Sophie's Slimming World and Cinema critiques!

[cheekychinchilla]

Photo of this dress?? Lol!

Wow, surprise visit from your Mum? At least she's staying elsewhere so you can go out tonight and spend time together tomorrow.

Interesting choice of outfit, sounds really good! And yeah, alternative places are just full of half naked women lol! You'll probably feel overdressed What's G going as?? Or doesn't he do dressing up?
Glad you've had such a big boost in confidence and I agree, it would certainly help me enjoy a night out

Have a brill time mate.xx

 

[Summer86]

Outfit sounds fab, well done on the fab loss this week xxx

 

[Cheese Thief]

Oh wow, I'm so happy for you! You've really been doing great and having a catch up reading your diary has really made me feel positive. It's amazing what you've achieved so far with SW, that -5 is out of this world at your stage of weight loss!

Looks like you've been having a fab time lately too with your parties and Thorpe Park, the pics look great and you honestly don't look 'overweight' at all - stupid BMI!

How did it go last night? Did you see Adam? Xxx

 

[bloodcoveredprincess]

Yay you on your new sticker and amazing weight loss x

 

[Tetris]

Here's the halloween outfit:



And one of G and me:



And the stretchy size 8 dress I tried on - lol! :



It was a bit frilly for me and boobs didn't fit in it (there weren't realy cups, just padded squish area) but thought it would have been OK for a devil outfit. NEVER would have worn it again though the outfit I chose is literally a piece of lingerie with a skirt on top- I'll wear that skirt again! And it came with the horns too I forgot my trident though in our rush to the train station!

Ooph I'm hungover! Not too bad but just feel a bit bleh and queasy... Mum is on her way over from staying with her parents.
Bumped into Adam (the guy I dated) last night, felt really good like "haha, look at me now!" because we kinda stopped dating abruptly (I couldn't find him at a club when we'd previously been out on a date then met up with some friends for the club; his friend told me he was in the smoking area chatting to some girl he liked or something and had been for a while... could have been Chinese whispers gone wrong but I was pretty devistated so found some random guy to pull and then left and avoided him after that he showed up at my friend (who he didn't know)'s gig to try and meet me but I was pretty stand off-ish after that... A couple months later he was in a relationship that lasted 2 years or so)
Aaaanyway, so I was kinda like "ha!" even though I probably read the situation all wrong as it was really clear he was into me, but I couldn't see it still, felt good to show up feeling great and could tell he felt like he was missing out
/cocky rant over!

I got drunk but it was the wrong kind of drunk... Like, instead of all dancey and fun like at the party last week, I was feeling blurgh and too drunk having surpassed the fun stuff in the space of one drink! I blame the gin, but we didn't have much vodka in the house! I had around 25cl of Gin and 30cl of vodka *gulp* soooo that's about 55 syns! 1200 calories...
I didn't have dinner so my breakfast (yoghurt and fruit) and lunch (subway salad) bring the day's calories total to 1797 on MFP. I just looked up my BMR and it is 1796.8 LOLLL! Almost EXACTLY the amount of calories I ate yesterday! BMR is how many calories you burn if you spend the day in bed (depending on your height, weight and age) so I hopefully beat that yesterday with the dancing at least means I shouldn't expect a gain from this.

Today I had an apple and cheesy scrambled eggs on a wholemeal roll (sliced into 3 and toasted as suggested on another thread- seems like toast that way but much nicer than regular wholemeal toast!) and for the rest of the day will have soup and my Hex's if I can manage (so probably a bowl of cereal) for a detox day.

 

[Tetris]

P.s. Forgot to say but thanks for all the lovely comments guys made my hungover morning much brighter

All I have had since breakfast is soup and I'm pretty knackered so am guessing we'll head to bed soon! Suoer low cal day if so. Might have that small hex bowl of cereal first though ^^ so 1 syn for reduced sugar ketchup on my eggs.

I REALLY want to start doing my arms work out again; they look fine in that picture but in others they really let me down! Shane my damn knee has been a nusance... Will have to get it looked at. I am going to start the exercises again despite the knee thing as it was really exciting to see the measurements change so drastically in 12 pretty easy and quick session!
For anyone interested the routine I followed (in one session) was:

20x chair dips
10x press ups
(repeat)
30 sec plank
30 sec tricep curls x2 (though often skipped these as weights were downstairs so I forgot!)

Took about 6 mins and I did these 12 times over a month and lost 1" off arms, 2" off thighs and 2" off waist!! Motivation and a half! I'll start again in the morning!

