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Omega said:
Hi Angel

I remember wishing the years away when I was your age. Now I wonder where the years went. I cant believe that I am middle aged. I really dont feel like I am supposed to feel. It is all a giant con.

Well done on the food. Moving around all day would be good exercise. Remember - you do not have to go to the gym to be doing exercise that helps you lose weight.

I cant believe that you are too lazy to enter a few things into a spreadsheet. It must take me all of a few seconds to do it each day. I am honestly as lazy as the next girl!!! I am pleased that you have noticed that you lose weight with the green tea. Maybe you find it easier to keep all the info in your head. I couldnt do that.

Take care
Love
Margaret
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haha my mum keeps sayin that about wishin the years away. i think v always luk up at older ppl and thinkthey must b reaaly old. i can memba doing that when i was at skul and finkin bout ppl in uni but i dont feel old now so i agree it is a giant con lol.

its onli this year i feel i reaaly want it to end. im tryin to do a lot i think and i jus want to see the results.

m back upto 162 today which is about a 1lb a week which is my goal so still not discouraged. if it goes above 162 im going to hav to rethink my weight loss programme. and im not soo sure bout the green tea anymor because i did hav sum yesterday . it may b all the weight im puting on because ov my bad week last week. want to c it go down now.

m gonna do sum gym excercise today. or try to do sum anyway lol. i do keep a lot in my head but i also ryt sum things down in a notebook especially wheneva i try summit different but i def cudnt do it everyday.

;-)

x
 
Hi Angel

I know that you will be busy - I remember doing my degree. You want to do as well as you can - but you also want to spend some time having fun with your friends. I remember feeling stretched in more than one direction.

I am pleased that you are not discouraged about your weight. We all experience times when weight goes up as well as down. That is the nasty thing about succumbing when tempted by things like cake and biscuits. We all get tempted at times - but it is silly really because the taste of them is not nearly as good as the pleasure when we can wear something nice and feel like we look good. We are going to look so slim for our birthdays!!!

Doing some exercise is a good idea. Go to your gym room and do some exercise. Or put your pedometer on and go out for a walk. I have just been out and walked 6.3 miles.

There's a lot to be said for an excel spreadsheet for capturing all this type of stuff. I know that you dont like the idea - but humour me for a second.

Think lots of columns headed stuff like cheese, chocolate, fish, butter, eggs etc. It only takes a minute in the morning to think - what did I have yesterday and put y in some boxes.
also box labelled main meal and capture the gist of it - e.g. pork chops & beans.

I cope so much easier with that than I could with trying to look for patterns in a notebook.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Omega said:
Hi Angel

I am pleased that you are not discouraged about your weight. We all experience times when weight goes up as well as down. That is the nasty thing about succumbing when tempted by things like cake and biscuits. We all get tempted at times - but it is silly really because the taste of them is not nearly as good as the pleasure when we can wear something nice and feel like we look good. We are going to look so slim for our birthdays!!!
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i aynt discouraged yet. i myt if i dont reach my 1lb a week goal. but i hope i do. lyk u sed wanna luk gr8 for the birthday. was jus about to eat a chocolate and thought about wot u sed so left it. thanx hon.

Omega said:
Doing some exercise is a good idea. Go to your gym room and do some exercise. Or put your pedometer on and go out for a walk. I have just been out and walked 6.3 miles.
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ive jus been lol. i luv it i have my own space and tym to excercise. i did an hour and 15 mins and i feel gr8. how long dus it take u to walk 6.3miles???


Omega said:
There's a lot to be said for an excel spreadsheet for capturing all this type of stuff. I know that you dont like the idea - but humour me for a second.

Think lots of columns headed stuff like cheese, chocolate, fish, butter, eggs etc. It only takes a minute in the morning to think - what did I have yesterday and put y in some boxes.
also box labelled main meal and capture the gist of it - e.g. pork chops & beans.
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hehe seeing as uve been soo gr8 to me. ill giv it a go. i will try and set it up soon. what r all da columns u hav. cud u post me all da details please.

;-)

x
 
Day 18



DAY 18 - 16 dec 07

woohoo apart from the weight gain in the mornin today has been good.

i havnt had any naughty foods and i have excecised aswell for 1 hour 15mins.
i aynt gonna list the foods. this week im gonna concentrate on excercise. so:

5 mins bike
5 crosstrainer
15 mins treadmill
15 mins waist workout
10 mins arms workout
15 mins step aerobic
100 sit ups
3 mins bike (cool down)

average heart rate (128)- max heart rate (228)

my heart rate range needs to be within 110 and 170 whyl excercisin. i keep it above 160 durin cardio (25 mins) and then above 110 for the rest.

i feel gr8 but i knw my muscles r gonna b killin tomorrow. it may sound wierd but i do njoy dat feelin. makes me feel dat ive dun sum hard wurk.

ive gotta go in to scholl tomorrow. well i dont hav to but im choosin to so i may not get much excercise in tomorrow but iam gonna keep away from the chocs in the staff room. well im gonna try. as long as i keep my 1lb a week goal thru this holiday season im happy.

hav a good week ppl

;-)

x
 
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Day 19


DAY 19 - 17 dec 07

2lbs down. the excercise worked. woohooo!! but i haven't done any today because have been in school all day and am going out again at 7. sooo hopefully tomorrow i should have no excuse. it relly feels good. i want to get atleast 5 days of excercise a week. so far this week 1 day. :-(. 5 days to go!! Food has been reaaly good though. have tried to have protein and keep my calories up.
How much protein should i be having?? i think im having about 40-50%. is that ok??

so hopefully my weight doesn't go up again. i don't care if i stay at the same weight as long as i don't put any on.

