I’ve just started a new job. Contrary to my past jobs, it’s in an office and it’s very structured, particularly in terms of the days. Lunch is always around 12:30 - 1pm, and then I’m home for dinner. What it means is that there’s just no snacking the rest of the time, which I think may account for my (somewhat unexpected) 700gram loss! Pretty proud, really. Let’s get this rolling.

Next job: figure out what to eat for the next few days. Hmm….

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I had a weigh in today, and I am officially down 1.4kg from my last WI. For me, this is just confirming what I’d already guessed: I do best on my own. The WW meetings are simply not for me, and, if anything they tend to discourage me.

But that’s okay! Because I seem to have figured that out, now, and I’m back on the right track.

Current Stats
Current Weight: 88.8
Loss/Gain This Week: -1.4
Total Loss: 11.5

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I like cereal. I really do. I grew up in a household where cereal was beloved by all. We had it for breakfast, for dessert, I even had it for dinner sometimes. It has been the go-to food my entire life. It’s a snack food and it’s also, for me, a major comfort food.

Which is why it had to go. It doesn’t fill me up, I just like the taste of it. If I eat at 8, I’m peckish by 10. And let’s not start on the nutritional value of carbs and milk for dinner. So, despite a lifetime of being a cereal breakfast girl, I’ve swapped. I still can’t handle toast for breakfast and I’m not a cooked fan, but I do grab toasted english muffin with some ‘light’ peanut butter. Then I add a banana and a glass of milk. It’s a point-heavy breakfast — about 7.5pts, all up. But it fills me up until about 1 - 2 o’clock, without making me feel stuffed full.

It’s also, would you believe, cheaper. Cereal here costs between $5 - $8, depending on the size of the box. If I’m in a snacking mood, I can go through that (and a 2L bottle of milk) in about 3 days. That’s $13 in three days! By comparison, I go through the English muffins in 6 days (because there’s 6 in a bag). So for me, that’s $3.50 for 6 days (plus extra for milk and bananas etc.). It stills comes out cheaper. Much cheaper. And then I don’t have to eat such a large lunch. So it’s win-win all round, really.

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The other thing I’ve been thinking about (I know, I think to much, especially since I’m supposed to be doing an assignment in another language.) is food. Or nutrition, more rightly. I’ve been getting sick a lot this year. Just little illnesses, enough slow me down and make me crabby. And yes, I had my wisdom teeth out and that took a lot out of me, but I feel like I’m missing something over last year. So I’m going to invest in some Barocca and some multi-vitamins to help boost my nutrition count. I already try to eat enough vegetables but sometimes it just doesn’t work. I’m also attempting to swap out my snacking on crackers and chocolate for snacking on sunflower seeds and apples….we’ll see how that goes. I quite like sunflower seeds, and when 2tsp is only 1 pt, it can take me a while to get through them.

But yeah. I guess the point is that I’m regaining focus on the ‘whole picture’ of health, rather than just the weight-loss issue.

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I weighed in today, for the first time in a while (maybe 2 weeks, I think. Or it could be 1 week and I just don’t remember). Regardless, it was a few days late and a WI at home. I’m normally a Friday weigher, simply because there’s a meeting on near where I live. But I haven’t been able to lately because I’ve been getting called into other commitments. I’m looking at changing the day anyway because the meeting is at 12:30 which is right in the middle of my day off. I’d much prefer it to be in the morning.

Anyway, the point is that I lost 1kg this week, which brings me down to 88.4kg. This is nowhere near the level that I used to be at (check out where I was this time last year on my progress page), but I’ve realised I have to concentrate on where I’m at now, rather than feeling bad for getting here.

Current Stats
Current Weight: 88.4
Loss/Gain This Week: -1.0
Total Loss: 11.9

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I weighed in yesterday at home, because I had other commitments and couldn’t make it to my meeting. End result was 89.4, which is a maintenance. Again.

I guess what I need to do is admit that I’m an idiot who just needs to get enthused again. I stopped talking about weight-loss in real life, and I think that’s the first step to failing.

Current Stats
Current Weight: 89.4
Loss/Gain This Week: 0.0
Total Loss: 10.9

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WI today put me at 88.2, which is 1.3kg heavier than last WI. It’s not a happy result, obviously, but I also can’t claim to be surprised. Would you believe that I made it through Easter just fine, only to spend the next week eating crap? *rolleyes* Talk about sabotage.

Regardless, the past few days I’ve been back down to where I need to be; about 21 points. A little over for the past few days, closer to 23, although today I think I’m under by a point, which feels good. I’m glad I’m back on the planning route.

Right, have to go clean the kitchen, I just wanted to check in and report.

