formula for points!

I keep forgetting it, so I thought I would keep it on my journal. It would be useful when I'm umming and ahring in the supermarket.

formula is (kj/293) + (satfatg/4) = points

WI 11

I'm still in a healthy BMI, I've been feeling anxious about that this week *laughs*. I lost .8kg! I can't believe I weigh 67.8! YAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYYAAYYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

Holy crap I'm 4.8kg near goal. WOW!!! Just WOW! I feel incredibly happy. My aim was to be 67.5 for Christmas, therefore I have .3 to get there. I think I can make it :D, and I might be able to make 67... do I hear a new goal for Christmas!?

So goal summary:

67.5 (300g away) - buy something awesome (I still don't know what) lol!

65kg (2.8kg away) - get a new tattoo

63kg (4.8kg away) - Corset!!! And new clothing, although I've had to start doing that now :D

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Sooo I've been a really norty chicken this week. So norty. I moved house and reached a healthy BMI and then suddenly I'm eating everything in sight. How norty! I'm trying to get back on track. It appears that I'm mostly falling off the wagon once i get home. I think I'm eating dinner a bit too late and so I'm hungry and want to eat everything I can before dinner.

It's also been rather hard to track without the internet at home, I didn't know how many points some things were but knew that they were probably bad for me, but I wanted to eat them and so I did. Norty! So norty!

Also it's my fiance's birthday this weekend and I want pizza and alcohol, so this week is starting to feel a little like I've jumped off the wagon. I'm trying to be good though (now I have the internet at home and can track) and my new house is 6ks from my work and I've been walking there and back so 12km exercise daily is probably ok to be a bit norty!

Huzzah!

WI 10

OHMYGOD!!! I'm in a HEALTHY BMI! I'm so happy. I lost .5kg and thus my weight is 68.6 (I
have got to stop saying 78.6 - I've been doing it all morning), so YAYAYAYAY!!!

It might have been more of a loss, but I've been going over my points to make sure I get enough iron and vitamin c in my diet. Also I don't have the internet at home at the moment, so I've kinda been guesstimating pointages for things.

Anyhow, so I am officially in healthy weight range for my height. How exciting! So hmmm 1.1kg to my next goal and 5.6kg to main Goal.

iron is needed for a silly sausage.

My iron levels are a little stuffed at the moment. I noticed that I was getting tired and losing a lot of motivation in general life, having small dizzy spells etc. Anyhow, yesterday it was particularly bad and do you know what I did? I went to the gym like an absolute dickhead. I suffered in my hour long step class, had multiple rests during the work outs and just felt awful. Anyhow, I'm talking iron and b vitamins and reducing my caffeine and increasing my vitamin c. Being a vegetarian and getting enough iron is hard enough, but I used to eat cereal that had high iron in it so that I would obtain some from that, GAH gluten intolerance sux big hairy balls.

Truly a skinny bitch!

I have a set of scales that are out by (in the bad way) about 2 kg. The crazy thing is, I still have them and use them to monitor a little bit... yeah I know it's bad to weigh yourself more than once a week. But something interesting happened. This morning I stood on them and I said I was about 67kg which is what it said yesterday lol - remember they say I'm 2kg lighter than I actually am. The scales are telling me that is how much I weighed at my skinniest. So even at my skinniest the last time I lost weight I wasn't in a healthy weight range... I was still 69kg. How annoying! Buuut the most awesome thing is, no matter what I lose from this moment on will the skinniest I've been in years!!! I mean YEARS!!! Since I was grade 7 probably. I weighed 72kg in Grade 8 so hmmm... YAY

In other news, I went bloody hard at the gym last night. I was doing pump and I took the Monday night challenge (putting the weight up 1kg each side). Anyhooo I did that for - squats, chest, triceps and back 'n hamstrings! So proud of myself, although my triceps are hating me today *laughs*. 

