Health Link: Looking to gain muscle? Buy Confidence
By Groovybabe • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: being motivated, clubbing, dating, diet management, eating healthily, exercise, health, incentive, life, self esteem, stuggling, weighing in, weightloss rulesI widgetized my sidebar and it messed up the background and looked funny and I couldn’t work out how to fix it so I have taken off my colourful background image. :’( At least it looks clean, I guess.
I went out last night and have vague memories of tequila shots and am feeling rather delicate so the fact that I am writing in here today now is testiment to just how serious I am about wanting to get back on track with losing.
I weighed myself just now and am still 14.9. It is starting to fustrate me a little bit now. I always always lose weight after a big night but I haven’t this week. Probably something to do with the lovely big burger I ate last night (before I went out) but it was delicious! I didn’t dance last night really so did not burn off calories but I did end up walking across the city at 4am on my own to get to my mums house because I lost my friends and had no money on me. I know! I was very scared but luckily nothing happened to me. Actually I ran for a quite a while too. W00t.
When I lost all that weight I felt so confident, I was untouchable. I really felt on top of the world. But the last few months I have started dating again and due to bad choices (when will I learn!?) my confidence has slowly been eroding. It hasn’t helped that due to boy-stress I ended up putting 10lbs on so when I looked in the mirror lately and could visably see those 10lbs around my waistline, my confidence has plummeted further. The last few weeks I have got my mojo back, and my sense of equilibrium, so I have slowly been re-gaining control of what I eat. But the thoughts I have when I look in the mirror these last few days are quite worrying. I haven’t felt this bad about myself (well, my look) since I weighed 19 stone. I really don’t know what I can do about it other than to start losing weight again (don’t bother telling me weightloss on its own won’t bring confidence - it does!) so I need to get really serious about this. REALLY SERIOUS.
Here are my intentions:
- Stick to 1600 calories, or less.
- Do NOT eat during the night. Ever.
- Drink 2-3 litres of fluids every day.
- Some form of exercise every day.
- Gym 3x a week.
- Weigh myself daily.
- Write in my blog daily.
- Keep my food diary updated.
I am also going to the doctors tomorrow for a blood test. I have been feeling wiped out for weeks now and it is not only intefering with my exercise plan but my life in general. I don’t think it can be anything too serious as I have not had it affect my weight but I think it is a good idea to get these things checked out.
Groovybabe is 14.11 stones today and feeling in control.
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Anaemia is often a reason for feeling wiped out like that. You don’t eat red meat so I suspect this may be the culprit.
I am no longer a vegetarian and I do eat red meat (I have just eaten a massive beef burger for example!). I also eat nuts and seeds and other things with lots of iron. I sometimes still eat vegetarian meat which is fortified with iron. I will bear the possibility of it being anaemia in mind though, when I see the doctor tomorrow.
Oh ok! I totally missed that! D’oh! (Could have been a veggie burger, though.)
I managed to be anaemic for most of my life despite a diet high in iron. Being a woman bites that way.
You might have a point there. Whether it is anaemia or something else, I think a blood test is for the best.