6 whole months and what do I have to show for it?! A much bigger arse and a return to revolting eating habbits I blame University and all the mind numbing study that goes along with it! I'm sorry but the only way I seem to geth thru it is with a riculously large textbook in one hand a Snickers in the other. With a scattered assortment of M&M's, Kettle chips (herb n` spice naturally) and copious amount of coffee.
I also have a new found love for the greatest snack ever invented! Jaffa cakes. How the heck did I only just found out the beauty that IS the Jaffa cake. 22 years of roaming junk food aisles and only now do I come face to face with the yummiest cake/biscuit thing known to the modern world! I want to marry a Jaffa Cake.
"Lee, do u take this Jaffa Cake in sickness and in health?!"
"I'll take it anyway I can mate gimme gimme gimme!"
- For those of you who remember me from about 6 months ago - nothing has changed - i'm still eccentric (maybe a lil more so than before), still unhealthy, still wanting to change and still wanting to meet new people!
Hope all is well with everyone! Apologies for dropping off the face of the earth! It won't be happening till I get down to @ least 75 kilos!
Slowly clamboured onto the scales this morning, with both eyes shut out of fear - which I wouldn't recommend, stubbed my big toe quite badly, eg. enough blood to warrent a band-aid...
Anywayz, I am down another 400gms, to bring my weight down to 78.5kgs! Holy smoke i am estatic!!!
Last time the scales flashed those numbers up in that order - I was 16! So i dragged out a pair of jeans from high school and surprise surprise my arse didn't struggle or spill over the top one bit! Such a proud moment. I would have documented the event with a polaroid, but I have a longstanding AVO out on any camera that comes within 500 metres of my butt - equals immediate jail time i'm afraid...
Anywayz, this week I plan to keep things moving along and hopefully i can enter the world of the 77's!
So Saturday night I took Dad up to Sydney to experience the man that is.. Mr. Robbie Williams. IT WAS FREAKING INCREDIBLE!!! He is quite possibly THE greatest entertainer in the world today, and if he's not, then he's bloody close!
Oh the show was incredible and Dad and I let our hair down (well I did, he doesn't have that luxury anymore. Thining badly..) and we had the BESTEST time.
I worked up a massive sweat dancing my arse off. Unfortunately i'll be paying for it for the next 2 weeks. Man i'm sore. Ouchies.
But when you're one of 50,000 people, in a massive stadium, and you're standing on the turf up the back, on the fringes of the sardine-packed crowd and you have the freedom to dance and wave about like a twit with rows and rows and rows of people surrounding you, waving glowsticks and looking down upon you and grooving to the music - seriously the feeling was electric!!!
Anywayz, due to dancing my kneecaps off I lost another 700gms this week! WOO!!!!! I wonder if each kneecap does weight 350gms... I doubt it... I shall consult my biology book later..
I plan to flatline 78kilos this week. Ouu big call, big call...
Long time no blab! I gotta say that I am totally kicking butt right now!! Down another 200gms. Yes I know it's only a little bit since my last 'recorded' weight loss on here.. (there's good reason for that. During my absense on here I shot back up to an alarmingly DISGUSTING weight - due to end of semester celebrations and the discovery of the Jam Donut - which is a yummy scrummy cocktail that is King of all cocktails.)
So, like a coward, i've been hiding from extrapounds.com till I got back down below my last posted weight. I just couldn't stand the thought of making that graph line stretch even higher.
Anyways, I am now happy to report that I am exercising regularly!! I'm managing to get my lazy arse out of bed at 6am EVERY MORNING for a 50min walk around the streets of my local area. I gotta say there are a lot of interesting people about at 6am. Apart from the fitness fanatics - decked out in Nike, Ipod straped to their arm and runners that they had to get a loan to buy - their are a ton of oldies, stacks of bike riders and a very very VERY yummy young hot shot who leaves his house dressed in the finest suits money can buy. Unfortunately he decides to pop out just as i'm finishing up my walk. So there he is, looking smart, fresh and ready to go and the poor bugger looks up and locks eyes on me huffing and puffing, hands on hips, red sweaty face. A perfect depiction of a coronry in motion. Always the way ain't it eh?!
One week down. 11 to go. Today was my first official weigh-in whilst being on the CSIRO diet and....
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I'm down a WHOPPING 4kilos!!!! (8.8 pound!!!) I never would have believed it. I know they say that any massive change in diet/exercise/lifestyle will produce a ridiculous amount of weight loss in the first week, but YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!
For the first time in yonkies I can actually see collarbones!! I have collarbones!! For so many years I thought i'd been born without them, but nup! they're starting to shine on through so STOKED!!!
Now I know I won't lose that amount of weight this week, but i'm prepared to slog it out and stay motivated. I'm back in the 70's and I don't wanna see the 80's for as long as I live!! Well, at least till i've got a bun in the oven or something...
There aren't many plus sides to pregnancy - so I am told. So I look forward to gorging out, if I do ever become 'with child'.
How the heck did I get onto me being pregnant.... Getting so totally of course here...
Anywayz, I plan to come back at cha real soon with another update with me sounding just as estatic if not more so! I hope to crack into the 78 kilo region by this Sunday. Cricky, if it happens i'm gonna have a smile so wide, it'll rival Mr. Ed's.
