The Spoon, Puck and Me

Bronski

Bronski

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Firstly, eh? Spoon? Puck?

Check my blog (website) it explains Woody the Celebrity Spoon.

Puck is my guinea-pig, who I've decided is equally overweight. He's recovering from a serious illness and has put back his lost weight... plus extra! He constantly witters for chocolate drops, so I'm weaning him off them whilst I try to shed a few kilos.

I joined yesterday, and suddenly weight loss doesn't feel like it's going to be such a drag.

My weight is to be confirmed. I was going to get weighed especially this morning, but forgot. So I'm saving myself 'til friday for the FSN [Oops, that's FSD; Friday Scales Day. No pun intended with the fish marker. Scales... Fish with... scales... just me then...] Ticker will also be added.

Well, today so far has been great! I got off this website at 10:30 am and went swimming! I did 60 lengths followed by a blast in the steam room.

Foodwise, I've had:

Breakfast: Special K (cereal)
Lunch: Apple, slice of cheese, tuna and sweetcorn sandwich (laced with pepper) and an Innocent Smoothie.

Tea will be a bowl of Crunchy Nut (cereal).

And now the vices of a dieter... This morning I had a bite of Easter egg before breakfast. I shouldn't have, but I need to get rid of it by the end of the month. Next time, I'll cut out the cheese. The sandwich was a bit overloaded as well, so I'm going to try and put in less next time.

I'm going to do my best to not snack anymore today, except for fruit. If that breaks, I'll come back and confess. Maybe I aught to get some dieting rosery beads...

Bronsk
 
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I'm really trying to work on using fruit as a snack too--boy that's hard for me.
 
Everyone generally likes fruit, it's just not always the first thing that comes to mind when we want to munch. I have the same problem and am also working on it! You sound like you have a great positive attitude! I love that! You came to the right place...everyone here is great and supportive. So we got your back and are in your cheering section now!
 
don't worry about what you didn't do... it will make you crazy... and don't beat yourself up about slip ups.. Though my mother would disagree because it's her favorite thing, guilt isn't good... :) So ya had an easter egg... tomorrow don't do that... :)

Welcome to your diary... and we're ready to cheer ya on.. .:)
 
Yay, thanks everyone! Maleficent, you're going to tell me not to feel guilty again, but I had another bite before I went to Brownies. Thing is, it's *there* and it's needs to not be there by July. I was very naughty with the guinea-pig and let him have a chocolate drop. There was no choice in the matter; he saw me eating my Easter Egg!

I've just had my cereal, and if I do feel peckish, I'll grab a Jazz apple.

Cannon and Spelin, it was pretty hard to just pick up fruit instead of, say, a chicken tikka sandwich, or a spoon and that very tempting pot of vanilla custard! Now I tend to go to the fridge, look inside and think "No Bron, have fruit instead." I guess the other advantage is that I love apples! And I always make sure I have plenty of them, especially Pink Ladies! Mmm!

Had a fab night tonight with the Brownies (not only do I work for Social Services, I do voluntary work!) And am feeling pretty good at the moment. Today's been a bit stressful, but I'm sure my family and I will get through.

This is going to sound really bizarre, but I'm really looking forward to weighing myself, and knowing where I need to go with my weightloss. Having said that, when Friday comes around, it's all going to be tears :p I'm also looking forward to doing something tomorrow. I want to go swimming again, but I keep thinking about my mum, and regular swimming spooks me a bit. I'm going to go again on friday, but I'm going to find something to do tomorrow. Well, I can think of one thing; wrestle the cat into its petbox so he can go to the vet!

I may buy a skipping rope...

Sorry, I've got such a mad grasshopper mind! Thank you all for your support, I'm so glad I joined up here. I've been looking for something like this for ages, and this is more than I could ever have wanted. Thank you all!

