New beginnings, new journey

Hello everyone, I'm BAAACK! Quick rundown of my few days away:


The drive there (6hrs) was BORING. I live out in the desert, here is all we saw the whole way (oh, we also saw 2 MASSIVE lizards and a dead cow. Big woop)




Finally got there, the place was AMAZING. We were given complimentary drinks on arrival and were taken to our huge awesome room. 3 TVs!!!!! Including one Hi Def one over the bath. Was awesome! Decided to chill out and get room service when we got there, we were both over it from the drive. I ate SO much food. More food than I have probably eaten in one sitting since I started doing this... I tried calculating it, I think I went about 2000cals (or more) over maintenance! Oops.

Next morning we went down for breakfast, and went and checked out the beach (it's a famous beach in Aus) here's some pics:





Walked around the shopping centres for a while, but then my knees which hadn't been a problem started to get really stiff, so we decided to go back to our hotel and put a movie on and laid down, and my knees were so swollen again!! Was so angry. Got room service and chilled out for a few hours, then Ash went to the pharmacy and got me some Voltaren and Swedish Bitters for the swelling. I was DETERMINED not to let this ruin our trip though, so I wrapped my knees and put on a long dress and we went down for a drink, and a little kangaroo came out and I managed to snap a few photos of it! Was so cute!





Then hobbled next door to the restaurant and had the most amazing dinner ever, I had sauteed brocollini to start, then grilled snapper with tomato and bocconcini salad and a chocolate turkish delight tart for dessert. Also had half a cockatil (gave the rest to my husband, was quite sweet) Food wise for the day I wasn't SO bad, I would have eaten maintenance or possibly just over. Here's me n my hubby at dinner:





Today we just got up and had breakfast and left pretty much straight away. I am so cramped from being in the car, my calves were KILLING me! Popped a muscle relaxant when I got home.


Wasn't feeling to well in the car either, have literally no appetite. Eaten possibly 1200ish calories but don't think I can stomach anything else, I haven't done anything today at all anyway.


So back on the wagon! I didn't mind lashing out a little as we aren't doing any kind of holiday thing again until Feb... next weigh in I think I might just adjust my goal and plan to reach my goal by then!
 
Kate- the pool looked AMAZING but due to my knees I didn't get the opportunity to do much of anything, let alone don a bikini and jump in a pool. We still had fun but I was so angry I was disabled for most of it!


Lozza- Thanks for the encouragement! After how I ate while I was away I don't know if I'll still get to my goal this month, but I'll try my hardest!


Verob- You are WELCOME to the heat, it's 39 degrees celcius right now and is supposed to be for the next few days. ICK!


Irish- Thanks sweetie!!!
 
Awesome little holiday you had there! where abouts is that in aussie? Sorry to hear about your knees thats gotta suck :( but you seem to still have had an amazing couple days :)


Metabolism rebooted and time for more arse kicking right???
 
AWell, i see sea and i see beach but i dont see BIKINI!!!! :cuss:

Your pictures look lovely and you look stunning sweetie :) Glad you had an amazing time, i hope your leg wasn't too bad.
Dont worry about 2 days of rubbish (ok, gorgeous) food. I ate badly for 4 days when i went camping and lost and ate badly when i went away for the weekend and still lost then too. As long as you get straight back on track i can't see it making a difference at all.

It's good to have you back lovely and i hope your leg is better really soon.
 
DMR- That's Broome, we're at Cable Beach in the photos. That's like 7.30am so there's no one around!


Kate- LOL we went to the beach SO early in the morning, and straight from breakfast. We were planning to go back at night but by then I was feeling like a cripple. We are planning to go back in Feb though!!!


Jay- Thanks for stopping by!! I'm really lucky in our location even now (in this tiny desert town) we actually live on the coast so the beach is a 2 minute walk down the road. But yea, it's still a desert. We've come home to massive tumbleweeds in our front garden several times.


After the bad couple days of eating, I'm determined not to beat myself up about it. I think I'm going to re-adjust my goal for the month to 66kg (2kg a month is all I've been aiming for anyway!) If I lose more, than AWESOME!! I really well and truly want to be at my weight goal by my birthday (Feb 11) as we are going to fly back home and see family, and will be going on hols again... YAY! If I keep going how I'm going I can still get there, no need for the rush.


Also... My dad was diagnosed with gluten intolerance last week (it's not as severe as being a celiac) and apparently it can run in families. My dad suggested I try going gluten free for a week or two, and I thought why not? I've had several of the same problems he's had but usually got told it was mild IBS or lactose intolerance (NOT true, I eat dairy just fine!) He really only suggested it because gluten can cause inflammation and maybe it'll help me with my knee problem a bit faster. SO. Me experimenting for 2 weeks. Hoo Ha! I'm really excited, haven't done the grocery shopping anyway so did a rush order yesterday, stuff isn't even more expensive. I agree with all the ingredients too (I don't like eating anything in the ingredients I can't pronounce!).Best thing is, most of the stuff I eat already is gluten free, and I'm planning on eating exactly the same, just switching a few things for a similar version. So should be easy as! If it makes a difference, great. If not, then I can say I tried at least!


