Stupidity! (AKA Part 4 ) - Eat Less, Move More.......My Candid Weight Loss Diary

16.08.2021

So I seemed to have lost the plot where eating is concerned, and I think it is due to the fact that only having lost 3 pounds is making me rather despondent. I have tried the positive mentality and the can-do attitude but this week I slipped up. 6 chocolate chip cookies, a piece of delicious coffee cake and 4 mint cornettos interspersed with 6 packets of hula hoop puffs. The cornettos were a particularly bad idea as I haven’t been eating dairy because it gives me catarrh. Today I feel bloated and lethargic This is not good when I have a lot of work to do. 

So where do I go from here? Last week I didn't have a therapy session booked, I didn't get round to listening to my Paul McKenna CD and I let the lethargy take over. Admittedly I was very busy at work but I cannot let that be a reason to give up.

 

Ironically my step count has not been bad. Some days I have done less than 7,000 steps but other days I have done 13,000 and even 16,076 on one day. This does even out to just over 10,000 steps a day over a 2-week period. I do think I need to up the exercise and take better control over the eating…. But easier said than done. 

 

Positives right now are:

• Things can only get better.
• I have done it before and can do it again.
• Weight gain is not irreversible.
• My handbags still fit. 🤣

Negatives are:

• I am tired and lethargic.
• I have let things slip when I could have been sensible. 
• My body isn't happy with me. 

Weight loss: no change.

Mood: grumpy.

Future: it can only get better.

 

Part 3. Eat Less, Move More...…..My Candid Weight Loss Diary

Here are a few diary entries since my last post on 8.07.2021

(Nothing Samuel Pepys would be proud of but maybe worth a read.)

22nd July 2021

I am still off the sugar but very confused as a dress I got into a few weeks ago is a little tight. Yes, I have only lost two pounds so far but how could I be bigger ? 🤷‍♀️ . 

23rd July 2021

Well it is hotter than the centre of a volcano so I am not moving much. I walk to work, to anywhere essential  and then home. This is not good for weight loss but essential for my sanity. Normal movement will resume when the heat dissipates. 

24th July 2021

Ok, it’s official, no weight loss this week and I am fed up. It seems a shame to miss out on cake, chocolate etc and stay the same weight. Whatever happens and however disillusioned I feel, I must not let  this put me off though; I am determined to succeed as I did in 2017/2018. 

25th July 2021

I walked a fair few steps today so I am hoping that will help with the weight loss. I have been looking at what I ate this week and I can see areas where I have probably eaten a little too much. I find it easiest to be brutally honest with myself so  I will never be that person who cannot see how much they are eating or won't admit it. If you are the kind of person who eats a takeaway, chocolate and crisps while trying to lose weight... just admit it. Personally I have had too many packs of hummus crisps, my meals have been too big and I haven't eaten enough protein.  

26th July 2021

I had a holiday day from work and have walked over 12,000 steps. I have to say that this makes me feel physically and mentally better. Exercising really does boost you in so many ways and I do feel that I need to do other things apart from just walking. I am not ready to join a gym yet and I don't feel it is fair to jump up and down to an exercise video because I live in a flat. Of course I will find a solution as problems are there to be solved. 

2nd August 2021

I have lost another pound! Yes, that is not a lot but it is better than staying the same or gaining weight. I can only be hopeful that I carry on losing weight steadily  in the coming weeks. 

Still off the sugar but bad cravings the last couple of days. I think this is definitely hormonal so I am ignoring the cravings. I have to remember to eat less and move more.... it's the only way. 

   

Date	Stats		Notes	Total loss so far
10th  July 2021	Weight	176 pounds  (79.832 kg)
	Dress size	UK 18
17th July 2021	Weight	174 pounds (78.925 Kg)	2 pounds lost
	Dress size	UK 18
24th July 2021	Weight	174 pounds (78.925 kg)	No change
	Dress size	UK 18
1st August 2021	Weight	173 pounds (78.471kg)	1 pound lost	3 pounds (1.36kg)
	Dress size	UK 18

Steps walked in the last 15 days	151,909
Average steps per day	10,127

I have decide that these weight loss posts will not be weekly but just when I feel it is a good time to update them. I don't want to put unnecessary pressure on myself as we all need to be less stressed in life.