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Holly88

Holly88

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Hello!

Another new diary! It's getting a bit excessive now, right? Hopefully this'll last me a while!

GOAL: twenty weeks to reach a healthy BMI... which roughly translates into losing 1.5lbs every week until mid August.

I did something a little crazy today... I bought an offer for a 'boudoir' photoshoot! It was really bargainous and the offer doesn't expire until October this year so I'm going to use that as motivation to finally reach a healthy BMI.

The most success I've ever had at losing weight was about 2 years ago now and it was a very basic system and it worked, so I'm going back to what I did then exactly in the hopes it'll work again. Actually, there's no 'hopes' about it, if I commit myself then it'll work :D

So this afternoon I'm going to draw up some charts to keep track of some really basic goals:
- eat under 1500kcal most days (I'll probably have a day off every 2 or 3 weeks like I used to)
- exercise (weights/cardio) at least three times a week

And that's it really :)

I've not exactly put on weight lately, I've just been staying all the time around the 13 stone mark. But I'm going to do some before pics and figure out my measurements later so I'll post the 'before' stats soonish.

Oh yeah and I've bought the 30 day shred! So we'll see how that goes lol.
 
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Yo Holly, how's it going?

I'm the same with weight loss diaries i'm on my third now lol! And hopefully it'll be my last. It's great you have something to motivate you, i've been looking at similar things but have not bought one yet although the deals are on all the time so maybe sometime in the future when i've lost about 4stone I may purchase one - my bf would love it lol!

My motivation this time round is my holiday :0) so I really am hoping to lose 2lb per wk which will be tough and i'm counting calories this time round which I've never done before, on previous diets I've counted ww points ect but never counting calories so we'll see how it goes. I'm also gonna try my absolute hardest to only weigh myself every 2 weeks, in the past I tended to weight myself every day or every 2nd day and i would just get upset and annoyed if the scales hadn't moved even though I had been good and the result would be that I'd give up.

Good luck holly and I can't wait to hear how your getting on xx
 
Yo!

The last few days have been alright, I had take away on Friday though (I'm going to blame booze). I played tennis today for the first time since last year so that's good...

I'll have more to report tomorrow I think - I'm getting a tesco shop so I won't just have to eat what we have in the flat (which isn't much good at the moment!).

I think I'll be having a protein shake for breakfast, soup and a roll for lunch and one of our typical dinners (made as healthily as possible) plus a couple of sessions of exercise/weights. So that's the plan for the next week!
 
Breakfast: protein shake (150kcal)
Snack: crudités and hummus (100kcal) banana (80kcal) milkyway bar (100kcal)
Lunch: Smoked salmon sandwich (300kcal) pineapple (80kcal)
Snack: half a tin of chicken casserole (150kcal)
Dinner: chicken biryani (600kcal)
Total: 1560kcal

I'm pleased with how I've done so far today, especially because I felt constantly hungry for some reason. I so wanted a chocolate muffin in the break but I resisted!

EDIT: I have to say this: my chicken biryani tonight was DELICIOUS!! SOOOOO GOOD! Yum! Though I think when I make it again I'll add some courgette and other veggies. If you want to make it (it's really simple):
 
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Breakfast: protein shake (200kcal)
Lunch: wholemeal roll with ham salad and some Moroccan soup (400kcal)
Snack: wispa chocolate bar 200kcal
Dinner: homemade burger with wholemeal bun, salad and wedges (700kcal)
Dessert: 1 kiwi (50kcal)
Total: 1550kcal

Another ok day - I was aiming for under 1500 but I'm still pleased!
 
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chicken biryani IS a delicious dish. I made the real thing once. And then it took me whole week to eat it. My father (who lives with me) hated the smell - which was very cinnamony. However, the indian version is extremely spicy so i left out most of the chilli because it makes eating simply too painful. I"d love to make it again but its quite a production. You boil the chicken first in spices and what not and after that you make the rice. The chicken goes in at the last minute. I notice the recipe you link to doesn't have potatoes. It should have potatoes in it. I know it sounds strange but there you go. Next time i make it, i will post the recipe. Its worth trying once in your life.
 
Thanks for the info.

I kinda screwed up a little. I couldn't resist a cup of tea and 2 biscuits, which means today will be more like 1800kcal :S Sigh! Will try better tomorrow.
 
OK so today has been a bit iffy but I'm feeling ok still.

I woke up and ate half the leftover burger my bf didn't eat last night. Then I had a cup of tea and TWO club biscuits! I felt pretty sorry for myself and started to fantasize about just calling it a crap day and going to KFC for lunch but my wonderful boyfriend talked me down and we went swimming instead!