 

[Tetris]

I just post about this on Cheese Theif's diary; my mum suggested today that I might have a slight gluten sensitivity (I mentioned how I dont lose weight when I eat carbs) and I was just having a read up when I came across this interesting article about food sensitivity being a huge factor with obesity: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...r-claims-low-fat-diets-CAUSE-weight-gain.html
It also mentions why simply calorie counting doesnt work for everyone.

I might try eliminating gluten from my diet for a couple of weeks and then reintroducing a bit as apparently this is a good test to see if it disagrees with you, as you will notice he reaction if you have eliminated ALL gluten. Might be tough though basically means half of my HExB's would be out... Cereal/bars, wholemeal rolls...
OK so I mifht just reduce the gluten and see how my weight loss goes basically I'd love gluten to be the issue as I f*cking LOVE rice and miss it so much! I would happily give up cereal and pasta for rice, potatoes and beans back. So what I think I'll do is try a week or two where I allow green days with rice, potatoes and beans, but avoid wholeme rolls and reduce the wheat based cereals/bars.
I know this sounds silly but I'm kinda excited to try this I sosososooo want to be able to eat rice and potatoes again, maybe just pasta and bread are my culprits?
*sigh* I dont know... I have had slow losses on weeks where I have had green days with not much pasta... And I am getting decent losses with cereal and wholemeal wheat in my diet...
Basically I want to explore this as when I get to target I want to be able to eat rice a few times a week without gaining... I dont miss pasta much anymore, but I get serious rice cravings!

Maybe I'll have a look back through my diary and see if the slow weeks pre Red had a faur bit of pasta or if it was rice mainly...
I will do another red day tomorrow (pre mon WI) then start my exercises and introducing gluten free green days.

 

[Tetris]

The more I look into thr gluten free thing, the more excited I get LOL!
I dont have celiac disease so dont haveto be super careful and cut out doy sauce etc, but I am def going to cut out the wheat based cereal/bars (*cries*, though I think the rice puffs might be OK!) and all forms of rye, bulgar and wheat. The main things are pasta (which I avoid anyway), wholemeal bread, matzo and rivita. Hopefully in return I can reintroduce rice, potatoes, beans, etc
I seriously think this could be why carbs have seemed to not agree with me! I had lost 5lbs a few days after I'd stuffed my face with rice/sushi... I have a feelig that week I had less cereal etc than normal, too.
I will basically do everything the same but cut the wheat cereal/bread HExB and have olive oil and potatoes etc for hexB instead. I am not so much looking to boost my losses (would be a bonus though!) as find a happy rice involved diet to hopefully maintain a long time after target
I really really think (and hope!) this will work... Can people be sensitive to all carbs in general? I think this gluten thing is the most common sensitivity in that area... Fjfkflfkdh I just cant wit to have a week of rice and potatoes, even if it doesnt work LOL. Let's just hope I dont gain loads trying

 

[*Sparkles*]

I have a wheat intolerance and if you are trying to cut out wheat then it's not going to be easy. Wheat is in EVERYTHING as it's used as a thickener. So your beans ... Yup most brands add wheat to the sauce.

It's not easy and it's a nightmare ... I wish I wasn't intolerant. Be wary because if you cut it out for too long your body can sometimes not accept it again when you try to reintroduce

 

[Tetris]

Thanks fir the info Sparkles! I am worried that my body might reject it later... Hmm...
Am not intollerant so wont be worried about cutting it out in small things like sauces, I already dont eat pasta/noodles as part of 'diet food' now so the only staples to cut out will be cereal bars, wheat cereal (am guessing rice puffs are OK?), matzo and wholemeal rolls. I do love cereal though and cereal bars are SO handy. I guess I will go about 90% gluten free, I just want to reintroduce rice and see if I can still lose the same basically!

Slept crappy last night, woke up at 6.30am (though clocks went back so more like 7.30) and am sooo full of cold now. Havent got the energy to edit spent some time clearing the mountainous clutter on my coffee table and then made cheesy scrambled eggs with fried onion for breakfast.
So psyched to start gluten free/rice and pots back tomorrow!! I am looking forward to WI too after such a low cal day yest... Really want to look into this Fast/5:2 thing but have been so busy. In the mean time am throwing in some vaguely low cal days and fingers crossed for another stupidly good loss LOL.

Just did my measurements and I've lost another inch off my waist which is nice.
The lingerie top I wore on haloween was a 36B (OMG! Starting to be a size I can actually buy bras for! Frigging 42A/B was impossible!) and looked up and saw that 36 inches is generally a size 12 I measured myself as 38 inches though but that bra piece didnt feel tight. OMG I can finally go and buy a NICE (push up) bra! I have never had a nice bra :/ just whatever I could fit at M&S!