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I was quite concerned about this weigh in, simply because I had no idea what my body was doing: on the one hand, I’d eat really poorly while I was away, because that’s all that was available. On the other hand — I had food poisoning.

Food poisoning won out, it seems! I weighed in today at 84.4. I am well into Virgin fat, here, people.

I also bought a dress today in a size 14. I want to wear it to my birthday in about 6 weeks. It’s too small. Bad thing. But it’s only just too small. It does up, it’s just not quite comfortable. So my goal is to get to the point where I can wear that dress comfortably by my birthday. It’s only a couple of centimetres. Only a few. I can do it. And I have the bloody dress for motivation.

I’m in it!

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And today was my day. Went back to the gym, had a mini weigh in (since my proper weigh is on Sunday — I just wanted to see the damage from Easter), ran for 5 minutes at a speed of 10 (since I can normally only run for 5 minutes max at a speed of 8.5 - 9.0, this was exciting.

Then came the silliness. I’d decided to go to a PUNCH! class, and holy buggery, that was intense. I may have almost fainted, whoops. I’d only eaten breakfast before I went, just because I woke up late and thought it’d be fine. It wasn’t. We were punching then I was going “Holy shit Ican’tbreathe” and then there were spots and there was nausea and I felt like an idiot. I did, however, finish the class. Or the punching bit, anyway. And, to make me feel worse, I got to this point in, ahuh, 30 minutes. Buggar.

After the punching, I went back to the change rooms and sat for a while. I had 2 apples in my bags, so I ate those. Then, I was like, “I did only a half an hour’s exercise. I’m not going home!” So I got changed and went for a swim. Not a very energetic swim, but a swim nonetheless.

I texted my sister on the way home and she was like, “You need carbs!”. So I stopped off at my butchers and grabbed a sausage roll — possibly the best sausage roll money can buy. Homemade, real sausage, etc. etc. Now, I’ve had a Berocca and I’m going to figure out what I’m eating for the next week or four, then I’m going to have a showr and get changed, and go shopping for vegies. Mmm….vegies.

Current Stats
Current Weight: 86.0
Loss/Gain This Week: +.5
Total Loss: 14.3

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Woke up at 10ish (a well needed sleep in) and then had some weetbix for breakfast, got dressed and headed for the gym. I hit the treadmill and managed to do the C25K, Week 4 Day 1. I thought I was going to die from the stich I got halfway through, but I just turned the speed down a little and kept going. Then I did my weights and power plate and now I think my arms will be screaming in pain tomorrow, argh.

I also weighed myself. This week, I lost 1.3kg, one of my biggest losses to date! It just goes to show what happens when you’re in the right frame of mind. Last year I struggled with food. Because I struggled with food, I never got the headset for exercise. And now? No problems. I get it.

I did have a bad night on Friday, but it was because I forgot that I wouldn’t be back at home for dinner. Ended up having pizza. And drinking a lot. And the next day, I had chips for dinner and just veged. But it was just a day. No big deal.

Am going to my sister’s tomorrow, and we’ll see how I go. Neither of them track or watch their weight in a real way (my sister may occasionally talk about it and do more exercise, but never food-based), but they do eat a lot of vegies, so hopefully I’ll fit in somewhere. Just up the exercise and it’ll be fine, right? Right.

Current Stats
Current Weight: 85.5
Loss/Gain This Week: -1.3
Total Loss: 14.8

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Forgot to say that I weighed myself at the gym scales (on both the digital and non-digital [analogue?] scales), and my highest weight was 86.4, which will now be my base weight, since these will be the scales I use most often.

Which means I’ve lost weight, woot!

Current Stats
Current Weight: 86.4
Loss/Gain This Week: -.6
Total Loss: 13.9

EDIT: Behold my new table of tracking:

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So I weighed in today and am at 87.0kilograms. Which is a gain of .2kg, so I suppose it’s a cup of tea/my breakfast. It’s not that bad. And, to be fair, I haven’t tracked or done any exercise for about 3 weeks. I knew it was probable, I was just also hopeful that I’d somehow evade reality and I’d be wonderfully

That bummer aside I’m still on the right track. I’m having spaghetti on toast for dinner tonight as I’m going to the movies at 8. I’ll have a good 5 points or so saved up so if I want to buy a coke or something, I can.

I’ve also just discovered that there’s a gym near me! They’ve got all my favourite classes (BodyBalance, BodyPump) and some new ones that I want to try, like Punch! so I’m going to pop in in the next few days and see what the cost and memberships are like. They’ve also got that new crazy, the vibro plate or whatever it is — I want to see what that feels like. And they’ve got a pool. And! they’re on my bus route home, so I can just sit on the bus until I get to the gym, pop in for an hour or so, and then walk 10 minutes home. Easy.

So as long as the cost stays down, I think I’ll do that.

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