Stats
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:143.9kg
A loss of:-15.3kg
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Well, I seem to have made my way out of the little unhealthy eating rut I had gotten myself into. At last weigh in at the Doctors I had managed to lose another 2.5kg and then at my gym assessment today I found out that I’ve lost a mighty 8.3kgs since my last assessment 6 weeks ago and several centimetres off my arms, legs, waist, chest, and hips! Needless to say I’m feeling rather pleased with myself at the moment.
I guess that shows the benefits of eating a lot less than I normally would (and hopefully healthier), and the benefits of restricting my visits to the McDonald's drive thru. The downside is that in the process of becoming used to eating these smaller amounts, there is a constant, niggling feeling of hunger. It has been slowly becoming less of uncomfortable feeling over the last fortnight, but is certainly a rather annoying sensation to put up with.
It's currently term break here, so I have 2 weeks of holidays. I was feeling a tad apprehensive about the holidays in regards to my recent weight loss plateau, and the fact that it will be my 21st birthday in 10 days (here I come birthday cake!) but since things are heading in the right direction again, I’m feeling a little bit more optimistic. In fact, assuming that the doctors scales are displaying the same result as mine and those at the gym (which I doubt), I’ve lost nearly 4kgs in the past week! Though I will say that I won’t be displaying those numbers hear as I’m only going to believe those numbers which appear on the doctors scales.
I am impatiently awaiting my weigh at the Doctor’s next week just to see how truthful those gym scales actually are. Wish me luck people. I’m looking forward to telling you the results of my next weigh in.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
I've wandered away from the healthy eating path...again.
Stats
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:146.4kg
A loss of:-12.8kg
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My aim when I started this weight loss journey was to lose 1kg per week. Well, my weight loss seems t have stalled a bit of late. I think I can point the cause directly to a few items that somehow find their way into my grocery basket.
Despite my gym efforts, which I think I'm maintaining pretty damn well, I have still been eating all of the wrong foods, especially lately. I'm not sure why this is, but at the moment I'm determined to put a stop to it before my weight starts to climb again.
My first attempt at this occured when I recently beat the McDonalds curse. I acheived my goal and actually managed to keep away from those golden arches for 15 days instead of the 14 that I had orinally set my goal for. I'm currently on the 9th day of the next 2 week block. This time I'm aiming to keep away for 16 days. My second small achievment was being able to throw out a 2 Litre bottle of apple juice after just 2 glasses. My most recent step in the right directing was while grocery shopping this afternoon. I'm a person who will bye a frozen large pizza and eat the whole thing. Not only did I (after standing in the freezer section for near on 15 minutes) pass on the large pizza but also the small pizza, and as I walked through the biscuit aisle, a place I really should avoid, I was able to put those mint slice biscuits back on the shelf. Unfortunatly on my way to the checkout I did pick up a cake and a block of aero chocolate which did remain in my basket. But I figure that these small victories must count for something. I'm hoping that they'll slowly give me the courage to put a few other thing back on the shelf.
I think one of the reasons I eat these unhealthy foods, aside from several years of bad shopping habits, is that I'm the kind of person who likes to be doing something with my hands all the time, especially of an evening when I watch tv. I've been trying to introduce other things I can do instead of eating, knitting being the ost sucessful alternive. But what on earth am I supposed to do when I can thing of nothing other than how good it would be to tuck into a large bag of doritos whilst watching Good News Week or Castle, Bones or NCIS? How do you distract yourself when what you really want is going to eventually kill you? This is going to be my hardest challenge as I attempt to find the way of healthy eating that's right for me.
I'm going to try my hardest this week, and hopefully, when I next put a post up my weight will be at least 145kg. My fingers are crossed.
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:146.4kg
A loss of:-12.8kg
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My aim when I started this weight loss journey was to lose 1kg per week. Well, my weight loss seems t have stalled a bit of late. I think I can point the cause directly to a few items that somehow find their way into my grocery basket.
Despite my gym efforts, which I think I'm maintaining pretty damn well, I have still been eating all of the wrong foods, especially lately. I'm not sure why this is, but at the moment I'm determined to put a stop to it before my weight starts to climb again.
My first attempt at this occured when I recently beat the McDonalds curse. I acheived my goal and actually managed to keep away from those golden arches for 15 days instead of the 14 that I had orinally set my goal for. I'm currently on the 9th day of the next 2 week block. This time I'm aiming to keep away for 16 days. My second small achievment was being able to throw out a 2 Litre bottle of apple juice after just 2 glasses. My most recent step in the right directing was while grocery shopping this afternoon. I'm a person who will bye a frozen large pizza and eat the whole thing. Not only did I (after standing in the freezer section for near on 15 minutes) pass on the large pizza but also the small pizza, and as I walked through the biscuit aisle, a place I really should avoid, I was able to put those mint slice biscuits back on the shelf. Unfortunatly on my way to the checkout I did pick up a cake and a block of aero chocolate which did remain in my basket. But I figure that these small victories must count for something. I'm hoping that they'll slowly give me the courage to put a few other thing back on the shelf.
I think one of the reasons I eat these unhealthy foods, aside from several years of bad shopping habits, is that I'm the kind of person who likes to be doing something with my hands all the time, especially of an evening when I watch tv. I've been trying to introduce other things I can do instead of eating, knitting being the ost sucessful alternive. But what on earth am I supposed to do when I can thing of nothing other than how good it would be to tuck into a large bag of doritos whilst watching Good News Week or Castle, Bones or NCIS? How do you distract yourself when what you really want is going to eventually kill you? This is going to be my hardest challenge as I attempt to find the way of healthy eating that's right for me.
I'm going to try my hardest this week, and hopefully, when I next put a post up my weight will be at least 145kg. My fingers are crossed.
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