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My Weight Chart:

Only 1kg lost this week !

i have been so careful with what I eat all week, even though i slipped off the wagon a couple of times, (only small slips!) but its the time of the month and its a heavy one, again! I felt so bloated when I did the wii fit today and was surprised that I had lost a kilo this week, as I was sure the scales were going to say that I had put on some weight this week !!

Happy about my weight loss, clothes are getting loser and movements easier….

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It has been a rough week but I have been good with the Wii fit and in controlling my food intake during the day, at least. My downfall for food is happening in the evening but I am learning to prepare food for the following day in advance and keep it handy, and also saving some lunch for the 4pm ‘snack attack’ !

Wii fit – is going good and I have built upto burning 130 calories a day. I was quite chuffed when I could do the ‘long distance run’ and I can now do it three times continuously! Its not a lot, but for me, it is and it burns 25 calories every time I run on it. I love the Yoga on it and albeit it burns less than aerobics, it is quite relaxing and I enjoy the stretches.

As usual, I am drinking tons of water and my skin is looking nicer. My clothes are looser and I feel more active, but there’s a long way to go. The Diabetes medicine makes me feel ‘zombified’ so I have to kick that off asap and its given me the incentive to lose my weight as fast as I can to keep the diabetes under control.

I am going to experiment with Almond milk instead of normal milk this week, as I find having a glass of milk instead of a breakfast a lot more convenient and keeps me going until lunch time. However, I don’t appreciate the laxative effect this has!

I have converted my ticker to Kilograms instead of Pounds, as the Wii fit measures me in kilos and I just wanted to be consistent with the figures.  Still a long way to go but 19.2 kilos lost so far!

My Weight Chart:

Finally managed to upload the Weight chart !!

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Despite losing weight pretty fast, to my horror, I got diagnosed with Diabetes yesterday. Obviously not happy about it, but more determined to lose a lot more weight and faster.

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My log for this week …. (only writing when I ate!) 

Monday

Lunch – 1 glass milk

Dinner – 1 bagel with cream cheese, ½ choc chip cookie and small glass of milk

1 cup of tea with milk, a little bit of honey

Tuesday

Lunch – a can of V8 (70 cal)

Dinner – small cheeseburger

1 cup of tea with milk, a little bit of honey

Wednesday

Lunch – glass of milk

Dinner – 1 bagel with cream cheese and small glass of milk

Thursday

Breakfast – glass of milk

Lunch – a can of V8 (70 cal)

Dinner – 1 roti, ½ potato boiled and spiced up and a small bowl of homemade yogurt; homemade ginger pickle (just ginger/lemon juice and salt)

Snack – 1 cup of coffee, with cream and sugar

Friday

Breakfast – 1 banana

Lunch – glass of milk

Dinner – lentil soup and small bowl of homemade yogurt

(home made yogurt is made using skimmed milk)

Feeling hungry:

I haven’t had time to feel hungry and by the end of the day I fall asleep as soon as I have eaten…. Would like to reduce the quantity I eat in the evening as I can see that will be my downfall. Will be trying to keep food ready for dinner – by making food over the weekend for next week. Its good intentions, but not sure how far they will work!

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I am not sure who was more shocked when I weighed myself yesterday…me or the machine?
I moved to Toronto at the end of April and starting watching what I was eating from 1st May, but it was hard to be on a diet as my mum was visiting and we had guests visiting all the time. So, my proper diet started on the 3rd June but I have been extremely active since May.

The last 2 weeks have been a strict diet, watching and measuring every mouthful, but I didn’t get round to blogging, as its been very hectic. It was only, when the clothes started getting loser, and I could get into some shirt blouses that were extremely tight before, that I thought, I am actually losing weight !!

My Wii fit told me last night, that I have lost 5 lbs in the last 10 days.

I must start blogging on this to keep me going…. but I am really happy !!!

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Today we had another two portions of the chili con carne. I remembered to take a photograph:

I used up the spare calories by adding a teaspoon of sour cream.

I drank two glasses of Cranberry Juice Drink Light for medicinal reasons. I might drink another. The entire carton is 80 calories so that’s the maximum I could have (and I don’t *care* as long as I feel better :P).

I was a bit worried about making my sweet-and-sour sauce for the stir-fry but then decided I was being silly and I should just count it up and then work out if it should be banned afterwards.

It wasn’t as calorific as I expected – sometimes I forget that a little sugar goes a long way:

* This is a total guess but they were all simmered in the liquid and then removed so it should be a minimum of calories. Like chicken broth isn’t anything like the calories found in a whole chicken

I mixed all the ingredients and then simmered it back down to 250ml when strained – making the final mixture 0.75 calories per ml.

EDIT: D’oh – I didn’t count the tablespoon of oil that I fried the meat and veg in! So not quite as good as I thought.

894.5954 calories in food and 80 in drink is still under a thousand calories just over one thousand calories. I’m amazed I don’t feel hungry!