New beginnings, new journey

Well the cyclone changed direction overnight, and now it's heading straight for us!! First time a cyclone has actually hit here for 7-8 years or something... Also, they think it might turn into a category 2 as it hits the coast. Work was completely insane today, SO busy. We are expecting to go on yellow alert soon, so smaller businesses will close then, and then the supermarket just before it hits red alert- usually that happens 2 hours before it hits, and if you're driving around in a red alert you get an instant fine. I got home from work early, did a shop for random bits and pieces. I'm not too worried about the power going out, there's plenty we can eat, I'm more concerned about us being so isolated... if all the roads flood, then it could be several days before we can actually get any stock in at work... so it's looking like it could be a crazy fortnight!! Or we could get lucky, the store could get blown away, and then we can go home... :biggrin:


Had a bit of a LOL as tomorrow is my rostered day off, and we probably won't be open anyway... so everyone gets the day off. Poo, I could've had 2 this week after all!! Oh well.


Food plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Rice pudding with brown rice and almond milk

Snack: Larabar

Lunch: Instant pad Thai

Snack: Slice of date and walnut loaf

Dinner: Pizza!


No exercise, I'm not keen on venturing out... though I have a few parcels I can pick up this afternoon when Wade gets home, so one of my Pilates or Yoga books could be here! YAY!


Kitten update: Xena is an absolute SWEETHEART, I gave her cuddles last night and she was desperate to get on my lap. Purrs so loud for such a small creature!!! Luna is incredibly playful but is still too scared to let us close enough to touch her. Not going to introduce them to my other cats until they are used to us!


STORM UPDATE: Eeee, looks like it'll be a category 3 when it hits us now!! AND, apparently there is another cyclone forming behind it... the concern is they might combine into one storm and become even worse!
 
AHeya hotstuff.

Oooh you get the whole day to spend with the kitties. Mine spent their first day when they were kittens behind the washing machine!!! I was so freaked that they would get stuck or hurt themselves but Mark said that they would come out and check us out when they were ready and i hate to say it but he was right.

Stay safe sweetie, thinking of you Xxx
 
The cyclone hit us at 1am last night as a category 2... it's now 6:20am and it's still right on top of us. Our roof is still on so that's good, walked around the house and looked out the windows... it's snapped our washing line in half, several of the neighbors have lost their pool sales... we have a LOT of tree branches in our back yard... Haha, it filled up our pool!! The storm behind it didn't develop into anything serious, but it's still a storm heading to us as soon as this passes. So yea... just a waiting game now!!! No one can start work till we are back on blue alert again, and yesterday we spent pretty much the whole day on yellow so maybe Wade and Ash will have the whole day off with me :biggrin:


Back to me now... I ate really unhealthily yesterday arvo, but we were celebrating our first storm of the season lol... had a pizza and a few chocolates, so it actually wasn't a binge... just me forgetting my head and thinking that if we blew away I wouldn't be caring about my weight, lol!! Still weighed in though as it is Thu... 65.4kg. So BAD, but not so bad considering I ate a shitload yesterday and would be retaining a fair bit... lol!! Also TOM in a few days, my boobies are hurtin! I was thinking about weighing again tomorrow or the next day but I've decided I'll accept that as my current weight, so my goal for this month will be 63kg. I'll be happy going home at that weight! Used my OMRON body scanner today too- 28.1% body fat!! YIKES!!! Got a LONG way to go to reach 19%!!! (Also could've been affected by the fatty food last night, lol... just means I'll jump down a fair bit next month!!). Pretty sure my exercise books are here, had a slip for 3 parcels to pick up yesterday but went home during the yellow alert so everything had to close. Won't be able to get them until tomorrow then... boo!!


So plan for this month!!

678cal deficit every day (minimum)

Pilates or yoga every day (rotating different workouts)

Aiming for 63kgs this month!


No pics this month, I'm feeling like a whale today... and I don't really want a comparison photo showing the weight I GAINED lol. Guess it's all part of the weight loss process!! But here's another couple of kitty pics...


