So the story goes........

Meridius

Hi all

I have been following the advice in the Summer Beach Super Challenge for the last five weeks and was wondering if any of you nice people would be so kind to take a peep at my efforts and tell me what I am doing wrong... waited till I finished the third week of the program to weigh myself and was utterly gutted to find that I had not lost one single, sorry, solitary pound. Not even half a pound. It was horrendous. I nearly burst into tears in the middle of Boots on Grafton street and to top it all off I was down a euro too.

So-
I might start by saying that I cut out all junk, fizzies (diet or otherwise), white Bread/pasta/rice, crisps, biccies etc. and the biggest kick in the face of all - no booze for over a month now. Loads of water and herbal/fruit teas.

Diet

A Typical Day

Breakfast
Porridge, low fat yoghurt, small banana

Mid Morning
an apple or two, maybe an orange, sometimes a small amount of nuts (15 or so) or seeds

Lunch
Two eggs, sometimes a tablespoon or two of baked beans
plain salad leaves
Quorn sausages (cals 114, fat 3.8, protein 15, carbs 4.9)

Dinner
Stir-fry - onions, carrot, pepper, radish, edamame/aduki/mung beans, couple nuts / seeds

Evening
Protein shake, maybe some fruit.

This is a typical day, I would eat small amounts of nuts/seeds, sometimes at lunch I would have a small portion of a grain like quinoa or couscous or some egg noodles. TBH I have now cut this out pretty much since the disapointment on the scales..............

I have had a couple of treats, maybe three or four since starting.

I have protein shakes after working out.

I use Fitday.com to track what I eat. Was taking in 1900 calories (thinking I was bleedin' amazing) and now about 1600 since the day of shocking dissapointment.


EXERCISE

At least five times a week and includint the following:

Cardio:

Kickboxing/Khai-bo classes once or twice a week.
Couch to 5k training three times a week.
Very long walks, around 90- 120 mins a couple times a week. (this has always been part of my routine).

Also some weights, using dumbells following a York guide that I got on - line. (4.5kg in each hand) 30 mins three times a week. can't afford gym.

I also do pilates anyway, a thirty min session twice a week.


About Me

I guess I have to come clean with my stats, though I am utterly ashamed of how far down the slippery slope of eating lodsa junk and being generally lazy I have let myself slide in the last eighteen months. So here goes...

Female
30
5' 5''
11st 12 lbs (I can barely bring myself to type it
Vegetarian

I dunno, something really drastic is wrong. I do feel better, sleep better, I have lost 3 cm off my waist and also off the top of my legs. But I feel I have made such big changes with little results, like my clother aren't looser or anything. When I look in the mirror I am still the same jiggly blob I was over a month ago. (And I took photos, so my head isn't playing tricks on me)

I am vegetarian so I guess its a little harder for me to get loads of protein in my diet but feel I am addressing this by eating high protein foods and supplimenting with whey protein after workouts and generally in my diet. Though I do admit that I have difficulty getting it up to 40%, its usually more like 30% with 50% carbohydrate.

I'm really down about this and though am prepared to continue I feel really bad and have lost the drive and motivation I had at the beginning. I'm gonna weigh myself again on Saturday but again, I feel there will be no change.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, you are all such an inspiration and your posts are so useful, I wanna be a success just like you guys!

With many thanks in advance.

A super - sad Meridius.

celestial

Meridius wrote: »

Hi all

I have been following the advice in the Summer Beach Super Challenge for the last five weeks and was wondering if any of you nice people would be so kind to take a peep at my efforts and tell me what I am doing wrong... waited till I finished the third week of the program to weigh myself and was utterly gutted to find that I had not lost one single, sorry, solitary pound. Not even half a pound. It was horrendous. I nearly burst into tears in the middle of Boots on Grafton street and to top it all off I was down a euro too.

So-
I might start by saying that I cut out all junk, fizzies (diet or otherwise), white Bread/pasta/rice, crisps, biccies etc. and the biggest kick in the face of all - no booze for over a month now. Loads of water and herbal/fruit teas.

Diet

A Typical Day

Breakfast
Porridge, low fat yoghurt, small banana

Mid Morning
an apple or two, maybe an orange, sometimes a small amount of nuts (15 or so) or seeds

Lunch
Two eggs, sometimes a tablespoon or two of baked beans
plain salad leaves
Quorn sausages (cals 114, fat 3.8, protein 15, carbs 4.9)

Dinner
Stir-fry - onions, carrot, pepper, radish, edamame/aduki/mung beans, couple nuts / seeds

Evening
Protein shake, maybe some fruit.

This is a typical day, I would eat small amounts of nuts/seeds, sometimes at lunch I would have a small portion of a grain like quinoa or couscous or some egg noodles. TBH I have now cut this out pretty much since the disapointment on the scales..............

I have had a couple of treats, maybe three or four since starting.

I have protein shakes after working out.

I use Fitday.com to track what I eat.


EXERCISE

At least five times a week and includint the following:

Cardio:

Kickboxing/Khai-bo classes once or twice a week.
Couch to 5k training three times a week.
Very long walks, around 90- 120 mins a couple times a week. (this has always been part of my routine).

Also some weights, using dumbells following a York guide that I got on - line. (4.5kg in each hand) 30 mins three times a week.

I also do pilates anyway, a thirty min session twice a week.


About Me

I guess I have to come clean with my stats, though I am utterly ashamed of how far down the slippery slope of eating lodsa junk and being generally lazy I have let myself slide in the last eighteen months. So here goes...

Female
30
5' 5''
11st 12 lbs (I can barely bring myself to type it
Vegetarian

I dunno, something really drastic is wrong. I do feel better, sleep better, I have lost 3 cm off my waist and also off the top of my legs. But I feel I have made such big changes with little results, like my clother aren't looser or anything. When I look in the mirror I am still the same jiggly blob I was over a month ago. (And I took photos, so my head isn't playing tricks on me

I am vegetarian so I guess its a little harder for me to get loads of protein in my diet but feel I am addressing this by eating high protein foods and supplimenting with whey protein after workouts and generally in my diet. Though I do admit that I have difficulty getting it up to 40%, its usually more like 30% with 50% carbohydrate.

I'm really down about this and though am prepared to continue I feel really bad and have lost the drive and motivation I had at the beginning. I'm gonna weigh myself again on Saturday but again, I feel there will be no change.Any advice would be greatly appreciated, you are all such an inspiration and your posts are so useful, I wanna be a success just like you guys!

A super - sad Meridius.

Don't be too sad! I think you've made great progress and the scales is not what you should be looking to to check your progress in any case. You've lost around an inch in 5 weeks - does that not seem good to you for such a short period of time? Can you post up a typical day's diet prior to changing your diet around?

Meridius

Cheers for the super quick reply!

Diet before would actually have been much the same as this but without the protein suppliment and would have included probably:

three bags of crisps a week,
popcorn,
a couple of biscuits a day,
diet fizzy drinks,
about ten units of alcohol a week,
breakfast cereals with semi-skimmed milk,
maybe a slice of cake a week,
a chocolate bar a week.
Oh and sweets. Of the skittles variety. Or opal fruits. Twice a week.

I have always exercised, not high intensity, but I wouldn't be a total couch potato.

Do you really think this is progress?