Weigh in today.
Drum roll please! Duh duh dah!
13 stone 13lbs! Yay me!
Vital statistics:
Chest 42”
Waist 37”
Hips 43”
Yah boo sucks! Lost half an inch from my lady bumps. Not the place I want to lose inches from! My waist? Yes. Hips? Of course. But, please, not those!
Well, this week has gone well. I have been filling in my food diary at Weight Loss Resources every day and have come in under my calorie quota most days.
I am being told off by my colleagues for weighing myself every day. You’re only supposed to do it once a week to allow for normal body fluctuations. But, I can’t help it. They are threatening to confiscate the scales. I guess I am a bit obsessed!
Surprisingly, I’ve not found it too difficult to keep within my calories. I am not starving hungry the whole time and, even though a few of my colleagues keep tempting me with Creme Eggs, cookies and stuff, my resolve has seen me through. I even turned down a fried egg roll from the food van the other day in favour of a bowl of porridge. So unlike me.
I have been playing with the food database at Weight Loss Resources and found some real surprises.
Chicken Kievs (the breaded kind from Tescos) are one of my favourite meals. I would normally have two of them with some new potatoes and garden peas for my dinner. They are, wait for it . . . . 309 calories each! Mind you, I did wonder if that takes into account the fact that all the filling leaks out onto the baking tray during cooking and welds itself there.
I did some historic research on my food diary this week because I knew that I had filled it in for a few days when I first started working at WLR. I thought it would be helpful to compare what I am eating now to then. Now, that was a horror story! 2695 calories in one day and I thought I had been good eating hummus and pitta bread for my lunch. OK, so it wasn’t low calorie hummus and I did eat 5 pittas.
This would go some way to explain how much weight I have lost so far. That and, in the first week most people lose a fair amount. It should settle down to about 1 or 2lbs a week. 8lbs in a little over a week is neither healthy nor sustainable.
Note to self: Ryvita Minis – don’t ever buy them again. They taste like pieces of cardboard, dipped in cheese and onion flavouring and left on the windowsill in the sun to dry.
Right, I’m off to eat my breakfast. Bowl of porridge and 100g of cherries :o)
See you next week,
Trudi
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Trudi.. you bad girl! Eating breakfast at 12.20hrs?? The most important meal of the day!!
ReplyDeleteWell done on the weight loss tho', cracking start to your journey!
Our household is also using WLR to guide us.. I like the fact that WLR takes the hard work out of calorie counting and getting the balance right - I used to find it so difficult to get my head round all the facts and figures and like you say used to have things like houmous and pittas, but shed loads, but that's OK cos it's 'healthy food'!! As my fitness mentor says "everything in moderation"!
Keep up the good work.. and don't leave it so long next time - some of us hang on your every word.. ha ha no pressure then!!
Lol - Yeah no pressure hey?
ReplyDeleteI must admit, I do have problems eating breakfast. Have never really been a brekkie person. That said, I did actually write this at about 9.30 this morning but didn't publish it straight away.
I will heed your advice tho and try to eat much earlier in the morning! :o)
Oh God... don't listen to me for advice - I have my own 'weight issues' that I am trying to sort out!!
ReplyDeleteSo are you following any particular 'plan' or just going down the calorie counting, balanced foods route?
BTW I love Ryvita minis! However I also love prunes and marmite.. read from that what you will!
I am going down the calorie counting and balanced food route but using Weight Loss Resources to do that.
ReplyDeleteI will be adding exercise in but, as they say, slowly slowly catchy monkey! lol.
I'm not going to even comment on the Ryvita, marmite thing! lol :o)
Now had you said Ryvita Limbos I would have been ready to sign your petition and take it to Downing Street.. they're are a bit like the polysterene quaver things that you pack fragile items in.. go on I DARE you to try them and eat a whole packet to yourself!!
ReplyDeleteMmmmmm she has thrown down the gauntlet. Methinks I may have to take up this duel :o)
ReplyDeleteDowning Street, here we come!
Myself and everyone in the office (well I couldn't suffer alone could I?)tried those Ryvita Limbos today. The cheese and onion flavour.
ReplyDeleteThe general consensus was . . . Downing Street can wait! We all thought they were ok. :o)
So, choice between Limbos and Minis? It'll be limbos every time :o)
Challenge accepted and defeated. Lol