I know the golden rule of weight loss... don't get fixated on the scales!
My boyfriend and I weigh ourselves every Friday morning. It has become our little routine.
Sometimes I get super worried that I haven't lost enough or any weight during the week so I sneak a moment on the scales.
My boyfriend hates when I do it. But I have to make sure I'm on track, otherwise it helps drive me to work harder. He disagrees and reckons we will just lose it without keeping track.
Today, in the middle of 500 day I weighed myself and got super excited with what I saw. I'm just hoping it doesn't change overnight haha. Although I only have 127 calories left for the day, so there isn't a lot I can gain from that.
I have one more week to reach my goal... my goal was to have lost 10kg by Graduation, which is just over a week away! By today's judgement I only have 800gm left to go. But I cant count anything until tomorrow.
I'm hoping I can do it! I'd be one happy person if I reach my goal next week.
Anyways I'm hungry and headachy...
Until next time,
Katie x
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Monday, 7 March 2016
6 Weeks In
500 day today. My boyfriend and I are on to our 11th 500 day... aka 6 weeks in.
I'm getting used to the hunger pangs now. When we first started I got cramps, a hard/bloated stomach, I ended up super tired all day long and couldn't keep my head up properly at one pint because I was starving.
Now I'm just slightly hungry all day long and am able to handle it now. I have to keep reminding myself that I get to eat normally tomorrow and that I still am eating as opposed to not.
Our diet on 500 day has become a routine. It's taken a few weeks and several 'I'm hungry' tantrums to get ourselves sorted, but what we have now is working.
Both Rick and I have recently completed our Bachelors Degrees at Wintec. Graduation is in two weeks! By which time I want to have lost 10kg. I have 1.5kg to go and am praying that I can do it.
Anyways, we've completed our degrees and are currently waiting for the right job to head our way. We try to keep busy by exercising and renovating our house.
Every 500 day, we try to sleep in as long as possible (no we aren't lazy!) and once we wake up we start our day with either a Berocca Performance drink, green tea or a plain coffee.
We keep ourselves busy from then onwards by going for walks or going shopping or visiting his parents.
Between 2pm and 3pm we have our lunch. Lately I've been having 75gm of Highmark egg noodles (104 calories) and Rick will have several Corn thins crackers (23 calories each). Although I'm already over the noodles and had crackers today as an alternative.
At 6:30pm we cook our dinner. Lately we've been having scrambled Frenz free range mixed grade eggs (60 calories each), Molenburg balance sandwich slice toasted (134 calories for 2 slices), Olivani lite spread (14 calories for 2.5gm) and white button mushrooms (6 calories for 25gm). Its pretty yummy and the protein helps keep our energy levels up.
Around 9pm we try to have a snack. Lately we discovered that Paddle Pops aren't too high so we've been having one of them. It may not be 'healthy'. But somehow Bananas which are healthier are too high in calories. Regardless of the sugar content of Paddle Pops we've still been losing weight each 500 day and its worked for us.
We go to bed around 11:30pm and by the time we've woken up the next day our body has adjusted to not eating all that much and we go back to eating normally, just in smaller portion sizes as our stomachs hurt if we eat too much after 500 day.
So far our 500 day diet has worked for us and we are slowly but surely making progress.
Next 500 day is two days from now.
Until then,
Katie x
I'm getting used to the hunger pangs now. When we first started I got cramps, a hard/bloated stomach, I ended up super tired all day long and couldn't keep my head up properly at one pint because I was starving.
Now I'm just slightly hungry all day long and am able to handle it now. I have to keep reminding myself that I get to eat normally tomorrow and that I still am eating as opposed to not.
Our diet on 500 day has become a routine. It's taken a few weeks and several 'I'm hungry' tantrums to get ourselves sorted, but what we have now is working.
Both Rick and I have recently completed our Bachelors Degrees at Wintec. Graduation is in two weeks! By which time I want to have lost 10kg. I have 1.5kg to go and am praying that I can do it.
Anyways, we've completed our degrees and are currently waiting for the right job to head our way. We try to keep busy by exercising and renovating our house.
Every 500 day, we try to sleep in as long as possible (no we aren't lazy!) and once we wake up we start our day with either a Berocca Performance drink, green tea or a plain coffee.
We keep ourselves busy from then onwards by going for walks or going shopping or visiting his parents.
Between 2pm and 3pm we have our lunch. Lately I've been having 75gm of Highmark egg noodles (104 calories) and Rick will have several Corn thins crackers (23 calories each). Although I'm already over the noodles and had crackers today as an alternative.
At 6:30pm we cook our dinner. Lately we've been having scrambled Frenz free range mixed grade eggs (60 calories each), Molenburg balance sandwich slice toasted (134 calories for 2 slices), Olivani lite spread (14 calories for 2.5gm) and white button mushrooms (6 calories for 25gm). Its pretty yummy and the protein helps keep our energy levels up.
Around 9pm we try to have a snack. Lately we discovered that Paddle Pops aren't too high so we've been having one of them. It may not be 'healthy'. But somehow Bananas which are healthier are too high in calories. Regardless of the sugar content of Paddle Pops we've still been losing weight each 500 day and its worked for us.
We go to bed around 11:30pm and by the time we've woken up the next day our body has adjusted to not eating all that much and we go back to eating normally, just in smaller portion sizes as our stomachs hurt if we eat too much after 500 day.
So far our 500 day diet has worked for us and we are slowly but surely making progress.
Next 500 day is two days from now.
Until then,
Katie x
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Where to start
Hello! My name is Katie. I'm 21 years old and I am from Hamilton, New Zealand.
