The game: Day1!

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little_star

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As I mentioned in my first post I am going to consider everyday as the first day of my new life (please, don't judge me :p I know it sounds funny!) and hopefully this will motivate me to always try my best more and more each and every day and get things done.

So, about the "diet project" I have decided this time to write down a list (ohhh, I love lists) with the rules of the game. Yep! You heard it correctly. I will face my diet as a game, a challenge against myself. I love games and challenges so I hope putting things in these terms will motivate me. I think that's the key here: find what motivates you the most and go for it.

-> I am 165 cm tall and 66.2 Kg

Here are the rules of the game:

+ My aim is to lose 1kg (which should be about half a pound) in 2 weeks and my first goal will be 60 kg. So, if everything will go smooth it will take about 3 months. It doesn't sound bad. If I will not be still satisfied I will continue. My dream would be seeing again the 55kg on the scale, which is 11 kg from now. I am not sure if it will be too much. The thing is that at the moment I like myself and I don't feel I want to loose so much weight. Plus I am afraid that aiming from the first beginning too high will not take me anywhere. But we will see :)

+ I will have 3 meals per day (one mistake people, including me, often do is not eating enough times per day). So breakfast, lunch and dinner.

+ Between the main meals I am allowed to take some fruits when I am hungry.

+ As "yummy-daily-bases" food I will have orange juice. An other reason why I always failed my attempts of diet was that I deprived myself of any kind of delicacy. Now, if any of us in the middle of the diet checks all the cabinets of the house for something delicious that "I will have only one and only this time" please raise your hand. Yeah, that's me. Also, if I don't find anything I ask my boyfriend who will come home the next day with a box of cookies, ice cream and so on as little sweet surprise, which is so nice from him... but SO BAD for my diet. (I think I don't need to say I would eat all the box of cookies in one or 2 days... yep, that's why I don't keep temptation home).
I have learned that treating myself with a half a glass of orange juice when craving something delicious works greatly with me. After all I love orange juice, but as regular beverage I use water and really rarely buy juice (it's only me the one who drinks it in the house), so having a bottle in the fridge will do only good.

+ An other rule will be that I will allow myself a "candy day". How hard is to keep yourself away from delicacy when you are in company out or when you are really (and I mean REALLY) craving for something delicious? Usually giving in for one temptation means "Ok, now I crewed the diet... I can have whatever I want and will start again tomorrow" and actually tomorrow turns out to be next Monday and in the meanwhile you eat as a little pig? :p Ahaha, that's so me! Well, because I started to know myself well enough I will allow "one candy day" per week maximum, so I will not screw all the results I gained. This One-candy-day rule works only when I really really want something and for something small. Just to give me a treat now and then. Even better if I will survive one week without the candy-day. :D

+ Water. 2 liters per day. I will have a bottle on my desk that needs to be empty at the end of the day.

+ About the exercise, I will walk the dog everyday for about 5 km (about 3 miles) when possible. When she was a puppy we went for a walk every 2 hours (to house train her), we didn't go far, but if my weight didn't maybe change much, I felt better and the body shape was nicely changing. So, walking much HELPS (and the dog will thank me :D)

+ In June I joined a summer course of Zumba (yeahhh for summer discounts). I am going there 4 or 5 times a week for 1 hour each time. When I feel in the mood I also stay longer to do exercises with weights. I don't like it very much, but I guess it is useful. When I do only Zumba and the weather is good I even go to gym by bike (which is 7 km on one way). This course will end at the end of August, so I still have one month to go, after that I will start school and work and I am not sure where to find the time to join some courses. Well, I guess we will see :)


These are my personal rules. I figured them out from my personal experience, so it may be I change them as I go if something else works better. :D

Hope to gave a nice journal with you guys!
 
If you're exercising that much, I can assure you, you should lose more than half a pound in 2 weeks. You're probably looking at a 3-4 pound loss!

Good luck with your journey :D
 
I knew I was going to make confusion with the conversion... arghhh! XD
My goal is to lose half a kilo per week (so it was 1 pound!), if it goes faster the better :p
I don't want to push myself too much, because if I don't get what I planned I get demotivated and give up. That's me. With an easier plan (and goals) I more luckily succeed! :)

Thank you very much!
 
Day 1 - 22.7

So, today I had some pasta with chicken and some salad cheese and an apple for dinner.
As exercise I went to Zumba for one hour and walked with the dog for only like 2 kms.
I drunk almost 2 l of water (I still have few hours to go)
Oh and in the morning I weighted 66.1 :)

I am sure tomorrow I can do still better.

We are going to a picnic tomorrow, I am so excited. We never went to picnic since I moved and I am so excited. We are firstly going to the park to eat. I am planning to make sandwiches with tuna, salad, tomato, salad cheese and brown bread for me. I probably will use also some ham. After that, if the weather holds we will go to swim in the lake. Niceeee!
 
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Day 1 - 23.7

Today we went for the pic nik, we (me, the boyfriend and the dog) had to bike about 14 km. I had lots of water (I didn't count exactly) and 2 sandwiches with tuna, cucumber and salad cheese. We had lots of fun! The weather was so hot I decided to put on a nice light and white dress. See, I am not the dress kind of girl, but some time ago I liked it and bought it and I am so happy I did. :D It's a really pretty dress and I feel pretty in it also.
Oh, I also had an icecream. My candy day I suppose :) Now I have to survive at least until next Friday without sweets. I will surely make it!

For dinner I will have fish fingers and vegetables.

Oh, and in the morning I was exactly 66.0. Very happy about that :) I guess I reached my first goal! Looking for next week to come and the other half a kilo to go, yeahhh! I feel so much full of energy!
 
