Tuesday, June 20th 2000
Tuesday, June 20th 2000
Well well well, look at this,
I am dancing again. Tonight my weight loss registered at 1.9 kilos.
That makes a total of 6.1 kilos I have lost in 4 weeks. I am pleased
that I saw a loss tonight.
I have had a great week,
I exercised 4 times! I have started going for a walk during my lunch
break. I get an hour for lunch, and I generally eat my lunch at my
desk around 12 or 1, then head out for a walk around 2 or 3 in the afternoon.
I leave my purse behind, and out I go. With no money, I can't be
tempted to buy anything. I head off in a different direction each
day, and have discovered some great little shops in the city that I never
knew existed. One day I will actually walk into some of them instead
of glancing in the window as I pass by. The clothes shops especially
grab my interest, I hope to be able to walk into them some time in the
future and pick a smaller size off the racks!
Friday is the 23rd, that is one month since I joined, so it will be time to update my measurements. I am interested to find out just how many centimetres I have lost. My clothes don't really feel any different on me just yet. A lot of the clothes I wore were big and baggy anyway, so I guess I wouldn't notice.
I shall update again on the weekend!
Sunday, June 25th 2000
Well not a bad week. I have been out for a walk every lunchtime. I am impressed with myself. I have updated my measurements, not sure really what I expected to see, but basically I have lost a total of 12 centimetres. That is probably about 1/2 a dress size. I am not noticing anything in my clothes as I have already said, but a couple of people have commented that I am looking better. I personally don't think it will be at all noticable after only 6 kilos when you look at how much I have to lose, I wonder if perhaps they are only saying it to keep me motivated. Not that I need it, I am feeling better in myself, and have enough motivation to keep me going for the moment. (Please don't let me lose it)
Yesterday was my future mother-in-laws 50th Birthday.
About 10 of us turned up on her doorstep at 8am singing happy birthday
and laden with McDonalds. I was such a good girl, I just had a coffee,
and then grabbed myself a banana smoothie when we went shopping later.
I am sure I earned about 50 bonus points with
all the walking we did yesterday trying to find her present!
Last night we went out for dinner at a lovely
restaurant. I had saved up points during the week, and had earned
a heap of bonus points for all my walking during the week, so I had a piece
of birthday cake. I am sure I had enough points to cover what I ate
at dinner last night, but I am not happy that I ate it. Perhaps my
stomach is shrinking, I don't know, but I did eat soup for entree, a rack
of lamb for main and cake for dessert, and I was soooooo stuffed I felt
like I couldn't breathe. I am sorry I had the bowl of soup, and that
sort of impressed me. A month ago, I would have eaten all of that
and probably come home and raided the fridge for more food.
I am a little eager for Tuesday nights weigh in to arrive. I want to see how that piece of cake affected me, and if saving points and having a splurge one night can still result in a weight loss. This is the first time on the program that I have used my saved points. (Most weeks I have been saving them but never using them - that may explain why I have had reasonable losses the weeks I have lost weight.)
I got up at 8 this morning and went for a one hour walk. I feel great now. Again, get me to do this a month ago, and I would have had some choice words to say to you! I have some housework to do today as well, so that will burn some more calories!
Well, check back Tuesday and I will give you the
verdict on the birthday cake! Wish me well everyone. I am off
to surf the web for a while... I need some more jumbo graphics, if you
find any, please send them my way. I would appreciate it.