Bronsk
 
so how much of that egg do you have left? :D

the sooner it's left the building - the better off you'll be :)

guilt doesnt burn nearly enough calories, if if did, i'd be Twiggy... so it's really kinda useless to feel guilty... :)

I honestly don't think there's anything wrong with having some chocolate a day... There's a book that came out sometime in the not so distant past, French Women don't get fat.. and the book encouraged guilt free eating... the main focus of the book was eating, not necessarily just to live... but making eating a pleasure.. where you aren't doing 20 other things... where you can relax... it's an interesting read...
 
Yea I can imagine how that book would be true. We've got a house in Belgium, and the people there aren't overweight, despite the constant flow of their marvellous, marvellous chocolate!

That Easter Egg came back to haunt me... I was writing my diary in my room, and I felt peckish. Proper peckish, not I-fancy-something-for-the-hell-of it! And this sounds so terrible, but I was upstairs, Jazz Apples were downstairs... so I have another bit of that *!@#~BLAH!!?!ing Easter Egg! I hate it so much, but then it's so smooth and comforting and lovely and CADBURYS!! You cannot ever in a million years beat Cadburys! It needs to go. I'm not touching it today, though the left over Creme Egg I may have with my lunch...

Actually, you know what? No! No chocolate today. No snacks, no chocolate, no $%#~BLAH!!?!?£ing Easter Egg!! I'll have to finish it over the weekend though. Otherwise it will spend the next haunting me.

So far so good though, had my Special K! It's the Red Berry variety, which I do NOT recommend to anyone here. The dried berries are overly, overly sweet and just disgusting. I pick out the fruit bits and just have the flakes.

Right, it's 11:30 AM, I'm going to continue a few more rounds then go to buy myself a skippink rope!

Bronsk

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I got my skippink rope! It's blue :p ! One of those proper training, thin plastic ones (used to have them at judo trainings.) The kind that hurt like hell if you get your leg tangled! Before I went in the house, I stood on the lawn, in my socks, and did 100 jumps (not all at once, and with some extra practise ones. I didn't count them if it was less than 5 jumps in a row.) May not seem like much, but for the first time in 2/3 years I don't think I did too bad. I broke a sweat, so I've done something! Maybe I'm just extremely unfit... Really wish I had a great big hall to skip in. I like the steady clipping sound. You don't get the same effect on grass.

Will do some more later. Can't wait to go swimming again tomorrow!

Bronsk (again; I don't like to double post!)
 
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Hey Bronsk, I finally found your diary. :D Things sound like they are going really well. And skipping is very difficult, aerobic exercise - ultra-fit boxers do it - so no wonder you worked up a sweat ;) .

Also, I think it is a good idea to have a small bit of cheese with your apple, I do that quite often, because it slows down the sugars entering your blood stream so that you don't feel hungry really soon after eating it.

If, like Maleficent said, you can enjoy the odd bit of that easter egg from time to time then that is really great, however, if it is becoming the bane of your life (the explitives suggest this :D ), just throw it out. I know it seems a shame, and a waste, but atleast you can't eat it then.

PS - are you by any chance from the UK or somewhere in Europe. Feel perfectly free to tell me to :p if you want to, but I was just wondering, because some of the things you say suggest you might be;) I'm just nosey, really :D
 
yeah I know it's hard to start new habits, the first few days after I decided I needed to get healty and loose some weight I wasn't that motivated but the last two days of hitting some of my little goals I feeel Great.

Congrats on the skipping rope, don't worry about the egg, pretty soon you'll have so many positive changes soo many little goals met you'll be flying high!!!
 
Hello again Mrs Bear! Once again I feel like I'm following you all over the place!

Do love the skipping! Did another 100 once boyfriend left. Not all at once, and again I didn't count the amount if it was less than 5 in a row. It was a lot easier in judo trousers than baggy jeans, but I'm getting there again. I did 30 in a row! Yay!

Mm, I do like cheese and apple! Proper cheese though, the Chedder slice I had yesterday was pretty gross. I didn't even grace it by finishing it.

