moonlightturkdeactivated2012 asked: How did you lose all that weight ?? :DDD
I lost it through diet control and running. There was never any food that was off the menu for me but I just tried to be as healthy as possible. I never calorie counted, really. I just knew that I needed to run more on some days than others.
I wrote about it in a really detailed way in a post that you can read here.
Anonymous asked: I feel the same way ever since I lost wieght. I have crazy emotions, so its good to know that there is someone out there who is the not in any way similar to me that is going through similar things. It comforts me, it's wierd, but I am too. Sorry for the long message.
This isn’t a long message at all! Don’t worry about it in the slightest. If you ever want to talk about what you’re thinking/feeling then I’ll be more than happy to talk to you on or off anon. It’s hard. Losing the weight is just the start. How we see the world after we lose the weight is just one of the things we have to deal with. It’s not weird.
I never really wanted to post these pictures because they’re a bit old now but the pictures on the left were actually taken after I’d lost around 3stone/18kg/40pounds (something like that). It’s when I knew the weight loss thing was really happening. The picture on the right is when I felt I was at my physical peak in terms of condition but I have been much lighter than that since (about 20lbs lighter).
Between my heaviest and my lightest I lost about 115lbs/48kg. Between my heaviest and now there’s around 40kg of weight lost.
The thing I’m most proud of is that I’ve kept it off for over six years now and I’ve always managed my weight in a healthy way. I’ve beaten the odds but I’m still fighting this fight and will for the rest of my life.
Sorry for the topless pictures of me.
Anonymous asked: Salaam, wow your answer to the last question, that's EXACTLY what happened to me :( I've never been judgemental abt weight, (I've grown up w/ an overweight sibling) but I got bigger in the last 5 years, and recently, since I started to lose some & look better & feel better I've started REALLY noticing when other people are fat, and I notice, just randomly walking in a station for example, when they're eating really fattening unhealthy food and I think things I would NEVER have thought before :S
I don’t think it’s a bad thing that has happened to us. I think it’s something that we just have to try to be aware of. Just because the choices we make in our own lives is different now from those other people are making doesn’t make them better or worse people than us - just different.
It’s so easy to get in to that mindset where you think “if I can do it then you can too so stop complaining and bitching and just get on with it” but we fail to realise just how difficult it actually was. For me, I struggled so much. I found it impossible to control my diet at times and ran hundreds and thousands of miles to lose my weight. Even at my lightest, where everyone told me that I was too skinny, I still felt like I was over weight. It’s a struggle for me. I just have to realise that a lot of other people are struggling too but in a slightly different way.
I wake up in the morning and run. I eat after I run but I’m trying to watch what I eat so by the time it gets to the evening I just want to sleep.
I don’t mind, though. I stood on the scales this morning and the needle moved in the other direction for the first time in weeks. That makes it all worth it.
On top of that, my legs have reached that point where they’re aching and my muscles are tight. I LOVE this feeling. I went through a period where my muscled ached everyday for years. I don’t know how to explain it but it’s the best feeling. It’s exhilarating.
Running is one of my favourite things in the world. I think I’ll be running to the point of exhaustion these next few days and weeks. I need to get good at running again. I need to reach my best ever levels. To get there, it’ll cost me blood, sweat, and tears.
It’s been too long.
I really need to get my diet and exercise routine under control. I’ve gained so much weight in the last 5-6 weeks.
except that it didn’t really go to plan very well.
I was going to go running first thing in the morning which didn’t work out because I realised I’d left my running shoes in Saudi Arabia, with my Nike+ sensor still in there. Idiot Waq.
The second thing was that I was going to start studying at 9am and carry on until mid-afternoon. Instead… I didn’t start studying until the mid-afternoon but did get more studying done today than I have in any other single day in the last two years. Good times. It’s a start and I took baby steps.
The third thing was that I was going to control my diet and try to be more healthy… it lasted until 4pm and then I started eating and didn’t really finish until I came to bed at around 9pm.
Still, it was a good day. It wasn’t a total waste and I’m going to start again from scratch in the morning. Here’s to take 2.
I’ve been told I’m skinny by anyone who’s looked at me over the last few months. At one point I lost a whole lot of weight and even I felt I was kind of emaciated. Anyway, over the last few weeks I’ve been eating out a whole lot and I don’t just mean eating out but EATING OUT.
