Tink's latest and final attempt at skinny!!!

Just read your diary, and what an inspiration!!!!!!

Congrats on losing 18 lbs so far and I am sure you can reach the mini goal easily :)
 
Judyb - I def agree! I love a great hike or walk and a breathtaking view always makes the climb worth it! I have vowed that I am now going to explore more of Scotland (the bens and munroes especially) since its right there on my door step! Beats the gym anyday!

Karmann - Thank you so much :) It's was very sweet of you to leave such a nice message - thats what i love abt this site, everyone is so supportive! Thank you for your encouragement :D:D:D

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I am totally insomniatic and very restless...not even got enough energy to go out for a walk or do some exercise - so its useless insomnia!!. I think im coming down with another chest infection (i get them frequently) and i am hoping to stave it off. If i dont then i wont be able to go to the gym for a couple of days and that would throw out my whole routine! Cant believe that i am actually thinking this way...loll:rotflmao:

Sooo back to work tomorro and i have the whole days food planned, and will hopefully manage a gym seesion in the evening and a coupl of miles with the dog after work. That is if the lungs hold out of course....:D
 
Think i may be setting my cals a little too high...just checked my BMR with my new weight and it is 2200. Deducting 500 from this would give me 1700 and i frequently go over this! So far i havnt stopped losing but i think i will pre-empt the inevitable and lower the cals a little:smash:

I think i am perhaps thinking too much..i need to get some sleep! :sleeping:
 
Feeling really sick today so cals are in check but no exercise....just went straight to bed after work and plan to go back to bed in a few mins....urghhh i hate feeling like crap!

Food for today

BREAKFAST (thought id give it a try!) - 2 slices toast with low fat butter 250 cals

Lunch - 2 slices wholewheat bread and soup 350 cals

Dinner - 2 slices w/meal bread and tin of Heinz spaghetti 440 cals

Snacks - 2 kitkats (214 cals) and 2 chocolates (100 cals) 2 cups coffee (60 cals) orange (70 cals)

Total cals today - Around 1500 ish ( rounded up)

Drank abt 8 pints water and took lots of vitamins to try to get rid of this chest infection...next stop antibiotics.
 
Hi Tink,
Thanks for the loverly message you left me :D i see your doing well !!! I hate being sick as well i hope you get better rest up and get plenty of fluids ,am constantly getting chest infections at work cause weve not had air conditioning for the last year so everyones breathin in everyones germs all the time plus with me needing to take inhalers its so much worse :( they got it sorted this week though woo hooo !! hears to being able to breathe !!! good luck this week xxx
 
loll char i love breathing too!!:biggrinjester: feeling a bit better but im all doped up from the meds so everything seems a little hazy! If it follows the usual patter it will be gone in a few days ...hopefully :D

Ok todays stats

Weight - havnt peeked!
Mood - ill :( pity meeeee!!!!!!

Food for today

Lunch - 2 slices wholegrain brean, tomato soup (400 cals)

Dinner - Potato and spinach curry with rice and yoghurt, 1 chapati (700 cals)

Snacks - 2 slices toast with 30g cheese (350 cals) 4 chocolates (150 cals) 2 cups coffee (60 cals)

Total cals - Around 1700

Feeling really annoyed with myself for the extra sandwich and chocolates after school! Needed the sandwich (i was starving!) but i could have said no to the chocs...sigh...ah well they were very nice

Exercise - 30 min walk and maybe play the WII later (think i might just go to bed tho!)

Feel free to either avoid this part of the post or comment and let me know what you think abt this little scenario...:rant:

Totally dead on my feet today so it was prob not the best time for one of my colleagues to annnoy me! She is a total pain in the arse and has been annoying everyone since the day she arrived! Anyway a few months baqck i accidently backed into her car and scratched the side a little...just 2 little scratches. Obviously i offered to pay to fix the damage and waited for her to tell me how much i owed her. She now tells me (months later when i thought she hadnt bothered since it was so small) that the repairs will cost over £200 ($400)!! On top of this she wants me to pay for her to have a hire car for THREE days while the repair is being carried out!!! This would total in at just over £400 which i really do not have! She had wanted to avoid using the insurance companies but i think now that we will have too...i only have a £100 excess and I am claims protected so i wouldnt lose anything. There is no way that the repair should cost this much...i really think she is playing me and im not falling for it!

