418lbs – and hopefully going down.
418lbs on January 2nd, 2010
418lbs (side)
So that’s what I look like at 418lbs.
If you’ll notice, I’m almost the same width from the front as I am from the side. I’ll probably use that same door as proof or evidence or what-have-you as I lose weight, assuming I’m still living in this house when I hit any of my weight-loss goals, haha.
So anyway, it’s only been two days back on SparkPeople.com and I’ve done 10 minutes of their cardio jump start yesterday and today (technically, Sunday and Monday, since it’s Tuesday now), and my legs are really feeling it. It’s not even a great deal of exercise, but the important thing is: it’s more exercise than I’ve done, on purpose, in the past few weeks.
Yes, that’s all added together.
I’m also noticing that I’m already eating more, but making choices about what I’m eating – I was going to take just one slice of bread with my soup today, but thought, “No. If I don’t take two slices, then I’ll end up taking a packet of crisps, instead.”
I ended up taking three slices of bread (if nothing else, it was healthy brown bread with seeds and oats on it, and was lovely) with my soup, and the only snacky thing I ate today was a slice… or two… of my Mum’s Christmas Cake.
Now, I say a slice or two because you’re never really sure what a PORTION is for something that your mother bakes every year. Every year, my portion has been getting larger and larger, I think. She puts these little dots of icing around the outside, and I take two dots of icing. Since it’s rich fruit cake, it’s meant for things like wedding cake and Christmas cake, and it’s probably safe to say that a serving – a single portion – is supposed to be ONE icing dot, if even that.
But it is delicious.
It’s also all finished now! So it’s not like I can snack on it any more.
Anyway, I ran out of fruit, and the only fruit Mum has, because she hasn’t gone shopping yet, are Mac Red apples (which nauseate me – horrid, watery apples!) and bananas (which give me terrible wind, TMI fun!), so.
Yes, I should just be glad that that’s ALL I snacked on.
One thing I am contemplating, though, is… possible giving up sugar. I remember what the first week of South Beach was like, though, horrendous headaches and cravings, but it all worked out all right in the end… until I started eating carbs again.
It’s just something to think about.
January 5th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
The only apples I buy anymore are Pink Lady apples. They’re the only ones that I don’t eat one or two of with good intentions and then leave the rest to rot in the back of the fridge somewhere – so whatever money I save buying cheaper, less nice apples is wasted anyway by wasting the fruit.
Also, I’m having serious trouble locating good bananas. At first it was just the Lidl bananas that sucked, so I started going to Dunnes for bananas. But now their bananas (and those at Tesco) are awful too. I don’t know what’s going on. Anyway I doubt you know since you can’t eat them! Although I’ve never heard of bananas affecting someone like that. Weird.
January 5th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I've absolutely come to love Coxs. They're just tart enough for me without being TOO tart. And big enough that I can barely get my mouth around them, HAHAHA, which is always fun. (Aside: I tried eating an apple when I had a lip ring in. I felt like my mouth was going to split in two.)
I used to love Pink Ladies, too, but again, they got too tart.
My Mum has the same problem with bananas, as does my sister. Maybe it's a defective Webster gene or something, LOL.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I like golden delicious if i had to choose but they end up hurting my stomach, its hard to digest an apple you know :P
Good to see you've made a new start. If you feel like snacking just remember that its easier to eat it than it is to work it off so if you dont eat it your just saving your self extra work :P
(p.s I can stop reading if you want)
January 6th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Is it really difficult to digest apples? Haha, I wonder. I'm so picky about fruit, I tend to like the really expensive foreign stuff – mangos and passion fruit and things like that, y'know? SO PICKY. But I'm right into satsumas and mandarins right now. Asda had them on special offer – two packs for £2, but they've stopped it now. Now it's £3 and I'm scandalised. :)
And nah, don't be daft. You can read all you like. If I can deal with people I've never met reading it, I can deal with people I HAVE met reading it. :P
January 6th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Cool :) and yea an apple really is hard to digest.
A small to medium apple has around 65-75 calories but your body takes more calories than that to digest it, maybe around 85 calories. So there ya go. Thats the theory anyways.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Aaah, one of those negative calorie foods, like… celery, I think? Yeah.
Well, that's awesome to know that. The things you learn! Maybe I should just live on apples for two weeks. (JOKING)
January 9th, 2010 at 12:54 am
If you start doing South Beach and I have someone to compare to, possibly that will help me actually do it like I’ve been planning! ¬_¬
It’s hard to do it around here, though, where food is incomprehensibly expensive and I’m the only one cooking for two, and she’s contraindicated to join me. :|
January 9th, 2010 at 2:03 am
South Beach is a BASTARD. (I've done Phase One two… possibly three… times before…)
But it's actually relatively inexpensive for the first two weeks. Plenty of vegetables, MORE THAN PLENTY OF EGGS, plenty of lean meat and low-fat dairy, and that's… pretty much all you're allowed, haha.
Seriously, the first time I did it, I lost 15lbs in 2 weeks, it was amazing. But then, I can never get the hang of carbs in Phase Two. That's where my problem lies.
However, if SparkPeople stops working (I can't wait until I get done to a weight where my scales register me as something less than a fully-loaded double-decker bus) or I fall by the wayside, I might well give South Beach another go. It's actually a pretty smart diet, if you can A) get the hang of it and B) not go off the rails after the first two weeks.
Unfortunately, the books can also be a bit pricey. :/