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Thanks LaMa! Great to be back!! Hope you're well an happy!! (Where's YOUR diary, huh? ;) )
That photo captures a very happy moment on a beach in Ecuador with a very special person :)

Sunday starts slooooowly here. Had breakfast with my mum and now just watching house of cards haha.

Breakfast; banana + mango + rice milk smoothie. A soya sausage and half a slice of whole grain bread with some halumi.

I'm feeling laaaaazy but the weather is glorious and I feel like I should be outside.

Sugarless day 4 is beginning!!!!
 
Sounds like a pleasant Sunday :) My diary is resting while I´m working on a more long-term healthy approach to food. Self-acceptance and all that jazz.
 
Hope you're getting where you feel you need/want to be LaMa! The best of luck!

I've felt tired/restless today. Couldn't bring myself to go running :( and the food hasnt been the best. Here goes:

Lunch: Boiled couliflower and long beans with some of the leftover curry (not too much) and a vegan veggie soup with a boiled egg.

Dinner: a slice of wholegrain bread, a boiled egg and some halumi cheese.

Snacked on a banana, apple and almonds.

I'm watching my body squirm over the lack of sugar. ALREADY!!!! Day 4 completed though!Doesn't help that my parents have sweets all over the house :confused::confused::confused:. Gotta keep strong!!!
 
I did leave the house though and took the recommended 10000 steps!

Need to get my mind off those sweets though! I think I'll just go to bed lol
 
I love your profile pic too. You look so deliciously happy! Funny word to use I know, but delicious came into my head 1st. You look blissfully happy :D
 
Thanks Cate!! 'Deliciously happy' is one of the best descriptions I've ever heard :D

Yes LaMa! no processed sugar!!!! Of course I eat sugar in fruit :D but no shitty sugar! for a month! eeeek!!!! Day 5 completed!!! Not much squirming today.

Soo, I went swimming today. The city where my parents live has an amazing swimming center with and olympic pool (50m). I did 50 lengths so I swam 2.5k! wooop woop! I'm trying to teach myself the front crawl..at the age of 31 I've decided it's time I learnt to swim something other than the breaststroke. It's been fun, but slooooowwwwww :D

In the evening I went for a run - 7k in the bag, did 4k without stopping. It's funny when you do the same route and sometimes you own it and sometimes you're owned by it haha. But I can almost often feel how the run is gonna go before I leave the house. The key is to keep pushing though. A shitty run is still a run.

So I've been eating better and exercising for a month now and my clothes are fitting better. I never actually got on the scales (nobody in my family owes any) and just going by how my clothes feel. I'm planning on getting back to how I was a few years back - strong, fit and flexible over the next few months :D more training when I get back to the UK in a couple of weeks. I'm actually excited at the thought of being back at the gym and even more so at my yoga shala!!! I'm gonna be working a lot during the summer but where there's a will there's a way and I'm determined to keep on exercising!
 
Sounds like you´re doing awesome! I started (properly) learning front crawl two years ago, at almost 34, so don´t worry :p
 
Thanks LaMa! Feeling pretty positive and good to know I'm not the only one to start swimming 'properly' a bit later haha.

A pretty good day. Let's see what I've eaten today
Breakfast - banana and soya milk smoothie, soya sausage and some cottage cheese
Snacks - banana, plain yogurt, a slice of whole grain bread with some peanut butter.
Lunch - pearl barley with spinach, sun dried tomato and feta cheese (yummy)
A crepe with some apple juice sweetened jam.
Dinner - kale + carrot + apple juice

Ran just over 6k and the first 5k without stopping (this shit is slowly getting easier...still waiting for the day I say 'I love running' haha. ). Didn't really wanna go for a run coz all day the weather was pretty gloomy but I was rewarded with a beautiful sunset. You know that gentle evening light that bathes everything and makes it pretty. So I guess when in doubt always run
 
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Thanks LaMa! Feeling pretty positive and good to know I'm not the only one to start swimming 'properly' a bit later haha.

A pretty good day. Let's see what I've eaten today
Breakfast - banana and soya milk smoothie, soya sausage and some cottage cheese
Snacks - banana, plain yogurt, a slice of whole grain bread with some peanut butter.
Lunch - pearl barley with spinach, sun dried tomato and feta cheese (yummy)
A crepe with some apple juice sweetened jam.
Dinner - kale + carrot + apple juice

Ran just over 6k and the first 5k without stopping (this shit is slowly getting easier...still waiting for the day I say 'I love running' haha. ). Didn't really wanna go for a run coz all day the weather was pretty gloomy but I was rewarded with a beautiful sunset. You know that gentle evening light that bathes everything and makes it pretty. So I guess when in doubt always run
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Looks like a good day :)
 
It's funny, but when I was a kid I was quite a good swimmer, but I have forgotten how to really & have been tempted to take some classes, go the goggles etc so I can swim laps. All I do usually is breaststroke or tread water. :blush5:
What a great days eating delsid!
Go you with the run & experiencing the beautiful sunset. There is so much joy to be had in nature!
 