I'm going to clear out the cupboard of most gluten as it is so full of stuff I dont even eat anymore (rice cakes and loads of rivita I barely have, TONNES of pasta!) so I will leave some pasta for G and make some space as my main cupboard is overflowing

 

[Belletabbycat]

That is fab, nice underwear is so lovely to wear, I have loads of sets, only from Asda but I love knowing that it all matches. New underwear will be my target treat

I know I don't loose on green at all, even early on, rice and noodles really bloat me tho I am ok on limited pulses but tend to be careful with those! But potato is ok in limited amounts for me. I have only had pasta once since I started this time and rice once, I think it helps me, tho haven't been scientific about it.

 

[bloodcoveredprincess]

Here's the halloween outfit:

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And one of G and me:

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And the stretchy size 8 dress I tried on - lol! :

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It was a bit frilly for me and boobs didn't fit in it (there weren't realy cups, just padded squish area) but thought it would have been OK for a devil outfit. NEVER would have worn it again though the outfit I chose is literally a piece of lingerie with a skirt on top- I'll wear that skirt again! And it came with the horns too I forgot my trident though in our rush to the train station!

Ooph I'm hungover! Not too bad but just feel a bit bleh and queasy... Mum is on her way over from staying with her parents.
Bumped into Adam (the guy I dated) last night, felt really good like "haha, look at me now!" because we kinda stopped dating abruptly (I couldn't find him at a club when we'd previously been out on a date then met up with some friends for the club; his friend told me he was in the smoking area chatting to some girl he liked or something and had been for a while... could have been Chinese whispers gone wrong but I was pretty devistated so found some random guy to pull and then left and avoided him after that he showed up at my friend (who he didn't know)'s gig to try and meet me but I was pretty stand off-ish after that... A couple months later he was in a relationship that lasted 2 years or so)
Aaaanyway, so I was kinda like "ha!" even though I probably read the situation all wrong as it was really clear he was into me, but I couldn't see it still, felt good to show up feeling great and could tell he felt like he was missing out
/cocky rant over!

I got drunk but it was the wrong kind of drunk... Like, instead of all dancey and fun like at the party last week, I was feeling blurgh and too drunk having surpassed the fun stuff in the space of one drink! I blame the gin, but we didn't have much vodka in the house! I had around 25cl of Gin and 30cl of vodka *gulp* soooo that's about 55 syns! 1200 calories...
I didn't have dinner so my breakfast (yoghurt and fruit) and lunch (subway salad) bring the day's calories total to 1797 on MFP. I just looked up my BMR and it is 1796.8 LOLLL! Almost EXACTLY the amount of calories I ate yesterday! BMR is how many calories you burn if you spend the day in bed (depending on your height, weight and age) so I hopefully beat that yesterday with the dancing at least means I shouldn't expect a gain from this.

Today I had an apple and cheesy scrambled eggs on a wholemeal roll (sliced into 3 and toasted as suggested on another thread- seems like toast that way but much nicer than regular wholemeal toast!) and for the rest of the day will have soup and my Hex's if I can manage (so probably a bowl of cereal) for a detox day.

Whit Woooooooooo.......

 

[bloodcoveredprincess]

That is fab, nice underwear is so lovely to wear, I have loads of sets, only from Asda but I love knowing that it all matches. New underwear will be my target treat

I know I don't loose on green at all, even early on, rice and noodles really bloat me tho I am ok on limited pulses but tend to be careful with those! But potato is ok in limited amounts for me. I have only had pasta once since I started this time and rice once, I think it helps me, tho haven't been scientific about it.

I love nice underwear... one of the things I find must depressing about being overweight is how difficult it is to get nice undies (that I can actually afford)....

 

[Tetris]

Thanks everyone!
Awkward secret: as a teenager I wore one of my mums bras as she was an A cup and her bra had stretched from a lot of use it was the only one I could find that was comfortable and fit and I was too ashamed to ask for help- had it for YEARS. :/
I have never really had nice looking underwear- the odd polka dot knickers from prinark that I liked maybe- I must treat myself to some new styff as the old stuff is even less sexy baggy *hides in shame* hahaha

I am looking forward to the gluten free carbs tomorrow but will take it easy on them! Our freezer is totally f*cked so no meat in the house other than some bacon

Have been going through old pictures from last year to compile a before and after(/current) thing- ashamed to look at these pictures! All that time I was lying to myself and pretending I was the size I am now
I cant stop staring at that halloween pic- IS THAT REALLY ME?!
My arms looked awful in a couple of the other shots but cant believe my legs- no knee fat! And my waist- no rolls! *****...! over the moon.
Tummy is still prominent and hidden under that skirt so hopefully the last stone and a half will nip that in the bud. Before vs Now pics coming v. soon!

