Back in Business!
I know! I know! You thought I’d given up! No! Admittedly I haven’t been doing anything, but I can justify that, slightly! Anyone who tries to lose weight will tell you it is very disheartening when you don’t lose, especially when you know that you have REALLY tried hard! So anyway, I let it get to me, I shouldn’t have, but I did! I’m really disappointed with myself. The next week I went back to weigh myself and the scales had been taken away, so they had obviously been wrong all the time! They came back (the scales), still out of order, and I haven’t checked since.
I have spent a bit of time getting over bad tummy pains though, which is my excuse for not exercising, I’m not sure what I did, whether I pulled a muscle or what, but for two days I could barely walk. But I got tablets from the doctor, and have got slowly and surely better. I have slipped out of my healthy eating habits, but I have beaten myself up about it, slapped myself around mentally and verbally, and vowed to get back on track when half-term was over, as we were all off on holiday.
Anyway, quite fortunately, and I put this down to walking my behind off for the first part of the half-term, I haven’t gained any centimetres! Weird saying it like this, but I decided that from now on I will let you know how many centimetres I lose, I figure that has to be more reliable than using scales that don’t seem to work reliably enough!
I have also moved my exercise bike downstairs, so I can use it whilst watching television in the evening, and when the kids aren’t about!
Published Date:
25/02/2008
Modified Date:
25/02/2008
A week to weight!
I haven’t got an update of my weight today as the scales in Tescos’ are out of order! Which is kind of disheartening for anyone who has started a new year losing weight campaign, as you need to see the figures to help give you encouragement. Still there is always next week!
I have to admit though I have found it very, very difficult this week, as I have not been well, and my daughter doesn’t want to sleep at the moment, so the fridge has been beckoning me, but I usually find that opening it, looking at all the things I shouldn’t eat and swearing at them helps, after all why should I be nice to them, they have never done me any good! It’s the physical side of my life that has suffered, other than the walk to school and nursery I haven’t done any exercise, as I said, I haven’t felt well enough, and have been too exhausted! I am booked into a class at work though, so that should get me picking up my socks! And providing I’m not needed elsewhere I may give the step class a whirl!
What about this weather though? So many rainy days! I don’t mind cold, but I’m not keen on rain, and I can’t wait for it to start being a little nicer, so I can drag the kids out for walks, which will do us all good!
Published Date:
22/01/2008
Modified Date:
22/01/2008
Knickers!
Hmmmm! Not too sure exactly what has happened this week! I put on a pound, and I have been just as strict with what I eat and have even exercised a little more. I know that when fat goes and muscle increases you can weigh heavier, but I’m not sure. I wasn’t convinced that the scales were right last week with such a great loss, and this week, I’m wondering if that is in fact the case! I thought by using the scales in Tesco’s that I’d have a more accurate weigh than at home.
The weird thing is I have noticed that I have lost more myself, and I am even having trouble with my knickers falling down all the time, a sure sign that I have either lost weight, or that the elastic has gone! But I am also measuring myself and I have gone down by 9cm all over! So what do you think? I’d be interested to hear your opinions! My husband think that getting soaked in the rain probably added 5lbs! Ha!
This can be disheartening, though, as I said to my husband, I wouldn’t mind the gain if I’d had the pleasure that goes hand in hand with it. Normally I would have thrown my hands up in despair, and given up on a task not worth the effort, but doing my blog has given me more staying power which I am grateful for, so I will keep plodding forward and hope for better news next Tuesday! Watch this space, I’m going to take up less of it!
Published Date:
15/01/2008
Modified Date:
17/01/2008
Falling at the first hurdle!Not me!!!!
EEEEEEEWWWWW! What a day! No don't worry, I haven't fallen yet! but I have had a very bad day so far! My little girl has conjunctivitus at the moment, and was awake at 2am because her eyes were all stuck together, naturally this kept her and me awake for most of the night, so I am having a really lazy day! I don't feel like cooking, and I'm really not feeling hungry at all, so that's just as well, maybe it's because I have had ten days of eating really well, that I can skip a day of eating 3 square meals. I have had a small breakfast of yoghurt, blueberries and oats. And I have picked at a little turkey for lunch. I haven't felt like it at all, but I don't want my body to think that I'm now starving it! When I had my old habits, the food I would pick on when I felt like this would be chocolate and all sorts of other bad things, and of course a bottle of full sugar cream soda or coke, to wake me up.
I have brought my exercise bike out of retirement (actually it was being used as a clothes horse, come on, admit it lots of you do it too!), and am starting off slow, I cycled, whilst singing along to three Amy Macdonald songs, my intention is to eventually be able to cycle to the whole album. I set myself a target of so many songs, because I hate watching the timer on the bike. And singing whilst you exercise is actually really good for you as it helps you to breathe properly.
But like I said today is a slow day, the only exercise I'm getting today is walking, on the school run, and to work and back. In the immortal words of Scarlet O'Hara - Afterall, tomorrow is another day!
Published Date:
11/01/2008
Modified Date:
14/01/2008
First weigh-in!
