Olga's diary

Hey Olga and welcome back! 50 kilo at 1.60 m would put you at the very lowest end of a healthy bmi; at 45 you'd be well underweight.
 
LaMaria said:
Hey Olga and welcome back! 50 kilo at 1.60 m would put you at the very lowest end of a healthy bmi; at 45 you'd be well underweight.
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I see.Thank you. I need to check what's a healthy bmi for me and what's my real weight and height right now. I think my height is more like 158 cm and about weight I am not sure. Just a moment, I'll check.
 
Hey Olga! Welcome back :)
I'm new here. I sure could use your help to incorporate more vegetables into my diet, or at least to reduce the amount of meat I consume. I find it very hard.
I'm looking forward to reading about your weight loss progress, you've got this!
 
Hello guys!! Thank you very much for your kind support and feedbacks. Looks like I have started to lose weight. I don't eat much and I stay positive and productive. I have a proper breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the portions are small, not really fat, but nutritious. For instance, today I have had 3 eggs, some boiled rice with a touch of salt and without oil, jasmine tea with sugar and 2 cups of coffee without milk and sugar. Yesterday I walked a bit (maybe 15-20 minutes), the weather was nice and pleasant. I am going to start walking for 20 minutes several times a week, then to increase the time of walks up to 40 minutes. But the most important for me to stay positive and productive, to be energetic and try to reduce periods of bad mood when I have some trouble at my work or studies. Usually, when I am in a bad mood, I start to gulp down everything what I can see. It's my main problem. I can keep to a moderate diet and short walks for weeks until the "trouble period" when something wrong happens at work or studies and I start binge-eating. :willy_nilly:
 
Hey Olga, for me stopping the binge has probably been the single most important thing. Whilst bingeing it was impossible for me to find and stick with a good diet. I know its hard to just stop, but for me that was the only way. I still think of it as just a one day at a time thing, in the beginning sometimes I had to think of it 5 minutes at a time, some days I still do. How about it, do you think you can get through the day without bingeing? That's really all you have to do, then with time the days add up.

There is a no binge thread (https://weight-loss.fitness.com/thr...ne-day-at-at-time.111089/page-25#post-1094771 ) I find a short post there everyday helps me remember and stay committed. You are welcome to join us.
 
alligatorob said:
Hey Olga, for me stopping the binge has probably been the single most important thing. Whilst bingeing it was impossible for me to find and stick with a good diet. I know its hard to just stop, but for me that was the only way. I still think of it as just a one day at a time thing, in the beginning sometimes I had to think of it 5 minutes at a time, some days I still do. How about it, do you think you can get through the day without bingeing? That's really all you have to do, then with time the days add up.

There is a no binge thread (https://weight-loss.fitness.com/thr...ne-day-at-at-time.111089/page-25#post-1094771 ) I find a short post there everyday helps me remember and stay committed. You are welcome to join us.
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Thank you very much! With your kind support I did not binge even though I had one pretty bad day. I will try to write there or at least follow the thread.
 
I have binged for one day and stopped. Everything is amazing now.
The problem that I keep my weight under control but absolutely don't lose it!
 
Hello there, guys!
Some news:
1) I started to walk for 10 minutes every day. :)
2) I started to exercise a bit (if we can consider manual vacuuming, washing the dishes and washing the floors as a physical activity). :)
3) I eat too much sweets these days... :-(
 
Well done on the extra activity. Vacuuming & washing floors definitely qualify as physical activity. Now.....if you can just cut down on the sweets a little bit. You can do it!
 
Hello there, nice guys!
There are some positive changes, which are not actually connected with my weight, but something connected with my well-being. :)
I have got rid of all social networks. Before I wasted too much time on checking social networks, had had too much stress because of constant social media marketing, flame, flood, trolling, spam, scam, fraudsters, etc. Now I understood that I needed to get rid of extra stress in my life because it led to overeating.
I have found several penpals who encourage me in my new life style (more physical activity, more vegs, more fruit). I have tried to create a healthy surrounding around myself, getting rid of all toxic people.
Thank you guys so much for your support, I will write a bit later, I need to go now!
 
