Weight/Diet update

Ironically when I'm at college/uni I eat way healthier than I do at home (I live with my uncle, his wife and 4 kids). Maybe it's because I'm too frugal to spend my money on mindless snacking sprees at college. At home, snacks overflow the pantry and it's incredibly tempting when everything is just so damn delicious and I have nothing else to do.

So.... back to updating you guys on my weight. At college, during the last few weeks (about 4), I was able lose the pounds and drop from 140 to 133lb. This is without regular exercise (hardly any) and just by eating less and resisting the scrumptious ice cream and dessert area of the cafeteria.
Believe me when I say that it took an incredibly long time (almost a whole semester to be exact) for me not to feel obliged to eat everything in sight just because it's part of what I paid for.

Currently, I weigh 138 pounds..... I feel ashamed, in the space of one week and 4 days, I've put on 5 pounds and it sucks. I've really let myself down in terms of what I eat. I'm working on it. Thank God they actually buy fruit now so when I feel the urge to snack I'll reach for a bag of grapes rather than a pack of oreos.

Nevertheless, I'm proud to say that I've been working out every other day. I run for about 30/40mins, do squat and ab exercises and it feels great. I've really been pushing myself in that aspect, but I really need to pull up my socks with my diet if I want to see any major results.

My goal for this summer is to lose 15pounds. I don't think its too far fetched, I'll have until August to reach my target weight so I'll look like a brand new person when school starts again. I'd be really content to lose even just 10 pounds for the long term. I basically don't want to weigh more than 128pounds again.
My thighs seriously kill my self-esteem.

Work it with Youtube!

Hey Guys,

it's been a while. Again, I know, I'm sorry.

But but but, I have good news! :)

Firstly,
my diet has really improved. Well that is, my eating habits. These days I don't overeat anymore. I'm beginning to learn how to control my erratic appetite and hunger. I'm getting there, bear with me.

Secondly,
I officially have weight loss buddy. And it's a guy mind you, but we're totally helping each other and it's been really good so far because we motivate each other when we feel like eating everything we see and scold each other when we haven't worked out for the day. By August 1st, I should lose 10 pounds. So basically goal weight is 125pounds *Fingers crossed*

Thirdly,
I LOOOOVE this Youtube fitness channel called Blogilates! The instructors name is Cassie and she's just amazing! Believe you me, I really hate working out, I never have the motivation for it. But, she's the only one that can make me endure a whole workout and keep up with her monthly workout plans just because she's so motivational! I mean, just look at her! She's got an amazing body to aspire for and a great personality to keep you coming back to her workouts everyday.
For those of you out there looking for at-home workouts, I really suggest you give her a try!
http://www.youtube.com/blogilates

P.S.: She also has a diet/food channel called Blogilates TV
http://www.youtube.com/user/BlogilatesTV

P.P.S: Visit her blog, I'm currently on day 8 of the April 2013 calendar
http://www.blogilates.com/

Exams are over!!

Wohooooooo! I'm  finished, finito, fin, fertig, färdiga... D-O-N-E!!!

So psychology went well, I ought to get an A but biology wasn't that great really. I don't think I failed (C) but I don't think I done so good that I got an A. I was pretty terrified throughout the exam. I hate biology exams. They are so unpredictable :/
Oh well, gives me more of a reason to fast AND pray. I need an A so badlyyyyy. I don't want to disappoint everyone, they've witnessed me working so hard and it would be total humiliation if I don't get an A or a B :(

Anyway, enough of that. So as usual, I haven't gained a pound but I feel fatter. Probably because I haven't been to the gym at college since I've been revising instead. Ah well, will start again on Tuesday. But it's sooo long away.... I've got an idea though; if I go to bed earlier, I can wake up earlier and therefore walk to college just as I walked home from college today- it felt good. It takes around 30mins to walk to college, which is alright I guess but I just have to be bothered to wake up early, that's all.

I got twitter guys! Follow me if you want :) https://twitter.com/#!/MindYourOwn_Biz

I got a new goal - 125pounds by February 8th (my bday- yay!) I'm currently 131pounds, if I push myself I can even make it to 122-4pounds :) I definitely need to be positive :)

More reasons...

Sorry, last post for today!

Awesome day :)

Really pleased with myself for today guys. Basically cutting a long story short; I didn't binge today AT ALL. Consumed 886 calories which is alright really because I burned of 882 them (BIG GRIN). Got a lot of walking, rollerskating, trampolining and running today :) I feel 'light' :) Hopefully I will continue rollerskating 5 times a week as I've found that it burns LOADS of calories :) Unfortunately I'm still at 59kg -_- All I need is patience now to start seeing results because I definitely am putting effort into exercising everyday!

In a very happy mood today, thank God! :) So Christmas and New Years holiday officially start tomorrow, it was the last day today. Going to chillax now with a movie and some tea. Need to wake up bright and early to start tackling my homework + coursework + revision. Exams on 10th and 11th January!!! And we come back on the 3rd, I REPEAT; the 3rd!!!! WTF :(

Funny how I put this up when I didn't not eat today lol

Stay strong guys :)

Stuck at 129 pounds...

Hey Guys, 

I'm sorry it's been a while. I had mock exams last week and just loads of things going on but I'm back now :)

Guess what? I got an A (again!!!) in my mock Psychology!!!!! Wooohooooo! I'm so over the moon especially when I thought I didn't revise enough for it. 

