A little intro about me...
Hi guys!
Ok, so I'm new to this forum so I"m going to do a quick copy paste from my intro thread into here so you all know vaguely who I am etc....
I'm Lizzie, I'm 20 in April and I've decided I want to reach my 20s slimmer and stay that way!
I'm currently 10 stone 10, pretty much the heaviest I've been, and at only 5 foot 3, that makes me quite rounded! My BMI is now officially in the overweight category, and it's scared me!
I managed to slim down to about 9 and a half stone before I came to university, but still wasn't happy about my weight and was going to try and lose it - but somehow (or should I say, through too many tubs of ben and jerrys, takeaways and portions of chips), I put all the weight back on.
I carry most of the weight arround my stomach - and I have extremely weak stomach and core strength muscles due to a back injury years ago (it's all better now, but a year of a pulled out back ruined the muscles!) So basically, by the end of this, I want to get rid of the pot belly (urgh) and get as flat a stomach as possible, then tone up those muscles.
I'm currently a UK size 14 (US size 12, European size 42).
My aim is to reach about 8 stone 7, and approx a UK size 10 (US 8, Europe 38)
My diet plan
So, now I've whittered on enough about me and my aims, I'll tell you how I'm planning on getting there (decided today after eating a cheesy chicken baguette. Oops...)
My basic diet plan will consist of variations on the following:
Breakfast: Glass of fruit smoothie
Lunch: Salad + some form of protein (a few kidney beans, or if I'm getting it from the local sandwich bar, turkey)
Dinner: Something low cal - e.g. jacket potato with tesco light cottage cheese, or vegetable ratatouille...
As for snacks - I'm going to try not to snack, but if I do...hmm, I guess fruit.
I might try using hoodia to help supress my apetite a bit.
Oh, and my daily treat is a skinny vanilla latte from Starbucks...only 98 calories, hoorah!
Finally - as a little bit of extra motivation for me (and because my "Doing it for myself" theory didn't work!) - I've decided to give £1 to a charity that's very very close to my heart for every lb I lose! So maybe now I'm doing it for charity, I'll have a bit more of a kick...
Food diary for today!
Today's food has been pretty dire really. I had a cheesy chicken baguette for lunch and dinner's going to be chicken again (found out from my parents that we're going to Nando's AFTER eating the chicken baguette) - so maybe I'll get the pitta bread with ratatouille as a side dish. No chips though, I definitley won't nee any more carbs!!
I'll post again tomorrow with my progress....
Lizzi xxx
Hi guys!
Ok, so I'm new to this forum so I"m going to do a quick copy paste from my intro thread into here so you all know vaguely who I am etc....
I'm Lizzie, I'm 20 in April and I've decided I want to reach my 20s slimmer and stay that way!
I'm currently 10 stone 10, pretty much the heaviest I've been, and at only 5 foot 3, that makes me quite rounded! My BMI is now officially in the overweight category, and it's scared me!
I managed to slim down to about 9 and a half stone before I came to university, but still wasn't happy about my weight and was going to try and lose it - but somehow (or should I say, through too many tubs of ben and jerrys, takeaways and portions of chips), I put all the weight back on.
I carry most of the weight arround my stomach - and I have extremely weak stomach and core strength muscles due to a back injury years ago (it's all better now, but a year of a pulled out back ruined the muscles!) So basically, by the end of this, I want to get rid of the pot belly (urgh) and get as flat a stomach as possible, then tone up those muscles.
I'm currently a UK size 14 (US size 12, European size 42).
My aim is to reach about 8 stone 7, and approx a UK size 10 (US 8, Europe 38)
My diet plan
So, now I've whittered on enough about me and my aims, I'll tell you how I'm planning on getting there (decided today after eating a cheesy chicken baguette. Oops...)
My basic diet plan will consist of variations on the following:
Breakfast: Glass of fruit smoothie
Lunch: Salad + some form of protein (a few kidney beans, or if I'm getting it from the local sandwich bar, turkey)
Dinner: Something low cal - e.g. jacket potato with tesco light cottage cheese, or vegetable ratatouille...
As for snacks - I'm going to try not to snack, but if I do...hmm, I guess fruit.
I might try using hoodia to help supress my apetite a bit.
Oh, and my daily treat is a skinny vanilla latte from Starbucks...only 98 calories, hoorah!
Finally - as a little bit of extra motivation for me (and because my "Doing it for myself" theory didn't work!) - I've decided to give £1 to a charity that's very very close to my heart for every lb I lose! So maybe now I'm doing it for charity, I'll have a bit more of a kick...
Food diary for today!
Today's food has been pretty dire really. I had a cheesy chicken baguette for lunch and dinner's going to be chicken again (found out from my parents that we're going to Nando's AFTER eating the chicken baguette) - so maybe I'll get the pitta bread with ratatouille as a side dish. No chips though, I definitley won't nee any more carbs!!
I'll post again tomorrow with my progress....
Lizzi xxx