The Curvy Goddess

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl...

In January Dietgirl wrote in her blog about someone who called in after one of her radio interviews saying...

"It's all very well this girl writing about losing loads of weight, but we all know it's just calories in, calories out."

Oh really Mrs Fuckwitington from Smugshire?  Well how comes then we in the UK have such an obesity problem?  I'm sure doctors and scientists may agree with you on the science (which is a flimsy concept at the best of times if you ask me!), but they also agree that it is much more than that.  Diets don't work, but longterm changes to lifestyle do.  And as Dietgirl quite rightly pointed out for most people struggling with lots of weight to lose, this is a journey and a long process.

Process is a good word and thats exactly what you see in The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl.  Don't expect diet tips, rules or guidance, instead you will be given hope and reassurance, knowledge that someone who had so much weight to lose could do it and in a senisble manner.  Fad diet it certainly is not!

You'll realise that it is perfectly human to occasionally succumb to the vending machine or to a tub of ben and jerrys and that Marks and Spencer is evil for creating their goddamn delicious mini cakes which are purchased for the flimiest of reasons.

Fellow dieters will be able to relate very much to the secret chocolate binges, the fear of what people think of you exercising and the longing for it all to be over with.

What I love most of all about this book is that you realise, if you want to change, you can. And there is so much to learn along the way!  In the end the prize is not the goal weight, but finally learning to love yourself, not matter what the body mass index says.

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl is a must have to anyone on a diet/weight loss process, you'll feel all the better for knowing that someone else felt all the fear, cravings and insanity that linger in your head.  I really wish I had this book in the summer of 2006, it would have been just what I needed then.

Shauna you are great!

Retail Therapy

It was pay day last Thursday so for me that equates to early in the month spending frenzy followed by 3 weeks of scraping pennies together to buy fruit...  My retail therapy drug of choice used to be Dorothy Perkins but as at present I would greatly enjoy setting fire to all clothes I see (and the designers too), clothes are out of the picture. 

Instead this month I am temporarily ageing ten years and investing in a food processor.  It was a tough choice between the food processor and Buffy on DVD, but in the end I guess for now diet must come first (Sorry Buffy).  On the plus side I will soon be the master of the falafel, hummus and other blended goodness that I haven't been able to make so far.

I have also ordered myself a little treat, which I am very excited about receiving!  As far as weight loss blogs go they don't come any more famous than the lovely Dietgirl.  Recently I have been working my way through her archives, but was thrilled to learn that her book had come out in January.  So along with the food processor her book is coming too.  Very much looking forward to it as her blog is so funny, some of things I have had read have made cry with laughter.  On a more me related note, her archives have been inspiring and made me feel masses better that Dietgirl too spent a lot of time 'trying' to diet and having secret chocolate binges.  Can't wait for it to arrive!

Low GI Joy...

Well today I finally used Professor Bento.  But as I was running very late for work this morning I did not have time to take a picture of my lunch :( however it was a yummy lunch consisting of lentil dal, chilli and salad.

Of course after work as you can see below, taking pictures of my dinner was no problem.  Now before anyone thinks I have been eating badly, think again!  The pizza in the picture is a low gi pizza and of course portion sizes are limited as you can see in the next picture - and with a salad!  It was fiddly and there was waiting an hour for the dough to do its thing, but it was tasty.  The base was a bit soggy, so I think next time I will bake it briefly before putting the topping as I like my pizza crispy!

Changes

HEY WAIT!!!!  THIS REALLY IS THE CURVY GODDESS!  I PROMISE!

Aye - I felt like a change so changed.  Personally I think the new background is much prettier and I feel more organised now that there is me stuff on the left and clothes stuff on the right.

Does feel weird though...

Not to be taken seriously

Found this today via shapely prose.

Cried with laughter especially at this bit from a post called "Potatoes: The Silent Killer":

"That chemical energy? It’s called starch. Starch is a carbohydrate, a word which comes to us from Greek. Note the presence of the word “hydra” in the middle there. In Greek myth, the hydra was a dragon-like serpent with multiple heads who could not be killed. This is all you have to know about carbohydrates."

I do love a good piss take.

Updated Linky Poos!

I've been tidying up the links tonight, got rid of a few broken ones and added a couple of new ones... 

Have decided that when I lose my next stone (so 11 stone 6 is the target!) I am gonna buy myself this gorgeous skirt from one of my newly found on line shops - Luckykat (and Luckykat also has an Etsy store!).  I love and am obsessed with Cherry prints so I really want that skirt!  Must diet harder for pretty clothes!!!

