Day 206, never trust old weighing scales!

So to update you...

I was feeling a bit guilty after my last update as I ended up eating loads of shortbread! I then did insanity but still felt guilty, and had my dinner. However, the cider in our pork Thermidor was was out of date, and I was sick all night!! Although it was not a nice experience, it certainly made me feel better about all that shortbread!!

Since Day 203, I've done insanity every day except yesterday, time kind of slipped past me yesterday and I just wasn't that motivated.

I've had strawberries, raspberries, grapes, low fat natural yogurt and honey for breakfast every morning and I've really enjoyed it. I added a couple of walnuts to give the granola texture, and although nuts have some fat in them, they are a great superfood, so certainly wake me up after I've been up feeding them animals early!

Apart from when we've been out for lunch, lunches and dinners have been ok. Not super healthy, but I'm feeling good about the fitness and breakfasts, so it's a great start. When I have the opportunity I eat healthily, but sometimes I can really be swayed by what my boyfriend is eating!

Here at my parents house, there's an old set of weighing scales. They aren't digital, and you always know the rule is to 'stick to your own scales' as they can be off, and it's easier to measure by staying on the same set all the time.

Well, just out of curiosity, I jumped on these scales and it said I was 15 stone 2lbs! Oh how I wish that were true! I don't believe it at all, but a little part in my brain wishes it was believable!

I've got another week and a half of continuing insanity, healthy meals and getting exercise with the dog and the farming, and hope that it will have made a difference by the time I get to my weighing scales!!

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Day 203 - ideas of change of diet...

Well I'm going to start off by saying I didn't do Insanity last night. My excuses are that I couldn't get down to the animals until 6.30pm, then by the time they were fed and I was back it was 8pm. Then we ordered food, and didn't finish that until 10pm. So it was too late. But those are definitely bad excuses.

Today I've already fed the animals once and we are bout to be dogsitting, so I'm waiting for the owner to drop the dog off. I had scrambled eggs and bacon for my breakfast today. I haven't had lunch but I did just eat a piece of shortbread. I'm drinking peppermint tea for the next two weeks as there's no green tea in the house at the moment, but it's just as good as green tea for a detox, and it will be good to have a change. For dinner we are having pork thermador. I'm going to get some veggies to go with it and I will not eat any carbs along with it.

That's me updated, now for some food ideas.

I'm going to try and stick with fruit, so my first idea is:

Breakfast - fresh fruit (strawberries, grapes, raspberries) with natural yoghurt and honey. I'm not going to have a lot of this, but just a tablespoon of yoghurt, a teaspoon of honey and a handful of berries. This works out at around 100 calories for a breakfast. That's quite minimal, but if I'm having snacks in the day, this should work out fine.

I've started creating my own Pinterest board to put ideas of healthy foods on - here is the link - I'll embed it here too so you can see it as I build it.

Day 202: Time to start the regime once more!!

So all week last week, I started Insanity - a fantastic, cardio workout that really is making me work really hard! My breakfasts have been banana's, although when we had a work breakfast I had a croissant. My evening meals often have rice with them or pasta, and I really need to stop doing that.

I think although I'm getting so much fitter, my diet is now changing and becoming more lazy. With the movement of fat to muscle, and also not eating as healthy as I used to, the weight is piling back on.

And then, there was a hen weekend. On Friday evening we drank shots and cocktails all night, went out for dinner, and I had a chimichanga with rice and peas. Then on Saturday, we had a big breakfast, plus some dancing lessons (at least there was some sort of workout there!!). Then last night, I met my family for a 60th birthday, and had lots of unhealthy foods: quiche, sausage rolls, bread and cheese, as well as champagne and gin and tonic!

So now is the time to straighten myself out properly. I've weighed in, and although I really didn't want to count this as my weigh in, I'm going to. I officially weigh in at 15 stone 10 lbs. 4lbs higher than I was 2 weeks ago.

I'm going to Gloucestershire for 2 weeks now - 2 weeks of walking down to the farm twice a day, feeding animals, and hay baling. On top of which I intend on continuing Insanity every day, from today (I haven't done the last two days due to the hen weekend). I don't have a good set of weighing scales in Gloucestershire, and I don't intend on taking mine. I'm going to try and work hard for 2 weeks, and try to work out what my new diet is. I've had enough to Activia yogurts, and bananas for breakfast. I'm going to start researching what other things I could have that are low in carbs and calories, and healthy for me.

I will update with ideas and research over the next two weeks, but I won't be weighing in until my return, exactly two weeks today!

Wish me luck!!

Food.

Ok after publishing the last post, I think I need to sort out my evening meals. They are turning into carbs. I need to go back to salads, less bread etc.

Day 198 - What is going on??!

So, it's been a very busy week. On Sunday I did a 3k run for Isabel Hospice, which was good fun, and I ran faster than I normally do, with an average of 9 minutes per km.

I made sure that day that I had porridge for breakfast, and I ate well all day. However, I weighed in on Monday at 15 stone 11lbs. I didn't publish it as I thought it might be an anomaly, and I would get it back down by tomorrow. However, each day I've weighed in, and I've gone down lower, but I still 15 stone 9lbs. I don't understand whats going on! I'm eating healthily, and since Monday, I started the Insanity programme, which is a high intense training workout, 40 minutes a day, working really hard.

All I can think of this statement everyone says 'it's muscle, not fat'. It may well be true. But I really want to hit that 'under 15 stone' mark and it is taking FOREVER. I need some guidance on what to do next - I thought I had it sorted, with lots of exercise and healthy meals, but this doesn't seem to be working anymore.

Day 192 Week Update

This week, I have been absolutely exhausted and not eating properly at all. I've tried to stick to my normal diet, but I have not had time to even go shopping to buy groceries!

On the weekend I was out in London, drinking and eating restaurant-style food. In the week I had some healthy evenings, but then friends came over and we had a barbecue, and we were exhausted last night, so had a takeaway.

I weighed in this morning and I've lost another 1lb, so that's down to 15 stone 6lbs. I'm really trying to get down to the third pound, and I still have 8lbs to go.

I managed to go out and do a 4.2km run on Monday night, which then made me ache for a couple of nights, but not too bad. It is currently taking me 10 minutes per km, which means my 5k on Sunday is likely to be 50 minutes. I'd like it to be a bit quicker.

New Measurements

Ok so this is where I started:

Arms: 16 inches

Hips: 51 inches

Waist: 41.5 inches

Thigh: 30 inches

And this is where I am now:

Arms 15 - loss of one inch

Hips 47.5 - loss of 3.5 inches

Waist 38 - loss of 3.5 inches

Legs 26 - loss of 4 inches!

Day 184... Mid year review

So I noticed that the middle of this week was actually the middle of the whole year! Looking back, I'm pleased with the weight I've lost in 6 months, but I would have been happier if I had hit the 3 stone mark by now. But I should only look forward, there's no point of looking back.

This week I've been really good! Eating very well, and I've been running. I did 3k on Wednesday. I'm supposed to be running tonight but I now have plans so might not have time.

I'm out all weekend in London, at a festival, out with friends etc. So food won't be great this weekend.

I've weighed in today and I'm actually 15 stone 7lbs, so I have lost weight again. Really pleased. I'm actually on the low end of 15 7 so gives me good opportunity to continue weight loss over the weekend if I can. I certainly will try!! 

I've also measured, I will post up my new measurements in a separate post.