Briony1
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Reged: 20/08/2009
Posts: 63
Loc: Norfolk
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Hi Everyone,
I know I should have posted yesterday but I was still 10st 9 and a bit hissed off, but today I weighed in at 10st 8 dead and I am very pleased. So that's my first two stone lost and it took one week longer than the food diary predicted. That is despite every weekend I put on a couple of pounds through eating a huge roast dinner and loads of cooked carbs. So to lose a pound I actually have to lose three to make progress! Actually I often don't make the weight loss till the Saturday morning which is why I tend to post Saturdays!
Well done to Rosacarol who is doing fantastically well and to everyone that's had a good week
Briony
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rosacarol
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Reged: 16/10/2009
Posts: 369
Loc: Reading
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Well done to you too, Briony - you must be so pleased. Have you got much further to go?
I had a difficult day today; I had a bad case of the "munchies" and I picked at silly things like my OH's liquorice allsorts & crisps. I did add them into my day's calorie total but it meant that I couldn't have a very big (or nutritious) evening meal beause I didn't have the calories left. I shall probably wake up hungry in the middle of the night. Serve me right!!
Anybody else get days like that?
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Briony1
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Reged: 20/08/2009
Posts: 63
Loc: Norfolk
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Hi rosacarol, I want to get to 9 1/2 stone and although that is still obese according to BMI, I would be a size 10 at that weight and that will do me fine. BMI would have me under 8 3/4 stone and when I was that weight my ribs stuck out more than my bust and I had 33" hips so not a place I want to go back to. I am just a very solid sturdy person! I think the next stone will be hard and so I have said to the food diary just 1lb per week and it has given me a date in February.
I celebrated today with clotted cream icecream and pineapple for pudding, but I am sticking to a my 65-75% raw diet Mon-Sat and we shall see what happens. I don't seem to suffer cravings on this diet and feel pretty much in control. If I get a sweet urge I have dried fruit which even though high in calories still are good food.
Are you just calorie counting or are you following a regime? I know you are doing some stepping (what does that mean?) I don't really like exercise for the sake of it and just walk my dogs every day for 40 minutes which ticks the exercise box in the food diary.
Are you using the food diary? My daughter is and takes Sunday as her day off, I think you need to be kind to yourself and I certainly pig out on a full roast dinner each Sunday often putting me 2-300 calories over. But then I am pretty focussed the rest of the week so it all comes right in the end.
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rosacarol
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Reged: 16/10/2009
Posts: 369
Loc: Reading
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Hi Briony
I'm just keeping to 1750 calories a day and I try to eat sensibly and have a good cross section of all the food groups. I'm keeping my own food diary and write down what I eat and the calorie content every day.
I've joined the forum's Stepsisters and we all wear pedometers every day and try and do a many steps as possible. 10,000 is the guideline but several of us do more and some of us (not me yet) do a lot more. We compare notes every day on the forum. It's surprising how the steps add up - walking my dogs, housework, nipping to the shops and so on, and if I catch a bus into town, for example, I get off a few stops early and walk some of the way. It becomes a bit addictive and you don't really realise that you're exercising. I'm not a gym or exercise routine person, so walking is perfect for me.
Not only do I have the support of everyone on the forum, I have the added incentive of being weighed at my GP's surgery every week. My knees had become so sore and my blood pressure so high that my GP insisted I lose some of my excess weight. With the Practice Nurse keeping a watchful eye on me I daren't go wrong. Having said that, I really want to do it this time, for my own sake, and that makes such a difference,
Keep going Briony, I'm sure we'll make it.
Rosa
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