Well this is my post Xmas blog post, where i confess my food sins....but actually the damage wasn't as bad as i thought! i only put on 1.2kg over 2 days. i had to allow for Xmas eve because we had lunch at Hubby's family and dinner at mine. delish food! Got so full though, almost was sick after 5 banana choc wontons! thoroughly enjoyed all the treats the days had to offer.
Jumped back on the wagon on Boxing day and lost 1kg in that day! Haven't managed to shift anymore though, as i thought. So back up to 56.9kg which is great, but not as good as i wanted. I'm more worried about this holiday on Sunday, 4 nights at a camp ground with limited food supplies, its going to be hard to stick to Dukan! How will 5 days of damage appear i wonder. I will have to try to be good, but i don't want to ruin it for everyone else by trying to diet on holiday! If i could only lose a bit more by then, but on new years eve i'm going to my parents house for the night and they want takeaways...
on the plus side i have finally got the Dukan book so am reading it at the mo, hopefully will keep me motivated when we are away so i better take it with me!
finding it harder to go for runs, must be the heat. Jogging in front of the fan is the only thing that helps!
Anyway just need to truck on. this last 1.4kg is so hard to shift when i just keep going backwards! There's mums birthday bbq when we get back on the 7th as well. But after that i should be sweet for a couple of weeks, nothing planned until end of Jan my brothers wedding. So i'll focus on those couple of weeks getting first back to my current weight (no doubt i'll creep up a couple of kg on holiday!) then to focus hard to lose this last little bit. Maybe 4 days of lightning attack! but next couple of weeks far too hard to try to lose it.
Phew. At least i have a plan now!
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
4 days before Xmas
OK i have officially lost track of the days. Never mind,i shall have to make up titles for each blog. So. Back to business....i and almost nearly at officially 12kg down! Two days in a row i am 56.7kg Yayyyy! I love seeing the 56 let me tell you. So close to 55! hoping that after a PP day today i might see a shift on the scale tomorrow. Obviously the more i lose before the 2days of FOOD HEAVEN over Christmas come the better. Man am i looking forward to that food. No deprivation on Xmas for me. i have been lusting after it for months on end now! When i started this diet my aim was to lose weight for summer but the benchmark was always Xmas, i never expected to lose this much weight though! So 12 kg aye....13 will be better!
Sometimes i secretly wonder whether Hubby wants me to lose more than i have and will, because doesn't every man want a skinny wife/girlfriend? i wonder whether he wished i was thinner when we first dated, i am around the same weight now (with a few more wobbly bits and stretchmarks!) as when we met. I am afraid to broach the subject- i know he is proud of what i have done but i cant help feeling he might wish i got even thinner? or is it all in my head? If i do mention it i'll probably get my head bitten off for being so ridiculous!
I have to be honest and admit i haven't gone onto the Dukan diet sites and asked for a calculation of my true weight, because i'm not fussed on being super skinny. And quite frankly why should i have to be?
Anyway i am happy with my progress, and i look forward to both losing a little more before the silly season and getting the consequences of bad eating off again afterwards!
Sometimes i secretly wonder whether Hubby wants me to lose more than i have and will, because doesn't every man want a skinny wife/girlfriend? i wonder whether he wished i was thinner when we first dated, i am around the same weight now (with a few more wobbly bits and stretchmarks!) as when we met. I am afraid to broach the subject- i know he is proud of what i have done but i cant help feeling he might wish i got even thinner? or is it all in my head? If i do mention it i'll probably get my head bitten off for being so ridiculous!
I have to be honest and admit i haven't gone onto the Dukan diet sites and asked for a calculation of my true weight, because i'm not fussed on being super skinny. And quite frankly why should i have to be?
Anyway i am happy with my progress, and i look forward to both losing a little more before the silly season and getting the consequences of bad eating off again afterwards!
Thursday, 15 December 2011
XMAS GOAL REACHED!!!!!
I wouldn't normally post the next day but just had to! After losing 1.7kg in the last four days i wasn't expecting to lose any more, but i lost another 300g and it has brought me 8 days early to my Xmas goal weight!!!!! Yayyy so excited, cant believe i have made it. So happy! 11.5kg down, woohoo! it's funny, at the end of the day i always feel so bloated etc but i thought it was because i have been drinking more fluids from 4pm onward, but this may actually be helping me lose weight!
