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TheBigShe

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Okay, so, five days in to this 'new lifestyle'. Hopped onto the scales to see if anything had happened, not expecting much - turns out that was good expectation because nothing had dropped 11st 8 lbs (162lbs). i was kind of hoping that the WII fit around my friends house last thursday was going to be proved 14lbs out but it turns out I am just that weight! Oh well, I shan't get too down about it. i haven't drunk anything alcoholic for 5 days now and already my tummy seems much less bloated so that is a bonus. i think alcohol was my downfall really and i am hoping that simply giving that up will at least do something. I mean, in no way was i an alcolholic - maybe a glass or two of wine a night, not much more. well, maybe a bit at the weekend. The thing is, 'treating' myself at the weekends sarted to moosch in with doing the same if my fave program was on TV or if I had had a particularly crappy day. Grrrrrrrr, weak, weak girl. but, no more. Am strong willed woman who doesn't need all those silly empty calories. I am set on this. I am going to do it. Here are my befores.

5ft 10" 162lbs

eaten yesterday:

pack of scallops with parsley butter
salad
7 satsumas!
(annoying) spoonful of philadelphia cream cheese
'Be good to yourself' prawn sizzler - I do not recommend this product. It was muck

Will be lilthe and gorge by my 30th in April. 133 - 135 fingers crossed!
 
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Hungry!!!

whoop! had really good day yesterday.
breakfast: porridge
snack: satsumas x2
Lunch: Ho sin duck wrap (yum!)
snack: miso soup and marinated herring fillet slice
Dinner: wholefood and superfood salad (lush!)

Workout: 50 minutes cardio 25 recliner bike level 8 25 x-trainer level 6

weight -2lb 11st 6 (160lb)

On track tday for another good one. Am slightly worried about becoming a little obsessed though. Do you think you have to be obsessed in order to achieve? Dunno.
 
not bad, not bad

Yesterday went smoothly. Knackered though because Arthur was sick in the night until 3am and then the baby wriggled around for the rest of the time. Could actually put shopping in the bags under my eyes! Bloody Flo came round yesterday too, jeez.......
Feeling good on th ewhole,pretty hungry - need to stock up on fruit and fat free type nibbles.


Breakfast: 2 slices of herring fillet handful of cherry tomatoes
snack: Miso with added Wakame
lunch 2 x slices wholemeal toast with sardines in 1/2 can chopped tomatoes
snack: apple
dinner: roast chicken breast with sage, apple & onion stuffing, 3 small roast potatoes, 1 roast parsnip, greens, carrots, beans (realatively small portion)

exercise:

20 minutes 'old man' jog round town in the freezing cold!
60 minutes Pilates

oopps! After exercise came home and ate 2 more roast spuds!

Goal for today: eat more fruit. Drink more water, go to gym and lift some weights - try for 500 cals on cardio.
 
Bleuurrrrgggghhhh! and measurements

Well, after a night of sleeping (well, with one eye open anyway) inbetween two of my kids periodically vomiting I wasn't too sure how well I would do today with the diet. As it is the bleach/puke aroma around the house has done wonders for quashing my appetite.

yesterday i ate:

breakfast: small bowl banana porridge
snack:apple/ orange/ handful of blueberries
lunch: bowl of vegetable soup
basil tomato and pesto salad

no dinner as kids & husband sick too busy!

This morning I took another set of photos. Not expecting to see any difference but am going to take one a week so the change can be tracked.

thought that as I intend to do quite a bit of weights I will take some measurements in case my waist shrinks but my weight doesn't.

It is so hard not to breathe in when I put the tape round my tummy!

top of arm (at biggest point of bingo wing): 12"
widest point of thigh: 23"
waist at smallest point: 29"
chest: 34"
round actual belly and muffin top bits: 38"

I never really know where to measure my hips. If I measure over my hip bones and over the largest part of my bum the measurement wont change much. It could even get bigger as I get fitter. i have a really flat bum. i have measured instead the fatest part of my tummy and around the really squidgy bits of my hiips.

Well, one week gone. I feel good. i feel committed. I feel thinner (on the inside at least!) I am not so bloated and feel SO much more awake in the mornings now that I have cut out alcohol. Very pleased.
 
its great that you took your measurements :) your hip measurement is taken at the iliac crest (where you can hopefully feel your hip bone) there is not a lot of muscle at this point so it will be mostly fat covering this bone.

there is nothing like the aroma of sick kids to put you of your appetite.
 
hip measurement

Thanks trusylver for the info. Feeling around my hips i can indeed feel that there is no muscle around that area but fat, if I push I can feel the contour of my hip bones underneath. I just guessed that because there was such a bulge to the top of that area I should measure around that. thanks for your help.

