Cooolllll! Down from start of 106.9 16 days ago to 103.9!! Whoa...that is blowing me away. I've been using my FLP menus for healthy whole foods and a bit of exercise, not much..need to improve! I decided to be kinder to myself this time and allow the odd treat whereas in the past I've been very black and white and driven, terrified the smallest morsel will put me back to my old weight somehow or that I would lose the plot and go back to my bad eating. But now I knwo I can trust I wont. I've had the odd coffee, some wine, strawberries dipped in chocolate (instead of the cream puffs) and it's been so good, and I still lost weight!
So I'm drinking lots of water, breakfast! (this had slipped..so bad for the metabolism), 3 meals a day plus 2 - 3 snacks, i usually drop snack 3 after dinner or add it to lunch if i'm hungry as I rarely ever hungry after dinner. Lots of salads for lunch with tuna or chicken and a piece of fruit. Today I'm doing a really nice Mexican bean salad with tuna for lunch, mmmm!
So I am really rapt with progress and happy that I can have a few seasonal extras (if I feel like it) and still lose weight - wonderful!
I have also ordered a DVD called HypnoDiet which I have heard great things about. For me the mind connection is so critical. if you have not "clicked" in your head, it wont work. Only $30 so cheaper than a session with a real live hypnotherapist.
Finally the size 18 pants are back on my butt! Yay! I was forced back into the old trackies there for a while. Nice to wear nicer clothes again and cooler as well if I can wear tank tops and not feel I need to cover up in winter tops.
Got some inspiration too from Ajay from Biggest Loser, who was a huge 130 + kilos and now has just done a swimsuit shoot and looks gorgeous, curvy, Marilyn style, real woman. Wow, I can really see my head on her body, what a great image to use!
So all is so very well, Merry Christmas to all!
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
FLP Day one
Well bit angry with the excercise. Did not enjoy it, as I always did. After nearly no excercise for a year bar a bit of walking, the FLP cardio and strength excercises have me sweating again and hating every minute. I could not do the three reps, only did one circuit. I am so much unfitter than I thought. I could still do pushups, but the benchdips I failed at 4 and then at 7, tricep not so good anymore, need to get back to Pump.I'm annoyed at myself for not feeling committed enough to push it through but I also dont want to have a heart attck and i could feel my fitness was just not there at all (well like it was).
I had bad thoughts of wanting a quick fix, a surgical option, so I am blogging to get my head round this. Maybe I need to be kind and take it more slow, than I did FLP the first time. I do love the food though. And I will lose weight and cms. So in order to build my fitness more, I think I will ahve to increase to two reps in week 2 and three reps the following, so take three weeks to do week one as I rebuild the fitness.
I am not in a big rush, a kilo a month would be OK, 2 would be better.
Woozy from 11 am yesterday and then led to a massive headache last night, I am guesing caffeine withdrawl. Head ache this mornign again, but smaller, took more Panadol, seems to have cleafred dont know if it was the excercise or the Panadol, or both.
Time for yoggie and berries and collapse...
I had bad thoughts of wanting a quick fix, a surgical option, so I am blogging to get my head round this. Maybe I need to be kind and take it more slow, than I did FLP the first time. I do love the food though. And I will lose weight and cms. So in order to build my fitness more, I think I will ahve to increase to two reps in week 2 and three reps the following, so take three weeks to do week one as I rebuild the fitness.
I am not in a big rush, a kilo a month would be OK, 2 would be better.
Woozy from 11 am yesterday and then led to a massive headache last night, I am guesing caffeine withdrawl. Head ache this mornign again, but smaller, took more Panadol, seems to have cleafred dont know if it was the excercise or the Panadol, or both.
Time for yoggie and berries and collapse...
Thursday, December 2, 2010
New start, the big WAKE UP CALL
OK, I've been away a while, about a year, in which time I confess that I have eaten anything I like and done essentially no excercise. In this time I have gone from the 90 kg I got down to, to 106.9 kg today. I knew I had out on about that much weight, but I did not know the actual number. Those scales had a year of dust on them this morning...So it was a HUGE step to get on and actually quantify the challenge. (You'll remember I was 128kg and over nearly 18 months I got to 90kg). So I have still lost a lot of weight, but i now need to stop and go down again.