I wonder how much more i can lose before Xmas day....except today i am meeting my mother for lunch (have prepared cheery tomatoes and a wedge of fat free cheese) so hopefully i can abstain...then tomorrow hubby is taking me out for dinner, no occasion except we haven't been out together sans kids for a long time, we usually have the Toddler with us if not all of them. his parents are living close to us for a few weeks so we have to take advantage! And it's the last time in a while we will be able to afford it, with Xmas and all these holidays popping up over the next two months. So that will be my celebration dinner for sure!
Oh i am just so happy. And surprised that i have managed to stick to something for nearly 3 months actually, i have done many diets before and there was only once that i managed to stick to it and i did lose loads of weight but i was also starving myself half the time and taking copious amounts of laxatives which was terrible for my insides. I got to be too skinny for my liking too, i like being curvy! So usually i give up a week or two in, but this time i have kept going and BOOM have lost heaps!
My biggest fear though is that with Xmas and the new year and the holidays that i will fall off the wagon completely and start to pile it back on. i think i need to have a median weight that i will try to hover around so that i don't give myself excuses to creep up once I've finished this diet. 57 is a really nice number right now! But if i see 56 tomorrow....i may change my mind!!!!
I wonder how much more i can lose before Xmas day....except today i am meeting my mother for lunch (have prepared cheery tomatoes and a wedge of fat free cheese) so hopefully i can abstain...then tomorrow hubby is taking me out for dinner, no occasion except we haven't been out together sans kids for a long time, we usually have the Toddler with us if not all of them. his parents are living close to us for a few weeks so we have to take advantage! And it's the last time in a while we will be able to afford it, with Xmas and all these holidays popping up over the next two months. So that will be my celebration dinner for sure!
Oh i am just so happy. And surprised that i have managed to stick to something for nearly 3 months actually, i have done many diets before and there was only once that i managed to stick to it and i did lose loads of weight but i was also starving myself half the time and taking copious amounts of laxatives which was terrible for my insides. I got to be too skinny for my liking too, i like being curvy! So usually i give up a week or two in, but this time i have kept going and BOOM have lost heaps!
My biggest fear though is that with Xmas and the new year and the holidays that i will fall off the wagon completely and start to pile it back on. i think i need to have a median weight that i will try to hover around so that i don't give myself excuses to creep up once I've finished this diet. 57 is a really nice number right now! But if i see 56 tomorrow....i may change my mind!!!!
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Day 77
Phew i have lost a huge amount of weight in the last four days! The best news of all though is that...my BMI is NORMAL!!!!! for the first time since getting pregnant in 2009 i am NORMAL!!!!! i have been waiting for this day. the last 3 months or so have been hard, being told by my scales everyday that i am overweight, now I've slid into normal yayyyyyy! i want to share this with my husband but i am embarrassed that i was overweight, i never told him, but i'm sure he guessed.
So everyday for the last four days i have been losing weight, a total of 1.7kg- loads huh? And now i think it will stop for a few days, i just need to maintain it. Yesterday i made a tester cheesecake-white choc and Russian fudge- and i had a tiny piece for afternoon tea, it was so rich my mouth was tingling by the end! I felt for sure this would have caused a gain even though it was small so i did a 3rd run and some extra squats. I've also been trying to work in 1-2 extra glasses of fluid a day so maybe this is helping? Whatever it is, i am only 300gms away from my Xmas goal and i have 9 days....I Can Du it!!!!!!!!
Bought a new dress and have my eye on another. Also a few singlet tops in a shop, my mum is giving me a voucher for Xmas. I apologised to my hubby and he said 'youre doing so well you so deserve new clothes' ahhh i love him. I fit into two pairs of Pre baby jeans and have fit into two more of small ones that i have picked up recently. There's one pair lanuishing at the bottom of my drawers that i wore in the winter i met brett, when i got pregnant, they are size 12 girls because i am a shortie and i used to but my pants from the girls department if they werent all sparkly, then i dont have to take them up. i havent ried them yet but i suspect they wont be far off fitting, ,aybe another 2kg or so. I need to be able to breathe in them!
