3rd but still a winner

So I went to the presentation and prize giving and final weigh in on Friday night. We weighed, thank goodness they didnt make us weigh in front of everyone ala biggest loser :) It was actually so much fun laughing and joking with the girls, for our final weighin... I managed to lose another 2 kgs, despite being sick, and not exercising for 2 weeks. Bringing my grand total to 19 KGs... which is roughly 9.6% of my body weight which i lost... I think that is bloody marvelous.. I came third... Belinda, the girl whose blog I am following came first... So proud of her, she deserves it, she was so dedicated, and she lost so much weight, she lost 14% of her body weight. Jerry came second... I won R1000 runner up prize and a years gym membership to body future. I had the weekend off, where I ate what i wanted, but quite frankly i couldnt stomach that much, and the heartburn was unbearable... so back to healthish eating this week. I say ish because if I feel like something, I'm not going to deprive myself of it... but i will be healthy.. I need to go back to gym, somehow find the energy... :) I refuse to backslide to where I was... I have to move forward.. thin is my goal.. and I want to be there before i'm 30... well ideally before the end of next year.. but we need to be realistic.. there is 4 months left in this year.. so technically if i follow this pattern I could in essense lose another 20 kgs before the end of the year... hopefully more, but Slow and steady wins the race.. :)
Will keep updating my blog but not as frequently as I have been.. only when I have news..
Thank you all for all your support, encouragement and sometimes threats and cajoling.. I couldnt have done it without you...
love you all
C

its been awhile

Sorry it's been awhile... Since my last update, I've lost another 2kgs bringing my grand total to 17kgs... Though I have been sick, I booked off gym for 2 weeks, so 2 weeks of exercise did not happen, giving my competitors a great advantage... I'm sorry to say I really dont think i am going to win the competition. Also this week, being our last week of competition, Monday we exercised and it was great. and then yesterday, I was getting ready to go to gym when Aiya ( the receptionist at Body Future) phoned to say a water pipe had burst and there was no gym... and Friday is supposed to be the award ceremony but now I don't know where it is going to be, because it looks like Body Future is moving to their new premises early... No one is telling us anything... Very bad communication. This week is madness. It is one of my best friends Michelle's 30th Birthday party this weekend, I've offered to make her a novelty cake for her birthday, and the topper fell and smashed into a million bits yesterday... So that adds a huge amount of stress.. I managed to make another one, but its not as great as the previous one, its still beautiful but not as great. Plus this week, being today and tomorrow, I need to work, go shopping for drinks and meat for the weekend, buy and put together thank you gifts for the body future gang, make michelle her other present, bake the cake, ice it, pack, pack the car, clean and sort out my car, go for a wax and a pedicure, and go for the awards ceremony. Oh and somehow fit in sleep :) but it should all work out fine... Everyone is asking me what my plan is for after the competition. I think everyone is so scared that i'm going to back slide to fatdom :) No worries, I have no plans to backslide... I want to take up archery.. dont know how much exercise that gives you.. but ive always wanted to do it.. also wouldnt mind taking up a martial arts, but i think i need to be slightly fitter... those people are so fit... and crazy.. :) hehehehe
I walked up Rhodes Memorial on Sunday to watch the athlone towers implosion... despite still being sick i only had to rest twice.. or 3 times I can't remember.. but I think with practice it will get much much easier...
anyway... Will tell you my final weightloss when i find out...
xoxoxox
C

bugger bugger snot and trane

Oh nooooooo, I'm up a kilo... Not tooo worried, my Cm's are down, and I think it might be water retention due to that time of the month.. but I didnt do my cardio on Tuesday and Thursday.. This means this week I need to seriously SERIOUSLY move this butt of mine... only 3 weeks to go... eep... need to move it move it.. ( think madagascar.. I like to move it move it.. I like to.. Moooove it!)
anyhoo...
Sorry about that loyal supporters... at least its not 3 kilos up.. I must try to remember how far Ive come..

Good work last week

I did very well last week, I stuck to my diet and I lost 2.8 KGs... which means I am down 15.8 KGs in total so far. Which means I am only 9.2 kgs away from my goal for the competition, I need to move my butt... I took a photo today, in the same clothes I wore for my first pic of the competition.. also a side view.. you can definately see the difference between the two. By my calculations I only have 4 more weeks left of the competition including this one.. which mean that in order to reach my competition goal of 9.2 kgs I need to lose an average of 2.3 kgs a week... phew, I know Ive done more in the past but pressure like that freaks me out.. Now I'm nervous!

