Up to now, 87.7% of the respondents of my survey (who have been mostly you guys from Tumblr) are currently, or have been in the past, overweight, underweight or have been both. (10.53% have never been either, 1.75% unsure).

Keep helping me out with my dissertation research for my Master’s degree!

http://kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=LIJLGO_48c918b2

And I’ll keep posting interesting/ shocking findings :)

Thank you so much!

x x x

I hate my body so much right now. I really want to be 20lbs lighter :’(

SW:137.  CW:133. GW:126.

Thursday 24^th March 2011

Breakfast: Fruit smoothie (banana, mango, frozen natural yoghurt, frozen apple slices, orange juice).

I did an abs workout after breakfast then spent the whole day in the library; 1pm to 3am so I couldn’t cook anything to eat, so I ate “snack foods” but they can be healthy too! I had a small tuna, prawn and vegetable sushi box from Tesco. I’m not sure how many calories it contained; not many but it’s not ideal because of the rice. I also had a fruit snack box (grapes, mango, kiwi, melon, pineapple) which lasted ages and was less than 150calories. I also had three bananas.

When I got home from the library I ate 175calories of hummus and a load of carrots :/ (I shouldn’t have eaten something fatty so late at night!!)

Friday 25^th March 2011

Breakfast: Fruit smoothie

My boyfriend and I went to ‘Yo! Sushi’ at 6pm which is probably my favourite restaurant. One of the beauties of it is that you can go for a naughty treat OR when you’re on a strict diet! There are so many healthy, no carb, low calorie, vegetarian dishes; it’s fantastic.

Between us we had three plates of edamame (soy beans) they’ve delicious and so low calorie! A lot of celebrities eat them when dieting. We had a plate each of Kaiso Salad (Japanese seaweed, edamame and carrot) and three bowls each of Miso soup. Miso soup is amazing! For £2 it’s unlimited refills, so delicious, very low calorie as it’s just a broth and it fills you up! It contains seaweed, tofu and spring onion <3 _ <3 Yum yum!

We also shared 1 bowl of vegi firecracker rice. That’s bad because it’s carbs but it’s SO NICE!

At about 11pm I had half a carrot.

Saturday 26^th March 2011

Breakfast: half a bowl of Special K cereal, skimmed milk, 1 banana.

For lunch I tried to order healthy; a prawn salad, but when the waiter brought it each prawn was deep fat fried. Fail. It was only a light batter but I didn’t really eat anything else for the rest of the day aside from 2 slices of melon.

At 9pm I want for a run around the village with my brother, (I’m staying with the parents for a few days) then did a full abs workout.

Now this diet is quite extreme so I wouldn’t suggest young girls copy me or girls of a healthy weight, but I have a few weeks until a photo shoot and less than 7 weeks until the Hooters annual bikini contest, so it’s time to hardcore diet <3

What I’ll be Eating.

It’s best for your metabolism to eat little things several times a day, rather than 3 huge meals a day, that way your body can deal with the calories better.

Breakfast: Medium sized bowl of cereal with semi-skimmed milk and sweetener.

Snack: Carbs allowed – probably vegetarian sushi, nom nom nom.

Lunch: Protein and fruit

Snack: Non-carb-snack e.g. carrot sticks

Dinner: Protein and vegetables e.g. vegetables and Quorn, vegetable and prawn stir fry, vegetable omelette.  

When to eat: No carbs after 5pm, No food at all after 8pm.

Drink: Lots of water and hot water with lemon.

My Goal Weight.

Height: 5’8”

Heaviest Weight: 158 lbs

Current Weight: 137 lbs

Realistic Goal Weight: 126 lbs

Dream Goal Weight: 119 lbs

Exercise.

Gym 3 or 4 days a week

-  Cardio; treadmill, spin bike, stepper, cross trainer.

-  Abs

-  Gluts & thighs

-  Arms

Work (waitress) 2 days a week

-  7 hours on my feet, lots of walking!

Day One!

Okay, I won’t be posting a blog of what I’ve eaten every day because you’d all get very bored and… CBA! I’m a busy woman; full-time 3rd year double degree with approaching deadlines, a job, the gym, boyfriend and social life… I don’t have time to keep taking pictures of carrot sticks and telling you that my legs look super fat today haha! But I will try and post one or two times a week.

Breakfast:

Medium sized bowl of Special K Red Berry with artificial sweetener and semi-skimmed milk.

Snack:

Banana

Lunch:

Small salad comprising of lettuce, cherry tomatoes, blue cheese and some mustard/mayo sauce thing. Also 2 scrambled eggs and a few grapes.

Snack:

I was so hungry when I got back from the gym that I ate one before I remembered to take a picture haha! I just saw this is Waitrose, it’s really nice and low carb! All three rolls are less than 200calories! They’re Prawn Rolls which are rice paper rolls stuffed with prawns, vermicelli noodles, carrot, lettuce leaves and coriander. Yum yum! (I’m a vegetarian but I do eat prawns, nothing else.)

Dinner:

I ate this far too late at night but to do uni work in the library all day then going to the gym at 6pm or 7pm means that I’m not going to get any dinner until 8pm or 9pm :/ Eating that late at night is a huge NO for dieting!! I just boiled a load of vegetables and eat them with vegetarian gravy. Eating late at night isn’t too bad if it’s just veg.

Exercise:

I went to the gym with my friend Belinda (lovebeli.tumblr.com), this was my first day back so I didn’t do anything amazing haha!

-  Treadmil; 3 mins warm up, 11 mins running, 5 mins walking at incline 11.

- Gluts and thigh exercises

-  Abs exercises

-  Stepper; 5 mins at level 8

-  Cross trainer; 5 mins at level 4

I’ll be back in a few days ;)

Charlotte Elizabeth x <3 x