kit603
Pregnant with #2
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2009
- Messages
- 6,118
- Reaction score
- 0
Hello ladies!
I've decided to write a journal here in order to try and motivate myself to lose weight and also to record my experiences.
I'm not really interested in things like the Atkin's Diet or the Cambridge Diet because I want to change my lifestyle permanently and I want to keep up whatever I change so that I can maintain my goal weight once I get there. To do this, i've decided that i'm going to try and lose weight and get healthier in two different ways:
1.) More regular exercise
I already go to the Gym once a week (for an hour) and I go lane swimming once a fortnight (for 1 hour) but i'd like to make this a little more intensive. My plan is to go to the Gym twice a week (for an hour and a half) and to continue going lane swimming once a fortnight (for an hour).
2.) Changing my diet
I'm certainly not perfect with what I eat already, but I don't think i'm too far away. I don't tend to snack very often at all and I don't eat much in the way of chocolate, sweets, crisps, cake etc. But, I cook a lot of processed foods for dinner and I have take out usually about once a week. From now on i'm going to try and cook from scratch more often - casserole, stews, rice, pasta, bolagnaise (sp?) etc and i'm going to try and reduce my portion sizes. I'm also going to cut down the number of take outs that we have.
Starting Point
I'm not very comfortable telling people my weight at the moment so i'm going to tell you that I want to lose:
To help me do this i'm going to set mini-targets for myself, which i'll do once this gets underway. I'll be weighing myself every Sunday to see how much i've managed to lose and will post the results here
I've decided to write a journal here in order to try and motivate myself to lose weight and also to record my experiences.
I'm not really interested in things like the Atkin's Diet or the Cambridge Diet because I want to change my lifestyle permanently and I want to keep up whatever I change so that I can maintain my goal weight once I get there. To do this, i've decided that i'm going to try and lose weight and get healthier in two different ways:
1.) More regular exercise
I already go to the Gym once a week (for an hour) and I go lane swimming once a fortnight (for 1 hour) but i'd like to make this a little more intensive. My plan is to go to the Gym twice a week (for an hour and a half) and to continue going lane swimming once a fortnight (for an hour).
2.) Changing my diet
I'm certainly not perfect with what I eat already, but I don't think i'm too far away. I don't tend to snack very often at all and I don't eat much in the way of chocolate, sweets, crisps, cake etc. But, I cook a lot of processed foods for dinner and I have take out usually about once a week. From now on i'm going to try and cook from scratch more often - casserole, stews, rice, pasta, bolagnaise (sp?) etc and i'm going to try and reduce my portion sizes. I'm also going to cut down the number of take outs that we have.
Starting Point
I'm not very comfortable telling people my weight at the moment so i'm going to tell you that I want to lose:
70lbs
To help me do this i'm going to set mini-targets for myself, which i'll do once this gets underway. I'll be weighing myself every Sunday to see how much i've managed to lose and will post the results here
xxx
Weighed myself today, just to see how i'm doing after being back from holiday and i'm back to my pre-holiday weight + 1.5lbs so either the scales were out on holiday OR the stress of packing + living off rice (so I don't need to do freezer shops) has made me lose 5.5lbs in like 4/5 days lol.
