102 Birthday progress photo

101 ish...

101.6 today- I´m very happy!

It was my birthday on Saturday and I ate and drank A LOT on the weekend - prosecco, cocktails, tapas, cake, chocolate, biscuits etc.

So, it was really really hard to pull myself up Monday and Tuesday and be restrained again. It seems like I have a furnace inside me (for hunger) that got turned up to HIGH and then I had to struggle to get it down to low again.

I was lying in bed last night feeling hungry - wanting to get up and eat something, but reminding myself to "enjoy" (?) the feeling of hunger, knowing that if I resisted food and let my body burn fat that I would be lighter today- and I was.

I just can´t wait until I hit under 100 - it doesn´t feel that long away- 2 weeks?

Success

I have lost another kilo! Not sure how I did it, but I´ll take it regardless :)

Can I be 102 for my birthday on the 31st? Will do my best.

Progress Photos!

5 months ago 113 kilos

Today- 104 kilos....

Going very slowly, but at least I can see the difference in the photos :)- it is small, but it is there.

Going Down

A long time since I´ve posted here, however I wanted to come and update my ticker! This morning I weighed in at 105.2. Slowly, slowly the numbers are going down and I´m very happy that I´ve managed to keep it this way and haven´t lost my way.

Bubs is now 6 months old! I have lost 10 kilos more or less....which kind of makes me sad as I wish it was more now, however the reality of it is that I feel the last few months of slow weight loss have meant some permanent changes for me- I no longer eat so much at night, drink more than a glass at a time and think about the consquences of what I am putting into my mouth.

I am also getting slowly back into running. Ran 3.2 kms the other day with a friend and didn´t stop once.

I want to take another front and back progress photo for 10 kilos- hopefully will get daughter to take photo for me later today.

Another kilo down

I seem to be on a roll, good news for me as I have twice weighed in at 107.9 this week.

There is a great article here- Eat Early To Stay Slim. This is exactly what I have been doing for some time and it is working! I have got used to the feeling of hunger and even learned to welcome it as a sign that fat is being burnt.

I have been under extreme stress this week though and eating less (mostly) because of it. Our landlords are trying to evict us (which is not easy in Germany) as they want to live in our apartment- it will probably end up in court, because we have three children our needs take precedence over a 41 year old couple luckily (and they live in the same suburb in a similar size flat).

The coming week I will be staying an at all inclusive family hotel- I am very nervous about how I am going to manage to not eat after seven pm and not overeat in general. I am packing my scales sad to say!

I think its time for another progress photo soon, I have lost 7 kilos so far.

Hello Again

Its been a long time since I´ve blogged- my sister came to visit from overseas for two months and my normal life went haywire.

Though happily, I was able to move the ticker down, not up today! I will take even a little bit of weight loss :), its better than nothing. It was actually a real thrill to see 108.9 on the scales this morning- I feel like I have left 110 behind hopefully forever.

What I have been doing this week to get good results is not eating after 7pm- at all- just water. I have been trying to train myself to feel hungry- and to enjoy feeling a little bit hungry at night, with the idea that my body is burning fat :).

I am not used to feeling hungry- my instinct is to fill myself up, I feel emotionally uncomfortable to have an empty stomach. It´s strange.

So, I plan to continue this indefinitely- I don´t have so much of a social life at the moment that this plan will interfere with anything.