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Posted: 28 September 2010 10:33 pm |
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Still eating with what some would describe as a religious fervour, but what others would acknowledge as a desperate attempt to stuff in as much as possible before the new diet starts.
I clearly still have no handle on moderation.
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Posted: 29 September 2010 09:33 pm |
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So...got back to my flat, which I haven't been in for over a month. Felt pretty weird. Last time I was here, I was gearing up for the wedding. It seems so tragic, al that hope and expectation, the simlpe joy of anticipation and the cute things I made. I might try and post some pics up here soon...
Anyway, I weighed in on my normal scales...154.5lb and that's at the end of the day. I find that so weird, as I was around the 147lb mark (maybe a bit less) at the wedding, so how have I only put on 7lb? I put on weight fast, and was expecting a lot more than that to be honest. I'm going to give a myself a coiuple of days to re-read the atkins book, and stock the house with the right food, and arm myself with a meal plan, then it's full steam ahead.
It's about 12 weeks until the christmas holiday period starts. I would like to be around 136lb by then. That's a loss of say 21lb assuming I gain 2.5lb water weight/fat over the next couple of days amd start from 157lb. That's a doable, but pretty tough goal.
My next goal will be summer. I want to wear a bikini for the first time in 15 vyears, but I guess I can think about that later.
The real test will be how strong my motivartion is without the wedding as a goal.
I guess I looked okay, but I let myself down by not starting earlier. I look fat in quite a few of the pictures.
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Posted: 29 September 2010 09:45 pm |
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Wow! Just noticed that I joimed just over two years ago. Swet!
I should go through my diary and count pounds lost, gained, lost and gained again. I guess mI'm recycling those pesky lil pounds all the time!
Oh...in my first few posts IO mention moderation...still a big fat problem for me. Sigh.
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Posted: 1 October 2010 04:25 pm |
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Weighed in at a respectable 152lb today, but I was a bit dehydrated.
Plan for tonight is to cook a good meal and watch a movie. Spent the first night sleeping in the same room as the boy last night. We are really just going to push to sort things out. I have to try and forget about his family, and he has to become more reliable and suportive.
I would really like a Chinese take-out, but I have chicken and fillet that needs eating, so I thought I'd make two different stirfries, one with noodles, one with brown rice and have that instead. Yummy!
I can't believe how much stuff we own. My next project is totally clearing our appartment, getting rid of a ton of clothes (lots of laudry and then give them to charity) and getting some new furniture, maybe givein the place a lick of paint, making it feel more like a home and less like an overstuffed stock room.
Dug out my Atkins book and started re-reading. Not looking forward to doing the diet gain, but I am probably only going to do Induction (the strictest phase) for a couple of weeks, them move onto the less restricted phases quite quickly. Taking today's weigh in into account, I only have 16lb to lose, but then I think that might be a bit of a false low.
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Posted: 6 October 2010 05:04 pm |
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So...the time has come to really start the low carb diet again. I start tomorrow - this vening, I am going to go to the supermarket to pick up some good, tasty and healthy food for the next few days. I am also going to clean out the fridge and kitchen, so I have a pleasant room to prepare my meals in.
I anticipate that I will will weigh in at the very high 150s. I will weigh myself tomorrow morning. I am currently pr-menstral, so I should drop some water lbs quite quickly.
I am not just going to do the diet - I feel like I need an overhaul, so I will start religiously cleansing and doing skin stuff with some new products I bought, and when I lose 14lb, I'll get a haircut. I am probably going to get a facial after the first 7lb.
I feel terrible at the moment - eaten too much. I really have problems with controlling my intake, that's why I feel better when IO am watching what goes in. I will probably be posting quite a lot tomorrow, as the first few days are generally quite tough. I've had a lot of cars recently, so the withdrawal might be pretty hard going this time. I need to start and not the re-gain get out of hand. Feeling motivated.
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Posted: 6 October 2010 10:10 pm |
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Just re-read my last post and realised that the thing I said about cleaning my kitchen kind of made it sound like I have a fetid kitchen, not fit for preparing meals for human consumption.
I feel duty bound to point out that is not the case.
I just want to re-organize cupboards and stuff.
Okaaaaaaaaaaay. I have done my shopping, and I am now ready to re-start the atkins diet with aplomb. I bought a load of different atkins bars in the states (way cheaper than here in england!) Stupidly I bought them in California, drove through the mojave desert with them in the car, they melted, reformed, and probably aren't all that good now. Time will tell.
America ia an awesome and, to an english person, strange place. It blows my mind that one day you are driving through thousands of miles of desert, literally nothing, and then a four hour plane ride later you're in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world (new york new york). The east coast and west coast are so different. I found Americans really nice too. People say New Yorkers are rude. Those people have clearly never met Londoners.
One of the best things ever was seeing the mountain ranges of California when I was in the plane. Weird - just like the movies. I guess a lot of that terrain hasn't changed since wild west times. It's so brown and arid too. When I got back to England, it felt so green in comparison. San Francisco was cool. Hollywood was weird. I guess the whole 'no city centre' thing just felt odd to me. I think it was one of those places that would be a lot more fun if you knew where to go and where the hot spots are.
Vegas was cool. I went to the top of Stratosphere, and you can see the edge of the city, where it fades into desert. What a trip.
New York is awesome. It's got a good energy. It was pretty similar to London actually. The whole east coast (I lived on the east coast of canada a few years back) feels more familiar somehow. The west coast was a whole new vibe. It's so weird to think I was there not that long ago. It seems like years ago. The wedding seems like a life time ago.
So...tomorrow my plan is a little something like this:
breakfast...................coffee (with double cream) and an atkins bar
lunch.........................salad with cheese and bacon and loads of greens
dinner........................grilled pork chop with garliuc broccoli
We'll see how close I can stick with that.
Oh, and 3 litres of water. I am going to steer clear of diet pop for a few days.
I'm starting to feel anxious about the re-gain, so it's a good time to get back on the wagon.
Last edited on 7 October 2010 12:45 pm by desperategirl
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Posted: 7 October 2010 12:42 pm |
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Weigh in this morning: 156lb. That's lower than I thought it would be, which is good. I just started my TOM today, so I am probably carrying a bit of water weight too. With the usual big week 1 drop of water weight, and, with a low carb diet, glycogen weight, I am hoping to see a good 5lb drop this week. That would put me at 151lb.
