It's a new week

After last weeks tonsillitis I had real trouble upping my water intake to it's normal level. Drinking water isn't something that comes naturally to me, I still have to think about it and make myself do it. It was only about Thursday when I actually started to feel really thirsty and my lips felt all dry and shriveled that I started making a concious effort to drink, and even then I wasn't getting as much down as I should have been.

Also being school holidays and being unwell my exercise drive lapsed and I really haven't done much at all over the last two weeks. But, school starts again tomorrow so I have vowed to get back into my normal routine. This week is basically a loss though. It appears my dehydration and my laziness have finally caught up with me as I have only lost 100gms.

However, it's not the end of the world. Provided I can up my water intake and get back on track with my stepping I am confident of a much better result for next Mondays weigh in.

Height: 160cms/5ft3in
Start Date: 28th Dec 2008
Start Weight: 81.4 kgs
Current Weight: 63.9kgs
Lost this week: 100gms
Total Loss: 17.5kgs
Start BMI: 31.8
Current BMI: 25
Goal BMI: 23.4
Goal Weight: 60 kgs
Goal Date: December 2009

Ridiculous!

I've lost 17.5kgs.

I look better.

I feel better.

So why am I so pissed off at having to spend $1000 on new clothes for myself?

Don't ask me because I don't know wtf happened this week

You know most weeks I do everything right. I eat all the right things and don't eat any of the wrong things, I drink 2 litres of water a day, and I exercise 30 minutes a day. Most of the time I follow the diet to the letter and yet I still have weeks when I only lose 300-500gms.

This week being unwell with tonsillitis I did all the wrong things. I didn't eat enough and I didn't snack when I should, I ate potatoes and chips, I've barely had any water and I have not exercised one day all week, and yet this week I have lost 900gms.

How did that happen? That is not how diets are supposed to work, it doesn't make sense.

Height: 160cms/5ft3in
Start Date: 28th Dec 2008
Start Weight: 81.4 kgs
Current Weight: 64kgs
Lost this week: 900gms
Total Loss: 17.4kgs
Start BMI: 31.8
Current BMI: 25
Goal BMI: 23.4
Goal Weight: 60 kgs
Goal Date: December 2009

Tonsillitis is the new diet

I am having another pissed off with-the-medical-profession week.

You see I am of an age where here in Australia it became the "done thing" to not remove childrens/teenagers tonsils. Despite the fact that I used to get 4-6 bouts of tonsillitis per year, and despite the fact that they would pus, bleed and cause me enormous degrees of pain, it never seemed quite bad enough for Doctors to decide my tonsils needed removal. So, to this day I suffer for it, and I am yet to meet a doctor who will remove them because it is apparently a much riskier procedure on an adult.

So here I am yet again suffering with tonsillitis. I feel like I've been eating red hot razor blades, my throat burns and aches with the kind of pain that only those who suffer repeatedly from tonsillitis can understand. I went to the Doctor yesterday and got a penicillan injection in the butt, I prefer this to oral antibiotics because it works alot quicker. With oral meds the sore throat can persist for 4-7 days, this way I have a very sore left butt cheek for a couple of days but at least the agonising sore throat shouldn't last more than another day or so.

The big downside of all this is that my appetite is totally non-existent, and if you know anything about dieting you'll know that despite what some people might think, not-eating is actually not an effective dieting tool, it is in fact quite a bad thing, you know, starvation mode, fat hoarding and all that. So I'm not overjoyed to be having zero interest in food. And it's not just my appetite, I don't want to swallow anything (be nice people) so I am chronically dehydrated, something else that isn't good in diet world. I know when you are sick fluids are majorly important but it is so hard to drink anything. As for food, of the little I have eaten in the last few days I've mainly gravitated to nice soft, mushy non diet approved things like mashed potato, ice-cream and my hubby's yummy meatloaf. Bad, bad, bad.

So I'm telling you all this just so you know not to expect anything too special for weigh in on Monday!

The time has come the Walrus said

Well I have finally gone under the 65kg mark so I've officially made the change, I have now reset my goal as 55kgs. It was nice when it was at 60kgs, seeing that I only had 5kgs to go and now it is back up to 9.9kgs but that isn't too bad, after how far I have come 9.9kgs to go isn't too overwhelming and I am confident of getting there.

I've been lazy this week and haven't done alot of exercise, I've also had potaotoes a couple of times since last Monday. I can pass up the pasta, the bread and the rice but potatoes are my real weakness, particularly like I mentioned in my last post, during this cold weather. I'm still following the rest of the diet well, eating the right things at the right times and not eating any other things I shouldn't be, it's just been those couple of times at night with the main meal.

Despite my slip ups it's been a good week, quite a bit better than the last couple. I've worn those super tight jeans out a few times in the last week, it takes a bit of an effort to zip them up, lol, but they are comfy enough and I really like how they look. As for the other pairs which were a good fit a month ago when I bought them, well they are actually a little bit loose now and I don't like that, I think it makes me look like a real slob, I look fatter than I am and that is the last thing I want. I've always tended to wear loose fit jeans but it seems, on me at least, that they do look better tight.

Bring on the size 10's!
(that's a size 6 for my US readers)

Height: 160cms/5ft3in
Start Date: 28th Dec 2008
Start Weight: 81.4 kgs
Current Weight: 64.9kgs
Lost this week: 800gms
Total Loss: 16.5kgs
Start BMI: 31.8
Current BMI: 25.3
Goal BMI: 23.4
Goal Weight: 60 kgs
Goal Date: December 2009

Sometimes it's leaps and bounds, sometimes it's baby steps

Weigh in this week was on the lower end of the scale. Disappointing but not unexpected since I have had very little energy or time for exercise the last couple of weeks and I have eaten a few things that are not diet approved such as potatoes. This cold weather really brings out the cravings for comfort food and sometimes meat and salad really just doesn't cut it.

Really I only have myself to blame. But while I am a tiny bit disappointed I can't say I am devastated. I'm just shy of 65kgs now and whilst I'd love to be alot thinner and that is still my ultimate goal, I am fairly satisfied with how I look at the moment. The saddlebags, my child bearing hips and muffin top are certainly a bug-bear but I'm not crying myself to sleep over it.

In fact, I actually think I'd be happy enough to stay this way, however like I mentioned in a previous post I am only just within the healthy weight range and it would be far too easy to slip out of it so I must forge on!

Height: 160cms/5ft3in
Start Date: 28th Dec 2008
Start Weight: 81.4 kgs
Current Weight: 65.7kgs
Lost this week: 300gms
Total Loss: 15.7kgs
Start BMI: 31.8
Current BMI: 25.7
Goal BMI: 23.4
Goal Weight: 60 kgs
Goal Date: December 2009