Maria’s quest for a healthier body!

ok have had a really busy few days so haven’t got on here to read blogs and things. so just logged in today and see that there are a lot of changes going on, with people living and going through lots of tough times. I don’t really know the backround to these things but I want to wish everyone the best and hope that everyone is well

I maintained this week (hardly surprising!). and i think it will be the same again this week, ive been trying to get exercise in but haven’t made the best eating choices as i’ve been so busy (a bad excuse i know!). but i will try harder the next few days! Went for dinner with some friends yesterday and had PLANNED to be restrained but as usual i wasn’t! I had the most amazing white chocolate cheesecake….oh wow it was amazing! im sure it had about 4 million calories in it but it was good!

Was home at my parents house for two nights ( a few hours away from where i am, so been driving LOTS!) and I took my dog (I really miss him :(….) for a big walk up through the forest, a walk i used to do loads as a kid. it was great, i’d forgotten how much i live the peace of the country!

so i will try and catch up on blogs tomorrow and saturday when I have time in between work…..I am going for a massage on saturday…can’t wait! one hour of complete relaxation….yay! then going to dublin sunday to meet my family, go see a rugby game, go out for dinner then go out drinking with my best mate can’t wait to see her and have a fun night out! I will TRY and not go overboard…ha ha! i never managed it, but the intention is always there!

take care everyone

ok, am feeling the urge to step on the scale, and my challenge for this week is NOT to weigh myself between weigh ins. Haven’t stepped on it since Monday morning, this is a GREAT improvement for me! it’s noe Friday morning, so if I can make it through the next 3 days I will have succeeded! I know if I weigh now I will probably see a gain after going awol for 2 days! and i KNOW that will dishearten me…..so I am hoping that by writing about it here I will get over it and stay away from the scale!!

It may seem like only a little deal to some people, but if I can get over my obsession with the scale I will be so proud of myself….ok…I think this has helped…..off to do some laundry…..have to go to the laundrette cause our machine is broken and the electrician isn’t coming till Monday….I have no clean clothes so have to do something about it!!

Later

well thats what I’ve realised in the last few days! So I blogged about Paddys day, yeah it was fun and yeah I over did it. oh well, i’m not gonna beat myself up about it! And yesterday, well I was in work and can eat the food in work so I knew I wasn’t gonna do great but I don’t think I did TOO badly either! I cooked food for myself, another staff member and a client. We had chicken goujons (not great, but at least they were proper chicken from the butchers and baked in the oven!), i made potato wedges (i cut up some potatoes, covered them with 1cal spray oil and baked them too) then had pitta bread with salad and coleslaw. it was really good! so not calorie conscious good but hey, it wasn’t burger or pizza!! oh and I had a mini chocolate muffin….mmmmm!

anyway so it is now thursday, i am still pretty tired! cannot stop drinking water, my body is STILL dehydrated!! ooops! but had cereal and a yogurt for breakfast in work. Going to have an early lunch of some baked salmon and some veggie stirfry and then going to go swimming, gotta get back into it asap or i never will! then have a staff meeting, then have work for a few hours, then have sign language class! busy day ahead! and hopefully sometime in between all that ill get to eat something! i’ll bring some food with me and i’ll probably have to eat in the car! but i’ll bring rice cakes and stuff. actually maybe i’ll make extra food now and bring it with me to eat later….hmmm…good plan….anyway, just thinking as im typing now!

so hopefully im back on track, i know i want to be! my stomach feels like crap, my body clearly has no idea why i treated it so well for a week and then attacked it for 24 hours!! my next weigh in is monday morning, so i am not hopefull for a loss, but you never know, if i do really well today friday sat and sun! although, id be happy just to not go back over 200 again!

As for my challeng for this week….i have NOT stepped on the scale since Monday mornings weigh in! woo! am proud of that, probably made it easier for myself in that I knew it would be scary weighing myself after all that eating and drinking! but hopefully i can make the next 4 days without jumping on there for a look…i am feeling positive about this one!

have a good weekend everyone

Mia

aparently it means an excuse to consume my body weight in calories!! oh wow, did I overdo it! I am paying for it now, had ALOT of beer (coors light! so i was trying to be good but that doesn’t really help when you have, like, 8!). and then on the way home i got a HUGE takeaway! haha! i got it as i was drunkenly convincing myself that it would make me less hung over this morning! eh, yeah, but my stomach felt like crap! i got fries with garlic sauce and cheese, aw it was so gross but i stuffed my face anyway.

so today i am hungover and have been up since 7am and was in work this morning!! i am so tired, i dont know how im doing it!! going to go and try and nap for an hour then i have work 4 for, doing an overnight shift. oh well, at least im safe in the knowledge that many people feel as hungover as i do today!

as for the calories?? didnt count yesterday or today although havent done badly today atall, considering i usually eat my way out of hangovers! but its still only 2pm so we’ll see what the day brings….regardless of what happens today i WILL be back on track tomorrow…..hopefully this doesn’t sabotage my recent good work, but if it does i know i’ll deserve it! oh well! it was fun

good luck everyone

well, I finally made it. weighed in at 198 this morning, 2 pounds down and not planning on going back over 200, ever.