So food today

Breakfast: A big bowl of really healthy ice-cream. It was 1 cup almond milk, 1 tbsp maple syrup, 2 very small frozen bananas, 1 scoop of Amazing Grass choc powder, and 30g coconut choc butter.

Snack: An ACTUAL Larabar (coconut creme flavour)

Lunch: 2 sandwiches on brown rice bread with pastrami (no salad, must shop!)
Snack: 30g caraway seed crackers

Dinner: Homemade spinach quiche with brown rice crust


And of course, no exercise. I'm actually going back to work today, start at 9am. I said that I would stay as long as I could- if I can make it the whole day, great. If I can only manage 3 hours, fine. At least I tried. Have a good day everyone!
 
O and to get a loss this week, I'm going to have to be extra good for the rest of it... so 1000 cal deficits every day is the goal!
 
You look amazing in the photos luzdafuzz, I'm struggling with where you are going to lose another 10kg FROM!!!
 
Jjjay- I'm SERIOUSLY hoping a lot of that will come off my boobs and thighs, lol!


Argh work today.... WELL. I was walking around really slowly all morning, but I was doing it. I took my tea break almost 2 hours into my shift, so I could eat and take some Ibuprofen... I'd run out of the supermarket Advil I normally take, and had the pharmacy stuff I bought when I got my prescription so I took a couple of those. I think they were a bit stronger than the Advil I was taking, as half an hour later my stomach completely turned. I decided maybe I hadn't eaten enough, so I took lunch and ate my sandwiches and sat down for half an hour, then went back to work. 20mins later I was dry heaving in the bathroom, so I left work and spent the afternoon curled in a ball on my bed with a bucket next to me. Feel better now, but I don't recall ever having such a strong reaction to Ibuprofen! So I worked for about 3 hours. BOO.


I think I start work at 6am tomorrow, double boo.


Food tomorrow

Breakfast: Big healthy bowl of icecream again! This one is going to be 1 cup almond milk, Amazing grass choc powder, 2 bananas, and a tablespoon of choc peanut butter.

Snack: Raw blueberry bar

Lunch: Sesame crackers with cheese, coconut creme larabar

Snack: Caraway crackers

Dinner: Spinach quiche with brown rice crust


And of course... NO EXERCISE! Have I had the chance to explain how mental I'm going??? Think I'm going to start doing upper body stuff next week, I worked so hard to just get where I am. Really don't want to lose it all.
 
AAwww hun. So sorry to hear you were ill at work today :( Dry reaching is worse than actually throwing up, in my opinion. I feel for you .
Well done on perfect day 1 out of the way, you're definatly back on track straight away :hurray: Well done sweetie. Xx
 
Not going to work today, I feel a lot better but my calves are majorly cramping from walking so much which I'm not used to anymore. Trying to keep up my fluids and potassium too, and trying not to sleep in awkward positions... it's the worst in the morning. Before it was really bad in the leg I was using to hobble on everywhere, now it's really bad in the other one. Woot. After walking for a while it goes away, but cramping like that can damage my muscles (if they aren't already). Arrghh I'm a little bit of a train wreck right now, who knew how many problems overworked knees could cause??


So having a chilled one today. Wade has a doctors appointment today- I don't know if I've mentioned it in this diary (it all actually happened in my older journals so it's in there somewhere) Wade has terminal cancer. He has to go to the doctor today because he was at work and he had a big coughing fit and coughed up blood, so he has to go in for scans today. No one up here knows about it, I'm pretty sure that's how he wants to keep it. So he did freak out one of the check out chicks in the staff room, but she didn't know who he was and wasn't likely to tell anyone. Really hope he's ok!
 
Went on Facebook this morning and discovered a school friend that used to live next door when we were kids and was in my class had passed away early this morning. Don't know the full details, but he was fine a month ago, then he mentioned on FB that he was getting tested for a bone marrow donor only a couple of weeks later, and this morning he was gone.


I haven't seen him for years but he was a big part of my childhood and I'm really saddened by this, I told my mum and she was really upset too, she was really good friends with his mum.


Life is just so short and so precious.
 
I'm sorry for your loss. :( At least he doesn't have to suffer whatever bone marrow illness he was going through anymore.
 
Jay, thanks for your words. I just can't imagine what his family is going through, it was just so sudden! Still kind of reeling thinking about it, just so sad.