And another 2kg is all i want to lose. in fact i might even be happy here at 57.3 but i want to fit those jeans! And 55kg is such a nice even number.....
Today i am on a huge high, so proud of myself. I never imagined last summer i would lose 11kg or more before this one, 5kg was all i ever got thinking about. I must remember to get Hubby to take an After pic when i'm all dressed up for Xmas! I have a before one with my legs showing, that one might have to be replaced on the corkboard!!!!
So everyday for the last four days i have been losing weight, a total of 1.7kg- loads huh? And now i think it will stop for a few days, i just need to maintain it. Yesterday i made a tester cheesecake-white choc and Russian fudge- and i had a tiny piece for afternoon tea, it was so rich my mouth was tingling by the end! I felt for sure this would have caused a gain even though it was small so i did a 3rd run and some extra squats. I've also been trying to work in 1-2 extra glasses of fluid a day so maybe this is helping? Whatever it is, i am only 300gms away from my Xmas goal and i have 9 days....I Can Du it!!!!!!!!
Bought a new dress and have my eye on another. Also a few singlet tops in a shop, my mum is giving me a voucher for Xmas. I apologised to my hubby and he said 'youre doing so well you so deserve new clothes' ahhh i love him. I fit into two pairs of Pre baby jeans and have fit into two more of small ones that i have picked up recently. There's one pair lanuishing at the bottom of my drawers that i wore in the winter i met brett, when i got pregnant, they are size 12 girls because i am a shortie and i used to but my pants from the girls department if they werent all sparkly, then i dont have to take them up. i havent ried them yet but i suspect they wont be far off fitting, ,aybe another 2kg or so. I need to be able to breathe in them!
And another 2kg is all i want to lose. in fact i might even be happy here at 57.3 but i want to fit those jeans! And 55kg is such a nice even number.....
Today i am on a huge high, so proud of myself. I never imagined last summer i would lose 11kg or more before this one, 5kg was all i ever got thinking about. I must remember to get Hubby to take an After pic when i'm all dressed up for Xmas! I have a before one with my legs showing, that one might have to be replaced on the corkboard!!!!
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Day 74
Wow what a weekend. i had been gearing up to my parents coming for ages and i knew it would be impossible to abstain form the bad food, but boy did i blow it out of the water! The biggest gain so far in one day, more than my 900g gain the day of the Hen's night. I gained 1.1kg! How shocking! I managed to get rid of 400g yesterday so today i am on Attack again to try and shift more of it.
This morning i was 58.6 so tomorrow i hope to have dropped at least 300g. Seeing 57.9 on the scales was fantastic but i kinda stayed there all week, so it's a shame i'm up so much now. but i certainly ate for Africa on Saturday, having bad stuff from 11am onward! Some of it i enjoyed but i have to admit a lot of it was not even nice, i think i have learnt from that exercise that i i am going to indulge i should be more selective! Its no fun putting weight on for things i didn't even enjoy.
Also there are these low carb, low sugar, low fat choco honeycomb balls...they are so good but so mooreish! i have been eating half a pack at a time. why do i have no willpower! if i could meter them out it would be much better but i don't think i can :(
A disappointing weekend weight wise, i did three runs yesterday and that helped me lose 400g but its so hard on my feet and legs, i hope i'm not overdoing it. i don't want to get into 3x runs a day, its hard enough doing two! but it has given me an idea of what Xmas will be like, the more weight i can lose in 13 days the better!
This morning i was 58.6 so tomorrow i hope to have dropped at least 300g. Seeing 57.9 on the scales was fantastic but i kinda stayed there all week, so it's a shame i'm up so much now. but i certainly ate for Africa on Saturday, having bad stuff from 11am onward! Some of it i enjoyed but i have to admit a lot of it was not even nice, i think i have learnt from that exercise that i i am going to indulge i should be more selective! Its no fun putting weight on for things i didn't even enjoy.