Anyway so I've started this exercise regime since Wednesday and I have noticed that I'm stuck at 129 pounds. Which is okay I guess because at least I'm not gaining, but I'm not happy about not losing weight either. Although I'm glad to notice my belly getting flatter and my arms more toned and I feel fit, but hopefully I'll see some results soon from all this hard work. I workout  times a day (compulsory) but if I got enough energy I can keep going all day during breaks when I'm at home revising. I'm actually quite happy I'm getting better at push ups too but I don't want to gain muscle, I'd rather loose the fat first :( 

So I'm gonna try a fluid only diet from tomorrow, I bought a packet of under 60calories tomato soup. Hopefully by the end of the week I would've have lost at least 2-3 real pounds that can be kept off.

Wish me luck lovelies...... Hoping to be 120 by New Years :)

My dream legs up there ^^^ 

:) 

Another fail...

So I'm a bit annoyed/depressed because I just realised how nice I am. Like really, sometimes people just take advantage of me. I always pay attention to what people say and when I point out that like for my exam today they didn't ask me how it went and they're like 'Oh yeah'. And then I just feel like.. poo, basically. So I'm always welcomed to ask them about how things are going and listen to their stories (most of them which are crap) all day long but they can't ask me how an exam went??? Ok, that's cool. Keep calm I tell myself. It's not worth it to kick up a fuss and argue. I'm not good at fights, all I'm able to do is listen to the person bullshiting and ignoring them. That's just who I am.

Ok so today I had my Biology exam and it was alright and of course the things that I revised for the most didn't come up on the paper. That's cool, cos I mean I didn't waste my time or anything.... (Note the sarcasm as I write) 

Anyway, knowing that I have the exam today, yesterday I vowed to eat breakfast for today which by the way is not becoming such a hard thing to do anymore :( Yes people say skipping breakfast is bad but for me its a little different... 

If I don't eat breakfast I will not eat dinner because I eat lunch which means I only eat once a day. If I eat breakfast then somehow my messed up hunger signals drive me into eating dinner too, that means I eat TWICE a day. So yea, I ate breakfast and lunch today. and LOADS of snacks 

I didn't mean to, it's just that my friend (who if I may mention is SKINNY and I LOVE HER SHAPE its DEPRESSING) forced me and bought me chicken nuggets and fat chips to eat at the canteen when I told her I have an exam. Silly me, I shouldn't have. Now I know to avoid telling her I have exams or tests or whatever because she believes it magically makes your brain work better o.O So that sucked but I didn't give into eating dinner though (YAY), because my mum didn't really bother me too much since she was busy with her own thing.  

So my goals for tomorrow are to skip breakfast and simply just eat lunch and resist dinner which is about the easiest thing to do. Resisting dinner that is, I simply look at the amount of food my parents eat and that already puts me off and I'm on my way!

I weighed myself after breakfast today, fully dressed because I forgot to weigh myself after taking a shower. 

I don't want to weigh myself today because I know I gained about a pound or two. Gonna do some leg and abdominal exercises before bed to feel better.

Hopefully I will burn more calories through my 2 hour trampolining session tomorrow. I missed today's 1 hour session because it's during lunchtime and yea....

So some encouragement for you guys and myself also

So true...... :(

Ha ha! :D

AMEN!!

This is what I need to work on sooo badly

Ha ha ! :D

And on that marvellous note, bye and take care guys! xx

A new Day, a new beginning

For Monday 25th July 2011

So first of all, I must say I'm very annoyed as I'm writing this, I already wrote a post for today and it didn't save and I navigated away from the page so the damn thing is lost. Now I have to write EVERYTHING again...... grrrrr

Anyway, enough of my little rant up there...

Hello Fellow Bloggers! This is actually my first time posting something on here, I joined this website just a couple of days ago, mainly to find people like me who are trying to downsize to be skinny/thin. So just to let you know, if you don't agree with this sort of thing, simply leave this blog, thanks :) I'm only out here for support.

Stats

So before anything, initially today I was 132 pounds (this has been my highest ever by the way. Some people think it's not that bad, but trust me, my sort of body shape doesn't flatter that figure at all. Everything seems to go to the thighs, bum and arms omg -_-)

Anyway, so I took a dump and then I was 131pounds.

After some (thank God!) running I was 129pounds. (This really made me realise that with exercise IT IS possible to loose weight)

CW: 129pounds (9st.3)

GW for end of august: 117pounds (8st.5)

UGW: 98pounds (7st)

Food Diary

Breakfast: Bran flakes, nut and clusters cereal with semi-skimmed milk

Lunch: 1 slice of wholemeal bread with butter (yes i know, tut tut), salami and cheese

Dinner: Jealouf Rice (I'm african by the way, so that's red fried rice basically, it's spicy too)

Snacks: 1 stick thingy of cookies and cream ice cream and 3 slices of almond cake... (I was really naughty today and just binged really)

So in my 1st ever thinspo I'm currently focusing on gaps between thighs/legs

The tights look great on her!!!

Imagine your thighs being this thin!!!

Remember this is achievable guys!! Just make that extra little sacrifice and put in a bit more work, you'll fit into anything you want with a body like this. Come on, you can do it!