Day 1 - 29.7
Sooo, I have been visiting the gym everyday this week. I did Zumba 3 times and weights 2 times. Ohhh, how I hate doing weights. Actually I had in program to do them only once, but it happened that the instructor changed the schedule and I missed the notification. So I went there for Zumba and in stead we did weights. Well, no big deal after all.
I am also walking a lot with the dog. Yesterday we had 3h walk. And I am also using the bike much more.
Yesterday I went to town by bike and I am so proud. To get there and back there are few nasty hills which at the beginning of summer just killed me, I went very slow and had to stop at some point. Now I feel stronger and could go all the way without breaks.

About the food, yesterday I ate potatoes and I am not sure if I should eliminate carbohydrates for some time. I loose weight much faster when I don't eat potatoes, pasta, breads and so on. Maybe I will try that for one week and see how it goes.
Oh, also... yesterday my boyfriend wanted to eat pizza and I said "no". I am pretty proud of myself, maybe that's why I let him cook potatoes (and fish for me) at the end. Better than pizza anyway and anyway I only had tuna salad for lunch.

One question I have had for aged: Does your period affect somehow the weights? I remember someone telling me when you have your period you should weight a bit more. Is it true?

Today I am 65.7 (should be 144lbs) Nice! :) 2 more days to lose 299g.
 
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little_star said:
+ An other rule will be that I will allow myself a "candy day". How hard is to keep yourself away from delicacy when you are in company out or when you are really (and I mean REALLY) craving for something delicious? Usually giving in for one temptation means "Ok, now I crewed the diet... I can have whatever I want and will start again tomorrow" and actually tomorrow turns out to be next Monday
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I know exactly what you mean! This has just happened to me, I think its a slippery slope, starts with one treat then just escalates! I've decided to do the same with the treat days (yes days I'm having 2! :S but hopefully it will stop me over indulging when I do have a treat)

Plus I know what you mean about your boyfriend bringing you treats, its just so hard to say no to a lovely guy offering you food :)

Good luck!
 
Day 1 - 30.7

Wow, yesterday has been tough! I went to zumba by bike, plus I walked 2 hours with the dog (and I also organized the bedroom closet). Yes, so I can say it has been a really productive Friday. Usually on Fridays I feel like "yeahhh, in the weekend I don't have to do anything, can have my candy and lay on the sofa all day long". But this Friday was different, I felt different. I have been active so much every single day of the week that I don't feel laying around at all. I guess the more you exercise the better you feel. Cool!!!! Hope it lasts!

The program of the day is cleaning the laundry and study room and... well, I feel I want to go to run. I have never really ran before and I know it's very tough, but I want to give it a try for at least 20 minutes.I think I need to catch the opportunity when I am in the mood. We have an appointment with a friend at the dog park, but in the evening I think it would be cool go running :D Yeahhh! I feel so full of energy and I think I know the reason. Today the scale said 65.4 (144.1 lbs), I am so excited!!!

This week I made my goal!!! I am really making it!!!
 
Day 1 - 31.7

Yesterday was a crazy day!!! First of all we met a friend of mine at the dog park, we biked about 15 km to get there and back. It was fun. Then in the evening there were some kind of event in town (it doesn't happen very often around here, the excitement of living in a small town :p) and we decided to attend. My boyfriend invited few friends for a beer and I had a couple of drinks too. I am not a big alcohol fan, I like to drink in company, but I get drunk very easily and hate the feeling next morning. Well, to keep it short I had 2 big beers and 1 strawberry cocktail (no sure what it was). In town they even had those stands where different restaurants had "tasting bites" of their best dishes and... I guess we had to try. We picked the Indian restaurant and I had some spicy chicken and rice with half nan (the boyfriend and I shared one). It was very tasty and delicious and the portion was not too big. Maybe I should learn to cook Indian and not just put random spices when I cook :p
Well, at the end of the evening I was pretty tired and drunk (I told you I get drunk easily) so we went back home. I think the only "healthy" choice in this evening out was going to town and back by bikes (14 km). I'll be honest with you. On the way home I craved some pizza. I felt all the alcohol in me and I started to feel sick. I felt eating some basic pizza (just with tomato sauce and cheese) would help to feel better. Anyway we didn't find any pizzeria on the way home and I was too tired to cook anything. So I went to sleep.
This morning I woke up at 7 and I felt I wanted to puke! It was terrible. I am not used feeling sick for too much alcohol (come on, it was not that much after all anyway), usually I have pretty strong stomach. At the end I didn't puke and slept few more hours and now I feel much much better.
I was a bit afraid of jumping on the scale and check my weight, I have no idea what kind of effect have alcohol on my body at all. I know it has lots of Kcal and that is not good for the diet... uhmm. But the scale had a good news for me: 64.7!!!! WOW! I didn't see that coming at all. I almost hit next week goal, cool!!! I'm excited!!!
And it was so long I didn't see a 64.something on the scale!
:p Ok, after all it may be I deserve a pizza at some point soon, hihi.
 
I feel so guilty. The last 2 days I skipped gym and I have been eating at the Hesburger and also pizza. I have gained 1 kilo (so I am back at 65.something). Damn, if I am upset.
But today is day 1, start from scratch!!
I will try also to count Kcal where I can. Today I have had 1 Weetabix with some milk and tea. Usually I don't eat breakfast and hoperfully this will help me control the hunger.
Also my sister is coming visiting later in the day and I hope even with her around I will manage to not overeat!
Motivation!!! I need motivation!! I really think I need to give a look at all those nice pics in pinterest!

Goodmorning to you all!
 
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