This time success

mrs woods

mrs woods

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Hi everyone,:waving:
I was here years ago and got to my goal weight of 140 pounds but then through the years I found myself at 189.:blush5:

So I started cutting back food early august ( after reading Cates diary) and am now at 167.8 pounds.
My goal is to get to about 155 or 150. I am 5 foot 9 so quite tall.

Anyway that's all for now.
mrs woods.
 
Just thought I would add some more, I love vegetables so here are the main things I eat..

Almonds (5 or 6)
Walnuts same as above all raw.
Homemade soup..some pumpkin, lots of celery, green and red peppers, broccoli. Then pureed.
Eggs.
Poached chicken.
Toasted Ryvitas.
Cottage cheese.
Tuna.

Last Saturday being grand final day (football) went to a friends place a she made a roll for us will everything in it and the roll was one of those that had ham and pinneapple baked on top.
Now since I had not had any bread for about 9 weeks let alone white bread....when I got home it triggered a Pig out. You name it ...I ate it....mega amounts of cheese, bread, pasta, chippies and onion dip.:piggy:

Now since I weigh every day, I thought I would give Sundays weigh in a miss...but then thought....suck it up woman...weigh yourself.
5.2 pound extra:banghead: was a shock and it took me till Friday to loose it.

Hopefully lesson learnt.

I know that weighing ever day might not be good but I bought a new sat of scales and decided I would weigh in pounds as it give that 0.2 reading and even dropping 0.2 is good.

So here is my readings (will only do week to week )

Starting weight 189 pounds

Week 1...182.6
week 2....180.
week 3....177.2
week 4....176.2
week 5....174.4
week 6.....172
week 7....170.8
week 8....168.8
week 9....170.8....two days after PIG OUT.
Today 2 day before week 10 167.8.

Will keep going. mrs woods.
 
What a lovely surprise! I have been gardening madly, but thought I would have a quick peek in the forum & you have really made me smile. You are going really well Mrs W! (You'll have to call me Mrs L-ha ha!) Your start weight is about my current weight. :( I'll fix it, but it gets harder & harder as you get older, that's for sure. Bread is a big trigger for me too. I'm feeling much better today without any. I had better get back outside while the sun is shining. It is lovely having a "neighbour" in the forum :D Cheers, Cate
 
Dear Cate,
Thank you for your lovely post...it is nice to have someone in our time zone, as most are asleep when we are awake.
I agree that as we get older it does get harder, me..I am on B/p meds and have had to stop work because it is so high.

Yet I am determined to try and get the weight off....please remember that at least the first week is due to water lose...not fat.

Like you I have a great doctor ( but some times see a lovely Asian doctor) at the same surgery.

One thing that sticks in my mind is my female doc said...not to eat anything white after 12 pm...meaning white bread, pasta......but I will convince myself she did not mean white wine :).:hurray:

Please Cate, keep your chin up and I am on the net most of the day...and you WILL get back to where you want, I just know it. Please look up my history as ' Blitzed' I found it a few weeks ago but Son and I have moved and had new server...lost pass word, so I could not post till now.

Best wishes Cate.. MW (just to keep it short :)
 
Well, had a good day yesterday.
A neighbour and I went for a walk to bunnings and got ourselves some sprout seeds.
They should be nice mixed with other foods and Son will probably eat them too, they are alfalfa, radish and broccoli mix.

Had to laugh as Son is super toned...he weight lifts ( goes to the gym every week night after work).
He is also 'cutting' meaning I believe...you cut down on carbs.
So I have been cooking him very healthy things, but on Thursday he rang me and asked what was for dinner.
I said I have made roast potatoes but have scooped out 95% of the flesh and will put some chicken into it with beaten eggs...all high protein....well he said "I will have the chicken and I will buy some salad mix on the way home".

So there he sat eating his poached chicken and salad....complaining that he had not lost any weight in a week (not that he needs to)...I said "welcome to my world".
Mind you by Saturday he had lost 2 kgs.

Well had a few (or more :jump:) wines last night with neigbours but still had to weigh in.
So today is ..167.2....dont know if that will last but I will see.
 
Today's food...

B/F....Boiled egg, 6 raw almonds and 6 half raw walnuts. Cayenne pepper half to one teaspoon in a little warm and just drink...good for heart and many things.

Lunch...tuna pasta ( pasta is Hi fiber) just 3 tablespoons with a tad of grated cheese, grated carrot and mixed salad, no dressing but a sprinkle of cayenne pepper and on the tuna I sprinkle Psyllium husk...doc said very good to get rid of bad cholesterol.

Dinner..2 toasted Ryvitas with cottage cheese and cay/pep and psy/husk...then some of my rainbow soup.

1 glass of white dry wine...well it was one only as I never let it get empty enough to call it 2 or 3.:cheers2:

Yuk... week 10 weigh in tomorrow...not feeling to positive...but that's life will keep going.
 
Well today is week 10 and weighed in at 166.8 so that's 22 pounds = 10 kgs very happy.:party:

Going to docs tomorrow....hope notices but probably wont.
 