Iliac hip measurement: 37"
 
weigh in.

Yesterday I concentrated on getting all my fruit and veg in as I feel generally, as much as I LOVE fresh veg I do miss out. I know exactly why this is. I choose not to sit and eat dinner with the family in favour of cleaning the kitchen up after cooking and then helping the kids eat. I make sure they get there 5 a day but I don't seem to manage it, settling for being the Left-over Queen, finishing up everytihing they leave on their plates. totally scuzzy. NO MORE from this day on I declare my tummy a LEFT-OVER FREE ZONE

Breakfast: 2 wheatabix w/semi skimmed
Lunch: bowl of vegetable soup
Dinner: chicken salad

snacks throughout the day: bluberries, grapes and satsumas, and plenty of them and a rather guiltily ingested hot cross bun with copious amounts of butter. A stupid, stupid 10pm dip in will power.

On the whole not bad I suppose. Writing it down, it looks pretty sparce to be honest. i wasn't hungry at all in between meals. I think grapes contain a lot of sugar so I am guessing these gave me quite a bit of calorific energy yesterday.

Today i am going to weigh myself at the gym. Excited about going. Going to do 500 cardio and start lifting - I can't weight (geddit?!)
 
flippin' lazy gym staff

So, last night was a bit cruddy ecersise-wise as the lazy gym folk closed their doors at 8.30. Did a 1/2 hour street jog with 2 friends. Loads of hills so i guess thats okay really. Bit gutted though. weighed myself on Janines scales. they said 11st 6lb still, no change. I have now used 3 pairs of scales - I really should stick to just one pair. If I am honest I was expecting maybe 1lb less because I have already dropped 2lbs four days ago. Its all good. I'm not going to obsess about it, everything is going well and I haven't deviated from my diet so what happens is what happens.

Breakfast: Fruit
Lunch: half a tuna, cucumber & salad wrap
Dinner: Turkey stir fried with loads of verg and some noodles
snacks: fruit
 
cheat day?

I hate the term cheat day! But i most certainly had one yesterday. Hubby came home with vouchers for Burger King at lunch time. I did join in. I didn't want to sit there with a salad (their salads are a waste of mooney anyway!) so I gave in and had a meal. Am trying not to beat myself up about it and dont think it will ahve made too much of a dent in my diet really.

Breakfast: Coco pops (small bowl)
Lunch: Spicy chicken Royale, medium fries, small fanta
Dinner: crudities with a little reduced fat homous
snacks: Fruit, fruit, fruit! oh and 1/2 a bag of snack a jacks popcorn (I had to taste it!)

Going for a run tonight if this weather clears up. Am very much hoping that it will. Going to try to add some miles. Looking forward to weights tomorrow as still haven't managed to start.
 
Jogged last night - it isn't enough though. i am going to have to incorporate more cardio into my weights sssions (if I ever get to start - hopefully tonight) because the jog is just too slow and because I am jogging with others it would be rude to dash into the distnace. the way i see it at the moment anything is better than nothing and if i wasn't out running for that 30minutes last night I would have just been sitting on my arse watching inane TV so al is good.

breakfast: fruit
Lunch: miso soup
dinner: chicken casserole (small portion)
snacks: fruit and 3 herring slices with salad after run
 
finally got round to doing some weights - not much but at least it is a start.
Cant remember what measley weight I was lifting. I'll have to double check tonight. Thought I would just start with basic programme and build on it

3 sets of 15 reps to near failure on last couple of reps on last set

back pull down
chest press
leg press

10 minutes fast rowing
20 minutes x - trainer

Pilates and old man jog tonight. Looking forward to it.

Breakfast: fruit
Lunch: basil and tomato soup
Dinner: slice of pizza, dough ball, bit of mango & sticky rice
snacks: fruit

Got Body fat composition monitor today. I know it is probably way off but I guess as long as I use only that as a guide I should be all right

29% body fat
61% muscle
the rest water and organs I suppose!
 
It's great that you have started lifting weights now :) it doesn't matter what the actual weights are, just that they are the right weights for you at this time :) which it looks like they are, Nice effort :)
 
Thanks Trusylver!

Past two days have been cool. I have pretty much lost all my 'snacky' cravings. Am looking forward to every meal which is great because before I started this diet i never actually felt hungry. what a piggy.
cant really remember what i ate the day before yesterday but I didn't deviate.
Yesterday was the same, breakfast, soup for lunch and casserole for dinner. Loads of veg and fruit for snacks.

