Progress, not perfection

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March 2011

I'm glad to see you are doing this the healthy way and have reasonable goals. Don't get caught up in the hype. It's so easy to get lost in disordered behaviors and getting out takes way more effort. Take it from someone currently in the process. Losing weight can become a high but don't make it about that. It is so much about getting healthy. You should know that your starting weight of 168 was a healthy weight for you and you should not feel bad, however getting healthy is a great goal and I comend you. Your lowest goal weight is reasonable and anything between where you were and that number is a great place for you to be. While you are counting calories and watching teh numbers on teh scale go down remember to check in with your psyche and make sure this isn't taking over your life. And as far as calories are concerned, 1200 is a very low number reserved for weightloss diets. If you are working out at all youll need more than that or your body will turn to digest itself. I wish you the best of luck with your journey but please, please, be concious of how it is affecting you emotionally and mentaly. -sara

Thanks for your concern =) I definitely know what you mean about not letting it take control of me. I’ve seen in the past few weeks just how easy it would be to do that, but luckily I do know what’s healthy and unhealthy, and I certainly have no intention of eating 1200 calories everyday for the rest of my life. At the moment, I’m really just trying it to prove to myself that I don’t have to eat all the time. My problem is really that I just like eating, so when I’m not tracking it I tend to snack when I’m really not hungry, just because I like to be eating something. Doing this is just helping me to find low calorie meals that fill be up, without being unreasonably low, and helping me to realise when I’m actually hungry, and when I’m just eating because I’m bored. =P

As far as my weight is concerned, I know I’m not fat or anything, I just want to gain a bit more confidence in my body by losing fat. I really don’t mind if I don’t lose much weight, seeing as I’m doing quite a lot at the gym and hope to become a bit more muscular, it’s just nice to see some loss because it reminds me that the work I’m doing is paying off =)

It’s lovely to have people on here looking out for me, thank you. And good luck with everything <3 xx

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I just made a pizza using a tortilla for the base

and it was lovely =D

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I live for it.

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Motivation & Progress

So I’ve been feeling pretty down for the past few hours, I’m honestly not sure why. I was fine at college, I got quite a bit of work done for my history deadline on Thursday, so while I still have some to do I’m not too worried about that. I have a lot to do on my music coursework too, which is due in just over a week, but I think I can do it, so I’m not stressing too badly about it.

So I wasn’t really sure what it was that was upsetting me, and yet I was doing weights in the gym, and it started to hurt towards the end of the set, and I honestly just burst into tears =/ I still managed to do all but my lunges, and did 12k on the treadmill though, so I’ll have burnt over 1000 calories. I just really didn’t enjoy it today. And that let to me wondering why I’m bothering doing this at all, when I don’t enjoy exercise usually, and I love food so much.

I think my being upset wasn’t helped by the fact that I miss my boyfriend (yes, I’m pathetic, I only saw him yesterday!) and that I’m trying to choose between two amazing universities, both at least an hour on the train away from him when there’s a perfectly good one really near that I just don’t want to go to. But I guess I was feeling discouraged by the fact that I’ve been the same weight for years now, and it hasn’t been changing.

But when I got back from the gym, I weighed myself. I figured it wouldn’t be too bad seeing as I haven’t eaten since my tortilla and eggs at lunch, and I’ve just been to the gym, but I really didn’t expect it to say 160.1.

So yeah, I may not always enjoy it, and I’m going to have my bad days like everyone else, but that reminded me why I’m bothering. I want to be fitter, I want to lose fat, and replace it with muscle. In a lot of ways, I don’t mind if the scale doesn’t change much, but when I see it going down, and I know it’s fat rather than muscle or anything else that I’m losing, it just brightens my day that little bit. <3

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HEALTHY IN A YEAR: i just made a pizza crust out of cauliflower. → healthyinayear.tumblr.com

healthyinayear:

and it was amazing. I honestly think this is how I will always make pizza from now on.

1/4 of this pizza (3 small slices) is totally filling and it’s 200 calories! (that includes all the toppings + cheese I put on top of the crust)

Here is the recipe for the crust:

2 cups Riced Cauliflower…

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I will follow you ALL.

Woohoo! I’m breathing :)

I’m fairly certain that I’m breathing. I may need a second opinion, though. :P

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