The Easter Egg isn't quite the bane of my life, especially since there's only a bit left, about a 10th and a Creme Egg. Well, it's not the bane of my life yet anyway. I think if I half it and have one piece Saturday, one piece Sunday, then have the creme egg with lunch monday, it'll be evenly placed and not masses of it in one sitting. Then it'll be all gone for good!

Don't feel rude for asking my whereabouts! :) When I first started, my original location was "in a magical place of dreams and a misunderstood reality. Though in reality I live in what was last year voted the worst town in Britain. No, really." So yep, I'm British! Though I could be an American with very expensive taste :p

Just as a point, last year we were voted worst town in Britain, but where did Bon Jovi finish their European tour? :D We dropped to 19th this year! And... I don't actually live in the main town, I live in one of the *nice* surrounding villages :p It's not a bad place though, I like it here.

I noticed you were a fellow brit, what-what! Always nice to meet and greet with those who wear the old Union Jack and drink tea :D

Well, today I swore off chocolate and snacks and I... didn't do terribly! Brother caught me off guard and gave me some chicken tikka. Not much, but I feel peckish now. So that's been my only vice so far.

Lunch: apple, frozen Angel Delight :p and that tuna and sweetcorn filler sandwich again, though less filled.

Tea will be cereal, though I may add an apple with that. Apples are guuuuuuud!

By the way, Mrs B, I've been inspired by the cycling challenge, and I'm considering doing a similar swimming one. Was going to swim one of the P&O routes, but that would have been 19,311 lengths. May look into doing the channel instead...

And once dad and brother have left the house, I won't feel self conscious about going out and doing another 100 skips!

Have a fab evening, all!

Bronsk

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Hate to add to this already monsterous post, but have just done those 100 skips. Now I'm back into the swing of it, I'm able to do it easier, which is always good. Will have to up the amount I do per circuit.

Have looked into the swimming challange. From Dover to France, it would be 1931 lengths, which is slightly more realistic than 19,311. If I'd done from Hull to Zeebrugger (Belgium) at an average of 180 lengths a week, it would have taken nearly two years to complete. The channel should take 10 weeks. Hopefully less if I work at it before I go to Cypress.
 
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That is great about the swimming challenge! Both cycles I have done so far this week were only actually carried out because of my ticker (I have to average 36 point something miles per week). And the three I have planned for the weekend are going to happen for the same reason. It is too easy otherwise to say, I'm tired from work, or I'll go tomorrow :rolleyes: . I'm terrible for excuses :D

I must say, I really like your way of eating. You eat proper food, and a decent amount in the middle of the day (when you need it). And that cereal is great for you! I often have porridge for two meals in a day aswell (I have to have porridge as cold cereal is just too easy for me to pour another bowl of:rolleyes: )

PS - I know where you live now !! :p I'm afraid I actually Googled it, and got the answer right away. I won't mention the town, but I know Luton knocked you guys off the top (or bottom) slot. ;)

Edit: You beat me too it!! You edited your post while I was typing ... no fair :p :D

That sounds like a good plan, no point in setting something unrealistic, that is just going to defeat you. I worked out the average of mine, and I can do that with two 1hr10min rides totalling 28 miles (one on Sun, one on my other day off in the week), and that would leave me just over 8 miles to do on one of my working days. I thought that was quite realistic.
 
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Hahaha! Googling my town! Like I said, we're not that bad. For all that people say there are unexploded bombs under our feet, it's a nice place! We get less crime than most other towns. When my boyfriend chose South Hampton as his first choice Uni, I researched and told him he should stay here because our crime rate's less! It didn't work, and neither did his exam results; he's still here! That's what you get for not revising laddo!

Heehee, my way of eating is just the Kelloggs diet at the moment :p I'm the same with certain cereals. There's this imported stuff from Switzerland, which is just to die for! Literally, chocolate coated in chocolate! I could eat that until the Sun was swallowed up by a giant black hole and all life on Earth ceased to exist.