Forgot to mention that she rally drives this car so it is COVERED in scratches anyway! My hubby thinks that she has got a quote for the whole car to be resprayed instead of just the two scratches repaired. I am soooo mad!! :flame: Maybe i am being unreasonable (i did scratch her car) but i feel that i have been more than fair and she is trying to con more money out of me....and after all i pay insurance rates for a reason!

Sorry rant over! Had to get that of my (very congested!) chest!!
 
I've just read most of your diary and it's really inspiring - well done you. I'll keep checking back. :]
 
Thanx peepop :D:D i still have a long way to go tho!

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Ok sicker than ever now...the meds have worn off and the pain has set in again...i hate being sick, especially now when i need to be increasing my fitness level and not laying around coughing and sleeping. I really doubt that i will have lost any weight tomorro cos i only managed a little exercise all week and my cals today are wayyy high cos i was drinking energy drinks to get through work (got sent home at 11am cos i could barely breathe :() Need to go to work tomorrow as my student teacher is leaving and i need to say goodbye and ive organised a little party for her in the afternoon. She has worked really hard and i dont want her to miss out just cos im sick.

All i have eaten is toast and butter (8 slices - abt 1200 cals) and drank lots of lucozade. Ah well we will soon see tomorrow:(

It is honestly like taking a few big leaps forward only for something to come right along and put me back again. :banghead::banghead: Yes i am feeling veryyyy sorry for myself! I will snap out of it ince im feeling better tho :)
 
Well Friday is my official weigh day (even though i really sneak and check most days!) and i am down to 228lbs :hurray: Im into the 220s!!!! I havnt been here for over 2 years so i am really delighted! I feel like a bit of a fraud tho cos my eating over the last few days has been a nutritional car crash...been really sick so all i ate was carbs (toast an butter was the order of the day!)

Was feeling better today and i was RAVENOUS! My friend reckons that my body needed energy after fighting the infection so i admit that i gave in and had a pretty bad cheat day. I will be extra good for the rest of the weekend tho (not going out cos im still feeling rough, might not be able to exercise much either :()

So here goes with the (very bad) food for today


Lunch - 4 slices toast and butter (700 cals)
Dinner - Chicken fajitas with 2 tortillas, rice, cheese, yoghurt and avocado (800 cals)

Snacks
One chocolate eclair (300 cals)
One chocolate cup cake with butter frosting (300 cals)
50g crisps with avocado dip (350 cals)
3x lucozade energy drinks (150 cals)
500ml milk 250 cals


And the grand total is - 2700 cals oh dear god that is horrendous!!:reddevil: It is just over maintenance so hopefully i wont gain too much...

This is gross - i cant believe how much shit i ate today...and this is how i used to eat all the time (hence the reason i ended up weighing in at almost 250lbs) With the exception of dinner and the milk, everything else was just sugar filled comfort crap. But i enjoyed it so I'll count today as a cheat day and be extra good for the rest of the week! I started my period today so i reckon that contributed to the crappy eating but i know thats not a valid excuse!

Anyway, stick with positives! I measured again today and my hips are finally down!! I dont think i could have been measuring properly cos all my trousers are far too baggy on me now so i knew that my hips and arse were smaller, the tape just didnt show that...so i measure properly and im pretty confident that the measurements are accurate now! Still not seeing a difference on my lower arms, but my upper arms are much smaller so im pleased abt that too. Hopefully i will see more of a difference next week once i have been to the gym a few times.

Chest - 96.5 cm (38 in) - down 1 cm this week - 4cm total loss
Waist - 100 cm (39.3 in) - stayed the same this week - 1.5cm total loss
Hips - 117 cm (46in) - down 2.5cm this week - finally down by 1cm total!
Thighs - 63 cm (24.75 in) - 1cm lost this week - 5.5cm loss so far
Calves - 43 cm (17 cm) - no change this week - 3cm total loss
Upper Arms - 34.3 cm (13.5in) - down 1.7cm this week - 2.7cm total loss so far
Lower Arms - 29 cm (11.5in) - stayed the same - no loss so far

And best of all is that I am only 4 lbs away from my mini target of 16st (224 lbs):hurray: i cant get there quickly enough (so no more more bloody cakes!!!)

