The Slug Project

This is a blog about how I, the Slug, changed my life.

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Week Six!

Weight; 134 kg.

Waist; 112 cm

Tummy; 131 cm

 I am a weak, weak human being, and I obviously have no self-control.

 I would like to start off by saying that I did not eat these all alone and not over one day. My husband helped me and I think it took me about three days to finish my six donuts AND I had totally saved up my cheat day points for these donuts. Never the less I do think this might be the reason for my minimal weight loss. So worth it.

I thought about it and decided that I’m not going to eat something just because it’s healthy, it has to be good too (I live in fear that I will someday have to consume these horrible veggie patty’s my mom made me eat when she was on a diet once. So bad). That being said I think I’m ready to up my health game. I think the next step is to get rid of the Pepsi Max and all white bread/pasta. We made amazing pizzas with a whole-wheat crust and it was delicious. I’m also thinking about getting rid of sugar, but that might take some time. As I’ve said before, I’m doing all the changes slowly so they’ll stick, it’s not a diet it’s a life style change! Screw you fast food! Although I secretly still love you. Please don’t leave me.

I also really need to figure out my breakfast ritual, I start by drinking a glass of water and a spoon full of cod oil and then I eat a small sugar free coconut yogurt and an apple. I think I should have a bigger breakfast and a bigger lunch but a smaller dinner, now I use a smaller plate and only fill it once. And I really want to start doing yoga, I think it might be good for my leg and back and also I haven’t really been feeling like going for my walks since it has been raining and cold for A WEEK. Come on!

The apartment is amazingly clean and I’m loving it! My husband is also loving it, and the new healthy food. I have already cleaned the kitchen cabinets, next I really want to re-organize the bathroom and closets. And I’m doing great with the whole “lookin’ good” deal, I’m trying to not always keep my hair up in a ponytail, and I also moisturize every day and my skin Is AMAZING. Fo’ reals, it’s like ridiculously soft.

Funny thing happened the other day. Someone rang the doorbell at 9:30 at night, now I don’t know anybody that would show up unannounced that late so I started to panic. Apparently three seasons of Criminal Minds will leave you slightly paranoid, so I started to think either someone died or I was being arrested, not that I have any reason to be arrested, but you know how it is, Or that there was a serial killer at my door. My hands started shaking and my heart racing, I was sure my life was over. No. it wasn’t. Apparently people send work documents via currier. Jesus. It took forever for me to get my heart beat back to normal. Seriously not cool, I still can’t stop watching Criminal Minds though.

And tomorrow is my husband’s birthday! I bought croissants and a bacon and ham spread thing for breakfast, then I’m going to make a chocolate cake and a nice creamy asparagus casserole. I think he’s going to invite some friends over for a LAN. I finally found a deep cleaning machine for my new old couch. I seriously can’t wait to see all the dirt come out of it, I think we might clean the other couch too and maybe the mattress. It’s slightly sad how excited I am about cleaning!

I sent my mom the folder with all the clothes that we like so she can shop for us in Germany and Italy, sweet baby Jesus I love getting new clothes! She’ll be back in about a week, actually the same day as we get home from the country side. We’re going to my husband’s grandfathers 70th birthday. Trust me, you haven’t partied until you’ve partied in the country side.

Have a wonderful week!

Lots of love,

The Slug.

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Week five!

Weight; 136 kg

Waist; 112 cm

Tummy; 131 cm

 Ugh so I thought I had posted this on Friday, apparently I suck at computers! Sorry everybody but here it is!

 Last Friday, oh god. Last Friday.

So as I told you we were having friends over for a bbq and drinks, so much fun! I’ll admit I may have had a little too much to drink. For the record a bottle of red wine and three beers will leave you in a very good mood. Anyway, we were sitting in the living room, talking, having a good time when my friend says “wow, what is that smell?”. Horror. Horror is the only way to describe the way I felt, this horrible smell filled the whole apartment. Good god, is there something rotting in the fridge? Did a pipeline break? Is there a body somewhere? I mean what is going on?! So my husband, discreetly opened the front door and went in search of the smell. It didn’t take him long to find the source. The cat that we’re cat sitting for my mother had taken a dump the size of, well the cat. Not only was this monstrous cat poo in my bathroom (thankfully in the litter box) but the fur ball had the nerve to drag his butt across the floor and leave a skid mark the size (and shape) of California. Now normally I wouldn’t mind, but the night we have people over? I seriously need to work on my karma. Oh and side note; sushi is weirdly satisfying when you’re hung over.

