Day´s Bonuspoints used/saved: 17,0/4,0
Day´s excercise - cycling : 60 minutes Activity points: 4,0
(REQUIRED 6) water/tea: 6
(REQUIRED 3) vegetables:3
(REQUIRED 2) fruit: 2
(REQUIRED 2) fat: 0
(REQUIRED 2) calcium: 2
Too little fat used, too little points used!
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Curious about me week results?
This week I LOST 4.9 lbs/2.2 kg! I am very proud of myself and I think I can safely say I have broken the upward trend. The last four weeks I have lost 10.4 lbs/4.8 kg. as follows:
67. 4.9 lbs/2.2 kg loss
66. 2.6 lbs/1.2 kg loss
65. 0.9 lbs/0.4 kg GAIN
64. 3.9 lbs/1.8 kg loss
This morning I got into a very interesting discussion with the girl at check 0ut counter at the EKO Plaza ( I get my biological breakfast there). She was curious about my fitness programme - I get 5% discount when I show my membership card-, and I explained to her that I go 4 times a week. She was impressed, which always makes me feel so.......proud. She explained how she has always been underweight, and struggled with it too.
We discussed, it was early and no one in the shop, what we felt was behind it. She talked about periods of starvation because she needed security, protection. We did not discuss how starving herself would get her that. But it struck me that being underweight is just as big a problem as being overweight. Perhaps even worse. Because people only start to comment when it gets to anorexic proportions. Antything above that is "nice and slender" or even petite. And on top of that it is easier to hide in baggy clothes.
And how do you add the pounds? Start drinking cream, gobbling down donuts and bags and bags of fried foods? I don't think so! In fact I think it is just as hard even. These people are so geared to eating less, too little, that eating more, more fat, mure sugar is naturally repulsive to them. Anyways, it was an interesting conversation, and I must say a very nice woman to talk to.
It did make me think about my own need to eat. Do I actually binge, and if I do so, do I emotively eat? Well, I seldom binge; though I still catch my self at emotional eating. And sometimes because I have just eaten a whole bar of chocolate to console myself, reward myself, give me confidence, I think what the heck I might as well have another, or have fried food in the evening. One "slip up"is like a carte blanche for a whole day of slip ups. I don't think that constitutes as a true binge, does it?
BUT, I was and am an emotional eater. I eat when I am happy (PARTY!), when I am sad (WOE IS ME!), lonely (NOBODY LOVES ME!), angry (WHAT THE F&%*$K!), victory (REWARD TIME!). Actually any emotion will do. In the past 15 months I have at least started to recognise the emotions and my reactions to them. I have even atrtempted and succeeded in harnassing them at times.
My pandora bracelet, to the loyal readers a recurring important feature, is my rewards system.
Quote from my blogpost on 26 june 2007
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Weight Loss Resolutions
1. every 3,5 kilo; a silver charm
2. every 8 kilo; a gold and silver charm
3. every hour on my hometrainer; a spacer, hour can build up in several days, a day of rest, I start from scratch
4. at 40 kilo; a new bracelet or necklace
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I have by now added a 2nd bracelet, and have 22 charms (and 10 more for birthdays and the like occasions) and 17 spacers. At the moment I am on hold with the charms as I gained weight in the past months. When I reach 288.4 lbs/130.8 kg, I am back on schedule. THEN I will award myself one golden charm, as it will have been ONE hard struggle, as in 22.5 lbs/10.8 kg to go!
I just realised, it means that the past 6 or 7 odd months have been a 35 lbs/16.5 kg struggle. A shame to see how much weight I gained during that time. And I was still really trying! I never really quit going to the meetings, though I did sneak off once or twice.
Short time goal set
Target: 299.8/136 kg
When: friday 12 september 2008 (wednesday 10 september 2008)
Why 1: 500 days of WW
Why 2: 3rd 10% target made
How: 11 lbs/5 kg -> 2.8 lbs/1.3 kg a week
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Breakfast
5,0 points
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3,0 - curd low fat (organic)
2,0 - honey
0,0 - blue berries (organic)
Lunch
3,0 points
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0,0 - tomatoes (organic)
3,0 - cracker with tomato cheese cream
3,0 - Panini - organic brown bread
2,0 - Cheese spread with hot peppers
Diner
6,0 points
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2,0 - basmati rice
3,0 - fish from the gril
0,0 - Peppers
1,0 - sweet sour sauce
Various
3,0 points
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3,0 - baconcrackers
1 comment:
You are doing great!
I have to start again after the holidays and am not looking forward to the message my scales will send tomorrow. And of course excercise has been neglegted all through the summerholidays too. My basketball season will start soon, so I'll be forced to do more excercize which is a good thing. But kudo't to you for keeping up with the fitness, that is really great and excercize really makes a lot of difference.
When I was young I problably had a thyroid that worked slightly faster than normal because I had a really speedy metabolism. I am 1.78 and wore a size 36 which made me a real 'bones wharehouse' as the Dutch expression is ;). However I always ate like a horse. I lunched with 10 slices of bread, people always were amazed at the amounts of food I ate. A few years ago, after three pregnancies, my thyroid decided to opt for early retirement. It was (and still is) soooo hard for me to get used to normal portions.
I have learned that I'm rather 5 kilo overweight than 5 kilo too light. If only I could get to the 'only 5 kilo' state... ;)
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