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My challenge is to be a weight-loss angel for the two weeks I have left before I join AJ Rochester's Healthy Body Club... I want to prove to myself that I can do it!
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| It's been awhile -- Saturday April 23 |
| 04.22.05 (5:08 pm) [edit] |
Hello strangers!
It's not cos I don't love you all that I haven't updated... lol... I've still been reading your blogs :) Just had a particularly crazy-go-nuts week in my hecticly mad life!
Got to sleep in this morning... finally... I must have slept through Miles leaving for work too because he was gone when I woke up.
I'm doing a terribly good job of maintaining my weight... lol... which I guess I should be proud of considering the busy fortnight I've had. Haven't blown out and eaten anything I shouldn't have... just eaten a bit too much 'good' food I guess. Might register a tiny loss on Monday... we'll see. (If I don't update my sidebar you can assume I stayed the same... lol!)
The Healthy Body Club is *finally* swinging into action... I'm excited, petrified and totally worried all at the same time! I feel a bit like a guinea pig but I'm still glad I'm in the first ever 'batch' of HBCers... the time is right for me and I'm raring to go! Going out today to buy a calorie counter, so that I can work the food I like into AJs menu plans... I'm really excited about the fact that I'll be approaching this from a different angle (ie I'll be counting kilojoules rather than points)... I have a feeling my points estimations might have 'slipped' a bit during my many years on WW, so my food intake will be much more on track now that I have to work everything out from scratch. I need to put everything I eat and every bit of exercise I do into my online trackers, cos AJ does surprise checks of these just to make sure we're all on track... brilliant way to make sure I actually DO it!
The other girls in the club seem really friendly... actually I discovered a girl from my work has joined, too! She's about my age and I think it'll be fun to have her as a HBC buddy. About five of us are meeting up tomorrow morn for a walk around Albert Park Lake... can't wait to meet everyone, hopefully it'll give me a fresh dose of motivation!
I'm planning to sit down with my kilojoule counter today and work out a weekly menu/exercise plan based on my week 1 HBC menu... I'll PDF it at work on Tuesday so y'all can have a look! :wink: I'm going to be so gung ho starting Monday... no more extra handfuls of popcorn from the popcorn bag, no little nibbles of Miles' leftovers. I want to be as close to perfect as I can for the week so I can see what my body can do. It's going to be pretty stressy at work this week, and the public holiday on Monday is not ideal (I have to do lots of studying on Mon which often leads me to boredom snacking)... so I'll have to be well-prepared with my meal plan and have point-free snacks here to munch on. But I reckon I can do it. I just need to take it one day/week at a time.
Well, I'll update again on Monday to let you all know how HBC day 1 is going... can't wait!!
ps. Huge congratties to Phill for losing 1.5kgs in two weeks! WOOHOO!
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| A great day -- Tuesday April 19 |
| 04.18.05 (12:45 pm) [edit] |
Yesterday could've been really crap. I had to get up reeeeally early and then work on my yukko assignment once I got home from work... not the best framework for a brilliant day.
But I woke up feeling many kilos lighter, all because of my dance class on Sunday night. I love it soooo much! It's one of the best things I've ever done and I'm so proud of myself for having the courage to get out there and do it! :) I come out of those classes and almost skip to my car... it's brilliant. Fantastic. You should all do it! LOL. (Hey seriously, if any Melbournites want to join me... :wink:) I can't wait till this semester's over so I can do two classes a week.
Ate brekkie in front of my computer as usual... read the comments on my Plodding plodding post... and was totally blown away from the support you girls gave me. Thank you to each and every one of you... I've already started to put some of your ideas into action. You're all brilliant!
Then I got to work and went to the bathroom, and a girl from another department came in and told me I looked pretty and pink is my colour... woweee! Nothin like a spur-of-the-moment comment from an almost-stranger to make your day. I'm starting to remember what it feels like to receive compliments all the time... when I was halfway to goal a few years ago it was truly what spurred me on. Think I might have to write them all down this time so I don't forget them!
