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AnneMouse

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I want to lose 27.1 kgs

I would like to do it by the end of September,with the overall curve sooner, since I'll be travelling in the middle of the year and would like to feel good about those pictures.

How? erm, diet and excercise? I feel that the medication route could be unhealthy, at least for the smaller journey that I'm taking.

while both my family and my bf have offered support, I don't really see how, my bf tries but it more often comes across as nagging, so for now I'm letting him off the hook :p

Is my goal realistic? I have 26 weeks for 27.1 kgs

when will you start?
Diet, today at least in the sense of watching myself.I'll probably use something like atkins once I work out what I want to do, I feel like I have something precious in having not really dieted before and wouldn't want to throw away that advantage without doing my homework.
Exercise, Monday and I'll use the time between now and then to try and work out what I'm supposed to be doing in the gym :p
 
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Hey Anne Welcome to the forum!!! :hurray:

Your goal sounds feasible..it s hard to calculate though - and i guess even if you lose "only" 20 kg you will be happy!!

For me it took nearly 2 years to lose that amount of weight - but i took quite a bit of break here and there ... and the beloved plateaus..hahaha!!!
But yeah -i guess with healthy eating and the right excercize you can get to (or really close to) your goal!!!

Having your bf/familys support is awesome!

BEST OF LUCK!!!!! :grouphug:
 
Thanks Justina.

I really want to do it sooner because I feel that even though it isn't a lot of weight loss, it feels as if it's been holding me back my whole life. I'm fed up of not recognizing myself in pictures, of trying to dress clever, avoiding swimming do's and standing at the back.The idea that it could take 2 years is a little bit gut wrenching, but either way I'll be sticking with it and seeing it through.

btw, I feel a bit stupid because I can't find how to edit my signature, been through each of the panels on user CP without any luck, am I blind?
 
Decided decisions 1
Water vs habitual eating.

I often catch myself heading to the fridge during my workday between projects or while thinking something out. this is a big deal in this house, my mom keeps the fridge stocked with something yummy all the time, today there is precut blocks of moist chocolate ganache cake, apple pie,vanilla ice-cream and chocolate sauce. It's quite daunting really.

so I've installed a water filter thinger right next to the fridge and I will be replacing this nasty habit with fresh cold water instead. I can't control what's in the fridge but I can stop myself from using it like that.
 
Good working! Best way to avoid temtations is to keep them out of sight. Hope your strategy is working out.
 
AnneMouse said:
I don't seem to have it

maybe it's a new user setting based on post count or something
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Hey annemouse, you're absolutely right, once you get past 10 posts, you should be able to edit your sig.

As for what you 'should' do... there's no perfect weight loss routine out there. The best thing that you can do is to stick with what you choose to do for diet and exercise.... the more consistent you are, the more success you will have in the long run.

For the diet, my suggestion would be to write down what you eat in a typical day (pre-weight loss). Figure out how many calories per day you typically eat. From there you can figure out how many calories per day you need to aim for and start to make healthier choices. Without knowing where you're starting, you're kinda shooting in the dark.
 
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For the diet, my suggestion would be to write down what you eat in a typical day (pre-weight loss). Figure out how many calories per day you typically eat. From there you can figure out how many calories per day you need to aim for and start to make healthier choices. Without knowing where you're starting, you're kinda shooting in the dark.
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Ok, I'll do that. I've never tracked my eating at all so this may be quite enlightening. Do you have any recommendations for good resources on doing that conversion back to calories?

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I can call day one a success, while I did have a piece of cake it's nothing like it would have been usually, not a mindless reach for the fridge, instead it was only when some friends came over, and I was up by 6 glasses of water by the end of the day.I also opted away from the normal carb heavy dinner in the form of a dressingless chicken salad with cashew nuts and brown baked croutons instead.

Decided Decisions 2

I'm choosing Monday Morning as my "weigh in" that way I start off the work week with my goals in mind and it should help me to behave over the weekend when the schedules are thrown out and the bulk of the social eating occurs.

today is going to be difficult, I have a team picnic for a club I run during the day, and a dinner with some friends from the UK later, but I will still be careful and not over indulge.
 
wow, my bf is amazing,
he just told me that when I get halfway he's going to take out for a haircut at one of the snob'spensive salons.The change will do my body image good.:beating:
 
Hey Anne, I know you can do it! I've lost 24.5 kg in 6 months. If I can do it you can :)
Your boyfriend sounds lovely bless him!
 
Hey Anne, good luck on the start of your journey - it may take a little longer than you'd like but believe me...its all worth it and the slower it is to come off, I dunno... the more permenant it seems to me.

Having the support of your BF and family is great but its a really fine balance for them to try to do - the balance between nagging and support...at the end of the day this is FOR YOU and you alone and whilst negative people really doesn't help, just being quietly supported in terms of the time and food and a few lovely "treats" along the way was what I found the best from my friends and family.

I found the best way to cope with my chocolate/sweet addiction was to go cold turkey for a couple of weeks then the cravings completely stopped and I could have a little bit now and again, then something like easter or christmas, or even a tough week at work where I ate a chocolate bar a day, would set back on the addiction route again - really really really craving it! You got to find what works for you in terms of changing your reliance on and relationship with, certain foods.

Anyhowz, best of luck!!
 