I think my ultimate goal is 133lb. For my height, that is a healthy weight, and I think I'd be really trim. I will see if I can get there though. My body may want to stop more naturally around 140lb, but we'll see.
I will be excercising more this time round - I didn't exercise before the wedding. I guess I was too busy and too poor. That sounds like excuses, but that's how it felt.
In the end, I had to put a couple of pounds back on, because my chest got a bit small for the dress. Funnily enough, when I put a couple of pounds back on, I looked thinner because the dress gave a better hourglass shape. That was just one garment though. Overall, I'd be happier smaller.
I've had a flu, and I work freelance, and at the moment I'm not working. There are a few issues (relationship mainly - had another huge bust up last night) and work that are pressing on me pretty hard, and I've been feeling a bit down, and sleeping a lot. I didn't get up until after midday today. I'm hoping ther healthier diet will put me out of the blues a bit. I gotta get proactive and push forward with a couple of big projects, but sometimes it just feels terrifying.
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Posted: 7 October 2010 03:13 pm |
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So...it's 4pm and I just had my lunch and it was awesome.
So far today I've had:
1 x multivit and iron pill
1 x coffee with double cream
1 x atkins advantage bar
1 x grilled pork loin
1 x large serving of spring greens (like spinach) sauteed with garlic and bacon bits
1.5ltrs water
I'm aiming for 3 litres of water today, because for the last month or so, I haven't been drinking enough, and thee have been days when I haven't drunk a ny at all. That's awful. The thing is, I've really enjoyed drinking the water today, so I guess my body needs it. I also haven't been running to the toilet, so maybe I was really dehydrated and it's hanging to it all?
I also had a flash of inspiration about the work project problem. I initiated some contact with the relevant poeple, and I'm feeling a bit better about it.
I've probably had around 6g of net carbs so far today. That means I should have a lot more veggies with dinner. Maybe a vegetable snack later before dinner.
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Posted: 7 October 2010 04:32 pm |
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Have had another cup of coffee, and three sugar free sweets. Another 3g of carbs, roughly, to take me upto 9g. Induction level is 20g. I really must 'spend' the rest on high fibre and high nutrition veggies.
Atkins flu setting in. Urgh. Usually only lasts a day or so. It's good - my body is reacting to the fact that I am addicted to dirty refined white sugar.
It's interesting actually - I read some scientific study which conceeds that there are three macronutrients - carbs, proteins and fat, and says that the only one we can live without is carbs, because the body turns some protein into glucose during the digestive phase.
This may be a lie, but I have to admit, I feel very well on very few carbs. And there are people who have pretty much no carbs in their diet - like the traditional inuit diet.
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Posted: 8 October 2010 11:35 am |
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Weighed in at 154.75lb this morning. A 1.25lb drop from yesterday, and a good start to my aim of dropping 5lb water/glycogen weight this week. I'd like to be under/around 154lb by tomorrow.
Yesteray wasn't a great day. I had the bar and coffee fro breakfast, then the pork loin for lunch, and again (with broccoli) for dinner. But I ate cheese with three low carb crackers and a few sugar free chocs, which I really shouldn't have had. I guess it's party because of PMT munchies and partly just ryting to get back into the swing of things.
So far today I've had about 2/3 of a bar, but it is one of the ones with more protein - 18g, so I'm pretty full. I've had nearly 1/2 a litre of water and a coffee with a good splash of double cream. It tasters good, and the fat satiates. Also, it's supposed to be incredibly unhealrhty to eat low carb and low fat.
So...apart from that atkins bar, I will be steering away from processed low card foods today. I have loads of other stuff to eat, so I should be fine.
Aiming for another 3 litres of water today.
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Posted: 10 October 2010 08:52 pm |
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Weighed in at 153lb even this morning. Not bad - that's 3lbs down in three days, and on targett to hit 5lb in week one. After the first week, I hope to start burning fat rather than just dropping water. The water weight helps though - me face looks a lot less bloated, a lot more streamlined.
Pretty sure ketosis has kicked in. Appetite is way down, and I'm exhausted because I din't sleep last night ( along story I'll type up tomorrow - about a cat) but I feel fine.
Today I've eaten a bar and three rashers of bacon, two eggs and some cheese. Will have to just eat a plate of veg for dinner!
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Posted: 11 October 2010 08:12 pm |
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Weighed in at 151.5lb today. Pretty good drop - mainly down to the heaviest day of TOM I think.
Not too hungry anaywas, buyt today had two bars. Will get something later. Too busy to eat.
Wedding picuters arrived today. The photographer just didn't take enough. I have no pictures of me at the alter. Cried my eyes out.
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Posted: 12 October 2010 11:07 am |
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Registered a very respectable weight of 150lb even this morning. I know I haven't been eating enough, and it's been hard to get much more in, as I've been so busy, but I need my greens.
I feel great thouh.
It's weird, I was always searching for the 'holy grail' of dieting, the thing I would be able to stick to, the thing that would make me shed pounds, the thing that I'd find easy. Yeah, there are times when this is not easy, and I just hate myself for getting so bigt (although, at the moment, I'm not that happy with my weigt, but it's not a problm, I am a healthy weight) but generally I'm finding it ok. It's a case of learning how it works and what I can eat. When I first started, it felt like teher was nothing O could eat - now it feels like there's vey little I can't eat.
I guess I do rely on low carb foods, and bars for conveninence, but they don't seem to stall me like they do with some. I guess my utlimate aim should be to move away from processed foods to a diet based entirely on fresh and healthy produce. That's probably not entirely realistic though.
This is probably physiologically impossible, but I am going to see friends I haven't seen for a while on November 5th, so I would like to make a mini goal of being 140lb by then. That's 3.5 weeks, so I know I couldn't lose that much fat, but I am still shedding water weight from TOM and from all the excess glycogen stores. In 3.5 weeks I could complete a course of 10 sessions of power plate (now I can afford to do so - I have a nice job coming up). I think I could actually do some pretty good work in thaat amount of time. I might go and look up quick toning exercises on line.
It's kind of ridiculous how much I need a project, a goal, an event to work towards, but I feel so much more motivated now.
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Posted: 12 October 2010 09:50 pm |
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So...just noticed that I beat my target weight loss of 5lb for this week, and I still have tomorrow to go (today's Tuesday - weigh in on Thursday), that's cool. I think once I lose a couple more pounds of water weight then I'll be burning fat. Woohoo! So, I guess my new goal is to lose 7lb this week (one more to go - two more daily weigh-ins).