On the topic of links I have been thinking of new catergory/s...  I've noticed that on Ebay and Etsy there are some great sellers who are selling their own unique plus size clothing...  So I was thinking these great people ought to be acknowledged alongside all the bigger shops out there!  Anyway, I've got some planning and link collecting to do so watch this space...

Going to be brave...

I've decided to do something brave. 

I have since the start of this blog been safely tucked away behind a computer with my weightloss, I have no pictures on here to prove my weightloss you can only take my word for it.  I could infact be a robot.  Well a broken, messed up and fat robot, but I could be a robot.  So I've decided to bring the remaining weight that I need to lose out into the open.

By joining a slimming club.

It seems that every Thursday just over the road from my work the Rosemary Conely slimming club meets for weigh-in, motivational talk and then an exercise class.  And as the club endorses a low gi diet I guess I can't go wrong...

Although...

...Recently I have been hearing weight watchers weigh-in horror stories on various other blogs and crying my eyes out with laughter whilst reading the dietgirl archives about how the weight watchers lady who told her she could have peed out a 100gm.  But the way I see it is that I am not going for the weigh-in, I will be going to try and address some of my fears of exercise.

At the moment I secretly would love to join a gym or go to many exercise classes on my own.  But I just can't.  Absolutely terrified of exercising amongst normal people on my own.  I have recently started yoga, but only because my best friend and boyfriend come along too.  I am in February starting aqua aerobics, but only because I have someone else to go along with.

My reasoning about RC is that if I go to a slimming club exercise class, I shouldn't be the only larger person there and I will go on my own.  I really have to do this, because if I am to truly change my lifestyle, exercise on my own has to be part of it, I can't always have someone around to hold my hand.

So the people at the slimming club will in a couple of weeks know I am not a robot.  But you guys here may suspect that I am actually a robot after talking so much about it today.  To prove that I am actually human I will sometime very, very soon put pictures of me before and not quite midway. 

There is still a long way to 9 stone.

Weight Update

Am now on day 19 with no sugar.

It so far has been surprisingly easy.

I am quite shocked at the impact of the scones, they have seriously made it easier to turn a blind eye to chocolate.

Although on my return to England in december I came back 12 stone 6, in the following weeks my weight went up to 12 stone 10 again. 

However with no sugar and eating low gi about 95% of the time over the last 2 weeks I am now back down to 12 stone 6.  This weekend I have some serious meal planning to do, but I am hoping the effort will be worth it.  Very excited about the meal planning for Professor Bento!

12 Days with No Sugar...

...Can you believe it?  At last I seem to have mastered the sugar beast, all I needed to do was feed him fake sugar treats, in the form of scones and now the he is appeased.  I have even survived the monthly evil without succumbing to chocolate...

Did have cappuccino though today, a skinny one and realised that they actually taste better.  You see my favourite cappuccinos are those with loads of thick froth and clever boyfriend explained to me today that froth made with skimmed milk will be better because the bubbles are smaller...  Whatever, I like the skinny ones better :)

I am also now in the process of planning every meal for February, especially now the Bentos are here!  Have so far selected a range of meals from my various low gi cook books and now need to make some kind of food timetable to maximise how far my money goes.  On the point of low gi cookbooks, I just wanted to rave about this one, Low-GI Vegetarian Cookbook by Rose Elliot.  It is my favourite cookbook!  Has loads of yummy meals and most of what I will be eating in Feb is coming out of this book.  So thank you very much to Kira, my wonderful friend who bought for me (and BF) for Xmas, brilliant choice...

I hate this seasons clothes too...

Well yesterday I had loads to do as at present I am trying to sort stuff in my flat that I should have done ages ago (and because at the start of Feb I will have two weekends of visitors)...  However of course me being me also had a bit of time to check out the shops...  First off I went all the way to Hollingbury in the outskirts of Brighton to Matalan to buy a mop and bucket...  Before getting to the home section "I had to" walk through the ladies clothes, of which Matalan has loads!  Dull, boring, lacklustre is all I can say to summarise what I saw.  I spent more time "ooohing" and "aahhing" at plates and cups in the home section.  Its a shame really because the Matalan website looked quite promising...

I then went all the way to the other extreme of Brighton, to the Marina, just to recycle the mass of cardboard that has accrued in my flat and thought whilst I was there I would pop into Asda and check out the clothes too...  The George collection was equally soul destroying being one part boring and the other extremely hideous, for fuck's sake who would want to wear knitted polka dot cardi?  For some one who has worn plus size clothes for the majority of my life I can honestly say I've worn all the dots and curtains I can take.

I hope this initial taster I've had of the season is a blip.  If this year continues to be as bad as last year's clothes-wise, I'm going to form a group of assassins to take out all of the fashion designers in the world.