Hey everyone.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your supportive comments.  I am feeling a lot better about things right now, I think I needed to realign my thinking to avoid my obsessive behaviour and to gain a more realistic mindset.  All your comments did me the world of good!  Also one of Sunny’s posts, which told me in no uncertain terms in her wonderful down to earth way that being healthy is my responsibility, not something that can just be done on a whim.  I heart you Sunny :)  Hehe.

I’m not using the scale now.  I might hop on occassionally, but no more than once a month.  DP’s hidden it.  I have made myself a promise to move every day.  Not for a given amount of time or a given activity, just to move.  Walk, yoga, skipping rope, frisbee, gardening…  Moving is the important thing.  Obviously I am eating sensibly too and keeping to the no carbonated drinks or alcohol rule.  But working on moving every day I can make it a game, not a chore, and build up my activity levels as I go without the extreme focus on minutes gained, calories burnt etc. etc.

So I’m back girlies and posting again.

Oh yeah, did I say something about results?

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I kicked those exams’ asses!  A, B+, B, B!!  I am one happy chickie!!  I need 3 A’s next year (perfectly achievable) to graduate with a First (I think it’s something like [something] Com Laude - sorry for the awful latin - for my American counterparts).  So yeh - I’m a happy girl!  And totally psyched for next year.  I’ve had the fright, I know what I need to do and I will work very hard for that beautiful degree

Mango x

Woooo … Skye tomorrow!  I am sooo excited

We’ve got loads of board games, lots of drink, and lots of open space and a lovely space to be doing plenty of exercise!  I am looking forward to just having a great holiday

I am wanting to make a lot more progress next month weight-wise.  I need to keep pushing myself and being sensible with food and exercise.  I’ve done more this month than I have in forever, but obviously, I need to be doing more to see results on the scales.  I stupidly didn’t take measurements when I started this shindig, but I will at the end of this month, then every month after.

I am starting up a new routine when I get back from Skye, on the 1st of June, as part of my trade-off plans.  100 sit ups per night, 100 squats per night.  Not full hard core, but just a little light toning so that when the fat is finally burnt off, there’s something nice underneath

There isn’t really a huge amount to report today.  I’ll hopefully have a couple of nice photos when I get back though so that I can finally show you all who Mango is

Take care fellow chicks, hold fast and work hard!

Mango x

Extra thirty minutes and I have …. *drum roll please* …. 4 green stars!!!!  Oh yeah

I also thought during my exercise.  I want new criteria.  Keep the water - water’s important, it feed your brain and makes you able to exercise better!  I also want to be sensible with food.  So that’s still the same.  But I want trade-offs.  Sure, I can have that chocolate, but only if I do an hour of exercise.  Don’t want to do the exercise?  No chocolate.  Simple!  Party to go to?  That’s ok, but you need to be good that whole week - plan ahead - and while you’re there, enjoy yourself!  That’s what parties are for after all :)  But you need to go right on track after that, and do an extra hour of exercise to work off any drinking/party food and what not

And you want real motivation?  Here it is.  Do it - or you’ll become your mother.  Simple.  Perhaps not 100% logical or true, but motivation nonetheless.

Hi there!

My favourite nickname is Mango, and thanks for visiting my blog!  I’ve been a lurker around the blogs for a long time.  Like many people, this isn’t my first time trying to lose weight and like many I have made a vow for this time to be different.  I sincerely hope it will be!

To help, my partner and I drew up an “agreement”.  Generally it says we both will make the following changes to our lifestyles, starting on Sunday the 3rd of May!

Food

We will eat fruit/vegetables every day.  We will also take vitamins every day to supplement our intake and keep ourselves healthy.  Fibre will be more heavily included in our diets and we will start making sure we have “me-sized” portions. Every food has it’s place, but we will try to eat sensibly and input what we need, not just what we want.

Exercise

Three times a week we will do at least 30 minutes of high intensity cardio.  In addition to this, we will have a 30-minute walk together every day.  Four times a week Mango will do at least 50 sit-ups/crunches and DB will practise Taekwondo patterns and stretches.

I’m only 20 (still plenty of time I know!) but I am tired of feeling inhibited by my weight.  I’m not hugely overweight but I feel hugely self-conscious.  I’m sure you know what I mean.  Trying to disguise the size of your stomach using your arms (which doesn’t work), living in black, overcompensating with humour and projected confidence.

I’d love to be healthy.  To not have handfuls of extra fat around my middle, my thighs and bum.  To love wearing a bikini!  I’d like to feel my body fulfilling it’s potential and feel strong.  I want to be beautiful - or at least to feel it!  In a couple of years I am pretty sure my partner and I will get around to getting married and I’d like to be beautiful for our wedding, for him.

Good luck to you all, and thanks for reading.

Mango x