Hi everyone,
I decided to come here and start a diary to hold me accountable in my weight loss journey as I try to make healthy lifestyle changes.
A little bit of history...
Yo-yo dieter for many years, the only time I've ever been able to lose a substantial amount of weight (4 stone) was doing a vlcd. It came back on, plus another 2 stone and I became the typical vlcd horror story. I spent the better part of a year wallowing in self pity and decided at the end of February this year, that enough was enough and joined slimming world.
I stuck to plan religiously, and walked my dog everyday 3-6miles. I found my weight loss very slow, and I logged everything I ate on MFP. I was losing half a pound here and there, gaining a lb here and there. And had a friend who was eating huge portions of food and losing 3lbs a week on average. I decided slimming world wasn't for me and began calorie counting.
By the middle of June I had lost almost 2.5 stone, I went on holiday for 2 weeks, watched what I ate, swam every day (lengths) and came back to see a delightful 1 stone gain on the scales.
I decided to take some advice from a very 'fit' male friend and he advised me to eat more calories. I'd been consuming around 1000-1200 per day, and he told me to eat 1600. Since then, the weight is coming off more steadily.
So here I am. I am currently 20lbs down from my heaviest weight, and hope to keep losing weight steadily over the next 10 weeks before I go to Florida.
I eat 1500-1600 calories per day, separated into 4/5 meals and snacks. I try the best I can to balance my macros at 40:40:20, carbs, proteins, fats and keep sodium low.
I walk my dog every day for an hour.
I do 30 minutes of strength training 3/4 times per week.
I do cardio classes at the gym 3/4 times per week and I swim when I feel like it.
I am going to keep this diary because my husband works away at sea for a month at a time and I find it very hard while he is away to stay on track, we seem to both do better together. I have a shop literally across the road from me, and I've asked them to ban me from buying chocolate, but they just laughed uncomfortably. I suppose they don't want to lose 20% of their revenue.
Please come and say hello, I will be having a neb at other peoples diaries too, it really helped me to stay on track when I was doing the vlcd, so I am hoping it will this time too.
I decided to come here and start a diary to hold me accountable in my weight loss journey as I try to make healthy lifestyle changes.
A little bit of history...
Yo-yo dieter for many years, the only time I've ever been able to lose a substantial amount of weight (4 stone) was doing a vlcd. It came back on, plus another 2 stone and I became the typical vlcd horror story. I spent the better part of a year wallowing in self pity and decided at the end of February this year, that enough was enough and joined slimming world.
I stuck to plan religiously, and walked my dog everyday 3-6miles. I found my weight loss very slow, and I logged everything I ate on MFP. I was losing half a pound here and there, gaining a lb here and there. And had a friend who was eating huge portions of food and losing 3lbs a week on average. I decided slimming world wasn't for me and began calorie counting.
By the middle of June I had lost almost 2.5 stone, I went on holiday for 2 weeks, watched what I ate, swam every day (lengths) and came back to see a delightful 1 stone gain on the scales.
I decided to take some advice from a very 'fit' male friend and he advised me to eat more calories. I'd been consuming around 1000-1200 per day, and he told me to eat 1600. Since then, the weight is coming off more steadily.
So here I am. I am currently 20lbs down from my heaviest weight, and hope to keep losing weight steadily over the next 10 weeks before I go to Florida.
I eat 1500-1600 calories per day, separated into 4/5 meals and snacks. I try the best I can to balance my macros at 40:40:20, carbs, proteins, fats and keep sodium low.
I walk my dog every day for an hour.
I do 30 minutes of strength training 3/4 times per week.
I do cardio classes at the gym 3/4 times per week and I swim when I feel like it.
I am going to keep this diary because my husband works away at sea for a month at a time and I find it very hard while he is away to stay on track, we seem to both do better together. I have a shop literally across the road from me, and I've asked them to ban me from buying chocolate, but they just laughed uncomfortably. I suppose they don't want to lose 20% of their revenue.
Please come and say hello, I will be having a neb at other peoples diaries too, it really helped me to stay on track when I was doing the vlcd, so I am hoping it will this time too.
