Shed some kilograms!

after just a few days of not walking so much my body feels stiff and sore. so i decided to walk a bit more today and so i walked 6942 steps. I'm fine by that because my ankle hurt. and i must admit that i'm pretty freaked out about this.

I've not walked much for 3 days and i am surprised that it has such a huge impact on my body. i mean... it's not like i've done anything else out of the ordinary. so it gotta be the fact that i've not had my long walks for 3 days... right?

it was actually pretty good :) i managed to only have one can of soda the entire weekend :D and my mom didn't complain even once!

my weigh-in last friday was pretty... not good. i used my mom's scale which she herself is pretty sceptical about... and it claimed that i'd gained 1kg! but i'm sure that the scale is just old (my mom got it when i was about... 14 i think? so that's 12 years ago LOL) and confused... like old ppl ;D

i went for a walk on Friday which was really nice but i didn't manage to walk 10000 steps any day of the weekend. i'm ok with it, though. mainly because the temperature was about 30 degrees celcius every day and i can bare cope with temperatures at 20-25 degrees celcius LOL.

i am finally losing weight again (after about 1½ on a plateau...) and just like last time i was losing weight i get pimples... a LOT! my skin is basically back to my teenage years. but instead of "only" having lots of acne in the face i also get some down my neck and on my chest.

i heard that it's because of the hormonal balance (or lack thereof) because estrogen is kind of "stored" in the fat and when you lose the fat you "lose" the estrogen and so the balance between estrogen and testosteron gets a bit messed up. and the testosteron is a big reason why you get pimples. i am not 100% sure if this is true but it DOES kind of make sense... but i could very well be wrong about this... i'm not a doctor ;)

is any of you experincing the same? or is it just me?

i don't think my weight loss is really not going anywhere these days... i am not walking that much these days cos i'm preparing for my birthday party on saturday... but besides that things are like they have been for the past month on my challenge.

i was almost down to 88.5kg but now i am again at 89.1kg. i am not sure why i am not losing weight... and i DO know that it's not a big margin to really judge a weight loss or no weight loss by. but i find it kind of frustrating that i am walking more and eating less calories than i did just 5 weeks ago and i still weigh exactly the same. why is it that i just can't seem to get under 88.7-ish kg?

from yesterday i have begun to eat only one portion of dinner... for a while i had two. but i guess that's too much then? and i try to do it the old fashioned way: 50% of the plate is filled with vegetables, 25% if filled with rice/pasta/potatos and 25% is filled with meat. i hope that something will happen then.

this frustration of mine is not something i'll normally have, i know. but it's there right now and i hope that it'll be gone again soon.

i have gotten past my cravings for candy and chips etc. so in that way i am doing very good still :) i have also created an account at listography.com where i (among other things) have a list of how many steps i've walked each day and i have a list where i'll write my weigh ins from july-december this year.

i just realized that i didn't post my weigh-in from last friday.... i had gained 300g. that's ok. i kind of expected it to be so. i always weigh more the day after a work out (if you can call my huge walk that) and then two days after a work out my weight is back to normal.

i have totally relaxed this weekend. i slept a LOT (i am in the danger zone of messing up my sleeping habits. damn it!) and i have done a lot of house work. :)

tomorrow i'll walk about 10 km (4km to the railway station to help a girl with an exam, then 4km home and then some grocery shopping). i think i'll take 8-10km walks most days next week. i really like to walk but i've decided that for now, i'll not walk more than 8-10km on a day.

on saturday i'll have my birthday party (my birthday is on the 29th but tuesdays usually don't go well with ppl and partying). I'll have a picnic (outside on the grass if the weather allows it.... or else on my living room floor with lots of pillows) and so i have planned to make sandwiches (whole grain sandwich bread, low fat cheese, lots of cucumber and bell pepper in them and other good things), tzatziki and salad. i am not sure if i should make some meat of some kind for the tzatziki or if ppl will be just fine with that and salad and the sandwiches. well... i have 6 days to decide :D

when i started on my weight loss i decided that when i am at parties i'll cut out all alcohol except for beer. and i will also drink beer on saturday. this is a decision i am very happy i have done. my dietician told me that an alcohol-% is almost the same as a fat-% and so, in my case, beer is way healthier than wine, vodka and other liquids with alcohol in. and i've been determined from the beginning of my weight loss that even though i am trying to live a healthy and low-fat and low-carb life i will not be boring at parties and only drink water or soda. i have cut out all shots (well i think i had 3 of them during the past 2 years) and all vodka (which i am very fond of so i'm proud to say that i have not had a drop of that for 2 years) but the beer is something i simply refuse to cut out of my partying.

is there anything that you guys just refuse to cut out of your diets? i am not sure if you can call the occasional beer drinking part of my diet LOL...

i friggin' walked 24423 steps today! in 4 hours and 20 minutes i walked 16.4km!!!!!!

