New Year, new habits

Congratulation, you may don't notice the difference because you are looking yourself everyday.
I'm going to star running as soon as my colds goes away.

I'm just 1.55 mtr tall and weight 63 Kg, so my plan is to lose 10 kg, so it encourage me when I read that people loosing weight. So keep going.
 
189.4!

Yeah. Hello 180s. Feels good.

BUT had terrible heartburn yesterday. Basically I missed breakfast and gulped down lunch too fast + lemon water + eating dinner then going straight to bed cos I was tired = acid reflux.

This is the first time as an adult I've ever had it and it HURT LIKE HELL. Not that much sleep and was up early this morning to get some gaviscon.

But this morning - finally hit a 180 number! Yeah!
 
Realised that I haven't been posting my eating on here. I am still counting but am doing it in a physical diary and seeing if this still works. I will post total cals for the day each week.
 
Crunched some numbers and realised that to have 20% body fat, I need to be 146 pounds. This is 43 pounds away. That seems doable. LOL, that sounded sarcastic but it's not. I've already lost 23 pounds so why is 2x that again not doable.

Anyway, keeping on with it!
 
Inspirational !! Thats what you are ! Thanks for posting in my journal .. It lead me to urs .. I dont know why but I get so down in the dumps .. I guess its I dont have ANYONE i can talk to about any of this .. besides my husband ..but he is stick thin .. so I dont know that he understands .. but he is supportive .. so thats great :) ANYWAY ... Keep up the great work !!! Reading your journal makes me wanna go work out .. so .. Wii Fit here I come :D
 
You are such a sweetheart! I completely understand because it is difficult for other people to get it and it is overwhelming to have it feel like it is starting from scratch. But this is a great board and you definitely have support here so just ask!

Cooking in bulk helped me a LOT so if you have the opportunity, try it.
 
Updates

Weighed in at 187.4 today. Not bad. Let's see if we can push to 186 by Sunday. Just happy it's in a continous downward direction. The best thing about this weight loss is that because it's diet based, even though I work out a couple of times a week generally - I know that I have the option of doing more if I need to. Like I can up the gym stuff massively if I plateau or slow down too much. I like that control better than feeling like I'm going all out to be honest. Because if you are killing yourself every day and you don't lose, then it's probably devastating. But slow and steady wins the race for me.

Also did some measurements:

Waist: 40 -1
Thigh: 27 -1
Calves: 17 -0.5
Upper Arm: 14 -0.5
Bust: 41 -2.5
Chest: 35 -0
Hip: 44 -1

- 6.5 inches since the end of Jan.

Total inches lost since Jan 2nd:

Waist: - 3
Thigh: -2.5
Calves: -1.5
Upper Arm: -1
Bust: -3.5
Chest: -3
Hip: -4

This is pretty much what I expected as I am pretty hourglass-y physically. Actually feels like fairly proportional weight loss as I’ve lost the double the inches of the calves, arm and thighs because I’ve lost them from each one. Overjoyed about the bust loss as well. Some people might be upset but I’m still a large F so let me worry when I begin to hit DDs!! Also happy about the hips loss. It's weird because people think it is something when it's not. What I mean by that is that my upper arms have shrunk by an inch. Fine - not a lot. But because I've lost fat from my back and bust and chest, I can actually fit into and look better in a lot more tops. This is probably why trying to spot reduce is a waste of time. You may think 'I need smaller arms' to fit into my clothes but you've gotta tackle your back fat LOL.

It's weird as well. I've never been too big for public transport but sometimes on the tube when you are in the middle seat it feels a bit tight. Now I noticed this week that it really didn't. I thought maybe that I'd been lucky with the people around me but then realised that I am slimmer in the seats. I just can't work out how - this is where weight is weird. You are smaller but you don't know how.

The only thing is I’m not really sure what measurements you are meant to be so if I need to be more aggressive with the weight training or not. But surely at this weight you can’t spot reduce so it comes off when it comes off. Maybe a lot of inches drop off later? My feeling is that because I have a large surface area, that 25 pounds lost has to spread itself across a lot of areas. But when I am smaller, as I lose, it actually will go further and end up leading to more dramatic inch loss. That’s my theory anyway.
 
Hey,
how did you work out that you will have 20% body fat at 143 pounds? I am 137 pounds and still nearly 27% fat!!! I am skinny fat!!! I want to be 18-20% but I am not sure if my body will go there, it just likes to have some fat I think.
I know what you mean about the randomness of weight loss, my face has changed so much, I used to be convinced I had a round face, hell everyone knew I had a roud face, it was practically drawn with a drafting compass. Now I have discovered, actually my face is not round at all, it is a bit more square and oval, weird!

Anyhow, I think you can do it, with time and dedication you can definitely lose those 40 pounds!
Have a great weekend, Camy
 
LOL camy, you’re scaring me now – are you sure? That sounds high. Well I have a body fat scale and it says that I have about 38% body fat now at 187 and when I was 213 – it said I had about 45% body fat. Obviously I’m using the same scale so it could just be completely off but 20to10 went to gym and was checked and for roughly the same starting weight (210ish) she was 47% so I think it’s about right.

