10kg (22lb lost) comparison photos - (15kg/33lb to go)

10kg reached!!

So wow! I just made 10kg. On the same day that Sarah smashed 10. So proud. So it took 4 months to do it but I don't care - my body will thank me for it. Comparison photo coming! Watch this space!

9.5kg down! 79kg!

Hello! I am under 80kg! I didn't quite believe it when I weighed 79.8kg last week, so hopping on this week and seeing 79kg is just amazing. I have been losing little amounts lately as I go a few days without tracking then only track for the last few.

The problem also was that my partner and I bought cheap Easter chocolate and that is a bad thing to have in the house. Even if he hides it, I find it. There are just some things I can't have in the house. Though, the Creme Egg is sitting in a jar on the shelf and I won't touch that until 10kg lost. Although, the funny thing is, the closer I get to it - the less I want it.

8.4kg lost total!

So I didn't reach my 10kg by Easter - that's okay. I still haven't had my Cadbury Creme Egg reward yet. I did have chocolate yesterday - but nothing like I would have eaten in previous years. I figure I'll still let myself have the chocolate when I reach 10kg.

I really want my 15kg lost massage! Right. Great week ahead.

7.9kg down!

Wow! I have 2.1kg to go in my Easter challenge (10kg off by Easter) - but I am not worried if I don't get it - I have decided that I am allowed the chocolate egg when I do get to 10kg. But we shall see - it would be great to be sitting at 78.8 in 2 weeks time.

I am 80.6 - hovering so close to that 'in the 70s' moment that will be so utterly awesome. It is a milestone to get past and a barrier. I can't wait to say 'never in the 80s again'.

This week I am planning on heading to the gym a few times and making sure that I have at least 3 times 20 minute cardio sessions - even if I do 6 times 10 minute sessions at home - boxing, skipping, dancing, general silliness, cycling - but get that heart rate up.

A 15km ride today!

I would have never thought a year ago I could ride 1km let alone 15! My boyfriend and I entered into one of the bike week circuits around the city and rode through the 7km underground section of the new tunnel that has been built. It was a fantastic ride, which we completed in a little over an hour with a few stops along the way to take photos.

I am so proud of myself. Sore, but proud

Total loss of 7.2kg!!!

So between my last post and this post I got some simple maths wrong. Last time I was at 6.9kg lost (not 6.5 silly me) - so this week with a loss of 400grams I am now 7.2kg lost! I am really happy with myself, and I believe I have had a good week with some good exercise sessions. I had a few days where I ate a bit too much, and one day where I ate a meal made for me which I just had to eat out of politeness (it was a cream-based pasta meal). Overall 400 grams is excellent!

I am so pleased with myself. Above are two pictures of me with my new Maiocchi dresses that I got on sale (they are Summer dresses!). Very very exciting! I am also really sick today with a rather nasty cold that kept me up all night and the pressure in my head is a killer. It means I can't exercise at the moment but I am hoping I will be well enough tomorrow to do some weights. I am also nearly 1/3 of the way there!

No loss but plenty of room in my jeans

When I bought these size 16 jeans they were tight. I mean, really tight. The lady in the shop said good jeans were tight jeans and they would give a little when I wore them and tighten up after a wash. They did just that. Except now they have plenty of give in them. So much that I will require a new pair of jeans soon. A size 14 perhaps! At first they too will be tight, and then they will give!

I did not lose any weight this week - my weight stayed the same. I am not worried. I had a week that involved an all-nighter, about 6 dinners in restaurants (friends came in from overseas) and I ate an entire packet of jelly lollies in one hit. It was disgusting (both in behaviour and afterwards).

So this week has started with good vibes, and a plan for the gym tomorrow with Sarah.

My entire visual weight history with WW

by the way

Here's a snapshot of me in the last 12 weeks. You can see I really wasn't taking WW seriously pre January 4 when I though "dammit, this is it! I am ready". Now look at me! Also, I have totally bypassed 82kg! I went straight from 83.1 to 81.7! Wah! I can't wait to get under 80!!

Total loss 6.5kg! I fit into my cue pants!!!

1.4kg loss!! So today I wore my very expensive cue business pants out. No one else in the world except me knew what it meant to wear those pants. I bought them when I was busting out of them because I thought I needed them (the biggest size the store went to was 14 and it was a generous 14)... then I never wore them and couldn't fit into them.

Today... today! I fit into my pants. They slid on and while the waist was snug, it wasn't uncomfortable and I could sit down with no issues. Around the leg fit great. I am pleased!! Last week I was very good food wise and fit in some exercise too. I drank lots of water and I didn't go over my points. I am just so happy with myself. I really think I am starting to look better.

A happy/sad point was when I put on another expensive piece of clothing - size 16 fully lined Jacqui E skirt and it sort of floated around my waist. It was lovely to feel that but also sad that an expensive skirt is getting too big! And I nearly fit into my grey corporate dress that was another silly purchase. I put it on and while it fit I still need a little more room around the bust. I look amazing in it, so I'll take a photo when I can.

