Saturday 29/09/07
Although it had rained quite a bit earlier – the weather was fine (although chilly) by the time I went out walking. I was thankful as I do not really enjoy walking in the rain - it is so much nicer in decent weather.
My weight reduction made me feel really positive, and I keep feeling my sides – unable to believe how thin (silly for someone as big as I still am) that I feel. I kept having this feeling all day – and in the end got out the tape-measure. My waist was over an inch less than last Saturday.
I know that sometimes I go back up by a
pound or even two – but I still enjoy every new low as it is reached. It is nearly twenty years since my weight was as low as this.
I have committed myself fully to this
weight loss project. I am not working and devoting all my effort into becoming the person that I would like to be. I just hope that I continue.
This summer I have lived in shorts or some tracksuit bottoms which I match with a size 30 or 32 T shirt from my recent wardrobe. It is baggy and masks my tummy and bum which are still very big. My legs are however dramatically slimmer than before (although big by normal people’s standards). All the weight came off my left leg first. It looked so funny – there were inches difference in the circumference – so I asked my doctor about it. You would have believed that I had been out hopping each day instead of walking. She said not to worry. Eventually the right leg just about caught up.
General Data:
Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one my husband came too)
Extra
exercises = none
Weight = 14st 4.6lbs (i.e. 200.6
pounds)
Steps = 35516
Distance = 13.17 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – but forgot one of the bio-oil massages
Food / Drink:
1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9
calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
Cooked ham 120g - 150
calories
1 glass (200ml) grapefruit juice
1 glass (200ml) orange juice
Cooked ham 120g – 150
calories, half a cucumber, 41 small cherry tomatoes (grown in our garden)
2 litres of cold water
some
diet cola
Sunday 30/09/07
Better weather than Saturday – I enjoyed my long walk. Bumped into two people for a chat – and it was a really nice way to spend much of the morning.
As said in an email reply – felt like a human jumping bean all day.
I had a look in a basket of old clothes in the spare bedroom and found a tracksuit last worn in the 1980s. It was a Marks and Spencer size 16-18 bought when my weight was ballooning. Now I know that M & S always used to size things on the big side from when I was thin……. Anyway I had thought that I had sent just about everything smaller than size 20 to charity shops years ago (we have moved house twice this century alone). I got into everything that I had that was size 20 last weekend when I was playing at dressing up in old clothes. Anyway – I thought that I would try it on and see whether I could get it on – to me it felt like putting on children’s clothes.
Anyway – to my surprise it pulled on straight away with no coaxing. I couldn’t believe it.
General Data:
Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on two laps my husband came too which really pleased me. He cannot address his weight in exactly the same way as me by distance walking as he has suffered from gout since he was in his twenties and it has damaged his joints in his legs – first his toes then his ankles and knees as he walked awkwardly carrying excess weight through gout attacks)
Extra
exercises = none
Weight = 14st 4.2lbs (i.e. 200.2
pounds)
Steps = 31185
Distance = 11.56 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – but forgot one of the bio-oil massages and forgot my early morning moisturising until I got home from my long walk. I really need to try harder at this creaming.
Food / Drink:
1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9
calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
1 glass (200ml) grapefruit juice
Approx 1 small roast chicken breast (with some skin), 5 new potatoes boiled, 3 med carrots boiled, 5 big runner beans boiled (from our garden), gravy
2 large handfuls of sultanas
2 litres of cold water
some
diet cola
1 fox’s glacier fruit boiled sweet
