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3rd April 2010...

2010-04-03T21:34:00.003+01:00

Well I ended up changing the beginning of the fast to start at Midnight yesterday as far too many people thought it was an April Fool. I am now at the end of Day 2.

Yesterday I felt fine albeit hungry at the end of the night. At about 1am this morning I started getting the headache from hell, which I have read is part of Ketosis starting and also from the build up of toxins. I also had, which I now name "Toxin Legs" (lol). My legs felt all itchy, agitated, restless and just down right horrible. Needless to say I didn't sleep until 8am this morning. I slept most of the day until 4pm due to having this headache that I could not shake. It started easing off at about 5pm so I got dressed and walked to Tesco. Tesco annoyed me because the one time I am fasting, they had hundreds of things on offer. I bought LOADS of packs of fruit, cookies, mini doughnuts, bread, meat etc etc that were reduced to 3/5/8/10p each!!! Ah well, this is better for me (I'll keep telling myself that!)

While I was at Tesco I thought it was about time I jumped on the scales to see what changes were occuring. I shall type all the details here.

03/04/2010 Monday 21:35:06

YOUR MEASUREMENTS
Weight 21st 2.9lbs /134.7kgs
Height 5ft 8.9in /175cm

BODY FAT ESTIMATION
Fat Index 44.8%
Fat Mass 9st 6.9lbs /60.2kgs
Free F.Mass 11st 10.0lbs /74.4kgs

Age 27
Gender Female

REFERENCES
Your Normal Weight 61.3kgs - 76.3kgs / 9st 9.11lbs - 12st 0.2lbs

Your BMI 44.0 kg/m²
Normal BMI 20 and 24.9

Normal Fat Index 17 - 24%
Normal Fat Mass 15.2 - 23.5kgs / 2st 5.5lbs - 3st 9.8lbs

Wednesday 31st March 2010...

2010-03-31T22:40:00.004+01:00

Well it is just over an hour till D-Day. I have fasted for 19 hours yesterday and had a chinese for dinner, then today I fasted for 19 hours again and had one tbsp of chocolate spread and peanut butter and one coffee this evening.

I weighed myself two days ago at Tesco, I shall type up all the details that are on the printout from the scale so that I can compare it to printouts through out the fast.

29/03/2010 Monday 21:35:06

YOUR MEASUREMENTS

Weight 21st 10.0lbs /137.9kgs
Height 5ft 9.3in /176cm

BODY FAT ESTIMATION
Fat Index 45.9%
Fat Mass 9st 13.3lbs /63.2kgs
Free F.Mass 11st 10.6lbs /74.7kgs

Age 27
Gender Female

REFERENCES
Your Normal Weight 62.0kgs - 77.1kgs / 9st 10.6lbs - 12st 1.9lbs

Your BMI 44.5 kg/m²

Normal BMI 20 and 24.9

Normal Fat Index 17 - 24%

Normal Fat Mass 15.3 - 23.6kgs / 2st 5.7lbs - 3st 10.0lbs

I am looking forward to this fast. I haven't done a long one in years but I fast for a day or three quite often unintentionally. I am going to have a last coffee before Midnight. Yes I know I am meant to have cut down on sugars and caffeine etc as to make the side effects less harsh but I know my body and it doesn't make much difference.

So....here goes....I shall post next at the end of day one.

Saturday 27th March 2010...

2010-03-27T18:59:00.003Z

Ok, so as you can see, I haven't been keeping up with my blog as I first thought I would. Well as of today, my eating has been up and down. We have been busy with all this painting etc that meals have mainly been takeouts! Yeah I know.

I have been reading up on water fasting, which I have done in the past. I know this can be a very controversial subject but I believe it is good for the body. You can read up on water fasting all over the net, however the main reasons people take up fasting, of any kind, water, juice etc is for either religious reasons, weight loss, or to cleanse their bodies of toxins. It is believed that water fasting can in fact help heal certain illnesses/diseases. I shall be starting this fast on Thursday 1st April 2010. I am waiting a few days as it is recommended that you cut down your food consumption and also sugar consumption for a week beforehand to make the change less difficult. I plan to fast for 30 days initially. I shall weigh myself before, during and after. This won't be daily as I do not have access to a scale at home. I have read that you can lose anything from 1-3lbs a day in the first week or two and then maybe a half pound per day from then on. Only time will tell.

