As the title suggests, the challenge I set myself last week didn't go so well. Not once was I able to refrain from eating after 9pm. Though I did discover a healthyish sort of cracker which has certainly got to be better than snacking on Aero chocolate (yum!) and Doritos. I'm not going to have another go at a challenge this week, I'm actually a bit disheartened after last weeks attempt.
My other news is that I have a gym assessment on Friday, you know the kind where the super-fit trainer whips that measuring tape around your limbs so fast you don't even have a chance to blink and then asks you to hop onto those scales... So I will admit that I'm a bit nervous. My first assessment was about 2 months ago and at the time I weighed 153kg. Now according to my latest Doctor's appointment (a week ago), I weighed 148kg. So hopefully the gym scales will show a similar amount of change as the Doctor's scale. My fingers are crossed!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Back to school
Stats
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:148.2kg (roughly)
A loss of:-11kg
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This previous week was the start of term 3 and as such, meant that my two weeks of holidays was over and it was time to go back to class. This was my first lot of holidays in my weight loss journey and they were certainly one hell of a learning experience. Unfortunately, it provided me with some negative facts about my eating habits. Over the holidays my eating spiralled completly out of control, starting with a three day visit to my parents farm. After binging on the chips and chocolate I had brought with me (to sustain myself because I don't enjoy having my food choices controlled by somebody else) I found it near impossible to move back to the fairly good routine that I had established during term 2.
I had many arguments with myself every time I drove past McDonalds, walked through the bakery of the local supermarket and each time I so much as saw somebody eating something that I just knew I had to have. Needless to say, healthy me lost every single one of those arguments. It was only when I resumed class last week that I realised why I had so much trouble maintaining my healthy eating over that two week break. I had no routine! I could eat whenever I wanted! And I did.
Switch scenarios. Back to class. Breakfast (or not) at 8.30am, lunch at midday, afternoon tea at 4.30pm and tea at 6.30pm. A routine. I can't eat during class, can't eat between 4.30 and 6.30 as thats gym time. I will admit to having a fair amount of trouble with evening snacking, but hopefully I will improve with time. So routine will be my saviour.
Other news is that I now have my correct weight loss stats above this post. I went to the doctor to day and surprisingly, despite my disasterous holidays I have lost another 3kg. So happy! Just so you know, it has been nearly a month since my last weigh in. I had such good intentions but as I've already said, I didn't really stick to those intentions for long. At the beginning of that month I had planned to weigh 145kg by now. Thinking back I was probably being a bit optimistic. Slow and steady wins the race after all.
Despite my continued weight loss I am finding this hard. It is very hard, so hard, to break those many bad eating habits that I have formed over the years.
I am now goning to set my self a goal for the following week. My main eating problem at the moment is continuous snacking after tea, as such my goal is not to eat after 9pm. If you had just one look at my food journal you would quickly understand how hard I will find this challenge, though at the same time, I'm sure there are many out there who currently facing the same challenges or have already done so.
Signing of now people, wish me luck!
p.s. I discovered that I like salad.
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:148.2kg (roughly)
A loss of:-11kg
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This previous week was the start of term 3 and as such, meant that my two weeks of holidays was over and it was time to go back to class. This was my first lot of holidays in my weight loss journey and they were certainly one hell of a learning experience. Unfortunately, it provided me with some negative facts about my eating habits. Over the holidays my eating spiralled completly out of control, starting with a three day visit to my parents farm. After binging on the chips and chocolate I had brought with me (to sustain myself because I don't enjoy having my food choices controlled by somebody else) I found it near impossible to move back to the fairly good routine that I had established during term 2.
I had many arguments with myself every time I drove past McDonalds, walked through the bakery of the local supermarket and each time I so much as saw somebody eating something that I just knew I had to have. Needless to say, healthy me lost every single one of those arguments. It was only when I resumed class last week that I realised why I had so much trouble maintaining my healthy eating over that two week break. I had no routine! I could eat whenever I wanted! And I did.
Switch scenarios. Back to class. Breakfast (or not) at 8.30am, lunch at midday, afternoon tea at 4.30pm and tea at 6.30pm. A routine. I can't eat during class, can't eat between 4.30 and 6.30 as thats gym time. I will admit to having a fair amount of trouble with evening snacking, but hopefully I will improve with time. So routine will be my saviour.
Other news is that I now have my correct weight loss stats above this post. I went to the doctor to day and surprisingly, despite my disasterous holidays I have lost another 3kg. So happy! Just so you know, it has been nearly a month since my last weigh in. I had such good intentions but as I've already said, I didn't really stick to those intentions for long. At the beginning of that month I had planned to weigh 145kg by now. Thinking back I was probably being a bit optimistic. Slow and steady wins the race after all.
