New beginnings, new journey

AHeya sexy!

I have had 3 days of eating sooo much really evil food but tomorrow i am going to be awesome!!!! We can do this together!!!!!!!!

Loved your photo, i should have done mine with the whole bottle cos i pretty much drank the whole thing!!!!! I was pissed by about 11.30am on christmas day but hey, i only do it once a year!

I loved the photo's of your cats....They are so cute especially the one that looks shocked all the time, so so cute :) I am gonna put some photo's of my rabble to show you.
 
Originally Posted by luzdafuzz


Jumped on the scales at 63.7kg today, so nowhere near as bad as I thought. If I go really hard the next fortnight (as I plan to!) I should be able to get down to 62kg by the end of month weigh in. So here we go!!
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See? It wasn't too bad! Great pictures too! You look so wonderful!! :hurray: :hurray:


That Bailey's looks good btw! I haven't had that brand, but I'm definitely open to new selections! Is that your favorite?
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The cat pictures always make me smile, too. Hehe, Sookie looks a lot like Crym's kitty :p I thought at first Crym's kitten had found it's way into your photos now, Luz! haha :]


Best of luck with the next couple weeks! know you can and will do it!
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Thanks Frog... I know it's not SO bad, but it's 2 weeks into this month and I've only GAINED 200g!! Eeeee!!! Will be a happy chick if I get down to 62kg in the next fortnight (by some miracle!!)


So 1 perfect day down, 5 to go!!!!!! I'm making spaghetti and meatballs for my husband when he gets home. Apart from that, just chilling out this arvo!!

Plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Smoothie with berries, banana, spinach, coconut butter, chia seeds, vanilla, cinnamon

Snack: Chick pea chips

Lunch: Gluten free chia seed roll with cheese and tomato

Snack: Ginger snap Larabar

Dinner: Madras curry with chicken breast, broccoli, and chick peas


Exercise is my strength program. I have NO idea when I'm working tomorrow, my husband is going to let me know when he gets home. So it'll be a surprise... Should end tomorrow on exactly a 1000cal deficit!
 
Another perfect day down!!!! 2 down, 4 to go!!! Hubby ate chips and dip and chocolate in front of me and I didn't have any. Think I've got my focus back!!!! REALLY hope I can get down to 63kg or less by Tue, want to have at least a shot at getting to 62!


I worked 8am-2pm today, I could've had the day off but I really wanted the extra cash our holiday. I have to work Sat now, so ending up working 5 days this week after all. Got my penalty rates for working Mon too, YAY!! So I'll get paid well next week.


Plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Smoothie with banana, berries, spinach, coconut butter, chia seeds, vanilla, cinnamon

Snack: Chick pea chips

Lunch: Chia seed roll with chocolate peanut butter

Snack: Choc coffee Larabar

Dinner: Slow cooked Madras curry with chicken breast, chick peas and broccoli


No exercise tomorrow, and I have no idea when I'm working.
 
No... today ended badly. SO NOT a perfect day. I was considering not writing, and just pretending it didn't happen. But I'm only kidding myself then. Arrrgh I don't know what's wrong with me, haven't had this problem since I started!! I don't know where my motivation and self control have gone!


Just going to do what I can... there's 4 days left of this week, I plan to have 4 perfect days. Then I guess I'll see where I'm at on Tue... So angry at myself!


Actually I've decided to count down my days for the rest of the month in my signature- at least I'll get to change something if not my weight!!
 
AAwww sweetie

Well done for posting even though you had a crappy day!!! It's really hard trying to be good at this time of year so you have been awesome to do as well as you have done. I am so grateful to you as your getting back on track straight away has given me the insentive to do the same. I'm not being super good cos that is unrealistic due to all the mountains of yummy food in the house but i am 'in control' of what i am eating. Maybe you could try that for a while and then kick back in when everything is back to normal.
You are totally awesome, you will get thru this blip!!!!
 
Yea I really think I need to get out of my own head and look at the bigger picture. I know I can be good for 4 days, (calorie-wise at least) so I'll do that. I've worked out that if I weigh 63.5kg on Tue (likely because I would have only had a 2000-ish cal deficit for the week) I can still quite easily get to 60kg by the time I go on holiday. It doesn't REALLY matter that I've been so bad this month, it's just I keep waking up feeling horrible and like I failed. Vicious cycle! Going to chill out a bit for the rest of the week, still going for 1000 cal deficits but going to stop stressing about what I've already done. I know it's advice I keep giving to everyone else, it's about time I took it!!! I haven't posted this either, I've had to completely stop the lower body part of my workout as now I'm having problems with my IT bands (they run down the outside of your thigh to your knee) they keep getting really tight, especially when I workout. I have no idea how that happened, but I'm fairly sure it's because I still can't crouch or squat with bent knees so I've just been bending over to pick things up, that's when I notice the pinching feeling. So one injury is leading to another!!!!! BUT- I'm not letting this defeat me. I've decided to turn to pilates instead. I've ordered a couple of workout books- I've done pilates in the past and while it's not really a traditional workout, I can still get a proper leg workout on the floor without putting weight/pressure on my thighs. This injury really isn't going away any time soon, but I refuse to let it defeat me. Just have to think outside the box a little bit!!


