Well it's time to weigh in, after a week on track.... mostly but with a trip to Frankie and Bennys! And a week of the 30 Day Shred. It'll be interesting to see how my losses do this week. I'm not really expecting a big one to be honest, maybe 2lbs. Need to up my water a LOT, that might help get things shifted because I really don't drink enough. I drink plenty at work but not at home really. Did a 9 hour shift yesterday and doing 6 hours today, surely that burnt off like 20lbs?! Felt like it anyway lol
Well it's time... I better go jump on those scales!
18st 9lbs... 2.75lbs down from last week. It's a good loss but I am a little disappointed to be honest, I wanted to be in the 18st 8lb range as I was 9lb yesterday. Oh well! Lost 1 inch from my hips and half an inch from my waist. Getting there, slowly but surely.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Day 3 of 'the Shred'
Well today is day 3 of the 30 Day Shred. Not posted in a few days, so will have to do an update from the beginning!
Started the Shred on Monday, took my measurements before hand...
Weight: 263
Bust: 47in
Back: 39in
Waist: 40.5in
Hips: 51in
Arms: 15in
Thighs: 25in
Hopefully, in 30 days they'll all be at least a few inches smaller!! I might try and hold off doing my measurements until the 30 days are up instead of every week.
Day 1 I found a lot easier than I expected to be honest. It was definitely a hard work out, but I got through it all. Bought a Heart Rate Monitor with my tips from Saturday night and turns out I burnt 485 calories during that half hour, way more than I expected! I could do about half the push ups but totally failed at the bicycle crunches at the end, did about 2! Just had nothing left to give.
Day 2 was alright, had a little ache left over in my abs from the day before but got through it ok. It was both easier and harder at the same time! Could feel the burn more because I'd done it the day before, but doing each action was a little easier. Did most of the bicycle crunches at the end this time but flopped on the second lot of push ups, my arms couldn't take anymore!
Day 3 was so so! Was definitely the hardest of the 3 days because I could really feel it from the day before still. Half way through I wanted to just give up, I thought hell I've down 2 days, that's good, 2 and a half will still be good! But I pushed on, even though I didn't think I'd be able to and got through it all. I did much better with the push ups this time, I still didn't do them all though, I think I did 13 first round and 6 or 7 the second round. The bicycle crunches went pretty well, stop for a few seconds towards the end though. I have to do them faster than them, I find that if I'm too slow I find it far more difficult! Only burned 460 calories today, don't think I gave it quite my all like I did the past 2 days but I think I gave it all I had at the time!
Having a major attack of confidence today! There's a guy who has been showing interest in me and has mentioned meeting up for a drink, we've not met before as we've been chatting on Facebook through a mutual friend and then by text. Part of me thinks yeah it would be good to meet him. The other part of me thinks that he'll meet me, think oh I didn't realise that you were so fat and run a mile! He's lost weight himself, I don't know how much, can only tell by Facebook pics but it's at least a few stone. I just know that I'm very picky with my Facebook pics and so I'm not sure they really represent me, they do me too much justice and I'm far fatter than I look in any of them! I think it's one of these situations though where I'm always going to have something undermining my confidence levels and so, unless I want to regret never meeting him, I'm going to just have to bite the bullet and get on with it. I can't wait until I'm another stone down or this size or this weight. My life starts now, not when I reach my goal weight.
Started the Shred on Monday, took my measurements before hand...
Weight: 263
Bust: 47in
Back: 39in
Waist: 40.5in
Hips: 51in
Arms: 15in
Thighs: 25in
Hopefully, in 30 days they'll all be at least a few inches smaller!! I might try and hold off doing my measurements until the 30 days are up instead of every week.
Day 1 I found a lot easier than I expected to be honest. It was definitely a hard work out, but I got through it all. Bought a Heart Rate Monitor with my tips from Saturday night and turns out I burnt 485 calories during that half hour, way more than I expected! I could do about half the push ups but totally failed at the bicycle crunches at the end, did about 2! Just had nothing left to give.
Day 2 was alright, had a little ache left over in my abs from the day before but got through it ok. It was both easier and harder at the same time! Could feel the burn more because I'd done it the day before, but doing each action was a little easier. Did most of the bicycle crunches at the end this time but flopped on the second lot of push ups, my arms couldn't take anymore!
