Piglet to Gazelle - My weight loss journey

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Friday food & exercise

Very tired/hungover and food choices not so good.

B: Sausages in a roll with a coffee
L: McDonalds - Quarterpounder with cheese and meduim chips plus an oasis
HM Chilli wrap with sour cream and cheese
S: None
E: Not recorded
Cals: 2001
Carbs:179g

Although the McDonalds was not a good choice, somethings I did learn.
- My tastebuds have changed to the point this food tasted like cardboard and no longer holds appeal
- I only got a standard meal no extras (unlike before when I would have added extra burgers on the side of a large meal) even when people started offering their extras around I wasn't tempted.

I see this in itself as progress

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Saturday food & exercise

B: multigrain seeded toast with marmite and a coffee
L: None was out running errands. Had a quick snack of a clementine before leaving the house.
8oz rump steak cooked in butter & olive oil, with 1/2 stir fried vegetables pack
S: coffee & 25g cashews, 1 square (10g) 72% dark chocolate
E: Not recorded
Cals: 1570
Carbs: 42g

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Sunday food & exercise

B: 2 scrambled eggs with 1 kipper fillet & a coffee
L: small salmon fillet with other half pack of stir fried veg
HM beef stew with sweet pot mash, savoy cabbage, brussels sprouts & roasted parsnips
S: clementine, 25g cashews
E: 60 mins housework, 6 mins weights 4kg
Cals:1661
Carbs:66g

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Weigh in today

I have lost another 0.8lbs which I think is a first that I have lost in consecutive weeks. weight now stands at 11st 3.2lbs

Measurements last weigh in
Bust - 40
Chest - 34.5
Waist - 37
Hips - 40
Thighs - L23.5/R24
Arms - L12/R12

Measurements now
Bust - 40
Chest - 34
Waist - 36.5
Hips - 40
Thighs - L23.5/R23.5
Arms - L12/R12

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Changes that I am going to focus on this week.

- keeping carbs at 100g or below.
- more forward planning when it come to meals until it becomes second nature
- increase weights - I have started to use my 2kg weights together to make 4kg until I can order some new ones. Going to go for 5kg :eep: dumbells and over Christmas order a 8kg kettlebell (Have my eye on a cast iron one will definitely last longer)
- keep cals between 1600 and 1800

I have no social outings now until Christmas day so here's hoping next week I can lose a full pound.

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Monday food & exercise

B: 2 scrambled eggs with coffee
L: HM beef stew (beef shin, tin toms, mushrooms, onions, oxo, mixed herbs & bay leaf), sweet pot mash, cabbage & roast parships
2 chicken drumsticks with creamy spinach
S: Clementine, 25g cashews & coffee
E: Walked 6728 (3 miles), 5 mins stairs, 3 mins weights (4kg), 20 mins housework
Cals: 1695
Carbs: 58g

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Tuesday food & exercise

B: Coffee & a banana
L: 2 chicken drumsticks & creamy spinach
last minute change to the menu due to getting home later than expected - 2 fried Eggs & HM Chips
S: clementine, 25g cashews, chai latte graze punnet, 10g dark choc, coffee
E: Walked 10457 (4.8 miles), 5 mins stairs, 20 mins housework
Cals: 1562
Carbs: 76g

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Wednesday food & exercise

B: Natural yoghurt with berry compote and a coffee
L: Beef Stew & small chunk of tiger bread
Roast beef, sweet pot mash & cabbage
S: Clementine, 25g cashews, coffee, 25g raisins
E: Walked 10470 (4.8 miles), 5 mins stairs, 20 mins housework
Cals: 1606
Carbs: 93g

Bluebell68

good luck
You will get to the Target you want:j

im sure you will
take care
Bluebell68

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Bluebell68 wrote: »

good luck
You will get to the Target you want:j

im sure you will
take care
Bluebell68

Thanks Bluebell68 for your confidence and kind words.
My target is 8st 7lbs as according to my GP is bang in the middle of my prefered weight range for my height (I'm 5ft exactly). Before my thyroid died I was around a stone lighter than that, but then I was 18.
I am taking it slow as in the end I am trying to completely overhaul a lifetime of bad eating habits and an unhealthy attitude to food.

I actually for the first time opened up about my attitude to food to my mum and it really felt like a weight had been lifted. Sorry about the bad pun.