The only gaining I want to do is self-confidence!

Waltzing

Waltzing

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Hello everyone! I thought i'd try my hand at keeping a diary here, as my hand writing is appaling ;)
Anyway. Officialy it's been a week since I started my diet and in that first week i've lost 3kg!
But I guess I should start with the motivation. I want a career in the arts, and being slim unfortunetly is something that helps with this. But not only that but a more recent motivation. I met a guy (oh so cliche) and for all the world he seemed perfect and we just clicked! BUT nothing happened. Bring on the depression demons! and so I stood and looked at myself in the mirror. Not from far away, but close up so I could see every bit of me and said "right, Anna old girl what don't you like about yourself?" MY WEIGHT my brain screamed, and aside from the occasional pimple I could think of nothing else. I know a guy is meant to like you for who YOU are, and he did I could tell, on the inside, but not nessicarily on the outside. I don't want to change ME to suit him, after all I define ME as my personality...there's just a bit more to my body than I would like. (and possibly he like). I realize that at the end of this that i'll have moved on and he'll have moved on but it's given me that shove. (And someone to picture while I slog it out at the gym ;) )

SO
Day 2 of week two!
As usual I couldn't stomach much in the morning, but I did force myself to have a slice of pumpinickle bread= 110 calories

Lunch time I had fish ball noodle soup with LOTS of vegies which is hard to estimate but lets just say= 300 calories

snacks were a pear=104
small peice of cheese two water crackers estime=100
Watermelon smoothie= 200

dinner was a small serve of tomato based rabbit cassorole with caulliflower and carrots= 300? 400?

which gives me about 1214 calories for the whole day.
I also spent an hour at the gym burning 400 calories. And today I REALLY enjoyed it! the time flew! I attend the gym 5 times a week.

Another thing to note is i'm 5,4 and now weigh 92kg :)
Any tips/hints would be MORE than welcome! and i'd love to hear if you think i'm doing it "right" haha
 
Day 3 of week 2
okay, so today was better than average, egg and one slice of unbuttered grainy toast for breakfast two peices of avocado sushi for lunch no snacks and then BAM going out for dinner...I had a small serve of chicken cashew with steamed rice and a serve of bubble tea. Could have been worse yeah, but still not great :/
dang though it tasted a heap better than the bean shoot salad they offered!
BUT the gym is still good! I didn't go for as long today, only 45minutes but I went at it hard and felt refreshingly worn out afterwards :)
 
Welcome!!!
I really like that you go to the gym 5 times a week and you like it as well!
Do you know how many calories you should be having?
Also guessing the calories can really NOT work.I was guessing as well and i was shocked when i found out the real numbers!
I think its great you decided to start a journal and loose weight.
How many kg do you want to loose?
 
Waltzing said:
Hello everyone! I thought i'd try my hand at keeping a diary here, as my hand writing is appaling ;)
Anyway. Officialy it's been a week since I started my diet and in that first week i've lost 3kg!
But I guess I should start with the motivation. I want a career in the arts, and being slim unfortunetly is something that helps with this. But not only that but a more recent motivation. I met a guy (oh so cliche) and for all the world he seemed perfect and we just clicked! BUT nothing happened. Bring on the depression demons! and so I stood and looked at myself in the mirror. Not from far away, but close up so I could see every bit of me and said "right, Anna old girl what don't you like about yourself?" MY WEIGHT my brain screamed, and aside from the occasional pimple I could think of nothing else. I know a guy is meant to like you for who YOU are, and he did I could tell, on the inside, but not nessicarily on the outside. I don't want to change ME to suit him, after all I define ME as my personality...there's just a bit more to my body than I would like. (and possibly he like). I realize that at the end of this that i'll have moved on and he'll have moved on but it's given me that shove. (And someone to picture while I slog it out at the gym ;) )

SO
Day 2 of week two!
As usual I couldn't stomach much in the morning, but I did force myself to have a slice of pumpinickle bread= 110 calories

Lunch time I had fish ball noodle soup with LOTS of vegies which is hard to estimate but lets just say= 300 calories

snacks were a pear=104
small peice of cheese two water crackers estime=100
Watermelon smoothie= 200

dinner was a small serve of tomato based rabbit cassorole with caulliflower and carrots= 300? 400?

which gives me about 1214 calories for the whole day.
I also spent an hour at the gym burning 400 calories. And today I REALLY enjoyed it! the time flew! I attend the gym 5 times a week.

Another thing to note is i'm 5,4 and now weigh 92kg :)
Any tips/hints would be MORE than welcome! and i'd love to hear if you think i'm doing it "right" haha
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Hey chick!! LOOOOOVED reading your diary:) It was very fun to read,i loved your story about the guy though, i could totally relate:) i know i've had guys in the past that i clicked with but you could tell they wouldnt go there over my physical appearance!!