Oh yeah...got dinner at my mother in laws next week. She hasnt seen me since i started all this so hopefully she will notice a difference in me :D She is usually veryyyyy vocal abt my weight so it might just be positive this time (doubt it tho!)
 
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UGH mother in laws - mine (well we're not married but been together 3 years so near enough :p) is a bit like that too. She comments a LOT on my weight - just cos she's skinny and doesn't have any excitement in her food. Honestly she only eats potatoes once a week "because of the carbs" hahaha. Grr. I hope your's notices a difference :D :D Bet she will!!

Don't worry about the cheat day, you're ill :) Just make sure tomorrow (or today as it's half 12 in the morning) you have lotsa vitamin C :D always makes me feel better.

Ooh you've inspired me to do measurements! I'ma do it now haha.
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Ok its 2.15pm and im still in bed watching crappy tv....im not hungover so i can only conclude that i am still bloody sick ON A WEEKEND :(:( I hate being ill on the weekends - no joy of missing work and im missing all the fun that i cant have throught the week!

So...yet again i dont think that there will be much exercise done today but since im not technically being lazy cos i want to i wont beat myself up abt it too much :D Def keeping the cals in check today so here is the food plan (havnt actually eaten yet cos im still in bed...D)

Lunch - Tomato soup with 2 slices bread (400 cals)

Dinner - 2 veggie burgers (350 cals), 2 buns (300 cals), salad, mayo and ketchup (100 cals) 200g

Snacks - potato chips 200 cals

Total cals - 1350 cals low to make up for yesterday!

Exercise - A walk around the block with the puglet, maybe some WII stuff if i can breathe...:D

Weight 229lbs - i have put on a whole lb since yesterday - that was all the crap i ate :( No crap at all today!

Mood - pretty damn bored and congested!

I am totally bored Think I'll have lunch, try a walk with the dog and then try to pass time til my hubby gets home from work. Def no alcohol tonight or tomorrow so Im being good in that respect :) I might have a nice pampering day later and try to get myself feeling a bit better. Apart from a nasty cough and no energy at all, most of the symptoms are clearing up so next week should be back on track completely :biggrinjester:
 
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Weight this week 228lbs

TARGET FOR NEXT WEEK 225LBS

So I am being a bit ambitious but i want to get a bit of a momentum building again and i a feel like the weightloss is slowing down a bit. Im still losing but it has been decreasing every week This week when i weighed in it was the first day of my TOM and i havnt execised as much as i would like this week. So next week when im past my TOM and i have exercises pretty much every day i should have lost abt 3lbs (hopefully!)

Thus kick starting the weightloss again! Well thats the theory...it cant hurt to try!
 
Hey Tinka, hope you're feeling better soon. I see you're not a homebody at all. I have a bad habit of staying in most of the weekend being lazy and eating too much. Except in the summers, then I'm out at the beach or in a park anytime its nice out. But boredom does NOTHING but add on the pounds for me so I need to work on that..

As far as the weight loss, unfortunately it does tend to slow as you move along. But as long as the scale is trending downward, its all good ya know? If you weren't dieting you could be maintaining or even gaining, so a 1 lb loss in a week is some GOOD STUFF! To someone on a continual plateau, believe me it sounds great. But even when I was losing, it was only a lb or a little less per week. Except for the first 2 weeks after I had my baby, I lost 33 lbs so every single wonderful happy DAY was another 2 lbs. I've never been more happy to get on a scale, I swear. It stunk when it slowed down considerably and I actually had to WORK for a loss HAHA.
 
Hi Karmann and thanx for the encouragement! I sure hope i make it to 225 asap!

Hi Blancita, I cant believe ur stillon a plateau :( Poor u! That would drive me mad....i hate the thought of being good and not having things i love and then not losing anything! I am always glad to lose anything but i really do want to step it up a bit. If i dont lose the 3lbs this week i will still be happy with a smaller loss:biggrinjester:

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So today i slept until 4pm. No joke! My hubby thinks that i must have needed all the sleep cos ive been ill but even so! So now i have wasted my whole weekend sleeping and watching tv....i need another one!!

Feeling lots better now and am hoping to be able to go to the gym tomorro night. Today i was supposed to go for a 4 mile walk but its raining again...yesterday glorious sunshine and today torrential downpour! So looks like it will be a shorter walk and a bit of WII play.