Just worked out the weight of my non fat which is 187*.62 = 116 pounds for non fat mass. Fits to about 117 pounds at 213. So my non fat mass is 117 pounds. Sounds kinda high, no? Then 146*.8 (80% non fat mass) = 117. So I’d expect 117 of non fat mass and 30 pounds of fat mass. Roughly 20%.
Sounds crazy doesn’t it. Anyway it looks like the lowest I could be at a healthy weight is pretty much 10 stone. According to that calculation, at 135 pounds, I’d be at 15% body fat. That sounds a bit crazy now so I may double check it. But I guess some people are meant to be bigger? How did you get your calculation?

(You have a great weekend as well!)
 
Havent posted for ages...

Still keeping up with the food and my weight is dropping.

So I tend to check out food calculations on Calorie count and noticed that there is a forum there too so I thought I'd sign up and use it as well. Not as my primary one but as an additional.

They are nuts!

:rant:

Firstly the site is full of basically pro anorexia people who need help (lots of weight loss targets under 110 lbs) at 5'8'' and 92 lbs at 5'6'' type stuff. There seems to be no focus or interest in health at all. Like I want to lose weight fine but these people are nuts. It's also full of people who are about 10lbs overweight and have horrible attitudes towards anyone bigger (or smaller) than them.

Horrifying. This is why as a society weight loss doesn't stick. Even with a succesful method (CC), in a sick environment can people even sustain it? I just quit CC when in a thread on how terrible overweight people were to them now they were skinny (yep) someone complained how she'd seen some fat women on a fashion segment on TV and they had just dressed them - without addressing their weight! I mean no health warnings or anything! How dare those women be on TV without someone pointing to them as a health warning.

I mean how insensitive and frankly, self righteous, can you be? So those people should not be allowed to be on television unless everything they do comes with a health warning? And these are people discussing this on a calorie counting website.

I'm sorry but this kind of thing really annoys me. Yes obesity is a huge (no pun intended) problem and yes it needs to be addressed - in a serious way. But extremely thin women (who are then photoshopped to remove their bones) are plastered over the entire world. I mean there are so many lollipop heads on the red carpet it looks like a sweet shop. And will people refuse to dress them or talk to them without pointing out to women that a BMI of 15 may, I don't know, be unhealthy?

We've got to find a way as a society to tackle obesity without glorifying it *or* worshipping extreme thinness. I just find it so disappointing that even on a CC website with people who have lost weight, they still can't see beyond the conditioning.

:rant:

Hahahaha

I'm all ranted out now! In so many challenges that my posts are all over the site instead of on my diary. Need to sit down and write things up but will prob do it on the weekend.
 
Ugh. TOTM bloating = weight jumped to 185.6 and hasn't moved since Tuesday. Not really shocked because it should come down in the next week as it does every month but it may not move by tomorrow.

Haven't overeaten much though. Normally am ravenous and I craved lots of sweets so ate 1550 cal yesterday (instead of 1400) but have evened it out over the next three days so am eatin 1350 today.

On the plus side, went home to visit family at the weekend and people were shocked at my weight loss. The weird this is that people's perceptions are so skewed. Everyone has started saying 'well you just have to maintain it now'. Erm? I have another 30 pounds minimum to lose! Hilarious but need to keep motivated.

Also went home for the weekend and (a big deal for me) still stuck to a good diet. Lots of trials as I had to attend a birthday dinner at a chinese restaurant. Actually underate on the Friday because I was a bit concerned re the weekend. Underate by about 200 cal. Saturday I had cheese on toast (no butter) for brunch (at 2pm) which was about 400 cal. Then I went to the cinema (another trial!). I had a bite of my friends hot dog and a diet coke. No popcorn or anything! Then for dinner I had wanton soup and a three of someone's chicken wings. And a diet coke. I was actually full to be honest. Then later on when we went back to some friends I had a handful of minstrels and a rice krispie square (about 100 cal each). While premenstual.

Feel like this was very successful.

Sunday I just counted calories. Breakfast - 300 cal. Toast, scrambled egg + beans. Lunch - sandwich 385. Dinner - chicken and salad - 400 Snacks - ate a lot (always like sugar when TOTM) - ate to about 1550.

Felt really good on my way back on the train when I really wanted to have some chocolate but didn't. Instead had some 7up Zero - which is far and away the nicest zero cal drink I have ever tasted. seriously. Better than diet coke, better than diet lemonade, sprite etc. 7up zero tastes like 7up exactly. It's got about 15 cal in it compared to 3 or so in the others but is totally worth it.
 
How do you manage cinema without any kind of sweets? I literally can't do it, haha - it's really weird! So congrats on that, and the weight loss! :) xxx
 
It's so hard lol but probably because the movie wasn't that long (1hr 45 min). Something like LOTR or Avatar and I'd be screwed!

