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After reading Maggie’s blog this morning, I also decided to have a private ‘fashion show’ in front of the mirror, having lost a whole 2 pounds and all…  and yeah, my benchmark corduroy pants no longer show the muffin effect of the ’swollen’ kidneys at the waist… and the 2 dresses that I bought too small look reasonably pleasing. Aaahhh. I feel ready to keep on fighting…2 lbs really show on the clothes, you know (unfortunately, the bras are also getting very comfy… )

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Have a great week buddies!

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2 pounds down since June 2^nd!

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I cannot begin to describe how happy I am!!! This is 2 pounds loss in 9 days after 60 days of no loss!!! I was beginning to feel that indeed I should stick a

I attended an event today that stretched over lunchtime and I knew from experience that the options there would consist of sandwiches, sandwiches, cakes, and sandwiches. The cakes are a sort of chocolate sponge cake topped with M&Ms, the sandwiches are hamburger buns with margarine splashed on both sides of the bread, mayo fillers and little pieces of chicken or egg. Ah… well, what would you do? It was either that or no food from 8am till 5pm. I removed the upper half of the bread and went for it, margarine and mayo and all… I was hungry!!!

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I figured it came up to 900-1000 kcals with today

… the lazy spell, namely. Something has been creeping up on me lately, I haven’t got much appetite but I also don’t feel like exercising… if the sun is out I can usually get myself going somehow, but I’m always glad just to do my bit and be finished with it. The gym routine the other day was my usual one, but it was soooo hard, somehow, I found it very fatiguing, my muscles were just not up to it…

… that’s ‘doing what it takes, you know what I mean’ in geordie (North English accent)

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The weather was not so nice yesterday so I decided to exchange my usual trek for a gym routine. I hadn’t done it for a while and it was hard!!! Change is good, right, good for the body, shaking things up…

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… and as I was there, I weighed in and discovered…tada…

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I’m a pound down!!!! That’ll be the first pound down in 3 weeks!!! Yay!!! I’ll weigh in again on Sunday.

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Have a lovely 100% OP day today, buddies, remember what it’s all about! Consistentcy. Endurance. Being healthy. And Sexy!

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I bought a kitchen scale last week, they had them on sale for 4.5 pounds only, and I have to tell you, though I have been avoiding it all my life, I really like having it, now. I can see, now, that I usually oversetimated how much things weighed and were too restrictive because of that. Now I know exactly how much I use of everything, and it’s fun!

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Anyways, just posting the food and exercise logs for today… I’m aiming for 1450 kcals. Be determined, buddies, and stick to it! What do you say? Shall we stay on plan today? We can always be naughty tomorrow

I had a bit of a food escapade yesterday night, I opened a new packet of organic mixed nuts… and had a hard time stopping … I managed to tear myself off the the last 50g (of 200g) this morning - that is a buckload of kcals!!! But I didn’t eat the whole pack, yay me!!! I did go 350 kcals over the daily plan, yesterday all in all… and those that I ate this morning are sure making it difficult for me to stick to plan… but to put this into perspective, I had to stay up all night working my butt off writing a report which was due today. I am so tired, well, you can imagine… working all night only to go to work in the morning… I figure I must have burned those extra 350 kcals off during the night so I’m not feeling too guilty about it - and organic almonds, walnuts and Brazil nuts are healthy. Right?

Well, I had some more of them this morning and to vaguely follow the planned zigzag diet I have to stick to 1133 kcals today. What I am eating today can’t really be considered balanced, but it is reasonably healthy, all in all… and I went for my 1,5 hour trek in spite of the fact that I felt like a train ran over me. I am so ready to go to bed now…  well, soon, it’s only 18:15 over here.

Be good buddies, I’m thinking of you.

p.s. accountability… yeah yeah… posting today’s food and exercise journals

Well, the scale isn’t moving, still, should be moving… really should be moving… but no… for 58 days…nothing major to report…unfortunately,

but I am moving. I still have plenty of mojo, haha. I already did my exercise for the day and I’m posting yet another food and exercise log… you know… accountability is key… don’t want to be eating too little or too much… have been guilty of both in the past… I’m aiming for 1450 kcals today.

Second day of upping my kcals from 1200-1300 daily for an approx. 300 kcals daily. I

I said 1500 kcals a day…gosh… 300 kcal more than what I’m used to…

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I log into the food journal every day, so to make myself accountable, I’ll publish my daily food and exercise blogs. I made a plan of today’s meals, I did the breakfast thing , I’m going to a picknick today and if I in reality eat something different, I’m going to correct the log for it. If that doesn’t keep me in line, I don’t know what will …

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I’ll also zigzag it a bit, well, I’ll try… something different every day… that’s important, right?

Care to read what realisations about the weight loss came to me lately? I got a shocking email from one of my buddies suggesting I should increase my calories. She suggested that possibly I may not be eating enough and have been stuck on a plateau because of that. I was going ‘geez, you know, you may be right but I’m too scared to try eating more!’ I was so freaked out!!!