But there's something about Kelloggs... not quite as addictive. Especially not that Special K gack.

Mm, I'll bet porriage is great in a morning! I used to love microwaved Weetabix in winter :p With far too much sugar though!

It's not just the ticker thing that works. Just being here and saying "I'm going to do X" makes me want to do it more, so I can come back and say I've completed the task I set myself. It's all very well writing to my own personal diary that I'm going to swim the English Channel where no one's going to read/hear it, but if I did that, it wouldn't get done. But I know as soon as I put up a ticker, both for the weight loss and for the swim, I'll be even more adament.

Maybe I aught to make a ticker to Blu Tack to the kitchen wall. Putting the numbers in code so no one can see how much I weigh :p

Bronsk
 
Bronski said:
I could eat that until the Sun was swallowed up by a giant black hole and all life on Earth ceased to exist.
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Lol! :D

I have a tsp of honey on my porridge, and it seems to do the trick. I would obviously prefer it sweeter, but luckily, in the morning I am not really awake enough to notice. One thing I meant to mention on another thread ... like ... two days ago (head like a sieve :rolleyes: ) is that my weight management lady suggested that instead of having porridge and a banana for breakfast, i should just have the porridge, as the sugar in the banana would just make me feel hungry sooner. I tried it and :eek: it worked. I ate less but was satisfied longer. Food for thought! (Sorry, what a terrible pun!!)

8:30 pm and I am officially going to bed. I'm becoming a forum addict! I'm not going to get my 8 hours now anyway :rolleyes: . Till tomorrow :cool:
 
Wow, that is a good plan! I used to have an apple and a banana with my ludicrusly chocolately cereal, but I do feel fuller longer just eating my cereal. How weird that bananas do that. I used to think bananas were fillinger, because they were, *ahem* stodgier (real words.) Glad banana's off my breakfast menu as well.

By the way, I love terrible puns. Like the fish for the scales count down... Or not...

Maybe we could set up a forum addicts support group online. "Hello, I'm Bron, and I'm addicted to web forums." First step to beating it is admitting it :p

I've had tea, an apple with my cereal, and feel hungry still. You know, it may be the same thing as the banana, because I've been fine other nights without apples. There's melon in the fridge, so if it does stay, even after having a drink, I'll give in and have some of that. Though with weigh-day in the not-at-all-very-distant future, best stick to water.

I have some exciting and somewhat bizarrely random news! I'd offered to baby sit for my Brownie leader, and she phoned to ask if I could baby sit her daughter after school. I like doing stuff, especially stuff that means I have to lock a door behind me. I've felt really bored since I finished my first two weeks of work, so I need to do something. Me thinks Camp America next year, or something similar.

So tomorrow (*sqee, exciting!*) I'm going to *go swimming and tick off the first 60 lengths in my English Channel swim, *maybe visit my boyfriend, *baby sit til about 6. PLUS ... weighingintomorrow! Which in itself is strangely exciting, finally knowing what I have to achieve.

... And I'm going to regret saying that tomorrow!

Bronsk
 
Oh my gosh, Bronski! I've just read your diary and I have no idea what you are talking about half the time, but I love your energy. "Chicken Tikka"? "Feeling Peckish"?...and how big is that friggin Easter Egg?

I can totally relate to feeling excited about weigh in tomorrow, but having this feeling that it is a really stupid thing to get excited about as it could be a disaster. Good Luck to Us! Your doing great! Keep up the good work.
 
Hey Pineola! Haha, sorry if I don't make too much sense. Chicken tikka is just marinated bits of chicken, like you'd find in a chicken tikka masala (a mild curry.) And Peckish is like being hungry, but not as drastic, if that makes sense.