Food for today

Lunch - sandwich with mayo and low fat crisps (400 cals) Orange juice (120 cals)

Dinner - Baguette with thin slice grilled beef, tom and lettuce (800 cals)

Snacks - hot chocolate 100 cals, some peanuts 200 cals

Total cals - around 1600 ish

Exercise - 30 min walk x 2, some WII sports
 
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I must have far too much time on my hands cos i never seem to be away from this site! It keeps me busy and it s improving my typing skills so i suppose i could be doing worse things! I find that it keeps me focused on my weightloss and away from the biscuit tin!!

So the latest thing to occur to my over thinking mind, is that in a matter of weeks my body is going to be on show in a bathing suit type thing. I know that i look thinner in clothes but the fact remains that i am curently 5'8 and 228lbs. By the time i go on hol im hoping to be down to around 218lbs. That would give me a bmi of 33.8...still in the obese category. Now whatever way i look at it, I am still gonna be FAT (officially) in a bathing suit! I know that i should be pleased that i am a whole thinner than i otherwise would have been ( and i am pleased!)...im just beginning to wonder why the hell i let myself get so big. I have never really thought abt the reasons that i got so fat in the first place and now that i have i cant find an answer. Its def not because i love every food and ate masses of it. Im quite picky really but i often found myself eating high calorie foods on purpose - making a concious decision to eat the highest cal thing on the menu or having masses of the foods i love (a whole pizza, bars of chocolate or double helpings of meals).

I now it all my own fault and that it was my decisions that got me here...or to 248lbs to be precise. I also know that it was a great decision that has got me down to 228lbs and still losing. My resolve hasnt weakened, in fact it is stronger than ever. I am just thinking that my target of 168lbs is an awful long way away and my holiday is pretty damned close!

I wont let this spoil my holiday - I have worked hard to be slimmer, and i know that i have tried my best to lose as much as i could before we go. I also know that when i come back i will get right back into the gym and try to lose more before i go back to work in Aug! I have vowed that this holiday will be the last one that i worry abt things like fitting into the plane seats, looking like a beached whale and whether or not the camel will be able to carry me! (Seriously i would be mortified if i was too heavy for the camel rides)

The last thing i am really worried abt is the stretch marks on my stomach. They have reduced a whole lot since i have started losing but they are still very visible. Again im doing everything possible to reduce them but i know that if they are too noticeable i could wear a one piece or a tankini. I think i am just over analysing and wishing for this whole process to go faster! Im ususally a very positive person so i can only assume that i am a bit maudlin cos i have been ill (either that or all my positivity was in my fat and its slowly leaving with it!!! lol :D:D)

Anyway, musings over and now i shall try and sleep a bit - and stop bloody thinking!!
 
Made it into work today but im totally exhausted now...gonna have to nap i think!

Food for today

Lunch - Half can tomato soup and small baguette (350 cals)

Dinner - Quorn chilli enchiladas, rice and yoghurt (800 cals)

Snacks - One chocolate 40 cals, two pancakes with jam 250 cals, 2 x kiwi 90 cals 2 coffee 60 cals.

Total cals 1600 ish

Exercise - not enough but i still cant breathe!

1 mile walk with the puglet
Stomach and arm exercises
WII sports (20 mins boxing)

And gonna hit the hay by 9pm tonight!:seeya:
 
Just when i thought i had this cough shifted, it is back worse than ever...damn....feel totally crapy today and just have no energy at all. Managed to do some aerobics (40mins) but thats abt it for today.

Food

Only had lunch but was pretty bad and had boiled potatoes and steak pie (with lots of pastry :() didnt even like it that much so it was a total waste of calories. just needed something filling to energise me a little i suppose. cal count was prob around the 900 mark so that leaves me a couple hunded to play with for dinner. Dinner was 2 slices toast with 20g peanut butter and a banana (450 max) so the total today is 1350...im amazed that two meals added up to this! No snacks or anything!

wish i could feel better again, i hate having no enegy:nopity: lol
 
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when you're under the weather you gotta take care of yourself now.. and let your body rest and recover.. the gym will be there when you're feeling better... Don't push yuorself too hard..
 
I usually go to the gym when I can when I'm sick. I had something similar a few weeks ago (cough/congestion) and I went to the gym anyways.

My main point of posting on here though...

You're doing great Tink! Your hard work is really paying off, I'm jealous of the Wii workouts :p
 
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