I ate an atkins bar for breakfast, some cheese, salami and fibre crackers for lunch and 3/4 of another atkins bar for dinner. Oh, I also had a sugar free candy. I know my diet is appalling, but I'm unable to get into the kitchen and cook at the moment. By Thursday, I should be able to cook again - I guess tomorrow may be another unhealthy day, but I'll at least try to through a salad together.
I wonder what tomorrow's weigh in will show. I know the losing 10lbs in the next 3.5weeks goal is unrealistic, but I think because I'm carrying TOM water, and this is the beginning of the diet, I may be able to just swing it.
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Posted: 13 October 2010 01:51 pm |
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Weighed in this morning at 149.25lb. That's another nice drop.
I only have to lose 0.25lb by tomorrow to meet my target of 7lb lost this week.
So far today I've had an atkins bar and I am currently eating my lunch which is a large serving of broccoli and a low carb wrap with bacon and cheese. I will probably take some of the filling out though, as it's too salty.
It's nice to be in the 140s again, considering that I used to be 30lb heavier just a few months ago. It's weird though - I see the numbers on the scale, but I don't really feel any different. I don't feel any smaller. I don't feel happy with this size, and I don't know what number is going to make me feel better. I guess maybe once I get close to 140, and if I get under 140 that will feel good, but I don't know, because if 30lb has made no difference to me, how much difference is 10lb going to make? I know that in theory I am not overweight, but I just handfuls of flesh and excess fat all over my body, and I don't know if it's losing ten pounds that will get rid of them. I guess excercise would help.
Left a bit of my wrap. The broccoli was pretty gross, but I got it down me. Bleurghh.
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Posted: 15 October 2010 03:47 pm |
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So...weigh in yesterday was 150lb, and today was 151.25lb. WTF???!!!?!??!? How annoying is that? I've been following the diet. However, I have been keeping carbs v low, but having treats, so I geuss that could by why I am retaining water, or whatever it is.
I clearly haven't had 4000 maintenance then another 8500 calories on top of that over 2 days to actually put on over 2lb, so I guess it's just a case of not enough water (and I know I haven't had enough water) and just not eating properly.
I've put my trip back a week (because of the kitty - a story I still need to write out on here) which gives me 4 weeks to lose 11.25lb, which I don't think will be possible. If I hadn't somehow gained the extra 2 lb (like seriously WTF???!!?!??!) it would have been possible to get down to 140lb in four weeks. Grrrrrrrrr.
Plan of action:
-WATER WATER WATER x 3 litres per day
-GREEN VEG
-NO low carb 'treats' for a few days - just the high protein meal replacment bars.
-Cut out the salty cold cuts - grill lean pork and chicken instead, with veg.
-No sugar free soda for a few days.
Not so difficult when it's written out like that, huh?
Gotta drop the water weight re-gain and get back on track with a good, steady 2lb a week. I only have around 18lb to lose, that's only 9 weeks if I can lose 2lb a week - that's nothin - I stuck to the diet for nearly three months before. It's just a case of staying calm in the face of fluctuations, sticking to the plan, and eating as many pure, wholesome foods as possible.
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Posted: 16 October 2010 02:41 pm |
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Weighed in at 149.5lb this morning. That was good to get back under 150lb after that weird huge fluctuation. Am keeping drinking the water and steering clear of too many treats.
Yesterday I had a bar fro breakfast, a low carb wrap with three rashers of bacon and some cheese for lunch and two grilled pork loin for dinner. Not great - terrible infact, no green veg, which should really be the cornerstone of my plan.
Today so far I've had a bar and a cup of coffee. I will most likely have some grilled pork again later. Not sure what else - not feeling too great (so tired) and therefore not too hungry.
Feeling kind of down at the moment. Work is a bit sporadic, although I have a couple of nice comissions at the moment, that will tide me over. I guess the marital problems are taking their toll. It feels like something had just snapped - his family have always treated me badly, but they were so awful at the wedding. I really put my heart and soul into planning and making everything - I wanted evreything to be perfect, and out of spite, they sabotaged things. It feels like somethign has changed in me - I don't feel like I have the feelings I should towards my husband. I feel like there's something inside me that is stopping me from even trying.
Does anyone have any opinions/experience of marige guidance councelling? I just wonder if it's worth trying any therapy to try and fix things. I guess the biggest problem is this thing inside myself, which is saying 'fu.ck you, I am not even going to try, I'm not going to let you in.' I feel so stupid, I just got married a couple of months ago, and i already have these issues. I can't talk to anyone about this, and it feels like I'm so trapped in this stupid situation that I created myself.
I just don't know what to do about it - I feel like I'll never be happy again.
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Posted: 16 October 2010 03:24 pm |
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Growing up you always see the princesses getting married and living "happily ever after". Marriage isn't easy. Everyone has problems and it is really something both of you have to be working on. The thing I find that works the best in my relationship with my husband is communication. We talk about anything and everything. I wish you all the best of luck!
PS congrats on getting under 150! It is always nice getting to the next set of numbers!
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Posted: 17 October 2010 01:41 pm |
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Weigh in was a surpsising 148lb this morning. Not complaining though. Just can't wait to be under 147lb.
Yesterday I didn't eat that much as I wasn't hungry - just the bar then roast chicken and a HUGE portion of creamed spinach, plus water, and that seems to work well.
I do think I haven't been following the diet properly - it says eat at least 15g of carbs from veg, and I haven't done that, so this is my plan for today:
1 x Atkins Bar (3g carbs)
1 x Coffee with double cream
1 x portion roast chicken
1 x portion marsala aubergine (7g carbs)
1 x portion bacon
1 x portion marsala aubergine (7g carbs)
I need to finish that aubergine today, that's why I'm having it twice.
Must also have 2 litres of water.
I just cannot wait to be under 147lb, then get closer to 140lb. This time next week, I'd like to be 146lb.
I've been looking at exercise, and I think boxing could be a really good thing to do. One, it would help with my residual anger and it is also meant to be really good for toning the arms and upper body strength, as well as being good cardio. It is pretty expensive, but one session a week, plus two cardio sessions by myself ( the dreaded running, or even a good walking session or swimming). I know I'm a broken record, but I really should do the powerplate - it's supposed to be so good, and I can afford it and fit it into my schedule at the moment. I don't know why it takes me so long to get my a.ss in gear sometimes. I guess I just felt like I wanted to be a better weight before I started exercising - stupid I know, but I feel stupid and self conscious in exercise classes when I'm bigger. Maybe it's because once, when I was around 180lb, I was in yoga class and the instructer asked me if I was pregnant. Pretty funny I guess, but I felt mortified.
