Lose 10 kilos

I got a free week when my friend joined and nominated me.

I loved the Latin funk class so much that I joined straight away! So much fun!!

Unfortunately, I am an emotional eater to the extreme. Moreover, I am now working all day, 7 days a week, and the second I finish work all I want is food and to sit on my bum. It feels like I don’t have time or energy to be active, which I know is just a mind-over-matter issue.

So I’m going to try and stop my mindset of “oh I’ll settle into things and have more time/motivation to do stuff soon… wait til then”. I have put on weight so that now I’m a little over what I was when I first added this goal. So now it’s time to change that again.

I went to my first group fitness class this week with a friend, we were terrible but enjoyed ourselves so hopefully this is the start of a good thing. My diet is harder to control…

I signed up to a website today called my-calorie-counter. It’s a pretty basic approach, you enter in the foods you eat each day, and can see how many calories you’re consuming. Logical, which is fine for me. You can put in your current weight and goal weight, and track your progress.. it felt good putting it into the comp like that, seemed more achievable. like, “why have I been stressing so much? I should be able to do this” sort of thing.

You can also add blogs, which I like :)

The only nitpick I have is that the site is clearly american, so all the entries are for american things.. which pisses me off a bit. (I know, I shouldn’t be eating red rooster or gloria jeans anyway.. but still!) but that’s a very small thing I guess. anyway, I’m hoping this will be the kick in the bum I need!

crosses fingers

If anyone else here is a member, I’d love some friends on there! lol :)

But 10 would be an awesome start. I’d pretty much be at my ideal weight that I’m aiming for.. to me, the extra one or two kilos after that isn’t to be fussed over. Totally natural.

It always frustrates me when people around me needlessly complain about “getting fatter.” I’ve never said anything, and still don’t, but now instead of dismissing it in my head it makes me incredibly angry. I think I’m getting even more sensitive about my weight and that’s kind of turning me into a boring and annoying person to be with. Gah!

I had a membership at a local gym for about a month and a half, but with uni back it just made me tired and irritable, so after getting no results I stopped going as regularly. I have break soon so I think I’ll join again, but I’m finding it hard to get the motivation because of my dismal results last time.

My eating is the worst though. Talk about emotional eating, it’s crazy. I just don’t know how to make myself stop. It’s like, “okay, just one more chip. well maybe a few more, after all what difference does it make. well, I may as well make it a nice, round half-a-pack. mmm, just a couple more. oh look at that, there’s hardly anything left. for crying out loud you may as well just finish them.”

Which is all very good for my goals, as you can imagine.

Anyhow, I should stop rambling and get off my butt lol. Good luck to all of you, hopefully at some point this will be crossed off my to-do list, never to return again!