Week 24

Guess who lost 800 grams this week? If you guessed me, you would be right!!! Give yourself a pat on the back! I feel so much better since starting this six week challenge, I feel lighter and I can tell that my body is getting smaller, just in one week! It's awesome!

I will continue to do what I'm doing and hopefully we'll see more weight gone next week!
Well, back to 'studying' I go!
Sophie

One Week Down, Five to Go...

Today marks one week of the six week challenge and boy am I feeling great!  I feel lighter already and am enjoying the food that I am eating.  I mostly stuck with the programme this week, one slip up in which I had to fork out $5 for but apart from that everything was A-OK!  Since I'm doing this challenge, I've been looking at healthy desserts since I have a real sweet tooth.  So far I've found two which are sooo nice!  The first one is stuffed baked apples - click here for the recipe.  Instead of the pecans I used hazelnuts and I did it with cranberries and raisins instead of currents.  VERY tasty!  The second is baked apple crumble.  Similar to the stuffed baked apples but instead of having the whole apple, you chop it in half and scoop out the core and make a bit of a hole.  You then put crumble topping in the hollow and sprinkle on top.  Bake until the apples are soft and the topping is golden and crunchy.  Again - YUM!

So that's me for today, one more thing though.  Four more girls have joined in on the challenge making it the five week challenge for them. It's so nice having heaps of people around me doing the same thing - makes it just that bit easier!

Until Wednesday weigh in!
Sophie

I am writing this before I forget to otherwise it will never be done!  I lost 400 grams this week! That is now a kilo over the past two weeks! YAY! Slow and steady is the race which I think will be my new motto - sound good?  The six week challenge is going really well.  I've kept of track for the past three days which is awesome and I'm super keen to see how the rest of the time goes - it'll go really well I'm sure of it! :D

On another note, the book 'Baking with Julia' arrived today!!! It is an AMAZING cook book and I love, love, LOVE it! Possibly not baking anything out of it for a while, but for now I'll just dream... :)

Until monday!
Sophie

The Beginning of a Six Week Journey

Today is the start of the 'programme' that I am doing with one of the girls at the hostel.  I am really excited about this as it's a new part of my weight loss journey.  An added bonus is having a time frame on it - 6 weeks. It's nice having this time frame on this instead of just doing things day in and day out not really knowing how long you're going to do something for.  So what is the plan you may ask?  Well here it is (in brief).  5+ a day, do exercise at least 4 days a week, cut down on bread and carbs etc and no junk food.  We're allowed junk food once a week but even then it's only one milo or one biscuit or a small bowl of ice cream.  So it's like going cold turkey for 6 weeks but it's so worth it and I CAN DO THIS!  I am going to look and feel FANTASTC at the ball and no-one can stop that except for me :D

I'll keep doing my wednesday/thursday posts plus on on monday I think so keep checking in!

Sophie
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Week 22

I lost weight this week! Yay! 700 grams gone.  This week has been a really good week for me.  I have a friend in the hostel who is keeping me accountable each day with my eating which is so good! Rather then a rewards scheme, she'll embarass me if I do the things that I'm not suppose to do that day, which seems to be working quite well for me.  And for an added bonus another girl at the hostel and I are going to do a healthy eating plan thing starting next week! We keep each other accountable, have to pay each other $5 if we don't do something we said we would and we get stickers at check points! This is to help me get to my goal of below 80 kilos by the hostel ball so we have a dead line which is fantastic.
I'll let you know how this all goes!
Sophie
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Week 21

 I gained 600 grams this week.  It's a gain unfortunately.  I'm finding eating hard as usual but I'm going to look and feel FANTASTIC for the hostel ball this year so I'm going to keep plodding through.

Sophie
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Just to clear things up...

Just so you all don't get too excited, I don't have a date to the hostel ball like it may seem from the previous post.  I was meaning the date as in when it is!!! It has made my day that people care about what is happening in my life up here though so thank you :)

Until next week!
Sophie

P.S. If you really do want to know, I will update you if any of this changes - small chance though!!!! ;P

Week 20

I lost 800 grams this week! YAY!  My trick at the moment is to take one day at a time and to be really aware of what I'm eating and so far it's going really well.

On another note, I have a date for the Hostel ball - it's going to be on the 21st of July, so I'm still going to keep to my plan of getting under 80 kilos by the end of the semester so that I can go shopping for a dress during the holidays - and it's going to be a killer of a dress as well hehe ;P

Right.  I need to stop procrastinating and go write my essay.

HELP!
Sophie