Soupdragon's weight loss diary

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soupdragon

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Starting weight 259 pounds, current weight 228 pounds, goal 140 pounds.
Hi all, have just joined the site today, and am still finding my way round. Not used to all this high tech stuff, so if I make a few mistakes, you will have to forgive me.
I'm a 43 year old nurse from the UK, I joined WW in Nov 2007, and have lost 31 pounds so far, I had lost 11 pounds more, but have been on holiday for a couple of weeks and the pounds seem to have gone back on. I hope to be at goal weight by Nov 2009, as I have a lot of weight to lose. Am following WW points plan, but no longer go to meetings, as I find it difficult to fit them around my shift work, so any support given will be gratefully received. Am currently on the quick start plan, so am sticking to 22 points a day for 2 weeks, 5 days done and 9 more to go. For exercise I go to the gym 3-4 days a week and keep busy at work, as I do a lot of walking there. In case you're wondering where the name came from the soupdragon was a character in my favorite childhood show, and soup is one of my favorite foods.
 
Soupdragon,

Welcome to the forum. There are mainly people from the U.S.A here but we all share the same interst in loosing weight. Hope you do well in loosing your weight and the support here is great. Why not get a ticker and show your progress.
 
Hi Big-John, just got back from the gym, good workout and swim, followed by sauna and jacuzzi. Kept to the 22 point limit today, so overall a good day. Would love to get myself a ticker, but have not yet learned how to cut and paste it, but will keep trying, technology like weight ain't going to beat me.
 
Hi everyone, updating my journal, I don't think that I'll manage to do this every day, but hope to do it 3-4 times a week.
Monday 16/6/08 - At work today, and had a very busy day, managed to stick to 22 points, I usually manage to stick to my diet on work days as I am at work for nearly 13hours, so it leaves little time for stuffing myself, and when I get home, I am too tired to get in the car and drive to the takeaway.:auto:
Tuesday 17/6/08. - Day off, bad day today, managed to eat my 22points, and a Big Mac, onion rings,dip vanilla milkshake, 2 cheese scones, chocolate bar,cup of soup and a packet of toffee chocolate eclairs. :banghead: Feeling bad about this, but trying not to beat myself up too much as I'm trying to adopt a new mental attitude. I've decided to become my own best friend, so am trying to treat myself as I would my best friend. Would you tell your best friend that she was fat and useless if she broke her diet after loosing 31 pounds? Not if you were a good friend, so I ask myself why did you get in the car, drive miles to McDonalds and eat something you don't really like anyway. Because I'm bored and fedup with life at the moment. So what to do the next time I feel like this. Perhaps go for a walk for 30 mins and reassess the situation? Brush my teeth so I don't want to eat and get them dirty? How to best deal with a binge coming on? Well I'll try to learn something from this and then move on. As they say "Tomorrow is another day"
Wednesday 18/6/08 - Well feeling more positive today. Stuck to the diet this morning, and threw the remaining 2 cheese scones from yesterdays binge into the bin. Going to get the housework done, then sort out my paperwork and make a few calls and hopefully keep my hand out of the cookie jar.:)
 
Well, today is over, and thought I would update my journal. Did some reading about BMR and have come to the conclusion that I'm not eating enough! Worked out that I'm about 3-400 calories under what I need with the amount of exercise that I am doing. So I am now going to increase my points back to 26 a day. Went swimming tonight, gave the gym a miss as my knees are a bit painful today. Went shopping for food today, and got pretty puffed out carrying it up the stairs. Before I put it away, I weighed it. It weighed 20pounds, just 2/3 of what i have lost so far, so that cheered me up, as it felt really heavy and gave me a reminder of how far I have come in the past few months.:hurray:
 
Well, work was so busy to day that I didn't get my tea break.:rolleyes:which meant that I was way under my 26 points for the day when I got home tonight. Have made most of it up, and finished the day at 25 points, just one under. Didn't get to the gym, or go swimming, as I was on my feet all day. Having a late night, as I am on night shift tomorrow. It can be difficult calculating the points when working nights, as on your first night you are awake for 24 hours almost, and on the last night, you spend a lot of the time in bed. So all in all, a good day, as I kept to the diet, and got loads of exercise.
 
Well have just finished the first of my nights, and have managed to stick to my 26 points. So good day today. To tired to write any more, so am going to go to bed, as I have got to work again tonight.
 
I used to do nightshift aswell. I think if I ever went back to do this I'd try and find a way to incorporate more exersize into my work. As when I used to do it nearly everyone was laid back at work or hidden up for a quip nap.

Keep going SD, have you tried to get a ticker yet ?

You need to go here and select a category. Then chose the ruler you want. There are more choices on the page no.s when you have chosen click next.

Next thing to do is choose your slider, when done click next again.

Create a pin no. and fill in your details. Click next.

When it's finished you need to copy the BBCode into your signature here in the forum. So login and go to UserCP (Top Left) and paste the bbcode into your signature and save it.

Big John
 
Hi Big John, have just tried to get a ticker and only ended up with the web site address in my signature, will keep trying though.