20 minutes x-trainer level 9
20 run at 8.4 - 10
chest press
pull down
leg press

Going to add more weight exercises next time, maybe shoulders, leg extensions.

x
 
Astounding! said the Gruffalo

plucked up the courage with the help of some other members here to jump on the scales at the gym. Even though I haven't deviated from the plan as such and exercised my bum off most nights i had a sneaking suspicion that I had not lost a bean. My aunt and my friend are both the same height and weight as me and they had not lost any weight even though they had been exercising and attributed that to muscle gain. i am pretty strong inately so thoguht that maybe this would also happen to me.

However, i jumped on the scales - couldn't quite believe it when the gym instructor said i was just below 68kg (showing my age eh? cant even see the scales!) that's 10st 10lb - 150lb. this is quite unbelieveable and i had to hop on and off about five times just to make sure this wasn't some kind of creul joke or some mistake.

I can only put this rapid weight loss down to the alcohol factor. For six weeks prior to starting this diet i loaded on 14lb. it went on very quick and must have been able to drop off pretty quick too. In no way am i expecting my weight loss pattern to continue in this vein. I think from now on in it will be a more gradula 1 - 2 lb a week as normal.

very pleased indeed. A real boost and incentive to keep me going. Looks like with hard work and effort I iwll definately reach my target!

WHOOP!

Hmmmm, am going to have a celebratory vodka tonight. Just one. Everything in moderation eh?!

Breakfast: Porridge
lunch: winter veg soup
Dinner: Fresh pasta carbonara -YUM!
fresh cream profiterole dunked in melted hot choclate (huuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrr)
snacks: fruit, crudities with humous

20 minutes run at 8.5
x- trainer 10 minutes level 9
 
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Lame

Okay, so feeling pretty crappy about the weekend. Too many deviations, a biscuit here, a crumpet there, 2 vodkas 2 nights on the trot. didn't run at all.
Last run was on Friday - two miles, pretty good as it was -3c outside. Absolutely diabolical weather today and as everyone who lives in the UK knows just a little bit of snow will bring the country to a standstill, well, out with the kids this morning and it was over their wellies. i don't suppose i will get to the gym tonight which is really bothering me. Am going to have to be extra strict with my diet today to make up for the weekend slackness.
BACK ON TRACK. THIN THIN THIN.
 
bloody snowy, slushy, icy muck

Okay, all great fun this snow malarky but roads have been too icy to get to gym in the evening. Although i have been pretty good in terms of food intake (minus the odd vodka and coke) i feel that without exercise my diet will fail. It has been a full week without any formal exercise and i am feeling sluggish and gross. i have been playing in the snow with the kids, lugging them to and from school, puling the baby buggy with me and walking the poocheswhich I am sure all adds up to something but it just doesn't feel good enough. i am desperatly hoping that the gym will be open tonight so i can run off this extra layer of snow fat that i feel I have accumalted.
ALSO have been trying too write a silly essay for university about the preservation and neglect of the built heritage of Ireland so all free time is pretty much being taken up by that.
Yesterday:

Coco pops
half chicken ceasar salad, half chocolate muffin - eek!
small roast dinner (beef, yorkshire, 3 small roast potatoes, 1 roast parsnip) peas beans carrots
ginger sponge pudding with cream - double eek!

So, actually didn't keep to diet at all yesterday - shocking.

SORT IT OUT WOMAN!

have most delicious soup in fridge for lunch today and am planning to finish essay tonight and use jeep to get to gym later on. Going to run for 30 minutes and x-train for the same. weights tomorrow.
 
losing the will to diet,forgetting about it and then remembering......

Okay, so I last logged in in February. It all went downhill from then, kept up running a little but once I got to my 30th and I wasn't anywhere near 135lbs I just kind of gave up. My motivation disappeared and once again I pulled on my baggy clothes and stopped looking at myself altogether. BOO HOO!!!:nopity:

I stopped breastfeeding Ivy in June, said Bye-Bye to two cups sizes within a week! Could this actually get any worse?

A couple of weeks went by, I continued to run in the evening as the days got longer, 1, 2 or 3 miles 3 times a week, not much. People started to ask me if I had lost weight. I got on the scales and to my surprise, without changing my lifestyle much, apart from stopping breastfeeding that is I had dropped 20lbs.

That's where I am now, around 140lbs.

Below are the shots of me in February with the shots of me this morning.

The measurements feel more impressive than the pictures look to be honest

February Now Diffrence

Chest 34" 34" 0

Waist 29" 26" -3

Thigh 23" 20" -3

Arm 12" 10.5" -1.5

Hip 37" 34.5" -2.5


I am pretty pleaseed but want to continue to shape up to my desired 133-135.
 
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