighed myself expecting a gain - 193.6! Crazy.

As for exercise I haven't done any apart from 30 day shred on Sat. It's been really frustrating as work can consumed by days and sleeping time but tomorrow I am up to do my hours, no matter what. Will be starting the 30 day shred daily from Monday and my weights have come for that. Technically I need to buy a new bra now!

Today have eaten

Breakfast: porridge (267)
Lunch: one store bought sandwich (283) + crisps (first walkers crisps since I started, nearly cried) 184
Still have 665 for the rest of the day.
 
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Am a bit disappinted at how my body hasn't really changed that much yet but I am comforting myself by thinking that when you lose fat from fat, it's not so noticeable. But soon the fat will actually come off and my body will be underneath - yeah!

So I think at about 180 I'd hope to see some substantial changes.
 
restarting calorie counting tomorrow!

Also next big milestones

195 = 13 stone something -done (like to weigh a few days at a particular weight before I celebrate!

191 = overweight! No longer clinically obese! Will have a BMI of below 30.
 
Today is day 2 of being 193.x. Today am 193.8 and over the moon. So am really at about 194. Lost a ton of weight this week. The thing is - without doing the exercise my loss makes no sense. Doing no exercise puts my daily caloie needs at about 2100 max. Eating 1400 a day means a 700 deficit max. This would imply about a pound a week. But this week I've lost nearly 4! I don't really get it. I'm back to measuring food from today and finally getting the gym induction this week. From Monday til Friday I'll be doing daily shred 4 days a week. The reason is that my flatmate is now working away in the week so I'll have the place mon night to Friday morn. So will so shred Mon night, tues morn, thurs morn and Fri morn. Then maybe cross train on Tues night and thurs night at the gym and maybe Sunday aft. I have pilates on a Wed night and I think some straight running as cardio on wed, sat and sun morning is doable too but will see. Really wanna pick up this side of it. If the loss holds to 180 then will up cals to 1500. Then at 170 will up to 1600. 180 should be 1700 and so on.

Also I was saying I was a bit dissapointed that my weight loss hadn't really become visible but I tried on a skirt that I bought that I stopped wearing because it stuck up at the back because of my big bum. Always felt uncomfortable. Now - not all. It used to not close properly and dig into me. Now - nice and comfortable, even after eating food. And my tops suddenly seem a bit big on me. I don't feel like I look any different at all but my clothes seem looser. I know that I think I am probably blind to the changes. this is why vanity sizing is so annoying. I have no clue what size I am. If I was actually a size 20 (UK) I could at least say I'm an 18 now. But who knows. But the next twenty pounds is the key one - cos that's where the dress sizes should really fall. I feel like that's the move from about a small size 14 to an 18 happened on the way up. And that's the move from big boned to plus size. Hopefully by the end of March/mid April I will be back into
size 14s and large size 12s. My final aim is a size 8. So when I hit that, whatever my weight I'm stopping.
 
Size 8 is tiny! How come you want to go so small? Not having a go at you or anything (promise!) just curious. I think I'd like to be a size 10-12 (am now a 16ish) but I think any smaller looks a little unhealthy. Just my opinion, of course though.

I'm about your weight at the moment, too :) Good luck for the rest of this week!!
 
Hey hun!

The reason I want to be a size eight is that my sister is a size eight and looks great at it. Part of me doesn't see the point in calorie counting to be a size 12 as it seems like a lot of effort! But on the other hand, you don't want to look like Hannah Waterman! So unless it feels unsustainable and weird, I think that's my goal. I have quite large boobs and basically an hourglass figure (under the fat) so I think it would be nice to actually see it in a defined way - not just a shelf of boob! Like right now we are about the same weight and you are a size 16. I am about a size 18 and my boobs are about a 38E still. They used to be Gs!

