I'm finally going to do it

Orla K

I'm going to start (already have) to eat healthier, more fruit and veg and a bit more protein, I get enough carbs already but I'm not cutting them out and I'm not cutting out yummy bits either. I'm just going to eat better, which shouldn't be difficult I was eating alot of crap and only got a dinner if I went to my grannys.

I'm also trying to get a dog to loose weight so I made a deal with the owners if they keep to her diet I'll walk her every day. So I get an hours walk every day with a little fat bitch and another little bitch(I do love them but I love calling them little bitches).

What sparked this off is I was minding them for a few days and I brought the fat one to the vet to start her off on this diet (it was free and it shocked the owners into sticking with the diet) but, when it came time to bring her for a walk I had no energy. Even during the day I was feeling like I was dozing off, I missed meeting up with a friend because I dozed off. I needed to do something.

I'm not too fussed about weighing myself, I will be able to see any weight loss in my clothes and hopefully my energy levels will comeback.

I just needed to air this out somewhere, I thought this forum might be better suited than either the nutrition&diet or the fittness. Concidering I think I know more than the adverage person about either, maybe I don't but I know what I should and shouldn't be doing but, I just got into the habit of doing the worst thing for my body and health.

Good luck with that Orla.
The doggies health and happiness will be great motivation.

Don't be so sure of knowing all you need to, about nutrition and diet.
I'm fairly up on both topics, but I'm always coming across helpful info online.
Something small can make a big difference to how you feel.

Ericka

Fair play to you Orla, you seem to have a plan! hope it works out for you

I've started watching what I'm eating too. I don't have a lot to lose, my portions just went a little askew, and saying 'yes' to a few naughty things rather than going for a healthier option Though I've started going for walks in the evening, and filled my cupboards with healthier options.. so fingers crossed!


GL with your mission too

Sephiroth_dude

best of luck to you and the little bitches :pac: :-P.

maameeo

good luck Orla! def sounds like you have your mind set!
i started that last year and started walking a lot, felt great after a few days!!!
iv slipped a bit lately but u might motivate me to get back on the fruit and veg wagon!

cormie

If you're feeling sluggish and you're dozing off and you feel you easily put on weight, get checked for an underactive thyroid. It wont make you lose weight, but it will make it easier than if it remained untreated.

Fruit and veg is great, but make sure you enjoy it, otherwise you wont stick to it. It's also possible to have very healthy snack food, you'd be surprised how nice some things can be.

Eat plenty of dark green leaves and you'll be fine and try and buy organic foods too.

Make sure your carbs are healthy carbs.

As long as the food you eat is good and you exercise, then you will greatly improve. Don't view fat as the devil either. Fat is essential, but make sure it's good fat. There's saturated fat in Brazil nuts for example, but if it's organic, this is good for you.

Good luck

Orla K

Moonbaby wrote: »

Good luck with that Orla.
The doggies health and happiness will be great motivation.

Don't be so sure of knowing all you need to, about nutrition and diet.
I'm fairly up on both topics, but I'm always coming across helpful info online.
Something small can make a big difference to how you feel.

Oh yeah, there's always something people can learn about everything but what I mean I know what most the vit&minerals do and I know how most of it gets absorbed into the body (some of that is from greys anatomy - the book). I can read labels too (something which I have found alot people are not good at). I could know more (much more) but for what I need I have enough and if I was given more information I'd actually get fed up and just eat crap again(a really bad habit of mine, learn so much about anything and I end up running the other way)

The only thing I'm really lacking is motivation (thank you everyone for all the good luck responces). So because of that I'm not starting out big huge diet and a crap load of excerise, just a one hour walk (which I'll feel bad if I don't do, poor bitch needs her walk) and a more varied diet, which comes easy after a few days of walking the dogs. I always find I eat healthier when I act healthier.

I'm off to walk the dogs now.:D

MJOR

Good luck! it's easier when ou get into a routine!!! I've lost about seventeen pounds in thirteen weeks!!!! All walking a fruit and veg!!!!
Good on ya girl! I have no bitches though:)

cuckoo

Good luck! I keep my mp3 player loaded up with podcasts that i enjoy, so i have something to look forward to listening to when going for a walk.