Xena- she's such a little lap cat!!!





Luna- Haha just a funny pic!! She's so scared of us though, we can play with her but she backs away immediately if we try to pat her or we get too close.
 
Ahhhh had both kitties on my lap for over an hour!!! Luna is still a little bit of a scaredy cat but she got on my lap all on her own. Spewing I didn't have my phone on me!!!


First day of the month was perfect, YAY!! Had a 708cal deficit. Hoping for 64.8kg or less by next week!


Food plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Rice pudding with brown rice and almond milk

Snack: Chick pea chips

Lunch: Curried egg sandwich

Snack: Date and walnut loaf slice

Snack: 2 pieces toast with cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter

Dinner: Slow cooked marinated chicken breast torn and tossed through mixed greens


Depending on the weather I might go for a walk, otherwise I might get a pilates book to start on... we'll see!!
 
Finished the day on a 719 cal deficit, so 2 perfect days down, 5 to go!!


Have a freak storm about to hit us, it dropped out of nowhere. They reckon it's going to be as strong as a category 1 cyclone, only it's not categorised as that because it's not rotating... Also we are supposed to be getting hit with another cyclone Thu next week. It's all go here right now!!


Plan for tomorrow

Breakfast: Toast with choc peanut butter

Snack: Choc coffee Larabar

Lunch: Sandwich with cheese and salad

Snack: Peanut butter choc chip Larabar

Dinner: Homemade pizza with cheese and spinach


No exercise planned... No mail today so still no Pilates book!! Also we are expecting storms all day tomorrow so doubt I'll be walking...
 
AHeya Crazy cat lady :)

Oooooh cuddles with both your babies. I am soooo jealous lol. I'm so glad that Luna is getting more confident. And your photos are so cute, i showed Mark to try and convince him that we had to have a kitten but he was just 'whatever' :(

OMG your weather is totally freaking crazy!!!!! Stay safe sweetie, thinking of you.

Oh, and well done on a perfect day. You Rock :)
 
AHeya sweetie

I hope your lack of posting is beacuse the weather has buggered your internet connection. Hope you guys are all ok. Thinking of you. Xx
 
Heya, thanks for worrying Kate, I really haven't written because I've been so damn tired and busy!! Arrhh have to be in bakehouse for another week, and my next day off isn't till Thursday... So over it!!! So damn tired!!! Food for the next few days (and today) is going to be the same, because I'm feeling boring and uninspired...


Breakfast: 2 pieces toast with choc peanut butter

Snack: 2 sunflower slices with vegemite

Lunch: Sandwich with vegemite and cheese

Snack: Choc coffee Larabar

Dinner: Chicken Tikka Masala with chicken breast, broccoli, chick peas, served with brown rice


Don't think I'll be exercising, just want to make it through the week to be honest!!


Let kitties out of the room today, they howl if we're out of their sight... bit of hissing from my other cats but nothing else, and we were expecting that.


Stomach doesn't like me at the moment, been having 2 cups of coffee a day to get through... TOM is due too, so I'm bloated as.


I'll try to check in every day or 2, weigh day is Thu my day off anyway so will definitely write then!
 
AHeya Crazy cat lady :)

Glad you're ok but it sucks that you are so busy and feeling a bit 'bluurrr' hopefully that will go and you will be back to yourself asap!

That's really cool that your older cats didn't make too much of a fuss about the babies. My two hiss at each other on a daily basis lol i think it's a cat thing, they even hiss and complain when the dogs want to give them kisses and they aint interested. Totally different story if they do want fuss from the muts!

I got some of those probiotic tablets yesterday. They are a 20 day course and it says you can carry on with them after that or stop. They cost £10!!!!! So what i am going to do is take the course and then just get some multi vitimins and probiotics instead, just to keep things under control. I did 2 days of eating mainly porridge and i started the tablets yesterday and my stomach is fine now, thank god! And i lost 4lb this week too, i think that's only cos my stomach is now more settled. Thank you so much for your advice about what to do. I was getting really pissed off with feeling like that. You are an awesome friend. Hopefully you will not feel crappy and bloated soon, i totally sympathise.
 