Loosing 3kg in a week is awesome, well done hun and keep it up. Fair play for going to the gym, im too self conscious to go at the moment. I can already tell your confindence is increasing:)

You never mentioned your goal weight and your age, may i ask?:)
 
Thankyou everyone!
And Jasper, yes I can see how it cannot work if you under estimate it could be disastrous! Unfortunately I’m only 17 and my mother normally cooks dinner so it's hard to get an exact number. However I’m thinking of cooking my own meals more often as I hope to move out at the end of next year so I need to get some practice, which also means I can calorie count!
as to how many calories I should be having, i've been told by various sources 1200 is a good amount? how ever if you happen to know something differn't i'd be glad to hear it! :)

Irish princess, I’m really glad you enjoyed reading it! and I’m really lucky, I have a local gym that for the most part only older people attend who are all LOVELY and very non-judgemental however when occasionally young people to go they are so caught up in what they’re doing to even give me a moment notice! I think you just have to find a gym with a nice atmosphere you feel comfortable in. I did a week free trial in nearly every gym in town until I settled on the right one :)
And of course you may ask! As I fore mentioned I am 17, and my goal weight is 69kg however if I reach that and I’m still not satisfied my all-time goal is 65kg :)

Day 5 of week 2
So, dream guy kind of moved on quicker than I anticipated, BUT I figure at the end of all this it'll be his loss ;)
Breakfast was a late one, so I had pumpernickel with tomato and ham on top which I shared with my dog. Who can resist puppy eyes after all?
Lunch consisted of half a punnet of strawberry's my goodness they are gloriously cheap at the moment! And a small serve of Greek salad, I fed to the feta again to my eagerly awaiting dog. (He’s the one going to get fat the rate things are going! haha)
Dinner was an early one as I had a rehearsal for a play to attend, so I bolted down a ham cheese and tomato toastie not the healthiest of things but it was the only thing I could afford at the time. Snacks included a carrot, small unsweetened coffee and a tin of tuna.
I also went to the gym for an hour again today; I discovered I could peddle in time with the beat of some of "the Beatles" songs which was endlessly amusing.
 
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Okay! so i've been busy studying for exams, which although i've been keeping up with my dieting my exercise has been falling by the way side. And i'm having with-drawls! All weekend I was hopping around denying myself the gym as I sat on the couch miserably memorizing the titles of all Gustav Klimt's paintings. BUT that has passed now, the exam is over and I only have one more to go but that isn't until the end of the week, so in the mean time i'm back on track!
Day 2 week 3
Ah! isn't it just lovely when inspiration/motivation strikes? I was chatting with a friend the other day and she suggested a site called "lookbook". Which, I looked up and boy oh boy! thousands apon thousands of peoples outfits they'd created greeted my greedy eyes. I love fashion, and I wear stuff I make/find in charity stores. But i've never been able to create that glamor slim people have when they don a simple t-shirt and jeans. So looking through these it's inspired me even more to get fit and loose the weight. Any way food wise things were good today. I ate a carrot in the morning, as my stomach was churning at the thought of the exam let alone anything more substantial! Lunch time I went out for a "Yay the exams over lunch" with a couple of mates I shared egg noodles with a friend of mine and had a coke zero. I then went and slogged it out at the gym for an hour, and discovered FINALLY how to make the seats lower on the bikes. No more wedgies hooray!
on the way home, the sky was grey the ground was grey and everything else in between was so I brought straw berries and melon to brighten things up a little, which I am eating now. Dinner is yet to be had but i'll keep you all updated!
 
Day 2 week 3
Today was a day of mixed emotions. My grandmother fell ill and had to go to hospital so I skipped breakfast to go and visit her before class. Thankfully all was well, and I was in good spirits as I grabbed up some low fat yogurt with fresh passion fruit and muesli for breakkie on the way to school. For lunch I had two pieces of avocado sushi with one "fish" of soy sauce. My goodness I can never get sick of sushi! Snacks were a small berry smoothie, a small serve of soup with grainy un buttered toast and about five lychee's. I ate the lychee's while watching harry potter in the cinema...which was a very sticky experience in the dark haha. Dinner consisted of a small slow cooked serve of lamb, boiled cabbage and a piece of un buttered bread. anndd a banana, at some point in the day. The gym was a bit more of a struggle today, I just wasn't feeling very motivated and I was tired after stressing about my grandmother last night. But! tomorrow is a new day, hopefully one filled with exercising and not much eating ;)
 
OMG! I'm 17 too! I'm on a weight loss journey to! Goal to be 57kg currently 88kg and 5ft4.
Unfortunately I can't go to the gym I have no money so I use youtube videos and exercise DVDs to exercise :)
I discoverd Lookbook a while back, and when you mentioned the t-shirt and jeans combo i screamed inside. When I wear that I look fat and uncool. But they look effortlessly chic. Then I'm like, MOTIVATION! I WILL LOSE THE WEIGHT AND BE FASHIONABLE AND CHIC. Cuz lets face it, clothes look better and slimmer people. (My opinion)
I also want to lose weight to so clothes can look better on me
Also about the guy! Happens to me all the time, personality not body :mad: But one day, ONE DAY, Traffic will stop when I walk on the street. And I'd look back and think all the guys that wanted just to be friends and think you missed out on this hot piece of ass! And so you too would think that. Your right HIS LOSS!


I love charity shops, (none of my friends do) they have the best vintage pieces and its SUPER cheap!
just to add I hate being the fat friend
 
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