Princess Olanma...

20th November 2017

14th November 2017

I am quite pleased to say…I THINK IVE GOT MY MOJO BACK! *touchwood*

So, yes, Obinna was here last week (2nd – 8Th November) and I managed to be good for the 2nd and completely went off track on the 3rd- 5th however, I quickly snapped back into it on Monday morning of which I’m really pleased! So since Monday, I have been on track with eating healthy and working out and Im really proud of self. I weighed in today at 80.5kg – meaning I am about half way into this phase. Im excited! I will definitely win my next Dietbet which ends next Saturday.  

4th November 2017

So, I have been pretty consistent with my journey since September. I last weighed in at 82.1kg yesterday however my hubby came visiting and I’m finding it hard to stay on track with all the food around me - chances are I’ll be inconsistent till he leaves on the 8th 🙄. I don’t plan to weigh in till then.

I won another dietbet! Yay me!

So it’s 17th October 2017 – I weighed in today at 84.2kg! This has been my lowest this wave of weight loss. Nothing much to update other than I took my measurements last night

Arms – 15.5

Bust – 38

Waist – 36

Hip – 43

Thigh – 26 (L) 27 (R).

Yes, it’s another take on this journey. I started last week with so much anticipation and hope that by this time, I would have lost a good amount of weight. Well, that has not been the case!

So, last Tuesday, I went to my GP and before I left, she asked me to step on the scale and noted I was overweight – I weighed in at 87kg (wearing shoes and obviously, clothes) with a BMI of 33. She said I should get my BMI needs to be 30 or below for health reasons.

So, at this point, it’s gone beyond me just wanting to lose weight to look good – it’s now a case of I need to be healthy for myself.

So, that did give me a kick up the backside and I had some steam until Wednesday where I just let go. I am quite disappointed in myself – however, I will not stop this journey. I am on the brink of tears as I just stepped on the scale at work and weighed in at 88.3kg (without shoes but with clothes on). Of course I wouldn’t have expected any different considering the week I’ve had but that doesn’t make the blow any easier. I have to search for that determination inside and ride it. I am excited as I’ll be moving to Aberdeen in a couple of months’ time and I want to have a BMI of less than 30 by then.

So what I’ll try this week–

-          I will take my scale home so I can keep an eye on my weight

-          I won’t be able to juice twice a week as initially planned but will continue with keto a

-          Do my 200km walk/run/crawl for the month

I went off track the past 3 weeks and have been finding it hard to get back on. Back to the question, how did I get here? Well, by eating and not working out, that’s how!!!! My current weight is..??I actually don’t know. I weighed myself a few days ago with my clothes on and was about 88kg? So without clothes, I reckon I’ll be around 87kg which is a disaster from where I used and plan to be.

Since I got back form Aberdeen in August I’ve been struggling to get back on track, I have over indulged in takeaways, massive portions and lots of ice cream. I also kept my scale away from my flat – as liberating as that has been, it’s prevented me from getting that shock that usually jolts me into action after having a bad day/week.

A lot has been on my mind, so maybe that has been a factor as well. Regardless, I have decided (for the umpteenth time) ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! My plan for the next week is detailed below. I pray it works!!!

-          I have restarted the Shortcut to Size

-          Have set a 200km goal from today till the end of October (5 weeks). This means I will have to brisk walk at least 6km every day.

-          Joined a Diet Bet game (not planning on losing any more games)

-          Purely juicing 2 days a week (Mondays and Thursdays)

Really don’t have much to say…weight still same as it was last week. I literally ate all through last week and woke up on Saturday and decided to start again.

So I effed up! I’m literally back to square 1. For some reason, I’m not as mad as myself as I thought I’d be though.

I weighed in at 84.3kg today. Do I think I’ll meet the 77.8kg target for my DietBet game? Absolutely not!

I had my winnings sent in last week Wednesday. I paid in £24.18 and got back £35.38 which is a gain on £11.20. So happy! I used my winnings to get myself a pair of running leggings for about £20. I immediately joined another game with a $30 (~£23) bet – my starting weight was the same as my weigh out from the last game…which is 81kg...YIKES! I thought I should challenge myself – I could have used a new weighing which would reflect my weight (after my celebratory binge out on Monday) but I thought I should push myself. So I have to lose 3.2kg and reach 77.8kg by the 5th of September at the latest. This is definitely a challenge and you know what? I’m here for it! I’ll be so chuffed if I hit that goal. In fact, I’ll be overwhelmed as I haven’t been 77kg in over 2 years.

I didn’t do a parkrun last weekend as I have a sprained knee – so I can’t do any running for a while. I have instead opted to walk on the treadmill. The initial plan I had was to run 63 miles for the month of August however as this won’t be possible, I have changed that goal to walk a total of about 200 km (124 miles)  between now and September 9th – that will mean walking  31 miles a week. To make it harder, these walks will have to be active and will exclude walks recorded on my activity tracker (miles achieved as a result of day-to-day activities). I’m excited for this.

I can’t believe I’m typing this especially after the week I had before my last post. I won my first Diet Bet!!!!!!