As you can see, the cat shows no remorse

Alright so back to the health stuff. I’ve really noticed a difference in my clothes this last week, things seem to fit better, you know clothes look better, not as chunky. I’ve come up with a system for the water drinking, we have this gorgeous glass water jug that is around a liter, and a nice big wine glass so I figured that I’d be much more motivated to drink water, and it totally works! I really find it easier to remember to drink the two liters a day, I also started putting cucumbers and ice into the jug. I then like to eat the cold cucumber slices at the end of the day. I’m also a lot more motivated to eat healthy, I went and bought a peeler so now I peel my apple and slice them up, throw in a couple of grapes and I have a bitchin’ snack.

I just had to put this one too, doesn’t it look gorgeous?!

We went shopping and bought a whole bunch of gorgeous and healthy food. Sweet potatoes, salad, grapes, chicken breasts and cod oil (which is amazingly healthy). I figured beautiful and delicious food that is also healthy is the best course of action!

The leg has been annoying me more than usual, I went shopping with my friend yesterday. We went to IKEA and walked around, bought a couple of things, then we went to an electronics store to buy an internet cable for my husband, looked at a couple of dishwashers and all that, then when we finally went to the mall my foot started protesting. It just happens so suddenly that I can never estimate when I might start to get tired. And after that day I had the most annoying pain in my ankle, all night and all day today. Ugh.

The good news is that dunkin’ donuts just opened near me and I have so far stayed away from the delicious caramel iced latte and amazing cream filled donuts. Let’s see how long my self-control holds out. My husband is betting that it won’t hold out that long. What can I say? I’m a sucker for coffee and donuts.

Lots of love,

The Slug

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Week four!

Weight; 139 kg.

Waist; 114 cm.

Tummy; 131,5 cm.

 Alright I have officially decided to post these on Fridays. It just makes more sense to blog at the end of the week.

So this week has been all about the apartment. I mopped the floors Monday morning and I swear it changed color, now it hasn’t been that long since I mopped the floors last but with my husbands’ job things tend to get really dirty really fast (he’s working as a welder at his fathers’ company until he finishes school to become a computer manager). Then I cleaned the walls and cabinets, the dirty handprints did nothing for the home décor and then finally we got a new couch! I finally have a big and comfortable couch! Yay!

I was feeling sorry for myself on Wednesday because everybody is on their way to this amazing festival and I’m just stuck here, so I bought myself toffee tops cookies and Doritos and pigged out, but then I felt really guilty and drank a bunch of water, which of course kept me up all night peeing. So all in all Wednesday was not a good day.

On those lines, how do you remember to drink the 2 liters of water a day that you need to be healthy or whatever? AND do I count the amount of coffee I drink with the water intake or is that a separate thing? Can I die of too much water? And how Ironic would it be if I would actually die of being to healthy (now as I say this I realize this might be my fat self trying to justify staying fat and happy).

Oh a new thing is happening with my ankle, now that the swelling has more or less gone I can actually SEE the plate and about four nails! Is it not bad enough that I have a huge scar? Noooo noo lets just have these metal spare parts poking out of your leg, brings the extra “oomph” to the whole thing! Dear god.

On a positive note my mothers’ cat is finally here! They’re going on holiday to Italy and the people that they’re exchanging houses with have allergies, which means more fluffy kitty love for me! Although my husband isn’t thrilled, but I love having him. We watched criminal minds and devious maids yesterday (he, the cat, really has some interesting theories about season 3 of devious maids, really). And my mother is also going on a business trip in a couple of months to a country that has my faaaavourite store! So I really need to get going with the weight loss. I must look fabulous in all my new clothes.