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Posted: 18 October 2010 09:44 pm |
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Weighed in at 147.75lb. Not bad - another nice 0.25lb drop.
Today so far (and I don't think I'll eat again) I've had:
1 x coffee with double cream
1 x atkins advantage bar (3g)
1 x atkins daybreak bar (another package bar - ate on the run - 3g)
1 x soya hot chocolate (with sugar free syrup) 0.5g
1 x portion beef stroganoff (1.2g)
1 x portion marsala aubergines (7.2g)
That's a total of 14.9g net carbs. Not bad. Not sure how it works out calorie-wise, think it's around 1000, about that. That is olw - I guess maybe I'll have another hot choc. It doesn't feel low, because the ketosis keeps your appetite down. I don't think I've really felt hungry all day.
I have 14.75lb to lose to reach my ultimate goal. When I have ten pounds to lose, I will probably move on from induction to either phase two or OWL (ongoing weight loss).
I will most likely stay on induction until then, rather than moving onto phase two after two weeks. That means I have to lose 4.75lb whilst on induction. I hope to get down to 143lb in about two weeks.
I guess the last ten pounds I can lose more slowly while trying to find a way of eating that doesn't feel like a diet, but that I can comfortably stick to, incorporating unrefined carbs in an amount that doesn't make me binge or put on weight.
Hoping to be below 147lb by the end of the week.
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Posted: 21 October 2010 12:17 am |
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Weighed in again at 147.75lb. Grrrrr. Tomorrow will mark two weeks since I started this diet.
I started at 156lb, so even if I still weigh in at 147.75lb tomorrow, that is a nice 8.25lb drop in two weeks. That's pretty good, considering I don't have tonnes to lose.
I was talking to a co-worker today, who has been on a medically monitored very low calorie diet. She has lost lots - I'd say at least 56lb. She's only a few pounds away from goal, but we agreed that we need to exercise to make the most of ourselves, so we are going to start boxing classes together. I did want to do it anyway, but it'll be more fun going with a friend. Plus, it will be great to get to know someone that I really like at work better outside work.
I hope to be at 147lb even tomorrow, but probably not much chance of that. Once I get to 147lb, I only have 14lb to lose to reach ultimate goal. That doesn't sound so much considering I started with 45lb to lose.
I hope exercise helps with my body. My arms are sloppy. My stomach has two pooches of fat under the chest area, which have shrink very slightly, but are still there. My lower stomach is big, but that wouldn't bother me so much if I could get rid of the pooches at the top.
So far today (infact, it's after 1am, and I won't be eating again!):
1 x coffee with splash of milk
1 x atkins daybreak bar (3g)
1 x burger with cheese and low carb ketchup (2.5g)
1 x large green salad (1g)
1 x 3/4 atkins advantage bar (2g)
1 x burger with cheese and low carb ketchup (2.5g)
So that's around 11 g net carbs today. As you can see, the main problem with today was the lack of veg - one salad is not enough. I needed the red meat though - even with iron pills my anaemia is pretty bad at the moment.
I drank around 1.5ltrs of water today - not great but an improvement on the last couple of days.
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Posted: 21 October 2010 05:18 pm |
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Weighed in at 147.5lb this morning. That's a total loss of 8.5lb on the first two weeks of induction. I guess that's pretty good, as they say that when you have serious amounts to lose, you may lose upto 15lb in the first two weeks, and I am only looking at dropping another 14.5lb.
The thing is though, I weighed in at 148lb on the 17th October - it's now the 21st October, and I am only 1/2lb lighter - that's not a lot in four days.
I know that I haven't been perfect during induction - at the beginning there were a few too many low carb treats creeping in. I reined that in a bit in the last week, but today I had two miniature reeces sugar free peanut butter cups. I'm having one of those days when I feel HUNGRY - which isn't generally a problem for me on a ketosis diet.
I haven't been as good as I could have been with water either. I have done my best with veg, but my best ain't always good enough.
All in all, when you look at it like that, I've dropped quite a bit of weight considering I've followed the diet pretty badly. Most was water, but a bit should have been fat.
So...this is how I'm going to improve:
1. WATER
2. More fibre - this will be in the form of vegetables.
3. Very infrequent low carb treats - just the high protein bars, as they are a very useful tool that enable me to stick with the diet and have something to look forward to.
4. Yep, my old nemesis - EXERCISE.
Well...talking of exercise - I am definitely going to boxing on Monday. Two friends are coming with me, and we are going to look AWESOME because it is for beginners, but is supposed to be hardcore. Skipping, circuits and sparring. Yikes! It's great to have people to go with.
I also chose a sport like boxing because I feel it may help me to channel some of the aggression and anger I seem to be carrying around at the minute. Also, I know I am generally a nicer person to be around when I exercise.
There are two things which will make sticking to my diet tough for the coming week:
1. A dinner party tomorrow night. I am cooking though, and plan to make tapas, so there will be bread, potatoes etc for the guests, but I can stick to my diet without making a big deal about it. I probably will be eating quite a bit though.
2. Baking - I have a job baking 300 cupcakes this week. Not testing them for quality control could be a problem. Also, just the temptation could prove too much. I can do it though. I will have a cup of coffee and a sugar free chocolate if the temptation proves too much, but I will NOT EAT CAKE!
My overwhelming feeling at the moment though is that I am at a point now where diet can only do so much - it's time to hit the exercise hard!
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Whoops - was too busy wittering away to actually post my food intake so far today:
1 x coffee with double cream
1 x burger
1 x portion marasala aubergine
1 x roast chicken breast
1 x lrg portion salad
2 x sugar free reeces peanut butter cups
1 x coffee with full fat milk (BAD)
3 x bites atkins advantage bar
Will probably have more chicken and salad tonight.
Still on my first 1/2 litre bottle of water. Will finish it and have another 1.5 ltres before bed.
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Weighed in at 147.5lb again this morning. 
It's way too early to be stalling.
That's 1/2lb lost in 5 days, despite this only being the start of week 3. Grrrr.
Not sure what the problem is.
I think it may be a few things:
1. Not enough fibre.
2. Not enough fat.
3. My body naturally wants to settle around this weight.
4. Need to exercise.
5. Even though I didn't have a problem with sugar alcohols before, I may now.
I will find this diet pretty hard to stick to without the sugar alcohols, but I should probably give it a go - just extra protein and veg.