 

[Tetris]

Oooookay! Here is my before and current comparison of my journey so far!
Chose the worst body pics I could find- am usually fairly photogenic but these took the cake (and ate the lot!) so for once I have no shame to display horrible, horrible pictures... next to a recent one that I quite love!


The first four pics are from holidays in summer '12 (Venice in the first, Portugal in the others) where I weighed perhaps a bit more than 20st 4 as just before starting SW in December I had a fairly healthy month.
Anyway- feels crazy to look at them... especially the first two, just... wow... I had no idea I was so big- I really blocked out my obesity and imagined myself to be normal and tried to act like I was fine with my size. I was too scared to diet because I didn't want people to know I was ashamed or uncomfortable, I wanted to be too cool to care about weight, etc... But I was living that lie for 10 years! I've been obese since a preteen or something!
Just this past maybe 6 weeks I am starting to feel slimmer and it is the most incredible feeling... I have never been so confident!
So now I am going to try hard to reach my target by xmas (though understand it may not happen- but I can try anyway!) because I'd like to start looking at travelling in spring and want to be a petite size 10-12 by then still a ways to go as although I'm fitting into some 14s I am squeezing into 16's still in some shops! But I can feel the changes happening faster now, people are noticing and telling me I look like I've lost more just half a stone since I last saw them- so I'm hoping the sizes will drop faster over the next 1.5 stone

Am going to try and get this in my sig now- woop!

Bit stressed as I've been feeling too sick to start my edit today; mum came over again briefly and I did some sorting out of other stuff... My editing deadline is the shortest for this project than any I've had, as the first week was wasted finishing the previous deadlines! Now I have a week to get a first cut together- A WEEK! Usually takes 3-4! And in that time I have social shiz happening for halloween! EEK! I am going to focus my heart out between tomorrow morning and Thurs eve and try and make this happen!

Potentially having a small halloween party on Friday night; a handful or two of people over to play poker, bobbing for apples, another excuse to wear my devil gear^ (LOL) and maybe a horror film. Thursday night we are going to see the 1922 Nosferatu in town with friends my all time favourite horror film! Yipee! And Weds eve will have to goth up and watch The Crow as it's my Devil's Night tradition! This is us last year for it:


(photobooth 'bug eye' filter, our eyes aren't quite that odd )

Not quite as hot as Brandon Lee, but I think we rock it anyway


*swoons* x

 

[bloodcoveredprincess]

Amazing difference..... but I have to say you are beautiful now but you were beautiful then too

 

[Jodieboo]

Looking fab hun!!

 

[Tetris]

Thanks guys!
G just said that I never looked like the one on the left/must have been a dodgy angle... hmm lol

Two very low cal days in a row. WI tomorrow but am SO stuffed up with a cold that I wonder if that might damage my chances of a loss, especially after a big loss last week (and... boozefest...)

Last gluten filled day before WI, the gluten free experiment starts tomorrow so savoured some last wheat treats!

Red:
____

B: Banana, scrambled eggs with cheese (hexa1) and fried onions

L: superfree soup, wholemeal roll (hexb1) with smidgened of butter (1.5) and some jam (1)

D: bowl of coco shreddies with milk and a chopped banana

Snack: activia 0%, half a meringue (1.5), fruit winder (3.5 I think)

Syns: 7.5
____

I have been craving the unlimited sushi place non stop all bloody week, so I may well just have to go there for lunch tomorrow via the fruit and veg stall for my next bout of soup's ingredients...

x

 

[cheekychinchilla]

Wow at your pictures mate I spotted them first on my diary so you have a nice little shout out on there
It's amazing looking back at photo's and seeing how far you've come. But what's better is now you finally see and believe it, if that makes sense?!
You looked amazing in your Halloween outfit. Look at your waist Really, really proud of you!!

Love the pics of you and G lol! You two are mental

Good luck starting the low wheat/gluten days. I'm sure you can do it! You've managed every other challenge you've set for yourself xx

 

[Tetris]

Thanks Cheeky!
It's a but scary looking at those pics, embarassing... But it wad funny liokinh through with G and when I found a particularly fat one I'd go "oooh that's a good one!" and G would laugh and say "NOT a good one of you..."

I think I need different challenges to keep me on my toes... I am so accoustemed to Red now that I dont even think about it, time to throw in something different!