Just a dropping a quick note to say that it's 2 days later and i'm down another 400gms!
I think i'm in a state of shock. Could it be, that I have found an eating plan and lifestyle that works?!?!
I hopped on the scales this morning and seriously could not believe it! I'm surprised my eyes didn't pop right out. Usually the sight of those little green neon numbers cause me to slip into a mild state of depression, but this morning, WOWEE!!
Shall write a longer update asap - unfortunately study calls
I'm 2 days in, on this new lifestyle and by golly, it's working!!! I weighed in this morning @ 81.9 which is a loss of 1.9 kilos!! (4.1 pounds) in 3 days!
I know when you make dramatic changes, the first week always sees big numbers come off but holy moly! I'm one happy camper.
I've been a very goo girl and am riding my bike everyday and going for walks. The only problemo' I have is...
I AM STARVING MY TITS OFF!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm definetly not used to these portion sizes!! I feel like i'm eating at a fancy restaurant each night. Those ones that serve your meal on a white plate the size of mars and your meal is the speck of space dust in the middle with a sprig of parsley on top. In most caes the parsley is actually BIGGER than your meal!
So it's gonna take me a while to get used to the amount of food i'm allowed. I've also had a headache for the past 3 days, which I'm guessing is my body expressing it's anger and frustration about the lack of sugar and saturated fats it's receiving.
Too bad so sad brain!! I'm not giving in this time!! Ha Ha!!
I am finally SO fed up with feeling so crummy, being so unhealthy, so unhappy and so sick of FAILING!!
I am now up to 83.8 kilos (184.7 pounds), which is my HIGHEST in about 4 years. I have seen 86 kilos before, but I feel as frumpy and cruddy as I did at that weight so we may as well say i'm the fattest I have ever been and I've had enough!
I'm so tired, so depressed, so lifeless, I have the energy of a door stop...
So I am FINALLY going to stop fidgeting about and making excuses. I've set myself a detailed 12-week-plan to kickstart my new lifestyle. It's a scientifically approved diet from the CSIRO, which for my overseas gals - is this really well respected scientific research mob in Australia. This book bumped the last Harry Potter out of the number one spot on the best seller list, and it's been getting such great reviews that I went out and bought it today!It's so well thought out and everything is written up and done! All i've gotta do is stick with it, tick off all the boxes everyday and badda-bing-badda-boom! In 12 weeks I should be feeling FAB as ever. Jeez that would be nice.
So it's up and at 'em tomorrow morning for a 30 min walk and 30mins on the bike!!!
This is it. I've had enough of feeling so tired and lifeless. I'm plugging in to the real world.
12 weeks = new me!
Time to go and rid the kitchen of all temptations. Ta ta Pringles!! I knew you well...
Temptation. It's been around since the dawn of time. Techincally by now we should understand it's evil tricks and ways of luring us in. I mean look at poor Adam and Eve....
one BLOODY apple and they were goners!! Due to this, I am very very worried. I believe yesterday I devoured the modern day equivalent of that 'bloody apple'. A FAT wedge of Vanilla Slice from the nicest bakery this side of town. Yup, tomorrow I'll be going to get fitted for a pair of little red horns and a forked tail. Cause i'm doomed.
But MAN it was Delish!!! Thick icing smothered on top. Beautifully layered crispy bits with thick dollops of custard in between. Whoa Mama! Actually yes, Mum bought it for me...
As a result - the scale has said that i've put on a crap load of weight. <-- Duh Girlfriend!
My problem is that my CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) has decided to make it's annual appearance, so recently all i've had the energy to do is sleep and eat. Oh and change the tv channel.....
I've been out of action for about 3 days now. Steadily getting better but this bugger of a thing always hangs about for a week or 3. I've made a pledge to be a good girl for the rest of the week. In the past i've been known to put on up to 5 kilos (bout 10 pounds -i think) whilst being sick. So i'm gunna try and break the habbit this time around. Lord help me!
Ou. I think my eyelids are winning the battle. Time for shleepy poos.
Yeah I also tend to revert to baby talk when i'm sick too.
I am seriously doing a darn fine job at living up to my name this week! Lazy Arse is certainly an honest depiction of my exercise and eating attemps over the past 7 days...
This weird-arse appetite of mine is getting strange! I'm not starving when I wake up (like I usually am). I'm not hungry during the day (like I usually am).,.,
Now that sounds like a good thing for someone who is trying to shed some kilos, but the bad part is that by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, I turn into a food-crazy ANIMAL!
I get so darn hungry that I'd look twice at a door knob.
Consequently, I attack the fridge, the biscuit cupboard and the 'secret' chocolate drawer - which is actually the same as my knicker draw - and now that the weather is getting warmer and we're heading into summer, i'm thinking I should rethink the positioning of said drawer. Otherwise I could be in for some messy and embarressing times ahead....
"Lee, U've crapped yourself darling..."
"No no! It's all good, it's just a Mars Bar! I Swear!!!"
I blame University and all the mind numbing study that goes along with it! I'm sorry but the only way I seem to geth thru it is with a riculously large textbook in one hand a Snickers in the other. With a scattered assortment of M&M's, Kettle chips (herb n` spice naturally) and copious amount of coffee.
so STOKED!!!