Glorfindel
Six Month Post Op
Hello!
I'm going to use this thread to record my food intake from now on. I'm going to be completely honest (even if I eat cake and crisps at the same time and wash it down with milkshake - ok, so maybe I'm not THAT bad!) with the amounts and my levels of carbs, proteins, fats and calories at the end of each day and the weight at the end of the week. I start at 10 stone 3, or 143lbs. I had my surgery on the 6th of November 2009 and you can see my stats to the left there. Even if not a soul reads this, I'm hoping it will give me drive anyway!
I'm also going to be taking photos of each of my meals and will try and post the photos each day too.
A little background in the first post, so I can remind myself what I am aiming for! -
I am so close to my goal and would love to reach it in time for my Civil Partnership on the 28th October of this year (very excited!). I've noticed my eating patterns are a bit dodgy recently, and have stopped loosing weight, so I need a kick up the bum and to go back to basics. I will never give up all carbs (I have a very brain demanding job, and need the 'food for thought!') but I need to up my protein again and cut down on the processed grains.
I'm currently a size 10-12. I'd love to be a size 10 everywhere (not a vanity size 10 ). I'm 5'2 and am naturally petite, so think this is a good goal. I am also currently only half a stone to a normal BMI, some of my extra weight may be skin, I have a lot on my belly and boobs unfortunately - I'm 25, so no, younger people still suffer from the extreme sag too sometimes - but admittedly my skin has never been very elastic, stretch marks cannot be counted! I was actually offered a chance to go on a new program on Home and Health to have it done, but decided having a baby AFTER a tummy tuck would be stupid, so I'll wait.
I have some photos too, the last photo was taken about two months ago, so is a little out of date.
The first image was taken the day after surgery, the second photo was taken Christmas day.
The following photos were taken in June of this year.
The next photo was taken the day of surgery and the little photo beside it was taken about 7 months after.
And finally, this last photo was also taken in June of this year.
I'd like to also share something very important to me - my latest tattoo. It means a heck of a lot to me. In total (including the bit of weight I lose before surgery ) I have lost 11 stone. This is my eleventh tattoo. It is an anchor not to signify me being weighed down, but to signify a weight finally being -lifted-! Instead of rope there is ribbon which has been untied and twirled about, not just to feminize it, but to signify the 'drop'. Basically this is my weight loss tattoo, to remind myself what I've been through and what I've done.
And so, here I go with my daily food diary. Time to get back to basics!
I'm going to use this thread to record my food intake from now on. I'm going to be completely honest (even if I eat cake and crisps at the same time and wash it down with milkshake - ok, so maybe I'm not THAT bad!) with the amounts and my levels of carbs, proteins, fats and calories at the end of each day and the weight at the end of the week. I start at 10 stone 3, or 143lbs. I had my surgery on the 6th of November 2009 and you can see my stats to the left there. Even if not a soul reads this, I'm hoping it will give me drive anyway!
I'm also going to be taking photos of each of my meals and will try and post the photos each day too.A little background in the first post, so I can remind myself what I am aiming for! -
I am so close to my goal and would love to reach it in time for my Civil Partnership on the 28th October of this year (very excited!). I've noticed my eating patterns are a bit dodgy recently, and have stopped loosing weight, so I need a kick up the bum and to go back to basics. I will never give up all carbs (I have a very brain demanding job, and need the 'food for thought!') but I need to up my protein again and cut down on the processed grains.
I'm currently a size 10-12. I'd love to be a size 10 everywhere (not a vanity size 10
). I'm 5'2 and am naturally petite, so think this is a good goal. I am also currently only half a stone to a normal BMI, some of my extra weight may be skin, I have a lot on my belly and boobs unfortunately - I'm 25, so no, younger people still suffer from the extreme sag too sometimes - but admittedly my skin has never been very elastic, stretch marks cannot be counted! I was actually offered a chance to go on a new program on Home and Health to have it done, but decided having a baby AFTER a tummy tuck would be stupid, so I'll wait.I have some photos too, the last photo was taken about two months ago, so is a little out of date.
The first image was taken the day after surgery, the second photo was taken Christmas day.
The following photos were taken in June of this year.
The next photo was taken the day of surgery and the little photo beside it was taken about 7 months after.
And finally, this last photo was also taken in June of this year.
I'd like to also share something very important to me - my latest tattoo. It means a heck of a lot to me. In total (including the bit of weight I lose before surgery ) I have lost 11 stone. This is my eleventh tattoo. It is an anchor not to signify me being weighed down, but to signify a weight finally being -lifted-! Instead of rope there is ribbon which has been untied and twirled about, not just to feminize it, but to signify the 'drop'. Basically this is my weight loss tattoo, to remind myself what I've been through and what I've done
.
And so, here I go with my daily food diary. Time to get back to basics!
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