Hey well done on making those decisions!! :party:
Your boyfriend sounds awesome!!! Support all the way!!!!
Go girl!!!
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I weighed in at 86.2 this morning, so yay to a good beginning

It's doesn't look like I'm going to get a chance to go gymming today but I have a small mountain of housework and a linedancing class tonight to help the equasion.
still doing water over snacking, and I've switched to sugarless if I do tea or coffee.

so amped right now :)
 
AnneMouse said:
Ok, I'll do that. I've never tracked my eating at all so this may be quite enlightening. Do you have any recommendations for good resources on doing that conversion back to calories?
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Two good online resources are fitday.com and eatracker.ca (or eatracker.com; .ca and .com are the same). I've heard of people using livestrong.com as well, but I haven't checked that one out yet, so I'm not exactly sure what it does. Another way to track is to read food labels and record calories based on your estimated servings. One really good online resource for nutrition information is nutritiondata.self.com and it looks as though there is a tool to track your overall diet on there as well which I haven't looked at yet.

Glad to hear that you're off to a good start and that your BF is supporting you... Keep it up!
 
ta PLB,

just dropping by for a quick update since I'm netless, I've taken a roadtrip with my mom to get out of the house for a week, and while a can't weigh myself I can tell by the hang of my tshirt that things are changing for the better. we're being very careful about what we buy, with the most sugary being apples. and if we absolutely must eat something outside of the norm we have to walk to get it( about 9kms round trip) while walking I usually remind myself about all my ideas and goals and why I'm doing it and end up settling on a muesli bar or yoghurt as my treat. it's quite brilliant. other than these walks though I'm being a bit of a vegtable, I've finished 2 novels already :p

I'll be home by sunday so I can see then what sort of progress I've actually made.

keep strong
 
Hey Anne,

That's great that you're getting out of the house and NOT using it as an excuse to not follow through with your plan! Great job and keep it up!
 
There's quiet a lot of really good positives on this thread from both you and other posters.

You've got a great bf
great mum. I mean that's excellent how she is going wihtout to support you on this trip.
Good idea to give up sugar from your tea and coffee
I also second the poster who writes about giving up sugar altogether. YO won't miss it at all if there's none there.

I do think 1kg for 26 weeks in a row is stretching your luck a bit. YOu will have to be very vigilant and not slip up.
Quit the museli bars they are sweet and high cal as i recall and moreish.
Apples are good. A salad sandwich or something savoury is better if you are really hungry. Or a big bowl of fruit salad.
A glass of milk is also good.
But try to avoid getting hungry. Eat something good as soon as you can if you get hungry because the longer you leave it the more likely you are to go for something sweet and keep eating.
Avoid fried anything
Be very careful with nuts. They have twice as many calories as dried fruit and yet both of these are pretty moreish once you start eating them.


When you wrote about the contents of your mum's fridge. My first thought was to to get your own fridge. Is that possible? I don't what i'd do if i had to look at delicious cakes and things several times a day. I just couldn't do it.

I am very pro food diary. I care more about food than calories but then i have a rough idea of what is high cal and what is low cal.

Yes read up about nutrition. Read a few different sources. There are different views and conflicting "facts".

Aim for two cups of cooked vegetables a day and two pieces of fruit - more is usually ok (I don't mean all has to be cooked but in measurement terms cooked veg take up more room.)

I'd say avoid these foods too - cheese, anything with a lot of oil in it, anything with a lot of butter in it. Anything sweet. Anything bought that is fried. Avoid all softdrinks i think you call them sodas but soda water itself is ok cause its got no sugar. I'd avoid diet drinks too except occasionally because it keeps your sweet tooth active.

Sushi is a good food if you get caught out when in town. Vietnamese is usually pretty low fat and nutritious. A felafel roll is great if you are starving and just have to eat something right away. Its healthy and not fattening if you can avoid the tahini. Tabbouli is a good salad in the shops.

Well those are all my tips for the moment. I"ve probably overwhelmed you.

I would not recommend the atkins diet. It sounds easy but its not healthy. there are other high protein diets that are better. That diet will wreck your eating patterns even more. The CSIRO total wellbeing diet is an australian diet that is good but the recipes might be too fancy. But it has good nutrition and tons of useful info. And good meal plans if you have the time and inclination to cook.
 
Thanks for all the great tips, changed quite a lot of how I'm going about things.

the week after my trip was a disaster, my gran fell and broke her hip. the completely disrupted schedules, I did the family shopping and cooking, work hit me with an epic deadline for last friday and getting to the gym was just too selfish with everything going on. I ended up losing the 1.5 kg progress I had already made and adding to my weight beyond that.

so this last week saw me opt out of family meals, trading the cooking roster for the rest of the housekeeping while my mom is pretty much full day at the hospital with my gran (developing nation, can't trust the nursing staff to do the job.) the one advantage of all the upheaval has been that we didn't do anything for Easter and I got a few good gym sessions in instead.

I've built a ketogenic diet for myself covering all the nutritional needs I can find, split up each day into 6 meals. since starting it on wednesday I've lost 4 cm from my abdomen and have NO cravings so even though I'm giving myself a free day I'll probably never use it for lingering craving and end up just moving it to days where I have social stuff on.

I'm drinking over 2 litres of water a day, not strictly but because it's working for me, the one day I only got to 1.5, and the following morning I woke up thirsty and felt less motivated.

This morning, my weigh in day, I was at a loss of 2.8kgs. It's not quite in line with my original goalpath, but if you consider that I effectively restarted about 2 weeks in, it's damn amazing because I've lost 3.3kgs in the last 2 and a bit weeks.

It seems fast but I suspect that is because I've effectively never been on a diet before, I've been overweight since preteenage years and have just steadily increased to this point, my body doesn't even have a suspicion about what I'm up to yet.

I'll post more on my diet/method soon, just wanted to get the update out of the way first
 
oh, just something to add

rooibos cinnamon tea, it's a kick of antioxidants. Rooibos is not as bitter as ceylon so you don't need the sugar compensation and the aroma of the cinnamon cons you into thinking it's already sweetened. While it's not quite the same as that soothing cup you might be used to it really can be a replacement.
 
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