Update-age from MissE

Saw that phish had posted and felt a bit guilty... so here's the quick update from me.
According to the WiiFit that I set up for my Mum yesterday, I am currently 105.5kg. This is .5kg less than I was last Friday at the Doctor's... so yay. Mind you, it also told me I'm still considered obese and that my BMI is woefully high. God knows what it would have thought if I'd stepped on at the start of all of this slow and steady weight loss... when I was somewhere beyond 130kg and looking seriously at the size 24 clothes in the "You're Big and We Know It" section of Target.

But now, I'm wearing size 18 jeans from Jeanswest. I can fit into the L size at Crossroads, instead of just getting into the XXL. And more and more of the clothes in my cupboards at getting looser and looser and looser. My fave "loose" item currently is the pair of "Basque Woman" pants that I bought early last year. They're a size 18 and when I bought them they were a little bit tight. And then for the bulk of the year, I put on a little bit of weight and I couldn't get into them comfortably at all. Well, not anymore. I've actually had to use the two little waistband "tighteners" so that I can keep wearing them for work purposes. ;oP

I'm still not going to the gym, coz I still can't afford it. :o(
But I am playing mixed indoor netball every Sunday and going for walk/jogs when I can. Come next week, there'll also be a weekly netball training session coz our team wants to improve... we've lost all bar two of our games so far and some of those losses have been serious floggings.

So bring on the current goal of under 100kg by Christmas. I know it seems a small drop from where I am now but taking it slow and steady is what is working for me. Setting a reasonable and small goal means I don't feel over-pressured and that is what can trigger stupid eating decisions and excessive couch potato-ing.

Later!

Weight Updates

Ok, so I haven't updated in AGES. Sorry. M'bad. So to recap, in my last update, I'd been staying pretty solid at about 83-84. And that hadn't changed up until Easter.

I had a really good Easter. Went away with fam and went off diet. I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. Chocolate, pies, cheese, bacon. Yep. I wanted so I ate. And naturally my weight went up. But it was worth it. From 83.1 to 85.1 in 2 weeks. It gave me a kick in the pants to get serious about losing weight again.

So I did. I worked hard, dieted hard, and lost 1.2kg in one week. I decided to take it easy for a week, and lost 0.7kg. I was all set to work really hard the third week, was getting some fantastic workouts at the gym and then...

IT happened. I got the call that Dad was dying. Naturally I flew down to Victoria immediately. Luckily, Dad pulled through, but my diet didn't. Two road trips to and from Victoria in 3 weeks. Time with the fam. Eating inconsistently. One moment I'd be denying myself roast pork, cauli/cheese sauce and gravy. The next I'd be guzzling a sugary fruit smoothie. My family got irritated, but eventually learned not to buy me food. I did do stair runs on the first time down, with squats/lunges/star jumps, and the second time I did get to the gym twice, but it wasn't enough.

Cue a raise of 3.5kg in 3 weeks.

*GULP*

So I've been working really hard since I've been back.I missed 2 sessions while I was away, so for the last and the coming week, I get 2 PT sessions per week. My trainer has been great I told him that I'd put on weight and he was working me really hard. And this week I lost 1.9kg. I will work equally hard this week.

Recipes

BLUEBERRY, YOGHURT & OAT MUFFINS
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup skim milk
375 ml greek/natural yoghurt
1 2/3 wholemeal SR flour
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil,
dash of lemon
1 teaspoon salt
2 lightly beaten large eggs
1 tin blueberries

Moisten oats with milk and mix with 125g low fat greek or natural yoghurt. Refrigerate for a few hours/overnight.

Preheat oven to 180C.

Combine yoghurt and oat mix with all ingredients, except bluberries. Mix until smooth.

Drain blueberries and fold into mix. Spoon into muffin cases. Bake until muffins spring back when touched lightly in centre.

Eat. Preferably cooling them if you can wait.

WHOLEMEAL FRUIT SCONES
1 2/3 cups wholemeal SR flour
1/3 cup skim milk
1 tbs olive oil
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
About a tsp of sesame seeds
2 small grated red apples
Sml handful of sultanas/ chopped dates
Pinch of salt

Combine all ingredients. Flour bench top and knead dough onto it. Roll out with floured rolling pin and cut with a round cookie cutter* or cut with knife.

Bake at 180C until cooked. Eat.

*an appropriately sized cup will do the same thing.

Damn.

For pretty much this whole year I've been hovering around the 83.5-84 mark. Its really starting to shit me. I mean, REALLY starting to absolutely shit me. I really want to see that I'm below 80. I've never seen it. I wanted to be there at the end of Feb, and I'm eyeballing the end of March, unchanged. Damnit.

So this week I pledge - no cookie for morning tea. I will have a tiny serve of museli, or fruit, or yoghurt. No avocado. No burgers (even if they are low fat and packed with salad). No museli bars. Unless that's it for a snack. I will shift some of that flub.

Also, I'm switching one night of cardio for some extra weights.

Wish me luck...

checking in...

So I've been silent again.
I've had to drop the gym due to lack of money.
but I've been trying to walk a lot to make up for it.

weighed myself on Mum's not-100%-reliable scales.
figure I'm around 112kg.
which means I have to have lost (since the beginning of 2006) over 20kgs.
And I should say "got rid of" because "lost" implies I plan on finding those kilos again some day.
And I don't.
Ever.

Hopefully, I will be back in the money-earning people after July. Then it will be back to the gym and full on towards being under 100kg by New Year's.

Phish is my inspiration.

Sick

But its a good thing. I haven't been to the gym in the past few days. No point. I'm sick. Which means no official weigh in.

But the unofficial weigh in is 81kg, wearing jeans, on my home scales. woot!

I has a happy!

So I'm down to 83.4 this week. Damn, the scales have been all over the place the last few weeks. Up and down more frequently than a freaking yo yo. But I'm back to weekly PT. Which I love.

But aside from the weight obsession... I got the all clear at the dentist yesterday, and the all clear from the optometrist today. And I was wearing the Jeans Challenge jeans, which had very little discernible muffin top. So I'm feeling pretty darned good, let me tell you.

I have a new pair of jeans to challenge myself with. But I'll wait til next week to begin that one. Right now I'm happy with my accomplishments.

And its measurement day...
01/03/09
Waist: 94cm (down 3)
Hips: 105cm (down 6)
Thighs R/L: 57cm/59cm (up 3cm total)
Arms R/L: 25cm/25cm (unchanged)