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By Groovybabe • Aug 31st, 2007 • Category: being motivated, diet management, exercise, gym, inch loss, life, self esteem, weighing in, weightlossSo, three months in and this week sees a massive weightloss of 5.75 pounds! I am not even sure how I managed it given that this is the week I have found hardest to control food wise, so it must be all the extra exercise I am getting! Click here to see my stats.
Yesterday morning I was in an awful mood about my weightloss. Do you ever get those days where you look in the mirror and despite huge successes all you see is fat fat fat? That was me. I was looking in the mirror and all I could see was really chunky legs and a massive midriff…. so when I went to meet my instructor I was not in the best of moods so just more quiet than normal. She went through my measurements and I have lost a further 8 inches, so with the 11 inches from before that is 19 inches in total. I have also lost 17lbs since my last review six weeks ago. No mean feat, in fact she told me she has been there a year and has never seen anyone with such good consistent losses as me, that she is really amazed by my efforts and kept saying she doesn’t need to motivate me as I am already as motivated as I need to be. I was just like blah blah nothing I don’t know…in my head….while putting on a smile.
She did me a new programme where she has really upped the anti! She now wants me to do 10 mins on the bike warm up and cool down plus 25 minutes on the treadmill and another 25 minutes on the cross trainer! On the weights we have agreed to give my biceps a rest and concentrate on my triceps, to try and get them more toned. I’ll continue with the leg press but am now doing sit up’s on the floor rather than with the abs crunch machine. It all sounds good, if a little hardcore. Talking of hardcore, we incorporating jogging into my treadmill workout. The instructor said to start with 2 minutes and build up to 5 minutes over the coming weeks but once she disappeared I found myself doing 2 minutes every 3 or 4 minutes, so yesterday during a 20 minute treadmill walk, I jogged at 7.0 for about 6 minutes! I’m not sure how good that is but I certainly enjoyed it - it broke up the monotony on the treadmill.
After that I had to rush across the city to the doctor’s surgery for my monthly check up with the weightloss nurse, although I haven’t been for about 7 weeks. I was a bit worried she’d tell me off for losing too fast, like she did last time (well more a warning than a telling off), but she didn’t at all, she was just really impressed and supportive. She was going to give me a kiddies sticker, lol, but I said I’d cope without one! She said it was really noticable on my face; that I’d lost the chubbiness in my cheeks and my face was more straight and pointy towards my chin. She also said she could see it in my body as I was sitting much more confidently and no longer huddling to hide my body.
You know, when you’re fat (skinny) people say that losing weight wont solve your problems or make your life any better but if you ask me that is a really ignorant opinion. Sure if you’re introverted you will always have that within your personality; if you’ve got debts they’ll still be there and if you have no friends they won’t magically appear with weightloss. But losing weight helps you to gain in confidence which means you are less likely to be self conscious and therefore less likely to be introverted, which means you’ll more likely make friends more easily. You’re also more active and up for doing things with friends. Plus it is so much easier to find friends willing to hang around when you’re not overweight. Whether that is due to your difference in personality (more introverted when fat) or a degree of how you look I don’t know but it is easier when you are slimmer. Plus your coping mechanisms are so much stronger when you’re slimmer and not constantly worried about what people think, so that with problems such as debts, you’re more likely to be proactive in sorting them out. So I would say losing weight, while not the answer to every problem you have, will go a long way to improving your way of life.
Groovybabe is 14.9 stones today and has lost 2lbs at her last weigh in.
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Thats really impressive! Well done.
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Thanks! 16 and a half stones now, I cannot quite believe it!Only another half a stone until I see a 3 stone loss!
I agree. Weight loss won’t fix all your problems, but the domino effect it has on so many things, namely your mood and confidence is SOOOO worth the effort. Your quality of life just shoots up, you’re happier, healthier, you can do more things. That’s why I’ve always thought it was such a crime to “normalize” obesity.
Anyhow, congrats on your continued losses Groovybabe. I always knew you could do it.
Thanks Dana, your support has been a real backbone at my low times, I can’t emphasise enough.