At lunch time my day was made yet again when I discovered my fave low-fat mea on the lunch menu at work's cafe... carrot and lentil dahl.. *drooling*
Then when I got home, I found an email from a girl I know through one of the scrapbooking sites I visit... she said she wanted to write to say thankyou because my weight loss scrap layouts have inspired her enough to get her out walking every day... WOW! I inspired someone?! Seems totally bizarre. Feels really good nontheless.
Later in the night I received my 'starter pack' for Healthy Body Club... omg I am pumped already! AJ is such an inspiration. I get started next Monday and I just can't wait.
Hope today is half as good! :D
ps. For the person who asked where that swimsuit I posted awhile ago came from... I found it at Swimwear Galore :D
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| New SM's out! -- Monday April 18 |
| 04.17.05 (10:41 pm) [edit] |
I got my new Scrapbooking Memories mag in the mail today... Woohoo! Just thought I'd share a layout from the mag that I created a few months ago...
(real weightloss-related post coming soon!)
As seen in this month's Scrapbooking Memories magazine - vol 6 no 8
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| Plodding plodding -- Sunday April 17 |
| 04.16.05 (6:06 pm) [edit] |
I'm on track for either staying the same or losing 0.5 this week... I know 0.5 is pretty good for a one-week loss (and it's always been my average), but I can't help wishing the weight would just hurry up and come off a little bit faster damnit! I know, I know... medical professionals recommend a loss of 0.5-1kg per week, so I should be happy... and the slower it takes the more likely it is to stay off, blah blah blah. But I have a LOT to lose (at least 35kgs... well 31 now) and at this rate it will take me a year and a half to get there! If I was losing about a kilo a week I'd likely be at goal by around Feb next year... which would be just amazing.
My exercise is all good at the moment, so I think I know what I have to do to speed up the losses: reduce my portion sizes. But eeek, that's scarey! I'm just not happy unless my cereal reaches three quarters of the way up the bowl... sad I know, but it's the truth. I think the other problem is that we don't technically have a dining table at the moment. Well we do, but it's been converted into my scrapping/homework table (LOL) and has my laptop on it, so every meal (besides lunches at work) is eaten while checking email, reading blogs etc. But maybe if I make an effort to concentrate on eating without distractions I'd be more successful?
I'd love to hear comments/suggestions from people who have successfully reduced their portion sizes... how did you do it and stick with it?
In other news... we have a rental inspection next Wednesday so we had a HUGE spring clean last night. We even borrowed my parents' carpet cleaning machine! It was bloody hard work (I must've earnt a million bonus points!), but our flat is sparkling now and so lovely to live in :) Our carpet is now all cushy and fluffy again, it's great! Miles suggested we buy my parents a pressie to say thanks... I think we might have to.
Going to latin dancing tonight (by myself methinks, as I don't think my friend's coming this time... but I'll be brave! :wink:).. really looking forward to it! I've been dancing round the house this morn cos a) Miles is at work and I have the place to myself and b) I can move from room to room without tripping over stuff! LOL!
Happy Sunday everyone!
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| A new lifestyle -- Sunday April 17 |
| 04.16.05 (2:05 pm) [edit] |
Here's the scrapbook layout I did on Wednesday that I promised to share once the Scrapboxx newsletter came out :) (If you'd like to view the newsletter click here.)
Journalling reads: I used to be the girl who ate three bowls of cereal per day,
who binged whenever faced with a challenge, and whose ankles ached when she walked.
NOW I'm the
girl who…
Steps out of her comfort zone to try new things she only ever dreamed of doing
Exercises at least five times per week and feels great afterwards
Works on loving herself more every day
Resists the urge to eat out of boredom, loneliness or anxiety - most of the time!
Feels proud of her successes, however small
Has a rapidly shrinking body and loves watching the numbers on the scales decreasing all the time
Feels motivated every day.