I have read that in the first week or so I will experience withdrawal symptoms. These can include, dry mouth, light head, headaches, lethargy etc. Once I have gotten past this stage, I have read that I will feel much better and it will all seem worth it. I will blog about this as often as possible and let you know how I am feeling and getting on.

Obviously this wouldn't be worth it if I were to get to the end of the fast and just pig out on all kinds of junk. I would just gain the weight back and more and it would undo all of the hard work that I will have just done. Therefore once the 30 days are up I will have to slowly get back into a more clean way of eating.

I have started drinking more water as of yesterday to get me used to drinking that alone. on top of that today I have had one cup of tea with milk and 2 sugars and a few snacks that my daughters made with their Grandma today. I shall try to limit my food intake to fruits, vegetables, chicken, oats during the days before the fast begins, and cut my drinks to water alone, maybe one tea per day. Then as of 00.00 on the 1st April, I shall be consuming water alone. I have just noticed this is April Fools Day that I am beginning this fast on...oops. Oh well it is by no feat an April Fool :P

Right so I shall fill you in on things unrelated to healthy eating that I wrote about in my last entry.

We still have the dog, Kobe. Things are getting really difficult with the three of them as we cannot walk them together or keep them in the same room as each other. We are however persevering as once this 28 days are up, he will be getting neutered for free and we are hoping this will change things.

As far as the decorating goes. George finished off painting the bathroom, hall, stairs and landing white. He has started glossing all of the woodwork although we have run out of gloss for the time being.

We spent Thursday night changing around the girls bedroom. They had this wardrobe and bunk beds originally but we separated the wardrobe so now it just looks like a four door wardrobe, and separated the bunk beds. We are going to be decorating that room as Betty Boop, red and black. I shall put before and after pics up when we get around to decorating it.

A few weeks back a sponsored tattoo event was started. This was in aid of a girl called Becca who sadly passed away in January at the young age of 25, from Ovarian Cancer. the plan was to all be sponsored to have a tattoo of the "Pants to Ovarian Cancer" logo. In total we all raised over £3000. If anybody would still like to sponsor this cause then please go to www.justgiving.com/tobii-rhea-starr and make a donation.

Here are some pictures from the day, including mine and George's tattoos.

Friday 12th March 2010...

2010-03-12T13:45:00.005Z

As I mentioned in my last post, I am following Weight Watchers but not going to meetings. According to my weight I should be having 30-31 points a day but the consultant at the group I used to go to knocked me down to 25 points a day as I wasn't losing weight on 30. I am going to try doing the 30 points again and then knock it down one a week if I don't lose after a couple weeks.

Today I haven't been up to much. I started painting our bathroom white yesterday, it has been sat with stripped walls for months along with my girls room and has been driving me up the wall. After I had gotten half way through painting the bathroom, I thought it would be a great idea to strip the hall, stairs and landing.....lol.

Well George is now painting that white too. It will probably be another color but I wanted to just get a coat of white on all the rooms that we have stripped to look a bit cleaner and tidier!

We acquired a new dog two days ago, he is a white, black and brindle staffy about 1 year old, we have called him Kobe (Ko-bee). We already have two, a black staffy pup called Lexii, 7 months and a black, white and brown staffy x jack russell pup called Roxii, 10 months.

George had gone to the garage at midnight a couple nights back to get some ciggies (bad habit I know) and two guys approached him saying they had found this dog and did we want to have him. Well George brought them home to ask me and I said yes as I didn't want this dog on the streets.

So the next day I called the Dog Wardens to let them know and ask if anybody had contacted them. They came out an hour later and scanned him to see if he had a microchip which he didn't. They told us that they could take him but because of his breed, if he wasn't claimed within 7 days he would be put down.

Well neither George nor I wanted a poor dog put down for no reason, so we asked if we could keep him. They said they would give us a notice letter to state that if anyone claimed him within 28 days that we have to give him back, but after then, he is ours and they will neuter him free for us (the bitches are unneutered and we obviously don't want to bring more puppies into the world when there are so many out there needing rehoming as it is).