Though - to be honest - I'm not even sure what me at a 'size 8' would look like! I have a much more hourglass figure than my sister anyway so who knows! Maybe I want to be a size 10. With the media/vanity sizing it's difficult to judge. I think I want to be slim. Not scawny legs, never eats skinny. But slim with a slim waist and normal sized boobs. That could be a size 10 but I don't think it's a size 12. The problem is that I was still a DD at size 14. The boobs make you look larger and I am really top heavy. I don't want to be busting out of shirts, and things feeling uncomfortable and hot and sweaty in the summer, to be honest.

Also I really want to cut my hair short. Not crazy short but basically into a *shame on me* soft crop a la VB circa Nov last year (see picture attached if it works). I think that you unfortunately need to be slimmer to carry off short hair.
 

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I don't think a size 8 is super skinny. I'm a size 8 at the moment at 5'4 and 119 pounds and still have 7 pounds to lose because I have a really small frame (and no boobs argh!) and still have a bit of extra weight on my hips. I know 112 pounds is the right weight and size for me as thats the weight I was from 18-24.

I've spent the last year as an 8-10 and look much better at an 8 because of the way I'm built so I think it all depends on you as a person, how youre shaped and how your fat distrabutes.

So I dont think there's anything wrong with aiming for an 8 if thats what suits you

PS whiskeytangofox am I right in reading it that as you drop weight you will increase cals? Shouldn't that be the other way round as as you drop weight your body needs less cals and quickly adapts.

PPs Congrats on your weight loss so far!
 
Hi Katie

I just think the weight looks different on different people and even losing it may happen in different places so I'm not going to be rigid about it. When I feel slim enough I'll stop

RE the calories - I'm eating below maintenance and as I lose I'm going to eat closer to maintenance. It sounds stupid but I don't mind having slower weight loss if I don't screw up my metabolism. I upped from 1200 to 1400 and feel great. My plan is to end up at about 1800 maintenance. This is only going to work if I keep consistently at 3 - 4 workouts per week.
 
Haven't posted in days but am still recording everything in my physical diary and will try to write everything up electronically before the end of the week.

It's my TOM and my weight immediately shot up to 196. I know it's bloating and retained water but it is still annoying. Main thing is that I am hungry and craving chocolate. I decided not to try and fail but to just cycle. So basically Sat and Sunday I ate about 300 over each day (leaving me 600 +) and then I cut by 400 yesterday, am cutting by 100 today and 50 Wed and Thurs. A lot of the bloating and feeling crappy is fading now so this should be fine. Weight has dropped to about 194.4 and am drinking hot water and lemon and hoping that this eases the bloating somewhat as it's making exercise very uncomfortable and nauseating. I go on holiday on Friday until Thursday and my aim in that time is not to gain. I think I will probably stay flat and am unlikely to lose. Because of this, I want to try and be around 190 for that time, rather than come back and be 196.

My plan on the holiday is to try to calorie count and estimate but not go crazy. I'm not going to skip any meals but I will try for the healthy option. We are doing a lot of walking and travelling around so I am hoping that this counts as exercise for the week. We will see how good I am at it when I get back!
 
Down to 192! Felt some of the bloating go down so I think this has been gradual.

But even better - I am going on holiday on Friday til next Friday. So I went to buy some clothes. I'm a size 16 (UK)! Not a just squeezing it to it but a comfortable size 16 UK. I haven't been able to see it because my clothes are getting baggier and that is making me look bigger! It's so crazy but wearing a size 16 - I can see the weight loss! It's loads! I feel amazing!

I spent about 150 pounds at Primark! Which is a lot! But I bought two 'aspirational' items. One gorgeous size 12 dress which I will post when I learn how to. And one size 14 dress as well. I also bought some size 16 things but they should last to a size 14 as well.

I think now I can be honest with myself that I was an 18 -20 before. Maybe even higher. When you're fat you just wear loose things so it's difficult to know. I feel like I'm finally back into normal sizes and shopping in a normal shop. It's so amazing. I basically just enjoyed the whole experience. I was beaming. Now when I put on my bigger clothes I can see the difference. In fact some of my clothes now look so much worse because they don't fit correctly. My skirts are all much longer because they hit lower on my legs because they are sitting lower on my stomach and hips. My tops are now hitting mid hip and I am just swimming in them. My tights have gone all Nora Batty on me! I look terrible but I feel amazing!