Confession time... Being constantly so sleep deprived has turned me into a bit of a self-loathing caffeine addict... And unfortunately a bit of a sugar addict too. Ahh I'm over it, I've NEVER had the weighing myself 5 times a day problem- seems it's just sprouted out of nowhere in the last fortnight, and every time I see a number I don't like, I eat 3 days worth of calories in ice-cream. And then I hate myself a bit, wake up the next day hating myself a bit more... Then I'm too tired to care... so repeat... Not to mention how much MORE tired I am because I've been eating like shit, and how every single little cut or nick on my hands is getting infected, or how my skin (which has been incredibly clear for the LONGEST time) is suddenly breaking out. I've decided to banish the crazy from my life. Over it! I'm going on holidays in 3 weeks- I should be excited, not lying awake till after midnight because I can't stop thinking about how I'm a whole kilo heavier than my lightest weight... FUCK... I was a HELL of a lot bigger the last time everyone saw me, and this isn't a race to get to my goal weight.


I'm not going to stop trying to lose weight, I'm just going to relax a lot the next 3 weeks (oh, and relax even MORE the 3 weeks after that when I'm actually ON holidays!). I've been told I'm going to be in bakehouse until I go on holidays, so I have to get used to it. Just have to develop a few strategies to get used to it.


So, to get rid of my stress levels a bit... I'm not going to weigh myself again until the day I leave. I can tell you now that this morning I weighed 65.5kg, also TOM arrived today and I had a binge last night. So actually don't really know what I weigh, lol. And not going to let myself care! Also, I don't have a goal for this month anymore. I'm still going to calorie count, and I'm aiming for a deficit of around 550 cals a day- would love to weigh around 62-63kg by the 1st of March, then I think I might start a new journal... it's not a new beginning anymore!!


Going to start exercising again too, and I'm considering trying napping after work instead of having a second (or third) coffee. So, this is kind of how my (work) days will map out:


4am- Get up, breakfast, coffee

5am- Work (Work meals are morn tea, lunch, afternoon tea)

1:30pm- Knock off, snack, nap

2:30pm- 3 days a week this will be strength training

5pm- Evening stroll with relaxing music (any day it's not raining... we ARE in the wet season right now. Also it's a stroll because I still can't walk that fast unfortunately!!)

7pm- Sleep


Hope all of the above kind of made sense... I'm pretty damn tired now, had a shocking sleep last night and it's 7:45pm right now so passed my normal bedtime lol. I'm being rebellious because I have tomorrow off, YAY! I also have Sunday off this week.


Here's tomorrows food plan

Breakfast: 2 pieces of toast with choc peanut butter, coffee

Snack: Homemade bran apple muffin (I'm baking tomorrow I've decided!!)

Lunch: Curried egg sandwich

Dinner: 2 sausages. salad


Going to go for a walk tomorrow, I'm betting I'll be able to sleep in but probably only till 5:30-6am ish... So will go first thing in the morning.
 
Confession time... Being constantly so sleep deprived has turned me into a bit of a self-loathing caffeine addict... And unfortunately a bit of a sugar addict too. Ahh I'm over it, I've NEVER had the weighing myself 5 times a day problem- seems it's just sprouted out of nowhere in the last fortnight, and every time I see a number I don't like, I eat 3 days worth of calories in ice-cream. And then I hate myself a bit, wake up the next day hating myself a bit more... Then I'm too tired to care... so repeat... Not to mention how much MORE tired I am because I've been eating like shit, and how every single little cut or nick on my hands is getting infected, or how my skin (which has been incredibly clear for the LONGEST time) is suddenly breaking out. I've decided to banish the crazy from my life. Over it! I'm going on holidays in 3 weeks- I should be excited, not lying awake till after midnight because I can't stop thinking about how I'm a whole kilo heavier than my lightest weight... FUCK... I was a HELL of a lot bigger the last time everyone saw me, and this isn't a race to get to my goal weight.


