The Stats: Week 3

Update 06/02/11: Before you read on, you may be interested to read Week 4. The Stats contained in this post are phooey. I actually put on 1kg in Week 2, but I was too ashamed to admit it. In Week 3 I actually lost 0.5kg, but that is still more than Day 1.




Now some of you may be looking at the title of this post and be thinking eh? Haven't we already seen Week 3? Yes technically you have, but that's because I realised I had the titles incorrecty labled.  What was Week 1 is now Day 1, what was Week 2 is now Week 1 and so on. The titles ought to be retrospective - the Stats reflect the effectiveness of my weeks efforts. And now they do (although the actual web-links don't seem to have changed, I am not that technically adept to fix it). I'll get over it... done.

So.

See Week 2 Stats here. I maintained last week. And this week....

Weight: 96.8kg/213.4lb/15st3.5lb

I've stayed the same - again! GGGRRR!!

Coming up in a bit, Week 3 Review - see what happened, and what I plan to do about it....

The Stats: Week 2

Update 06/02/11: Before you read on, you may be interested to read Week 4. The Stats contained in this post are phooey. I actually put on 1kg, but I was too ashamed to admit it.






Don't know about anyone else, but it's been a tough week. Not food wise but EVERYTHING else. Also, I've had my womanly week and seeing as I have to deal with my normal chcocolate addictions, this week is 10 times harder.

See the Week 1 results here. So lets see how I did...

Weight: 96.8kg/213.4lb/15st3.5lb

So the loss really is neglible so this week for me is a maintain, which I am pleased about. I thought for sure I'd put on. Here's to some darn hard graft in Week 3!!

How did you fair this week? Tales of woe...?

Review: Week 1

So I figured after I post my results, I'd share with you how my week went. The ups, the downs and all the wobbly bits in between.

It's been a bit of a tough week for me, not because I started finally doing something about my weight but because I was on day shifts Saturday-Tuesday and my OH was really ill with the flu.

Now what's the big deal with a day shift I hear you ask. Well mine are from 0645-1630hrs. I leave home at around 0610hrs and get home 1700hrs. It's a frickin long day made worse by the fact I AM NOT a morning person and struggle to go to sleep early enough, so end up going to work on 3 or 4hrs sleep. I then fall asleep when I get home - vicious circle yadda-yadda.

So if I'm lucky enough not to be unconscious in the evening, OH will do dinner as I am simply too exhausted. I say that like it's a good thing. His skills are limited to beans on toast, pasta (depends what with) and oven food (like chips, some version of Birdseye chicken and peas - always peas). But this week he's had flu, or as we call it Mafflu (my nickname for him is Maffew). So he's been a useless whiny child led up in bed. 

I admit that I have had pizza one night, a chicken sandwich with salad (from mummy), a roast (from mummy) tomato soup with tiger bread (*drool*) and some other miscellaneous non-fantastic stuff some other night.

The Monday Mong was because I had spent all evening finishing OH's application form for a job as he was too ill then going round mummy's to print it. Great way to have food made for you though ;)

That's the downers of this week. Along with the odd biscuit at work (Ssh).

Upsides this week:

I have prepared my work food the night before. So simple right? But I used to just chuck random stuff in a bag at 6am and head out the door ill-prepared, then find myself buying crisps during the day or going to Morrisons as I was actual hungry. I need both breakfast, lunch and something to fill the 5hrs inbetween.

Guess what I did? (so proud!) I took 5-a-day!! That's right!! I took a selection of fruit (apple, kiwi, plums, clementines) and a veg (either pepper or carrot). One day I even had baked beans which count toward 1 5-a-day. There was also a yogurt (low fat) thrown in for good measure after breakfast.

I have also made a concerted effort to drink more. It was not unusual for me to only have one glass of Diet Pepsi in a whole day. Seriously. I am not a massive fan of water and cannot sit there just drinking gulp after gulp of it. So I got some low-calorie orange squash to pop in it. Don't really like squash either but it's better than water. That's going well. I can tell because I pee more. Ick. Hate using public toilets.

Although I lost weight this week, I know that I did not make enough effort. There is more that I can do so make a bigger impact on myself and my habits.

As I'm on night shifts this weekend, I shall be in the gym on my break at 4am. This is my favourite time to go. Why? No one else is in there so I can make all the silly straining faces I need to get me to maintain 140 steps/revs a minute on the cross-trainer! I also use the weight machines as I need to strengthen my shoulder muscles. All good stuff. And although just before going it feels like the dumbest idea in the world, nothing beats that feeling of achievement when you're done.

