Yay, I finally reached my first 5kg lost! It has felt really slow considering it has taken 5 weeks and in the past I'd usually get there in 2, but I think it's for the best. Even though I haven't been eating the best, it's been balanced, and it feels like something I can absolutely definitely maintain long term/forever.
When I next have a free hour or so I'm going to the plaza to get a massage - Need to be rewarded for all my effort! :)
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Finding myself very hungry...
For the first time on lite n easy, I'm actually finding myself quite hungry. I haven't stuck to it entirely for this reason (yesterday had a huge strawberry lamington, the day before had a large hot chocolate) and so far it looks like I'm down by 1.2kg, weighed at 109.1kg this morning. So I've decided from next week I'll go up to the 1800 cal plan which pretty much gives you two lunches a day instead of one, and see if I lose weight comfortably on that plan.
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Lite N Easy starts tomorrow...
and I'm already 2.1kg down, what the hell!? I wasn't really trying... All I did was cut out the "extra" junk - bag of chips when I'm bored, block of chocolate at work. I'm psyched and this has me really motivated for the week ahead. :) So my start weight (1 week ago, the 1st of September) was 112.4kg. Now on the 8th I'm 110.3 :)
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Freezer on its way!
Woohooo! I found a full sized freezer on gumtree that I'm getting for $120, delivered. He will be dropping it off either Monday or Tuesday afternoon meaning.... Lite N Easy starts on Thursday! SO psyched.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
The plan is decided!
Planning, planning, planning! I've decided that as much as I love weight watchers (and honestly do believe it is THE BEST way to lose weight without too much hassle or thinking) I am going to go with Lite n Easy this time. The reason is at least 80% of the meals I cook are for me and me only, and with the stress/depression creeping up on me lately, the last thing I want is to have to have cooking as an obligation when I don't need to.
What this means is I need a new freezer. All I have is the tiny thing on top of the fridge, and when I ordered lite n easy meals for a few weeks in the past, I could only fit about half a weeks food in there. Anthony is going to take out some cash for me to buy one when he gets paid later this week, and I've sussed out a couple within half an hours drive on Gumtree for $50 or so. Will take mums Commodore so they'll fit in the back seat and presto, freezer at home!
Of course this means I need to wait until the next lite n easy week (Starts Thursday IIRC) so it'll be just over a week until I'm getting going on all of this. Until then, I'm taking it easy and being careful with my intake, but not stressing over it.
Exercise! Anthony and I have recently started geocaching - For those of you who know what it is, you'll know that it can be hugely exhausting and great exercise. (For those of you who don't know - my lips are sealed!) So the plan is days that I don't work 12 hours and we don't go geocaching, I'll go to the gym for at least 1 hour. This will probably end up being ~2 gym sessions a week, along with 2-3 days out caching.
So I've weighed myself but decided to keep the big reveal until day-before-day-1. Stay tuned. ;)
What this means is I need a new freezer. All I have is the tiny thing on top of the fridge, and when I ordered lite n easy meals for a few weeks in the past, I could only fit about half a weeks food in there. Anthony is going to take out some cash for me to buy one when he gets paid later this week, and I've sussed out a couple within half an hours drive on Gumtree for $50 or so. Will take mums Commodore so they'll fit in the back seat and presto, freezer at home!
Of course this means I need to wait until the next lite n easy week (Starts Thursday IIRC) so it'll be just over a week until I'm getting going on all of this. Until then, I'm taking it easy and being careful with my intake, but not stressing over it.
Exercise! Anthony and I have recently started geocaching - For those of you who know what it is, you'll know that it can be hugely exhausting and great exercise. (For those of you who don't know - my lips are sealed!) So the plan is days that I don't work 12 hours and we don't go geocaching, I'll go to the gym for at least 1 hour. This will probably end up being ~2 gym sessions a week, along with 2-3 days out caching.
So I've weighed myself but decided to keep the big reveal until day-before-day-1. Stay tuned. ;)
Sunday, 28 August 2011
That "moment"
So I was sitting at work, about midnight, and I had that moment. You know the one, we've all had it numerous times before. That moment when you go "a-ha! I'm too fat, and I'm going to do something about it NOW!" I was watching terrible waste-of-time youtube videos, and had polished off a whole family size bag of chips and a full block of chocolate. I feel sick.
So here I am. New attempt, new blog. About 2-3 years ago I started at 117.9kg and got down to 85 odd kg. Then life got too good, if that's possible, and weight became my last priority, I was too happy to care. Within the next year I gained back most of what I'd lost and found myself back at 111kg. I tried to lose it about 6 months ago.. But life got in the way and I didn't care enough. I wasn't doing it for ME, I was doing it because I saw a group of my friends doing it and thought "shit, what will they think of me if I don't?" Don't get me wrong - the girls are all incredible and would never judge me for it - but obviously I was feeling bad about my weight and that's how it manifested itself. I lost 5kg or so during those 4 months and most, if not all and more, has come back. I will weigh myself when I'm at home. The one thing I know is that my clothes don't fit me, and I feel uncomfortable just leaving the house.
Honestly, I'd been happy with my weight for a long time. Don't get me wrong, I know it's not healthy, and I know I could stand to lose 40+ kg.. But I was happy with who I am, weight included. Now that I've come to the realisation that I've again become embarassed by my weight, I know being okay with myself is no longer an excuse... Because I guess I'm not, really. So I'm going to go home, sleep up, and then wake up and plan. I'm not doing this by halves. I'm going to plan my strategies - exercise, food and me time.
I don't believe in saying "This time is for real!" and "it's my time now"... You never know what the future holds, and I'm taking this one week at a time. But I know that next week I'll aim to weigh less than I do this week, and I hope I can say the same for many weeks to come.
So here I am. New attempt, new blog. About 2-3 years ago I started at 117.9kg and got down to 85 odd kg. Then life got too good, if that's possible, and weight became my last priority, I was too happy to care. Within the next year I gained back most of what I'd lost and found myself back at 111kg. I tried to lose it about 6 months ago.. But life got in the way and I didn't care enough. I wasn't doing it for ME, I was doing it because I saw a group of my friends doing it and thought "shit, what will they think of me if I don't?" Don't get me wrong - the girls are all incredible and would never judge me for it - but obviously I was feeling bad about my weight and that's how it manifested itself. I lost 5kg or so during those 4 months and most, if not all and more, has come back. I will weigh myself when I'm at home. The one thing I know is that my clothes don't fit me, and I feel uncomfortable just leaving the house.
Honestly, I'd been happy with my weight for a long time. Don't get me wrong, I know it's not healthy, and I know I could stand to lose 40+ kg.. But I was happy with who I am, weight included. Now that I've come to the realisation that I've again become embarassed by my weight, I know being okay with myself is no longer an excuse... Because I guess I'm not, really. So I'm going to go home, sleep up, and then wake up and plan. I'm not doing this by halves. I'm going to plan my strategies - exercise, food and me time.
I don't believe in saying "This time is for real!" and "it's my time now"... You never know what the future holds, and I'm taking this one week at a time. But I know that next week I'll aim to weigh less than I do this week, and I hope I can say the same for many weeks to come.
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