03/08/2010 10:37
Public holiday struggles
Well - the scales still looked pretty good this morning 15 st 1.8lbs and to add to last nights post I did eat a bit more including some yoghurt and half a bottle of bubbly...
We got it on special offer and it was a public holiday weekend....
Oh well I've been better today. Some high fibre cereal for breakfast followed by a scrambled egg and bacon wrap and a banana for lunch followed by 18 holes of golf and a seafood salad for tea. ( you may note I am particularly fond of seafood salads.) I may have to have a hot choc for supper as I am still feeling a little peckish.
Night for now
03/07/2010 05:13
More inane ramblings
So I weighed myself on Saturday morning and the weight has gone up again 15st 4.4lbs. Umm not good. So I had my breakfast. Muesli topped up with special K coz it was only the dregs. Not so bad but I had some thickened cream in the fridge which needed eating up so I had that on my cereal...what the f..... I learnt at my Cognitive Behavioural Theray that everybody has their child pschye and their adult pschye. The child doesn't take any responsibilities and always blames others or outside influences. The adult is the rational sensible part that takes controls and thinks through decisions. Well my adult was telling me that I should just throw away the cream. It would be better all round to just get rid of it. My child had her fingers in her ears was singing Nah.nah.nah.nah while I pured it on my cereal and ate it.!
Anyway we ate out for lunch and I had a chicken and avocado sandwich in white bread. I was tempted my the home made cakes but resisted ( well I say I resisted but I had a look in the cabinets and there wasn't anything I fancied but that still counts doesn't it?).
In the afternoon we were to play golf and I did buy a snickers bar to get through the game. I figured that would be ok because I would be exercising ... golf is pretty good exercise I understand because you use the majority of your body. Unfortunately we only finished 3 holes when a storm hit and we called off the course but not until I had already eaten the snickers bar.....
The evening meal was a seafood salad with a couple of slices of bread. I was happy with that. So not a great start I suppose but it could have been worse. Anyway I weighed myself this morning and I was 15 st 2 lbs so that's good but most of that was probably down to my IBS event in the evening...I.m a martyr to my bowel but I'l save you that detail onthat.
So today - breakfast was a thick choc-mint cambridge diet shake. I then went to the gym and did a 45min spin class and then popped into the shopping centre where I had a grilled BBq chicken wrap from Trios. Good start. Lamb and roasted veggies for dinner - so as long as I don't fall off looks like a good day today. Bought some wraps and seafood etc for my lunches over the next week. Food I enjoy that isn't too bad for you - thats' my theory.....
03/05/2010 10:59
Oh God....Not again
I've really not got this diet lark under control. I've given up on the shakes etc. I just couldn't stick to it and I was feeling sick everytime I drank one. My diet consultant suggested I tried this Ultra-lite diet which was a restricted high protein diet which you supplemented with these powders/shakes. I found that very restrictie - funnily enough more than the shakes. There wasn't much choice and it seemed to be eggs for breakfast every day and I don't have time to be ooking in the morning. I know this all sounds like excuses and maybe it is but I just can't get the motivation up to restrict my life that much just to lose weight.
Decided to try the commonsense approach (always seems easy when you say it!) Anyway I know what I should and shouldn't eat and how much after all these years. I know what I enjoy eating so I'm going to find the compromise. I'll use this to write down exactly what I eat each day so if I fall off the wagon I will have to write down even if it means telling the world I ate 6 profiteroles.....which I have been known to do.
Anyway I weigh myself tomorro and go from there. Wish me luck
01/31/2010 10:16
Week 2 (again)
Ok 2lbs off this week. Not storming but steady considering I'm not sticking to the sole source thing really. I'm checking out gyms at the moment and with the golf I will hopefully be able to boost my weight loss through exercise. ....and I now have a goal. We booked a holiday to Port Douglas in Qld for September. We have been once before and loved it and have talked often of going back. I was just surfing the net to see if we could get flights on our airmiles which have been building up and although the flights weren't available for the first dates we wanted to travel (how can they be sold out for Sept for gawds sake) there were alternative flights and not wanting to miss the opportunity we booked them there and then. So now I have to lose weight so I can get into a wetsuit to snorkel in the Barrier Reef or they'll think a whale has beached itself!!!!!!
2nd week in new job coming up - lets hope it goe better then the first week...
01/24/2010 07:56
So far - so good
Well I've lost 3 lbs this week which considering my diet didn't really start til Weds is pretty good. I didn't say in my last rant that my life is going through an upheavel at the moment. I'm in the middle of changing jobs - I left the last one just before Christmas and I start the new one next week. I chose to take the break beacuse a. I had a holiday coming up and b. I was moving home straight after Christmas. I'm now in my new home (1st time buyer in Australia so very exciting) and I'm supposed to be unpacking right now but I got sidetracked because c. we are also building a weekend home or at least are planning to build a weekend place we are still getting designs etc drawn up.....