I think normalising obesity is not only a crime but extremely dangerous. Aside from the mental health issues discussed in this post, physical health is at such risk when obese. To normalise it is to give obese people a green card to slowly kill themselves and that is never right. I do think however that there needs to be more understanding of how obesity comes about (its more than just eating too much) but it should not be acceptable as a norm.
Your support is so great though but now I am starting to feel more normal and confident and every pound lost ismore than worth it. I’m only about 7lbs away from my weight not being an issue for aussie immigration
Not that I am in a position to submit an application just yet but it all certainly helps.
Wow, really great results! Sounds like you have a great trainer and the right attitude to take advantage of it. I like how you are continually moving the bar up - I think that is key.
Thanks John. Yeah shes really cool, very enthusiastic about life in general I think and is so supportive of my losing weight. Yeah you have to jig up the activity now and again, it shocks your body into losing. Plus I think this week I have seen such fab results due to moving and all the activity that comes with that.
you are doing sooo well!
i just consumed an embarrassing amount of chocolate chip cookies. i seem not to have that firm of a grip on control right now. with this being a holiday weekend for us stateside. i will just turn a fresh page on Tuesday.
Every week I’m amazed at how well you are doing. I KNOW that you’re losing weight at an amazing rate, I know you’re being SO GOOD and that’s why you’re losing…but every week I see your losses and say “wow!” I actually said it aloud this time. 5.75 in one week! Whoa nelly! That’s a huge loss, especially this far in! Imagine if you gave up back when you had gained and were so sad about it? Or that first binge? Imagine what you’ll be like in 3 months. another 2 1/2 stone down? That’ll be a 70 pound loss! You’ll be at goal by your birthday. did you realize that??
35 pounds so far!! My goodness. That IS something to talk about. You’re worked so hard (and made it look so easy!) and it shows!! 2 more pounds and you’re in the 220’s!
Okay…before I wear down my ! button…
Lady T
Good luck in your fresh start on Tuesday. I know I had many (MANY) fresh starts before it worked for me, so keep trying and you will get there.
Betz
The thing is, once you get into the habit of watching what you eat and exercise, losing weight does get easy. I’d say the first 20lbs are the hardest, which is funny because I always said I could lose the first stone easily and it got harder after that. Simply not true! It’s all in my mindset. I don’t let any negative thoughts enter my head in terms of binge eating. I think the difference is that before when I’d give up after losing a stone I would completely lose sight of my goal but now having lost 35lbs even I cannot deny the changes happening in my body. For example, I’ve always wanted a jawline, I admire a strong jawline and I am now starting to see my double chin disappear. I don’t quite have a jawline to be proud of yet but it is well on it’s way. Looking back I disgust myself with my old attitude to food and binging and every time I consider overeating I just tell myself it is not an option any more, I am not that person any more and I do not have that body any more!
5.75 pounds in one week so far down the track is a BIG loss, even I will admit that. I am pretty sure it is down to the activity increase though. The first few days I was lugging boxes, then was up at 7am sorting the flat out. Walking to the gym and back one day (90minute round trip) other days walking to the shops and back, which I timed at 45minutes round trip yesterday, taking Jordan for walks along the water…plus my workouts and I incorporated interval training the day before my weigh in. This is in comparison to walking 2 minutes to the bus stop 3x a week to go to the gym and otherwise staying in my room! I’m eating a bit more than I was before, probably 1500 calories on average and maybe thats helping too as I know 1100-1400 is far too low for my body…
I was thinking about having this amount of loss again in another 3 months and it will be amazing. I remember thinking when I started out that it would be AMAZING to be 16 and a half stones again. And now I am there! Now I am thinking how brilliant it will be to be 14 and a half stones, which is my next minigoal. All my clothes are quite loose on me now, which is making me look bigger than I am so I really need to start purchasing a new wardrobe but I am trying to hold off as I am going to continue to get smaller.
The good thing is, since I started this 3 months ago there has not been one time where I have seriously contemplated giving up. That is what tells me I will go the whole way. I am so looking forward to meeting you on Bondi next year (if I can get the money). I have to find myself a fit aussie.
You’re truly an inspiration.