Put DOWN the Nutella!

My breakfast is in the oven so thought I'd jump on and do this now! Another perfect day yesterday (yay, bashing them out at the moment!) 3 more till weigh in!

Weather has been crazy hot, it was 44C yesterday and 45C the day before. Expecting rain and thunderstorms today and tomorrow so it's going to be humid as! We've also been told to prep our cyclone kits, they reckon we'll get our first cyclone of the season between the 21st-26th of Dec. Our local storm guy says it's been predicted to be a category 5 and at the moment supposed to hit the town directly. I have no idea how accurate they can be predicting a storm weeks out though, last cyclone up here was supposed to hit directly and on the day they were still saying that and it went 300kms north of us, so we were stuck inside on red alert and there was just a sprinkle of rain outside! Guess we'll wait and see.

Food Plan for Tomorrow Day 48 of 112

B- 2 eggs, 1 pc toast and 1/3 avocado
S- 40g mixed raw nuts
L- Leftover black bean spaghetti in sauce with mixed veg
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
D- Homemade pizza base topped with tomatoes, spinach, anchovies and uncheese

Exercise- Strength program day 5

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee

Total calories: 1382 Total deficit: 992
Total deficit for the week: 2881
 
Had an extra snack yesterday and finished the day with a 668 cal deficit which I'm still happy with. Woke up absolutely starving this morning, not sure why! I moved some of my calories around for the day so I could have a feast for breakfast- I need an egg yolk for a recipe later so I stole the white and had that plus 3 eggs with toast and avocado. Pretty satisfied now, 3 1/2 eggs makes a lot of scramble!

Woke up super early too, ehhhh. Had cat drama at 2am with one trying to kill the other and making the victim shit itself... so had to get out of bed and rescue/ clean. I think we are going to look into re-homing one of our cats, she's too jealous all the time and this happens way too often. She has it out for all the cats but one in particular. Think she needs to be in a house where she's the only pet, she's a lovely cat otherwise.

Food Plan for Tomorrow Day 49 of 112

B- Choc cake experiment
S- 2 quinoa crackers with 1 tsp nut butter
L- 2 egg omelette with tuna and beans
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
D- Homemade pizza base with anchovies, tomato, spinach, uncheese

Exercise- 30mins swimming

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee

Total calories: 1378 Total Deficit: 997
Total deficit for the week: 3565 (I am happy with that- not what I was aiming for but WAY better than the last few weeks!)
 
I always find that waking up starving is a good thing. It's time to eat anyway and this generally means that your metabolism is working and you didn't overeat the night before. Starving at 10 pm is the bad situation. Being hungry when it's time to eat seems like "mission accomplished" to me.

Also, I'd like to mention that the new board software vastly improves the spellcheck functions. At the moment I have roughly 7 drinks in me, which means that when I try and type the words "koala bear" it tends to look more like "koialass bnear" which spellcheck helpfully corrects. The former board would not do this. I just wish they would give our pictures back.
 
Good morning to all! Tomorrow is weigh in, eee! I didn't exercise yesterday, my knee was playing up pretty badly. Been forever since I've taken a day off so I did! Going to do yesterdays workout today and swim tomorrow so it's not messing up my routine at all. Also ate a bit extra yesterday, I think from being so tired. Even after I still felt starving but I knew I wasn't, managed to not eat any more! So ended on a 460cal deficit and will finish the week with just over 3000. Will have to see how I go!

New week now... and not long at all till Christmas! A loss this week and next week will make me happy! I'm planning for a bigger deficit this week, I've worked out a rotating calorie type thing... It'll be 600, 800, 900 then repeat that and on the 7th day 1000. Should end on 5600 which really should be about 800g, we'll see I guess! I really wanted to be 63.5kg in the weigh in before Christmas.

Food Plan for tomorrow Day 50 of 112

B- Icecream with homemade magic shell (haha- I'm sure I don't need to tell you there's nothing unhealthy going on)
S- 2 quinoa crackers with 1/3 avocado
L- 2 pieces homemade bread with 1 tbsp. nut butter, tuna salad
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
D- Steak with salad, 2 ciders (cheat meal)

Exercise- 30 mins swimming

Calories include 1 cup almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee, I also drink 2 cups of tea during the day

Total calories: 1772 Total deficit: 600
Total deficit for the week: 600
 
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Thanks Mystic! Yea we were always kind of hoping the cats would sort themselves out but they never did.

MrVee- I always wake up thinking FOOD, but it's not too often I wake up feeling like my belly button is resting on my spine and my stomach is making sounds like a dying whale. Haha nothing wrong with a bigger breakfast feast though!
 
Was a struggle and a half getting through my workout today, I'm still really tired and think my iron might be a little low (still have TOM, nearly over). I felt so weak and I had to push myself just to not give up after the first circuit. I made it to the end and had a huge 10 minute stretching session afterward, feeling better now. I'm glad I got through it!! Normally I have a really strong workout after a rest day but not today... Had 8 hours of sleep last night but I think I'm still lacking after only having 6 hours a night the few days before. Hoping none of that will affect my weigh in tomorrow, I'm so ready for a loss already!!!! Been WAY too long!
 
