Well, it has been a while since I have written on my blog....... no excuses......I have been bad and have probably put all of the weight I have lost back on. Oh well. Start again. Im too scared to get on the scales again because it was that reason that I cheated. I was doing so well and it was coming off but the second time I weighed myself the scales showed that I didn't lose much and I got depressed. Im all together again after my bender and am now on a roll again.
I have been very good today. Two eggs for breaky. A small amount of Pepitas and sunflower seeds for morning tea. Smoked salmon with lettuce, red capsicum, cherry tomatoes and carb free ceaser dressing for lunch. Red grapes and almonds for afternoon tea. I then met Kylie at the gym and we went for a 55minute walk on the tready. (Granted, it wasn't very fast, but if we went any faster we would not have been able to talk to each other the whole time ;-P ) Then for din dins, I cooked a pork steak with a side salad.
I have taken a photo of my lunch and dinner but because I have lost the cord to connect my phone to the computer, I can't up load the photos onto the computer. Which is a pain in the arse. Ill have to try to figure out another way.
I had a slight headache today and I don't know if it was the toxins starting to leave my body or because I bumped my head on the clothesline. Im hoping it was because of the toxin thing and that I knocked some sense into me with the clothesline thing....... One can dream.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Stress, stress, stress
Monday 9th January (day 9 of 365 days)
It has been hard the past couple of days. After a great walk and a catch up with Kylie at the gym, I got home only to find out that we need a new hot water service and a couple of grand to buy one!! I was only stressing a couple of days ago about my electricity bill!! Now I need a new bloody hot water service!! So, we have no hot water. Sponge baths are fun (think positively!!) We have a new one being installed in the morning and decided to upgrade from electric storage to instant gas while we were at it. Money....you can be happy without it......can't you?!?!?
So my diet the past couple of days has been really hard. I eat when Im stressed. Hell, I eat when Im happy too but being stressed makes me depressed and when Im depressed I eat the most.
But.....I'VE BEEN GOOD!! HA! Bet you didn't think I was going to say that did you? Maybe my calories may have been over a tad but I have stuck to high protein so it isn't too bad.
First day back at work today so when the hot water service gets installed tomorrow, hopefully life will be back to normal. Well, as normal as life goes anyway.
It has been hard the past couple of days. After a great walk and a catch up with Kylie at the gym, I got home only to find out that we need a new hot water service and a couple of grand to buy one!! I was only stressing a couple of days ago about my electricity bill!! Now I need a new bloody hot water service!! So, we have no hot water. Sponge baths are fun (think positively!!) We have a new one being installed in the morning and decided to upgrade from electric storage to instant gas while we were at it. Money....you can be happy without it......can't you?!?!?
So my diet the past couple of days has been really hard. I eat when Im stressed. Hell, I eat when Im happy too but being stressed makes me depressed and when Im depressed I eat the most.
But.....I'VE BEEN GOOD!! HA! Bet you didn't think I was going to say that did you? Maybe my calories may have been over a tad but I have stuck to high protein so it isn't too bad.
First day back at work today so when the hot water service gets installed tomorrow, hopefully life will be back to normal. Well, as normal as life goes anyway.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Junk Day 1 - what a day!!!!
Saturday the 7th of January and it is a max temp of 33 with late thunderstorms. Don't ya love summer storms. I not talking to the high humidity leading up to the storms but the actual storms. Its about 9:30 pm and I have just gotten out of our 32 degree pool. It was amazing in the pool with the rain pouring and thunder and lightning!! Pity we had to get out.
Today was my junk day and it was also my nephews 5th birthday party. I don't think I went overboard but I think with the very high humidity and the high sugar levels I had to have a nanna nap in the afternoon.
Great day though, even if I did feel awful and bloated.
Next time I think I will only have a junk meal, not a junk day!!
This week though I have lost 3.1kgs and 4cms in total. Protein day tomorrow!! Im actually looking forward to it.
Today was my junk day and it was also my nephews 5th birthday party. I don't think I went overboard but I think with the very high humidity and the high sugar levels I had to have a nanna nap in the afternoon.
Great day though, even if I did feel awful and bloated.
Next time I think I will only have a junk meal, not a junk day!!
This week though I have lost 3.1kgs and 4cms in total. Protein day tomorrow!! Im actually looking forward to it.
Friday, 6 January 2012
Day 6 - nearly one week down!!!
Another good day today.
Had a wonderfully delish dinner. Chicken breast with prosciutto topped with thyme and capers and slices of lemon baked in the oven. Yum!! Side dish of cauliflower and brocolli topped with lemon zest, bread crumbs and egg. Also yum. Bread crumbs are carbs i know but I have not had any today so all is ok.
Im averaging between 1200 to 1500 calories a day and Im seeing the weight slowly coming off but Im starting to want to cheat. I wanted to so badly this afternoon that I got a little depressed. Then I stopped and thought that it is just one year and that this time next year I will be in Queensland on the Gold Coast sitting in the sun and relaxing and I walked out of the kitchen. Yeah me!!
