Run Foxy Run!

I just bought a size 10 dress from Primark!  

*does booty shaking dance*

Hope everyone else is well and happy.  xx

I'm rockin' right now.  

What I would like to know is how has anyone worked out their final goal weight?  My WW leader when I joined put it a good half a stone higher than what I wanted.  I'm now approaching the weight she wrote down but I still want to get to the magic 10stn.  I'm afraid if I become a gold member (am I the only one who sniggers at that term?!) I won't bother trying any more.

Ideas?

I know I have a tendency to write posts as and when I come across a new diet fad but I promise this is going to be my last one.  I joined Weightwatchers 3 weeks ago and yesterday I was given my first 7 sticker showing I've lost half a stone!  I'm doing the same prog that declasm did (The No-count one) and I'm getting on OK.  

The boyfriend is still a bit of a liability - likes the idea of me getting thinner/happier doesn't really accept that this will involve some change in my eating (esp drinking) habits.  But other than that he's been quite supportive.

So there we go, that is my update.  Hoping that this will be it for the different diets thing, which, let's face it, was never going to be healthy.

Thank you anxita for reminding me to update on get foxy!

Right so, in the middle of july last year I started on the weightwatchers 'no count' diet. It is quite unlike the old weightwatchers every-food-has-point-value diet which never appealed to me at all. In 'no count' there is a list of foods you can have and a list of foods you can't. The foods you can have are low in refined carbs, sugars and saturated fats so basically it's a diet with lots of vegetables.

I started in july at 16st 9lbs - it wasn't the heaviest i'd been but it was still too much and it made me unhappy being that heavy. I was set a reasonable target weight of 14st 7lbs (I'm 6ft 1 and reasonably broad) by the weightwatchers organiser but once I hit that I was keen to go back the weight I was most happy at as a teen. By December I got down to 12st 9lbs, I decided to become a fulltime vegetarian (most of my meals had become pretty veg-heavy) and I have been that weight ever since.

It wasn't easy sticking to the diet, in fact I fully changed my lifestyle and way of thinking. I started to think that not having the king-size snickers was actually a treat rather than the other way around as it meant that come the wednesday weigh-in I would lose my 2-3lbs and improve my health and mood in the process. I managed to lose on average 2-3lbs a week over the 6 months - so it was quite sustainable. Before starting the diet, I never used to think about the foods I ate and would eat pretty much anything and everything until I was more than full - Importantly I didn't used to think about where my calories where coming from and thought that was unimportant. Probably the most important thing I learnt from the diet was to reduce the refined carbs and sugar and get my calories from foods which would release their calories slower therefore keeping my blood sugar constant and stopping me from getting hungry all the time. I was in fact very disciplined - I swapped all my calorific snacks for fruit and veg and ate my three sensible no-count-list-based meals a day. At the start of the diet work became pretty tough as my brain wasn't used to the reduced coca-cola and kit-kat intake and I found concentrating difficult without all the sugar - after a while I learnt that eating fruit at strategic times in the day would stop this from happening and forunately my work has a large supply of free fruit available throughout the day.

Once I had reached what I considered to be my target weight - the current 12st 9lbs - it actually became quite hard to let myself start having the occassional treat or snack again even and christmas, but now I do have the odd dessert and we do go out for lunches but I don't think i'm ever going to go back to my 'heavier = better' way of thinking about food and this is what I think is going to allow me to sustain this weight.

I am much happier now and I feel much more like myself - I feel that when I was carrying around the excess weight I wasn't quite fulfilling my potential, now I am more confident physically and I don't feel like I fill the room i'm in.

( obligatory before and after picsCollapse )

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hi everyone.

very soon i am going to get fit again because being a slob makes me feel yukky. i am still aching just from doing sit-ups. when i get a job (very soon i hope!) i am going to join an adults gymnastic class and start going to it every week. i haven't been able to do evening activities since leaving school (i'm 21 now) because i have always worked shifts and never normally finished work until 8pm. i also hope to get a job with normal hours so i can go to the gym in the evenings and meet with people my age, rather than go to the gym in the mornings with the senior members and have tea and biscuits.

i am going to try and find a gym in this area that doesn't require membership for you to use the facilities, because i find doing it this way i end up going 5 x per week for 3 months and then i give up altogether. i'd like it to be a little more balanced. i would like a personal trainer or a gym buddy or something as i'm not very good at motivating myself to work harder. ie. i stop when it hurts - what's the point?

i've been eating very healthily recently because we have no money, so i feel good about that and less bloaty than i normally do. i want to tone up though because although i don't feel fat, when i see myself in photos i just look a bit...limp?

anyway that's my rambling over. i'll let you know if anything comes of all this, or whether it's just 'all talk no action' - in which case i probably won't post again.

Hello I'm newwww *waves* 
It' got to that time again... Summer is nearly here which means semi-nakedness in public* Eeee! Every year I set myself targets for being vaguely fit and presentable but I really struggle to get motivated, does anyone have any good motivational kicks-up-the-butt? I wanna get foxy babeh! Anyone else get the pre-summer intention of getting foxier? Ok I shall go and draw myself up some sort of excercise/diet plan now, something quick in time for my holiday next month :)

 *This is a good thing, I am all for people being naked and it should be encouraged. 


I looked back at some past entries and from the pictures I have seen you are all beyooootiful :)

An update so far:

I noticed that I was only just aching the next day, so after two weeks (not wanting to up things too quickly) I have increased to doing one whole lot of each exercise, then waiting ten minutes or so, and doing a second complete batch, with slightly fewer reps on each. This seems to work, I feel it more the next day.

I have definitely improved in all the areas I'd expect, though not by so much in my arms - while I'm lifting as heavy weights as I can for the number of reps, it doesn't ache the next day and progress is slow. Perhaps a lower weight for more reps? This is in effect what I am doing for the other exercises.

I've been keeping a spreadsheet of what I've been doing. Possibly slightly geeky ;) It's very useful though - for keeping track of progress, but also it motivates me to keep going. It's not that I'm facing such a difficult task, I just lose track or forget. This way I know how many days it's been.

I haven't stuck to every other day very well, but I'm better than every four, and one week I was so coursework busy I did nothing, so, pretty good.

Spreadsheet geekery informs me that I've achieved a metric ton of bicep curls, with each arm :)

(My weight, however, remains steady. Will I ever top 10 stone? I will keep you informed.)

How is the boyfriend who was so against me going on a diet is now all "wow, you've lost loads of weight, you're looking really hot" ?

And at the same time is practically force-feeding me foods I'm not eating, like cheesecake. Or worse, making really obvious comments about it when I take a little of something I'm offered out of politeness, with the intention of only having a bite and leaving the rest.

Gah!

...who now weighs in at 13 stone 121bs. this is the lightest he has weighed in 8 YEARS, since he was 15. he only has another 3lbs to go to have lost 3 stone from the weightwatchers 'diet'. i think he's done absolutely amazing and he's definitely put all the regular ladies at WW to shame. you rock darling!

yesterday he had a form given to him to fill out entitled 'my success story', so who knows, maybe you'll see him on the cover of a magazine one day :p

3 cheers for declasm:

hip hip hooray
hip hip hooray
hip hip (it's nice being able to see them) HOORAY

and a big mwah to you, from sarah & zephyr who love you x a billion