I will try and get in AT LEAST a brisk walk/jog this weekend - then boxing next week. I may up my carbs on monday a little, as it is supposed to be a fairly hard core work out session.
The fibre will come from the extra veg - I may also get myself a supplement just for now.
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Posted: 25 October 2010 11:03 am |
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So...had a weekend of indulgence. It was wonderful, and I thoughily enjoyed it. Friends over for dinner, a brunch in a specialist bread place, then pizza with friends.
After getting so tense about not dropping much weight this week, it was great to enjoy myself without binging, and not worry about the inevitable water weight.
Your weight can fluctuate due to around 4 -5 lb of glycogen stores cos of carbs - after the meal on friday night, my weight went upto 152lb, and has stayed there since, so basically, I am carrying around 4-5lb of water weight, but haven't put on any fat.
It's weirdly reassuring to see that it's so easy to gain water, but not so easy to pile on actual pounds of actual fat. I think I need to have more fun with my diet, and not worry so much about every little fluctuation.
I have decided to carry on eating carbs today because I am going to a high intensity circuits and boxing class tonight, which I could not do on day 1 of a very low carb diet, but I'll be back on the wagon tomorrow.
I mean, once I've dropped this 4.5lb water gain, I have 14.5lb to lose - even if I only lose a pound a week, that's still only 14.5 weeks! And I'm not that happy with my appearance, but I'm not overweight, and I'm not trying to slim for an event. My husband said I should relax and have some indulgences, because you have to enjoy food and friends together sometimes.
I'm nervous about the boxing tonight. I'm so unfit.
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Got a HUGE baking job this week, so will probably sample while I cook then re-start Atkins on Friday. What the #%@&!, I'm fu$%ing miserable, and I'm gonna eat, cause it makes me feel better. Probably right back where I started.
Boxing yesterday. Sh.it that felt good. I am nowehere near as unfit as I thought I was, and the endorphins were seriously as good as uppers. I loved it. My total lack of grace or co-ordination means the instructor thinks I'm a moron, but it felt so good to move.
Same old marriage problems here. My in-laws were so mean to me, and the whole time my husband just made excuses, and everytime he did that it felt like a betrayal. And there's no communication or exercise or book whihc is going to make you open your heart to someone who thinks you're lying about what someone did or said to them, or thinks you're so dumb that you just misunderstood them. Yep, when my brother in law pointed at me and laughed during my wedding, I just misunderstood. He wasn't trying to say I looked sh.it, or trying to make me uncomfortable, he just was laughing at a joke, and accidentally pointing in my direction. Man I hate them all. Anyways, now some friends called him all to say that his family were rude to them, and guess what? It didn't mean diddly squat when I said it, but now other people have told me and UH-OHHH, the penny drops. I was right all along. NOW he believes me. Well, that doesn't make me feel any better about him thinking I was lying before.
So...I don't think I've evr felt so lonely.
It's weird - the food is a comfort, and the food restriction is also a comfort in its way.
I feel good about getting back into the diet - fine no problems there. I've found a great butcher where I can buy beautiful properly reared meat. Yum.
I feel so stupid. One of friends said the other day that when we're around each other, it's obvious that I don't even like my husband. I don't. It feels like he's repeated kicked me in the guts, and now I don't even want to try.
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I kept saying I was going to start the diet, going to start the diet, and have spent a month gorging! Weighed in this morning at 158.5lb (which is not my recent highest - went upto 160 or theerabouts). I've been around the 154lb mainly, so I'm hoping that weigh in was the result of an overzealous 'last meal' of chinese food, chips and lots of chocolate last night - a whole lotta water weight rather than a four pound gain in a day. We'll see. I started the diet today, but have eaten horribly, not stuck to the rules at all, but have had a SUPER low carb count:
3 x pepperami (a kind of meat/salami stick)
4 x olives
a good serving pork belly
3 x sugar free chocolates
1 x large coffee with double cream
1 x atkins bar
about a litre of sugar free carb free pop
only 1 glass water (eeeeeeeeeeek!)
See - terrible nutrition there! I did buy veggies - and will eat three or four courgettes tomorrow, along with the leftover pork belly and WATER. Oh, am meeting an old friend for a meal tomorrow, but will find something low carb. I kept putting off starting the diet because of stuff like that, you know, "I'll start after that dinner" and then a month down the line you are packing on pounds, looking like c@&^ and it's even harder to start.
I'm thinking I have a couple pounds water weight on me. I guess though, taking 158.5lb as my start weight, it's the end of November, I would like to be 147lb by Christmas. That's 4.5 weeks (by Christmas, I'm saying the 22nd December, because come that day, I will by eating lots of delicious Christmas treats!). That's 11.5lb to lose in 4.5 weeks - sounds too ambitious, but I am hoping to drop a few pounds this first week. I will re-evaluate my goal after this week.
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Posted: 21 November 2010 01:46 pm |
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Starting weight was 158.5lb...after two days on the diet I'm at 154.75lb. I hope to be at the 147lb in a couple of weeks, after dropping more water weight.
Ate quite badly yesterday, due to some smoking related munchies. Ended up eating some sugar free jelly beans and a sugar free miniature reeces peanut butter cup. Very tasty, but not really allowed on Induction. I'm not really following induction properly _ I'm sticking to the carb allowance, but not eating enough veg and whole foods. I MUST work on that.
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Posted: 22 November 2010 02:15 pm |
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weighed in at 154lb this morning. I'm pleased with that - I have looked up my 'natural' weight - a weight that takes into account my frame size (which is apparently quite small- my fingers overlap when circling my wrist, although I feel like my hips are quite wide), my age, height etc etc and it said my ideal weight was 140lb, rathe than 130 something. It does feel like under 140 is that MAGIC number though - you know what I mean - in your head you have this number, and when you get under it, you'll be magically slim, even though when you're a few pounds over it, you're not? Ha ha. My body seems to struggle with getting under 147lb though.
I really regret not starting the wedding diet earlier. I hit my target of 147lb, but in my heart of hearts, I would have liked to have been at least 7lb less. My arms were flabby, I didn't look my best. Oh well.
So...I guess my goal should really be 140lb, but I should step up the exercise, so that I can have a toned body - I guess 140lb can look very different depending on your body fat percentage and your muscle tone.
Loving boxing. It is incredibly intense, but really lifts my mood and clears my mind.
