Wow, I haven't blogged in what seems like ages (not that I haven't done that before). I have been checking other blogs, though, and I'm still very much trying to eat sensibly and lose weight, so it has been more or less business as usual.
May was a pretty eventful month. I had all these friends visit (combined, they stayed for over a week), and I've already blogged about that. The weekend after my friends were gone, I went down to my boyfriend's town for three days and had my eyes lasered! So now no more glasses and eye contacts for me, and I'm ready to splash out on designer sunglasses! It has now been almost two weeks, and my eyes are healing very well. The optometrists tell me I have more than 20/20 vision on both eyes, and I am all around very happy with the procedure and the result, to the point that I'm wondering why I didn't do it all those years!
It was not easy to balance healthy and low-calorie eating with socialising and showing off Edinburgh's culinary delights to my friends (not to mention the alcohol), or being away from home and having my boyfriend cook me meals (delicious in many ways!), but I managed as well as I could. At the end of the day, the weight did go down. After my bad weigh-in on Monday the 9th (after the weekend's debauchery with my friend), I just went back to my usual eating habits, and the weight just kept falling, little by little.
My lowest weigh-in was last Thursday, the 26th, when the scales showed 93.2kg (205.5lb). I haven't seen that number since, but there are good reasons for that: a friend visiting town and taking me out on a big dinner (where I skipped dessert), my boyfriend coming to stay for a long weekend that involved some overeating and overdrinking (but also LOTS and LOTS of walking against some pretty crazy wind), and now this 6-day trip to Greece, where I'm inevitably eating more (and loving it). It's not like I'm binging on my own, and I am eating healthy foods (like wild mountain greens, or "horta") that I cannot find back in the UK. I'm still eating in moderation (yesterday I stopped eating lunch when I was still hungry, because I knew I was having some coffee cake later, and probably a bigger dinner than normal), but I'm afraid it's not little enough to lose any weight. I'll know I'll get back to my eating routine when I go back home, and for now I'm just enjoying myself, thank you very much.
I have learnt that the pounds do not accumulate because of these small deviations, they accumulate because of the mindless eating I do when I'm on my own. To be fair, these deviations make it hard to stick to goals and deadlines for losing a certain amount of weight within a certain amount of time. But I'm not doing that. I am trying to follow a sustainable plan which I can stick to for many years, if that's how long it takes to lose the weight. I might have to stick to this forever, if I am to maintain the lost weight, anyway. So I am taking a relaxed attitude, and I know that when I'm back home I'll just go back to business as usual.
May was a pretty eventful month. I had all these friends visit (combined, they stayed for over a week), and I've already blogged about that. The weekend after my friends were gone, I went down to my boyfriend's town for three days and had my eyes lasered! So now no more glasses and eye contacts for me, and I'm ready to splash out on designer sunglasses! It has now been almost two weeks, and my eyes are healing very well. The optometrists tell me I have more than 20/20 vision on both eyes, and I am all around very happy with the procedure and the result, to the point that I'm wondering why I didn't do it all those years!
It was not easy to balance healthy and low-calorie eating with socialising and showing off Edinburgh's culinary delights to my friends (not to mention the alcohol), or being away from home and having my boyfriend cook me meals (delicious in many ways!), but I managed as well as I could. At the end of the day, the weight did go down. After my bad weigh-in on Monday the 9th (after the weekend's debauchery with my friend), I just went back to my usual eating habits, and the weight just kept falling, little by little.
My lowest weigh-in was last Thursday, the 26th, when the scales showed 93.2kg (205.5lb). I haven't seen that number since, but there are good reasons for that: a friend visiting town and taking me out on a big dinner (where I skipped dessert), my boyfriend coming to stay for a long weekend that involved some overeating and overdrinking (but also LOTS and LOTS of walking against some pretty crazy wind), and now this 6-day trip to Greece, where I'm inevitably eating more (and loving it). It's not like I'm binging on my own, and I am eating healthy foods (like wild mountain greens, or "horta") that I cannot find back in the UK. I'm still eating in moderation (yesterday I stopped eating lunch when I was still hungry, because I knew I was having some coffee cake later, and probably a bigger dinner than normal), but I'm afraid it's not little enough to lose any weight. I'll know I'll get back to my eating routine when I go back home, and for now I'm just enjoying myself, thank you very much.
I have learnt that the pounds do not accumulate because of these small deviations, they accumulate because of the mindless eating I do when I'm on my own. To be fair, these deviations make it hard to stick to goals and deadlines for losing a certain amount of weight within a certain amount of time. But I'm not doing that. I am trying to follow a sustainable plan which I can stick to for many years, if that's how long it takes to lose the weight. I might have to stick to this forever, if I am to maintain the lost weight, anyway. So I am taking a relaxed attitude, and I know that when I'm back home I'll just go back to business as usual.
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