In 20 days on March 21 I will be riding 15km as part of bike week on the "Taste of the Tunnel" circuit with my boyfriend Sky. There's a new tunnel under the city and I can't wait to ride it. In fact, I can't wait to ride 15km! We get sent a number bib (it's not a race but still cool) and I even ordered a "size 14" shirt to wear when we ride! One day it will be too big for me! Imagine that?!

mmmnngh

I now have chocolate and coke in my belly, and while for a brief moment the taste was sensational, now I just feel full of coke and chocolate... not cool.

Saturday afternoon... just me and my rather large assignment

So I should be writing something else but I just thought I'd share with my blog my intense sugar cravings I am fighting right now. I am so glad that I am here, in a house that has practically no 'crap' in it (because I know I will eat it if it is here) and not at the house BBQ that is happening a few suburbs away with my friends (I have a big assignment to do which is why I am not there). I called my partner to see how he was going and he mentioned that there was rainbow cake. My mouth watered. He has instructions to bring me home one can of coke (which I usually split with him to give me a 1.5 point serve) and one freddo frog (strawberry flavour) for two points which I will split with him for 1 point.

Every day I can understand more and more why I am overweight. I just ate such an amazing amount of things. And as much as I can just look at what skinny people are eating and wonder why they are thin, they don't eat the bad stuff all the time...

Sweet... fluffy... icing topped cake... random sugar post...

(also I did a pretend weigh in today as if it was Monday... I am looking forward to a nice loss on Monday if I can keep myself on track this weekend.

400 grams lost - 5.4kg down total

A 400 gram loss which is pretty awesome considering I had a very nibbly weekend. There was a picnic on Saturday which I turned up to where there were gummy bears, nuts, chips, dip and cheese. And of course I hadn't eaten anything substantial before turning up so I nibbled away until some kind folk brought along fruit and some healthier looking crackers.

Then Sunday there was a visit to Australia Zoo and while I had brought a few snacks like cereal, yoghurt and bananas, I still snacked away on the hot chips and pie my partner brought. I must say, I do like that he doesn't say "should you be eating that?"... lovely bloke of mine.

But anyway, a loss is a loss and I am pleased. I exercised this morning with Sarah, then rode to uni and back so I have lots of exercise awesomeness today. Totally pumped for the week ahead!

The picture is of me in the size 14 pants from Cue... expensive expensive pants... The legs are starting to fit nicely, but the waist is still tight! A few kilos to go before it feels comfortable. On my way to 10kg lost which is great.

Discovering weaknesses

I was at a meeting yesterday that went from 9am-1pm and around 11am they had catering. I was proud of myself that I didn't eat any of the cakes or biscuits that were out, but I did go a little nuts on the mini sandwiches. I probably had the equivalent of two whole sandwiches filled with various toppings. But I would never eat two sandwiches in a sitting anymore - isn't it funny that they were in small bite sized pieces and I was able to eat more? Also, food on a platter is not good in front of me. I just want to eat it.

I then had a very munchy afternoon after that and had practically eaten all my points. For dinner I had one poached egg on one piece of toast with a pile of stir-fried veges and garlic. It was very nice, but of course an hour later I was hunting for things to eat. Also, I have a lot of study to do, and I miss eating lots of chocolate and sugary drinks when I study, so that was very hard too.

Sarah and I went to the gym this morning for 30 minutes. Her knee is bad so she is limited in what she can do. I felt exhausted afterwards because my last piece of equipment was the rowing machine. I beat my old record and rowed 1000m in 4:30... my legs were like jelly afterwards and my lungs were burning. I feel pretty good now though...

My BMI is under 30!

Wow! For the first time in a long time, my BMI is under 30 (according to the ticker factory!) - I am now considered "overweight" rather than "obese"

I made it to 5kg! 300 grams lost this week

So here is my 5kg present. I just made it. I am right on 5kg lost! Wow! It seems small but I know it is large. I need to do that 4 more times and I will be at goal. My first present was supposed to be earrings but I couldn't find anything that I liked. So I bought this broach/hair piece at a market on Valentines Day (we were out for breakfast) and I thought it was quite gorgeous and something very nice to wear.

I am not surprised at only 300grams. I think this is the closest to "gaining" I have come, and I probably didn't gain because I went to the gym 4 times last week. Sarah and I went to Cannberra on Saturday and we dined out with a friend who chose a very nice Italian place - but there was NOTHING points friendly on the menu. So we just bit the bullet and had pizza, and even though I only had around 4 small slices, they were very oily and very cheesy.

I am looking forward to a much better week this week! Plus, it's 7 weeks until Easter Sunday.... I'm onto my 5kg challenge. Wow. 5kg more... I will be at 78.8 then.. can you imagine? In the 70s!

