Wohoooooooo!!!
Bye-bye ugly 70s, helloooooo 60s! So happy to say that I now have less than 10 kg / 22 lbs left to lose. I hit another milestone by going under 70 kg for the first time in... oh I can't even remember! Also, my BMI just went from "overweight" to "marginally overweight"!
I've now lost 15.4 kg / 34 lbs - that's over 18% of my start weight!
The graph now looks like this:
So, last Friday my scales were dead. And last Saturday I celebrated my birthday... There was alcohol, and carbs, and one HELLUVA hangover. But heck, it was my last birthday celebrations in my 20s so I wasn't gonna be too strict on myself. I put a new battery in the scales today, and despite it being in the evening, and NOT on my usual weigh-day, I HAD to check the damage. But see, the thing is... there wasn't any! Infact, the scales showed 70.2 kg / 154.7 lbs - which means I have lost 1 kg / 2.2 lbs since the last official weigh-in.
Now, I am trying not to get my hopes up for tomorrow, but bearing in mind that this weight was recorded in the evening I am very hopeful I will leave the 70s behind when I weigh in tomorrow morning! Wow, to see 69-something would be so so cool. It would mean I have less than 10 kg / 22 lbs to goal!!!
No weigh-in today as my scales have a flat battery. Either that or I have gained 80 kilos in the last week and have gone above the weight limit for the scales - highly unlikely ;)
I baked bread yesterday. Yep. Low carb bread:
It is pretty yummy, so I want to share the recipe. The original recipe isn't mine though, I found it on a norwegian low-carb forum and modified it a tad - and here it is:
300 g cottage cheese
8 eggs
100 g wheat bran
100 g sesame seeds
200 g linseeds
100 g sunflower seeds
1 tbsp psyllium husk fibre
50 ml rapeseed oil
1/2 tsp salt
So, having been to the pool today and bared all...
It feels kinda weird to say it but for the first time ever I actually looked at the other ladies in the changing room and thought "you know what - more than half of these women are bigger than me". Yes, I admit - as freaky as it makes me sound - I do actually *gasp* look at other people's naked bodies, study them even. Only for the purpose of comparing their wobbly bits to mine of course - unless we are talking members of the opposite sex, whom I occasionally look at for... erm... other reasons. Hey, I'm only human ;)
It's kinda weird too, the difference between UK and Norwegian changing room etiquette. Let me just start off by saying that for the most part here in Norway, when you're getting changed at a gym or public pool, you just get naked. No blushing here, oh no! Get nekkid and get over it, lol. This culture got me a few weird looks when I first moved to the UK, let me tell you! They must have thought I was the crazy naked lady or something. After the initial first few times, I quickly learned that it would probably be wise to keep my swimsuit on in the shower, and leg it into a cubicle asap.
After 8 years in the UK, I kinda got used to it - and hence when I moved back to Norway, I felt really embarrassed getting naked in the changing room. But you know, there was kinda no choice. There are no cubicles at my local pool, and even a sign near the showers telling you to please get yer kit off - no swimming cozzies in the showers thank you very much.
OK, you're probably wondering what the point of this post is?? The point is, and this is huge for me, that today was the first day that I actually felt comfortable enough with my own body to not feel totally humiliated by this public nakedness. Wohooo!
After my disappointing weigh-in on Friday, I HAD to do a sneaky extra weigh-in today. And.... down half a kilo / just over 1 lb! Yay! That's made my day that has! And I am now off to brave the public eye in a swimming cozzie - as I promised my little boy a trip to the pool today... eeek.
Read more...So to keep spirits high, I am posting comparison pics to remind myself just how far I have come... Yesterday:
And I know you've seen it before, but... a year or so ago:
Nothing like a side-by-side comparison eh? No matter how cringeworthy the "before" is.
I've been terrible at exercising lately, and I must must must get a grip. I have decided to start guerilla-cardio (google it if you're unfamiliar with the term) next week - it sounds gruelling - but I am making the most of the motivation I have these days! And I wanna look HOT for x-mas dammit - lol!
Not as good a result this week - and for several reasons:
1 SLAB OF BUTTER = 0.5 KG OF FLAB:
