A Big Week Ahead
Went to see the nurse on Friday a week after starting on the Orlistat and diet. Was very shaky to get out of my wheelchair and on to the scales but delighted with myself after Ann told me I'd lost a full 2.5kg / 5lbs in weight. She spent sometime looking over my moleskine journal that I've been putting together, it details every single thing that has gone into my system since starting, measurements in both inches and cm and various other charting statistics. She said that I'm doing everything right and to carry on, giving me an appointment for March 9th to come again to be weighed and check my progress. I was a bit apprehensive at waiting that long because usually its after the initial burst that I have an epic fail so really wanted something weekly or at least fortnightly but I guess she knows what she's doing and it is a tad difficult to get along there in the chair, it really hurts my coccyx bone area every time I use it so I'll settle for the 9th March after all and keeping everything crossed the weight loss amount will be dramatic in numbers by then.
Friday 10th February 2012
height 5 feet 4 inches
162.56 cm
weight 130.30 kg
286.60 lbs
20.47 stone
BMI 49.1
Friday 17th February 2012
height 5 feet 4 inches
162.56 cm
weight 127.80 kg
281.75 lbs
20.13 stone
BMI 48.4
Now that I'm ten days in the extreme tiredness is not so much of a problem, I think the turning point was Wednesday last week, each time I said I was getting up I simply fell fast asleep again unable to move for ages. Still getting that loud thumping crashing noise inside the back of my skull though sometimes during the night, when it happens I wake up in fear and cant get back to sleep no matter what I try, even sitting up as soon as I doze I wake suddenly like in a rush for fear of something happening again. It started during that horrendous virus back in January and comes and goes, last night's one was particularly bad and took about half an hour to calm down upon waking around 3am.
So trying to get into some sort of regular sleeping pattern is proving difficult at present but I will get there, got to so that my metabolism can regain its balance.
So ten days in and totally inspired by Pauline Quirke's massive 8 stone weight loss in one year, I decided to look at the diet plan she used to get the amazing figure she has now. Pauline used a food replacement diet program called Lighter Life, I dont really like these sorts of things as I prefer to handle all the fresh food I put into my system myself cooking everything from scratch or eating it raw in the case of vegetables. But it did get me looking into what the sachets for food replacement she used contain and how they work.
Cutting back on your carbohydrates intake to 50 - 80g per day so that your body is forced into what they call ketosis, a muscle-sparing fat-loss diet that works by forcing the body into ketosis through carbohydrate deprivation. Ketosis is a state where the body converts fat into ketones that the brain can use for fuel when glucose (carbohydrates) are in short supply. It's metabolic trickery that has some major advantages over a regular, carb-based diets.
In principle it all sounds fab, simply cut down on the amount of carbs consumed so the body uses the fat already inside you instead, in practice however its not so easy to keep to that number target of 50 - 80g carbs per day. I figured I would do this for a few days, go back to the fat grams only calculations then back to the carbs and swing back and forth so that I get a bit of everything and am not cutting back on too much too soon.
Concentrating hard on keeping the food diary is something which I didnt really see as motivating before but it truly is keeping my mind focused on loosing the weight rather than not having anything to occupy my brain. Its weird, I already feel different somehow like deeply inwards determined to succeed. Not sure I've ever felt like that before now, even trying in the past to shift just a few lbs here and there I didnt feel so determined to become a thinner lady and stick at it. Its got to be a good thing right?
Friday 10th February 2012
height 5 feet 4 inches
162.56 cm
weight 130.30 kg
286.60 lbs
20.47 stone
BMI 49.1
Friday 17th February 2012
height 5 feet 4 inches
162.56 cm
weight 127.80 kg
281.75 lbs
20.13 stone
BMI 48.4
Now that I'm ten days in the extreme tiredness is not so much of a problem, I think the turning point was Wednesday last week, each time I said I was getting up I simply fell fast asleep again unable to move for ages. Still getting that loud thumping crashing noise inside the back of my skull though sometimes during the night, when it happens I wake up in fear and cant get back to sleep no matter what I try, even sitting up as soon as I doze I wake suddenly like in a rush for fear of something happening again. It started during that horrendous virus back in January and comes and goes, last night's one was particularly bad and took about half an hour to calm down upon waking around 3am.
So trying to get into some sort of regular sleeping pattern is proving difficult at present but I will get there, got to so that my metabolism can regain its balance.
So ten days in and totally inspired by Pauline Quirke's massive 8 stone weight loss in one year, I decided to look at the diet plan she used to get the amazing figure she has now. Pauline used a food replacement diet program called Lighter Life, I dont really like these sorts of things as I prefer to handle all the fresh food I put into my system myself cooking everything from scratch or eating it raw in the case of vegetables. But it did get me looking into what the sachets for food replacement she used contain and how they work.
Cutting back on your carbohydrates intake to 50 - 80g per day so that your body is forced into what they call ketosis, a muscle-sparing fat-loss diet that works by forcing the body into ketosis through carbohydrate deprivation. Ketosis is a state where the body converts fat into ketones that the brain can use for fuel when glucose (carbohydrates) are in short supply. It's metabolic trickery that has some major advantages over a regular, carb-based diets.
In principle it all sounds fab, simply cut down on the amount of carbs consumed so the body uses the fat already inside you instead, in practice however its not so easy to keep to that number target of 50 - 80g carbs per day. I figured I would do this for a few days, go back to the fat grams only calculations then back to the carbs and swing back and forth so that I get a bit of everything and am not cutting back on too much too soon.
Concentrating hard on keeping the food diary is something which I didnt really see as motivating before but it truly is keeping my mind focused on loosing the weight rather than not having anything to occupy my brain. Its weird, I already feel different somehow like deeply inwards determined to succeed. Not sure I've ever felt like that before now, even trying in the past to shift just a few lbs here and there I didnt feel so determined to become a thinner lady and stick at it. Its got to be a good thing right?