Why the hell did I do this? Lose and then gain (some, not all of the weight), I chose to. I chose the wine, the chips, the extra portions. I stayed on my butt. At first it was interesting to see that I stayed looking really good ( thought I looked pretty good at 90 kg!). I ate what I liked. The higher metabolisim I'd created, worked for several weeks, even months I think. So in hindsight I have learnt from this experiment that something "bad" is not going to kill you or throw you off for life, if you eat well and excercise, it's OK!!!! So maybe that is a good life lesson.
Why am I starting again today, what has caused me to finally take action? Not my husband saying 'you need to do your walking again" - euphemisim for get off your fat butt and lose some weight...The crunch moment was yesterday at 2 minutes to 3, needing to pick the kids up from school, I dove into my wardrobe for a clean top and threw on the top I'd brought last year. It seemed very snug..?! I looked in the mirror and the buttons were hugely straining apart, arms stretched to nth degree. It was totally unwearable and about 2 sizes way too small. I wondered how I could have possibly fitted it last year and I knew this was the big WAKEUP CALL. I could hardly get it off, my arms were pinioned in place by it like a strait jacket.I had to peel it off very slowly and carefully, so I did not rip it! At that point I knew the game was up. I am running out of clothes. I gave away my fat clothes and now most of my new "slimmer clothes" don't fit. I'm doing my old trick of wearing my long trackpants (that stech up to 130 kgs of me!) all the time, even on hot summer days and I am getting so hot wearing winter pants in summer!My size 18 pants, I have not worn for more than six months, I bet they will not fit. I'll try them on to see but I think they were about a 100 kg or just below victory.
So lots to plan. I know how to do this, I've done it before. I have the roadmap. (Thanks to Coah Rylan and Fat Loss Project!). I will write my food and exercise down in my "book" as transcribing it onto here just wastes time really, as long as I write it down. But I will blog everyday. I need to get to the groceries soon and buy my healthy whole foods again, goodbye bread!! Thank God. Bread is one of those things I ate a lot of, and my bread consumption lately as going up and up! I was eating 6-8 pieces of horrible Pams Multigrain with butter and thousand island sauce on it. Bread makes me sleepy and tired. Low energy/tired makes you feel depressed. Whereas as a real food salad for lunch with a protein like chicken or fish with it, make me feel so alive! It is important to eat every 3 hours for me. So I just had my yoghurt and berries for 10 am morning tea. Breakfast was whole oat porridge, with ground flax seed and a whole apple grated into it when cooked, yum! I was out of almonds but will eat those later when I get the shopping.
So I am on track! Only thing I have not done is my excercise. But just for today, I will do the food and get my head in this place, get some emotional support around me and add the excercise in tommorow. Logistically I need to get my food for lunch and grill the chicken etc. So this is PRE DAY, tommorow is Day One.
Why the hell did I do this? Lose and then gain (some, not all of the weight), I chose to. I chose the wine, the chips, the extra portions. I stayed on my butt. At first it was interesting to see that I stayed looking really good ( thought I looked pretty good at 90 kg!). I ate what I liked. The higher metabolisim I'd created, worked for several weeks, even months I think. So in hindsight I have learnt from this experiment that something "bad" is not going to kill you or throw you off for life, if you eat well and excercise, it's OK!!!! So maybe that is a good life lesson.
Why am I starting again today, what has caused me to finally take action? Not my husband saying 'you need to do your walking again" - euphemisim for get off your fat butt and lose some weight...The crunch moment was yesterday at 2 minutes to 3, needing to pick the kids up from school, I dove into my wardrobe for a clean top and threw on the top I'd brought last year. It seemed very snug..?! I looked in the mirror and the buttons were hugely straining apart, arms stretched to nth degree. It was totally unwearable and about 2 sizes way too small. I wondered how I could have possibly fitted it last year and I knew this was the big WAKEUP CALL. I could hardly get it off, my arms were pinioned in place by it like a strait jacket.I had to peel it off very slowly and carefully, so I did not rip it! At that point I knew the game was up. I am running out of clothes. I gave away my fat clothes and now most of my new "slimmer clothes" don't fit. I'm doing my old trick of wearing my long trackpants (that stech up to 130 kgs of me!) all the time, even on hot summer days and I am getting so hot wearing winter pants in summer!My size 18 pants, I have not worn for more than six months, I bet they will not fit. I'll try them on to see but I think they were about a 100 kg or just below victory.
