Diary of a FAT cow!

[oesdog]

I watched that HBO weight loss show,and it is very common for family and friends to be negative about a persons weight loss.They might go about it in the concerned way(fading away to nothing,poor nutrition,you lost and gained it back so why try) to guilt you back to old ways.Just keep positive and respond in a positive manner to concerns.

A walk is an excellent way to burn your calories and far more pleasant than a treadmill(or dreadmill as some call it).I often walk around my yard.Must be quite a sight for my neighbors as I often have a line of 7 chickens trailing me as if I was the pied piper.

Wishing you and your dh good health.

I can't quite get my head round why some folk don;t want to be supportive? I mean if they love and care for you and want the best for you then surely a good healthy weight is one of those things to feel happy for another to achieve? I don;t get it maybe never will? Why would they want you to go back to bad habbits that they know is bad for your health?

You sound funny with your chickens following you! You must have much better weather than here for sure. Anyhow the thought of you in your yard made me smile!

I like the walking too! But having my very disabled son here means I don;t have the luxury of just going for a walk when I feel like it. He can;t be left and if DH isn;t feeling the best then I don;t like leaving him to deal with Dan so I use the treadmill. Actually the Dog likes it too! Which is good as we walk in whatever weather which has tended to be rain , rain and more rain for at least three whole months!

I made a lovely dinner tonight it was OMG so tasty. It just goes to show with a little thought you CAN have a good filling meal with a fraction of the calerie and fat content!!!! Trouble is I ate too much of it again so will need to get the old tredmill out that or the bacon slicer!

Oes

 

[bluesub]

Stay away from the bacon slicer!!! You are doing fine, it is just going to take time. You are already feeling better and you have lost weight, so just keep on going!

 

[oesdog]

DAY TWENTY-ONE
27th August


Last night 10.5
This morning 10.3333333333333333333333333!!!!!!!!!!!

Breakfast
(1) Coffee white no sugar.
Small bowl of bran cerial with hot semi skimmed milk.
It is cold and like winter here with driving rain again today. Just makes one want to
light the fire and eat big soups and stews!

Excersize
10 mins x trainor.

Morning snack
(2) Coffee white no sugar
Friut waffer.

Lunch
(3) Coffee white no sugar.
Ha ha DH must have been thinking the same as me!!!!!!!
He came home from the store with Soup stuff!!!! Dh made a lovely lental and veg soup.
It was very yummy indeed with few cals in it! I was good and had one bowl without any bread.
Home made soup with lentils, carrot, leek, garlic and chilli in.

Good to have treats that don't pack the lbs!

Afternoon snack
(4) Coffee white no sugar.
Fruit waffer.

Dinner
Place with a side salad.
Fruit flavour water.
Apple and blackberry pie (sweetened with honey and made from Filo pastry as its low in fat.)
Left overs from last night yum!

Evening
(5) Coffee white no sugar.
2x water biscuits with low fat cheese spreed and tuna.
Didn;t keep my dinner down so had to eat something else. I got a fish bone stuck in my throat and it made me sick - Lovely!
Excersize
none

How do I feel
I am trilled with the 10.3 and am thinking that I was 10.1 when I went away in October last year. Maybe if I work hard for the next 10 days or so I might, just might get a 9.9????? I would love that before I go this time? How many lbs is that - 8lbs? Quite a long way to go??? I will have to work hard but it is doable! I was looking at the BMI again and I have to be 9.10 to get a normal reading. So I guess I will have to work at that as it would be wonderful to get a normal instead of overweight score before I went away!!!!!!!!

Week one I lost 7 lbs up to day 7
Week two I lost 3 lbs from day 7 to 14.
Week three I lost 2 lbs from day 14 to 21.
= loss of 12lbs. I really have to start doing better than this. I guess I am finding the slowing down of the weight loss a bit frustrating. But I am getting there slowely. I only have 12 days left before the end of this and I go away. I am not sure I can lose 8lbs in just 12 days as I don;t think I can lose the weight at the rate I did on the first week again? I may be extra cruel and cut cut cut excersize more and eat less. It is after all only for a very short time for a lot of gain if only I can get there? Of course keeping it off will be entirely another challenge.

 

[mom'sfolly]

12 pounds in three weeks is fantastic! Don't get so focused on your goal that you forget to celebrate your very real progress. Certainly, before you hit Spain you will weigh a stone less than when you started. GO YOU!

Just have a great time in the sun, and enjoy thinking how lovely it will be after those cold rainy days.

