Takana's diary - my new motivation

[Takana]

Hi all who may read this. I'm not good with diaries so will probably abandon this for a while then come back to it, but I hope I stay with it.

I'm getting married in 14 months time. That is my time frame. We wanted the date 22 feb 10 as it would be our 10 year anniversary and I wanted a decent amount of time to lose weight. I have no idea how much I could potentially lose in that time but even a stone would help.

My fiance also wants to lose weight as he is over weight too, and like me has whacked it on in the last couple of months. He doesn't want to look fat in wedding pics so the fact we both want to do this should help. It's always been just me trying to lose weight in the past so I'm glad he now wants to.

My Stats:

Height: 5ft 7ins
Weight: 248.8lbs (this morning)
Goal weight: TBH I don't know. 10st would be good, but not achievable in a year. I shall aim for 200lbs. More the merrier!

Fiance Stats

Height: 5ft 10ins
Weight: I don't know, less then me. He hasn't weighed himself for a while. He was almost my weight a few months ago when I was around the 240lbs mark.
Goal weight: Again, I don't know. His answer would be to lose his 'beer' gut. It's not a beer related gut but looks like one lol Other then that he doesn't care what weight he is.

A while ago I decided to weight myself in lbs as it didn't hit so hard how much I weighed. I find it easier to look at, especially when a few lbs come off. I know I'm pushing 18st, if I'm not already. That is my all time highest and it will depress me to know for sure. Doing it this way is like a trick to the mind. It may sound a little weird to some but I'm hoping it will work for me!

That's all for now. I will post and update as and when

 

[Takana]

Well today has been quite good. I had run out of bread and the only thing my local shop had was hovis ganary thin sliced bread. And it's really yum! I don't even mind the fact it's thin as it doesn't seem that thin. And it's got seeds and stuff in it lol. I have seen on the forums that turkey bacon crops up a lot so I thought I'd try it. All sainsbury's do is bernard mathews turkey ham which I guess is the same stuff. And thats really nice too! It have a lovely smoked flavour to it. Other stuff I bought today are some rye vitas, and extra light dairylea triangles so I can take snacks to work and not be tempted but the food there.

Down a lb today! Now 248.2

Breakfast:

Scrambled egg on granary bread with 2 slices of turkey ham chopped up in it.

Lunch:

Corned beef sandwich on granary. A cranberry and yogurt cereal bar.

Snack:

Nairns oat biscuits/cracker things with a cheese spread.

Dinner: (don't finish work till late on a tues so don't have a proper dinner)

2 granary toast with left over tinned tomatoes (less then half the tin).

Then I have a couple rye vita and I got peckish. It's always the way, I always want to eat when I'm trying to be careful about what I'm eating.

So today was kinda varied. Had a lot of bread which I don't normally do. I really enjoyed having the breakfast. It kept me filled for ages. Made a change from boiled eggs. I don't know whether 2 eggs and toast with the ham is too much or not, or if I should cut it done to 1 egg and toast with ham. I shall also work on cutting out the yolk.

The corned beef sandwich isn't a usual thing to eat although I love it. My mum gave me some leftover from xmas and couldn't waste it But see there's my problem. Just because I was given it didn't mean I should've eaten it.

 

[Trusylver]

have you tried tracking the number of calories you are eating ? What sort of exercise are you able to fit into your routine ?

 

[Takana]

Hi, I have tried counting calories in the past, especially when I done weight watchers and it did work. I'm trying to give it a go now too although I get lost a bit. Like for example, a whole egg is 147 kcal, but if I only have the white, surely thats less? But how much less? Things like that stump me as I don't know how to work them out. Then I get thinking that I'm being over the top with it by counting every single calorie so I'm just gonna count what I can to get a rough idea of what I'm eating. By watching my portion sizes combined with healthier options will make a difference on it's own as this is my main problem area.

At the moment I don't have an exercise plan. I am hoping to get back to the gym soon. But the thought is daunting. I'm alright once I get there but as always, the thought of it is worse! I was planning today after work but after digging out my gym clothes I realise the top I wear is rather tight now since I have gained since I last went (about 3 months ago). And with me already being self conscious at the gym, I don't fancy the added stress of knowing my clothes are tight lol! So I went shopping instead and the only shop that has my size is Evans. And they had nothing suitable I'm now gonna raid my b/f clothes to see if he has a tshirt big enough for me.