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Posted: 22 November 2010 09:20 pm |
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Diet going fine - so far had a couple of bites of an atkins bar (just couldn't face the whole thing) then i had a little low carb bread role with some butter, some yeast extract and a bit of cheese. I had a couple of cups of coffee with double cream, a meat stick thingy, about 3 bites of steak. I think that's everything. I am going to have an atkins breakfast bar then probably not eat again. I guess I wasn't that hungry today.
I also couldn't eat much of my dinner because I was arguing with my husband again. I found a load of porn on his computer. I am still cut up about the wedding being a disaster due to him not doing things he was meant to do. Frankly, I know that I made the biggest mistake of my life getting married to this j.erk, but what can I do. I think that may be why I'm focussed on this diet - amongst the madness and misery it's nice to have something to focus my attentions on. I'm going to prepare the food I have to take into work tomorrow.
I feel adrift.
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Posted: 23 November 2010 03:36 pm |
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Unless porn is one of those things that you're against on moral or religious principle, I'd cut the guy a little slack on that one. I know it just feel like the cherry on top of really big sh.t-sundae but at this point the only way you're going to be happy in a bad relationship like that is if you learn to pick and choose your battles....if divorce is not something you can or will consider (not advocating for or against--obviously that is totally up to you) then you may need a new perspective on how to view your marriage. Possibly something with less emotional attachment, like more like a business partnership, so that when he messes up, you're not as hurt.
You can say I'm dumb and don't know what I'm talking about if you want to. I guess I just really felt how lost you're feeling right now, and hoped there was something I could do to help....
And I totally understand using weight-loss as something to focus on when things are bad. I've got some upsetting things going on with my friends, but there's not much I can do. I've noticed focusing on my body and weight gives me something that I can fix to help with the stress of everything I can't fix.
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I've just read through tonnes of my diary, to remind myself of the times I slacked off, and over indluged in food, and just like that, 30lb attached themselves to my body - without me even realising how much i'd been gorging.
For some reason, I haven't been able to stick to the low carb diet. Well, the main reason I guess is that I don't seem to be able to digest sugar alcohols anymore, resulting in painful and very unpleasant smelling gas, not to mention, no weight loss. This means I can't use the bars that were so useful, in terms of convenince, flavour and cost. Without these extra low-carb foods, I really struggle to afford and stick to the right foods.
Having said that, I do need to do something about my weight - the situation is getting somewhat urgent - this morning I weighed in at 160.5lb, which is a big gain. I have been in this situation before, and unless I sort it out now, I will find myself with 30lb to lose again. Not good.
I have read my own diary, to see what I was saying when I was succeeding, and to see how quickly I can put weight on. I am going to do the alternate day diet again. A tough one for winter, but really the only one I can face right now, as it does not require any forward planning, and because every other day I can eat normally, it shouldn't be too hard to get through the 'down' days.
Today is day 1, and I decided to start with a down day. It is 6pm, and so far I have eaten:
2 x coffee with splash of skimmed milk (50)
5 x mini sugar free meringues (5)
1 x hot ribeena (35)
2 x crackerbread (38)
1 x 1/2 tub of cottage cheese (124)
5 x sugar free jelly beans (10)
So far that's 262 calories. For dinner I have a pack of veggies to stir-fry (80) with low cal terriyaki sauce (10) and shirataki noodles (10). That will take me to a grand total of 362. Before then, I will probably eat a low fat greek yoghurt with some sweetener, for under 100 calories, as I'm starting to feel a little light headed.
I think I've wasted too many calories on drinks today - I could have had herbal teas for negligable calories, and then filled up on high protein filling choices like tuna or low fat cheese.
By my first week weigh in, I'd like to be under 160lb.
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Posted: 14 December 2010 09:05 pm |
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Weighed in this morning at 157lb even. Yay! A 3.5lb drop the first day - shows how much water retention I'm carrying.
Today was an up day, and I think I may have eaten too much:
1/4 latte
1 x large bacon roll
1 x cheese sandwich on brown bread
1 x small bag potato chips
1/2 granola bar
large bowl of vegetable soup
1/2 bread roll
9 x mini oriental things (mini spring rolls etc)
2 x cookies
1 x chocolate (not bar - an individual choc)
Wish I hadn't bought the oriental things - just kept eating them because they were there. I managed to stop at fullness with other things though - like the granola bar and bread roll.
Looking at cals, I think I was at about 2200 today, which is ok. It's so hard not to focus on calories and stuff, even though I'm not supposed to.
Tomorrow might be a hard day, as I'm having a very long day at work.
i'm planning to have an atkins bar in the morning (stretching it out with lots of water) then chicken consomme (44 calories) with lots of shirataki noodles (10 calories) and lots of veg (70 calories) for lunch - a total of about 350 calories, which leaves me 150 for dinner - most likely a large salad with low cal dressing, crackerbread and cottage cheese. I will see how the atkins bar works out - if it doesn't fill me up, then it will be a waste of cals, but if it keeps me going through the morning, then I'm happy to use up nearly 1/2 my calories on it.
Calories today aren't as bad as I thought. It's hard to feel like I'm on a diet - it's psychological - I feel hungry even if I shouldn't be! I almost prefer the down days - uncomfortable, but you know exactly where you stand.
Apparently after two weeks, you stop feeling hungry during down days, which is good, because two weeks is only seven days - one down, six to go.
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Posted: 28 December 2010 09:08 pm |
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So...after tonnes of delicious Christmas food, although I was scared, I stepped on the scale tonight...wearing some clothes, and in the evening...157.5lb. I'm actually pretty happy with that! That means that first thing in the morning, nekked (as I usually weigh myself) I am probably around the 155 - 156lb mark. I feel bigger. I thought i was going to weigh in at closer to 168lb to be honest.
My goal is to wear a bikini somewhere hot this summer. Not even a huge holiday, even just a weekend on the south coast would do if money was tight. I think that to wear a bikini, I'll be looking at toning as much as weight loss.
I wonder if I can get back the motivation I had before the wedding?
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So...this is the first time I've checked in this year. So far this year I:
1. Ate.
2. Ate a little more.
3. Ate a LOT more.
4. Suffered increased poundage as a result.
I mean serious increase in weight. When I started this whole caper, losing weight for the wedding, my high point was 178.5lb. That's overweight for my height. I lost over 30lb, and managed to keep about 20lb off, but only for a few months.