 

[oesdog]

Thanks for that. I am encouraged.
I still feel that even if I get down to the 10.1 before I go away it just means I broke even. I have shifted off all that weight I put back on after mummy died. The hard work will really start after I get down to below that. Then I am really getting the weight off but also I need to learn how to keep it off and not just yo yo. I know if I was a better girl and not so piggy I wouldn;t have had to start this diet in deficit! If only I had not put that "funeral weight on". Then I could have been sitting here a trim 9.1 But I did. So I have to accept that and move on from here. Oh well I can always blame my mother!

The best thing is Green peace wont be looking a lost whale when I get in the sea this time!!!!!!

Anyhow I gave myself a rule that I couldn;t pack my bag properly until I reached 10.1. I got it packed already but you know the girlie thing where you have to try it all on and make sure it all looks nice together etc before you lock the case. Well I knew when I was 11.1 most of the frocks etc simply did not fit me at all. Now however I am more hopeful as I wore them away this time last year. So I am looking foward to putting them on and knowing I can close the case with the reasurance that I will not end up with nothing to wear on holiday!!!!!!

Oes - I feel a slim chick comming on!

 

[oesdog]

DAY TWENTY-TWO
28th August


last night 10.4 !!!!!!!!!
this morning 10.3 - holding fast! so glad to see I am maintaining and not backsliding.
I am so near to my first target of 10.1 I can almost touch it!!!!!!!



Breakfast
(1) Coffee white no sugar.
Yogurt natural low fat.

Excersize
10 mins x trainor.

Morning snack
(2) Coffee white no sugar
Fruit waffer.

Lunch
x2 water biscuits with slices of damson and pear.
(3) Coffee white no sugar.

Afternoon snack
(4) Coffee white no sugar
Frut wafer.

Dinner
Chicken wrap with salad
Fruit flavoured water

Evening
(5) Coffee white no sugar.

Excersize
No the body doesn't want to do what the brain tells it to?

How do I feel
Well today is a new start - the sun is shining and I am thiner. The overnight FAT finding fairy did her job and so the lbs are staying off. My Bovine self is as was safe and secure.
I am counting the lbs - wow I can;t believe that I am so close - I feel better and fitter. Leaner and more toned for sure.

I can actually feel tummy muscle which is kind of weird after so long!
I have just 7 lbs to lose before my BMI comes into normal range! -
Then I hope to kill the fatted cow! shhhhhhh moooooo !

 

[oesdog]

Well I have been a bit low lately - but I am determined that things going on around me are not going to stop me from getting back on track. I am struggling with the excersize mainly because my leg muscle has been on fire the last few days. My Fibro is playing up so DH has given me a good leg brace and he also bought me a lovely pair of sketchers. So that should help me a bit?
The biggest struggle I am having right now is the tummy fat! It just doesn;t want to shift and I am so frustrated with it. I do tend to wear my FAT on the belly and the bum a lot. Because I am short I kind of look like someone put their hand on my head and squished me down so a big rubber ring comes out in the middle? Oh I am so very jealous of all those flat bellied young girls with no baby bag scars! I am not sure if mine will ever go into any useful shape again? But I have to keep hoping that one day I won't be getting zips stuck in my skin!

Anyhow I guess I have to think I am on the homeward stretch and I need to focus and stay positive. Honestly I just want to rush out and get a chinese or french fries! UGH! So I am forcing myself to take a good long look at the rubber ring and asking myself "Do you really want to keep this thing?" - Oh well back to the grind - but I am hungry tonight? Wonder if the overnight weight loss fairy will visit in my sleep?


Oes

 

[bluesub]

Hang in there, you will crave french fries less and less. Make sure you are getting enough protein... and calcium... you are exercising but aren't ingesting many calories, you want to burn fat, not muscle and if you don't take in enough calories, you are going to burn off the opposite of what you want.

 

[oesdog]

I will look that up. - We are supposed to be on a calerie restricted diet! So not sure how that one works? I was planning on having a good look again at the protien level and other stuff. I am not shifting the weight as fast as I would like. Time is running out and nothing is moving!!!!

Oes - I want to see a 9 something before I go away - I would settle for that but that sounds so "last year" and I failed that time.

 

[satay]

The thing i used to do last year when i was trying to lose weight was to walk on the tread mill while watching a tv show. it is surprising how much excercise you can do without realising it. I don't have fybro like you do but maybe that might help you get a little further each day without realising it. Good luck with your weight loss