I'm so incredibly tired... and achey... now have a headache and my legs are crampy and acheing much more than the usual amount. 7 days grain free so far and I'm fully experiencing withdrawal right now! I just spent over an hour on google looking at symptoms and it's definitely what I'm going through. Ahh I wonder how many days this will last? Some people still have symptoms going into week 3... I may be dead by then lol. I've taken magnesium and just chilling out now, I could easily go to sleep right now (at 5pm!) I know it will be worth it in the end. Bigger picture!
 
Keep it up Luz, you're doing great! Sorry that you are feeling so cruddy, but great job getting in your exercise in spite of it!
 
Thanks Mizzie, kind of just feels like I'm walking around in a fog!

Ok guys... stepped on the scale at 64.7kgs today. So only lost 100g which was frustrating, so I checked my bf% and it's dropped over half a % since I checked it last week. Could also mean I'm retaining fluid (sometimes if I'm retaining and I measure my BF, it reads lower than it would be if I weighed in correctly and checked it). Anyway, means I lost 500g of body fat this week whether on the scales or not. Still have TOM which could definitely be affecting the outcome! Not going to bother weighing myself in again in a few days, just think I'll try to smash out this week. If I stick 100% to the plan I laid out I should be able to lose 800g- next week is the end-of-month weigh in and measure, I'll be happy if I'm just out of the 64s. I can do this!

Ahhh, so I have to go to the birthday party of the girl that abandoned me at the Christmas party- it's tomorrow night and all the husbands work people are going so we have no choice. I would've just preferred to just leave it as it was but noooo... I won't be drinking, today is my 600cal deficit day and I plan on having a couple of drinks tonight with the husband. At least a couple of the people that I used to work with that didn't go to the Christmas party will be there tomorrow night, also husband has today and tomorrow off so he will be there too and I won't be alone! Tomorrow is the planned 800cal deficit day.

Food plan for tomorrow Day 51 of 112

B- Coconut flour pancakes
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
L- Omelette with tuna and beans and 2 eggs
S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1/3 avocado
D- Steak with leftover salad

Exercise- Day 1 of strength program

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee, also I drink 2 cups of tea during the day.

Total calories: 1547 Total Deficit: 825
Total deficit for the week: 1442
 
Ended the day a bit naughty, always happens on weigh in day! Nothing on last weeks blow out though... and nothing I can't undo tomorrow. Just have to see how the week plays out I guess! I plan on being pretty good here on out... want to see a proper loss by the end of the week, even if I only get to 64kgs which is definitely doable!
 
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Yeah, I always spurge a little on Fridays as well. I figure I have a whole week to undo it. LOL Hey, a loss is a loss and grats on the pf% loss!
 
Heya Mizzie... I know, I get that in my head too! I weigh on Fridays so I have a whole week to burn off whatever I eat haha. Bad though, if Fri was a good day I'd be burning off what I already have and not start behind all the time!! Lol silly the way our minds work sometimes!!!

Husband has the day off with me again today, going to his bosses wives' birthday party (the chic that abandoned/ignored me at the Christmas party) so don't really need to tell you how much I don't what to be going to that... Out of the question not going though of course, husbands boss is a bit 'Come, or ELSE!' with everyone so pretty much all the managers will be there. Can tell you I specifically WON'T be doing anything for my birthday just so I don't have that problem... it'll be dinner with Ash n Wade and that's it! Holy cow, I'll be 25 next year! Uhh, in less than two months actually!!!

Have been pretty slack on getting my citizenship organised- so weird, it's like with weight loss. Something I'm doing for me, something I know I should be doing, but I procrastinate and forget and put it off. It's like hitting a brick wall in my head! I WANT to study, I have people around me that can help, I'll be getting an income from studying full time, there's a career at the end of it that I've always dreamed of having... so why am I being like this? I don't want to be afraid of the future! Actually the idea of still being as crippled as I am right now and moving over east where I'll be up and around a lot is starting to stress me out a bit, I won't lie. I LOVED attending Tafe when I did fitness, but of course I wasn't worried about my ability to walk. I have no idea how I'll go using public transport as it'll be a long while before I can afford to get my own car. Just got to get out of my own head. Arrgh.

Another thing weighing on me right now is we are organising selling our apartment finally, but just as is- we burnt through all the money we were going to use to do it up from me being unemployed. Ahhh.

Had another recipe win both yesterday AND today, made an AMAZING coconut flour bread yesterday that tastes like heaven and made a MASSIVE pancake stack this morning that was low calorie for what it was. Going well grain- free, still foggy in the head and waiting for that to clear but I wasn't achey and sore all over like I have been the last few days. Which is good, today is legs day and I want to manage a good workout!