Also there are these low carb, low sugar, low fat choco honeycomb balls...they are so good but so mooreish! i have been eating half a pack at a time. why do i have no willpower! if i could meter them out it would be much better but i don't think i can :(
A disappointing weekend weight wise, i did three runs yesterday and that helped me lose 400g but its so hard on my feet and legs, i hope i'm not overdoing it. i don't want to get into 3x runs a day, its hard enough doing two! but it has given me an idea of what Xmas will be like, the more weight i can lose in 13 days the better!
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Day 70!
Well i have hit 57.8kg...woohoo! I know i say woohoo all the time but seriously, whenever i have a loss even if it's 100g it's just so exciting! A few weeks ago i thought 57 was so far away, and hard work. I have approx. 2.8kg to lose to get to my final goal....and it seems millions of miles away right now, but hopefully i can make it there okay!
The big thing in my way is Christmas. i don't want to be the Grinch who makes everyone else feel bad about food this time of year, especially my family who all love the food Christmas brings. There just needs to be a balance and as much exercise i can squeeze in! Unless we are away form home there is no excuse for not going for a run-unless it's Christmas morning. then the Santa stockings are more important! Anyway i already have plans for a walk at some point on the day.
I really feel though that if it wasn't Christmas in 13 days then i could crack this 2.8kg easy as pie. But it will take me twice as long if not more due to all the eating i will be doing...yes i know you are thinking, just stick to the diet best you can! And i should. But in reality it will be too hard.
I will still eat oat bran and yogurt every day, still have sweetener and low fat milk in coffee, still drink loads of water, still eat more meat than veggies- but if i have a plate of dessert or some choccies, even some POTATOES or BREAD then i will not beat myself up.
Ok Christmas rant over! Yesterday my hubby took me out for lunch. Of course there was nothing Dukan friendly on the menu! So i decided to have the steak sandwich on ciabatta with onions and tomato, and it came with chips. I gave half of them to Toddler, and ate most of the other half. The sandwich was absolute heaven, everything i have missed! It wasn't huge though which was great. After i felt ok, not too full, and walked for 10mins without a stitch. Went home and did a 30min run, my second of the day. no afternoon tea- but i still felt guilty so i ran a third time for another 20mins, and did Pilates. Just ate chicken for dinner. My legs were so sore i could barely stand! After a good nights sleep i jumped on the scales fearing the worst and....i had lost 100gms!
This is the third time this has happened, so it's proving that i am starting to be able to eat 'bad' things again and if i work hard it might cancel out the food and be a good thing. i am aware though, that this wont happen every time and i will have a gain if i go overboard!
The big thing in my way is Christmas. i don't want to be the Grinch who makes everyone else feel bad about food this time of year, especially my family who all love the food Christmas brings. There just needs to be a balance and as much exercise i can squeeze in! Unless we are away form home there is no excuse for not going for a run-unless it's Christmas morning. then the Santa stockings are more important! Anyway i already have plans for a walk at some point on the day.
I really feel though that if it wasn't Christmas in 13 days then i could crack this 2.8kg easy as pie. But it will take me twice as long if not more due to all the eating i will be doing...yes i know you are thinking, just stick to the diet best you can! And i should. But in reality it will be too hard.
I will still eat oat bran and yogurt every day, still have sweetener and low fat milk in coffee, still drink loads of water, still eat more meat than veggies- but if i have a plate of dessert or some choccies, even some POTATOES or BREAD then i will not beat myself up.
Ok Christmas rant over! Yesterday my hubby took me out for lunch. Of course there was nothing Dukan friendly on the menu! So i decided to have the steak sandwich on ciabatta with onions and tomato, and it came with chips. I gave half of them to Toddler, and ate most of the other half. The sandwich was absolute heaven, everything i have missed! It wasn't huge though which was great. After i felt ok, not too full, and walked for 10mins without a stitch. Went home and did a 30min run, my second of the day. no afternoon tea- but i still felt guilty so i ran a third time for another 20mins, and did Pilates. Just ate chicken for dinner. My legs were so sore i could barely stand! After a good nights sleep i jumped on the scales fearing the worst and....i had lost 100gms!
This is the third time this has happened, so it's proving that i am starting to be able to eat 'bad' things again and if i work hard it might cancel out the food and be a good thing. i am aware though, that this wont happen every time and i will have a gain if i go overboard!