That Easter Egg (curse it) is just normal egg size. Well, not anymore! Like I said, I have about two bites left and a Cadbury's Creme Egg (a small chocolate egg with very sugary fondent inside) I'm going to have to finish it gradually over the weekend. Since today's a bit hectic, what with swimming and baby sitting, I'm going to have to eat out along the way. Looks danergously like a Subway (sandwich shop owned by McDonalds); will have to bring some fruit along as well.

Well, today's the day. Weigh-day. Done, dusted, haven't broken down sobbing yet! Weight is 94.5 kg (*please hold while I run upstairs and get my phone with weight-converter*) that's 208 lb if you prefer. I've started my ticker at 95kg to allow for any frightening changes.

Although it's quite disappointing, I'm not sure what I was going to expect. I'd weighed myself some time last year and I was in the high 90s, so it's not like I could have miraculasly dropped to the 80s by eating cereal for two weeks! Though I'm sure it's helped, and I know this site's helped. Aside from the chicken bits last night, I didn't snack at all. Which is something I wouldn't have done on my own, so I owe you all my thanks, for not putting me in the 100s like I thought I would be :)

On the ticker, my goal is 75 (165lb) but I'm breaking it up into half. If I reach 85kg, then I'm going to get blue hair extentions (bright blue; my hair colour ATM is dark blue) and when I reach my ultimate goal, then I'm going to have pink ones put in as well. Then on top of all this, I have my more unrealistic goal, to get to the standard BMI weight (which is very poo, I don't trust it and thankfully, my judo coach has never even looked at it.) For my height it would be 65kg (143lb) though I may still be struggling to do that next year!

I guess it's going to have to results in a real lifestyle change. Though I'm enjoying myself at the moment, it's been fun having support here I can turn to. And I'm enjoying the exercise, it's something I've missed with not having judo. So I really hope I can keep this up, even when I go away to Cypress and Belgium, which is going to be desperately hard to avoid holiday weight. Though with any luck, there'll be a swimming pool near dad's girlfriend's apartment. And if not, there's a big blue sea and an island that I could walk round in a day!

Belgium's going to be the real challange, it's just snack city for me. I'm going to have to really watch what I eat and listen to my stomach a hell of a lot more.

Well, before I continue into another monster post, I'll head off to swim. Have a brilliant day everyone, and millions of *HUGS* to everyone in the FSD. And even if you're not in the FSD, have a hug! I like hugs :)

Til then!

Bronsk
 
YOur doing so great! Your positive attitude is contageous ...so THANKS! I also have a hard time saying "no" to yummy things while on vacation (or holiday as you would say!) I guess we just have to remember how hard we have worked to get where we are and try hard not to destroy it (at least not too much)!
 
Hey again, spelin! Thanks for your kind words :) Makes me feel special!

I know, it's so hard to turn down things like chips in restaurants, and chocolates and the like. Like I said, I'm terrible in Belgium, especially since we go for a fairly big shop when we get there, and it always involves junk! I think Cypress will be more bareable than Belgium, because I can imagine there being more active things to do there, like swimming. I can walk in Belgium, or cycle, but it's just getting up and doing it. May have to create a walk-based challenge whilst I'm away.

Speaking of challenges, and speaking of swimming, I've completed the first 60 lengths of my swim across the channel! From here, I can probably still see Dover, and feel very cold :) I was hoping to do more, but I was yanked out for half an hour so the guards could clean the pool. There was an empty space on the timetable... I just missed it. The annoying thing is, in that half an hour, I could have done a 100 lengths. No matter, life goes on etc. Will aim for the big 1-0-0 on monday, as I probably won't be child-minding, boyfriend goes to Ireland :( ( <-- first sad face I've used) and I'll need something to do.

Plus I'll be going to Cub Camp for mine and my boyfriend's... (wait for it)... 2 Year Anniversery! Yay!! Camping with 10 year old boys... bound to shed some weight!!