When I was 15 my Mum was killed in a car accident. I learnt to deal with feelings through stress eating and binge eating which made me gain and lose weight all the time.
Over the past two years I sunk into a deep depression after being bullied by my Wintec classmates who also happened to be my flatmates. I've always been a friendly person and when someone doesn't like me for reasons they can't explain, then it hurts me.
The three girls that I lived with were my friends and then one day it switched. They hated on me, they bitched, my own friend who I had introduced to them decided to be their friend and I felt like I was living in a prison cell living with them. I have no family that I'm close enough with to ask for help and let me spend time away at their house to get me out of the flat and away from them, I only had my boyfriend (who was amazing btw) to lean on, he also lived two houses in front of ours.
I reached breaking point last year in August. I was terrified to be home alone in my own flat in case my flatmates were judging me. My boyfriend had his tonsils removed and went to stay at his parents to recover. I was alone, scared and really unhappy.
As he was recovering, I had barely left my bedroom and had reached the point where I couldn't handle what was happening around me. My rock was too sick himself to support me and so I tried to overdose on sleeping pills in the hope I could escape.
That night my brother (who I hadn't been close to in years) saved me. Had I continued, I wouldn't be writing this blog today.
I was sent to the doctors the next day, who immediately referred me to a therapist and I was placed on anxiety pills... which is where this whole story begins.
Soon after being placed on anxiety pills, I discovered that I was hungry ALL THE TIME. The hormones in my anxiety pills and my birth control pill were colliding with each other which made my hunger sky rocket.
I also discovered that eating made me less anxious and depressed than I had been feeling.
I got to a point where I could eat two pizzas almost by myself and it would make me happy and make me feel full.
Little did I notice the amount of weight I was gaining in the meantime.
When I moved into my boyfriends parents last November I tipped the scales at a whopping 94.6kg!!!
That almost sent me into a new depression seeing those numbers on the scales. Less than 8 months earlier I was 68kg. Still not skinny for my height, but it sounds a lot better than almost 100kg.
There and then I decided I wanted to change. I wanted to be skinny, healthy and happy again. I ditched the anxiety pills just before Christmas and on the 27th (after eating all the yummy xmas food), I began the healthy eating journey.
My boyfriend decided to diet alongside me as motivation for me as well as to help himself.
We started calorie counting using the app MY FITNESS PAL and went from there.
6 weeks ago we began the 5:2 diet after reading an article about a lady down south who lost 29kg on the diet in less than two years. We figured we could try it and see what would happen.
Today on the 3rd of March, 9 weeks into our changes, I am down to 85.9kg. Thats almost 10kg down! I'm feeling happy and as I'm writing this I am starving. But I'm excited for my new results tomorrow.
Ill continue documenting our foods we eat, our exercises and how we handle the 5:2 diet over the next wee while.
Until next time,
Katie x
When I was 15 my Mum was killed in a car accident. I learnt to deal with feelings through stress eating and binge eating which made me gain and lose weight all the time.
Over the past two years I sunk into a deep depression after being bullied by my Wintec classmates who also happened to be my flatmates. I've always been a friendly person and when someone doesn't like me for reasons they can't explain, then it hurts me.
The three girls that I lived with were my friends and then one day it switched. They hated on me, they bitched, my own friend who I had introduced to them decided to be their friend and I felt like I was living in a prison cell living with them. I have no family that I'm close enough with to ask for help and let me spend time away at their house to get me out of the flat and away from them, I only had my boyfriend (who was amazing btw) to lean on, he also lived two houses in front of ours.
I reached breaking point last year in August. I was terrified to be home alone in my own flat in case my flatmates were judging me. My boyfriend had his tonsils removed and went to stay at his parents to recover. I was alone, scared and really unhappy.
As he was recovering, I had barely left my bedroom and had reached the point where I couldn't handle what was happening around me. My rock was too sick himself to support me and so I tried to overdose on sleeping pills in the hope I could escape.
That night my brother (who I hadn't been close to in years) saved me. Had I continued, I wouldn't be writing this blog today.
I was sent to the doctors the next day, who immediately referred me to a therapist and I was placed on anxiety pills... which is where this whole story begins.
Soon after being placed on anxiety pills, I discovered that I was hungry ALL THE TIME. The hormones in my anxiety pills and my birth control pill were colliding with each other which made my hunger sky rocket.
I also discovered that eating made me less anxious and depressed than I had been feeling.
I got to a point where I could eat two pizzas almost by myself and it would make me happy and make me feel full.
Little did I notice the amount of weight I was gaining in the meantime.
When I moved into my boyfriends parents last November I tipped the scales at a whopping 94.6kg!!!
That almost sent me into a new depression seeing those numbers on the scales. Less than 8 months earlier I was 68kg. Still not skinny for my height, but it sounds a lot better than almost 100kg.
There and then I decided I wanted to change. I wanted to be skinny, healthy and happy again. I ditched the anxiety pills just before Christmas and on the 27th (after eating all the yummy xmas food), I began the healthy eating journey.
My boyfriend decided to diet alongside me as motivation for me as well as to help himself.
We started calorie counting using the app MY FITNESS PAL and went from there.
6 weeks ago we began the 5:2 diet after reading an article about a lady down south who lost 29kg on the diet in less than two years. We figured we could try it and see what would happen.
Today on the 3rd of March, 9 weeks into our changes, I am down to 85.9kg. Thats almost 10kg down! I'm feeling happy and as I'm writing this I am starving. But I'm excited for my new results tomorrow.
Ill continue documenting our foods we eat, our exercises and how we handle the 5:2 diet over the next wee while.
Until next time,
Katie x
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