Had a good day yesterday, which was surprising really, as normally the day when I finish my nights is alway one where I can't be bothered to cook, and go to the Chinese takeaway instead. This time I ended up keeping to my 26 points and going for a swim. So well done me, hope this is a bad habit broken. We will see if I can keep it up as I have three more nights towards the end of this week. Today things are going well too. Thought that I would reach for the cookie jar as I was stressing about going to the dentist this morning, but managed to cope with the strain without heading for the fridge. I really hate going to the dentist, I would really prefer to pull my toenails out with pliers than go , but good news no work needing doing.
Good news on the diet front too. Weighed in this morning, and have lost 2 pounds. 33 pounds lost and only another 86 pounds to go. :biggrinjester:Bad news is that I have to retire my favorite jeans. They have been big on me for a while, but now I can't walk 10 yards without having to hitch them up. Oh the trials and tribulations of loosing weight. Guess I'll just have to go shopping for some new ones. Yesterday, I had a bit of an breakthrough, in the past I have always said that I wanted to lose weight to change my life, when it suddenly struck me( in the middle of the gym car park) that I was changing my life and therefore loosing weight. I have already started the process of changing my life, and maybe that is why my attitude to dieting is so much better this time round. I have stopped thinking that once the weight goes I can start doing things that I have always wanted to do. Now I have started to do things to change my life, and weight loss is just one of the things that need changing. Weight loss and food is no longer the only thing on my mind night and day, and therefore somehow dieting is easier.
Start weight 259 pounds
Goal weight 140 pounds
Current weight 226 pounds
Weight loss 33 pounds
 
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Well, had a bad day diet wise today, went to London, and had a really good time. Ate what I wanted, and guess what, I didn't feel guilty about it. Which is surprising really as I felt really guilty about breaking my diet a week ago. Maybe its because now I feel that life is changing. Tomorrow I will be back on track, and after all, its going to take me a good 18 more months if I'm lucky to get to goal weight. Whats one more day added onto 18 months. After all, it took over 40 years to put the weight on. Yes, I have decided that no longer will I feel guilty just because I have eaten 5000 calories instead of 1500. No more will I put up with the supposed friends saying " Should you really be eating that I thought you were on a diet" well the Diet Nazis can get stuffed because I refuse to feel bad about the odd slip up anymore. I think feeling guilty is one of the quickest ways to wreck any diet plan. Maybe I should start a new thread "sign up here for guilt free dieting" Who knows might start something big.:waving:
 
Hi douknowjello, thanks for saying hi. Would like to start a thread, but havent yet found the new thread button. Well just updating, not much to say really, just working hard, and sticking to the 26 points. No new insights or revelations so far. Am working nights from tomorrow, and sleep deprivation does funny things to my brain, so hopefully, there will be something more interesting to write in a few days time.
 
I work nights too 4 nights on/3 nights off so I understand on that one. I found the chatroom button earlier and saw you up there but you must have been afk cuz no answer so HELLOO SOUPDRAGON, lol
 
Hi Soupdragon! Congrats on all the weight you've lost! You should be really proud of the changes you're making. You are doing great :)

Celia
 
Sounds like you're doing wonderfully. I definitely know what it's like to fall off the wagon, but I think it would be foolish of us to expect to lose all our weight without occasionally backsliding. What kind of exercises do you do at the gym?
 
Hi soup dragon,
Thought id pop by and say hi since your one of the few ppl on ww and from the uk ! Congrats on the weight loss your doing fab !! I am currently on the ww points plan too 30 points a day ( am a hell of a lot bigger than you lol.. ) How are you coping with the points system ? I have my good days and bad seems to be easier when i am working and out the house for at least 12 hours a day but when i am on a day off i just want to eat everything in sight! I have managed to get the first stone off within i think 6 weeks but then it kinda stopped and i have been going up and down 3/4 pounds since then, didnt think i would plateau so soon but i have ! :( I have currently just invested in a new swim suit nows just the forcing myself to go !and my bf parents have loaned us there glider thing which am trying to do 10 mins of each day which seems to be helping as it got my 2lbs under my stone this week , thank god i thought i was going crazy ! xxx
 
Hi soupdragon :)

Well done on all the weight you have lost so far!

Love ur name - u named after the band by any chance?

Keep up the great work!:hurray:
 
Hi Tinkerbella, thanks for stopping by, I didn't know that there was a band called the soupdragons. No soupdragon was a cartoon character in the Clangers.
Well, haven't written in the diary for a few days The good news was that I didn't gain any weight this week, the bad news is that I didn't lose any either. So I am so fed up of not loosing any weight, that I have decided to revamp my diet and exercise plan. I am going to start to count calories, and stop counting weight watchers points. I joined Fitday, and will have between 1600-1700 cals a day. I also intend to try to cut out as much processed foods as possible. I tend to eat them as they are convenient when I am working. I am still working out meal plans at the moment, but todays meals were
Breakfast - muesli, soyamilk, coffee
Snack - Banana
Lunch - Soup 2xsoya yoghart, apple
Tea - 4xrice cakes, 100g hummous, orange.
Supper - Soup, pasta and meat sauce, carrots, broccoli, green beans
Cals - 1653

I will also be changing my exercise routine, I have bought a bike, and will pick it up on Monday. I am going to meet with the Instructor at the gym on Sunday, and hope to start doing some weight training.
Well I will let you all know how its going.
I also took my measurements, I didn't do this when I first started, so I don't know just how many inches I have already lost, but I hope that even if the scales don't show much change, the tape measure may.
Chest - 49 ins R thigh - 26 ins
Waist - 43 ins L thigh - 27 ins
Widest part - 49 ins R calf - 18 ins
Hips - 46 ins L calf - 181/2 ins
R arm - 141/2ins
L arm - 141/2 ins
 
soupdragon said:
I also took my measurements, I didn't do this when I first started, so I don't know just how many inches I have already lost, but I hope that even if the scales don't show much change, the tape measure may.
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They sure do SD. Keep up the good work, and hope you enjoy the gym.
 
Hey! What happened to you? You haven't posted in a while.

Well Hello. Great work on the losses so far! Keep it up!!

I love your username. I can't remember if there was a show over here in the US that had a character named that, but I seem to vaguely remember it.
Of course, it could just be my mind manufacturing memories again :p

:) Annie
 
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