The Diary ;-)

Omega said:
My niece is studying to be a primary school teacher. She does a lot of placements in a several schools in the area. She is in the last year of her course.

Are you enjoying your course?
Have you been on any placements?
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THANX

where is she studying. this is sooo cool. i'm in my final aswell. got a 13 week placement dis year (1 school) but i've done 2 other placements during year 1 and 2. its amazing the course is. i love it. when i started i was unsure (was torn between engineering and this - don't ask). BUt now i absolutely love it!!!

x
 
I am pleased that you are enjoying your course. It shows that you made the right choice.

My niece is studying at a college in Twickenham.
Where are you studying?
 
Yeah i'm sure i made the right choice now.

I'm sudying at Derby University.

Is she enjoying it?

It is a really rewarding job plus you know where you stand with the kids (no hidden agendas. and oh sooo honest) lol!

x
 
It looks like you both made good decisions because she is really enjoying it too.

Off to bed now
night night
 
DAY 5 update


Phew!!! dat wos a long assignment! not quite finished yet but i'm not stayin up any more. so before i go to cloud 9 i thought i'd update THE DiARY!

DAY 5 - 3 dec 07 - update

rest of the day has not been bad apart from the assignment. Muscles not achin any mor. Is it the paracetamol affect??? i dunno. but they aynt hurtin which is a plus.

since last update i have bin having little bits of weetabix and when i felt abit better, just recently, had a cereal bar. I am STARVING now so will have a healthy snack before i sleep.

No excercise today ( i blame the assignment again)

other than that all good. Bring on DAY 6 (weeks nearly over) wow! didn't take long.

Anyways i'll be back tomorrow. Have a gud day/nyt.

;-)

x
 
I am pleased that you are feeling a bit better.

Next time you dont feel well - dont starve. Have something light - it really does help. Then eat a good healthy balanced diet spread out through the day.

You really dont want to starve yourself for the main of the day and then feel starving and eat at bedtime. That way of living doesnt actually encourage your body to lose weight. It doesnt know if there is a famine coming so it hangs on to the food as long as it can and wants to turn it into fat to see your through a bad time.

If you check my diary you will see that I have lots of little snacks that form a healthy balanced diet. I have a banana every day. It is light and something that you can have if you are not feeling well. As I said before I have weetabix every day too.

I hope that Tuesday works out well for you.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Day 6

Thanx margaret!!!

i'm feelin mega better today and i'm eatin healthily every now and then even though my appetite aynt like it used to be. lol!!! Today is good but i woke up late after my late night.

I was ready to give up this morning until i visited the forum and got all motivated again. THANX EVERYONE!!!!!!

DAY 6 - 4 dec 07

food
- 2 brown tast
-1 banana
- 1 cereal bar

excersice - 5 mins cross train, 5 mins bike, 15 mins treadmill, 15 mins waist workout, 15 mins weights + 100 stups (NOT BAD AT ALL)

So i hope the rest of the day goes brilliantly aswell. I feel like i've got soo much energy. once i started excercising i didn't want to stop. could it be that i'm starting to enjoy it??? hmmm maybe??? lol!!!

will update later tonight.

x
 
Often the hardest thing with exercise is getting started.

Once you start - you can feel good about yourself and think "I am being good today". That always makes you feel more motivated and generally better.

Do as I do. Put your pedometer on as you get dressed in the morning - and check it every now and again.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
DAY 6 update

I can't believe it is actually the end of the 6th day of my great journey. It is sooo nearly a week. I have never lasted so long on a healthy lifestyle!!! Hope i lose some weight.

Hmmm but seeing as what i ate today. can't b tooo sure lol!

Day 6 update - 4 dec 07

3 biscuits + 3 pieces of chocolate (about 300 cals altogether!!!) it was a christmas do at uni. I wos really good considering what i would have done usually.

dinner - rice and hicken curru (agen wot!!!!!)

green tea and myt have a banana soon.

I also walked a bit more 30 mins at an ok pace ( not too fast not tooo slow)

That is it until tomorrow. got to hand in the poster. will c what they think of my late night piece of work ;-)

x
 
Hello Pretty Angel :seeya:

I so glad to hear that you've made it almost for a week! I'm very proud of you! I think the wrost part is beginning, now you're on your way, keep focused and dont give up! You're getting there =D

Good luck! :Angel_anim:
 
thanx

yep the beginning is the worst!!!!!
i have begun so many times and given up so quickly. hope i keep it up this time. i nearly gave up today. sooo happy i didn't.

just taking a day at a time an hour at a time at the moment actually and hopefully i'll reach my goal 1 day.

x
 
a-n-g-e-l said:
thanx

yep the beginning is the worst!!!!!
i have begun so many times and given up so quickly. hope i keep it up this time. i nearly gave up today. sooo happy i didn't.

just taking a day at a time an hour at a time at the moment actually and hopefully i'll reach my goal 1 day.

x
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Yup, that's the only way it will work. And when you feel like giving up, think about the next day, how marvelous would you feel when you wake up and realize you did it one more day!