I recently had a run in with an ex - I mean, I was properly propositioned - an offer I did not accept. Well, I was so screwed up by this guy when I was younger, and I'm not going to lie, I did think about it. It felt like the whole situation took me back to the age I was when we were together, and he was screwing me over, and making me feel like s@£t. I found that I reverted to my binge eating mentality of those days - going out just to buy loads of food - in particular chips, then gorging, then purging.
I could not find it in myself to stick to a diet.
Anyway, finally, last week I thought that I am going to be back where I started if I don't get a move on. That didn't help me get motivated or disciplined, but I did finally get to the point where I felt I was ready to start the low carb diet again.
I've been on it for a week, and had a remarkable drop of water weight for week 1.
Week 1 - 168.5lb
Week 2 - 158.5lb
That's right - 10lb water weight in the first week. What a relief. I'd like to see a drop of 4 - 4.5lb this week, which I guess is unlikely, but 154lb is a good weight for me - when I start getting under it I feel better.
I am not going to weigh myself until next week - that is my new policy, and I kind of stuck to it in the first week. I honestly think it's dangerous to weigh in everyday, because the smallest glitch seems to throw me off.
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Posted: 16 February 2011 11:27 am |
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Emergency Post...
Over the last few days I've developed an itchy, red rash on my face. This could be due to low carb, but I think it might be a reaction to the sweeteners and other rubbish in the bars.
I don't want to stop the diet, as I'm getting great results - I weighed in this morning at 156.25lb. What I did yesterday, and what I will continue to do, is cut out all the low carb products (except some diet soda) and just eat whole, unprocessed foods.
I will try that for a few days, and if the rash doesn't calm down, I will go to the doctors, and then see if changing my diet will help.
My first proper goal is 147lb - this is a weight I feel comfortable at, and I think that once I get to that weight, I will concentrate on toning and exercises and maintaining. Although I would like to be less, I have never managed it, and I think that if I can learn to maintain that weight for a while, then I may stay there for a bit, then work on exercise to improve my figure, then re-focus on trying to blast off a bit more weight.
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Had a couple of almost fast days (not on purpose - just panned out that way) prob about 500 cals each day, but still at 156.25lb.
The bad news is that the rash has got a lot worse, and spread, event though I took all processed low carb foods out of my diet.
I have read that a lot of people get these rashes, which improve almost instantaneously when they re-introduce carbs - I was loathe to do this, as I'd hit my stride and was finding the diet extremely easy.
I had some toast and tomato. I think I will have some more carbs at dinner - but healthy ones, maybe quinoa, then stick to proteins and veg at dinner time. I guess I'll move onto calorie counting. If the rash does not improve, then I will
go back on the diet.
I'm pretty upset about it, as it's the appetite suppressing qualities of this diet which are making it easy to stick to.
I guess I'll just count calories for now, while sticking to largely unrefined low GI carbs.
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Posted: 1 April 2011 05:13 pm |
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Wow, it's been a long time since I posted.
A lot has happened.
First, I moved out of my home. I'm living with a friend and have been for a week. My husband got drunk the other day, and left a screaming voicemail on my phone, saying I am a 'f$%k*(* bit&*' amongst other things. This came out of nowhere, and I can't even look at him right now.
Food-wise, the rash did go away after I quit low carb. I piled weight on steadily, and got to a high of about 166lb. Not sure what I am now.
I got to a point of being sick of food controlling me, so I saw a hypnotherapist. The goals I was aiming towards were to enjoy food normally, to stop binging and to stop thinking about food all the time. She has set a low GI diet fro me, as I wanted to lose 26lb. One of the things I did was give my scale away, so I don't know what I weigh, but my jeans that were too tight are fitting now, so I guess I at least dropped some water weight.
It's weird - I am being drawn to healthier food, and I have absolutely no desire to overeat.
I can weigh mysefl on the 1st July, the goal is to be 140lb by then.
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Posted: 28 April 2011 10:50 am |
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Really feeling like the hypnotherapy worked.
Couldn't get my head around the low-gi thing though, so decided to go back to low-carb, using the new attitude i have towards food to help me.
Started on Monday - weighed in at 170.6lb. I'm not going to weigh myself until next Monday (it's Thursday now) but I did slip up on Tuesday and weighed myself - in the evening, fully clothed, I was 167lb, so I hope I've lost a good few pounds water weight and hope to weigh in at around 165lb or less on Monday, for a week one weight loss of 5.6lb (or hopefully more!)
My goal is still 140lb, which I think is possible by August 1st.
I am finding the diet easy - and I have my period, which usually makes me eat. The best thing about the hypnosis though - it's made me want to excercise! I am going to th egym or swimming everyday, because I want to! It feels great. The workouts aren't too focussed or intense, but at the moment I'm just enjoying improving my fitness and moving my body. It's weird, but I actually want to go.
In terms of my body issues, I feel hypnosis was probably the best thing I ever did.
Once I get to my target weight, I can imagine myself staying there through moderation. It's a nice feeling.
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| Hey Desperate...the hypnosis really worked to get you to exercise more? Maybe I need to give that a try. Was it just regular hypnosis...like did you just find him/her in the phone book? sounds intriguing.
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I weighed myself after four weeks on the diet, and had lost 14.25lb, going from 170lb to 154.75lb. I'm very happy with that.
I've just completed week five. No weigh om - I am thinking of waiting until the end of week seven to weigh in, hoping that I will be around the 147lb mark (I know i'll probably be a couple of pounds higher, but that's ok).
Not sure if I'll have had much/any of a loss this week. Ok, so this is a total excuse, but I've been working a lot - like 80 hours a week, so meal planning has gone totally out of the window. I'm eating low carb, but a lot of rubbish-sugar free chocolate, whipped cream, that kind of thing. So I hope my calories have been low enough to make me lose weight, even if my eating hasn't been that clean.
Today, for example, I have had (so far):
2 x eggs, scrambled with cheese 1.5g
4 x slices vegetarian chicken 2.2g
1 x coffee with low sugar milk 1g
4 x blocks sugar free choc 2g
3 x servings squirty cream 1g
mini sugar free meringues - no carbs, but sugar substitute
2 x diet pepsi - no carbs
As you can see, there's no real or healthy food in there. I'm pretty hungry now, actually. Worried I'm knocking myself out of ketosis with the junk, but being rubbish at making proper food.
Also, I saw some abattoir footage, and have not been able to eat meat since seeing it. That makes low carb very hard. I wanted to wait until I was around 147lb before switching diets though. Not sure where I am now, but I'm guessing that as I have my period, I'm probably still around the 154lb mark, maybe slightly under.
