I woke up feeling like a bit of a pose this morning...as one does. So I went hunting for my digi, cleaned off the 3 inches of dust and 103 cobwebs that had taken up residence on him and took a few snaps. Yes digi and I have a love/hate relationship. At the moment I think he's the greatest lil camera in the world though! Check out my 2nd photo on the side panel there! It's me (duh), in my dream outfit, 2 weeks since I started getting serious and blogging here! (Well 2 weeks and 1 day but honestly..who's counting?!)
Reason i'm jumping for joy is that I believe I can see a difference! Now I haven't actually done the math and measured my curves to see if there is an actual difference, but from looking at it I - Hold up...OMG is that a WAIST I see?!?!
Yes, yes it is! I'm definately going in a lot more at the waist right?!?
I'm ever the optimist, so u'll have to excuse my lil outbursts ^_^
~ In other news, I've decided (for my own good) to only weigh in on Tuesday mornings. As my darling *Zany* pointed out, I am a bit all-over-the-freaking-place with my weigh-ins. So i'll try and control my urges and only do it once a week ^_^
Anywayz, hope you're all doing well!
Luv and lollipops - or in this case - luv and *insert-healthy-snack-here*
Woke up feeling a lil lighter this morning so thought i'd hop on the scales and LOW AND BEHOLD - those fluro red numbers are looking prettier than ever!
79.8!! I've cracked the 80 barrier!!! Breaking into a new set of numbers - Definitely good for the soul.
Wow, i've been waiting for it for sooooooo long and now I don't know what to do with myself. Certainly not celebrating with food. And it's waaaaaay to early to start going out and making a start on my new wardrobe. I'm thinking a nice long bubble bath will suffice ^_^
So today was official 'weigh-in-day'. God save us all.
Bad news is that I put on 200gms. Good news is that it was only 200gms. I was expecting it to be alot worse, considering I started back at uni this week and that usually is a good enough reason to burst open 1000 packets of mnm's to compensate for how stressed out I get. Especially this semester- considering i'm doing a business subject. Why the heck do I have to read pages and pages of text about how wonderful Richard Branson is when i'm studying to become a play therapist?! Pssshhh go figure...
Anywayz, i'm still working towards my goal of getting into the 70's by Friday. If the clouds bugger off I'll cart my arse around the block a couple of times tomorrow. I suppose i'd better get the skipping rope out and jump till my heartbeat threatens to pop out of my neck. I don't do nearly enough to get my heart rate up. Then again it tends to rise after picking up dirty clothes from the bathroom floor. Pathetic really....
So my body beautiful has decided to be selfish this week and not let any weight out of its sight. <-- I didn't want to have to say the horrible 'P word'... but I fear that that is exactely what has happened. I've platau-d (yeah, no idea how to spell that one..must buy a dictionary..).
I'm still 80kilos. Which I suppose is okay. At least I didn't put on any weight. I just really really really wanted to see what the 70's felt like!! Grrrrrrr lol.
It's been a good couple of days. I think this elimination diet is starting to take effect. I haven't had a reaction for 6 days straight! Which makes me think that it's some sort of additive or preservative. So i'll be sending a quick note to the Dietician Lady to ask if I can start gradually adding foods back into my diet. Cause my god i'm getting sick of porridge and mung beans. Not together of course! Ew.
This afternoon i'm off to the football with Dad which will be a challenge in itself. Dad is partial to the old meat pie and sauce at the footy. So I think i'll hide his wallet- cause I don't think i'll be strong enough to have it wafting it's aroma over me....
Great. Now i'm hungry for pie....
Why do I torture myself like this? lol.
New short-term goal: I'll aim for 79 flat by next Saturday. That's a week to lose a kilo! Can she do it? Stay tuned....
I went for an hours walk this morning - plus I walked to and from work. Man am I buggered. But it feels sooo darn good to know that I braved the freezing conditions with a wind chill factor of -110 to get a bit of Oomph back into my weight-loss regime ^_^
I also ate really well today which is great AND I weighed myself this morning and i'd lost another 0.4 of a kilo! Man i'm going great guns. Just have to remember that M&M's are the enemy and I should be sweet!
Hoping to get into the 70's by the weekend! That's the plan Stan! Fingers and toes xx'd I get there
Whatever happens tomorrow I am going for my walk!!! I haven't gone for about a week and i'm starting to *God forbid) actually MISS walking. I know, scary huh?! o_0
So therefore i've set my phone alarm, my bedside alarm AND the clock out in the loungeroom to go off at 7, 7:10 and 7:20 respectively to get me up and out and MOVING!