And I’m really looking forward to tonight, we’re bbq-ing with our “couple” friends. Bring on the wine!

So here’s my theory, red wine, besides being delicious must be slightly healthier than sugary cocktails and beer? Right? Or with the amount that I will, no doubt, be consuming does it really matter?

I let you know how it went next week, and also how the hangover worked out when you cut out all the greasy food.. oh dear.

 Lots of love,

The Slug

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Week three!

Weight; 140 kg

Waist; 117 cm.

Tummy; 136 cm (really?!)

 Oh this week has been so lovely!

We spent the weekend in the countryside with my brother, we went to the circus and watched Jurassic Park (which produced major nostalgia for me) and he tried horseback riding for the first time! My husband’s grandfather breeds horses and my brother really wanted to try to ride one so my husband went and got the kiddie horse, this may have been the cutest moment of my life, my brother was so proud of himself! Then I tried going on my horse (not really my horse but it’s the one I always ride when we’re there), it was not glorious. My husband had to give me a but lift so I could get on to the horse, this was the first time I had tried it after I broke my leg, and it was unbelievable how fast my ankle started hurting so I think I won’t be going horseback riding anytime soon.

The week was just so amazingly pleasant you wouldn’t believe it. I was babysitting my siblings, and the weather was so nice, so we sat out in the garden, they were just playing on the trampoline and in the swings. Me on the other hand, I was reading my book with a cup of coffee and cream filled cookies. Damn it. By day two I remembered that I was trying to stay away from that kind of stuff and stopped. Apart from the ice cream with chocolate sauce and snickers crumbles I’ve been doing pretty good. And I think it shows in the weight that I’ve lost, but the extra centimeter on my tummy?! What is that?! I mean really! Anyway, we also went swimming a couple of times this week, I haven’t gone swimming in god knows how long. I was really self-conscious about my weight and how I looked in my bathing suit, but I just thought “to hell with it” and I’m so happy I went! Oh it was so nice, although I did notice it was slightly hard to swim, I think the nerve damage in my leg is what was causing the pain.

There has been a uncomfortable issue hovering over me for some time. Next week there is a festival in the town that I’m from, it’s a three day festival and is very popular. My whole family goes and I’ve never missed one. But as my leg is still so bad I decided I wasn’t going to go, there are allot of people there and hills and god forbid it rains. I just don’t think it would be a good idea to go this year, ill definitely go next year. But my family, and by family I mean my aunt and grandmother (that tend to the dramatics) are not having it. I finally (after numerous phone calls from the two) got my mom to call them and tell them to back off. I love them for thinking about me but it’s been really hard for me to make this decision. I really hate my leg and all the pain (physical and emotional) it has caused.

We also just ordered a pizza for dinner, you know, Friday night and all that and I forgot to buy some Pepsi max, but my husband had his Coke, this was pure torture. I loved coke, especially with pizza and now I had to eat my pizza with water, which wasn’t bad but it just wasn’t the same. I wonder how people who make drastic life changes can just manage with all the small stuff all the time. I mean I’m taking the whole thing slow and it’s still kind of hard (I literally had my hand in a box of cookies, two in my mouth already when I remembered I’m now a healthy slug). Maybe you have to be totally consumed in what you’re doing and not just do it part time like me. I don’t know. I do know that I miss my coffee and cookies. I wonder if I can find a substitute? I’ll have to check that out.

I promise I’ll keep on track with the posts (although I do have a sneaking feeling it’s just my husband reading this)

Love,

The Slug

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Week two!

Weight; 143 kg.

Waist; 119 cm.

Tummy; 135 cm.

 Alright I suck, I know.  The thing is I tend to procrastinate to the extreme (which might be a small factor in the whole “weight loss” thing). So I’m going to put up two weeks’ worth of blogs a today. yay!

So this week I knew I wouldn’t do so great on my diet and that is not because I’m weak willed but because Sunday was my first wedding anniversary! So we went to the countryside to his grandparents’ farm on Thursday and had a wonderful weekend filled with mars bar filled bananas and a new chips and dip combo that I just discovered (popcorn chips with Philadelphia cream cheese and sweet chili sauce, de-licious). We grilled, had amazing deserts and where just lazy in our pj´s with chips and a movie (the weather wasn’t great).