8 week Easter challenge

I am allowed one creme egg only. One.

In order to get this creme egg, I need to be at 10kg loss by Easter Sunday. That's 8 weeks away. So 8 weeks to lose 5.3kg. I say yes! I think this will be a fun challenge.

I know that weight loss is a funny thing, and everything could go crazy, but I really want to work towards this.

One creme egg is 3.5 points. I am addicted. I can taste it now. It will be so sickly sweet.

(image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvk/7670252/)

The chart

So I am in bed doing some work, and ahead of me on the wardrobe is my chart. I look up at it, and while I am very proud that I have come this far, I'm also a little daunted by how much weight is left to go. Yes, it is broken up into mini goals.... earrings very soon, a yoga mat at 10% and the coffee machine at 10kg that my boyfriend is also looking forward to... but sometimes I just think "unnnnhhhhgghhhhhhh".

But I know, pretty soon, I'll be looking at the chart and seeing more weight lost than is left to go...

1.1kg lost! Total loss of 4.7kg in 5 weeks!

So Sarah and I have been on WW now for 5 weeks. I am utterly over the moon that I am 4.7kg lighter than I was on January 4th. I am 300grams shy of my first present which is a pair of earrings for myself.

Big news for last week is we joined a gym. We are now 12 month members at Fernwood and I couldn't be happier. I am loving the classes and we have vowed to go at least 3 times a week. We're trying out the bodyjam class tomorrow at 6am which is a bit like dance aerobics. I can't really feel any major difference in my clothes, but I did get a compliment from my man, which always makes me feel good.

I tried on the expensive business pants again, and while the "legs" feel good, the waist is still a bit tight. I'm working on it.

PS...

Here are two photos taken today 1 February 2010. I have just put on some very expensive long pants I bought from Cue last year in late October just before heading off to a conference. I couldn't find any long pants in any store (wrong season) and so I bought these very very very expensive pants. They only just fit and I was desperate. I ended up not wearing them the whole trip because I couldn't sit down in them! I am going to try them on each week to see when they start to fit, and then get too big!

1.5kg excitment

This week I was aiming to get the scales somewhere in 85... to my surprise I have bypassed 85 all together to weigh in at 84.9 which is a 1.5kg loss! I am so proud of myself.

Especially because last week was a discovery on how bad fasta pasta was for you (4 phone calls interstate, and many people later I finally found someone who would give me the nutritional information for an entree sized spaghetti bolognaise -12.5 points! The main size was 19.5 points) and then Australia Day on Tuesday which meant BBQ sausages, eggplant, mushroom, cheese, chips, alcohol, sausages, sausages, did I meantion sausages? I ate a lot less than I usually would have because I was aware of everything but I felt that I did go overboard.

I totally credit this loss to the amount of cycling I have been doing. My boyfriend bought me a bike two weeks ago and now we ride everywhere. We ride to the shops, the park, the movies, friend's houses. I highly recommened it.

Plus, a few days ago I felt a moment of total defeat. I felt like I was never going to lose this weight (I was angry because my bf and I were heading to the movies and I really wanted to have lots of snacks and lollies and realised I couldn't behave like that food wise anymore if I wanted to be healthy). I felt that low jealous anger you get when you see skinny people eating what they want and I wish I could do that. But I got past it. I realised that 2kgs lost is 2kgs lost and it is a fantastic achievement. Now I'm up to 3.6kg lost and I am not looking back.

This'll be the start of something big...err.. small

Let's start this blog with a dress. I'm a couple of kilos down in my epic weight loss adventure, and this time, this time I am absolutely determined to get to goal and stay at goal. I want this more than anything and I can't wait for the dresses that will come my way every kilo I lose.

Here's a brief recap.

Obese since leaving high school (quite chubby in high school) but I stacked on the weight at uni and I've been big for about 10 years now. I was always the fat friend, the one who sat on the sidelines, minded people's bags at the beach while they swam and hid my size under baggy shirts or black (slimming, of course?). I have done Weight watchers before, and lost 10kg here or there, but suddenly stopped going to meeting for whatever reason and it all creeps back on. I'm 26 turning 27 this year and I don't want to waste another minute of my life minding someone else's bag because I want to hide my shape.

My friend Sarah and I are back on the wagon and we both have each other for support. I've been at this again since Monday January 4 and here's my stats!!

week 0 - 88.5kg - START
week 1 - 87.8kg ( -0.7)
week 2 - 87.2kg (-0.6) (-1.3 overall)
week 3 - 86.4kg (-0.8) (2.1 overall)

So the picture of me in the dress is at 86.4kg, 2.1kg down. I can't wait to get under 80, as my face gets a bit thinner then!

Here's me at the "start" - near my biggest - December 2009 at a Christmas celebration. I cannot wait to get rid of my big arms. I usually hide them in photographs. Who am I hiding from?