As at now, I don’t know the exact amount I’ve won but my weigh out has been verified and my current weight is…….81kg!!!!! I can’t believe this!...Although I have to say it really was 81.3kg as at this morning but I had not eaten all day and about noon, it fell to 81.0kg…my Diet Bet target weight was 81.2kg -  so exceeded by 0.2kg. Juicing really helped me achieve this as well as working out and attending exercise classes. I have also decided to have 3 days in the week where I’ll juice for breakfast and lunch – both green juices.

What I’ve been doing exercise-wise:

Shortcut to Size

Exercise Classes

Running/Walking on treadmill. Unfortunately, I have had a knee injury so I’ll have to cut back on the running for a while. Perhaps still do my Parkruns every Saturday? We’ll see.

So, that also means I have advanced to Phase 2 of my weight loss journey. As a reward, I’ll be getting myself a nice pair….or 2 (depending on how much I win) of workout leggings.

I’m so chuffed. I will be having a well-deserved cheat meal tonight. Yummm.

Yet another week!

Well I’m still on track…kinda.

I started my juice fast on Monday and it went OK until Wednesday when I decided to have a cheat day which turned into a few cheat days (from Wednesday to Saturday…well Sunday morning) before I snapped out of it.

So, I’ve been right back on track since Sunday afternoon. This is the final week before weigh in on Sunday (6th August), so the plan is to juice fast till then.

I am currently 83.4kg which is better than it was last week but still, not a lot of progress on the whole journey. I have about 2.2kg to lose to win this Diet Bet game and that is totally doable.

Workout-wise, I am still following the Jim Stoppani programme and alongside, I’m running and attending classes at the gym (which I’m quite enjoying!)

So, hopefully with all this in place, I will be winning back my contribution to the pot…and more!

See you next week, hopefully with some good news!

I’m quite disappointed in myself this past week. I literally binged on takeaways throughout the weekend and did no exercise at all. I was in my bed all through so that hope to get down to 82.7kg or whatever it was has gone down the drain.

Of course I enjoyed my binge but I’m now completely off track at over 85kg. I was hoping to be in the 82s by now but this hasn’t happened and I’m quite disappointed to be honest HOWEVER, I CANNOT lose that $30 bet. I simply can’t.

I had an OK week last week. I have joined a Dietbet game where I added $30 to the pot. I weighed in initially on Wednesday at about 83.7kg however the weigh in got rejected and I had to re-weigh, which I did at 84,6kg the next day – this was accepted as my official weigh in. Obviously there’s a 0.9kg difference between the 2 days but that was because I ate quite a bit on Thursday. Workout wise, I have been quite good. Completed Week 1 of Shortcut to Size on Friday Evening and started a cardio workout on Saturday Morning which I will continue for the rest of the week.

I also did my first parkrun at Canon park on Saturday morning with a time of 38.25 which is quite slow coniering my past runs however, I did a midnight legs day 9 hours before, high intensity cardio 2 hours before and an hour walk to the location so I do forgive myself. Also, the terrain was a bit weird for me – part of it was along a park route which was fine, and the other half was within the woods and for some reason I just didn’t lke that part and tended to walk through uit.

Anyway, I’m glad I did it as I’ve always wanted to do park runs. Now, I wish I could keep running till I hit my 50 and 100 milestones and get those awesome shirts!

Now to it, I weighed in at 83.7kg this morning meaning although I am 1kg down from my official weigh in, realistically, I haven’t lost anything! I know I am building muscle but I need to also stop having a chocolate bar (94 cal) after every bloody meal. My target is 81.2kg by the end of the game on August 6th (WHICH IM JUST REALISING IS ABOUT 3 WEEKS AWAY…EEEEEEK).

So I have 2.5kg to lose in 3 weeks. I can totally do this, need to lose 1kg by the end of next week to be on track though.

So Im back here again with my weight loss journey chronicles. In my last post, I explained why I want to lose the weight. One of the reasons being to get my mind off TTCing and secondly enter a challenge where I earn some money whilst losing weight.

I noticed as well that the last time I blogged through my journey, I go down to my lowest weight so I intend to do this again and hope it goes well. So a few ways I hope to achieve this

1.       Break own weight loss into phases (Give myself mini-goals)

So, my current weight is 84.6kg. This is my official starting weight at DietBet. My goal is to hit 65kg by the end of the year – assuming I lose 0.5kg a week. I am not putting pressure on myself at all but will be a nice end to year if I hit this goal. I’ll be ending my contract at PHE in December and consequently moving to Aberdeen after that. It will be perfect if I can achieve this significant weight loss.  

As stated, I will break this journey into mini phases where I aim to lose 5kg in each phase.

Phase 1: 84.6 to 82kg

Phase 2: 82kg to 78kg

Phase 3: 78kg to 74kg

Phase 4: 74kg to 70kg

Phase 5: 70kg to 65kg

2.       Bi-Weekly weigh-Ins

I used to do weekly weigh -ins and more recently, daily ones. The daily weigh-ins are too frequent for me although may be great for the DietBet Challenges I’m on as they are 4 weeks long and weighing daily will be a great way to check my weight regularly and make adjustments when needed. So, I may weigh in daily or bi-weekly depending on how I feel however since I’ll be writing this blog weekly, I’ll only note my most recent weight for the week before. Mondays and Thursdays will be official weigh in days.

3.       Cheat Days

Of course, these are back, I need them! So Mondays will be cheat days.

4.       Nutrition

Low carb!

5.       Water