Day 3 was so so! Was definitely the hardest of the 3 days because I could really feel it from the day before still. Half way through I wanted to just give up, I thought hell I've down 2 days, that's good, 2 and a half will still be good! But I pushed on, even though I didn't think I'd be able to and got through it all. I did much better with the push ups this time, I still didn't do them all though, I think I did 13 first round and 6 or 7 the second round. The bicycle crunches went pretty well, stop for a few seconds towards the end though. I have to do them faster than them, I find that if I'm too slow I find it far more difficult! Only burned 460 calories today, don't think I gave it quite my all like I did the past 2 days but I think I gave it all I had at the time!
Having a major attack of confidence today! There's a guy who has been showing interest in me and has mentioned meeting up for a drink, we've not met before as we've been chatting on Facebook through a mutual friend and then by text. Part of me thinks yeah it would be good to meet him. The other part of me thinks that he'll meet me, think oh I didn't realise that you were so fat and run a mile! He's lost weight himself, I don't know how much, can only tell by Facebook pics but it's at least a few stone. I just know that I'm very picky with my Facebook pics and so I'm not sure they really represent me, they do me too much justice and I'm far fatter than I look in any of them! I think it's one of these situations though where I'm always going to have something undermining my confidence levels and so, unless I want to regret never meeting him, I'm going to just have to bite the bullet and get on with it. I can't wait until I'm another stone down or this size or this weight. My life starts now, not when I reach my goal weight.
Monday, 23 May 2011
Update for the week
I haven't posted in my blog/diary for a while, so I'll do a quick update for the week. Overall, the week went pretty well and I stuck to calories. I didn't do nearly enough exercise though, for some reason it just went out of my mind and I lacked the motivation to get on with it. To be honest, not done a huge amount for the last 2 weeks, even though I lost well last week I haven't done so well dropping the inches and I think that could well be because of the lack of exercise. Will have to get back on it!
My biggest news of the week is that I got on to my PGCE course!!! So unbelievably stoked about it! Definitely need to keep on with losing weight for when I start. I don't wanna be the fat girl. I want to be thinner, more confident and make friends more easily than before. I start in exactly 16 weeks today. If I lose 2lbs each week, I will hit 231lbs by the 12th of September, so I'd be 16st 7lbs for the start of my course and my birthday 2 days later! Now, I'd like to lose more by then but I don't want to push myself for a harder target. But if I'm upping my exercise, it could well be possible to. If I lose between 2 and 2.5lbs a week, then I could hit 16st, a nice round number (though I'd still have a not so nice round body!) and would be great. But we'll see, I'm not going to officially set myself any goals for it because if I don't meet them, I don't want it to knock my confidence when I start. So I'm just going to do the best that I can do by then and whatever I weigh then, as long as it's less than now, will be good.
I had a really difficult time towards the end of this week. A 5 year, very close friendship had to come to an end and obviously, after 5 years, that was really hard. I'm still not particularly ok about it, though I understand that it had to happen. I'll get there. It did mean that one day, as a bit of a cheer myself up I said that I'd take my niece out for dinner - I was sitting with her because everyone else was out and didn't want her to be by herself all evening. So we went for chinese buffet and I wasn't quite as restrained as I should have been. There wasn't huge damage though so it could have been worse!
Had my weigh in yesterday, did alright but not really the kind of result that I like but after my chinese splurge I probably can't really complain. Lost 1.5lbs, an inch from my hips and half from my waist and back.
Am starting the 30 Day Shred today. It might well kill me though but I've got to at least try it! Will update later on how it goes!
My biggest news of the week is that I got on to my PGCE course!!! So unbelievably stoked about it! Definitely need to keep on with losing weight for when I start. I don't wanna be the fat girl. I want to be thinner, more confident and make friends more easily than before. I start in exactly 16 weeks today. If I lose 2lbs each week, I will hit 231lbs by the 12th of September, so I'd be 16st 7lbs for the start of my course and my birthday 2 days later! Now, I'd like to lose more by then but I don't want to push myself for a harder target. But if I'm upping my exercise, it could well be possible to. If I lose between 2 and 2.5lbs a week, then I could hit 16st, a nice round number (though I'd still have a not so nice round body!) and would be great. But we'll see, I'm not going to officially set myself any goals for it because if I don't meet them, I don't want it to knock my confidence when I start. So I'm just going to do the best that I can do by then and whatever I weigh then, as long as it's less than now, will be good.
I had a really difficult time towards the end of this week. A 5 year, very close friendship had to come to an end and obviously, after 5 years, that was really hard. I'm still not particularly ok about it, though I understand that it had to happen. I'll get there. It did mean that one day, as a bit of a cheer myself up I said that I'd take my niece out for dinner - I was sitting with her because everyone else was out and didn't want her to be by herself all evening. So we went for chinese buffet and I wasn't quite as restrained as I should have been. There wasn't huge damage though so it could have been worse!