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| Word of the day: humuhumunukunukuapua‘a -- Thursday April 14 |
| 04.13.05 (7:34 pm) [edit] |
Last night I arrived home to find Miles had bought my absolute favourite thing for dinner... Latina pasta. Ohhh yummo! I thought I'd be a good girl and work out the points (expecting maybe 6-7)... it was over 10. OMG! We used to eat this stuff all the time... no wonder I've gained so much weight since being with M! I toyed with the idea of just eating it and scrimping on points for today and tomorrow (I was literally drooling into the pot by this stage... and besides, Miles had bought it especially!) but instead I admitted to Miles that the pasta was pretty bad points-wise... and had plain spirals instead. That's a pretty huge achievement for me, Ms Pasta Addict herself! :wink:
Eating has been going pretty well... went a couple of points over yesterday but Monday and Tuesday I stuck to my points. It's TTOM at the moment so I'm hoping to be quite a bit lighter by Monday... fingers crossed!
Work is pretty crazy at the moment. I'm coordinating a book (which means extra hours in the office) and uni workload is mounting quickly... I'm so proud of myself for not giving into the stress eating urges. I think all the exercise is really helping me to stay calm... it's awesome!
I finished off my "New Lifestyle" scrapbooking layout last night... can't share yet cos it's going to be published in the Scrapboxx newsletter... but once the newsletter is out I'll post it! Maria at Scrapboxx put up all the gorgeous new KI Memories stuff last night... OMG it is so beautiful! I want it all!
Anyway, I'm posting from work (naughty me) so I'd better get back to it... oh and in case you're wondering, humuhumunukunukuapua‘a means Hawaiian triggerfish... the word is used many times in the book I'm coordinating (the second edition of Maui). What a cool word huh? :lol:
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| Feelin' sooo good! -- Monday April 11 |
| 04.11.05 (2:07 am) [edit] |
Oh god, I love this feeling. My body feels like crap and my muscles hurt -- but in the kind of GOOD way that only comes with doing weights at the gym. It's a my-body-hurts-because-I'v e-done-good-things-to-it kind of pain. I could easily get addicted to it.
I got a program at my work's gym today. Usually I just go up there to do half an hour of treadmill and bike, but the moment I read that muscle burns fat just by being there, I started thinking weights might be a good idea. So I booked myself in and the gym instructor ran me through all sorts of painful-but-good-feeling exercises, mostly involving a fitball... which is really cool cos I have a fitball floating around still in its box at my parents' house somewhere, so I can do some of the exercises at home! (Like we have room in this tiny apartment for a FITBALL, lol. Maybe I'll buy another one for Miles and we can toss the couch! :lol:)
I've even come up with a weekly exercise plan that I know I can stick to most weeks, rain or shine:
Gym weights at least twice per week
Gym cardio or walk at least four times per week
Aerobics once a week
Latin dance class once a week.
Sounds good huh? Still can't believe lil old me is ACTUALLY doing all this exercise... two months ago I was patting myself on the back if I walked up the street to get the groceries instead of driving! (Most of the time I'd just come up with excuses as to why it was wayyy too hard to walk there... lol.)
I'm planning a scrapbook page about my new lifestyle... I need to do a layout for the mid-month Scrapboxx newsletter so decided to kill two birds with one stone. The layout will include a recent piccy of me and include a list of the top 10 changes I've made in the last couple of months. I think changes are so inspirational... just the other day I saw someone buy a huge cheese and tomato toasted sandwich from the cafe at work and I remembered how I'd have those for morning tea all the time... these are HUGE toasties, worth probably about 7 points, and I'd have them for a SNACK... no wonder my weight has ballooned! It's an ace feeling though when you remember something you USED to do and it just seems such an alien concept.
SO everyone... what changes have you made? I wanna hear them, inspire me!!
Mine are:
1. I tried something totally scarey that I've always wanted to do but have always felt too FAT for... latin dancing. And I loved it! Counting the days till my next class.
2. Exercise is routine for me now. I feel tired and unhealthy if I don't do it most days.
3. I now recognise the times that my emotions are leading me to binge, and most of the time I resist the urge.
4. I eat at least three pieces of fruit every single day.
5. I VERY rarely eat cereal as a snack.
6. I'm much more experimental with my cooking, and I love discovering new low-point recipes.
7. I've started to question the way I think about myself. I deserve to love myself and I don't deserve the criticism I have constantly berated myself with all my life.
8. I have bought new skirts because my ol' faithful black one is too big for me, and it doesn't accentuate my emerging new figure.
