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The Target Dress

by Melanie Cheeks on 27 Jul 2013, 19:58

Whe I first started losing weight, I was 157 pounds, and in a size 14 (in fact some of my trousers were 16s)

I used MFP and calorie counting, and got done to under 140 pounds, and was back into most of my size 12 wardrobe. Over Christmas I got a bit lazy, went back up to 145 pounds, and started 5 and 2ing. And after a few months I was wearing size 10s.

A while back, I saw a link on Mumsnet to a gorgeous dress in Jaeger. But it was £175, and out of my budget. I kept an eye on it, and last month it was down to £99. This week, I saw it reduced to £75 online (and I got a 10% discount on top of that). Only snag was - it was only available in an 8. I thought I'd order it anyawy, and it could be my target dress.

It arrived today.

I tried it on.

It fits!!!!

Still cant quite get my head round the fact that I'm an 8. But still really enjoying this way of eating.

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5 and 2 and 2 to 2

by Melanie Cheeks on 31 May 2013, 11:45

A slightly different approach this week, during which I have been awash with sandwiches!

Monday was a Bank Holiday, and also a Scottish Dancing party, so I didn't fast (and had sandwiches for supper. Very odd they were too - tune with grapes? And the dreaded raw inion in egg ones, bleurgh)
Tuesday was my day off - not normally a day I'd pick for fasting, but needs must. I had to take my car to the garage in the mroning, and ran the 3 miles home afterwards. Around lunchtime I was hungry, so had a late brunch of tinned grapefruit segments with blueberries. Mid afternoon I realised I was missing protein, so I had a pickled egg accompanied by some salad leaves and tomatoes. Dinner was home made bolognaise sauce with some zero noodle spaghetti, before dog-training kept me busy during the evening. Enjoyed The Apprentice with a diet ginger-beer.
Wednesday - working lunch. More sandwiches, and my stomach was complaining all evening about this carb-fest.
Thursday - another working lunch...

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false low?

by Melanie Cheeks on 23 May 2013, 11:20

Why are people so hard on themselves? I think it was the Mumsnet lot (they are particularly self-crictical) where someone wouldn't record a new low weight seen on the scales after a fast because "it was a false low".

What?

Weight varies up and down during the day. It will increase depending on what food you've eaten and how recently, what kind of food it was, what exercise you've done, what clothes you're wearing. But the lowest weight will be your empty and naked weight. To me, that's the sensible one to measure and record - so that's first thing in the morning, no clothes, after a pee. If that's lower than the last time I measured, I'll record it. If it's not, I'll ignore it.

And another thing - debates about where your waist is? It's the smallest distance around your middle. Again, why all the angst about measuring such a distance from your belly button etc - go with the smallest. That's not cheating. Sometimes it's as if people are deliberately trying to find ways...

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Liquids

by Melanie Cheeks on 03 May 2013, 09:39

Monday and Thursday again this week, which worked really well.

I was hoping to do just liquids on Monday, but then remembered I had a meeting mid-morning, so I allowed myself some Ryvita and low-low cheese. I've switched from rice cakes to Ryvita - although the rice cakes have slightly less calories, (less or fewer?) they are a higher GI food. I skipped lunch - went downtown to return the iPod Shuffle which I'd bought on Sunday but which wasn't what I needed at all, and also had my now long and strong nails done properly at the Nails Inc stand in Victoria Square.

I'm not a coffee drinker - I only consume it on fast days. Ordered a regular black coffee to go at a cafe, and was astonished at the volume of it! Kept me going till mid-afternoon.

Dinner was with husband - we have GOT to stop buying so much food. We had to eat a couple of breaded cod loin steaks or they'd be thrown out. I scraped most of the coating off mine, and had it with microwaved courgette cubes. Husband had his...

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visiting parents

by Melanie Cheeks on 18 Apr 2013, 10:26

Had a good Monday fast this week - a mushroom spinach scramble for breakfast saw me through a morning meeting with the boss, then a miso soup and a satsuma at lunchtime. I'd been saving calories in case I was eating with husband at dinner time, but he wasn't feeling well, so I made myself a quick tom-yum soup, before heading out to Scottish dancing, where I allowed myself the smallest biscuit on the plate!
I'd hoped to have Thursday as my second fast day, but darling daughter is over from her London college this week, and was keen to go out to dinner on Thusrday night. That left Wednesday - but that was the day I was taking off work to drive daughter and friends up to the North Coast to visit my parents. Ah well, great excuse to avoid my mother's cooking!

I made sure I had plenty of water for the drive, even though daughter purloined my emergency orange! Lunch was homemade vegetable soup - I passed on the wheaten bread and cheese, as well as the smoked salmon and crisps nibbles, but...

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