A single girl’s diet and weightloss journey

Well, I weighed in on my own scales yesterday, and over two weeks, including christmas, new years and a week with my parent’s, I gained 0.2kgs. Considering how much I ate, that’s not really too bad!

I finally went on Saturday and got the mani/pedi which I promised myself for going under 80kgs. My toenails look lovely, I really enjoyed the pedicure bit. Especially the massage chair!! But the manicure was not so good. The lady who did it was kind of mean and abrupt - I didn’t like her. The nails are already chipping and I have a bit of a nail infection too.

But I did enjoy the pedicure so next time I’ll try somewhere else.

I went to weigh myself this morning at the gym, as the PT is not there to weigh me at the moment. I was surprised that in the last week I’ve lost 0.7g!!!

This was totally unexpected as, although I haven’t totally binged, I certainly haven’t been good either! And I’ve only exercised 2-3 times for the week.

Possibly this is the balance from last weeks disappointing result. I just hope it doesn’t mean next weeks will be disappointing as well!

I’m now looking forward to getting home and seeing what my weight is on my home scales after two weeks away.

My family had some exciting news on Christmas day - my sister got engaged!

She plans to have the wedding in late 2009 - about a years time. So I have a new goal, I’d like to be at my goal weight of 62kgs for the wedding.

I’ve resigned myself to being the unmarried older sister, but I’d really rather not be the fat unmarried older sister!

Just testing my feedburner, which has been screwy since I redid the site after zymic crashed

So, was my Christmas moderate? Well, yes and no. Yes in comparison to previous years, no in comparison to my lofty goals for the day. I didn’t decimate the chocolate supply, although I made pretty good inraods into the cashews. I only had one moderatly full plate for lunch, and I stopped eating when the chocolate cheesecake became to sickly sweet about halfway through the slice. I had two glasses of wine.

In the evening I overdid the fruit a bit, but t hat’s no big deal. I do feel that I went into eating mode a bit after dinner for no real reason except that I had taken off the restraints and was just going for it.

I did manage to go for a run in the afternoon, but didn’t quite fininsh the week 5 day 2 program. It was really windy by the beach where I went though.

So, today is another day, I have one more barbeque tro attend this evening, and then I must get strictly back on track.

Otherwise, in another two weeks, the PT may give up on me altogether.

Hope everyone has a very safe, happy and MODERATE Christmas!

For me, I will be focusing on the company I am in, rather than the food I can eat, and reminding myself that indulging until I feel ill will not increase my enjoyment of the holiday. In addition to that, a momentry pleasure is certainly not worth undoing even a gram of my hard won weight loss!

Hopefully I will be able to give a positive report in a few days time!

Just to follow up on yesterdays post where I was starving hungry. I stuck to my plan, reminded myself all the way home that it is OK to be hungry, and then had an egg on toast, which satisfied me until my dinner. So I think that was quite successful

This morning I had the second of my weekly weigh -ins, my tuesday morning weighin with the PT.

The result? another dissapointing 0.2kgs. I half-expected it and half didn’t - I did because of the two pizza nights last week, but I didn’t because every other day has been so good, and I’ve exercised quite a lot.

I didn’t get another lecture like last week - as I kind of told him I had eaten well this week. So he figured it was just my body adjusting or a natural fluctuation or something. Of course, that means that at my next weigh in  which won’t be for a few weeks now - the pressure will be on to have a GOOD loss. I would haveto be very controlled over the whole holiday period for that. I will do my best, but I don’t think I willbeat myself up if things go slightly awry.

 On the other hand, I don’t intend to gain even the smallest fraction of a gram this christmas, i refuse to undo all my good work for the sake of a few treats that will only last a few minutes!

Today I am HUNGRY!!! real, growling tummy hungry. Even though I’ve eaten as usual today, had my weetbix and fruit toast this morning, a good lunch and my large peices of fruit in the afternoon, including a banana, my insides are empty.

This might be because I ate a bit less than usual yesterday because I had a couple of bad days thursday/friday. It might be because I exercised pretty hard this morning. It might just be one of those days.

But I will not let it beat me.  I will not pick up a red rooster chips on the way home,  I will not get a chocolate bar before I leave work. This is because I recognise that

Hunger is NOT an emergency!!!

That’s right, just because I’m hungry does not give me permission to blow everything. What I will do however, is add a single slice of toast with a single scrambled egg to my day’s plan. I’ll have this as soon as I get home, before I make dinner. This is because I know that  my planned dinner today is not really that substantial, and I don’t want to encourage a binge in the evening.

But until I get home, I will remember that hunger is not an emergency, these pangs will probably pass, and I can easliy wait until I get home to eat.

besides, I have weigh in with the PT tomorrow morning, I don’t want to blow that again!

This week at my sunday weigh in I had only lost 0.4kgs. I know that this is still a good result and that I should be pleased it’s not a gian, but I did really want to be in the 75’s this week.

Hopefully tuesday’s weigh in will be better. I had a good eating weekend, however on both thursday and friday evenings I had small blow-outs.

After this tuesday’s weigh in I have a couple of weeks off as the gym closes for christmas. I hoe to maintain my weight over this time, and to remember that it is not Holidays, but a holiday, meaning that I will indiulge, but only on Christmas day.