Tomorrow is Saturday so I am able to have my junk meal tomorrow. I have heard that once a week you should up the calories and then the following day lower the calories and only eat protein to jump start the new week, otherwise you body goes into 'famine' starvation mode and it sort of shuts down the using of fat for energy.
Dont know what Ill have as my 'junk' meal tomorrow. May go out for din dins....or maybe not since I got a 750 dollar electricity bill today!! Where to get the money for that one!?!
Anyway, that was off topic. Might try the Souffle omelette with mushrooms tomorrow for breaky?? I wonder if Kylie is up for a gym session in the morning??
Had a wonderfully delish dinner. Chicken breast with prosciutto topped with thyme and capers and slices of lemon baked in the oven. Yum!! Side dish of cauliflower and brocolli topped with lemon zest, bread crumbs and egg. Also yum. Bread crumbs are carbs i know but I have not had any today so all is ok.
Im averaging between 1200 to 1500 calories a day and Im seeing the weight slowly coming off but Im starting to want to cheat. I wanted to so badly this afternoon that I got a little depressed. Then I stopped and thought that it is just one year and that this time next year I will be in Queensland on the Gold Coast sitting in the sun and relaxing and I walked out of the kitchen. Yeah me!!
Tomorrow is Saturday so I am able to have my junk meal tomorrow. I have heard that once a week you should up the calories and then the following day lower the calories and only eat protein to jump start the new week, otherwise you body goes into 'famine' starvation mode and it sort of shuts down the using of fat for energy.
Dont know what Ill have as my 'junk' meal tomorrow. May go out for din dins....or maybe not since I got a 750 dollar electricity bill today!! Where to get the money for that one!?!
Anyway, that was off topic. Might try the Souffle omelette with mushrooms tomorrow for breaky?? I wonder if Kylie is up for a gym session in the morning??
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Day 5 and 3 kilos lighter!!!
I just had my nightly cuddle goodnight with J and am now about to relax. Busy day today with cleaning and gardening. I have bought and potted some parsley, mint cholotale (couldn't leave that one behind), green and yellow zucchinis, brocolli and silverbeet. I have yet to pot the silverbeet but that will have to wait until i empty the big black pots under the verandah. Had a lot of fun doing it today - burnt up some calories. Jayden bought some strawberries with his own money so I also got him a little terracotta strawberry pot. He loved it!!
I thought that these vegies will come in handy with my healthy lifestyle. I just have to start to recycle now and one of my best mates Nat will love me.
The healthy eating is going very very well. I weighed myself this morning and Im 3.1kgs lighter!! Very happy with that!!
I just have to get back to the gym but will need to talk to my gym buddy first - Hey Kylie. Before you know it the week is over and you have to start all over again. Start work again on Monday so hopefully things will be a little more organised and Ill be able to get there after work.
All in all - going well.
I thought that these vegies will come in handy with my healthy lifestyle. I just have to start to recycle now and one of my best mates Nat will love me.
The healthy eating is going very very well. I weighed myself this morning and Im 3.1kgs lighter!! Very happy with that!!
I just have to get back to the gym but will need to talk to my gym buddy first - Hey Kylie. Before you know it the week is over and you have to start all over again. Start work again on Monday so hopefully things will be a little more organised and Ill be able to get there after work.
All in all - going well.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
The end of day 3 (3rd Jan)
Just got out of a 33 degree pool and it was a georgous swim!! Now for my evening coffee and wind down with reading.
Dinner turned out really nice. Thumbs up from the hubby. We had BBQ cooked lamb steaks with red pepper (or as I call it - red capsicum) salsa. I made a marinade of rosemary leaves, garlic, salt, pepper and oil for the lamb which Barry cooked for me on the BBQ. In the mean time I cut up and roasted the capsicum then added a bit of garlic, and dried crushed rosemary and a tad bit of oil to blend it all through. Served with a side salad. It was very filling and delish.
Tomorrow morning Im having poached egg florentine for breakfast and I cant wait!! Until then....goodnight. (I've always wanted to say that) ;-P
Dinner turned out really nice. Thumbs up from the hubby. We had BBQ cooked lamb steaks with red pepper (or as I call it - red capsicum) salsa. I made a marinade of rosemary leaves, garlic, salt, pepper and oil for the lamb which Barry cooked for me on the BBQ. In the mean time I cut up and roasted the capsicum then added a bit of garlic, and dried crushed rosemary and a tad bit of oil to blend it all through. Served with a side salad. It was very filling and delish.
Tomorrow morning Im having poached egg florentine for breakfast and I cant wait!! Until then....goodnight. (I've always wanted to say that) ;-P
Monday, 2 January 2012
Day 2 and 3 - January 3rd 2012
It is still stinking hot. They said 35 today but it feels hotter than yesterday which was 40 degrees again!!
I had a fantastic day yesterday. Barry my husband and I took Jayden to the movies to see the new Chipmonk movie and they sat and ate popcorn and drank fizzy drinks while I sat and sipped on water. We had lunch at the shops also just before. They had Hungry Jacks while I got a salad from Subway and then proceeded to eat it in Hungry Jacks so I could sit with my family!! Felt weird to do that but I wasn't told off so it must have been ok. I felt so good afterwards knowing I can do this and I didn't even feel like I went without.
