A new photo of the progress of the jeans - hopefully to where they used to be around 10 years ago. I have lost a total of 19lbs altogether through just cutting down a bit and buying less chocolate - I will be going on holidya on day 100 so I wanted to be a bit more comfortable in hotter weather. Compare this to my older blog photos if you want:
June 21st 08 - reached the top of the legs!
may 08
april
march
Have stayed the same this week so that’s a bit disappointing but I’m not too unhappy as I know there has been a change in shape (see photo for jeans progress and compare to my earlier photos) They are moving closer to the position where they used to be around 10 years ago!
Good luck to all
I can’t believe it’s been 8 days since I last wrote. Anyway, I have been sticking to under 1500 calories daily without much cheating and am beginning to notice a few small changes. I know I should get out and exercise more and there is no excuse for that but it’s hard to get motivated when I’ve been out at work all day. I hope I will notice a difference this week as I stayed the same last week with the weigh-in. Not really much else to write other than I am in a good frame of mind right now as I am positive I can make a change but not beating myself up if I have a slip-up
- good luck to all xx
I went shopping the other day and saw my favourite chocolates - a bag of misshapes for £1 that’s kind of a mystery as you don’t know what you are going to get inside. The whole bag is around 1500 calories as there is 300g of pure chocolate. Anyway, I REALLY wanted some and so…………….I bought some and ate around two thirds of them.
Now, int he past, I would have done one of two things:
1. Not bought them and felt holy but hard done by all day until something I could use as an excuse cropped up and then I would have made up for ‘depriving’ myself by having a blowout (would I ever!)
2. Bought them, ate them and then, as the rest of the diet would have been “RUINED”, I would have eaten everything else I could find - well, I might as well huh?
However, I bought them, ate most of them and realised that I had eaten around 1000 calories. As I am working to a limit of 1500 calories - no problem - I felt satisfied by the chocolate and sacrificed my midday meal and had a small meal at night to keep within the 1500 (well, maybe a little over 
While I don’t recommend substituting meals for chocolate as an eating plan on a regular basis, it worked for me this time and there was no harm done in terms of calories.
Getting there - it’s amazing how weight is linked to state of mind isn’t it.
Good luck to all
GO DIAMONDS!!
I am taking progress photos (15lbs off so far) to show any cahnges and also progress of the jeans up the legs (they are size 14 UK jeans that I used to wear when I first met my husband). I think they have gone up a bit since the last time…..
This taken today 3rd May
This taken around a month ago…
I’m sure I can see some upwards movement!
Go Diamonds!!
I have given myself 100 days of sticking to a diet between going away on holidays (we have to chase our summer in the UK as we rarely see any real sun) so I am determined that I shall be slimmer on the July holiday than I was in March. I realise that I am one quarter (nearly) of the way through and need to get more active if I want to see some real results - so just a note to myself:
GET OUT WALKING FATTY
that’s better.
1. Recently on my blog I asked how much weight people had lost before anyone else noticed and various answers between 20lbs and 70lbs were given by those who replied. My first though was “well, nobody will get the chance to notice with me because there’s no way I will lose even 20lbs” (based on previous dieting history when I lose about 10lbs and then put it back on, plus a bit more). I then thought well, why can’t I lose 20lbs or more, other people obviously have? and my revelation was that I probably can and I have been so quick to congratulate myself in the past on losing 10lbs that I kind of gave up and gave in at this point. I’m normally quite a competitive person and when I do something I like to make sure it’s done well but this has never transferred itself to losing weight for myself when obviously I have been prepared to settle for second best performance.
2. My weakness is eating food provided at works conferences and meetings which I have to attend regularly but yesterday I found was able to curb it a little and didn’t take as much as I might have done in the past - only a small step but I reckon I can build on it 
Have just weighed in for the weight loss challenge on the Forum boards and have stayed the same but I don’t feel like going for a binge which is my usual habit after weighing in (I have even taken food to Slimming clubs to eat on the way home after weighing in, I have finely tuned my cheating that far!!)
Perhaps I am now realising that, as there is only me and all of you involved in this weight loss, I am really only cheating myself. In the past, at slimming clubs, it has always felt like I was losing the weight to please the club leader - funny isn’t it?
Good luck to all
I have been fairly careful for over 2 weeks now and have lost around 10lbs (I’ll try to make a stone - 14lbs for Saturday weigh in, Diamonds in the Rough) I just wondered when other people have noticed you have lost weight (without them being told).
Iam so busy at work (inspection coming soon) that I am occupied all of the time and less inclined to eat so that’s good and have been eating more fruit as my four o’clock slump-buster!
Good luck all!!
I need to plan better - I forgot dinner today at work so I had an emergency tin of soup which was lurking in my desk. I must plan dinner and how to get more walking in too. Not a bad day, I probably have had 1600 calories or so - Rome wasn’t built in a day and it took me 30 odd years to get like this (Heaven help me, if it takes 30 to come off I’ll be 73!)
Good luck to all, go Diamonds in the Rough
Real Rough Diamonds - I wonder how much??
Not too bad today but I did have to take a wild guess at 600 calories for a portion of my mum’s lasagne when I visited. I would rather make allowances like that than pass it up in favour of something lower in calories, feel I am missing out and then compensate by ‘treating’ myself later (for that, read totally sabotaging any progress I have made by feeling I ‘deserve’ a treat or two, three or four)
Targets for this week - drink more water and try to walk more in the evenings (not easy to do in the UK in spring - hardly easy to do in summer either. We would have had more exercise planning to go swimming through the floods last summer
The crap weather is the main reason I have planned so many holidays - summer doesn’t seem to come here any more so I have to go and find it
No, seriously it really is crap 
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