How old are you?
 
last post of the day....i promise...need sleep.

me i'm 20 same as you i think.

that is what i keep thinking. i've done it for another hour. another 2 and before you know it it's a day and hopefully oon i'll wake up and think it's been months and i've done it woohooo!!! can't wait!

nyt

x
 
a-n-g-e-l said:
last post of the day....i promise...need sleep.

me i'm 20 same as you i think.

that is what i keep thinking. i've done it for another hour. another 2 and before you know it it's a day and hopefully oon i'll wake up and think it's been months and i've done it woohooo!!! can't wait!

nyt

x
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Yeah, same age and same hour, I'm at Lisbon hehe.
Sleep well! **
 
Congrats on pretty much making it through your first week!! The beginning really is the hardest. Once you really start noticing results, that's when it is much easier to stay motivated (in my opinion at least!). But seriously, just one day at a time. The days add up a lot quicker than you might realize :)
 

Lol i agree withyou. The amounts of times i've quit in the beginning. jus hope i have enough self control to get through this time!!! i see changes already and i'm only 3 lds down. i feel different aswell!!

big weigh in day tomorrow. 1 week!!! wish me luck!!!

DAY 7 -5th dec 07

so far not so bad apart from the white bread roll with salad and cheese (lunch at uni. the healthiest thing i could find!!!!)

also had
1 banana
2 cereal bars
1 brown toast

Have walked at brisk pace for about 30 minutes

gonna do some cardio soon. will update later.

x
 
Hi Angel

I am pleased that you are keeping your focus and keeping doing the exercise. We all have moments where we get tempted with food that doesnt exactly help the project. The big thing is to be as good as you can and forgive yourself if you slip up.

I allowed so many diets to fail by stopping trying to diet after one slip up.

Dont be as stupid as I have been like that.

Take care
Love
Margaret

ps - I hope that they liked your late night poster.
 
DAY 7 update


Hi everyone,

DAY 7 - 5th dec 07 (update)

thanx margaret-they seemed to like the poster. will c wot grade i get for it though.

its bin rubbish the rest of the day. again i feel bloated and horrible. i've been eating a lot aswell the rest of the day. not even going to bother listing but i have tried o keep it healthy. That white bread has left me feeling horrible!! plus i didn't get any cardio excercise in today because of visiting family. just got back now at midnight.

AND i had a 1000 word essay to write tonight which i'm not sure i'll be able to do now so i'll have to fit it in sometime tomorrow on top of my 1500 word essay!!!


AAAAARgh!! and it's my first weigh in day tomorrow. I hope it's still shows atleast a 3lb loss!

I can't believe how much i moan. On a posotive note atleast i walked for about half an hour and my pedometer reading is up(more than normal).
just hope tomorrows weigh in is ok.

;-)

x
 
Hi Angel

Walking is excellent exercise.

It was not a zero exercise day if you did extra walking.

I have lost a considerable amount of weight using walking as my only or main form of exercise. It is excellent at burning fat.

We all have days when we are less controlled with our food - but we should never feel bad about it. We should just try to eat as healthily as we can.

Do not consider the project as a failure if you do not lose 3 pounds. That is actually a lot of weight to expect to lose in a week. They say that a good healthy rate of weight loss is between one and a half and two pounds in a week. If you look back over the October and November 2 pound a week challenge threads you will see that although I lost weight at a pretty good rate (and I consistently worked very hard to do so) there were weeks when I did not lose 2 pounds.

I know for a fact (because I worked it out at the end of the month) that I walked an average of 10.75 miles every day of November. At the end of that 30 day month I lost 9.4 pounds in total which is just over 2 pounds a week.

I would like to see you losing 3 pounds across the week and it is possible, but you should manage your expectations so that you are rightly pleased with any loss that is achieved and consistently held off.

Good luck at the scales.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
week 1


you are right margaret. i did walk for 30 mins more than nrmal even if it wasn't vigorous atleast i did it. my problem is i'm abit of a perfectionist and start taking things to the extreme. when i started i set myself a goal of losing 1lb a month and that way i would reach my goal by my birthday. Which would be amazing. So i'm going to stick to that.

Today the scale read : 161.5. Which makes my weight loss for the week: 2.5 which is 1.5 more than i hoped for. in a way i am well into my 2nd and 3rd week which is not bad especially considering my eating and excercise habits for the last 2 days.

Hope today goes better even though i've got to write 2500 words from somewhere. Hmmm should b interesting. most likely means i won't get any excercise in today.

;-)

x
 
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