;-)

x
 
Good job on the exercise! :)

I've heard at LEAST 1 gram of protein per kg of bodyweight so in your case that'd be about 73 grams per day. I've also heard 1 gram per pound of body weight, but I think g/kg is a good place to start. I'm sure if you do a search you could get a lot more opinions though! :)
 
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gymchica said:
Good job on the exercise! :)

I've heard at LEAST 1 gram of protein per kg of bodyweight so in your case that'd be about 73 grams per day. I've also heard 1 gram per pound of body weight, but I think kg/bw is a good place to start. I'm sure if you do a search you could get a lot more opinions though! :)
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thanx... guess i need to up my protein... i go with the gram per kg.that sounds familiar.

x
 
Day 20


DAY 20 - 18 dec 07

wow!! into the 20s now. That didn't take long!! hmm so today has been ok. i have not eaten more than my recommended calories. i dont think anyway. cant be doing with the counting. the only major calories i can think of are the small fish and chips and the chocolate (my last day at school and when your're teaching 40 kids guess how many boxes of choc u get for christmas. i have to share them all out before i eat them now!). not sure about the protein though. DIDN'T DO ANY EXCERCISE EITHER! im hoping to start properly on tursday doing some full body workout days and some cardios. im just going to give my body and mind a rest tomorrow. my weight is still stable so shouldn't be a problem. also my weigh in day on thursday and so far i ahve put on weight since last week. but im not going to worry about that as long as the scale says ive lost some since my start weight. i want to concentrate on excercise these holidays (ive got 3 weeks if im counting correctly starting on thursday so should get a lot of excercis ein alongside all the work i need to get done).
thats about it until tomorrow. hope i dont eat too much since im not excercising!!

;-)

x
 
Hi Angel

The rule for protein that we used in the challenge (there are links that give background infp there and I am sure that I told you which thread it was earlier in your diary) is half your weight (in pounds) in grams of protein. So if your ticker says 160 - you know that you want to eat 80g protein.

You ask how long it takes me to walk 6.3 miles. Maybe 2 hrs 15 mins. I dont really time it because I often stop and chat to people, do a bit of shopping while I am out, go to a class - things like that. I dont really care about how long it takes as I am not trying to improve the speed. I think that it takes about that if I dont get side-tracked - just I rarely dont get side-tracked. I know whick roads add up to 6.3 miles so if I add a little extra in my pedometer may say a bit more but I just count it as having done my 6.3 miles for the morning.

Ok - my spreadsheet columns. Dont laugh. I add extra ones depending on what I am looking at. Maybe food types or exercise types.

Day Date Weight Steps Day distance points Walking Chocolate Butter Fried Sauce Cheese Meal Sit ups High steps High kicks Dance block info classes toilet period

points are the WW points earned according to my pedometer.
walking is a description of which route for my long walk
meal is a quick desc of my main meal eg roast chicken & veg
block info is for when I walk blocks in the afternoon - I do some with wrist weights etc

Take care
Love
Margaret
 

Thanx margaret.

ryt i will setup that spreecsheet. i will need to adapt ofcourse but once i get it going ill let u know.

x
 
Adapt away. Make columns like cheese, chocolate etc things that you get tempted with or that you suspect may be causing havoc.

Alter the different exercise types to be the things that you do - maybe in your home gym.

I allow it to grow with new columns as and when I think of them.

You might get an interesting insight into how your weight acts in the way that it does on the daily weighings.
 

yes should be, if i stick to it everyday. lol!

im thinking of making conclusions weekly. is that a good idea. or monthly?? not sure.

x
 
You know how you say you weigh yourself 100 times a day. That is like me looking at the spreadsheet to gain insight and draw conclusions. I am always having a look to see if I can see any trends. I like to look and see what happens to your weight when you have had a meal and then what happens the next time you have the same thing.

If you wish to draw conclusions every week - then do so. That would be fine.
 
Day 21

thanx margaret.

DAY 21 - 19 dec 07

ok so today hasnt been so bad. had the family come over (extended). all the size 8 and below cousins. kinda discouraging and motivating at the same time. calories and protein have been good. hav had lots of meat hehe. no excercise though but i knew that would happen since had to cater for a million people today. hmmm anyway too tired now but thought id update before i went to bed. 3 week weigh in tomorrow. not bothered what it shows anymore. just want to start excercising!

;-)

x
 
Catering to all those people must have been a workout in itself! Sounds like your holidays are going nicely and your weight loss is on track, congrats!
 

THANX GYMCHICA and RADIANTPEBBLE!!

So far so good. It was hard work yesterday! Weightloss is on track even though the scales show 161 today I know that isn’t major just fluctuations and plus im still on track with my 1lb a week loss.

;-)

x
 
Week: 1
Start weight: 164
Goal weight: 163
Weight: 161.5
Total Loss:2.5

Week: 2
Start weight: 161.5
Goal weight: 160.5
Weight: 159
Total Loss:2.5

Week: 3
Start weight: 159
Goal weight: 158
Weight: 161
Total Loss:2 (GAIN)

Week: 4
Start weight: 161
Goal weight: 160
Weight: -
Total Loss:-

MONTH: 1
Start weight: 164
Goal weight: 160
Weight: -
Total loss: -

Average weight loss/week: 1
total weight loss: see ticker
 
Day 22


DAY 22 – 20 dec 07

1st official days of hols and it hasn't been bad at all. i woke up witha bad stomache and back ache but after a bit of excercise it just disappeared!! anyway done nearly an hour of cardio. sweated alot. i let my heart rate stay in the range of 110 and 170 throughout. average for hour was about 130 so not bad for an hour.

Exercise

10 mins bike
10 mins cross-trainer
15 mins treadmill
15 mins step aerobic
5 mins bike (cool down)
1 hour walking
Total – 1 hour 55 mins. woohooo!!
 
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