I’ve been to some really nice restaurants and I’ve been eating a whole lot of junk food and it’s starting to show. I talked to one of my friends for the first time in a few weeks today and he was telling me that I’m looking good and ‘healthy’. We all know what healthy is code for, don’t we? I stood on the scales and I saw that I’m the heaviest I’ve been since before Ramadan at the end of July.
I’m not too worried. My clothes still fit me and I feel totally fine about it. The only problem is that I haven’t been working out and that would have helped a lot more. It’s something that I’m going to change for sure when I’m back home. I’m going to run in the morning and then go to the gym in the evening. I think that’s a pretty solid plan.
In all honesty, the weight I’m at today is really good and healthy for me. I just want to maintain this weight and build some muscle and strength.
Actually I eat out everyday. I just don’t cook any more. I haven’t for months.
These last couple of days, though, I’ve been eating out in nice restaurants and I’ve eaten so much. Yesterday I ate at a nice Filipino/Thai restaurant restaurant and today I went to Fudruckers.
Yesterday I had this delicious egg friend rice with shrimp with red curry with chicken. We had some green curry beef too. That was really good. I couldn’t finish my food last night. I was so full.
Today we went out for dinner because a guy from work is leaving this weekend and it was a nice send-off for him. At Fudruckers, we shared a couple of appetizer platters and then I had a hhuugggeee south-west burger. I was so full by the end I couldn’t finish my burger. I took pictures that I’ll upload tomorrow.
Time to take control of the diet tomorrow.
I feel really fat at the moment.
I know I’m not fat. I know I’m no where near fat. I get all that but I still feel fat.
In truth I’ve gained about 6/7lb/about half a stone in the last couple of months and I’m really feeling it right now. I feel kind of… eugh (for want of a better adjective) around my torso. I don’t feel tight or healthy. It’s not sexy.
I think this feeling of fat all stems from the fact that I used to be really fat. I think it’s something I’m going to feel all my life. I feel fat even when I have everyone telling me how sknny I am and how skinny I look.
I’ve been binge eating and it’s the worst thing for me. It’s putting me back to a place I was a long time ago. I have eaten as much as I’m eating at the moment in years and years. I know why I ate like this before and I’m afraid it’s a sign of it again. Not good times!
I’ve been thinking about this post a whole lot over the last few days. for people who’ve been following me for a while, you know how all over the place I’ve been over the last few months. It’s certainly meant that 2011 is going to be one of the most memorable years of my life - it’s certainly the most important in a lot of ways so far.
My passport picture is a bit special. It was taken in Feb 2005 and since then I’ve lost about 45kg/100lbs. I’m trying to re-create the fat face but I can’t get to that point again. I started losing weight as my new year’s resolution in 2006 and have kept it off since then… it’s been nearly 6 years!
Also I got my first ever driver’s licence! Isn’t that SWEET?! Saudi bureaucracy is good for some things!
I love the way my hair looked today. It was soooo shiny! I’m loving how long it is right now but I still wake up most days just wanting to ‘do a Britney’ and shave it all off!
I love this picture because there are 3 of me in it! Narcissism FTW!
and spent half of my monthly food allowance on books - textbooks to be precise. There won’t be much eating out in fancy restaurants in December!
I’ve been talking the talk a whole lot recently and now is the time I start walking the walk.
I’m going to put three hours a day aside for focused study of the two topics I want to teach myself. An hour in the morning at work and two hours in the evening after Isha, in sha Allah.
I have three months before I go home and I want to make it through all the books at least once before I get back. When I get back everything is going to be stepped up to a whole other level. When I’m home it’s going to be full-time studying. When I’m home I’m going to do nothing but focus on how to get to where I want to be.
Time to live on water and bread now. It’ll be good for my diet.
For those of you who know me… This made me so incredibly happy today when I was at the supermarket.
It’s VIMTO! I have the mix-with-water-yourself edition and the carbonated version (both in diet, of course!).
Good times.
60 cans and 6 liters of the concentrate.
Anonymous asked: Teach me how to loose weight. I've read some stuffs on your blog about your weight loss and i got stoked! please help me. :D thanks!
I wrote a post some months ago with my best ever weight loss advice. Read it here and if you have any questions about what I wrote please feel free to ask!