Actually that's a great tip - set a clock to go off that isn't within arms reach so you HAVE to get up in order to turn it off. That way it's harder to go back to bed. Especailly if you set up your walking shoes right next to the clock. The guilt drives you insane so 95% of the time you end up going. The other 5% represents the times where you outsmarted this manouver and bought ear plugs to gaurd against the evil -alarm-clock-trick.
I think i've perfected that one...
Anywayz, today was OFFICIAL WEIGH IN DAY - even though I did give in and weigh myself yesterday. Which as it turns out was a waste of time because I was exactely the same weight this morning lol.
Just got off the phone from a crazy mate of mine up in Sydney. [i know my thingy says I live in sydney but I actually live about 3 hours drive away]
Anyway she has planned a MASSIVE weekend for us @ the end of July. She's scored passes to the most exclusive clubs in Sydney and she's getting so pumped about it. I'm just so worried that if I actually manage to escape death and/or jail that weekend i'm going to resemble a hippopotamus due to all the alcohol i'll be sloshing back.
What are the best alcoholic drinks to have that don't induce extra flub?!?
I know to stay away from sugary chick drinks and stuff with fruit juice in it, but are there any other rules?!
I'll probably use it all up on the dance floor anyway, but it's good to be wary of these things...
No I didn't give into eating chocolate - I gave in to the powerful lure of the scales!
I decided to weigh myself a day early this week. Because i'm an impatient sod who wanted to see how bad of an affect this diet is having on my weight-loss regime...
but low and behold - I LOST!!!
I have now lost 2.6 kilos!!!!
WOOP WOOP! The best part is - (well it's not really a good thing..) but I haven't really been able to exercise due to the buckets of rain that have been washing down for the past 4 days. So tomorrow morning, I plan to get up and out for an hours walk which will be great ^_^
Man I just get so excited at the prospect of seeing a happy and healthy chick-a-dee staring back at me from the mirror. Gonna be so awesome!
I'd better start out be clearing up a bit of Aussie lingo -
To have a 'sticky beak' = to have a 'look about/poke around/a peep'. Man I had no idea you guys didn't have that saying... Obviously yeah I would have come across as a bit of a loony with you guys thinking I was on about little chicken marshmellows lol.
In regards to the currnt diet i'm on *i'll try and cut a long story short*..
About 6 weeks ago I noticed that whenever I ate after 5pm about 15 mintues later my face would suddenly get very hot and go bright red and would burn like heck. Then I would get a red blotchy chest minutes later.
Those reactions would hang about for about half an hour-forty minutes then I'd be right as rain. Very weird o_0 Especially since it was happening EVERY time I ate after 5pm and it didn;t matter WHAT I ate, it always happened.
So last Wednesday I dragged myeslf off to a dietician to see if anything would help. It was pretty bloody daunting going in there! As soon as I steped into the waiting room I was bombarded with paper clippings warning against the dangers of 'Diebeties' and pamphlets on 'healthy eating'. It was my own fault though - I forgot that last week was National Diebeties Awareness Week didn't I?
Anywayz, I saw this lady and she decided to put me on the 'Elimination Diet'. It's a diet that has been approved by one of the leading hospitals in Sydney and is structured to help those who have very sensitive food alergies. Apparently this quack reckons I must be allergic to something...
The reason i'm so frustrated with it is that it certainly lives up to it's name! I can't eat a freakin thing!
The only vegies i'm allowed are potatos, leeks, green beans, choko's, turnips... and other weird-arse vegies which are so bland you'd rather chow down on the curtains.
I'm not allowed and sauces, can't have pepper, only allowed certain kinds of bread..
BUT i'm allowed to have Sara-Lee ice cream, all kinds of milk, custard, butter, etc.
I would have thought stuff like that would of been the first to go!
The other quirky bit is that I have to have 1-2 pears every day - and pears are the ONLY fruit i'm allowed to eat.
So it's making the whole dieting thing really really hard. Especially since I was doing so well on weight watchers before all this started.
Anywayz, i'll try and eat as healthy as possible and stay away from the temptations that i'm actually allowed to eat and aim for at least 3x 1 hr walks this week. I've been way to lazy in the exercise department! Focus Lee Focus!
This is my first post @ extrapounds and i'm lovin the set-up here. I used to do all my weight-loss ranting over @ my livejournal - but I stumbled across this place and it wins hands down.
I'm so bloody frustrated right now!! I really want to get back on track with everything but this friggin dietician's elimination diet i'm on just is not 'weight loss friendly'. I can't go walking either because it;'s raining sideways out there.
Grrrrrrr. I doubt i'll lose anything by Tuesday - my elected day of screaming (aka weight-in-day). Anywayz i'm gonna go and have a sticky beak around this place and see what other cool little bits and bobs are on offer ^_^