So I had about 40 minutes of swimming and then some time in the steam room and the sauna, which made me feel a million times better and more optimistic.

We went to Tesco on our way back and bought lots of fruit and other healthy stuff.

And when I got back I had some pea and ham soup, yogurt with a clementine, melon and low cal crisps. I'd estimate about 500kcals.

And I'm having a chicken breast wrapped in bacon (220kcal) and a really big salad for dinner so it shouldn't work out as a bad day in all.

I'm feel quite positive at the moment. I really am trying to practice the ol' life style change rather than a diet. I've been talking with the bf to work out the reasons why I overeat/comfort eat and what solutions I can use to change my behaviour. It's helping and I feel ok now about maybe not doing perfectly every day. I've just got to remember that you can't succeed without slipping up sometimes and you only fail if you don't pick yourself back up, learn from your mistake and carry on!
 
Breakfast: protein shake (200kcal)
Lunch: soup and sandwich on wholemeal (450kcal)
Snack: piece of cake (300kcal)
Dinner: baked potato, beans and cheese (500kcal)
Dessert: yogurt and a clementine (100kcal)
Total: 1550kcal
 
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Breakfast: protein shake and a banana (300kcal)
Snack: cappuccino and maltesers (400kcal) EEP!
Lunch: soup and a clementine (200kcal)
Dinner: pork stirfry with courgette, peppers and noodles (750kcal)
Dessert: yogurt and clementine (100kcal)
Total: 1750 kcal

Sigh, not a great day but still ok! Slowly slowly catchy monkey I guess lol.

I think I overestimated some of my counts anyway (I do round them up).

I'm going shopping all day tomorrow with some of my bf's friends so I doubt I'll be able to count calories but I'm going to really try to make sensible decisions.
 
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OK so today I had a small wholewheat bun with ham salad for breakfast (300kcal) and then a KFC boneless banquet whilst out shopping (lol not the best choice - 1000kcals!) and a fruit smoothie made with sorbet (300kcal) and half a cookie (90kcal).... So not a brilliant day but not totally awful either. I think I'll be having a tiny bowl of irish stew later if I get peckish but that's probably it for the day.

I was back to 12 stone 11 this morning but I suspect all the salt from today will bounce me back over 13 tomorrow but that's ok.

I'm going to have a low cal day tomorrow to make up for today, small breakfast and lunch and Irish stew (without potatoes and with extra veggies) for dinner which will be about 700kcal I think.

That's about all my news except that me and my bf bought an Xbox today! Woooop! Going to play Fable III tonight :D
 
I don't know if this is practical (I live on my own so I don't have to consider anyone else's food choices), but one of the things that seems to keep coming up in your diary is biscuits/ cake/ chocolate. I don't plan to eliminate them completely from my diet, but I have eliminated them from my house so I'm not tempted by them (they will call to me, I'll eat one, and then the packet will magically vanish and reappear as blubber on my thighs or stomach). It looks like most days you'll be at/ under your calorie goal if you took those out of the equation (and/ or replaced them with lower calorie alternatives). Also, when you're going out, might it be worthwhile to plan what you're going to eat? I don't know how many fast food places list their nutrition online, but last week my boyfriend took me to Nando's and I planned the meal based on what I had left and what seemed like a reasonable option (I even fit chocolate ice cream into the deal- and if it weren't for the unexpected and thus unplanned for movie food I would've still been in my limit for the day).

If you can afford it, one of the things I'm doing (and will probably do more of) is buying (healthy) food I'd normally consider a luxury (berries, for example) and incorporating them into my diet food, so I don't feel deprived (and indeed I don't, having berries is a real treat). When I lose another kilogram I think I might go to Simply Food and have some fun in their fruit section :drooling: (or at least Tesco finest/ organic).

How's your exercise going?
 
Thanks for the advice, although it felt a little patronising... I'm not dumb: I can see myself where I'm making choices that could have been better!

I really want to make these changes permanent and I know I have the best chance at doing that if I do things slowly and steadily :)
 
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Hey :)
Thought I'd stop by!
Don't fret over the small stuff. If being at a slightly higher calorie limit means you can still have foods you like and enjoy but you're still under your maintain limit then go for it I say! It means you're less likely to feel like you can't have them and you won't feel the guilt about eating them if you're sensible elsewhere.
Red x
 
Sorry, no intention of being patronising- it's something it took me awhile to figure out. (I'm planning on making my own changes permanent as well- for me, that includes permanently keeping biscuits/ cake/ etc out of my house, I can't handle them)
 
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