Hello there, nice guys!
I am going to walk on foot 5 miles tomorrow.
I willl be walking very-very slowly, so, it won't push me to the limits. Besides, I will be listening to music in my headphones while my route.
You know, the previous time when I needed to go to the university, I had called a taxi and was waiting for it for 90 minutes! I was sooo late, my classmates and teachers were really really angry! My uni is located about 2.5 miles away, so, it will take me about 45-60 minutes to get there, if I go very very slowly. I did that many times before and it was really an inspiring experience, but I am a lazy girl and every time I returned to my passive style of life, by using a taxi. But these days I keep having trouble with taxis and buses, soo I don't want them to let me down once again!
 
You know, I will probably walk only for 1 mile tomorrow... It is all because my family members look like to have caught a cold and if I walk a lot, I may catch a cold either. I always become a bit weaker when I walk a lot; and there are many people in my city who have caught a cold or the flu (winter is always the right season for that). It is a bit nasty because I am tired of working at home or visiting my dad who lives quite close to me; and I hoped to have some lengthy walks or spend some time at my favourite tea shop but I always let down my expectations.
One more problem that I almost don't have any inspiration or energy to keep me moving forward but at least I try to stay positive and never allow myself any binge eating. :) I cannot find for myself any goals in my career or business; my studies have become for me a boring routine because nobody suggests me do a Ph.D. and all my research and publications were written in vain. :-(
However, I have not experienced any overeating for more than 2 months, my weight stays the same, but it looks like I hibernate because I have not found any productive ideas which may push me to go forward...
I have found my favourite products: fat-free yogurt (in my city it has the other name, it is something like a low calorie milk drink with sea salt, but I don't know if there are real altenatives in English (I have heard you translate this drink like "ayran").
A quote from some resource from the internet: "it can be described as "diluted yogurt" and "a most refreshing drink made by mixing yogurt with iced water"." It is really cool, I can drink about 1-2 liters per day of this drink.
Besides, I really, really like green and herbal teas, especially jasmine teas. I drink about 3-4 cups of such a tea per day (without sugar and not very sweet).
Sometimes I drink an energy drink, I know, it is harmful, but I never exceed the limits: not more than 1 can per 2-3 days.
Before I was obsessed with black coffee without sugar or milk, but now I keep ignoring it.
As for physical activity & calories burning:
I try to dedicate some time to a cleaning activity: usually, once per two weeks I manually vacuum my flat or scrub the sink at my father's. Sometimes I wash the floors at my flat or at my dad's but it is really an exhausting task, even my steamer for floors doesn't relieve this nasty task. Usually, when I wash the floors, I get dog-tired right as soon as I finish that task, so I always have to find some days when I am absolutely free and have some time to wash the floors and relax. :)
I know I need to scrub my gas cooker a little bit; probably I will do that instead of my lengthy walking activity tomorrow and will walk a bit less.
Probably on the following days I will try to scrub my sink and some utensils, it takes a lot of energy, burns some calories and a pretty useful thing.
Yet looking forward for some inspiration/ideas which may motivate me to proceed...
I know, I need to find some productive and calorie-burning hobby, but I don't have any... I even have bought some exercisers, I tried to visit gyms, but all in vain... They are not really captivating and all the gyms in my city are located quite far away from me.:-(
I believe I need to find some pretty simple exercises which I can do at home and not harm myself (because I know some exercises may not really effective or can be even harmful if they are performed in a wrong way).
 
Olga_htlal said:
I believe I need to find some pretty simple exercises which I can do at home and not harm myself
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There is lots of body-weight exercises you can do at home, do you have any injuries or health conditions before I make any suggestions ?
 
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