Anyway, can't wait to be a size 14! I'm going to wear my new clothes at the weekend and see if anyone notices. I was stunned.

The best thing is that I'm 24 and I am now going to be able to wear more fashionable 'younger' clothes. I don't want to be trendy cos that's not my thing but certain styles don't go with fat. The dresses and clothes that I just bought are just that little bit more modern and interesting. Fantastic!

oh - gym induction included a blood pressure check - 175 over 79. That seem high but they said it was ok.
 
I know this is crazy to post on the same topic but I am still in shock. Really it's like scales of my eyes have fallen off - I feel like I look so much slimmer now. It was such a shock to be able to fit into normal clothes in a shop without having to try to fit into the end size on the rack. The thing is that the styles are distorted at the larger ends. It feels like it doesn't look right. This was the first time that I felt like the clothes were basically able to hide my 'fat' - except for my legs and arms, lol. My body is shrinking down as I thought it would and hopefully with some weight training, my legs and arms will follow.

My coat looks terrible btw. Most of my clothes look awful. It's amazing. I may buy a new coat tomorrow. I just feel in so much shock over it. This is really the skinniest I've been in about four years. I can't wait to lose the next 10 pounds - could I be a size 14 then?

I felt so confident in it that I called my mum and told her. I haven't told anyone about the weight loss yet and my mum has been annoyingly nagging me about it for a few months. I've only just got her to shut up about it. So me telling her is symbolic that this is for real and for good now. I told her I'm a 14/16 (which isn't true) but hopefully should be true at the beginning of March when I go home. If I come back and I feel skinny enough I will go home asap. Otherwise I want it to be a suprise!

I just feel amazing! This is such a high! Ladies - go shopping! Don't hide in your baggy clothes waiting for your 'goal weight' - buy things that fit nicely and some things that are too tight and too short. Because nothing brings home to you the change more than being able to fit into things that you couldn't before. I've taking all of this energy and focusing it back into my weight loss. I'm 21lbs down and at 192. This is my Valentines Day challenge target met! My target for the end of the month is 185. It's so exciting.

Also my BMI is 30. So close to it no longer being obese. I hope I lose a pound by Friday so that I can finish out the Valentines Day Challenge as merely 'overweight'.

I feel so excited and happy. Thank you so much to this board! Without it, I couldn't have done this!
 
WTF, amazing! I mean you have lost so much weight lately and getting into a size 16! Wohoo!

I know exactly what you mean with the scales from your eyes, I wore the most awful clothes a couple of years back. Damn! I am still not where I would like to be clotheswise and siezewise, but at least the clothes I wear now make me look nice and not frumpy and like a mudfighting lesbian. Nothing against lesbians, I have liked a girl or two in my lifetime... but you know what I mean, right?

I am a UK size 10 right now and unfortunately I think "my" size will be a 6. Some people look gorgeous in a 12, but my built is just not size 12 material. I think what is coming out under the fat is a very small frame and I just pile it on towards the front sort of. So I have a big round belly and big boobs... my sister is a 4 (american size 0!!) and it is very hard for her to find clothes, especially trousers. I don't really care much about sizes as I am already in the normal sort of range, but at my biggest I could not find trousers in spain. In Spain sizes only go up to 16 and I was a 16. Often brands would not even have any 16s at all and only go up to 14. Only good thing about this is that you had a warning and could not balloon up into immensity because at a medium high weight you were already running out of clothes.

Anyhow, I wish you a great end of the week, the exercise will do you a world of good and you will see how you lose weight so much faster in the next few weeks.
xxCamy
 
Hey Camy!