my body hurts now.. but it's not the joints (well my left ankle hurts IN the joint and it feels a bit swollen) but the muscles that hurt. the lower part of my stomach and back feels like a "bowl" of pain that is carrying my upper body. my thighs are sore almost feeling as if i have been kicked on them. LOL. well... my legs are all in all just feeling like they are dying LOL!
the thing is that it doesn't hurt even half as much as it did when i weighed 96kg and i had just walked for 15-20 minutes.

i don't think i'll go for such a long walk again for a while but i am REALLY proud that i managed to do this! just 6 months ago it would have been completely impossible for me to do.

i don't think i can really put words into how proud i am of myself that i did this long walk. i feel so happy! i don't care much if i haven't lost any weight for my weigh-in tomorrow. because it's not the numbers on the scale that matters to me. what matters to me is how well i function and can do the things i want to do.

of course i do hope for a weight loss on the scale tomorrow... but it's really not THAT relevant.

things are still going fine with the challenge of mine. i am walking and i am eating healthy food. i don't eat anything after dinner but i drink liters and liters of tea :D

i am avoiding most advertising for ice cream, chips, candy, soda, juice, ice tea and all the other things i'm trying to not buy. i am avoiding them because i am sometimes feeling a bit weak when walking past these things in the stores... and i really don't want to start craving these things too much. as it is i can still control my cravings... but it's still kind of hard.
i mainly eat when i feel sad or insecure or something near to these things. these days i would just LOVE to eat because i am worried about this stranger who wrote me messages a few days ago... the "you are sooo pretty and you look sooo sweet.. i saw you on the street so i just had to google you to get in contact with you"-kinds of messages. so i am a bit worried about that (well.. a lot to be honest) and because of that i want to have ice cream, chips and candy and i want to flush it down with cold coca cola.
but i will not! instead of staying inside and be scared to go out i am walking.. the past two days i've been walking past the street the stranger lives at. i am determined to not "fall in" because of this creep and i'm determined to not be afraid to walk around outside because of him.

today's walking-goal was again to walk over 10000 steps. and i walked 10911! so:

*yaaaaaaaaaay*

i also made a big bowl of salad this morning so i have salad for the next few days *woohoo!* i think my dinner tonight will be pasta, some fish and heaps of salad :D

in a way i feel like i can't wait for my weigh in on friday.. i can't wait to see if i have lost ½kg again. if i have i'll be so happy :)

my goal for today was to walk at least 10000 steps and i walked 10214 :D (i only count when i am outside and i won't be that the rest of the day).




I feel pretty proud of the fact that i have not bought any chips, candy or soda for 3 weeks now. the urge to buy some is there at times... but it's not so bad. and usually it'll go away after some fruit or something like that. heh.

so today is a good day, challenge- and weight loss wise :)

i would love for this group to be active again.... so... a little update on me and my weight loss... i hope that some of you guys will do the same and get our community here up and running again :)

so... i am doing a challenge again. this time i am not buying chips/candy/soda/stuff like that until september 1st. i started this on May the 24th when i was back to weigh 90.1 kgs :S

so i've been on this challenge for 2½ weeks now and i've lost 1kg this far. i didn't lose anything the week up my period but i'm totally ok with that. :) as long as i didn't gain weight, right?

this week i want to give it an extra big push in the right direction, so i am (this week only!) also doing the lemon-"diet" where you drink the juice from half a lemon each day (mixed with water... i can't drink the lemon joice without lots of water in it LOL). i did this once years ago and it helped quite a bit even though i challenged it by eating more "bad" stuff than i usually did LOL. I'm thinking that now that i'm eating way healthier and i work out more than i did then, it might help me more. but please note that i'll only do this for 1 week... i don't believe this will help on a healthy, long-lasting weight loss. i just really want to kick my weight loss from start again.

besides this i am walking a lot more than i did just 3 months ago. in a regular week i often have at least 2 days with more than 10000 steps. i have a program on my mobile phone, that counts how many steps i walk. :)
this next week, starting tomorrow, i plan to walk 10000 steps each day except wednesday. the walking has really really helped me a lot! My weakest joints (ankles, knees, hips and my back) are soooo much stronger now. i barely ever twist my ankles anymore! and my knees basically never hurt as well. :)
My monthly season ticket for the bus expires on wednesday and i don't plan to get it renewed until the end of august. i think this will be a great motivation for me to keep walking.
my "dream" is to start running a bit this summer when i have walked at least 10000 steps for an entire week without pain. and i want to do barefoot running. i already found the road i want to run on (it's not filled with garbage or things that could hurt my bare feet). i will bring shoes with me, though. hehe. just in case i need it.

i hope that by september 1st i'll have lost at least 5kgs. my goal for this entire year is to lose 10kgs.

would anybody be interested in joining me on this challenge i'm doing? or else perhaps do a walking-challenge with me? :)