Food Plan for tomorrow

B- 1 pc homemade bread, 2 eggs, 1/3 avocado
S- Peanut butter ice-cream experiment
L- Homemade bread, tuna and beans and tomato
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
D- Tuna cooked up with celery, spinach and tomatoes

Exercise- Strength day 2 and 30mins swimming

Calories also include 1 cup homemade almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee, I also have 2 cups of tea during the day.

Total Calories: 1512 Total Deficit: 1010
Total Deficit for the Week: 1160
 
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Have been pretty slack on getting my citizenship organised- so weird, it's like with weight loss. Something I'm doing for me, something I know I should be doing, but I procrastinate and forget and put it off. It's like hitting a brick wall in my head! I WANT to study, I have people around me that can help, I'll be getting an income from studying full time, there's a career at the end of it that I've always dreamed of having... so why am I being like this? I don't want to be afraid of the future!
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Change can be disconcerting, even good ones you're looking forward to. We are pre-conditioned to not want to leave the familiar, because we don't want to get eaten by a lion or trampled by a wooly mammoth or have our stuff taken by another member of the tribe while we're gone (I'm referring to our primitive ancestors, though it sounds like these are still a danger where you're living right now). Anyhow, it's a natural feeling, but you'll get over it. Otherwise moving companies would go out of business.

As for procrastinating on the citizenship thing, stop doing that. :D
 
Last night wasn't too bad, there was a lot of people there and she didn't get the chance to work her way around to us in between cooking/ eating/ drinking. I was ok with that. Actually felt really spaced in the head, when I got there and sat down it was really hot outside and everyone was drinking and it felt like I had had a few drinks too. Skulled down a heap of water before we left but had a bit of a headspin when I stood up to go, think it's lack of minerals/ salt cuz my stupid body doesn't absorb properly. Had a really bad knee day yesterday too, the boss lives literally around the corner and we had to drive. Kind of silly but I was sitting at the party jealous of everyone able to walk/ run around so easily, I'm starting to forget what that feels like.

Today is workout and swim day, going to see how I go. I don't think my workout will be a problem, back and bis today so anything that's not already seated or on the floor I can change so it is. I've never had a problem swimming before but I think today will be a slightly slower one, still having problems. My bad knee didn't go down completely overnight and my good knee did an awful scraping thing before I went to sleep last night so that one is a little swollen too. Depending on how my knees are I'll be baking a gingerbread loaf for the husband so he has something to nibble on. Haha, he cleaned the whole house yesterday so I would make him rum balls which I did... He ate almost the entire batch yesterday! Damn boys and their stupid metabolisms. Probably helps he's well over 6 ft and works 15+ hours a day on his feet...

Oh and yesterday was a perfect day! 5 to go till end of month weigh in!!!

Food plan for tomorrow

B- 1 pc homemade toast, 2 eggs and 1/3 avocado
S- PB protein cookies experiment
L- Almond meal roll with chicken, tomato, spinach
S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1 tbsp. almond chia butter
D- Seasoned chicken breast and cauliflower

Exercise- 30mins strength training (it's that awful hard one tomorrow, chest/tris and bit of legs thrown in)

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk for my two cups of coffee, I also drink two cups of tea during the day.

Total Calories: 1407 Total Deficit: 965
Total deficit for the week: 2138 (aiming for somewhere between 4500-5000 this week)
 
Despite my leg problems, I got through both my workout and my swim! I altered a couple of exercises so I could do them seated or on the fit ball (still just as hard) and had to rely on my arms a little more when swimming... but got there. Think I'm going to have to have a bit of a lazy day today, let my legs recover from whatever is upsetting them. If I bake today it'll only take 5 minutes to get it in the oven so that shouldn't be a problem, dishes I can do much later in the day after more rest.
 
I have a much clearer head this morning, the fog is officially starting to lift. Not 100% year but I think I might've already seen the worst of the grain withdrawals (yay!) Pretty obvious I've lost a bit in the last few days too, I must've been holding onto more fluid than I thought! Can't wait to see what weigh in says on Fri (tempted as I am to weigh in now, I won't!) I will be so super stoked if I can weigh in at 63 point anything, I'm over hanging out in the 64s!

Had another perfect day yesterday, seems to be getting a fair bit easier. Cravings have gone down a heap so that has made life MUCH easier. Actually pretty strange for me, I didn't even think about food yesterday and I ate dinner after my usual 5pm because I wasn't hungry like I usually am by 4 lol. Not because I was aiming to eat later but because I lost track of time! Haha lets see how long this lasts.

Food plan for tomorrow: Day 54 of 112

B: Grain free breakfast cookie experiment
S: 2 slices coconut bread with nuttelex
L: 1 almond meal muffin with a chicken burger and salad
S: 1/3 avocado with 2 quinoa crackers
D: 2 leftover chicken burgers with cauliflower and green beans

Exercise: Day 4 of strength program (shoulders, bis, tris) and 30mins swimming

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk with my 2 cups of coffee, I also drink 2 cups of tea during the day.

Total calories: 1521 Total Deficit: 1000
Total deficit for the week: 3132
 
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