Oo, point, on top of the swimming today, I did about 2 miles worth of walking. Go me!! I may go for a walk over the weekend if the weather's nice. I have a 6 1/2 mile route that I can complete in about 4 hours. May do that Sunday, as legs feel tingly from the work I've put in. It sounds daft; I've always done exercise, but I've not done regular sessions since my Judo training days.

I do enjoy feeling that tense feeling in the muscles as a result of hard work! Means it's all going to pay off. Just get a little concerned about the swim thing though, I can't help but think about my mum, and I'm frightened it's all going to go horribly wrong... Well, I'm sure I'll know if it does...

What is it about looking after kids that makes you feel so knackered? Whenever I do my mentoring, or do the guided Uni tour, I always feel tired afterwards. Same today, and all said child and I did was sit in a cafe.

Oo Oo!! Be proud! While child minding, we went to this cafe, which does the most *amazing* chocolate cake. Seriously! And some truly marvellous hot chocolate with marshmallows and malteasers and a flake on the side and everything. But instead, I just had a J2O. OK, not that great; I should have had water, but I luuuuuuuuurve the fruit juice :p

Just as a thought, one of the reasons I joined was to get a partner in crime, but I'm not sure if I need one as much as I thought. Because everyone around me (yep, you that's reading this) absolutely everyone, is so supportive and friendly, and so encouraging, I've felt like I've had a big gang of buddies all along :) So thank you, to each and every one of you perfect people!

Bronsk

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I like the sound of your hair-do!!! I wish I could be a bit more daring with my style, I think I'm a bit too old now at 27 to be a punk chick!!

What music do you like, because you sound like a prime candidate for Green Day (one of my favourites :D ).

Holidays ..... aaarrrggggghhhhhh!!! As previously stated I put on a whopping 7lbs last week while on holiday, and I didn't even go anywhere. That is 50% healthy diet, 50% binging. But, one good thing is that it prompted me to join this forum, and I have already got rid of all but 1 of those pounds this week.

When are you on holiday? Is there anything we can do to spur you on, maybe Tickerwatch when you get back to see how many lengths you have done :D
 
27!? Too young!? Never too young, dude! Even though my mum was 48, she rocked harder than most of my friends. She had a pink and purple motobike, wore tinsy mini skirts, hairy jackets and big black boots. She never did much with her hair though, she dyed it blonde but that was it. Mum used to swim loads, and it went quite weak and thin. Never, ever too young dude ;)

Music wise? Very, very varied. My current playlist is a bit of an annomilie, as there's some *cough cough coughwillcoughyoungcough cough* and some *cough cough coughemcoughincoughemcough* neither of which I'm proud of. Others at the moment include Big Audio Dynamite, Pink Floyd, Bon Jovi, Frou Frou, Snow Patrol, U2, Gary Moore and for some bizarre reason, there's that song from The Rescuers (Someone's Waiting for You.) But I am a fan of Greenday, especially the older stuff. Time of Your Life is amazing, that's probably my favourite.

If I weighed myself after going away, that would probably be the figures I'd be faced with as well. Problem is, it's not always how much I eat, it's we as a family eat. Belgium = traditional (probably) Belgium breakfast (cheese, meats, bread) usually chips at lunch, meal out for tea, which tends to involves chips. I guess I'm just going to have to really really listen to when I feel full. And eat less chips.

I go away to Cypress July 23rd, and I should have some kind of internet access. If not, may need to send a post card :D Then Belgium is about 2 days after we get back; that'll be challenging, there's no internet at our house in Belgium. There's a free internet service in the main town though, so may get there some time.

I forgot to write about how diabolically naughty I was at lunch. I went to Subway, and because I had a BOGOF I got a footlong tuna sandwich... with cheese, toasted, and laced with honey mustard. It's surprisingly filling though, I've not touched anything else since. Not even in the cafe. And even though it's 10 PM, I still don't feel that hungry. I know I should eat something though, so I've had an apple to see if that kick starts anything.

What's the general opinion of skipping meals?

Bronsk
 
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