Cate's Diary

All good, LaMa. I just needed some scripts & I had a chat to her about arthritis & had a blood test to possibly eliminate gout.
Went just under 1500 cals yesterday & no wine.
Didn’t weigh myself this morning as Arch needed to go outside urgently & I needed my dressing gown on urgently. Brrr!
Getting our 2nd AZ vax today :)
 
I did a similar thing. Got out of my routine and started having breakfast before I realized I hadn’t weighed myself.
 
Skurgeon said:
I did a similar thing. Got out of my routine and started having breakfast before I realized I hadn’t weighed myself.
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I weighed before my shower anyway & then took off half a kilo as that's about right. I'm a serial scale avoider so am trying to make myself get on them more often.
I looked at my summer wardrobe this morning & almost everything in it was tight at the end of the summer just gone. That is going to be fixed by mid Spring & next year all of my Winter clothes will be loose, rather than tight. I feel determined this time.
Today is day 7 of no wine & <1500 cals per day. I just got back from a 2,21km walk, with an average heartbeat of 102. It's steep up here & I didn't get a great night's sleep so am quite happy with that as it's only just past midday.
 
Well done getting on the scale regardless! I find pinching clothes to be one of the best motivations for weightloss (and loosening clothes one of the best rewards).
 
Thanks, Milana :)
I’m having a hungry day & for the first time in 7 days really felt like having a glass of wine, but I haven’t snacked at all & have drunk herbal tea instead. My stomach is rumbling madly & I’m pretending it’s fat cells trying to get out of my body. We’ll be having our evening meal soon- casseroled lamb with lots of veggies. It smells soooo good!
 
Cate said:
My stomach is rumbling madly & I’m pretending it’s fat cells trying to get out of my body.
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:rotflmao: I like that! Did you know that the carbon from our fat cells leaves our body as CO2 in our breath while the hydrogen becomes H2O and mostly gets peed or sweated out?
 
LaMaria said:
:rotflmao: I like that! Did you know that the carbon from our fat cells leaves our body as CO2 in our breath while the hydrogen becomes H2O and mostly gets peed or sweated out?
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I didn’t know that. Oh, dinner was so delicious. I ate it really slowly & savoured every morsel. G sure can cook! The “lamb”was one of our own.
Edit: 1453 cals, 389 deficit.
 
liza said:
Great to hear you keeping on track even when extra hungry and feeling like some wine!
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Thanks, Liza. It took some resisting yesterday but feels so good that I did. I do feel that I'm on track again, but I would appreciate the scales reflecting that soon. I did see a good drop quite a few days ago & then it disappeared again.

7 days without any wine & keeping to just under 1500 cals a day. I have dropped 1.5 kg, but I feel that most of that was water retention from our weekend away. I have 13.5 kg to lose all up, 4.5 hopefully by October. I won't drop my calories just yet as I wanted to get used to not drinking wine first.

I am going to pick one thing each day that I am particularly grateful for. There are many things that I am very grateful for but I will try to select just one each day & they will be different each time. At the end of the month, I'll list them together.
I just got sidetracked reading some of my early entries in my diary, way back to when I first lost weight on a very strict program. I thought it would do me good & I think it did. I did just shed a few tears though. I never used to talk about how I really felt & used to bottle everything up & this diary has enabled me to be much more open with myself. I am going to read a few more pages every day for a while.
 
LaMaria said:
I reread my current diary last year as well. It's... kind of eery, but very interesting.
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I was surprised how emotional I got as I was halfway through the program & it was interesting to read that. I had suppressed a lot of grief for my sister & that bubbled up.
Milanica said:
Lamb sounds delicious!
I'm looking forward to reading your reasons for being grateful!
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It was delicious & we had it for lunch today, once again with lots of veggies.
I have so many reasons for being grateful I’m not sure where to start. I’ll leave it until July though. I love how you are visiting others in their diaries, Milana & being supportive. I really value the community we have & it’s lovely to see someone new making the effort to do that.
I’m having a good day. I have been for 2 good walks & have allowed enough calories to have a toasted sandwich tonight, plus 4 squares of dark chocolate, half a pear & a Speculaas biscuit without taking into account my exercise calories which are currently 454. We like to have a few sweet treats on Sunday night & I think I’ll keep doing that.
 
Cate said:
We like to have a few sweet treats on Sunday night & I think I’ll keep doing that.
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That is nice to keep finding ways to treat yourself that can be done in moderation. You always sound pretty good with the sweets so I think a great idea to keep including them especially while giving up the wine.
The gratitudes are a nice idea--I especially like to do those when my mood needs a lift, but always nice to do no matter one's mood really.
 
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