Diet

This is my basic Diet.. I havent written it all up... because its far too long, if you want more details you can contact Trevor at Body Future. :)

Food Choices


Grains

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Corn Flakes(0.75 cup) 19 Mielie Meal (0.5 cup) 21
Rice Crispies (0.75 cup) 19 Wheat-bix (1biscuit) 13
Seedloaf Low Gi (1 slice) or Wholewheat 16
16 Tasty wheat (0.5 cup) – Cooked 14
Kellogs All Brain (0.75 cup) 23 Shredded Wheat (0.75 cup) 25
Malta Bella (0.5 cup cooked) 10 Provita (2 biscuits) 9
Kellogs Special K (0.75 cup) 27 Ryvita ( 2 biscuits) 12
Oats Cooked (1 cup) 21.1 Corn thins (1 biscuit) 4.7
Crackerbread (2 biscuits) 19

Protein

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Beef sirloin (85g) 0 Calamari (100g) 0
Chicken Breast (100g) 0 Crab (100g) 1
Pork Tenderloin (85g) 0 Crayfish (100g) 1
Turkey (100g) 0 Haddock (55g) 0
Veal (100g) 0 Kipper (55g) 0
Ostrich (100g) 0 Kingklip (100g) 0
Biltong (60g) 0 Lobster ( 100g) 0
Cheese low fat (55g) 0 Mussels (100g) 0
Egg whites (2) 0 Prawns (100g) 0
Milk non fat (1 cup) 12 Snoek (100g)
1 portion per week ONLY 0

Protein Shake 2 Trout (100g) 0
Vanilla bar (1) 2 Tuna in Water (100g) 0
Strawberry bar (1) 2 Tuna Fresh Packed or Frozen (70g) 0
Choc/Choc mint bar (1) 4
Yogurt f/f plain (half a cup) check labels 11.5
Vitelinea fat free fruit (100ml) 9.9
Gero – fat free fruit (small tub) Check labels +/- 9
Cold cuts 97/98% fat free/Lean (70gr) 1
Cottage cheese low fat plain (115g) 4
Egg 1 (limit if cholesterol is high) 1

Vegetarian Protein

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Veg-E Meat substitutes (no less than 15g protein per serving) No more than 12 carbs per serving Tofu (3/4 cup) 2.4
Lentils Canned (half a cup) 14.4 Lentils cooked (half a cup) 13.1
Chickpeas canned (half a cup) 16 Butter beans canned (half a cup) 10.8

Snacks

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Yogurt (f/free or low fat) (plain or fruit – watch carbs) Read labels for lowest carbs Biltong 0
Boiled egg 0 Low fat cheeses Read labels for lowest carbs
Cottage cheese on cucumber slices with black pepper and spices or powdered biltong See food choices Lean cold meats wrapped around cucumber fingers with black pepper and spices See food choices
Or select any portion of protein 0

Fruit

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Apple (1) 17 Mango (0.5 cup sliced) 14
Apricots fresh (2 med) 6 Nectarine (0.5 cup sliced) 8
Apricots dried (6 halves) 9.7 Orange* (1 small) 14
Banana (small) 10 Orange juice (sugar free) 12
Berries fresh/frozen (0.5 cup) 8 Pear (medium) 13
Grapefruit (0.5) 7.6 Watermelon (0.5 cup) 6
Grapefruit juice (125ml) 12 Kiwi (1 med) 7.8
Melon- spaanspek (2.5 cm slice) 4.6 Naartjie (1 med) 10
Paw-Paw (0.5 cup cubed) 8 Peach (1 med) 10
Pineapple (1 cm ring) 4.8 Plums (2 med) 10.9
Strawberries (1 cup) 6

Vegetables

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Asparagus (1 cup) 7 Celery (1 cup) 5
Baby marrow (0.5 cup) 3 Peas (1 cup) 11
Baby gem squash (0.5 cup) 3 Patty Pan (0.5 cup) 3
Beans, green (1 cup) 4 Mushrooms (2 cups) 6
Broccoli (1 cup) 7 Onion (0.5 cup) 7
Brussels Sprouts (1 cup) 10 Peppers red/green (1 cup) 5
Cabbage (1 cup) 4 Spinach cooked (1 cup) 2.8
Carrots (0.5 cup) 5.3 Spinach raw (2 cups) 5
Cauliflower (1 cup) 5 Tomatoes (1 small) 5
Cucumber (0.5 cup) 2

Miscellaneous

Food Choices Carbs Food Choices Carbs
Coffee Creamer non- dairy powered fat free (1tsp) 2 Jelly – diet (0.5 cup) 0
Margerine – canola/ flora lite (1 tsp) 0 Mustard (1 tsp) 0
Balsalmic vinegar (2 TBSP) 2 Soya Sauce sugar free – kikkoman (1 TBSP) 0
Oil – Spray & Cook 0 Ina Paarman Seasoning 1





Low Days
Low day sample menu
Meal 1 – Protein, Beverage
Mid morning snack
Meal 2 – Protein, Lettuce and cucumber, Miscellaneous
Mid Afternoon Snack
Meal 3 - Protein, Lettuce and cucumber, Miscellaneous
Evening Snack


The focus of your low day is to eat foods that are low in carbohydrates. You exclude from your menu the fruits, vegetables and grains.