Also, I resisted teh evil PIZZA! Luke wanted to celebrate end of exams by eating pizza in front of me - lovely eh! Well he just wanted pizza and eating it front of me was the bit he didn't really think about. I resisted!!! I changed my meal to gnocchi and ww chips (7 points) and so I felt like I was getting the fatty goodness with the tomato aroma. It totally worked! I'll be saving my points for Pizza at Luke's birthday - sensibly of course with a few slices and salad!

WI 9

I lost .5kg. Which now makes me 69.1kg. I'm kind of disappointed I didn't managed to crack the 68 mark. I know I should be happy about being 500g lighter but I really wanted to make the 800grams. I honestly thought I could make it. I guess it will be another week until my BMI is healthy. I obviously can't do maths because I'm 300g away from a healthy weight *laughs*.

So what do I feel went wrong. EXERCISE! I wasn't quite as vigorous with moving as I had planned to be. I kinda lacked some motivation there. Also, I didn't walk some evenings where I would normally walk because it rained (probably more so than it would have in winter). So my weekly goal this week is to do more walking.

YAY!!! So my usual reminder. I'm 300g away for a healthy BMI and 1.6kg away from my next goal of NO IDEA WHAT IT SHOULD BE! Finally, I'm 6.1 kg away from GOAL! Also, my double rent paying is over and so I can technically dye my hair and book for my motorbike license. Can't wait!

Edit: I just realised I'm over half way through my 'loss' aspect of my weight monitoring journey. That's pretty special.

Cranky Pants Liz

Feeling much better today. I was so cranky yesterday. Things just seem to build up and up and up and then today I kinda snapped, and now I'm feeling heaps better. It's one thing that really sux about being a human being, that people can really affect your mood and how you're feeling. I need to learn to deal with my emotions more - something a tarot reader told me recently actually and I obviously haven't heed her warning too well. She told me I need to express myself creatively, that if I'm feeling angry then to draw/paint/sing whatever I need to do to get it out of my system. I have to say I really miss not having a piano at my disposal, I may not be able to play anything more than chopsticks and a very broken up version of 'Memory' from Cats, but I always played because I enjoyed it and could express myself.

So what led to me being a cranky pants you might ask!? A complete run of things:

• Over hearing someone bitch about my lack of initiative at work to another work colleague, they were whispering and I still heard them... well BIATCH! I didn't know the processes to use my INITIATIVE, when I'm as awesome as you I will let you know. Oh did I mention I get paid 7 bucks an hour more than you... and am technically one of your bosses - not particularly smart move from you is it? Obviously I wont go ask you a question about something every again. My mistake!
  
  
• Another person at work telling me how to do my job, made me want to slap her. I'm the cataloguer and you're the liaison librarian. You even said in the email you didn't understand the processes and then proceeded to tell me what to do. So annoying!
  
  
• The weight watchers forum thing, it really shitted me. Although ironically the thing that has made me feel better is the ww forum - that post about how the person was disappointed about ww and everyone got all heated and passionate about why they love/hate weight watchers... was awesome! It kinda made me realise it was pointless to get so worked about about this stuff
  
  
• The fact that I was forced to sleep on the floor again last night because our neighbours decided to throw a post exam party during the exam period - glad they had their exams over with, but my partner doesn't finish until Monday. I suspect they were deliberately making noise because they kept jumping above our lounge room. Luckily we have the keys to the new place and went over there and slept the night.

And something I'm really proud about, I felt like eating everything in sight today out of sheer crankiness and lets just say I went to the shop next door and bought myself a Milky Way - 2 points. Such a good girl I am!!! And I am just so glad to have this out of my system. I have got to stop bottling things up! So I'm a cranky eater, and sad non-eater. I've learned something new about myself.

So I've been interacting with the ww community and felt a little annoyed that people seemed to jump at me for saying that my partner and I have talked about getting married early next year and that I probably won't be at goal (but I'll give it my best). People seemed to make the assumption that a) I'm not wanting to get married because I'm over weight and will want to wait and b) made assumptions about the wedding.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!! I get enough of that fecking shit from my mum!!! And just cos I'm loosing weight doesn't mean I'm going to put off a wedding. Weddings are expensive, even the cheap ones and trying to pull out a spare 3-5 grand from my pocket isn't going to be easy *sigh*... so annoying!!!