Kate I'm sending you a PM... Hope you don't mind.


Love to all, I know it's an incredibly hectic time of year and you all are super busy... I hope you are all taking care of yourselves, not beating yourselves up (I'm stopping as of NOW) and if I don't talk to you again this year, I hope you all have a happy and safe New Year.
 
Thanks for the warm wishes Luz! I agree you definitely need to take your advice here. The holidays will soon pass and we'll all be right back where we want to be. I've seemed to have a tough week as well. I know last night I got home and ate two pop tarts! YIKES! And I know I didn't have room in my calories that day. Today was a complete disaster, but again it's almost over and I'm just looking to tomorrow. I swear I'm going to get my butt up out of my apartment and go to the gym! I just have to.
 
Thanks Munch, I seem to be feeling a lot better today. Been really good calorie-wise too, 990cal deficit!! So a perfect day. Going to go ahead and put it in my signature!! I think I just stress myself out, which makes me not see the bigger picture, and then I feel hopeless and wonder what the point is and then it just goes downhill from there lol. Weird, haven't had that thought pattern in SO long!! Just got to get this sugar out of my system, should be all good then. I have faith in myself!!


I'm working New Years Eve, 11am-8:30pm. So tomorrow will be a long day... then I have Sun and Mon off to chill out with my husband. Wade has flown home for a few days, he comes back early Sun morning. Here's the plan for tomorrow:


Breakfast: Chia seed roll toasted with cinnamon swirl peanut butter, cup of coffee

1st lunch (before work): Pizza base with tomato paste, spinach, cheese

Snack: Chick pea chips

2nd lunch (at work): Wholemeal roll with cheese, tomato, spinach

Snack: Kitz naughty but nice chunks (it's a raw food snack, it's like dates, sultanas, cacao nibs, buckwheat... it's really crunchy and yummy!)


Exercise will be a 20min walk, the upper body part of my strength routine, and a heap of stretching. Should end the day on a 983cal deficit.
 
AHeya sweetie

:hurray: Yay on feeling better :) We all have shitty day's, weeks. The main thing is to come out the other side of them and you have done that. Well done hun.

Your food always sounds amazing, even though i haven't heard of half of it lol

Love and hugs
 
Glad you're feeling better, luz! :biggrin:


Hang in there. The holidays are almost over and I'm sure a lot of us will be recalibrating regimens afterward.
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Kate- the flavoured peanut butters that I buy are Peanut Butter & Co... Cinnamon raisin swirl is AMAZING, it turns any ordinary piece of bread/toast into the nicest sweet and salty raisin bread EVER!!! And the dark choc peanut butter is like spreadable peanut butter cups... bliss!!! And chick pea chips are really mild flavoured, they have a tiny bit of spice... just nice to crunch on. I do 50g servings and it's only 230cals each serving, which ends up being HEAPS because they are so light in weight. And the Kitz brand crackers and chunks- they were just a lucky find. So yummy!


I kind of found I can throw myself a bit of a lifeline- my mum sent me a text message last night wanting to confirm days/dates of when we need to be picked up from the airport and taken back... We don't leave until a Thursday!!! SO... I am extending this week by 2 days, and changing my official weigh in day to Thurs until we go away on holidays!!! I'll be weighing in completely random days in Feb anyway, I've worked out which days I can but they are all over the place until the end of the month. But YAY, that was a win for me!!!


I have officially sorted out my New Years resolutions too, and kind of divided them through the year:


Before Feb 9th:

Weigh 60kg

Save money for holiday (I have a specific amount to save)


Get down to 58kg by April

Save money to do up apartment and get it rented out by June

Pay off credit cards by August


Rest of year:

Maintain 58kg and get down to 19% body fat (I've ordered an OMRON body scanner off Ebay, should be here next week!! It's exactly the same as the one we used to have at the gym)

Save certain amount of money for a big holiday by Nov (think we are going to New Zealand for a couple of weeks, visit family etc plus my husband hasn't been there before)

Have a certain amount of savings by the end of the year (separate, not to spend!! Saving to buy a house year after next when we leave this place)

Read, cook and bake more!!! 3 of my favourite things to do that I just don't find time for!


I'm fully going to make this my year- a couple of big holidays, getting to my weight goal, lots of hard work and saving money... and more time doing things I love! That's the aim anyway :biggrin: I spent a couple of hours yesterday putting together an Excel spreadsheet (hehe, love spreadsheets) with a budget for the whole year and how much I need to save for what every week. It's totally doable!


Blah fully don't want to work in liquor all day today... oh well, thinking of the money!!!!!!! Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!
 
