A New Hope

One pound at a time.

My Profile

  • Name: Gisella
  • City: Southampton
  • Region: Southampton
  • Country: United Kingdom

My Weight Loss

Height: 170.2cm
Start weight: 15st 6.00lb
Current weight: 15st 2.00lb
Goal weight: 9st 5.00lb
Lost to date: 0st 4.00lb
Remaining: 5st 11.00lb

My Calendar

22
May '12
< May >
S M T W T F S
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

My Photos

Before After

My friends list

Really Simple Syndication
01/28/2010 15:56

Yay sleeping patterns!

Oh my god It’s 9am and I’VE BEEN TO SLEEP! God I’m so happy! I’m sort of annoyed that it’s taken me up until now to get my sleeping patterns on track because it’s affected almost everything I’ve done this week.

Remember my ambitious exercise plan? Well, it hasn’t gone exactly how it should have done *cough*.. All I’ve done this week is walked for half an hour on one day and I walked for about 3 miles yesterday and around town a lot.. Yesterday was tough, I didn’t sleep all through the night and I had to go to the job centre in the morning so I simply didn’t sleep and I walked into town in a daze feeling almost stoned, I signed on and then went out with a friend and we had dinners and walked around town ALL DAY. My feet cane, they’re completely blistered and gross.. But as soon as I got in I passed out haha.. I fell asleep at half 5 at night and woke up at 8am this morning, I think that’s enough catch-up? Haha. Hopefully that’ll sort out my body clock once and for all!

So yeah, I hate using excuses about not doing exercises but my sleeping patterns have been so whack.. Hopefully now I’ve got them in check I can start exercising when my feet have healed up. But I’m glad that I’ve done a little bit of exercise and I’ve eaten alright rather than no exercise and ate complete crap. I’m not beating myself up about it but if it carries on I’m thinking about going to the doctor about sleep medication.

I haven’t weighed myself yet.. I’m still restraining myself and waiting until tomorrow morning. I’m HOPING for 2lb or at least a pound because of my freak 3lb weight loss at the beginning of the week It wouldn’t surprise or put a downer on me if I just stayed the same.

Anyways, I’ve run out of mundane fitness related things to whinge about so I’ll leave it here haha.

GISELLE

P.S: I've just done 20 minutes of aerobics and I feel much better. :D Oh and I forgot to mention, I went to grab my double chin  today (as you do..) and I was like.. Um, where is it? I can't.. Feel.. What have I lost weight in my CHIN?! No wonder my measurements were petty, it's come out of my chin! I keep looking at my lack of chin in awe. Of course I still have a bit of a double chin, but it's really not that noticeable anymore! Yay!

Posted By: Gisella Add Comment | Comments (0) Top
01/25/2010 18:59

Another 3lb bites the dust! Somehow..?

After a weekend of naughtiness and bad choices.. I've lost 3lb?! Um. Okay, I'm not complaining! But seriously, the hell? Haha.. I think I have an obsession with weighing myself.. It needs to stop! I'm promising myself that I'm not going to weigh myself again until the 29th because it's getting to the point where I'm weighing myself once or twice DAILY and I know I won't always like what I see. First thing Friday morning and no more weighing until then! Haha..

 I can't help but feel a bit pleased with a 3lb mystery weight loss even if I am totally perplexed by it.. I got on the scales this morning ready to hate myself..  Well to be honest, I mean I did eat bad stuff and drink lots, but I didn't eat it in huge quantities, maybe that's it.. I haven't a clue.

Oh and so much for the getting a good nights sleep plan.. It's 8am over here and I haven't slept yet.. I'm determined to stay up all day so I can actually go to bed at a normal time, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen. As soon as my boy goes to work I'm going to have a go at my aerobics.. Even though I haven't slept, if I feel like I'm overdoing it I'll stop but the strange thing with exercise sometimes is that it actually wakes you up sometimes so I'm banking on that. Seriously though, I need some sleep desperately.. There are bags under my eyes that make me look literally like an overexaggerated drug addict or a racoon. It's really horrible. I hope they go away when I manage to sleep better.