So lots to plan. I know how to do this, I've done it before. I have the roadmap. (Thanks to Coah Rylan and Fat Loss Project!). I will write my food and exercise down in my "book" as transcribing it onto here just wastes time really, as long as I write it down. But I will blog everyday. I need to get to the groceries soon and buy my healthy whole foods again, goodbye bread!! Thank God. Bread is one of those things I ate a lot of, and my bread consumption lately as going up and up! I was eating 6-8 pieces of horrible Pams Multigrain with butter and thousand island sauce on it. Bread makes me sleepy and tired. Low energy/tired makes you feel depressed. Whereas as a real food salad for lunch with a protein like chicken or fish with it, make me feel so alive! It is important to eat every 3 hours for me. So I just had my yoghurt and berries for 10 am morning tea. Breakfast was whole oat porridge, with ground flax seed and a whole apple grated into it when cooked, yum! I was out of almonds but will eat those later when I get the shopping.
So I am on track! Only thing I have not done is my excercise. But just for today, I will do the food and get my head in this place, get some emotional support around me and add the excercise in tommorow. Logistically I need to get my food for lunch and grill the chicken etc. So this is PRE DAY, tommorow is Day One.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Anti Obesity, Anti McD's, what we're doing about it
It saddens me to see queues of cars waiting for the drivethrough filled with supersized kids and parents too lazy to walk the 10 metres from the carpark to the actual McDonalds (sorry I refuse to call it a a "restaurant"!). I see parents bringing their kids McD's, KFC or fish and chips for lunch at school. Or the kids with no fruit in their lunch box, only processed food, unhappy little packets of fat, salt, sugar and colouring.
I'm almost through reading "Generation Extra Large. Rescuing Our Children From the Epidemic of Obesity". It's very interesting and pretty scary with global examples of obesity issues in children. One part of the book said something like "you wouldnt deliberately give your kids an illness, yet we happily give our kids foods (and too much of them) that CAUSE obesity related disease such as heart, cancer, sroke and of course diabetes." The "Happy Meal" with obligatory toy is really an UN happy meal.
I could go on and on and not change anyones mind about this, but I guess all I can say is what we DO now in our family...(the kids and adults that is, we don't make them be healthy and then sit down and chow into chocolate bars while they have carrot sticks..). It's taken years to slowly get to this point to "evolve" from whole tubs of 2 litre icecram in one sitting, half a plate of mashed potato per person and full fat blue milk and tasty cheese
- Have meals together as a family at the table every night
- Kids eat snacks at the table, never in front of TV or PC
- Try to eat dinner without the distraction of the news on, still working on this one...
- Kids have sandwiches, at least one piece of fruit and usually a yoghurt for lunch each day
- Use trim milk for the whole family
- Family Fun Cardio Day on Sundays (as opposed to a food based activity such as going to a cafe)
- Kids walk to school as many times a week as possible
- Kids encouraged to do outdoor play, climb trees etc as much as possible rather than sit inside on PC/Playstation (this one is still being finetuned and summer means more opportunity to be outside running around)
- Use edam cheese and feta and only occasionally
- Dinner is a lean protein of some type with veges and/or salad. Sausages are rare. Mince is rare and I use low fat premium mince when I do make it. I find 300 grams will make enough for a whole family of 4 once I've added all the tomoatoes and vegetables. on the odd occasion I make homemade hamburgers with wholemeal buns.
- Pudding would be rare, maybe 3x a month. I will make fresh fruit salad, they LOVE icecream, stewed rhubarb or apple crumble.