The bbc radio websites have links to lots of their shows as podcasts, some v fascinating documentaries up there.

Keep us updated on how your getting along - it's be great motivation for yourself and for the rest of us!

allabouteve

Good on you Orla, and you have great motivation with the dog to consider too.

Its a good idea to stay away from the scales as you plan, because its too easy to get wrapped up in the numbers.

Once you start to see the results in energy and your clothes getting looser, it'll motivate you to keep going.

Orla K

cuckoo wrote: »

Good luck! I keep my mp3 player loaded up with podcasts that i enjoy, so i have something to look forward to listening to when going for a walk.

The bbc radio websites have links to lots of their shows as podcasts, some v fascinating documentaries up there.

Keep us updated on how your getting along - it's be great motivation for yourself and for the rest of us!

I couldn't listen to anything on the walk, I bring them to the country so there's nothing better than birds chirping and the russle of leaves.

I will keep you up dated but so far nothing has been going on except I do feel a little healthier.

Crumble Froo

fair play orla!

i recently started eating healthy too, after existing on a diet almost exclusively of tea and toast.

heaps of help and encouragement from the veggie forum, and some real life friends, but it's definitely made a difference to my mood, energy and i find im actually eating smaller portions of stuff too, which is great i think the main thing, with most people, is getting in your 5+ portions of fruit and veg a day, very few seem to do it.

best of luck with it, and hope the wee puppy benefits too!

Orla K

Crumble Froo wrote: »

fair play orla!

i recently started eating healthy too, after existing on a diet almost exclusively of tea and toast.

heaps of help and encouragement from the veggie forum, and some real life friends, but it's definitely made a difference to my mood, energy and i find im actually eating smaller portions of stuff too, which is great i think the main thing, with most people, is getting in your 5+ portions of fruit and veg a day, very few seem to do it.

best of luck with it, and hope the wee puppy benefits too!

Thanks, I won't tell you what my diet did consist of, it was far too bad but because I didn't have any energy I craved sugary foods and I didn't have enough energy to make a meal either. The first day I walked the dogs I was wreaked!

Also I might just go veggie not for any health reasons but because I got a cat a few weeks ago and whenever I cook any meat she gos crazy, she's trying to eat the meat off the plate. It makes eating awkward, so I've gotten some quorn and if that doesn't work I'll go for beans and pulses.

Handsome Bob

Good luck Orla. If I could make one small suugestion; at times you will feel like you have hit a brick wall and that you aren't getting what you deserve from the dieting and exercising. It's fine if you don't want to use a weighing scale, but just for the times when you are feeling a bit down, I suggest keeping a regular photographic log of your progress. You'll be amazed at how much you are losing and it will give you the courage to keep going.

Orla K

Been doing good except for this weekend. On Thursday I went to get the dogs for there walk but nobody was in and by the time they anyone got back it was 9 at night and I didn't want to walk around with them for an hour that late. So Friday morning I took them for a walk with the intention of taking them on another walk later on that day but, I brought them to the lake and a guy that normally fishes there starts asking me loads of questions about his new camera. I ended up having to show him it works and he wouldn't stop showing me his holiday photos. By the time the dogs got there walk I was tired I was also getting cramps and since I was walking alot my knees started getting sore (I've bad knees) so then the pain of the cramps and knee kept me on the couch with a blanket, eating crap and watching old films. Yesterday my knees were a little better but I still had cramps (and no sign of my period either:mad:) I hummed and hawed if I should get the dogs and bring them for a walk at about 6.30 I finally did it but I brought them to the woods not the lake (I wasn't in the mood to show someone how to use their camera).

I have to say the woods is much more energetic, I was exhausted, the dogs LOVED it, if they weren't running around the were smelling something. It's not a flat wood, it's on a hill and I didn't think the fat bitch could move so fast up hill.

I only get cramps before my period, once it starts they go but I still stay in a foul mood. Thankfully it started and it's such a relief. So today I'm going to bring them back to the woods.

Sam (the fat bitch) also has her weigh in at the vets on tuesday the owner is going to come with me and I can't wait to see how much weight she lost.

Oh and the cat is not interested in quorn, I'm not cutting out meat just eating less of it, to save the hassle of trying to get the cat off my plate whenever I eat.