Wow! Today was my first weigh-in, and I have to say I was pretty shocked! I knew that I would lose more in my first week than any other, that's always the way, but I couldn't believe when I saw that I had actually lost 17lbs (7.7kg). While I'm really pleased with this, I do know that it will not be healthy to continue like that, I do think next week will be another large amount, but not as much, and then I'll start to settle down to a regular but smaller weight loss. this is how I have done it before anyway. I also lost a total of 14cm from all over my body!
I have made up a little figure to help encourage me by showing how much of my five stone target I have left to go, it kind of looks like a church roof fund diagram!
The cake shop is dead easy to deal with, I don't take my purse when I take my son to nursery! If I need to go to Tescos' on the way back, the I will take only my card. But if I'm honest I think I could easily muster up enough willpower! Speaking of Tescos' they have a great book in their bargain section at the moment called 'the big book of low-carb recipes', I'll be scouring it for ideas, and also they sell dried spaghetti that is made from lentils, pulses and peas. and personally I think it tastes nicer than normal spaghetti.
I have followed a low-carb diet this week, so I haven't had bread, potatoes, rice or pasta. and definitely no sugary foods! I haven't missed out on anything at all, if I have fancied chocolate then I have eaten fruit! My kids are asking to try different veges as I cut them up as well, they all eat fruit, but aren't keen on veg, still can't get them to eat it cooked but raw veg is better anyway as it keeps it's nutrients better!
Published Date:
08/01/2008
Modified Date:
14/01/2008
Still going strong
Wow! I have had quite a stressful time recently! Not helped by the school holidays or a new computer system at work (which doesn't run smoothly yet) But whereas I would normally have reached for the chocolate etc. I have tried to find other thiings to do, I even had the kids prancing around exercising with me the other day. We were doing the Strictly Come Dancing exercise dvd. Though somehow I don't think Karen and Erin intended their moves to be translated into Power Ranger moves! Still it kept them entertained!
I 'created' a fantastic morrocan style dish the other day, using buckwheat, it was really scrummy, and packed with goodness, and also low fat and low carb! Do you think I can remember how I did it? I have a vague recollection of grabbing different spices out of the cupboard, but the exact ones.......not a clue!
So anyway only two days to go, and I'll be letting you know how much I have lost in the first week! The first week you usually lose a load of fluid, and have a bigger weight loss. I know I'm not so bloated, as my three year old laid his head on my tummy and said "mummy, your tummy getting smaller, where it gone?".
Bless him! my son starts a new nursery tomorrow, there is a bakery on the corner of the road, that's going to take some will power, isn't it?!?!
Published Date:
06/01/2008
Modified Date:
06/01/2008
Great start!
I am really chuffed that my first day went so well! I weighed myself at Tescos, eeeek! This could have left me very down for the rest of the day but I told myself that it didn't matter as it was only going to go down from now!
We still have the chocolates out in our house, but I stayed away from them. I know that you can eat healthily and still have chocolate and crisps, but I'm one of those people who will not just be satisfied with a small taste. Later on I will be able to have a taste of a forbidden food, but for now, I have to retrain my pallette.
I had a slow start to the day as my daughter decided to get up and see in the New Year, so I slept quite late, and then I spent the evening on the phone to an old friend, and gossiped for nearly three hours! Shocking! Still what better way to avoid evening picking pangs?!?! I am at work for the next three nights so I won't have any temptations then!
Today I have started well also, and I plan on taking down the decorations and cleaning, if I get time I will do an exercise dvd, but I'm not going to worry if not, as the rest will give a bit of a workout.
Published Date:
02/01/2008
Modified Date:
02/01/2008
Goodbye 2007, Hellllo 2008!
I cannot wait for 2007 to end! I promised I would start my new lifestyle on the first day of January 2008, and I have been reconditioning my brain to like and dislike certain things. Where I would usually use the festive season as an excuse to eat lots of rich food and goodies, this year I hardly bought any as I didn't want them left behind to 'pick-on' come 2008!
I am actually finding that I can't wait for tomorrow to come, and to get started! When I saw the opportunity to keep this blog I got so excited as I think it may be just what I need to lose weight! Normally if you go to a class you answer to a teacher, but if you slip up, or can't be bothered, you just stop going and nobody is there to chastise you. But this way, there are lots of people who will want to know why!
One thing I will be doing is using self-hypnosis cds, by a fantastic woman called Molly-Ann Fairley at slim and relax, I have used these before and they do really work, check out the link! This will help my mind, for my body I plan on doing exercise dvds at home as well trips to the Sovereign Centre gym. I work on reception there so I have no excuse not to use the facilities! As for my diet, I will be waving goodbye to chocolate and fizzy drinks, I will be cutting out carbs, and eating more fruit and veges!
I will be having short term goals, to make them more manageable, so start with I am committing myself to losing 5st.
Wish me luck, I am on my way!
Adele
31 December 2007 12:58:33
Published Date:
31/12/2007
Modified Date:
31/12/2007