- Party foods are for parties only. This includes crisps, lollies, fizzy drink, red sausages.
- We have whole fruit rather than fruit juce
- Drinks = water or milk, no sugar drinks
- Allow dried fruits, nuts and seeds but small quantities as high calorie
- Encourage an afterschool sport (10 year old does basketball)
- Chocolate would be a rare treat, 2-3 x a year. Especially when we go camping, a bar of chocolate around the campfire is pretty good!
- No processed food really, we make everything from scratch like pasta sauce, gravy, all meals. We dont buy anything much already made except perhaps tomato sauce, jam/peanutbutter, marmite, milo and multigrain bread.
- Moving to low GI breakfast cereals for all. I have been low GI breakfasts for over a year with whole oats way up there on my "yummy, filling and healthy" scale. I do them as several porridge recipes with nuts, fruit and seeds, or as a muesli. I have eliminated the sugar cereals totally such as pre made muselis (I make my own), nutragrain, coco pops, honey puffs etc. I buy a small bag of rice bubbles (high GI) a week and when they're gone, they're gone...
- Encourage more water drinking. They're improving but still dont get enough water, certainly not 8 glasses a day
- No nutella (icing sugar for bread...)
- No fish fingers or any crumbed processed meats/fish
- No salami or high fat small goods
- Grow veges in the garden
- Have planted fruit trees..waiting...!
- No KFC. No McD's etc
- Takeaways only about 2x a year when we're out and about and stuck (we used to have them once a week..)
- Plan food for all trips, take lunch and water etc with us (chicken, rolls and salad etc) rather than be forced to spend a lot more money on less healthier options
- Kids cook, so they can learn to cook.
- Kids help shop so they can learn about choosing healthier options at the supermarket and read labels etc
- Baking would be about once a month or so and will be healthy wholemeal, low fat versions of muffins, biscuits or the odd cake
We're all happy with this lifestyle and I'd say fairly healthy. As I said it has taken many years of slow gradual change to get to this point. I still feel I'd like to see everyone more active (less TV/PC) and drinking more water, but we're pretty much there.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
My Fellow FLP Guinea Pigs success
I am loving my fellow "Guinea Pigs" fatloss stories fom the Go Sleeveless 6 week Fatloss Project. here's the links...
Carla
Ginny
deAnne
(more coming..)
I'm going well, keeping to the nutrition plan, with the exception of a couple of glasses on wine on Saturday night and a piece of my own wholemeal bread made all healthy. The bread was nice but I have no plans to go back to all the bread I used to eat (4-6 slices of toast for BF and 4, 6 or 8 slices for sandwiches at lunch...) Argghhh! far too much bread, even wholegrain etc Now I LOVE my salad with lean protein, it is so filling. Lunch never used to fill me up, now it does.
I'm continuing to lose weight and HAD to buy a new bra today as the old size was just falling off me and no support whatsoever.
Another SUCCESS for me yesterday, I was twiddling with my rings and my wedding ring came off easily. This ring has been stuck on my hand for 20 years now (not that I wanted to remove it) but I could not, it was just so small and my finger had got so much bigger, it was well and truly stuck and would not even turn. Although I weigh in the early 90 kgs right now (down from 128 kgs), this ring fitted me when I weighed 65 kg. So although the scales show 90 +, my fingers are down where they were at 65 kg. My body is getting smaller even though the scales continue to lie. I am now a size 14 top or a medium, which is "normal" as far as I am concerned. The bottom bits are size 18, just heading into size 16. Today I
"had" to buy new pants and a new top, as I gave away my "fat" clothes, helped by Coaches encouragement . Not only do thes epnats have a wasitband but they actually look better with the shirt tucked in, instead of hanging over to hide everything as I used to. Next I need to go and buy one of those big belts to really show off the cinched in waist (in progress). I have had to avoid belts which I loved in the 80s. Now I'm lookiing for a big red one!!!! The thrill of those new clothes is just indescribable! Before I would buy what would actually fit and still dislike it most of the time, but options are limited (and expensive) at size 24/26 pants...