So anyways, back to the point of this....I was in the garden with the dogs as was keeping an eye on them all together to avoid fights. I went out with no shoes on stupidly and went to pick up one of our wooden garden chairs that had been knocked over. Well Lexii jumped on it as I was picking it up and knocked the chair, plus her weight onto my foot!......ow! Well now I have a bruised painful foot which ruined my plans of cleaning up yesterday and today as I can hardly put weight on it!

So onto food. Today so far I have had:

Breakfast- 2 x Oat So Simple with two coffees, milk and two sugars each (8 points.)

Lunch - 1 x tin vegetable soup with 1 tin baked beans mixed in (6.5 points.)

Dinner - Beef and onion baguette and coffee with milk and 2 sugars (8 points)

Snack - 2 slices of lemon cake (approx 6 points)

Total - 28.5 points.

We had a weird evening. The Tesco guy delivered our shopping then we had a visit from our neighbour/mate with bags of shopping. Apparently the Tesco guy was knocking the door (we were upstairs painting with music on) anyways the shopping he had given her for us wasn't ours lol so we ended up with lots of extra food and stuff. Then my Mom turned up with kebabs, sandwiches, baguettes, juice and cakes from a practice meeting. We went from no food to loads over night!!

50 Random Facts About Me...

2010-03-12T13:44:00.004Z

I thought I would follow the blogging trend and fill out the "50 Random Facts About Me" so here goes.

1. I'm internet obsessed, you will find me online often.

2. My favourite color in the whole world is PURPLE...

3. ...And I believe EVERYONE needs purple in their life.

4. I was Born in Royal Leamington Spa, raised in Warwickshire but live in Coventry.

5. I have been a tomboy all my life but now am obsessed with more feminine fashion.

6. I have NEVER been able to get my weight lower than 18st.

7. I own 2 Pedigree Staffys and Staffy X Jack Russell.

8. I had plastic surgery on my right hand when I nearly cut my pinky off.

9. My favourite take out is Chinese.

10. I cannot sleep without a fan on.

11. I absolutely despise snoring.

12. Birthday is July 3.

13. I was married at age 16...

14. ...and divorced at age 18.

15. My Dad moved to Australia a few years back...

16. ...and subsequently hasn't bothered with neither my brother or myself.

17. I have 9 tattoo's...

18. ...and about 14 piercings

19. I have a huge obsession with Peanut Butter om nom nom

20. I have huge size 9 feet!!!

21. Didn't catch Swine Flu.

22. I have an ecclectic taste in music.

23. I adore my Mom.

24. I cannot leave the house without full makeup on.

25. When I was little I wanted to be an interior designer.

26. I love alternative fashion and hair, goth, cyber goth, "scene" (hate labels though).

27. I believe in having low expectations in order to not be disappointed.

28. I won an Art trophy at school and got an A in GCSE Art.

29. I want a "show home" type house.

30. My goal weight is 10st (140lbs).

31. Has perfectly healthy blood pressure levels.

32. Big Gok Wan fan.

33. I am a Gleek.

34. I can go weeks without eating.

35. I drink about 3-4 litres of water per day.

36. I have overly sensitive hearing and smell.

37. I can never sleep at night.

38. I believe in being nice to everyone unless they give you reason not to.

39. My Mom is my hero.

40. I prefer summer over any other season.

41. Family comes first.

42. I watch most my TV online.

43. I don't trust very easily.

44. People think I'm weird/odd/strange.

45. I am very sensible with money.

46. I am scared sh*tless of fireworks.

47. I am close to being a hermit.

48. I prefer night time over day time...

49. ...However I am scared of the dark.

50. I love shopping!!!

What are 50 random facts about you? And, if you have a life, maybe tell me just a quick 5 or 10?

Some background on my weight problems...

2010-03-12T13:34:00.003Z

Today is Friday 12th March 2010. 4 weeks ago I weighed in at 21st 2lbs (296lbs). I have been dieting for over a year and a half. I began this journey weighing 25st 7lb (357lbs)and have lost nearly 5st through Slimfast, Slimming World, Low cal and Weight Watchers. I quit going to Weight Watchers classes 3 weeks ago, which is why I haven't been weighed since. My plan is to make regular appointments with my Nurse to be weighed, I'm not sure whether this will be weekly, bi-weekly or monthly yet. My aim is to get down to 10 stone by June 2013.