Will probably have some courgette and pepper for dinner, with cheese.
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Wow - back again, with none of my goals achieved.
So, over the last few months, it's been a rough-ish time. Work got crazy, now is quiet, relationship got awful, separataed, but now back together and councelling, and I had no oven, and although I didn't eat to excess, ate a lot of cr.ap and got upto 181lb. Highest ever. Hoping that was a false reading though, as it seems so high.
Am now on period, so it's fluctuated over the last two days, but weighed in at 169.5lb.
I want to be 147lb (first goal) so that's 22.5lb to lose. Crazy. Really annoyed with myself - after working so hard to lose over 30lb, I never wanted to put myself in that position again.
My motivation is at an all time high though, had a bbq for our first anniversay the other day, and I stuck to my diet, as I didn't want to come out of ketosis.
Tomorrow will be my first weekly weigh in, and I hope to be 168lb or under by then.
Doing a vegetarian low carb diet similar to atkins ar rge moment, as I am unable with the practices at abbatoirs. In priniciple, I don't have so much an issue with eating meat as I do with welfare standards in slaughter houses.
UNDERcover filming has revealed violence and sexual abuse perpetarted against pigs, cows and other animals. It makes me physically sick, and so angry.
Anyway, I digress. I am doing a vegetarian version of low carb, which is working out ok, but I don't have a cooker, so it's a lot of bars and salad until the cooker arrives. I have been enjoying a lot of the food I can eat, but sometimes it seems ridiculously hard to do low carb without meat. If it weren't for the appetite suppressing effects of ketosis, I couldn't do it, that's for sure.
Not done much exercising yet, but will do when I feel a bot more settled in the diet. The week before my period is probably the worst week to start, but I was actually starting to feel depressed looking in the mirror, so I had to get a move on.
I guess I'd hope to get to 147lb by mid October.
What I'd really like to worj on though, is liking my body the way it is, so i don't feel that life is passing me by as i work my way to goal.
I would eventually like to get below that, but that's my aim for now.
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Had first weigh in after first week.
Starting weight 178lb
Week 1...167lb
Pretty happy with the numbers...I think the first weight was a bit off, due to water retention etc.
Anyways, I might get new scales, as mine seem to weigh heavy - after weihing in at 167lb on my scales, in the morning, no clothes, I got weighed in the eveining at my friend's house - 166lb. That would mean that in the morning I probably would have been 164lb. It's a moot point, becase they're not my scales, but it might be worth investinf. Or not.
Today I had:
2 x coffee (with milk)
1 x breakfast bar
1 x atkins bar (didn't finish)
4 x brazil nuts
4 x squares sugar free choc
1 x low carb wrap
2 x vege hot dogs
1 x small portion of salad with feta
some cheese
some burger sauce
All in all, I make this out to be around 20g - a bot over. On the vegetarian low carb diet you're allowed upto 30g carbs on induction as fake meat and veg has more carbs than veg. The author thinks that there i very litle dufference between te two amountsm and you can get into ketosis either way.
My appetite is low, and I have noti ed the weight loaa, so am pretty sure am in ketosis.
I am going to try to not weigh in until next Tuesday. That wil be my weigh-in day. I am hoping to be under 164lb by next weigh-in.
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desperategirl
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Posted: 12 November 2011 03:15 pm |
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Back again.
I have just done five weeks on Atkins, now I want to start tracking my food.
Results so far:
Week One 178
Week Two 168
Week Three 164
Week Four 164
Week Five 160.5
I'm pretty happy with that - just under 18 pounds in five weeks.
Annoyingly, I have a lunch date in a bread place tomorrow, so may end up knocking myself out of ketosis, bu this time, it really is unvoidabke. I will re-start the diet on MOnday.
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desperategirl
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Posted: 19 November 2011 08:33 am |
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Only just starting Atkins again today.
After being off plan for six days, I have gained 7.5lbs (!!!!!!) taking me to 168lb exactly.
That's pretty bad, but with water retentio, glycogen stores etc etc, I hope to be back to 160.5lb with the week. Hopefully this is realistic, as I don't believe I've had a fat gain, more just bloat and water.
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Maggie
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Posted: 20 November 2011 03:01 pm |
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HI
I know it is none of my business, but a word of caution. Being a diabetic myself, ketosis is not a good state to be in. Being healthy is more important than weight loss that comes and goes at the rate of 6 or 7 lbs at a time.
OK, you can shoot me now!!! Just a friendly word of caution.
Cheerio
Maggie
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Hiker
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Posted: 20 November 2011 06:02 pm |
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| Desparte Girl, you might want to check out Drl Bernsteins book " Diabetes Soution", he does support the low carb life style but it is a very comprehensive look at living with Diabetes and changing your diet. I got it for my husband who is diabetic but I find the book very helpful for myself too.
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desperategirl
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Posted: 23 November 2011 09:40 am |
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Maggie - Please don't apologise! I welcome any advice, and appreciate your thoughts.
Hiker - Good to hear from you again! Thanks for the book suggestion - I will have a look.
I am actually beginning to think about trying to adopt a less extreme approach to eating anyway. Atkins was great to lose weight for the wedding, but `i sm actually trying to think about getting into a new lifestyle, not just with regards to diet and exercise, but overall, with stress managament, organization etc.
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Sassykat
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desperategirl
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Posted: 10 March 2012 01:07 pm |
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After trying low carb again, and getting the rash again, I have decided to make a commitment to a healthy lifestyle, whihc will include exercise (which I will learn to enjoy!!)
I believe (not certain) that I weigh in at around 168lb right now, which is around 13lb lower than my highest ever weight, so not great, but not too bad.
I also find, as I get older, that my weight creeps up more! Not so happy about that!
My plan now is to not rely on low-carb as it seems to make me break out in a terrible rash now.
It is my brother's wedding in about 16 weeks, and my goal is to lose 28lb (dependent on my exact start weight). I believe that this will be possible using a sensible diet plan, and some kind of exercise three times a week.
I am thinking of starting slimming world, as one thing I learnt from low-carb is that I like having 'rules' - i find it easier to stick to than vague ideas about 'healthy eating.'
I am going to go to meetings - the next one close to me is at the beginning of next week, so I will start then, but in the mean time, try not to go overboard, and pile on loads of lbs before I 'start' the new plan.
I also plan to join a local basketball club and take up yoga.
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