All is so very good. look forward to other success stories soon
Carla
Ginny
deAnne
(more coming..)
I'm going well, keeping to the nutrition plan, with the exception of a couple of glasses on wine on Saturday night and a piece of my own wholemeal bread made all healthy. The bread was nice but I have no plans to go back to all the bread I used to eat (4-6 slices of toast for BF and 4, 6 or 8 slices for sandwiches at lunch...) Argghhh! far too much bread, even wholegrain etc Now I LOVE my salad with lean protein, it is so filling. Lunch never used to fill me up, now it does.
I'm continuing to lose weight and HAD to buy a new bra today as the old size was just falling off me and no support whatsoever.
Another SUCCESS for me yesterday, I was twiddling with my rings and my wedding ring came off easily. This ring has been stuck on my hand for 20 years now (not that I wanted to remove it) but I could not, it was just so small and my finger had got so much bigger, it was well and truly stuck and would not even turn. Although I weigh in the early 90 kgs right now (down from 128 kgs), this ring fitted me when I weighed 65 kg. So although the scales show 90 +, my fingers are down where they were at 65 kg. My body is getting smaller even though the scales continue to lie. I am now a size 14 top or a medium, which is "normal" as far as I am concerned. The bottom bits are size 18, just heading into size 16. Today I
"had" to buy new pants and a new top, as I gave away my "fat" clothes, helped by Coaches encouragement . Not only do thes epnats have a wasitband but they actually look better with the shirt tucked in, instead of hanging over to hide everything as I used to. Next I need to go and buy one of those big belts to really show off the cinched in waist (in progress). I have had to avoid belts which I loved in the 80s. Now I'm lookiing for a big red one!!!! The thrill of those new clothes is just indescribable! Before I would buy what would actually fit and still dislike it most of the time, but options are limited (and expensive) at size 24/26 pants...
All is so very good. look forward to other success stories soon
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
One year of weightloss, the results with pics!
The other day I posted my FLP results for the six week Fat Loss Project from Go Sleeveless and Coach Rylan, which I totally recommend!!!
Today I post my results for the ENTIRE year of weightloss, which includes FLP in the last six weeks since I started on Oct 28 2008. Even I am blown away by these results..! It has been a long focussed year and I have done it day by day, step by step and suddenly I am one year on and have met and exceeded my goals for the first year. Now I have to acknowledge the first years work and then get down to business for the next year..(I started Monday morning with an FLP workout, game on!)
OK, here are the results for the entire year..the envelope please..!
Weight Before 128 kg
After 92.6 - loss of 35.4kg
Bust before 119cm, now 104, down 14cm!
Hips were 150.5, now 128, down 22.5cm!
Waist, was 103, now 84, down 19cm!
Upper arm was 45, now 38, down 7cm!
Thigh was 84cm, now 76cm, down 8cm!
Ankle was 27cm, now 26cm, down 1 cm
Neck was 36, now 34, down 2cm
That's a total loss of 79.5 cm from my entire body..that is mind blowing.
Fat results down. My personal trainer and best bud Jo from Hauraki Fitness centre has been measuring my fat on my tricep, bicep and back with her little caliper thingies. It was now possible to measure the ab for the first time ever now too as as there was simply too much before. She estimates my body fat was about 50 percent...It is now 37.5% with 26% being at the upper end of "normal", so I am getting there.
A lot of the first part of the journey is on my first blog at livejournal.com/girlwhoclicked.
Today I revisited and wrote down in my book, my weightloss/fitness goals for the short, medium and longer term. One goal was fit a pair of size 16 jeans as I am now comfortably in 18s. So I thought I'd try the pair on to see how far away ot would be, thinking beginning of next year maybe, as last time I'd tried them about 6 weeks ago they were about 3 inches away from zipping together. Tried them today and they zipped up, no worries! I am astounded, two jeans sizes in only about 8 weeks! They did not look great, I would not waer them out yet as they were a bit tight and maybe not the right cut anyway for me. They were just a pair given by a friend that I was using as a "goal post", so TICK to that goal!!!!!
