Healthy New You: Your Change For Life #2

This is normal so don't give up!!!!!! This happens to me all the time. When I got down to 11st 1lbs in October the weight loss stalled and I fluctuated between 11st 1lbs to 11st 4lbs till mid January. Even now that the weight has started moving again I sometimes get weeks were my weight barely moves. (its taken me 6 months to lose 5lbs)

What I am trying to say is that its not your fault. Your weight is getting closer to your goal and as a result if you want to keep losing you cannot rush it or expect to lose it at the same rate that you were losing before. Patience is key!!!

Also what on earth do you mean by the word you cannot do it. You have done it as you have lost so much weight so far. How many people are able to do what you have done.

Also I may recommend that it may be time for you to increase you calories as it seems that you are hitting a plateau. How many calories are you currently eatting and how much exercise do you do in a week? Upping my calories to 2220 (which is my maintenance calories) and burning 3500 calories in the gym is what helped me to break my plateau

Do you mean you burn 3500 calorie in the gym per week or per day??

Do you mean you burn 3500 calorie in the gym per week or per day??

I go to the gym 4 times a week and in each session I burn about 900 - 1000 calories. So I create a 3500 calorie deficit through exercise alone.

I'd vote she means per week - for a 1lb per week weightloss. Makes sense actually. I might try that method if I start to get stuck this month

That's ok then, I thought that's what you meant otherwise it'd be crazy lol. Do you wear a HRM or just go by what it says on the gym machines?

Weighed in this morning for the first time in a long time..gained about 3lbs in the last two months. It could be worse though considering I've literally been eating what I want, when I want it..no seriously. Maybe it's because I've been exercising still. I need to get back on track though food wise because before Christmas, I was doing amazingly. It may not be alot of the scale but my family/friends have noticed and I feel different/flabbier. My family have said I look better for it though but I just feel sluggish. Thing is, i'm not concerned about the weight i've gained too much in terms of the scale but it's more that i'm concerned about the unhealthy habits I've been getting back into and the weight I will pile on if I continue at this rate.

I have four weeks until my first exam and I just can't use study season as an excuse to pig out. My mum got me lots of healthy things this morning like wholewheat pasta and pitta breads, low fat yoghurt, porridge, fruit, stirfry, meat, tuna etc so I have absolutely no excuse. My focus is to cut out the **** food really and eating nutritiously. Cutting sugar out of my diet will be a massive achievement. I think I need to go cold turkey with sugar but I'm like an addict at four days or so.

Weighed in this morning for the first time in a long time..gained about 3lbs in the last two months. It could be worse though considering I've literally been eating what I want, when I want it..no seriously. Maybe it's because I've been exercising still. I need to get back on track though food wise because before Christmas, I was doing amazingly. It may not be alot of the scale but my family/friends have noticed and I feel different/flabbier. My family have said I look better for it though but I just feel sluggish. Thing is, i'm not concerned about the weight i've gained too much in terms of the scale but it's more that i'm concerned about the unhealthy habits I've been getting back into and the weight I will pile on if I continue at this rate.

I have four weeks until my first exam and I just can't use study season as an excuse to pig out. My mum got me lots of healthy things this morning like wholewheat pasta and pitta breads, low fat yoghurt, porridge, fruit, stirfry, meat, tuna etc so I have absolutely no excuse. My focus is to cut out the **** food really and eating nutritiously. Cutting sugar out of my diet will be a massive achievement. I think I need to go cold turkey with sugar but I'm like an addict at four days or so.

There's an old saying: you should eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for dinner. That may sound a bit random, but it's far better to eat a large part of your calories in the beginning of the day, as that is when your body needs energy and it gives you the chance to burn the calories off. If you eat a low calorie breakfast, it is more likely that your body may go into fat storage mode or your metabolism will slow down as you're not feeding it enough. Then if you eat a massive dinner, particularly if you eat it too late, you're not giving you're body the chance to burn the calories off again.

Little something for y'all. This applies to me very much; March was crap!

Love it!

My April is going to start tomorrow though as I kind of ate a tub of ben and jerry's and a pack of jaffa cakes today

Hello lovelies.



Breakfast: Avocado smoothie.
Lunch: Egg salad with cucumber and all these funny vegetables whose names I don't want to know.
Dinner: Grilled chicken.
Snacks: green tea, apple slices with peanut butter, protein supps.


Nice and hot today so I went swimming for almost 2 hours and jogged the way home instead of taking the Tube. Reckon I burnt about 700 calories so April is going pretty well so far. A bit gutted that tomorrow is rest day actually! I can't wait to go back to weights. Noob gains are the best gains.

Have you seen the stumptuous guide to cutting out sugar? Link. I drew the line at carbs, I could not give up sugar if you paid me millions.

I love my parents, I really do. But they know I'm trying to diet. They bought me three Easter eggs. Three. And they're not exactly small ones. Needless to say, only some of it has even so far survived! For shame. I'm going to try to really kick sugar tomorrow but with Easter next weekend that's when the real sugar kicking will happen.