Times up!

Three months ago I set out to lose about 80 pounds through exercise and a very low calorie diet, by December 1st.
How did I do?
I lost ten pounds in the first month and have kept that off. I don’t look much different, or even feel much different. But it is nice that jeans that [...]

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may I tell you a secret?

Day 30
Thanks.
This. This was supposed to be easy. Oh, sure- I was going to be hungry. I was going to be jealous of the people eating cakes in the staff room, my family having lovely meals for dinner.  But that was ok! I was going to be losing weight! Five pounds a week! And that [...]

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Day 18

After initially losing 10 pounds in the first week and a half of the diet I didn’t lose anymore weight.  I was walking and working my arms and my legs and sticking to my diet. There have been days which I’ve gone over 500 calories, so I accept my body has probably not properly been [...]

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Day 13

Getting into the groove now. It’s not quite so intense, almost like it’s a way of life now.  I’m used to the hunger, it bothers me, but it’s not so all encompassing.
I’m exercising quite a bit, doing the arms on the walk to and from work. I do 1 or 2 sets of 60 of [...]

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Day 9

So I asked on this forum I belong to for dinner recipes under 200 calories, and one of the suggestions I got was an egg white omelette. “ooh, sounds great!” I thought.
So, David was making omelettes for dinner tonight and I asked if he would save some egg whites and do a special omelette for [...]

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Day 7

Discovered something today.
fresh spinach.
piece of sliced turkey.
smear of mustard.
slice of tomato.
roll it together.
Delicious.
9 calories.
and cheap.
bag of fresh spinach £1
small thing of turkey 50p.
squeezy bottle of mustard- 74p
tomatoes- free from the plants in the garden.
Try it.

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Day 6

Nightmare:  A family of five moving from a huge 4 bedroom Victorian house, with lots of storage space, to a cramped three bedroom modern house. With almost NO storage space.
And since we have moved in- the twisty thing for the blinds on the side door has broken and fallen off, the bathroom light pull has [...]

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Day 5

I’ve lost five pounds in my first week. I’m very pleased.
Between breakfast and lunch today I had less than 300 calories, and through exercise I burned over 300 calories today. So, I decided that meant I could have a normal dinner with the family. Which means no counting, no weighing, but only one serving and [...]

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day 4

ugh. I feel awful.I’m not blaming the diet yet though. Chances are it has more to do with getting up at 3:30am yesterday, not getting to bed until 1:30am last night, getting up twice with Rafe, the alarm going off at 6:00 and then finally rolling out of bed at 7:00. And working long hours [...]

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day 3.

I’ve got 50 calories left to spend, today. There are Oreo’s at home. I could have two. And maybe a dark chocolate finger as well.
Or I could have another orange.
Decisions, decisions.
update: I had the orange.

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