Here's some pics of before and after (well let's call them "during" as I am just over half way there). There are bugger all of me bigger at 128 kg, for obvious reasons...and I am still learning to make friends with the camera now...(as subject, not photographer)
At the Napier Art Deco Picnic. I really wanted to wear one of those fringy sleeevless flapper dresses but at size 24/26 pants, it was not possible to "dress up" the way I wanted. I had a good time that day but then saw the photos, OMG, yet it still did not inspire me to lose weight, that came later...
Arms as big as thighs here...
Sept 09 (below) you can see the arms are now a lot smaller
"after one year" back shot (others did not turn out..) Now wearing size 18 pants, looking for size 14 (denim!) jeans comfortably as my ultimate goal. I'm more than happy as a 14, I like my curves, I look really good at size 14. Dont want to be a stick...
Today I post my results for the ENTIRE year of weightloss, which includes FLP in the last six weeks since I started on Oct 28 2008. Even I am blown away by these results..! It has been a long focussed year and I have done it day by day, step by step and suddenly I am one year on and have met and exceeded my goals for the first year. Now I have to acknowledge the first years work and then get down to business for the next year..(I started Monday morning with an FLP workout, game on!)
OK, here are the results for the entire year..the envelope please..!
Weight Before 128 kg
After 92.6 - loss of 35.4kg
Bust before 119cm, now 104, down 14cm!
Hips were 150.5, now 128, down 22.5cm!
Waist, was 103, now 84, down 19cm!
Upper arm was 45, now 38, down 7cm!
Thigh was 84cm, now 76cm, down 8cm!
Ankle was 27cm, now 26cm, down 1 cm
Neck was 36, now 34, down 2cm
That's a total loss of 79.5 cm from my entire body..that is mind blowing.
Fat results down. My personal trainer and best bud Jo from Hauraki Fitness centre has been measuring my fat on my tricep, bicep and back with her little caliper thingies. It was now possible to measure the ab for the first time ever now too as as there was simply too much before. She estimates my body fat was about 50 percent...It is now 37.5% with 26% being at the upper end of "normal", so I am getting there.
One year ago, I studiously avoided doing any exercise, I ate somewhat healthily, but far too much of it. My first walk on day one, after about 2 or 3 minutes I was red all over and my skin was itching like hell from the all the jiggling. It took about three weeks for the jiggly itchies to go away and I walked a little further everyday. By about six weeks I got really brave and slowly jogged one lamppost, then walked one. I was so surprised when I did not fall over wehn I tried to run. Fast forward and I am whole lot fitter and doing real pushups!
A lot of the first part of the journey is on my first blog at livejournal.com/girlwhoclicked.
Today I revisited and wrote down in my book, my weightloss/fitness goals for the short, medium and longer term. One goal was fit a pair of size 16 jeans as I am now comfortably in 18s. So I thought I'd try the pair on to see how far away ot would be, thinking beginning of next year maybe, as last time I'd tried them about 6 weeks ago they were about 3 inches away from zipping together. Tried them today and they zipped up, no worries! I am astounded, two jeans sizes in only about 8 weeks! They did not look great, I would not waer them out yet as they were a bit tight and maybe not the right cut anyway for me. They were just a pair given by a friend that I was using as a "goal post", so TICK to that goal!!!!!
Here's some pics of before and after (well let's call them "during" as I am just over half way there). There are bugger all of me bigger at 128 kg, for obvious reasons...and I am still learning to make friends with the camera now...(as subject, not photographer)
At the Napier Art Deco Picnic. I really wanted to wear one of those fringy sleeevless flapper dresses but at size 24/26 pants, it was not possible to "dress up" the way I wanted. I had a good time that day but then saw the photos, OMG, yet it still did not inspire me to lose weight, that came later...
Arms as big as thighs here...Sept 09 (below) you can see the arms are now a lot smaller
"after one year" back shot (others did not turn out..) Now wearing size 18 pants, looking for size 14 (denim!) jeans comfortably as my ultimate goal. I'm more than happy as a 14, I like my curves, I look really good at size 14. Dont want to be a stick...
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