So this last stretch has taken me quite a few months but I’ve gotten there eventually, the main thing I am proud of is that I haven’t given up. Anyone that reads my blogs will see that I fall off the wagon quite a lot but I have never given up completely, I always come crawling back. This, for me, is the best thing about Buddyslim because it’s all here in black and white, not just in my head: my goals, my stats, my blogs and I have to keep coming back to them eventually and keep on going.

I was feeling a little disheartened that it was only 2 pounds down (i know, i know…it’s ideal, i’m out of 200s, i should be delighted!!!) and i am delighted and think i have figured out the problem…I was weighing myself WAY to much, first thing in morning and last thing at night (even though I always tell fellow buddies weekly is best!) and I had seen this 2 pounds down since last tuesday or wednesday. So I expected more by today. but my body has always been that way, over a week my weight loss levels off to one or two pounds, the healthy way! So I know what to do and it is my main goal for this week. Scales are in the wardrobe and I will NOT weigh myself till next monday (we’ll see how this one goes…bring on the internal battle in my head of “to weigh or not to weigh”).

So I decided (as I also reached mini goal today: was 199, new mini goal 189 to get out of 190s! so time frame on this though!) to look back at my stats to see just how well I’ve done! To be proud of myself, and if this inspires anyone else, then that would be great too. Seriously, if I can do this, anyone can!! 

So I started off at 225 pounds: I’m now 198 : 27 pounds loss

Started with BMI of 34.3: Now it’s 30.2: if I lose 2 more pounds it will be 29: overweight and not obese!! yay! I don’t go by these bmi things too seriously because I think there calculations are way too low for me, but the numbers look good!!

I have lost  a total of 21 inches off my body!!! I measured myself today and I’m 3.5″ off since last time: namely off my waist and hips which is exactly where I need it to go from!!

August 08                                                        Now                                  Lost

Arms 15″ & 15″                                               14″ & 14″                          2″

Chest 39″                                                         37″                                     2″

Boobs 43″                                                         41.5″                                 1.5″

Neck 15.5″                                                       14.5″                                 1″

Hips 47″                                                            43″                                    4″

Bottom 46″                                                       43″                                    3″

Waist 39″                                                          35.5″                                 3.5″

Thighs 27″ & 27″                                              25.5″ & 25.5″                   3″

Calves 16.5″ & 16.5″                                        16″ & 16″                          1″

21″ total

So overall I am happy with my progress. Goals for this week:

Stay off the scales! Drink more water! Stick to my daily calories! Go swimming 3 times this week and walking twice!

Have  a good week everyone!

ok, so I messed up today…..after doing SO well all week. And i have weigh in Monday morning to I wait till Saturday to mess up and therefore I might not lose Monday….oh why do I sabotage my weight loss success…and theres no-one to blame  but myself…lol!!

Oh well, I had been doing so well, even did well not eating too much during my night shift last night (thanks for all the tips people, I did well!).Got home at 7am this morning, and had a very small bowl of cornflakes with fat free milk. went to bed till 2pm and then met a friend for lunch. No idea how many calories, could have been good , good have been bad, lol! it was nice though! went to the market and got a portion of ‘Kitchiri’ (sp) from the Hare Krishna food stall…was good, think its rice and mung beans and veg all in a curry type thing. Anyway, was nice. I counted it as 500 calories for the portion but i don’t have a clue! then we wandered around the shops (got new jeans and a new cute cardigan for 8 euro altogether! I shop in the charity shops!) and we stopped off for a chocolate, ooops! I cannot resist Leonidas chocolate shops though (do u have them in the US?), had one vanilla cream chocolate sweet….mmm…so good! and yes, just one!! counted it as 100 cals but again no idea! So then myself and my flatmate CLEANED our apartment, it was a mess!, and then i chilled out listening to music, had two glasses of wine and then I opened a BIG bag of crisps (chips)….I mean they have been in the flat for probably over 2 months and I had forgotten they were there! why today! why did I open them! anyway, I ate most of them…they were good. again, no idea….500 cals?? more?! oh well….as i’ve written it down here I’ve mellowed and don’t feel as bad about it as I did before (yay for blogging!). So I will hopefully get a good sleep tonight (I find this helps my weight loss!) and I will be back on track tomorrow and WILL get some exercise in! It will all be ok!

ok, rant over. Am feeling good about things at the moment, feeling positive and optimistic and feeling that I CAN do this healthy life thing….hands. out. of. the. crisp. packet……lol!

good luck everyone….:)

Mia

So the week has been going well, although I fear today and tonight will be by biggest challenge!

I have exercised everyday this week, swimming Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and a walk on Wednesday. So I’m happy with that. Have stuck to my calories every day, except maybe 50 above or below so thats ok with me. I have been weighing myself (I know I shouldn’t and if only I could learn to practice what I preach!!) and I am down a few pounds so if that can stay that way till Monday I will be delighted!