I'm not going to stop trying to lose weight, I'm just going to relax a lot the next 3 weeks (oh, and relax even MORE the 3 weeks after that when I'm actually ON holidays!). I've been told I'm going to be in bakehouse until I go on holidays, so I have to get used to it. Just have to develop a few strategies to get used to it.


So, to get rid of my stress levels a bit... I'm not going to weigh myself again until the day I leave. I can tell you now that this morning I weighed 65.5kg, also TOM arrived today and I had a binge last night. So actually don't really know what I weigh, lol. And not going to let myself care! Also, I don't have a goal for this month anymore. I'm still going to calorie count, and I'm aiming for a deficit of around 550 cals a day- would love to weigh around 62-63kg by the 1st of March, then I think I might start a new journal... it's not a new beginning anymore!!


Going to start exercising again too, and I'm considering trying napping after work instead of having a second (or third) coffee. So, this is kind of how my (work) days will map out:


4am- Get up, breakfast, coffee

5am- Work (Work meals are morn tea, lunch, afternoon tea)

1:30pm- Knock off, snack, nap

2:30pm- 3 days a week this will be strength training

5pm- Evening stroll with relaxing music (any day it's not raining... we ARE in the wet season right now. Also it's a stroll because I still can't walk that fast unfortunately!!)

7pm- Sleep


Hope all of the above kind of made sense... I'm pretty damn tired now, had a shocking sleep last night and it's 7:45pm right now so passed my normal bedtime lol. I'm being rebellious because I have tomorrow off, YAY! I also have Sunday off this week.


Here's tomorrows food plan

Breakfast: 2 pieces of toast with choc peanut butter, coffee

Snack: Homemade bran apple muffin (I'm baking tomorrow I've decided!!)

Lunch: Curried egg sandwich

Dinner: 2 sausages. salad


Going to go for a walk tomorrow, I'm betting I'll be able to sleep in but probably only till 5:30-6am ish... So will go first thing in the morning. That's for a 899cal deficit, so I have heaps of room to eat more if I want!
 
Hey Luzdafuzz,

Wow...sounds like you need a bit of a break to regoup and your resolve says to me that you're now back on track! It might be a good time to actually write down what was bugging you so much when you ate "3 days worth of calories in ice cream"...were you eating "at someone", did you feel anxious..if so about what, were you bored? All of these questions are none of my business...but it might be revealing to you to know for yourself All that sugar can cause your brain to really play tricks on you...so you might want to really lay off that for awhile. As for not weighing...great idea! I weigh once a month...sounds like a long time..and it is...I do this because I hate not having progress and the normal weight swings are cause for concern and cause me to lose focus...so I prefer "not knowing" to "knowing"...I do take measurements once a month (typically, I give myself feedback every 2 weeks...weigh on 1st of the month, then measurements around the 15th) so far I've done OK this way.


Sarah
 
It's definitely just tiredness... I can't sleep when I go to bed, and then I have to get up SO early. A coffee gets me through the morning, then around 11am I'm already craving sugar/ coffee/ any kind of food, then not long after that I'm too tired to concentrate on anything for long periods of time. I feel like I'm barely functioning! It doesn't feel right going to bed at 7pm- for starters, I live in the desert and it's the peak of summer right now... doesn't even START to get dark until well after 8pm. Some nights I can fall asleep fairly easily, usually within 30 mins or so of falling asleep... but I seem to wake up before my alarm a fair bit, and a few times during the night. Think my sleep is pretty disturbed because I've been having 1-2 extra coffees in the afternoons in the past week and a bit, whereas I normally used to just have the one first thing in the morning- or none! Other nights I'm checking my phone every hour to see if it's time to get up yet because I just can't GET to sleep. Got a lot of crap in my life I need to rid myself of, the job being at the TOP of my list... though not going to actively do anything about that until I get back from holidays. Going to try to deal with my stress and my self- negativity which seems to have transformed from a tiny little annoying ant I notice sometimes into a big looming monster. Also seems to have come from my tiredness, funny enough...