Thanks for your nice comments!
 
Lost just over a pound since last week. I know that I am retaining water (TOTM and I feel terrible) but is still annoying to lose almost nothing on my biggest loser challenge.

Hopefully will drink lots of water today and see what I have lost tomorrow.
 
Hi! This is Monique your partner...sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. For some reason i can't use my pm. So I found your blog and decided to write you this way. I have read through your blog and we are so similar...I was shaking my head at so many of the items you talked about. You are doing so well with your weight loss congrats to you.:) I am following the "food for life program." It's not a diet it's eating by canada's food guide. It just tells you what is the best time of day to consume your meals and snacks, for example breakfast is 2 grains, 1 fruit, 1 milk, etc.

I am trying to exercise (but that is a struggle for me) I have a very busy 8 month old son...so that takes up alot of my time...and when he's napping i am cleaning, cooking, etc. The weather is starting to get warmer and nicer here so I have been starting to take him for walks in the stroller. My husband bought me wii fit so I also do that sometimes.

I am hoping to lose 8 lb's by easter...that is one of my first goals...I am going to buy a nice outfit if I reach that goal...I basically live in sweats right now. So by saying that you prob know my self-confidence is lacking.

I weighed myself this morning and i weighed 178.5 so that is another pretty good week for me...just hoping I can keep it up. I think it was mostly water weight. I have increased my water intake this week. I hope you had a good week as well.

Well my little one has just woken up so I have to go for now...but good luck to you and keep in touch.
 
Hey hun

No problem - I know pms are funny with your first few posts. You've done so well so far and thanks for keeping with it as this week I didn't do so well. But I took your lead and drank lots of water and ate low sodium things. Result - today weighed in at 183.8. So I'll hopefully have lost at close to 3 pounds by next Tuesday. Really want to get out of the 180s!!

Good luck!
 
181.6 - Exactly half way to 150! Still not doing daily write ups on the diary but mostly calculating in my head now anyway. Feel good that my weight has dropped almost to what it should have been. Have gone back to steady state cardio as it is the only exercise I can be consistent at! Basically weight loss is only about you. The individual. While I like doing 30 day shred, I'd rather run. Getting up but sitting inside and having to clear the living room and set up the DVD - I prefer to go outside where it is nice and sunny and I get to think. Interestingly, I find the video too intrusive because it doesn't allow me to just daydream to music.

Think I am going to set size target not weight targets because that is what I am aiming for. So my aim (which I prob won't meet) is to be a size 14 uk by April 1. I was about 10 pounds heavier (191) when I went shopping for size 16 stuff and another 8-10 pounds will hopefully get me to a size 14, especially if I exercise. Then a Size 12 by the beginning of May. Assuming that my weight loss is slower at a lower weight but that it takes less weight to drop a size. Then a size 10 by the beginning of June. Size 8 by the beginning of July. This gives me the whole of July and about 2 weeks in August - about 6 weeks - grace if I'm behind. It also gives me grace on the size - I may feel that a 10 is small enough. I'd also like to do at least a bit of maintenance as well before I move but I'm less worried because the food is a habit now. The exercise hasn't taken in the same way but the food feels sorted. Need to organize the exercise better but feel happy about my diet.

Trying to remember how much I weighed at different points and what size i was and it's hard. Especially since I probably thought I was fat when I wasn't. I think I remember being 11 stone 8.It's either that or 178 and I don't remember weighing in pounds ever. I think I was in the summer of my first or second year of uni and weighing myself at the gym. I was dieting, but what size was I? I don't really remember. 12-14 is prob a smart guess. I almost wish I'd been a bit more obsessive and tracked these things. Anyway, I'd expect to hit a size 14 by about 170, 12 by about 156, 10 by about 145, 8 by about 138. This is all speculation though. My guess is that the gap between a size 14 and 12 will be more than a stone. It will probably be about 20 - 25 pounds which will push things off by a fortnight. But this is motivation that the more workouts I do, the faster I lose inches.
 
It's crazy because in the media everyone is 8 stone, 7 stone etc. No one is 9 stone or even 10 stone but I honestly think I'd have the craziest lollipop head at 8 stone, even 9 stone. I can't imagine going much below 10 stone, if any at all.

But maybe they are lying or just very short? I mean Kirsty Alley reckoned she was 200 pounds at her heaviest which is such crap. She was 5'7''. She had to be at least 250 pounds. At least. The only person being honest is probably Beyonce who said she lost 70 pounds to her current weight. And she is apparently very short.

It's just slightly insane when you read a magazine and someone says they are 7.5 stone. I'm not saying magazines have to stop printing that but maybe they should note the height as well? If someone is 5'2'' or 5'3'' then fine. But someone who is 5'5 , 5'6'' or 5'7'' that is a BMI of 16 - 17.
 
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