Heading Overseas

I am returning to Australia on Thursday for 2 months.  I am happy to escape the European winter (although apparently I am meant to be happy Spring is here with +3C degrees!)  I am walking a little easier with a lot less pain and was able to actually go clothes and shoe shopping on Saturday for the first time in 3 months.  I am hoping this continues to improve and I will able to enjoy my time away.  At the moment I am nervous about the long flights and really wishing I was flying first class…as sitting for long periods of time is difficult for me.  Thank goodness I will not have to be wedged into the seat as I am 25kg lighter…but well you know…I still have a lot to lose before I am considered a normal weight.

I don’t know what the scales situation will be like while I am away.  I don’t think my parents have a digital scale…so I will have to assess the situation when I am there.  This might mean I am not able to post precise weigh ins while I am away.  I will do my best to keep up posts while I am away though.

I am yearning to eat all the great foods I can’t get here in Norway and am scared that this is going to be a very dangerous period for my weight loss.  I have never denied myself  foods while on this journey, but simply exercise rational discretion about portion sizes and enjoy the food a whole lot more, but savouring it when I do indulge.  Hopefully I can start exercising and walking more soon and maybe even get a short term membership at the local gym.  I am determined to return to Norway thinner than when I left!  hehe It won’t be easy…My Mum is morbidly obese and celebrates everything with food treats.  She also obviously doesn’t follow a lifestyle that embraces health and doubt she has ever actively exercised.  She might be upset when I don’t want to go out for gelato or get annoyed that I would prefer to head out to the gym for an hour instead of hanging out with her.  We’ll see.  Dad is a little fire cracker and probably more than happy to run all over the place with me…but again, he’s a not into intentional exercise.  He doesn’t even own jeans or runners, let alone tracksuit pants.  I may be over thinking this too much, but we’ll see.

So my lovely weight loss readers, my next post will be from across the world.  Wish me luck and stay centred in your resolve and relish all your little accomplishments.

Sophie

Weigh In – When Failure is Success.

According to my calculations and the note I made in my calendar, today would have been the day that I should have seen 65kg on the scales….that is if I could manage to lose an average of 1kg a  week.

As you can see I am WAY off track of this goal….13 kg off track.  I never actually expected to be able to lose that much weight each week but had hoped to be much closer to 70kg by now and around 72kg before my 2 month trip to Australia.  But as we all know, shit happens right!?

I never anticipated that my sciatic nerve pain issues would return with such ferocity and for so long after improving.   I got my life back after a year of intense pain…only to have it taken away from me again. Lack of being able to walk, let alone exercise put a big reality sized spanner in the works. I have written before the dangers of setting time span goals with weight loss and I hope that this proves a point to all of you who persist.  At the end of the day, I am 13kg off an unrealistic weight loss goal time span.  I AM 25.3kg less than my weight last July and how great is that!? I will make it my goal sometime this year…soon I hope.

I somehow managed to lose weight again this week…hope it’s not all muscle weight! But I am thrilled my body is still responding to the little I am able to do to assist a healthier existence.  And the best news of all….I have made some headway with my sciatic nerve pain and pelvis problems.  I have been given a few really good tools to help pop my pelvis back and my body is finally responding to these.  Knowing the pelvis is in place, but still not being to walk for more than 3-5 mins before the pain becomes too intense to think straight.. I figured that my main pain issues are being caused by a knock on muscular effect.  When my pelvis is in the wrong place, the piriformis muscle in the buttocks freaks out (and my sciatic nerve runs through the muscle instead of beside it and gets squeezed to death).  So I have spent the last few days stretching and massaging and getting acupuncture for the piriformis  AND things are finally improving!!  I probably just jinxed myself though

Anyway, here’s this week’s stats.

78.2 kg      or      172.40 lbs

LOST 0.6 kg/ 1.32 lbs

13.2 kg / 29.10 lbs TO GO!

BMI = 28.2 (9.1 points down)

TOTALS = 25.3 kg/ 55.78 lbs LOST SO FAR!

65.71 % OF WAY TO GOAL!

Stay smiling and keep up the battle against the bulge.