It's all change so hopefully that will keep me on the straight and narrow at least for a while. I must admit I am not quite as strict as the first time I'm allowing myself fruit and a few nuts to supplement the packs and bars - and we'll see how I progress.
01/17/2010 23:17
The personification of the Yo-Yo dieter
That's me. I was so naive when I reached my goal 2 years ago I was sure I would never put that weight back on - ha ha. So here I go again - I can't not try because the wight will just continue to pile on but it is alittle depressing knowing that it probably won't work long term......
09/03/2009 13:38
A bit of a blip
I've not been active on here for a while. I went to Adelaide on that work thing and did relax the diet but I wasn't too bad - got straight back on again when I got home - then had some stress at work and fell off in abig way. Anyway 2.2kg went on - before I finally managed to get it under control. I'm under my pre-Adelaide weight which is good but the work stress is getting stronger. The company has let me down very badly - I threatened to walk out today and it's not an empty threat.....
07/25/2009 14:28
Week 3 weigh in
I was just reading back on some of my earlier entries to see how I felt then and if it is different this time. It is - I was so desperate then I hadn't found any diet that worked and I felt the Lighterlife (the VLCD I followed back then) was my last hope. I was so good .. I hardly cheated at all and certainly not at all within the first 100days near the end of the diet I started to slip a little but it was only an extra food pack......
Well from that preamble you can guess I fell off the wagon this week - only on 1 day (Thurs) I was going to a meeting with a couple of colleagues who wanted to stop and grab lunch en route (it was a long trip) and I just couldn't bring myself to tell them i wasn't eating (male colleagues whom I didn't know well - not that that should make a difference but I hate to show weakness particularly in front of male colleagues) So I had a chicken & Advocado foccacia and said to myself I would skip tea. The sandwich sat in my stomach something chronic which you would think would help with the not eating later on......nope!! Going home I had one of those "crooked" thoughts the therapists tell you about, "I've broken the diet now I might as well break it more" I knew it was a crooked thought I knew it didn't make sense but I still did it and had 3 sushi rolls and....wait for it...a cadbury peppermint chocolate bar..... why!!!
Anyway after that you can guess my weight loss wasn't so great this week but it was still a loss 0.6kg and my cm loss on waist and stomach was good so maybe it wasn't a disaster. I got straight back on the diet and I am going to stick to it religiously this week and see if I can get a good weight loss before my add a meal week while I'm at the conference (where I will try not to go too mad....)
07/22/2009 14:01
Week 2 weigh in
Well I lost 1kg last week (2.2lbs) - I thought it would be more from my own scales but I did weigh in in the afternoon rather than the morning so that might explain it. I was a bit naughty over the weekend though after my weigh in. I bought some additional bars (biggest loser ones) just as top-ups but I ate them over the Sat and Sunday (2 extra bars a day). I told myself that I would still come in under 1000 calories a day so I should still lose weight but when I checked my pee stick I had come out of ketosis - for those not familar with VLCD - ketosis is the state your body goes into when it is burning your fat reserves as energy - this releases ketones into your body which can be measured by peeing on a special stick. The more ketones the more efficient your body is at burning fat - my body is not efficient at the best of time - even when I am religiously sticking to the diet I only just register in the ketones stacks which probably explains why I don't lose weight as fast as others. Fingers crossed my lapse over the weekend isn't going to ruin my weight loss this week!
In 2 weeks I am off to a conference for work so I am going to eat that week. In one way I am soooo looking forward to eating but on the other I'm scared I won't be able to stop. I really want to get down to a new low for me 60kg (9 1/2 stone) which will be my lowest ever adult weight. Still aways to go yet though......
Good News Week - I lost 2kg this week which is excellent (particularly as I did cheat on Wednesday) - I was in Brisbane all day - I had to get up at 4am to get to the airport to catch a 6am plane to be at our Brisbane office by 9am and I didn't fly home til 7pm and arrived home about 10pm - so yes I did weaken and I did eat at the airport while I was waiting for the plane home and I had a chicken kebab and a bag of malteasers - I then had the evening meal on the plane as well which was some vegetarian pasta thing. So not a good day VLCD wise, but I was good reat of the week and it showed on the scales so I will full off occassionaly as long as I can get right back on again I will be ok. This coming week is my main threat - I'm in Adelaide most of the week and will be going to a number of social events can I survive without pigging out!!!!!