But we did also go hiking, which was amazing for me. I wasn’t sure if I could walk all the way to the top, it’s around a kilometer uphill with wobbly rocks and huge steps. But we just went slow (much to the dogs dismay, I could practically hear “oh my god humans, must you walk so slow?!”), my husband helped me on the rough parts and we stopped allot so I could rest. When we finally got to the top the view was amazing, so we sat there for a good fifteen minutes just enjoying. It did come as a surprise that the walk down was allot harder, I didn’t realize the strain you put on your ankle going downhill is allot different than going up.

After getting home I started babysitting for my mom, I have two younger siblings, my brother is six and my sister just turned two, and I know what you’re thinking, “but the age difference?!”. I strongly believe my mother decided to wait 16 years for child number two to always have a free babysitter.

Oh my god. Trying to run after two young children with a damaged ankle is something that NO ONE should have to do! I did utilize my brother, taught him how to make coffee (that second cup of coffee might be a matter of life and death.. in my opinion anyway)  and he helps me with the small things like running up the stairs to get a diaper and so on, so after the first day it wasn’t so bad. I did notice however that I was exhausted and had a really hard time getting up in the morning to pick out clothes and do my make-up. My apartment also suffered, we decided that since I’m home during the day and my husband is working that it’s only fair that I do most of the “home stuff”, you know, dishes, laundry, keep it moderately clean and so on but after I started babysitting I was so tired that I let the “home stuff” slip, and didn’t really notice until we didn’t have any clean plates and my husband ran out of socks (my bad). Thankfully I’m just babysitting for another week and then I back to my regular schedule. And just to there is no misunderstanding, I looove doing the whole “housewife” thing, I think it is so much fun!

Well that’s it for this week, hope you enjoyed!

 Love,

The Slug

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Week one!

Weight; 144 kg.

Waist; 119 cm.

Tummy; 135 cm

 So this is the first week of my project, I’m actually kind of exited.

I chose to put this on the internet for motivation, the thought that somebody might be reading this (despite the fact that I haven’t told anyone about this) is enough for me to stay on track.

I thought I might start by telling you about myself, and why I’m doing this. I’m a 23 year old woman living with my husband in a small town. In February I broke my ankle really bad, snapped the bone apart in two places, tore ligaments and dislocated the ankle, this resorted in seven screws and a metal plate being implanted into my leg, I had two surgeries, three months in a cast and allot of physical therapy.

Now, I’ve never been in great shape, actually I’ve always been fairly overweight but in the last few years I have been gaining allot of weight, especially since I broke my leg – in the last five months I’ve gained 15 kg. At this point I’ve had enough, and because I have to make all these changes due to my ankle being permanently damaged, well why not go all the way?

So what I really want to do is change my whole life, well improve really. This little project isn’t just about being healthy, it’s about being happy as well. I want to wear nicer clothes, do my make-up and hair, have a beautiful and clean (emphasis on the clean) home, wake up on time, pay my bills on time and learn how to relax and enjoy the small things in life.

“Slow down” and “relax” are two things my husband is constantly telling me to do, I’ll admit, I do tell him to “hurry up” and “worry about things (that don’t really matter)”. But he does have a point, I stress about things that don’t really matter in the big picture, personally I blame the women on my mother’s side of my family, no family function can go by without a few fights, tears and, in the end, red wine.

So anyway, the first changes I’m making are NO sugared sodas (hello Pepsi max!) and also avoid the things that I know are reeeeaally unhealthy (I’m looking at you double stuffed Oreos). Drink more water and go for a walk at least once a day. Also, throw out those ripped leggings (no matter how comfortable) and buy some new make-up (apparently scraping the sides of the mascara tube to get the last bit out does not work as well as actually having mascara that is full).

So thank you all for reading this and wish me luck!

I’ll post weekly updates on Wednesday’s or Thursday’s

 Love, The Slug