Had my weigh in yesterday, did alright but not really the kind of result that I like but after my chinese splurge I probably can't really complain. Lost 1.5lbs, an inch from my hips and half from my waist and back.
Am starting the 30 Day Shred today. It might well kill me though but I've got to at least try it! Will update later on how it goes!
Monday, 16 May 2011
Survived the weekend!
I posted yesterday at how I saw temptation everywhere food wise, yesterday especially. And I really really did. Everything I saw, I wanted. My dad bought some haribo and chocolate white mice to take to a friends house for their kids today and I found myself looking at them thinking, well I could just eat a few, knowing full well that it wouldn't stop there, and then buy a new bag. But I thought no, I won't in case I don't replace them in time. Then I popped to Tesco for a few bits and found myself looking at the calories on all of the packs of sweets there weighing them up but they were still all too high and somehow I found the will power to put them down. Then I did the same with trifle. And a doughnut. And pancakes. And about a million other things. The important thing here though is that I looked at the calories, didn't just put it in my basket, then made the informed decision about them. Somehow that decision was always no!
Something in me really has changed because I don't think that 5 weeks into calorie counting I've ever managed to stay this focused, determined and motivated or had this much willpower before! I'm not complaining of course, just don't know why! Jumped on the scales this morning and they read at 18st 12.5lbs, 0.75lbs down on yesterday so all the reassurance that I need to know I did the right thing yesterday avoiding the chips and other baddies!
Something in me really has changed because I don't think that 5 weeks into calorie counting I've ever managed to stay this focused, determined and motivated or had this much willpower before! I'm not complaining of course, just don't know why! Jumped on the scales this morning and they read at 18st 12.5lbs, 0.75lbs down on yesterday so all the reassurance that I need to know I did the right thing yesterday avoiding the chips and other baddies!
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Today is a haaard day! I guess I should start at the beginning.
After a good week loss wise each day I've been quite looking forward to weighing in today. Final result... 18st 13.25lbs. Is no reason that I should have put on 1/4 of a pound since yesterday but I'll take it. Means I'm 0.25lbs off a full stone off again now. So that wasn't a bad start to the day really, didn't really see any changes except for half an inch off my hips.
But the rest of my day just seems to have gone downhill and I'm in a terrible mood! I don't even know why! I've had the first weekend off in 2 months and every plan I've made as fallen through so I've done nothing with my weekend really, feels like an absolute waste. I'm unlikely to get another one for quite a while, so I'm quite disappointed by that really. And just sick and tired of my job taking away all of my weekends, it's not how it was meant to be, it's not what was discussed at interview.
Popped into a couple of shops today and just keep seeing things that I want to eat. Greggs. Marshmallows. Poppets. Haribo. All the things that I can't have. Or I can but they're so high in calorie that I won't. I'm sick of calorie counting today and just want to eat all the things I shouldn't. At least I said no to chips earlier when my parents got some, could have been the start of a downhill spiral!
I really don't know what's wrong with me today but just not a happy bunny at all but my day started out fine! I think I might just hide myself away today, best all round I think.
After a good week loss wise each day I've been quite looking forward to weighing in today. Final result... 18st 13.25lbs. Is no reason that I should have put on 1/4 of a pound since yesterday but I'll take it. Means I'm 0.25lbs off a full stone off again now. So that wasn't a bad start to the day really, didn't really see any changes except for half an inch off my hips.
But the rest of my day just seems to have gone downhill and I'm in a terrible mood! I don't even know why! I've had the first weekend off in 2 months and every plan I've made as fallen through so I've done nothing with my weekend really, feels like an absolute waste. I'm unlikely to get another one for quite a while, so I'm quite disappointed by that really. And just sick and tired of my job taking away all of my weekends, it's not how it was meant to be, it's not what was discussed at interview.
Popped into a couple of shops today and just keep seeing things that I want to eat. Greggs. Marshmallows. Poppets. Haribo. All the things that I can't have. Or I can but they're so high in calorie that I won't. I'm sick of calorie counting today and just want to eat all the things I shouldn't. At least I said no to chips earlier when my parents got some, could have been the start of a downhill spiral!
I really don't know what's wrong with me today but just not a happy bunny at all but my day started out fine! I think I might just hide myself away today, best all round I think.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
My scales are driving me up the flipping wall! They seem to be so up and down sometimes I never know whether they're giving me a proper result or not! I always put them in exactly the same place and sometimes they're fine and others they play up no end. They aren't cheap ones either, they were like £40!