The annoying thing about not sleeping is you eat a lot more because you're awake where usually you're essentially fasting for 8 hours.. I always thought it was cool when I figured out that breakfast stands for breaking the fast haha. I'm so lame. But yeah, it's making me paranoid about putting my awesomely weird unexpected weight loss back on.. But I guess sleep is more important. 

Along with my mystery weight loss, I measured myself too.. Nothing gone from my gut and my hips, but I've lost half an inch off my thigh, an inch off my waist and an inch off my boobs. Yay, smaller boobs :/.. Oh well hopefully when I next measure it'll be my belly, not my boobies but meh, it'll come off eventually I'm sure.. I can't wait to get under 200lb.. Only 11 more pounds to go.. I can't remember the last time I was under 200lb, it's really exciting. I'm going to push myself extra hard this week.

WHY ARE MY ENTRIES ALWAYS SO LONG?! Haha, I just looked up and saw an essay which is just me wittering on and on.. I would blame lack of sleep, but there seems to be a pattern emerging haha.

I'll leave it here, before I start talking about my toilet habits or the length of my toenails. Such an exciting life I lead :P

GISELLE X

Posted By: Gisella Add Comment | Comments (0) Top
01/25/2010 18:55

Feeling positive! + Goals for next week!

[Written 24th January 2010]

As predicted, I've definitely overdone it this weekend.. Lot's of drinks, Mexican food, cheese on toast, coke.. You name it. It's been quite bad. I admit that.. But I'm alright with that. I'll just have to get back on track this monday, get back into my aerobics and good eating habits. I'm just setting goals and trying to get back on top of things.. My sleeping patterns are so screwed lately - I slept from 4PM until around 11 in the evening, so I'm trying desperately to stay up for the whole day so I can actually sort out my body clocl hopefully once and for all and make the most of my days. Plus black eyebags really aren't a good look for me hah

Here are my exercise plans for next week!





** Calories burned according to SP calculator.. Using the slowest speeds for walking and cycling, just in case I really am slow haha. I don't want to cheat myself by over estimating, so instead I under estimate! Less room for disappointment then, and it makes me work hard!

Of course this is just a rough plan, but looking at it inspires me. It exceeds my goal on SP by quite a bit which is 90 minutes of cardio exercise with a 760 calorie burn. So yes, this is quite ambitious! But I think this has enough rest days for it to work. Ideally this is how next week will go, but if I feel the need to swap some stuff out, or I'm feeling really tired I can be flexible and I'm NOT going to beat myself up and feel like a failure.. But I'm going to try meet my new goals for this week all the same.

The 2 hour walk you ask? That's because I have to go to the job centre on that day, so I figured I might as well walk it rather than wasting money to catch a bus.. Kills 2 birds with one stone, sorting my career out and getting healthy! Lovely. Haha. The job centre is 2.5 miles each way around abouts.. So I'll be walking 5 miles overall.. That sounds pretty impressive to me, although it's probably not haha. But sadly because I live in England, the weather is like Russian Roulette so whether I do it or not is very dependant on the weahter. So fingers crossed. The walk is my biggest calorie killer so I'm really hoping it'll happen.

I'm feeling very positive today. I think it's a good sign that even though I've overeaten to hell, drank my bodyweight in alcohol and been naughty, I'm getting back on track without getting depressed, discouraged and saying 'stuff it'. I knew this was going to happen so I think I've prepared myself a bit better for it. I've just got to take it one step at a time and I think setting ambitious goals for myself is helping me. Just seeing the potential calories burned inspires me! I'm excited to start the new week already!

I WILL lose those 50 pounds!





GISELLE X

Posted By: Gisella Add Comment | Comments (0) Top
01/25/2010 18:50

Weigh in [a loss!]