So for now the gym is on hold. I'm happy to focus on healthy eating first rather then jump in the deep end and try to start it all at once. I have an exercise dvd which I enjoy doing, and a pilates ball and dvd which I can do. I also have an exercise bike. So I can get myself moving at home while I sort out some new clothes for the gym.

 

[Takana]

Breakfast:

2 Granary toast, with spread.
1 whole egg and 1 egg white (medium eggs)
2 slices of turkey ham
1 can of diet coke

Lunch:

cheese and ham sandwich with tomato soup
(1 laughing cow ex light cheese triangle, 2 slices of turkey ham on granary bread. Small cuppa soup from the vending machine)

Dinner:

Chicken breast, 'stuffed' roasted red pepper and a jacket potato. I 'stuffed' the pepper with a small tablespoon of microwave risotto rice from my b/f dinner!
1 can of diet coke

So an improvement today. I'm enjoying just having a sandwich for my lunch. Normally I will eat from the canteen and they serve hot meals. I've got a leftover chicken breast that I plan on shredding to make a chicken salad sandwich for tomorrow. Dinner would have been either a large plate of pasta with loads of sauce and cheese or a takeaway. I forget that grilled chicken can make a filling and healthy dinner. And I love it so I'm trying to think of the meals I used to cook when I lost some weight a while back.

Breakfast is good too although I feel I'm eating too much, calorie wise. After working it out, my breakfast (as above) is about 609 kcal and 31.2g of fat. And thats just breakfast. So I'm thinking of cutting it down. I can lost the spread (54 kcal per 10g serving, no idea how much that is compared to what I have, I spread thinly.) and I can either cut out 1 egg or one toast, or both?? I will trial it and see what happens. If I'm not losing anything after about a week (while making a decent effort with other meals) then I'll try to cut it down.

 

[Takana]

Ok, after posting about possible too many calories for breakfast I thought I'd better look it up as to how many I should be having.

I found a calculator at nutrition.about.com and I have done it that my current weight is 249lbs and my goal of 200 lbs. I want to be lower then that but that is my main goal at the moment.

So according to about:

You need 2476.1 calories per day to maintain your current weight without exercise.

You need 2267.7 calories per day to reach your goal weight slowly and maintain that weight without exercise.

If you reduce your current caloric intake to 1976.1 calories per day you will lose one pound per week without exercise.

If you increase your current caloric intake to 2976.1 calories per day, you will gain one pound per week.

So 1976 calories to aim for Maybe breakfast isn't too bad then if I watch what I have for lunch to leave enough for dinner... we shall see.

 

[Takana]

Yay, it's finally starting to come down!! Yesterday I was 247 and today I'm 246lbs! I was kinda hoping that the 6lbs I have gained in the last 3 months would come back off quite quickly. Only 3 more to go then I'm back to what I was before I quite the gym Still got a long way to go though and I know I could potentially gain it all back by the end of the week but I'm just pleased the scales are moving downwards!

I like to weigh myself everyday to gauge what my weight is doing. I know your weigh can go up and down from day to day so that doesn't bother me. I just like to know what it's doing.

I've been sticking to my scrambled egg on toast for breakfast. I've cut out the spread as I don't really need that on the toast as well. And I'm really liking my sandwich for lunch too. I've been having a chicken salad from a spare chicken breast from my dinner, then added some lettuce and cucumber. It's so filling I don't really need my yogurt afterwards

Tues dinner: Oven cooked chicken breast with butternut squash and a whole red pepper sliced, with boiled new potatoes. The sqaush wasn't the nicest but I don't think I cooked it long enough. Probably didn't need that as well as the new potatoes.

Wed dinner: Stir fried chicken pieces with onion and sweet chilli dipping sauce with thick noodles. I used up the rest of the new potatoes which was a weird combo but nice. Didn't realise how high in kcal the sweet chilli sauce was so expected my weight ro be up wed but I was down a lb.

Thurs dinner: Stir fried chicken chow mein with noodles, onion, red pepper and spinach. Was really yum! Roughly worked it out to be 570 kcal. I had a light choccy mousse for dessert too but I don't know how much that was. Think that is a bit low for a dinner but I ate out for lunch which was a toasted club sandwich with egg, bacon, burger and cheese in it! With chips... so broke my rule of no chips. The menu said it was about 500 odd kcal for just the sandwich, couldn't find the info for the chips. So I'm within my kcal for the day even if my lunch wasn't the healthiest.

I'm hoping I can maintain this for the rest of the week, as 3lb loss is more then enough for one week