Thanks guys!!! Mwah Rebel, Cate and LaMa!

Cate, I too have goggles :D and enjoy swimming laps, time seems to go very fast when I'm in the pool.

So turns out a kale juice before bed is not very smart - I was awake until 1:30 am and up at 6:30 with my little nephew screaming his head off. So,an exhausted day as my body doesn't accept sleep deprivation...

No running today but walked 11k with the little screamer. Food wise, well...my sister was making waffles and my whole family were having them so I caved in...they were delicious:D so I don't REALLY regret having a cheat day in my sugar detox especially coz I had mine with that apple juice sweetened jam and NOT Nutella (haha god it was teeeeempting!!!!!). Breakfast and lunch were ok, not great, but I always eat more when I'm tired...but I'm definitely back to my challange tomorrow. This was just a (tasty) blip.

Hope you guys are doing well!!!
 
Gooooood morning, World!!!!

So I've just been preparing lunch with my Mum and at one point she said 'you can never have too much cabbage' :rotflmao:

I don't think I've ever heard a more Polish statement LOL.

Gotta say though, I DO LOVE cabbage hahah.

Off on a bike ride soon.

Btw. (And this is such a MY GENERATION complaint haha) I wish this forum accepted emoji...:p

Wishing you all a lovely Thursday!
 
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKK. As positive as I'm trying to stay about having to spend more than a month at my parents', it sometimes gets to a point where I just REALLY DONT WANT TO BE HERE!

Here's my sugar detox finished after less than a week (starting again tomorrow...). I binged...ARGHHHHHHHH. (And here's the connection to staying at my parents' - if it were MY PLACE (I'm kinda 'homeless' so always tend to come here after I'm away and inbetwen places to live) I wouldn't have all this junk around...AND I overheard my parents commenting on my 'lack of control'...they never say anything to my FACE just behind my back...aaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhh. I'm sooo frustrated right now.

Food was good all day and I rode my bike for 35k. All I could think about today was food though and junk and how I need to loose weight. Damn you, MIND!!!! Fuuuuuck, how come this doesn't change no matter how much I want it to?!

Ok...let's try again...my problem is that unless I set the 'no sugar' rule I will most likely have something sweet every day...Can't seem to have the 'occasional' little sweet. But feeling 'deprived' and then breaking and binging is no good for the soul.
 
Did you ever hear the phrase, 'Living well is the best revenge.' Feck what your parents say, just ignore the noise around you and concentrate on what you want to do for YOU.

Also, you can't force the change, I don't think it's a light bulb moment for anyone, but they start to make little changes here and there, and slowly but surely, the results come. At least that's how it was for me. I have the sugar problems as well, but at least if I've done some exercise or cooked a healthy dinner, I know I am creating good habits, and over time, they get more and more ingrained. I would say allow yourself a treat in the evening if it helps you to stick to your plan for the rest of the day.

You can do it! You have complete control, you know this!!
 
:( Sorry to hear you're struggling. I can't give you any definitive advice because I have the same problem. Things that tend to help:
- Eating enough protein with every meal.
- Eating good fruit.
- Drinking enough water.
- Sleeping enough, regularly.
- Doing the things on my to-do-list I want to put off.
- Being kind to myself and surrounding myself with nice people.
 
Thanks a lot Emily and LaMa for taking the time to show your support :) really appreciate it as its given me food for thought!

So since my angry rant I've been reflecting on my eating and trying to observe myself around food. Here is what I've realized:

1 I eat well literally 99% of the time - I limit processed foods, eat lots of fruit and veg, hardly ever fry stuff and snack on fruit or almonds and not on junk.

2 I have been exercising for more than a month now. I either run or swim or cycle, I walk a lot. I did 8 months with no exercise so can't expect to suddenly bounce back and fit into my old clothes. I guess I'm pissed off I let myself just slip into eating whatever I wanted and not exercising...I kind of forgot that I can't do that if I want to stay the size I'm most happy in. Getting back in shape is much harder than putting on weight...if only it were the other way round lol.

3 when I see sweets (for example a piece of cake in the fridge this morning) I automatically get nervous. It's the whole 'oh I want it but I shouldn't' thing. When I realized this feeling this morning I reacted by telling myself 'you can have it if you want it, but this cake REALLY doesn't look THAT good (it really didn't)...' I kind of realized I wanted it because I felt that I wasn't 'allowed it'. So no more of that! I also realize HOW I eat sweets - cram in loads, nervously, hiding from Everyone hoping nobody comes in and 'catches' me. It's time to eat small portions if I really want something and out in the open and enjoy it. It's like I lose myself in this moment and nothing else exists - just me and whatever 'forbidden' food I can find.

Need to continue working on my relationship with food. It could be amazing, i can feel it.:)

Yesterday I ran 10k without stopping once! It was an incredible feeling (which really doesn't happen very often) I felt unstoppable and like I could keep going. I doubted going out coz felt tired and only wanted to run 3k but it just felt soooo good to be running.
:) :) :)
 
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