I started gaining weight at the age of 15. I've never been skinny, I was about a size 14-16 at age 15, but at 5'10 I wasn't huge. I met my ex Husband, John in 1997, we were together for two and a half years and had two children together. John was a feeder. He encouraged me to gain weight, and as I was 15 and very naive I didn't realise what he was doing. I ballooned from about 13 stone, size 14-16 to 25 stone, size 30-32 in a year. And subsequently suffered from depression, both post natal and general.

I went through phases of binge eating which turned to bulimia, starving myself etc. I stupidly turned to taking speed at the age of 17 to try to lose weight, which worked and I lost about 4 stone but it also left me with experimenting with other drugs and eventually giving myself a Heroin addiction for a year and a half. Well needless to say I came clean on my own from the drugs and haven't touched anything since.

I went on to have further relationships and two other children. The weight fluctuated between about 22-24 stone for years, I suffered with the depression for about ten years because of it.

In May 2007 due to my depression, a relationship breakdown with my girlfriend at the time and a general bad point in my life, my two eldest children went into care and my two youngest children were taken by their Father. I naturally went downhill, started binge eating, drinking excessively, self harming etc.

It was at this point that I started a relationship with George (above with Kayci). We had known each other for about a year or so, and had formed a very close friendship. He ended up being the person that made me feel good about myself. Loved me for who I was, not what size I was. He boosted my self confidence a lot and made me see that I could be a much better person than who I was at the time. This pushed me to boost my weight loss. George and I have been together coming on three years now. We have a (nearly) 2 year old son together, Kayci and I have four other children from two previous relationships aged from 11 down to 4.

During the beginning of the relationship I started using Slimfast and one healthy meal of chicken breast, steamed veg and brown rice a day (same meal day in day out). I managed to get down to 18+ stone. George moved in beginning of July 2007 (the day before my 25th birthday) and within weeks I fell pregnant with Kayci (now 22 months).

I already suffered with sciatica which didn't get diagnosed until after the pregnancy, this got progressively worse and I also developed SPD (Symphosis Pubis Dysfunction), a very painful condition where the pubic bone separates too much and causes very sharp pains in the groin, it leads to you having to keep your legs pretty much together at all times and limits movement. I ended up using a support belt and crutches and ballooned to 24+ stone again.

I managed to stop using crutches when Kayci was about 6 months old and was able to walk properly however I am back using them as things have got progressively worse. I am using 3 types of pain relief, Tramadol, Amitriptyline and Diclofenac.

And so we get to today. I am still on crutches, however I am more focused than ever to lose this excess baggage. So onwards and upwards....or should I say downwards?! we go!!

Much Love

Tobii-Rhea xx

Introduction...

2010-03-12T13:22:00.002Z

Hey all, well I thought it would only be polite to start my blog with an "Intro" so here goes.

My name is Tobii-Rhea. I am 27 years old.....old? No....27 years YOUNG! So yeah, I live in Coventry with my Fiance, George and 3 of my 5 children.

The original idea for this blog was to track my weight loss journey. I started my journey at 25st 7lbs (357lbs) back in April 2008 after I gave birth to my fifth child. I have lost 4st 7lbs (63lbs) to date and have a huge 11st (154lbs) to lose until I get to goal.

So...the other big thing about me is that I suffer with chronic sciatica in both legs. I also have lower back/top leg problems unrelated to the sciatica and what I feel is undiagnosed CFS/ME. This leaves me absolutely exhausted and fatigued generally and even worse after any kind of exercise/walking etc. I get around on crutches so as you can tell, exercise is pretty limited.

Yeah, so enough of the sob story. Another thing I may blog about is the fact that George and I are getting married in a couple years. We have been together for 3 years this May (31st) and were planning on tying the knot May 31st 2011. The only reason I say "planning" is because as a lot of you will know, these things cost a lot of money, although we are trying to keep costs down as low as possible we still want to make it a "special" enough day so the date isn't set in stone yet!

So, that's enough about me....lets get onto my first post...

Much Love

Tobii-Rhea