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Now… that got me thinking. Why is it so hard for me to consider eating a little bit more? Not a good mindset… 1200-1300 kcals is really very little… so I started thinking about what else I dare not do… I dare not stop exercising even for a day, almost… again… that’s not good.

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On day 55 on Buddy Slim, as you can see, I can report a total of 2 pounds lost. Not much. However, I’ve fallen ill from over-stress (and over-exercise) in this period. My blood pressure actually fell to very critical level, I got an infection, I got really depressed, couldn

Sadly, this in not a beginning of a cute joke. It

It’s my day 20. It was my morning-jog-after-only-coffee day and I did 3 miles  (jogging all the way, no walking… mind you, not running… … actually, jog-dragging - run the whole time, no walking, but really slowly, every other runner overtaking me… but I did overtake all the walking people ).
On the way back, I decided to stop by the gym and, well, I weighed in, TOM and all, sweaty clothes and all… and I’m half a pound down. Not a whole pound, but I figured 151.2 is 151 . Back home I tried my ‘goal’ size 8 Theory pants and I still look embarassing, but the ‘muffin effect’ seems smaller, you know what I mean?
It’s going to be a really slow one for me… I am 20 days into strictly following the plan, daily exercise and I see my body is slowly changing. For example, the tummy has become more flat. There’s plenty of stuff there, like there was before, but it has sort of flattened itself, no bulges…
I will see where I am definitely in a few days, when Tommy is gone… but, honestly, I hoped for a bigger loss…
Thinking of you buddies.

I sure would like a sandwich before I go to bed … but there’s no more certain way of getting thin than going to bed hungry. I can pre-plan my meals to be wholesome and low on calories, but sometimes my mind wonders off and oops, there I am munching on a wonderful cheese sandwich (the bread is between the two thick slices of cheese) before I can realise what I’m doing. The cheese called to me! The cheese hypnotised me and made me eat it!  I can’t even remember why I went for the fridge

Dear buddies,

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It’s now been two weeks since I joined this crew, this little dysfunctional family of ours. I must admit, I was a bit in disbelief about whether joining Buddy Slim would do any good, but I guess the joke about the ass at the veterinarian applies to me as well . The joke goes:

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A man comes to see a doctor and when he is received, the first things he says is: ‘I’ve come to see you but you should know that I don’t believe in medicine or that you could really do anything for me.‘ To that, the doctor calmly replies: ‘Well, that’s quite alright. An ass that is brought to see the veterinarian also doesn’t believe in medicine, yet the veterinarian will still be able to cure the dumb beast.‘

Well, I also keep my appointment with my veterinarian at the Buddy Slim clinic every day . You may have noticed that I come on line a lot . I have the laptop near me the whole day, so I diligently put in all my food intake and exercise and in spite of disbelief I have found it much to my liking. I also love to read your blogs and follow up on you progress, yet I just didn’t feel compelled to write a proper blog of my own. The forums are a great source of motivation and I just cannot give enough praise to this site. It’s a keeper, it is.

So what have I been doing for the past two weeks, apart from hanging out with y’all? Except for the first three days, I kept myself STRICTLY on plan. For the last week, I

I was thinking of writing something supportive, however, I don

First slip up already, darn it. Wasn’t a rabbit. A can of tuna (in oil) and toast got me.   The thing is, I notice, if I eat a little too much at lunch, I get very hungry at dinner time as well. Are you buddies keeping up and chasing those Easter rabbits away? 

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Anyway, I wish you all a   h a p p y    E a s t e r  !!!

It’s now three days into my new Buddy Slim addiction and I’m ever so dilligently feeding my food and excercise log with all the data on what I eat. And do. I wouldn’t think of even letting out the 0-calory coffees and spinach out, just in case. And through the machine, the ‘alknowing god of dieting’ is telling me I don’t eat enough and will loose huge amounts of weight if I keep it up.

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Only… my regimen is almost the same as for the last few months (I’m just trying to skip dinners, now) and I’m still, well, not a siren…

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Have any of you been keeping a strict food log - and was it correct about whether you would loose weight? I’m so going to dare the machine These calories that my food jurnal is reporting better be right. Or I’m going to be so dissapointed.

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 Hear her go all crazy after three days. Yes, I know. Three days is nothing. Except my expectations have risen to the sky. I’ve decided not to weigh in until 2 weeks have passed.

I came across the Buddy slim site by accident yesterday and it just so happens that I’m curently a week into a more stringent diet to get me into shape. I’ve lost around 10 pounds last year and kept the new weight until recently, when the clothes all of a sudden didn’t seem to fit me as well as before.Last week, I bought these wonderful Theory tailored pants on Ebay that were a size 8 and I knew they would be just a little to tight. So, while I was waiting for my new apparel to come from accross the ocean, I started preparing my body to be able to put it on.

They arrived yesterday. I can fit myself in them but could use a little extra space in there….

I eat a very healthy diet in terms of what I eat, but not it terms of when I choose to do it. I get very hungry in the evening and if I stay up too late, my will succumbs and I eat right before I go to bed. That’s what I’m trying to avoid now…