#losingmyweight

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Day ten and eleven

Day ten: Do you eat breakfast? What do you usually have?

I eat breakfast on work days. Not really on my days off which needs to change.

I normally just have one piece of toast with peanut butter and a glass of orange juice. I need to start waking up earlier so that I can make poached eggs on toast for breakfast, but I just love staying in bed until I absolutely have to get up.

Day eleven: What are your family’s eating habits like?

I live with my boyfriend and my flatmate Clay - so I guess I would count them as my family for this. They are both quite healthy, they will pretty much eat anything, I am the fussy one. But because we take turns at cooking, I am conditioning myself to eat what they put in front of me and not question it... at the very least try a little bit of whatever they've cooked.

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Day Six

Day six: Have you ever been overweight or underweight?

I think I have always been overweight... ever since half way through highschool.

I've always felt like I was fat, like I had some sort of body dysmorphia. Even when I was 11 I thought I was chubby, but when I look back at pictures of me then, I was actually quite small.

My actual becoming overweight started when my sister got fat. I was at that mean child age where I would taunt her for being fat and overweight, so in retaliation, my mother and my sister both turned on me and called me fat as well, to taste my own medicine.

I wasn't actually fat at the time, but because they both called me it, I thought I was. So instead of doing the healthy thing and doing more exercise besides sports at school, I was like "meh" and ate shitty food because in my mind, I was already fat.

The highest weight I have ever been is around 90 odd kilos - 198lbs. That was back in 2008. Then I read "Skinny Bitch" and it put me off meat for almost a year, during which I stopped eating fast food as well, and started eating healthy alternatives to the junk food I was eating, walked to work when I worked, and went to the gym on my days off and walked around my town for bout an hour to an hour 1/2.

I then dropped down to 70 odd kilos - 154lbs. Of course, then I got a new job - full time, got a bf and started to eat meat again and junk food. So now I am back in the mid 80 kilo range - 185lbs. My ultimate goal weight is 60 kilos. I hope to have eached this by January 2013.

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Day Five

Day five: Is there any specific event you want to lose the weight for?

No there isn't. I've been overweight since I was about 15. It's about time I actually lost some and became healthy...

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Day Three & Four

Day three: Do you count calories? What is your daily calorie goal/allowance?

No I don't. I have downloaded MyFitnessPal app to my iPhone but I have been eating terribly this week so I haven't actually used it coz it'll make me feel worse - though I guess that's the point. MyFitnessPal gave me an allowance of 1450 calories a day.

Day four: Do you work out? How many times a week?

I don't currently. At the moment I walk several times a week for about an hour with my friend. I have just brought a swiss ball though, so when I do Fab Ab Feb, I can do it on the ball which gives you slightly more of a work out =)

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Day Two (8 week weight loss challenge)

Day two: What is your MAIN reason for wanting to lose weight? (Be honest.)

My main reason for wanting to lose weight is to feel good about myself. That is the main central reason.

There are other reasons such as being fit and being healthy, looking good in my clothes, being able to run without being winded etc etc. But they are all sub-reasons of the main reason.

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Fab Ab February

So I did the first day of Fab Ab today as it is the 1st here in New Zealand.

OMFG am I unfit!!!

I was looking at the calendar thinking, 10 sit ups, 4 push up and a 10 second plank, pshawwww who can't do that? I almost couldn't.

Sit ups, well.... I couldn't really sit up precisely, it was more my head and shoulders just leaving the ground towards me legs and then lowering back down.

Push ups, I didn't lower myself completely, because I knew if I went too far down I wouldn't make it back up.

Planks, I lasted about 5 seconds or so. This may or may not have had something to do with Theo(my kitten) clamouring about me and making me lose focus.

After those I did some bicycle exercises, you know, the ones where you lie on the floor and you legs are at a 90 degree angle in the air, and you bring your right elbow up to meet your left knee and vice versa.

Tell you what, after all that I could feel my abs under my flab waking up and saying "WTF is going on?? We're in use? Wake up boys!".

I am incredibly unfit. But that feeling of muscles protesting in being used... though it kind of hurts because it's unusual, it's such a good feeling, it gives you the heads up, hey, you can do this.

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Weight Loss Challenge

I'm going to attempt to do this weight loss challenge. At the moment though, I am more focused on just adding extra exercise in, than changing my diet, though I do need to cut back on all energy drinks, chocolate and chips.

The reason I'm not focusing too much on food at the moment is because I don't like a lot of healthy foods. I don't eat any fruit, I can't stand it. And whilst I do eat some vegetables, I'm not really a salad eater either. I think the best thing I can do food wise is to stop eating meat again. I went through a year where I didn't eat meat, and I lost a lot of weight.

Part of this is because once I stopped eating meat, I stopped eating McDonalds or Pizza or KFC as well. Because I didn't feel so lethargic and weighed down by meat processing in my body, I stopped drinking energy drinks and eating chocolate because I didn't need the energy boost anymore. I lost about 20kgs throughout the period of not eating meat - though I think the bit of Glandular Fever helped as well. 

I started eating meat again when I got a boyfriend and started socialising again. It was just more convenient, and easier to do so. I don't know if I'll stop eating all meat completely, or just everything but bacon and chicken. Even though bacon isn't healthy, it's so yummy haha.

So, Day One, Week One.

Weekly challenge: Pick one unhealthy food or habit you have (eg. Artificial sweetener, chocolate, eating after 8pm, skipping breakfast) and aim to go 7 days without eating/doing it.

Weekly Challenge: Stop drinking energy drinks and mindlessly snacking when not actually hungry.

Day one: How tall are you, what do you currently weigh, and what do you hope to weigh after the 60 days? (Be realistic).

Height:168cm = 5.5ft

Weight: 85.3kg = 178.8lbs

Weight after 60 days: I hope to be at 75kg = 165lbs.

Obviously I will have to start adjusting my eating plan as well, but removing the energy drinks and mindless snacking + more exercise and losing 10kg in 2 months seems realistic.

...wish me luck.