Today I jumped on and it said 19st 0.75lbs, then again 18st 11.75lbs, then again 18st 13lbs and it gave me that last one 3 or 4 times in a row, so I'm going to go with that for my daily little weight chart. It's just ridiculous though. Why is it so hard to find reliable scales?! I'm really hoping that the 18st 13lbs is a proper result! Because if it is, I'm in the next stone bracket AND I've lost 1 stone in 5 weeks! Weigh in is tomorrow, so it's all unofficial at the moment anyway!
I've been so tired the past 2 days, I'm wondering if I've been over doing it with the exercising, not that I've been exercising that much to be honest. But I'm having to learn that at the time it might not feel like a lot, but those few days afterwards I'll still feel it. I just want to be normal! :(
I've decided to start offering a dog walking service locally. Walking is good, it's not too intense so I can handle it a lot better so it would be a good build up to more exercise. And could be some extra cash, which is always good! Anything that's extra cash and gets me out of this house at the moment has to be a good thing!
Today I jumped on and it said 19st 0.75lbs, then again 18st 11.75lbs, then again 18st 13lbs and it gave me that last one 3 or 4 times in a row, so I'm going to go with that for my daily little weight chart. It's just ridiculous though. Why is it so hard to find reliable scales?! I'm really hoping that the 18st 13lbs is a proper result! Because if it is, I'm in the next stone bracket AND I've lost 1 stone in 5 weeks! Weigh in is tomorrow, so it's all unofficial at the moment anyway!
I've been so tired the past 2 days, I'm wondering if I've been over doing it with the exercising, not that I've been exercising that much to be honest. But I'm having to learn that at the time it might not feel like a lot, but those few days afterwards I'll still feel it. I just want to be normal! :(
I've decided to start offering a dog walking service locally. Walking is good, it's not too intense so I can handle it a lot better so it would be a good build up to more exercise. And could be some extra cash, which is always good! Anything that's extra cash and gets me out of this house at the moment has to be a good thing!
Friday, 13 May 2011
It's falling off!
I'm actually having a really good week this week. I'm managing to stay with things, I'm making good decisions regarding food, I'm avoiding things that don't fit in with my healthy eating, I'm trying to drink more (doing well but need more!) and most importantly, I've stopped snacking!
Jumped on the scales this morning and I'm 19st 0.25lbs, I started the week on Sunday at 19st 3.5lbs so that's 3.25lbs so far with 2 days left to go! Monday I had a STS, since then it's been 0.75lb off every day, 1 day was even 1lb. I mean, I'm not complaining... I want this big fat ass gone as soon as possible! It just seems to be falling off very quickly this week. Maybe I'm just due for a big loss as I had -1lb, then gained 0.5lb from being away not sticking to plan at all then -1.5lbs, so not big losses. Like I said, not complaining just surprised at how good a week it is!
So in 0.5lbs I'll be in the next stone bracket down and in 1.25lbs I'll have lost a stone, in 5 weeks... can't really complain! I'd like to get to 18st 13lbs by Sunday. The way this week has been going it's possible but I don't want to get my hopes up! But if I do, I'll hit the next stone bracket and a full stone lost both at once which would be nice!
I'm working 6pm til 11pm tonight which means I'll be kept busy and won't be too tempted to get snacking which is good. I think today I might either go for a walk or do some more of my exercise DVD. I like going for a walk but I prefer doing it with someone else, or with a dog. I keep trying to persuade my parents to get a dog so I can take it for walks, not sure it's working though!
Jumped on the scales this morning and I'm 19st 0.25lbs, I started the week on Sunday at 19st 3.5lbs so that's 3.25lbs so far with 2 days left to go! Monday I had a STS, since then it's been 0.75lb off every day, 1 day was even 1lb. I mean, I'm not complaining... I want this big fat ass gone as soon as possible! It just seems to be falling off very quickly this week. Maybe I'm just due for a big loss as I had -1lb, then gained 0.5lb from being away not sticking to plan at all then -1.5lbs, so not big losses. Like I said, not complaining just surprised at how good a week it is!
So in 0.5lbs I'll be in the next stone bracket down and in 1.25lbs I'll have lost a stone, in 5 weeks... can't really complain! I'd like to get to 18st 13lbs by Sunday. The way this week has been going it's possible but I don't want to get my hopes up! But if I do, I'll hit the next stone bracket and a full stone lost both at once which would be nice!
I'm working 6pm til 11pm tonight which means I'll be kept busy and won't be too tempted to get snacking which is good. I think today I might either go for a walk or do some more of my exercise DVD. I like going for a walk but I prefer doing it with someone else, or with a dog. I keep trying to persuade my parents to get a dog so I can take it for walks, not sure it's working though!
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