'Fat Clothes'

So I'm moving house in the very near future - 11 days to be exact. Mum and Dad are coming to Hobart to help move the large furniture on the 13th and 14th, so most things need to be packed by then. So i guess my weekend is gonna be full of EXERCISE! It also means that I get to go through my wardrobe and chuck out what I term 'sack clothes' clothes that are too big for me. Who knew 6kg would make that much of a difference! I'm kind of excited to be throwing/donating my clothes. I never want to fit back into any of it! Some of it is so old, as I really don't like clothes shopping. I think discount shopping is gonna be the go.

YAYness for new found healthiness.

Skinny Bitch

I made up a song and sing it on occasion about how I'm a skinny bitch and everyone is jealous of the way I now look - it's a stupid song and don't remember the words, it just tends to appear generally after I've scrutinised myself in the mirror and flexed my muscles a bit. I'm so immature! My partner has started to call me (not maliciously, but adoringly) 'his skinny bitch'. 

We were discussing my weight loss the other day and he told me how proud he was of me. How proud that I've stuck at the weight loss thing even though I struggled for so long (before ww) to lose even 1 kg. He told me he was proud that I had figured out the gluten intolerance and how strange it was that once I cut out gluten my weight just dropped. I'm not saying gluten is the cause of my weight - it was a combination  of over eating, eating the wrong things and lack of daily activity - gluten however, has played an equal part in my weight loss journey.

I still don't know how I'm going to reward myself for when I reach my 10% goal (fingers crossed for Christmas). Still thinking about it I guess!

Started mindless snacking

It appears that I am mindlessly snacking at the moment. At the end of the day (yesterday) I had 2 points left and was really happy and thought 'woohoo' I'll have a skinny cow icecream. Buuuut!!! I forgot about the bloody half juice I had and half vege sausage I had to keep me going. So I went over by a point. Crappity doo daaah! I'll try and make it up today... the only thing is I have the Melbourne cup luncheon on for work and so I'm gonna have to stick to the good salads and eggy frittatas (if they have any) and ignore the dessert and alcomohol. BE A GOOD GIRL LIZ!!! YOU ARE ONLY 2.1 KG FROM YOUR NEXT GOAL!!! AND LESS THAN 1 KG UNTIL HEALTHY WEIGHT RANGE FOR HEIGHT!!!

Ideally I would like to lose about 800g this week. It can be done if I plan ahead like a good girl. I hate it when I can't plan ahead. Will update after lunch today!

Goals

I kinda realised the reason why my motivation has been waning, I've reached my set goals and haven't made anymore. What a silly billy I am!!! I still have to make good two of my other rewards i.e. getting my motorbike license and dying my hair red, but I'm a little strapped for cash and so they have to wait until I stop paying double rent. Sooo my remaining goals are:

• 67.5 - my 10%  how should I reward thee!!! It is my new goal for christmas really, since I made under 70 already. I'm 2.1kg away from achieving it and approx. 7 weeks from christmas. If I actually try I might make my 10% by chrissy!!! What a shock to the people who would have last saw me 10 kg heavier!
  
  
• 65 kg - a second tattoo. I've said it all along. I just have to try and choose between a pentgram, squid or a funky plain black kitty. 
  
  
• 63 kg - GOAL!!! New wardrobe, gallery serpentine awesomeness!!! Corsets, corsets, and corests!!!

I'm obviously going to have to think about how I will reward myself for chrissy when I get there!

wi 8

Gained .1kg... actually not to worried about that. I didn't try this week at all. Ate foods I shouldn't. So now instead of being half a kilo away from healthy weight range, I'm now .6kg -eh, not worried.

I know if I want a loss, I need to track. So I will track properly this week.