A 10kg loss is wonderful! Well done!! You sure have a healthy "diet" mrs woods. Do you eat fruit too? (Other than the grapes in your wine that is)
xo Cate
 
No Cate.... I just do not like fruit that much, sometimes I will eat half a banana, but just don't have a sweet tooth.
There seems to be enough sweetness in carrots, pumpkin etc for me.

As a child we were not allowed much sugar and Dad worked his butt off making a lovely vegetable garden...chicken poo...all our scraps were dug into the soil.

Mum did make, on special occasions the best home made German cheese cake :drool5:...baked with quark...even the base was a dough. It was so good that in my 20's I made them and sold them to a chef that I knew. They were like 3 inches high and so good, still have the recipe from the 50's, just nobody to cook it for.

My down fall ( ok all of it ) is..was... Pasta. I would cook a large serving of white penne pasta...then get a large pan with oil and butter, heat that up and put the pasta in that and fry till at least half was lovely and crunchy...then before serving I would grate cheese on a large plate, micro that for 20 seconds...then pour the pasta on top and add mega amounts of more grated cheese, salt and cracked black pepper.double :drool5::drool5::drool5:
I did this nearly every other night....so I am a cheese and pasta head.:piggy:...and that too.

Give me salt over sugar any day.
ox mw.
 
Hi Mrs Woods!

You're doing great! Keep up the good work. Did the doc notice?

Mmm, that pasta and cheese sounds amazing!!!
 
Thanks Nim and Mandy, doctor didn't notice ( don't blame him I only see him every 3 month or more)....so I told him...anyway my B/P is much better and he was pleased as he put me on new tabs last time.
Weight was up a pound yesterday and back to 166.8 today (salt) I even went to a walk at 6 this morning.
 
There is actually a lady at my church named Mrs. Wood! But, you are all the way in Victoria, and I am in California... thus, you cannot be her. But I thought it a tad amusing to point out.

Anyway, I'm new here, but I'd still like to say welcome back! You may have fallen back into old habits, but as long as you keep getting back up and trying again, you're on the right track. I have to say, your food sounds amazing... that pasta :drool5: Pasta also happens to be one of my weaknesses...

Keep it up!
 
Thanks 3pd,
We are on the other sides of the world...read your diary and you keep going.
Before you eat something bad ...stop and ask yourself how am I going to feel in the morning???? If on a scale of 1 to 10...it is anything more than a 2, don't do it.......think about tomorrow.
 
I honestly don't think my primary care doctor would notice my weight loss either. I've lost quite a bit, but oddly enough even at my heaviest she never expressed concern that I should be trying to lose weight. I think she might mention something if she looked at my chart, but that's about it.

My rheumatologist on the other hand noticed that I was losing on just my third visit with her. My initial visit I was in so much pain that I just looked miserable, but by the third visit I was look a little thinner and much happier. She made sure to point it out a couple of times to me. It's a great feeling. :)

Just know that you're making great progress for yourself. Eventually everyone else will notice and you'll start getting random compliments. They are nice, but it takes a while to get used to!
 
Thanks Mandy, I can feel and see it so that good.
I was at the stage where my knees were so swollen and sore that I thought I would have to get a stick, but now they are boney and back to normal.
I don't think I will show a drop this week...tom came yesterday (yes am pre menopause) nothing for 3 months, then 3 every month now.
I will weigh in tomorrow but it has been sitting on 166.8 or 166.6 for a week, but that's ok, I will keep going as there are aways weeks when there is no lose.
 
165.8 Week 11. Happy with that, only a pound but I will take it. Yesterday I left the salt shaker alone as I have been heavy handed with it.
 
A pound is a pound, it's a success! Congrats! As for salt, I've been trying to do the same. I love salt, but would like to cut it out of my diet too. :)
 
Ah here you are :) wow well done for your weight loss to date! Thats awesome :) its good to know we are all human, have our weaknesses and fall down too. Its just fantastic that you have got yourself going again, and you are getting good results, so well done. Its my first day today, and so far the food thing has been going well. I just need to motivate myself to do some exercise later. This Forum will keep me honest, and provide the extra motivation I need. Fabulous. I'll be logging into my own diary tonight to document food and exercise. Might 'see' you there :)
 
Thanks Mandy...I love salt so much but just have to keep it in control....today I feel like a fat blimp.

Reason is I think that I did my best not to look in the mirror for so long and never really got to see how big I got. Now I look and still see yuk. But as I said knees are so much better and at my age thats good.
I put my face on and could see my Mum....now at least my face looks slimmer. We are so hard on ourselves.

Mandy.....I dare you, just for fun to give a low salt day for 2 days and see what happens....we can go through it together. Or maybe before our next weigh in. Just for fun.:jump:

Hi Angel, hope you are doing well, let us know if you can in you diary.....am sure the kids take up alot of your time, but try to make a little for yourself too.

mrs woods.
Thank you San, too for the green thingy...I still do not know how everything works but I am sure I will soon.
 
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