[Written January 22 2010]

I've lost 3 pounds since last Saturday! I'm very pleased with myself, seeing as I didn't do any exercise until yesterday. It's just the motivation I need to get me back on track!

My parents are going away tomorrow for the weekend, so I can exercise downstairs without feeling like a complete plonker.. Exercising in my room isn't ideal. It's full of stuff that I'm constantly having to push back and rearrange so I can move and it's still cramped so that in itself is enough for me to say 'no' rather than yes sometimes! I'm going to take advantage of it as much as possible tomorrow, perhaps try to push myself up to an hour.. But we'll see. I'm also going out on my bike tomorrow for a bit, which is almost a dead cert for at least 20 minutes so I'll have a good bit of exercise behind me!

I have a confession to make though. I'm having some drinkies tomorrow of the alcoholic variety.. And 'some' will probably end up being er quite a lot. I'm not even going to bother lying to myself about it haha.. I'm sort of hopeing that the exercise will cancel it out, or most of it at least.

I'm feeling very positive at the moment. I've been good food-wise so far.. Mostly because a certain someone hasn't been here buying me chocolates, high calorie sandwiches and icecream like they usually do. Perhaps not seeing him so much is good for me. I must admit I'm finding it much easier without him here.

Anywho, on with the stats!


Starting Weight 217 lb  Current Weight 214 lb Total Weight lost

3 lb


Gisella

Posted By: Gisella Add Comment | Comments (0) Top
01/25/2010 18:42

First entry! [Goals and Ramblings]

[Written 20th January 2010]

Today I managed to get my unmotivated ass out of bed and do some aerobics for 30 minutes, I slowed down a bit towards the end, but I still built up a sweat and my heart was still rushing. I know I could have performed better today, but my heart just wasn't in it. But at least I got myself out of bed today and DO something rather than lay in bed for a few more empty hours and hate myself when I step on the scales next.

It irks me. I successfully lost 15 pounds before Christmas which was my first real attempt at losing wait, and I had such a fire in my belly that I'd get up early every morning especially to do some aerobics, which started off quite light. I managed to work myself up to a higher intensity and pushed myself to do it at the same pace for over an hour when before half an hour used to wear me out. I was pumped, motivated and the weight was coming off.

Then Christmas happened, lots of drinking and merriment meant I'd put all the weight back on plus a lot of interest! So as a new years resolution I promised myself I'd lose all that weight again, but I haven't managed to get the same motivation or drive I had before. I guess it's just depressing that you lose all this weight and get off to a good start and after a few weeks of stupid choices I'm not even going back to square one! I have to work my ass off to even get back to the fatass weight I started at!

But today is change. I've created this new diary to be separate from my current one so this can be almost completely health-weight-fitness exclusive.

I'm using 'Gisella' as my name, which means 'promise' and if you look at it, it sort of looks like it should be derived from Gisele, y'know the slim and graceful antelope like animal (and also the slim leggy model) so I thought that was quite fitting. If I'm posting my weight up here, I'm using a pseudonym damnit!

I'm hoping I'll find lost motivation by recording every step, sucess, hiccup, my goals and my plans which will hopefully kickstart my motivational 'Mojo'!


TODAY I..

Exercised.. for 30 minutes using an aerobics DVD (a bit half-assed, but that's 30 minutes more than yesterday! Think Positive!

Ate.. Reasonably well, but I had a Dr Pepper out of politeness but I'm pretty sure I didn't go over anyway.

VITAL STATS

Height: 5"8

Weight: 217 pounds (or 15.7 stones)

WEIGHT MILESTONES

+ Get under 200 pounds

+ Get to 190 pounds

+ Get to 180 pounds

+ Get to 170 pounds

+ Get to 160 pounds

Longterm Goal: Reach 150 pounds

Gisella

Posted By: Gisella Add Comment | Comments (0) Top
Tracker