Anywho, that is all from me on Week 1. How did you fair this week? What were your ups and downs? Or were you lucky enough not to have any...

The Stats: Week 1

 See what Day 1 Stats were here to remind yourself how we measured up.

Right then folks!

Are we ready?

Weight: 96.9kg/213.5lb/15st3.5lb

I LOST!! WHOOP!! Not massively, lets see how much:

0.68kg/1.5lb

How much did you lose this week?

Monday Mong

Nuff said.

The Stats: Day 1

Right, here it is, the first weigh in and inch count...

Weight: 97.8kg/215lbs/15st5lbs

Bust:43in

Waist: 38in

Hips:46in

Saddlebags: 52in

What are your Day 1 Stats?

Welcome!

Hello everyone, so I have finally set up Fat Bird Blog!

 As some of you may know from Twitter, I have been chatting about wanting to lose weight. I have known for a while that I ought to, but even after buying my first ever pair of size 18 jeans I still didn't have the motivation to do it. Not helped by the fact that the Other Half (OH) doesn't really mind. 

The day I just went shi- I gotta do something, was Christmas Day (2010 obviously) when an ad-lib photo was taken of me and I look like actual Fat Monica from friends. I am not exaggerating. One day I'll get the photo from my sister and show you.

I'd been thinking about how I could do this and when talking to a bunch of skinny beautiful girls I decided I should do a blog to track my loss. Yes, loss. I hope.

By making it public, I hope that it'll 'shame' me into losing it, a bit like on my sister blog when I admitted I had a spending addiction. It truly was the best step I took and I'm well on my way to being reformed!

So here's my story so far. My weight has been so up and down, I've got motion sickness just thinking about it. But rather than talk about it, I'll show you. Here are some photos that show my journey so far:

(Left) My 18th Birthday - March 2006: I always carried a little weight but I was OK, a 12-14. (Right) Out for a friends birthday November 2007 - It had piled on in around 6 months.

 (Left) My weight gain peaked NYE 2007 - I was a 16 top, probably 18 bottom but had stretched old jeans that were 16's. (Right) Starting to lose March 2008, here's me as Bridesmaid at my sisters wedding May 2008.

The last time I was happy with what I looked like, when I met OH December 2008. I had lost around 4.5st and back to a 12-14. I remember my 3rd 'date' with OH was 22/12/08. We baked cakes and I wore skinny little denim shorts, black tights and a black jumper. I looked hot even if I do say so myself!!

And here's me last night. All back on. I'm a 14 top and 18 bottom. Didn't think people could stomach me in pants and bra, so leggings it was. (Oh and the tummy holding in thing, done it since I was 14 so do it without thinking now, trust me, I have full bakery under there - baps and rolls!!)

Now I'll admit something to you all. When I lost the weight in 2008, it was not all my own hard work. I had help from a tiny little pill called Reductil. I went to my GP, and asked for support to lose weight. For a month I attended the Nurse's weight loss clinic and I lost around 10lbs myself. They then told me as I'd made the effort, they'd give me something to help speed it along. Reductil is a gastric band in a pill. It makes you feel fuller quicker and suppresses appetite. I had to stop taking it immediately January 2009 as I developed mild tachycardia (fast heart rate).

Three guesses what happened?

Yup, I put it all back on like a stereotypical fat person. At the time my excuse was I'd had no time to prepare myself without it. One day I took them, the next I didn't. I couldn't handle having an appetite and hunger, so, I ate. Pathetic excuse much? Yuh.

Any of you thinking wow I gotta get me some of that, well you can't. It's since been withdrawn by the NHS. No idea why.

I'm not going to cheat this time. I want to lose it all by myself. I want to be back to a 12-14, and around 10.5-11st again (may seem heavy still, but that what I was Dec 2008). I wouldn't mind being there by Christmas, but if I could do it sooner well that's just the icing.

This is by far my biggest challenge, possibly more so than not spending, and I want to make it public *in case* anyone happens to read this.

Oh and the name? Well that comes from my own self degradation. I will say "yeah pass a biscuit, I'm a Fat Bird already!" If people know I know I'm large, then they can't put me down as I got in there first.

Anywho, if anyone else wants to join in then post a comment below, would love to help out others along the way :)