"Food is merely fuel - food cannot make you happy"

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Froyo is awesome!

Well, it helps to have someone else to motivate you (by motivating themselves as well!). Flatmate and I did a fitness DVD workout, and ate not lots and made a healthy lentil stew for lunch tomorrow and calculated the calories.

I then went out for drinks and coffee with various people. To which I walked. 4.5 miles which could have been on the Underground. Score.

I did have some frozen yoghurt, because I didn't have dinner and it's low fat, low sugar, low cal. Snog in Covent Garden = expensive but SO GOOD. And infinitely better than any other crap I could have eaten.

753 calories for the day. I would say that's a win, particularly with the exercise.


Only problem - I'm off to the parents' tomorrow, where I shall not be updating or reading other blogs for at least 10 days. I shall also have trouble restricting/exercising too much. Send me lucky vibes, I need this! It'll be 1- days of "Oh you're looking well" (IE "you're looking FAT"). I want to look thin, so that people say "Oh you don't need to lose any weight, please eat!".

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Solid

OK so today went well - 1000 cals pretty much exactly consumed. This is despite making cake and biscuits for the family (biscuits were crap so I threw them!). I am pleased with myself. Healthy dinner as well, lentils, fish, courgette and then a pear. I even did an exercise DVD with my flatmate.

Of course, it *is* Supersize vs SuperSkinny on in 40 minutes, which automatically means I want to eat more healthily... but I still think this is good.

I shall weigh in on Thursday morning, as I will be heading home to the parents' house. I then have 10 days away. In which I aim to lose, hard as it may be. Bring it. Ideally by then I shall be 134lbs at least. Fingers crossed!

Note to self - specific targets are good. 1000 cals is good.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Take a trip down to Binge City

So Sunday wound up being a humongous day of calories (I don't even know but it was over 2000), but I started again today, slowly and surely, 1000 cals. It helps, going to evening events and physically not being able to eat most of the food on offer (glass of OJ, some spears of asparagus, a couple of prawns.

Problem with evening events (or not) is when there are girls there who are taller and thinner than you. Then you really have a problem and feel bad about your usually less podgy body, just going through a fat phase, thankyou.

At some point I have to bake a cake to take home with me. I'll use the ingredients that I've got but I'll tell the family that it's got wheat in it. That means I won't eat it!

So tomorrow, day by day, aim by aim... eat 1000 cals max. DO IT.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Physically Sick

I hate how socialising always involves food. I'm assuming that the afternoon tea I ate yesterday was approx 1000 cals and the rest of the day was about 500. Which is not bad since I had to but I felt physically sick for most of the day and STILL ate in the evening.

138.0 on Saturday morning, 138.8 on Sunday. Makes no sense. I'm so fat these days. Just massive.

Off for Sunday lunch today. Again, socialising (different group of people). Will try to walk home and go to the gym. Will also go for no gravy, yorkshire puddings (I can't! Wheat wheat wheat) and no roast potatoes. Alternatively, if there's a salad on offer, I'd love it.

Friday, March 26, 2010

I have let myself go

I have. My course (now over, thank GOD) is over. Exams and revision and strrress and celebrating took its toll.

I now weigh approx 140 pounds. FUCK! How the hell can I gain that much? How can I gain so much without there being a medical problem (I checked. My thyroid is fine. I was hoping for the underactive thyroid so much, as wrong as that is)? How can I gain so much when I can't eat wheat and don't drink alcohol? I will weigh in properly tomorrow morning and gain some measurements.


I hate this. I hate it. Hence return. I don't know how much I will be able to blog. But I need to become accountable. I've been counting calories. Apparently 1500 per day does nothing for me. This weekend will be a struggle (afternoon tea tomorrow with a group and then a roast on Sunday. Thankfully I can avoid gravy and yorkshire puddings due to wheat and I shall just not have roast potatoes). Then I am off for a week and then bam. I have a month before going travelling. I shall lose then, for sure, btu I don't want to be a fatty before I go.



What I need is for food to cease mattering. For it to become a fuel, to not be a "treat". For me to stop when I am full. I can do this, I've done it before.