So I have determined that the problem with my calves is likely to be because I've been sitting on my bum for close to a week. Kind of figured it out because it's the absolute worst first thing in the morning, then I massage my legs and walk around for 10mins and it pretty much goes away (apart from a twinge here and there)... Then I'll sit down again because I want my knees to rest and heal, and after an hour or so the cramps come back... so same thing, massage them out, walk around. It's really frustrating. Just in case, I'm making sure I'm eating bananas every day (which is FINE by me, means I get to eat icecream every day! Have I mentioned how amazingly good it tastes?) for potassium, and my hubby is bringing home a calcium + magnesium supplement. So my minerals are covered... and I'm drinking plenty of water, been getting through my 1.5L bottle every day even though I'm doing next to nothing. Just in case, I booked a doctors appointment for late Monday arvo, so if I'm not better by then then I'll go... and if I am, then I'll just cancel!


Ended up having a Disney marathon with Wade today, his appointment at the hospital has been moved from today to Monday... so we both had a quiet restful day. I'm not sure what's happening the rest of the weekend, pretty sure my husband has it off too. He's going to set up the Xbox in our bedroom so he can play the new Batman game all weekend without disturbing Wade (I'll be watching of course- keen to pounce on the Xbox as soon as he decides to have a break... really got to finish Assassins Creed before the next one comes out! Pre-ordered it and everything!)


Anyhoo... until tomorrow!
 
Yesterday made 2 perfect days down, 3 to go.


Chilling with my hubby today, calves are slightly better today too. I slept on my side with a pillow between my knees instead of on my back so my calves wouldn't have any pressure on them, so I didn't have pain during the night. They were still so tight this morning though, so I got out the hand cream and gave them a big massage (eeee, they're so tender too!) walked around for a bit and they got a bit better. Also hubby got me calcium + magnesium + vit D tabs, and I'm getting bananas every day, so there's my potassium covered too... Hoping they'll be a lot better by Mon!!


Food today is going to be fairly random... I had the hugest (and nom-iest) bowl of ice-cream for breakfast (same as yesterdays, this time I doubled the peanut butter... OMG... it's fully peanut butter cup flavoured icecream) I think it's just going to be lots of little snacks the rest of the day. Sticking to my cals of course though!


Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
 
3 perfect days down, 2 to go! I'm feeling all jiggly and puffy, I'm sure it must be mostly in my head because according to my clothes I certainly haven't put on any weight, but I can feel some of my muscle tone disappearing... not fair!! Getting to my weight goal this month won't be any fun, I'll have to start all over again with my fitness next month.


Having fun experimenting with my breakfast ice-creams though... tomorrows is a tablespoon of 100% sour cherry spread, a tablespoon of Artisana coconut butter, and the Amazing Grass chocolate powder, with my usual mix of almond milk and 2 bananas. So choc coconut cherry! Om nom nom.... Eating healthy is fun when ice cream is an acceptable breakfast food :hurray:

The rest of tomorrows food will be pretty similar to today, snacky type stuff:


3 rows of raw dark sour cherry and acai chocolate (as snacks for the whole day)

Lunch: 2 pieces brown rice toast with spinach and grilled cheese

Dinner: Vegetarian Pad Thai with rice noodles


Taking it easy with my husband again tomorrow. I'm walking around much better today, massaged my calves out several times and I'll get up and walk around (laps of the house, haha) for 10 mins or so. Did that a few times then after sitting down for AGES watching movies, I got up to go to the toilet and my calves were only pulling slightly, not much pain at all. WIN! Hopefully I'll be able to work every day next week from Mon... I don't mind if the days are a bit shorter, just want to get up and on my feet again! And earning money!
 
A:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: 3 perfect days!!!!! Wow hun, you are flying now! You are so focused which is great cos i think i would have struggled with feeling grumpy about the leg situation.
Glad that's getting better :) Be patient with yourself though.

You make me drowl over my keyboard reading about your ice cream for breakfast!! All i can think about is how totally awesome it would be to have a tub of Ben&Jerry's for breakfast......That would be heaven!!
 
Hahaha it really does taste amazing... I don't actually think I could handle regular ice-cream now though, I used to be able to eat a whole 1L tub without thinking twice but I haven't even thought about it. Ice-cream was always my downfall, so it's awesome that I start my day with it every day :jump: (just put that smiley in cuz it cracks me up)


Decided when I reach 65kg- which is also my halfway point- I'm going to get my hair done! Been putting it off since I moved here because I don't like going to new hairdressers... So many people just can't handle curly hair. I really want to get the colour removed from it because I have all this blonde regrowth, and I really can't be bothered dyeing it again! Might get some blonde foils too... and my hair is screaming for a trim.


Depending on what I weigh on Tue will be what I set my goal for the month on, if I'm around 67.5ish then I'll leave it at 66kg, but if by some miracle I'm 67.2 or less then I think I'll still aim for 65kg. 700g a week is definitely achievable with how I eat. It's just frustrating for me, because I know I would've lost a heap of muscle tone. I have upper body pics on my computer from last year when I got to 66kg, and I was running and exercising and I know I won't be that small at that weight this time. Arrghghgh... Can't win all the time! Just have to focus on losing weight for the next month or two, I have the rest of my life to (slowly) build up my strength and fitness again.
 
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