You are a size 10 - wow - I wish. I know what you mean about 'frames' though. I keep thinking about a size 8 but my frame may just be larger. I don't even want to think about how I dressed in the past few years. Frumpy lesbian doesn't even cover it! It's crazy how you just give up in a way and start wearing frumpy things. I've been dressing a lot better in the past six months (mainly because I finally cracked and bought nicer things in my size - instead of thinking I'd shop when I'm thin. LOL) but nothing like this. I've ordered some contact lenses (instead of glasses) and have been growing my hair so I'm going to get it cut into a new style at the end of March. Weight really is psychological - even when you think you aren't being affected by it, you are! Really motivated for exercise and hopefully with have lost by the next time I measure which will be (after tomorrow) next Friday.

Oh and - I bought some new bras and felt like my cups were getting a bit big. Didn't bother to try them on, just bought a size below - a 38DD. Went home and they didn't even nearly fit. Seriously, like half a boob. Looked at my bras again. I'm not a 38E, I'm a 38G! For some reason I've thought I was a 38E for about six months. LOL. I went and got measured and bought a ton of bras on one day and obviously misheard or misremembered. This makes a bit more sense because my boobs have always been ginormous. Even at a size 12 I remember being a DD. I think my boobs are probably just about becoming an F! I think I'll still end up a D or something after all the weight loss. Hilarious! Will keep the bras and hopefully I can use them though my measurements may be completely different by then.
 
girl, you are killing it! You're doing amazingly!! Plus I think i might try hat hot water + lemon juice drink of yours for the bloating.

Ahh, amazing job! Keep it up!!!! :D
 
I started off as a DD I am now a tad too small for my C cup but not quite a B cup yet. I am relatively sure I will be a B when I am done. However unfortunately that is the only place I have "extra skin". Like I can physically pinch skin and lift them to where they should sit. Unfirtunately there are aftereffects of being chubby, but well it will remind me not to let myself go anymore.
Yeah I was also someone who thought weight was not affecting me but I did not own a single piece of make up, my hair was not cut for years at a time and I always wore it long down my back and then pulled up into a ponytail. Now I finally cut it, coloured it and man... I look kind of cute!

Anyhow, bedtime over here, Camy
 
Thanks Camy and Amsterdam! I am really excited about this still! The hot water and lemon really really works as well and I began to acquire a taste for it!

I am off tomorrow for Carnival in Maastricht with some friends. It's the biggest carnival in Europe and the whole thing is meant to be amazing. We are an amateur samba band and we are going to play in the parade as well. I may post a video and some pictures on here!

I am going to try to calorie count and be sensible so in a week I will see what the damage is 'without scales'. Hopefully I have learnt enough in the past few weeks to be able to do it. I don't think I'll lose but my goal is not to gain. We will be doing a lot of walking around so hopefully I'll get some exercise at least!

It's just so much fun - I'm taking make up, contact lenses and have some nice new clothes! Fab!

See you guys in a week!!!
 
Back from my holiday and it was amazing BUT the week was terrible foodwise. No choice really as Dutch food was bad! Especially during carnival - nothing was open and all they had on the street was chips and mayo. No sleep and I drank but not that much. It was also really cold and we did a lot of walking so I'm hoping that helped. Passed through Belgium on the way back - the exact opposite but still bad for my diet. After a week of cold chips and horrible food I just wanted a nice meal. So we went to a gorge place and I had an amazing lamb dinner and belgian waffles for dessert etc. Like the best food ever. That is worth breaking your diet over and I don't regret it a bit.

Of course the trip home was a nightmare because of the Belgian train crash. Waiting at a train station with only a vending machine for company. I just gave up on counting calories!

Came home yesterday and weighed today - 191 lbs! Find it hilarious that I lost a pound! I think that the times I am going 'off' the diet are helping to reset my metabolism and are probably helping my diet in the long run. But the scales aren't the only measure. I feel terrible because of all the crappy food and I know what a difference a good diet makes to your body. I also feel less toned because of a lack of proper exercise.

I was going to cut to 1200 for a week or something but I think that's a mistake. My only thing is that for a week - minimal processed food. I'm going to drink only lemon water etc, no diet drinks, and no crisps or crap, even if it's within calories. I want to flush out my system.

This morning had my standard cooked breakfast of a poached egg (54), 2 toast (108) + 2 sausages (105) + 10 cal spray = 277 cal.
 
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