So my homework is sleep, relaxation, and fun! :biggrin: And then more sleep.
 
Hey Luz!


Sorry I've been absent awhile. School started up and I don't have as much time to check up on everyone. :( Your new kittens are so adorable, I just want to cuddle them! You must be getting so excited for vacation, you definitely deserve it. Keep up the good work! :)
 
Hey Munch! Yea I've been away for a couple of days, just going to be a bit easier on myself I think. Glad you're back, I'll make sure to check in on your diary!!


OMG, my husband gave me the most amazing surprise last night! I decided to wait up for him to come home, and he made me get out of bed (I had really REALLY bad stomach cramps) and he'd bought me a fully awesome new laptop as an early birthday present!! And he'd put this ribbon on it and wrote me the sweetest card. Awww!!! :beating: Have I mentioned how much this laptop kicks ass?? It's so incredibly thin and light, and it's super super fast. He said he also ordered me an external harddrive but it hasn't come yet. So I'm going to spend today pimping out my new toy and chilling out wih my husband because he managed to get the day off with me.


Kitties are all good today, they've been sleeping with us every night and being all cute and crazy, as kittens are. They are very snuggly and need a lap to cuddle on as soon as any one of us is home- haha poor Wade, he's not even a cat person but Xena follows him everywhere and thinks he's the greatest thing ever. She LIVES on his lap! Too cute!!!


Anyhoo... I'm off to catch up on about a million diaries as I've been neglecting everyone and there's so many new ones!!
 
3 weeks from today I fly away home, I'm so excited!!!! Can't wait to see everyone and NOT WORK lol. Did I mention I'm getting my hair done the first day I get back too?? I really wanted to get it done on my birthday but my hairdresser is pretty popular... so it was already booked out. But oh well... I'll finally have this rank colour out of my hair and have it styled again!!


Interesting news for this week though, there is a category 5 cyclone forming out in the water that they think will hit us on Aus Day (26th Feb). So thinking that's going to be pretty devastating considering how much damage the category 2 did to us last week... They are still chopping up all the uprooted trees and there's still a lot of water where there shouldn't be... Unsure whether this storm is going to hit the town directly or not though, so we'll see!!


Had a nice day out with my hubby, we went and got coffee and walked around and did a bit of shopping. It's Wade's birthday on Sat and we had no idea what to get him, ended up deciding on the Supernatural box set so hope he likes it!


Hope everyone is having a good day!!
 
Todays intake:

Breakfast: 2 pieces of toast with white choc peanut butter

Snack: 2 homemade bran and spice muffins

Lunch: 4 slices of pizza (damn you Ash!)

Snack: 2 hard boiled eggs (I'm so addicted)

Another snack: Another muffin


Exercise:

40 min walk


Total deficit for the day: 576cals.


So I would say that's one perfect day down, 20 to go!! I'm thinking about having a calorie count going for the full 21 days in my signature... Give me something to beat myself at!!
 
I had an awful afternoon, someone knocked at the front door and Xena was on Wade's lap and he put her down and opened the door, but she'd followed him and he hit her when he opened it. She squeaked and I came out to see what happened, she kind of limped away then collapsed with her eyes open. Seriously we both thought she was dead!! Took her to the vet straight away, she woke up and howled a bit about halfway there. Vet checked her over and said nothing was broken and she was probably really bruised and in shock so she'd passed out. Gave her a pain killer/ anti inflammatory injection and now we are at home and she's sleeping on me. It was SO SO horrible!!!!!!!!!!! We grabbed ice cream and pizza after so it kind of killed the good day I had yesterday... I can still reach my goal though!! I'm not despairing just yet! I need a 623cal deficit every day to get me there now is all. Going out for dinner tomorrow night for Wade's birthday but I'm going to be good, might even aim for a 1000cal deficit if I can.
 
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