Looking forward to seeing your new plan!And today is... the three-month mark! Tomorrow, tomorrow, I must set a new target and begin to work towards it. (Colour chosen to reflect how sober and serious I am!) Just as well that I began the cutting out sweets and added sugars yesterday.
Milestones (Amy's diary)
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I'm also looking forward to hearing your next goal....this is exciting! So great that you've done such a good job maintaining and have taken your time to settle into that before jumping onto the next thing.
You know, I really feel like I couldn't even give up sugar for one day at this point??? That makes me think that at some point I should have sugar-free days as my goal...we'll see...
You know, I really feel like I couldn't even give up sugar for one day at this point??? That makes me think that at some point I should have sugar-free days as my goal...we'll see...
Thanks, LaMa - here it is! Thanks, Petal - I hope so! Thanks, liza - I'm a bit excited, and a bit scared!
(And I hope this whopping long post won't be too much to read! )
So.. the new plan, the new milestones - but no new timeline!
Well, there wasn't an old timeline either - it takes as long as it takes. The overall aim is to lose another half-dozen kilos or so - more exactly, one stone. This will still leave me overweight, with a BMI of 27.5, but it will take me down to eleven and a half stone, and, importantly, it's an aim which feels both significant and achievable.
I'm also aiming to get my waist under the magic 35 inches, and to improve my balance, in both tai chi and the simple balancing exercises I've mentioned before.
Tactics!
In terms of food:
(And I hope this whopping long post won't be too much to read! )
So.. the new plan, the new milestones - but no new timeline!
Well, there wasn't an old timeline either - it takes as long as it takes. The overall aim is to lose another half-dozen kilos or so - more exactly, one stone. This will still leave me overweight, with a BMI of 27.5
, but it will take me down to eleven and a half stone, and, importantly, it's an aim which feels both significant and achievable. I'm also aiming to get my waist under the magic 35 inches, and to improve my balance, in both tai chi and the simple balancing exercises I've mentioned before.
Tactics!
In terms of food:
- Intermittently to cut out all sugars (including added sugars) completely, as I did for a month last year. It worked well then, but I don't think I could give up sugars forever.
- To have only two “serves” of processed starchy carb a day – ie one serve of bread at breakfast, one serve of stir-fry with noodles at lunch would mean no crackers or rice at any other time during the day.
- To stick with my current limitation of 100 grams of butter a week.
- To eat simple fruit and vegies ad lib, but going easy on potatoes. To eat nuts more as a food than as a snack.
- To always have carrots on hand for snacking.
- To continue my current morning exercise group.
- To continue to take walks where and when possible.
- To try out hula-hooping? (Thinking of the waist measure here, not the weight. Just got the idea today, from @Trusylver .)
- To continue with balance exercises.
- I have made up a cheerful new chart for myself, showing three major goals along the way, with rewards (!!) like, "170 pounds - weekend away with bushwalk and swimming pool." I might add mini-goals (but those don't get rewards) if I think I need them for motivation.
- I'll be reading here on WLF to be inspired by all your stories and insights!
- I'll look around to see if there's any new diet show - but not one which gawks at or humiliates fat people. (I hate those!)
- I'll be checking in particularly to the 170s Club, and I hope slowly making my way through the Clubrooms to the 160s Club.
- And of course I'll be posting here in this diary!
- Oh, and I'll be remembering kindness to myself along the way!
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Well thought out and lovely plan Amy.
Yes love the hula hoop idea--we have some people around here who are like hula hoop magicians with the way they can move with it. I've not tried since I was a kid and feel like I can't do it. I've heard it depends on the size and weight of the hoop for one's success with it.
Love your idea of rewards--not a rich chocolate cake in a cafe but a bushwalk! Once we can realize we can have lovely healthy rewards like that, i feel like that is true movement to this lifestyle sticking
Yes love the hula hoop idea--we have some people around here who are like hula hoop magicians with the way they can move with it. I've not tried since I was a kid and feel like I can't do it. I've heard it depends on the size and weight of the hoop for one's success with it.
Love your idea of rewards--not a rich chocolate cake in a cafe but a bushwalk! Once we can realize we can have lovely healthy rewards like that, i feel like that is true movement to this lifestyle sticking
Thanks, everyone! The camaraderie here is a really important part of what's helping me along with this!
I don't know if I can find a weighted hula-hoop, LaMa (you're pretty amazing, just to be able to pull one out of your closet!) but I guess I could weight up a lightweight one with masking tape and... something or other.
Thanks, Liza - yes, I want the rewards to be things I really, really enjoy - my previous weight-loss rewards, last year, included two days beside a lake, and new underwear!
Thanks, Cate - who helps keep this whole site going!
And Marsia - lovely to be hearing your voice again! And Cory - yes indeed, I'm being deliberate about this - my mind's made up!
And, I'm away! I mean, I'm one day into the new plan, and so far all is going well. I have lovely broccoli waiting for tea (to be served with a hummous sauce - I made it myself, so it's not as oily or tahina-y as a commercial one would be) and the broccoli stalks chopped up as part, along with lots of other veg, of a hearty soup which will turn up on the menu in the next couple of days. I like soups and curries to have a day or two to let their flavours blends properly. And now out and away in a different sense for a good long walk! Thanks again, everyone for the encouragement!
I don't know if I can find a weighted hula-hoop, LaMa (you're pretty amazing, just to be able to pull one out of your closet!) but I guess I could weight up a lightweight one with masking tape and... something or other.
Thanks, Liza - yes, I want the rewards to be things I really, really enjoy - my previous weight-loss rewards, last year, included two days beside a lake, and new underwear!
Thanks, Cate - who helps keep this whole site going!
And Marsia - lovely to be hearing your voice again! And Cory - yes indeed, I'm being deliberate about this - my mind's made up! And, I'm away! I mean, I'm one day into the new plan, and so far all is going well. I have lovely broccoli waiting for tea (to be served with a hummous sauce - I made it myself, so it's not as oily or tahina-y as a commercial one would be) and the broccoli stalks chopped up as part, along with lots of other veg, of a hearty soup which will turn up on the menu in the next couple of days. I like soups and curries to have a day or two to let their flavours blends properly. And now out and away in a different sense for a good long walk! Thanks again, everyone for the encouragement!
I don't have a shoe problem, or a bag problem, or an expensive vacation habit, but I DO have a chest full of low-cost exercise things I once thought would be fun to try. Those I just can't throw away...
You could do a review thread!!Thanks, Cate! And thanks, Liza - I had the first dip into the hearty soup for lunch today, and expect to have hummous with falafel tomorrow - with the falafel to be rolled up in lettuce leaves, not flatbread. (Probably messier that way, so just as well it'll be on the weekend!)
And thanks, Liza - I had the first dip into the hearty soup for lunch today, and expect to have hummous with falafel tomorrow - with the falafel to be rolled up in lettuce leaves, not flatbread. (Probably messier that way, so just as well it'll be on the weekend!)