However, today I am working a night shift and hope this doesn’t mess up my calorie intake. It’s 12 midday and I’ve only had breakfast so far (330 cals out of my 1600 for the day). I plan on going for a big walk to tire myself out, then go to bed some time in the afternoon for a few hours, then I’m working 11pm-7am so if i have dinner at maybe 6 or 7pm and if I have maybe 500 cals left over I can snack during the night. There’s no point saying I won’t eat because I know I will! So if I just bring some fruit, rice cakes etc and eat during the night. It’s my first night shift (I’ve worked sleepover shifts before which is obviously different) but this is my first shift that I have to stay awake, and hopefully I can manage it!! I’ll just bring some dvd’s, my book and a magazine and I should be fine!  So if anyone has any tips on how they eat during a night shift? maybe if I went over todays calories and then just subtracted it from tomorrows calories? 

I just want to try my best not to ruin the good work I’ve put in this week! 

Good luck

so just a quick update: exercise: going well! 30 minute swim yesterday and monday and a 70 minute walk today!

eating: going well too! doing the zig zagging calories so was meant to eat 1600 yesterday but actually ended 1t 1720, oops! but today i am meant to eat 1900! and i don’t know how i’ll get there! am not hungry at all, but maybe will be later! included the calories for my whole dinner even though there’s still some in the pan…maybe ill finish it later! have 500 calories on top of that to eat too! was planning on having a glass (or 3!) of wine, so i know they are empty and not nutritious calories but i would include them in my total anyway! and i’m sure a glass of wine will make me want to reach for the snacks! but it should all work out ok.

Had a sneaky look at the scale this morning (seems I cant stay off it these days…) and things are going well so far! weigh in isn’ t till monday so i’m definitely hoping for a loss then!!

good luck everyone

Mia

well as i wrote yesterday, i am re-motivated after reading my old blogs and seeing how long ive been hovering around the 200 mark….so just blogging to say that i am keeping it up! Ended yesterday on 1510 calories yesterday and went for a 40 minute walk aswell. Today I am doing well so far…..I went grocery shopping so bought lots of fruit and veg and healthy things! it’s 6pm and i’m on 1030 calories so far, so will probaby have some cereal or crackers later on to get me up to my calories. Never been sure what I should be eating but figure if I stick between 1400 and 1800 calories I should be ok. I might go look this up again as I was  20 pounds heavier last time i worked it out! I also went for a swim today, upped it a little too which I am proud of…did 36 lengths in 28 minutes so I’m happy with that. Will try do two more lengths every time I go. Planning on going again tomorrow too.

So things are going well and the plan is to be under 200lbs by my weigh in next monday..I hope I get there… I have been wanting this for so long and it would give me great motivation if I finally did it! I’ll take my measurements too as it’s been a few months since I took them and they must be getting smaller as I have been fitting into clothes that I hadn’t before without dropping many pounds. so i guess I must be toning up!

I’m giving myself till the summer (ideally May/June) so get to my goal weight of 180. This does sound kind of heavy but i think it will look ok on me, if i still feel the need to lose more when I get there then I will re-evaluate! so 20 pounds in a few months…definitely do-able but I’m not going to set definite targets and dates as I’ve done that before and just get disheartened when I don’t make them. And this is much more about changing my lifestyle than dieting. 

So that’s the plan…going to give it my best shot anyway!

Mia

time for a wake up call!! I just read through my old blogs there….from August 08 to now. And it seems I go from being elated and optimistic with my achievements to feeling bad for falling off the wagon once again!! So don’t get me wrong, I AM happy with my success so far. 25 pounds is gone and staying off….well done me! but also I have been blogging about being under 200 lbs since last october or november! I had planned to be there by Christmas, Jan, Feb….you get the point! and i’m still not there! ha! hadn’t realised that i haven’t lost much wait this past few months!

So what seemed to work for me before was calorie counting, a real pain I know but I might give it a go for a few days just to shock me into realising that I am overeating again. Tried WW points too but not for me really. don’t want to get sucked into calorie counting every little thing that I eat but if I do it for a day or two hopefully I should see where I am going wrong and be able to eat sensibly again. Portion sizes are always my downfall so calorie counting should put that right!

So tomorrow morning is weigh in day… I don’t expect to be down anything (again!!) but definitely next week….I am determined once again. Worked an overnight shift last night so I didn’t really sleep properly. First night in a new place so it’s hard to sleep. I was nervous about it cause it was my first night working in a men’s homeless shelter….but I loved it! have another shift there in a few weeks and I can’t wait! now it was a quiet night and I didn’t have to deal with much stuff, but still, I really enjoyed it!

So I’m a little tired today, might go to bed for a few hours, or maybe I will go for a walk and then have a nice sleep after…hmmm…decisions decisions. It was snowing heavily earlier and it seems to have stopped now so maybe I should go before it starts again! Next goal: 190 pounds….I can do it! and would like to be there by end of April. I will evaluate then what my final goal weight is. I think 180 cause anything less might look too thin (I don’t want to be skinny, I like my curves!! and I am tall and large framed so I think 180 will look ok on me!). I should have a good idea when I get to 190 though (see I said when, not if…hmmm…I’m obviously delusional from tiredness and laughing at my own, un funny, motivation jokes…..time to get off buddyslim for a while….)

Later

Mia