Last night I sat down and organised my weeks meals to cook and this afternoon when it is a bit cooler I'll go do the grocery shopping. Im looking forward to the weeks meals actually. I picked one of my many cookbooks which I hadn't even looked in before and just picked out a heap of different ones. I then worked out which days to have them on so it would be interesting.
Today has been going well. My normal shake for breaky and I had a hard boiled egg for morning tea. I'll have a shake and a high protein pancake for lunch and then do the grocery shopping this afternoon so I can have a propper meal tonight.
In the two and a half days I have been doing this, I have already lost one and a half kilos!! I know though that the first week you lose a lot of fluid but I dont care. One and a half kilos!!!! And I no longer feel bloated.
This year is looking good!!
I had a fantastic day yesterday. Barry my husband and I took Jayden to the movies to see the new Chipmonk movie and they sat and ate popcorn and drank fizzy drinks while I sat and sipped on water. We had lunch at the shops also just before. They had Hungry Jacks while I got a salad from Subway and then proceeded to eat it in Hungry Jacks so I could sit with my family!! Felt weird to do that but I wasn't told off so it must have been ok. I felt so good afterwards knowing I can do this and I didn't even feel like I went without.
Last night I sat down and organised my weeks meals to cook and this afternoon when it is a bit cooler I'll go do the grocery shopping. Im looking forward to the weeks meals actually. I picked one of my many cookbooks which I hadn't even looked in before and just picked out a heap of different ones. I then worked out which days to have them on so it would be interesting.
Today has been going well. My normal shake for breaky and I had a hard boiled egg for morning tea. I'll have a shake and a high protein pancake for lunch and then do the grocery shopping this afternoon so I can have a propper meal tonight.
In the two and a half days I have been doing this, I have already lost one and a half kilos!! I know though that the first week you lose a lot of fluid but I dont care. One and a half kilos!!!! And I no longer feel bloated.
This year is looking good!!
Sunday, 1 January 2012
The Beginning....
It is the 2nd day of 2012 already!! Boy the year is flying....
Im a happily married mother of a six year old boy and my husband and I both work full time. I have been dieting since I was about 13 years old and have tried almost every diet on earth. After suceeding a couple of times in my life I only put all of the weight back on (plus more) within a year or two. I have a gym membership which I reluctantly use and as of yesterday I have started to eat very very well. Instead of trying another fad diet, I thought I would give the 'Calories In verses Calories Out' option a go. You know - "back to basics". I get stomach cramps when I eat too many carbs so I will be doing a higher protein/lower carb diet (just to suit my stomach) plus Im going to try to eat more natural organic foods instead of processed. Im trying for Gluten free where possible also.
I have never ever 'Blogged' before and am self-learning (which was on my bucket list) and I am hoping that if I write about my ups and downs this year regarding diet / exercise and general things it may give me incentive to keep going.
I am giving myself 12 months. I need to lose a lot of weight in that time but I know I can do it - positive, positive, positive!!!
Yesterday I lived on protein shakes for the first day to kick start everything. It was a challenge as it was a 41 degree day and we had a lot of people visit for a swim in our pool. Guess what everyone bought with them..... booze, junk food and yummy stuff. I was good!!! I stuck to it!!!! Im so proud of myself!!!! Give me a pat on the back!! One day down - 364 days to go!!
I just hit Preview to have a look at my post and the date added at the top is Sunday the 1st (not todays date of Monday the 2nd???) How strange - It is like my past is talking to me...
Im a happily married mother of a six year old boy and my husband and I both work full time. I have been dieting since I was about 13 years old and have tried almost every diet on earth. After suceeding a couple of times in my life I only put all of the weight back on (plus more) within a year or two. I have a gym membership which I reluctantly use and as of yesterday I have started to eat very very well. Instead of trying another fad diet, I thought I would give the 'Calories In verses Calories Out' option a go. You know - "back to basics". I get stomach cramps when I eat too many carbs so I will be doing a higher protein/lower carb diet (just to suit my stomach) plus Im going to try to eat more natural organic foods instead of processed. Im trying for Gluten free where possible also.
I have never ever 'Blogged' before and am self-learning (which was on my bucket list) and I am hoping that if I write about my ups and downs this year regarding diet / exercise and general things it may give me incentive to keep going.
I am giving myself 12 months. I need to lose a lot of weight in that time but I know I can do it - positive, positive, positive!!!
Yesterday I lived on protein shakes for the first day to kick start everything. It was a challenge as it was a 41 degree day and we had a lot of people visit for a swim in our pool. Guess what everyone bought with them..... booze, junk food and yummy stuff. I was good!!! I stuck to it!!!! Im so proud of myself!!!! Give me a pat on the back!! One day down - 364 days to go!!
I just hit Preview to have a look at my post and the date added at the top is Sunday the 1st (not todays date of Monday the 2nd???) How strange - It is like my past is talking to me...
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