Sunday, 4 December 2011
day 67ish
I am down to 58.5kg. bang on official 10KG WEIGHT LOSS TOTAL!!!!!!!! wahoooooooo
Vey very pleased with myself today. Lost more than a kg last week so good stuff. heading down that slope towards all the festive season temptation, and while i wont completley abstain i will try to be goo. Next weekend my parents are coming to stay and we are going to a couple of xmas events where there will be food, i will have to try so hard to not go overboard. I wonder if i can get to 58.0kg by then??????
On saturday i decided to have my 10kg loss celebration "cake" early as we had had a garage sale and made some money so we treated us and the kids. For some strange reason i ummed and ahhhed then chose a piece of apple pie with cream. maybe in my mind it was healthier than a piece of choc cake? that was what i really wanted. anyway the pie was nice enough, but didn't feel worth it by the last bite. i felt so guilty i ate nothing else for the rest of the day until my salmon for dinner. then i did another run. But yay, no gain the next day so that was good.
Still tough going. my body gets so sore from running i thought i'd be used to it by now. But i cant stop untili get to 55 or 56kg. then i know i'll be in the healthy range and what i used to be. Of course i could go smaller but i dont think i should have to if i'm happy there. so right now i am 2.5 or 3.5 kg away from my ultimate goal weight!!!!!!!!!!!! Fingers crossed i shall get to at least 57 by xmas!!!!
Vey very pleased with myself today. Lost more than a kg last week so good stuff. heading down that slope towards all the festive season temptation, and while i wont completley abstain i will try to be goo. Next weekend my parents are coming to stay and we are going to a couple of xmas events where there will be food, i will have to try so hard to not go overboard. I wonder if i can get to 58.0kg by then??????
On saturday i decided to have my 10kg loss celebration "cake" early as we had had a garage sale and made some money so we treated us and the kids. For some strange reason i ummed and ahhhed then chose a piece of apple pie with cream. maybe in my mind it was healthier than a piece of choc cake? that was what i really wanted. anyway the pie was nice enough, but didn't feel worth it by the last bite. i felt so guilty i ate nothing else for the rest of the day until my salmon for dinner. then i did another run. But yay, no gain the next day so that was good.
Still tough going. my body gets so sore from running i thought i'd be used to it by now. But i cant stop untili get to 55 or 56kg. then i know i'll be in the healthy range and what i used to be. Of course i could go smaller but i dont think i should have to if i'm happy there. so right now i am 2.5 or 3.5 kg away from my ultimate goal weight!!!!!!!!!!!! Fingers crossed i shall get to at least 57 by xmas!!!!
Thursday, 1 December 2011
day 62
More than two months in now!
today i weighed in at 58.9kg. How cool is that!!!!!! i am officially 400gms away from losing 10kg all together. YAYYYYYYY! i have done 3x runs today in the hope of shifting that 400gms but we will see, it is a vege day today so that could hinder things. my feet hurt though....
i am just getting comments all the time about how i'm looking thinner. Even when i walk past shop windows i get a shock to see myself looking more how i used to!!! Part of me wants to go thin thin but the other part knows i was happy at mid 50's and should stay there. i don't like super skinny girls and certainly wouldn't want to be one.
have bought a new dress online...hope it fits!!!!
Feel like i might almost be on the home stretch as i only think i want to lose 3-4 more kilos, but i know the next challenge will be keeping it off!!!!!
today i weighed in at 58.9kg. How cool is that!!!!!! i am officially 400gms away from losing 10kg all together. YAYYYYYYY! i have done 3x runs today in the hope of shifting that 400gms but we will see, it is a vege day today so that could hinder things. my feet hurt though....
i am just getting comments all the time about how i'm looking thinner. Even when i walk past shop windows i get a shock to see myself looking more how i used to!!! Part of me wants to go thin thin but the other part knows i was happy at mid 50's and should stay there. i don't like super skinny girls and certainly wouldn't want to be one.
have bought a new dress online...hope it fits!!!!
Feel like i might almost be on the home stretch as i only think i want to lose 3-4 more kilos, but i know the next challenge will be keeping it off!!!!!
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