Low day guidelines

Be sure to eat all the protein servings (minimum 6) for the day. Active and bigger people may require more servings of Protein. You can increase your protein servings for the day by having more protein snacks at your hourly intervals. Do NOT have bigger protein servings as this will take you out of dietary ketosis.

Keep your carbohydrate intake to les than 40 grams per day.
You can add salt to your food if you suffer from low blood pressure. This will eliminate dizziness due to a low carbohydrate intake.

Medium Days
Medium Low day sample menu
Meal 1 – Protein, Beverage
Mid morning snack
Meal 2 – Protein, Vegetable, Lettuce and cucumber, Miscellaneous
Mid Afternoon Snack
Meal 3 - Protein, Vegetable, Lettuce and cucumber, Miscellaneous
Evening Snack


You will now add vegetables to your menu at lunch and dinner and continue eating foods that are low in carbohydrates. You will exclude from your menu the fruits and the grains.

Medium Low day guidelines

Eat protein servings as per low day guidelines
Keep your carbohydrate intake to les than 60 grams per day.


High Days

High day sample menu
Meal 1 – Protein, Grain or Fruit, Beverage
Mid morning snack
Meal 2 – Protein, Grain, Fruit, Vegetable, Lettuce and cucumber, Miscellaneous
Mid Afternoon Snack
Meal 3 - Protein, Vegetable, Fruit, Lettuce and cucumber, Miscellaneous
Evening Snack


On these days you can chose from all of the food on your food choice list including fruits and grains. However, you must EXCLUDE the grain at dinner. Please remember that you must choose EITHER a grain OR a fruit at breakfast. At lunch you will have a grain and a fruit and a dinner you’ll only have a fruit (if you didn’t have one at breakfast). You must always eat your vegetables at lunch AND dinner.


High Day Guidelines

1. East protein servings as per low day guidelines
2. Keep your carbohydrate intake below 100g per day
3. Follow the rapid loss guidelines to ensure maximum fat loss (apply to low, medium low and high days)
4. Eat a minimum of 6 protein servings a day from your protein food choices – this will eliminate hunger pangs.
5. Eat only from the food choice list. Record any foods no matter how small even if it was a taste or a titbit on your daily activities journal.
6. It is important to eat all the foods on the menu planner. If you consume less than in required you could experience a nutrient deficiency. And possibly slow your metabolism down.
7. You should bake, grill, steam or braai your food. If you must fry, use only a non stick spray like spray and cook and use it sparingly.
8. take a multivitamin, and mineral and omega 3 supplement every day.
9. Drink plenty of waterat least 10 glasses a day.
10. Watch your salt intake.
11. You can use a sugar free fibre supplement to regulate your bowels.
12. Only 2 fruits a day

My mom

I was just looking through the cupboard, and I found a notepad of my mom's, in it was a note from her cousin, who died about a month before her, also of Cancer. It said " If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton. That is my new motto for life, and this competition. I want that freaking rainbow so bad, and the miserable cold, wet, uncomfortable rain is how I am going to get there, I just have to get through it... Thanks for the inspiration Mommy, I know you are proud.. Love you forever.. xoxoxoxox

sorry people

I have to apologise to you guys who have been following my blog. My excuse is that I am only human. We all fall off the wagon... even me, and I did. The last week and a half I went back to my old eating ways, Well not as bad, I didn't gorge on chocolate, but I did eat what I wanted, I had starch with almost every evening meal and I was in a sullen fuck-it type of mood... and sadly it reflected on the scale! I didn't gain anything! Phew *wipes sweat from brow*, but I also didn't lose any... I know where I went wrong, I stopped journalling what goes into my mouth. That's important! It really is, Do any of you know the TV show called Ruby? Well one episode she doesnt lose weight, and I think (I maybe wrong) but I think she gains a little, and that is because she stops journalling what she is eating. With people who have a huge problem with their weight, This is something I've learnt, Whether you have 190kgs to lose, or you have the last 8 to lose, weight loss is weight loss, and its HARD! I don't know about you people, but my body had become friends with my fat, and it doesnt want to say goodbye. Psychologically it's an issue. I dont remember ever being thin.. Sounds weird, but it's true. My deep seated fear is that when I am thin, I am going to turn into another person. I like who I am. Ok I am slightly unmotivated, I lack direction and focus, I do tend to drift and dream a lot, but I like myself. When I am thin, will I turn into a bitch? Will I become someone who is obsessed with their image? Will I not listen to my friends? I hope not! Just slap me around and show me this blog to bring to back to reality okay? I am going to toddle downstairs and go and get my file, so I can type out my diet for you people. I have been asked a lot what this diet is all about, so I will do that, unfun as it is. :)