Going the distance
Jan. 29th, 2011 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fadagaskiToday I realised, possibly for the first time in my life, that in order to get down to a healthy weight for my height and build, I am going to have to do this restricted calorie diet thing for a year or more.
12 months.
52 weeks.
Eating 1700 calories a day or less (though, of course, never under-eating in terms of volume). Running 3 times a week. Swimming and biking when I can. Thinking always about the food in my fridge, on my plate, in my hand. Weighing myself every week to make sure that I haven't slipped up somewhere, and to correct any little errors that find their way to the hips.
My reasons for wanting to lose weight haven't changed:
The conclusion to this ramble? Having taken a couple photos of myself in a new swimming costume (for frank appraisal and future comparisons), I'm determined now. When I started this TescoDiet and the C25K program two weeks ago I weighed 13st 6.5lbs. Today I weigh 12st 11lbs.
It's all down from here.
12 months.
52 weeks.
Eating 1700 calories a day or less (though, of course, never under-eating in terms of volume). Running 3 times a week. Swimming and biking when I can. Thinking always about the food in my fridge, on my plate, in my hand. Weighing myself every week to make sure that I haven't slipped up somewhere, and to correct any little errors that find their way to the hips.
My reasons for wanting to lose weight haven't changed:
- health (already my knee has stopped twinging).
- more health (it's very likely I have PCOS, which can sometimes be managed with a low Gi diet).
- family health history (there's a history of diabetes and high blood pressure on the maternal line, and I'm sure it's closely related to weight).
- vanity (because I am a woman, in the Western hemisphere, in the C21st; of course I worry about how I look).
- teaching (I start training in September; in my secondary school, it was noticeable that slimmer female teachers had more control over their classes than their plumper counterparts).
- romance (it's not that I think men wouldn't like me at my current size, just that my self-confidence would prevent me from meeting those men; I am a bubbly, loud person through and through, and yet I don't believe a person of the opposite sex has ever thought of me romantically ... ever).
The conclusion to this ramble? Having taken a couple photos of myself in a new swimming costume (for frank appraisal and future comparisons), I'm determined now. When I started this TescoDiet and the C25K program two weeks ago I weighed 13st 6.5lbs. Today I weigh 12st 11lbs.
It's all down from here.
