July 17, 2004

I hope it's no more than 6

I am very disappointed in myself. Remember I said how I had got the eating under control? Well apparently that is not the case. Old habits die hard.

I started out very well in the first two weeks here. Gym 4 - 5 times per week, eating cereal with protein powder and skim milk powder for breakfast, light lunch and even lighter dinner, nothing in between. Then gradually I moved to a cheese and bacon omelette with one slice of whole wheat toast for breakfast, sometimes a burger or sandwich for lunch, and 3 course for dinner (always including dessert).

Then some mornings I decided to splurge and have pancakes with guava preserve and maple syrup in addition to the eggs. Tastes fantastic. But I have that maybe 2 times a week now. And sometimes, for dinner, even if I am not hungry, I order dessert.

What's wrong with my brain? I need a new one. I need a skinny-thinking one.

So I hope when I go home in about 10 days, the scale at the gym will show that I have put on no more than 6 pounds. How do I know I have put on weight? Well the skirt I put on today felt tighter. In the first two weeks, it was dropping off me.

Then two days ago, I was walking the property, and as I was approaching the owner, he pointed at me and mouthed "you've put back on weight, I can see the legs have filled out the pants more". Horrors.

It's the tummy; I have high belly again. That's from the bread rolls and the carbs in the dessert. Lawks a massi. Mi haffi wuk real hard when mi reach back a yard. I have some goals for December which I must meet. One of them is getting my butt even rounder than an English Pound!

Posted by yamfoot at July 17, 2004 08:13 PM
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It seems depressing, I know, Michelle, but you can take comfort in knowing that a nuff of we in the same position. Where are those skinny thinking brains when we need them ? :(

Posted by: Mad Bull at July 17, 2004 09:07 PM

Well, I haven't weighed, but the tool shed IS getting smaller, and the pants waist dem feeling more roomy. Oh, BTW, I jus done bathe after this eve's walk! :-))

Dinner has no carbs either...strictly meat and veg.

Posted by: Dr. D. at July 17, 2004 09:42 PM

I'm tall and skinny. I planned to buy a bowflex so in like a year or two I can turn the skinny into dark and handsome. but now I busy.

Posted by: owen at July 17, 2004 10:15 PM

Your weight problem must be contagious - I have not mee good since I cam back from Jamrock 3 weeks ago - and now - same affliction - it is just a constant struggle. I have been trying to get back on track with my no carbs thing - but I keep having these excuses - pre-menstrual cravings and the like... groan.

Posted by: Princess P de la Bimshire at July 18, 2004 01:24 AM

Well the choices are clear.

Eat everything in sight and get fat, or be moderate in choosing what you eat and be less fat.

What's so difficult about that to understand?

Posted by: larr at July 23, 2004 07:02 PM