Hey hun, hope you had a fab christmas. Im loving your new year resolutions:) I have made mine too:) Hope today was a good one, can't believe its 2012 already.......scary
 
Woohoo I got off work an hour and a half early because we were so dead. I'm SO glad too, there was nothing to do and the day was dragging on and onnnnnnnn.... Two days off now, YAY!!! Here's the food plan for tomorrow:


Breakfast: Smoothie with banana, mango, spinach, unsweetened cocoa powder, vanilla, cinnamon

Snack: Kitz naughty but nice chunks

Lunch: Toasted chia seed roll with cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter (I'm fully addicted)

Snack: Coconut water

Dinner: Slow cooked Madras curry with chicken breast, broccoli and chick peas


Exercise is a 20min walk followed by some stretching. No plans for my days off, just chilling with my husband I think because he has them off too!!! YAY!!!


Oh, another perfect day down!!! 4 to go!!!
 
AHeya Sweetie

Ooooh, i love the New Years resolutions (or as i call them....revolution!!) I hadn't really thought about it but i read your post this morning and have been thinking about it all day. I have thought of some and will post on my diary later.

I just wanted to say Happy New Year Sweetie. And i wish you all the love and happiness for 2012. You truely derserve it, you are a totally awesome person and i am so pleased to be able to call you a friend :)
I also want to say a huge thank you for all your kindness, support and encouragment. You're a star. :grouphug:

I'm looking forward to us both reaching our targets in 2012.

Love and hugs Xxx
 
Hey Kate!!!! I really felt the need to sort out my goals for this year, needed things to work towards. It's nice knowing I have a couple of holidays planned too!!! I know I have a few other things coming up next year too, a couple of friends are planning on staying with us and we'll be flying home for at least one more weekend some time in there (the company provides us with 2 return flights home each year, so after we go on hols in Feb we have another one that needs to be used by August).


Also, I'm really happy to call you a friend. You've been there for me so much in the past few months. Amazing how the internet can bring people together!! I hope you have a fabulous year also... And I KNOW we are going to reach our goals!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Posted it was a perfect day too soon... ended up doing some unexpected socialising with Wade and a friend of his... chips were involved... as were several slices of pizza and garlic bread. Also a few remaining Christmas chockies... so feeling pretty terrible right now. Blah. Going to keep trucking though, I know I can do 3 perfect days for the rest of the week. Just have to hope I'll be the same without a gain!! Damn this time of year, terrible...


Food plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Smoothie with banana, mango, spinach, unsweetened cocoa powder, cinnamon, vanilla

Snack: 2 hardboiled eggs (random I know, but I've been craving them since Christmas!!! I was going to make them then and forgot!!!!!)

Lunch: Gluten free multigrain roll with white chocolate peanut butter

Dinner: Slow cooked Madras curry with chicken breast, broccoli and chick peas


Exercise is a 20min walk, followed by a lotta stretching!!!!!
 
Aw, sorry to hear that Luz. I totally blew everything New Years Eve. Lots of crackers, cheese, chocolate covered pretzels, some wine, and champagne. But now I have a clear path of with no holidays in my way. February will bring valentines day and my birthday, but I can manage those. Soon everything will go back to normal and we can get back to being the healthier people we want to be! :)
 
Heya Munch... Yea I'm still going to weigh in Thu, I know it's going to be insanely blown out though because I am retaining fluid like CRAZY business right now. I feel bloated and super blah. Added up all my days calories for the last week too, if I have 2 perfect days today and tomorrow I'm still going to end 500cals over maintenance. Oh well, it's not really bothering me because I know I'm going to get back into it!! Just going to do as well as I can from now until the end of month weigh in and I'll set a goal based on the result. Really I'll just be happy if I can be 63.5 again by the end so I can just "do over" this month. Or a few hundred grams less, whatever :p


Plan for today

Breakfast: Multigrain roll with raisin swirl peanut butter

Snack: Row of raw dark chocolate

Snack: Chick pea chips

Lunch: Same as breakfast... haven't had the chance to make more uncheese and there's no veg in the house right now, got to shop!!! Today is pay day!!

Snack: Choc coffee Larabar

Dinner: Smoothie with banana, mango, spinach, vanilla, cinnamon


Exercise was a 20min walk which I've already done. I'm working 9:30am-6pm today.


Also... My husband and I are in the process of looking for another cat!! We were just over a year ago as well, we had a deposit on one and everything... but the poor little thing got really sick and died (we didn't have it yet, the breeder still did) and then after that we decided the unit was too small for 3 cats and decided to wait. But now we are in a big house with a heap of spare time on our hands, so thought why not? So YAY for when we find one we want! Annoying thing is so because we are so far away from everything up here, there's no animal shelter, no breeders, no NOTHING... soooo.... have to fly it here from wherever we find what we want.
 
I love cats! I saw the pics you posted of yours, I definitely need to post one of my Evie. She's my baby. Pictures are required when you've found your new bundle of joy. :)
 
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