Despite my continued weight loss I am finding this hard. It is very hard, so hard, to break those many bad eating habits that I have formed over the years.
I am now goning to set my self a goal for the following week. My main eating problem at the moment is continuous snacking after tea, as such my goal is not to eat after 9pm. If you had just one look at my food journal you would quickly understand how hard I will find this challenge, though at the same time, I'm sure there are many out there who currently facing the same challenges or have already done so.
Signing of now people, wish me luck!
p.s. I discovered that I like salad.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Hello Everybody!
Stats:Starting weight:159kg
Current Weight:150kg (roughly)
A loss of:-9kg
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Well this is obviously my first post so first of all I would like to say 'Hi' to whoever is actually reading this.
I first stumbled across the world of fit blogging (if that is the correct term) after reading the wonderful book 'The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl' by fellow Aussie, Shauna Reid. So I thought I'd give it a go.
I have struggled with my weight since I was 13 when my doctor told me that if I wasn't careful I would develop a weight problem and within 6 months my mother had packed my 13 year old self of to Weight Watchers. Needless to say it didn't really work for me, probably because of the fact that at the time there really wasn't much wrong with my weight.
Seven years later, numererous visits to dietitions, many blocks of chocolate, several incidents of my 17 year old self (who by this time really did have a weight problem) being teased children 6 years younger than myself, depression, OCD tendancies and anxiety issues (of which could have either been caused by my weight or contributed to it), I believe that I have finally developed the right mindset so as to actually have the ability to achieve something.
About 3 months ago, and after a failed weight loss attempt at a ladies only gym (how on earth can anyone my size lose weight in three 30 minute sessions per week? Really!), I finally worked up the guts to go and see my current doctor. We worked out a basic system for us to work with; I would go and see her for a weigh in every two weeks and I would also keep a food journal of which she would read over and try and point me in the right direction.
As I had already started a journal, her first piece of advice was to drink only water, drink only the soft-drinks with the word 'diet' in them and no flavoured full fat milk or any fruit juice (major vices of mine). This actually worked! In my first month, with only incidental exercise, I lost about 4kgs. After this month I joined a 'real' gym which provided me with my very own exercise plan!
Since then my weight has steadily dropped (with the exeption of one 'bad' fortnight) by 1kg every week.
At the moment my doctor is away so it will be a month between weigh-in's (only two weeks 'till then) and I would really love to hit the 145kg mark by then as this will mean that I have lost all of the weight that I have gained over the past two years
I hope this will be the first of many posts and thanks for reading!
Current Weight:150kg (roughly)
A loss of:-9kg
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Well this is obviously my first post so first of all I would like to say 'Hi' to whoever is actually reading this.
I first stumbled across the world of fit blogging (if that is the correct term) after reading the wonderful book 'The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl' by fellow Aussie, Shauna Reid. So I thought I'd give it a go.
I have struggled with my weight since I was 13 when my doctor told me that if I wasn't careful I would develop a weight problem and within 6 months my mother had packed my 13 year old self of to Weight Watchers. Needless to say it didn't really work for me, probably because of the fact that at the time there really wasn't much wrong with my weight.
Seven years later, numererous visits to dietitions, many blocks of chocolate, several incidents of my 17 year old self (who by this time really did have a weight problem) being teased children 6 years younger than myself, depression, OCD tendancies and anxiety issues (of which could have either been caused by my weight or contributed to it), I believe that I have finally developed the right mindset so as to actually have the ability to achieve something.
About 3 months ago, and after a failed weight loss attempt at a ladies only gym (how on earth can anyone my size lose weight in three 30 minute sessions per week? Really!), I finally worked up the guts to go and see my current doctor. We worked out a basic system for us to work with; I would go and see her for a weigh in every two weeks and I would also keep a food journal of which she would read over and try and point me in the right direction.
As I had already started a journal, her first piece of advice was to drink only water, drink only the soft-drinks with the word 'diet' in them and no flavoured full fat milk or any fruit juice (major vices of mine). This actually worked! In my first month, with only incidental exercise, I lost about 4kgs. After this month I joined a 'real' gym which provided me with my very own exercise plan!
Since then my weight has steadily dropped (with the exeption of one 'bad' fortnight) by 1kg every week.
At the moment my doctor is away so it will be a month between weigh-in's (only two weeks 'till then) and I would really love to hit the 145kg mark by then as this will mean that I have lost all of the weight that I have gained over the past two years
I hope this will be the first of many posts and thanks for reading!
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