For the first time ever, I feel like I'm in the right frame of mind to lose weight. I never want to go back to my old lifestyle again.
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| Race to double digits -- Monday April 11 |
| 04.10.05 (12:35 pm) [edit] |
Miles' mate Phill came round last night... partly so he could devour some of Miles' famed slow-cooked chicken, and partly so he could use my digi scales (apparently he doesn't like it when analogue scales spin all the way around and say he weighs 3kgs... I dunno... I swear that'd be so cool! The new diet, I reckon! Imagine declaring that you weigh 3kgs! LOL). Anyway, Phillbo had the excellent idea to set a wager on our weight loss... the first one to hit 99.9 or under (with Miles supervising) gets $20 from the loser (or should that be non-loser?) to spend on clothes. I'm a bit nervous about this... sure, Phill has more to lose... but guys lose faster than girls, and he was going on about high-protein no-alcohol diets last night :shock: LOL.
Our weigh-in tonight...
Phill: 120.9kgs
Me: 109.9kgs (this was with heavy clothes on and having drunk a litre or so of water!)
So... may the biggest loser win! hehehe.
ps. Half a kilo down today :wink:
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| Dancing queen? -- Sunday April 10 |
| 04.10.05 (3:08 am) [edit] |
I did it! I went to a latin dancing class. It's something I always wanted to do but I just never had the confidence... but I decided awhile ago that I was going to stop putting my life on hold for when I 'get thin'... I deserve to love myself NOW which means trying new things I think I might enjoy!
Here's me looking scared before the class... lol
But it was SO much fun! I felt a bit unco but nowhere near as unco as the first time I tried aerobics... and I had a few fat-attacks when we had to change partners (thinking 'OMG, I'm sure this guy would MUCH rather dance with the sexy girl beside me')... but afterwards I felt amazing! It sure is good for an ego boost. Can't wait for next week! :)
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| Drooling over houses -- Sunday April 10 |
| 04.09.05 (5:05 pm) [edit] |
Thank you so much guys for your beautiful comments about my scrapbooking... you should all go to Natti's blog and convince her to post some of her work too... she's mega-talented!
I've been looking at real estate online again this morn... naughty, naughty me... lucky Miles isn't home or he'd be rolling his eyes at me! ;) LOL. You see, we can't move for another four months (stupid me insisted on a 12-month lease so we wouldn't have to go through the horrors of moving sooner)... bring on August, baby!
For the most part, I love our little flat... it's cozy, it's right in the middle of all the action and it's OURS. Well actually it's our landlord's, but it feels like ours... it's the first place we've ever lived in on our own, just the two of us and our mess. But when we moved here I didn't count on discovering a hobby that'd take up the entire dining table (scrapbooking)... and I didn't count on having a garage too small for the cars it's meant to hold... also didn't count on the place heating up to at least 20 degrees hotter than it is outside! So we're moving further north... still close to the city, still close to our work, but in a less trendy area... meaning a bigger and trendier apartment!
Here are my faves so far:
This one with a swimming pool, gym, sauna, bbq area, tennis court... OMG it's like a resort! And only $15 a week more than we're paying now.
This one, really convenient location and I'm drooling over those floor boards! Expensive area though so the place isn't as nice as others.
This one is right near a primary school so I'd have to check out the traffic situation first... but OMG, check out the kitchen and bathroom! Yum yum! Maybe a bit far for my poor boy to pedal to work though...
A HOUSE! Can you believe it! Of course it's a bit too far away... bah humbug!
And my all-time fave... in my dreams! LOL. This one is right near my work. Oooh gorgeous. I should stop looking at these super-expensive places though cos it'll be a long time before we can afford them!
I've been going pretty well food-wise the last couple of days... not perfect... but pretty good! I think I might have to adjust my challenge this week as it's just too broad for me... I think I need something in particular to focus on (eg tracking every day. We'll see tomorrow.
Well, better get my butt into gear... gotta do homework today.. blah.
Hope everyone's having a fun weekend!
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| My passion -- Friday April 8 |
| 04.08.05 (1:29 am) [edit] |
By request... a post about my passion... scrapbooking!
Firstly, you don't have to be mega-creative to be a scrapbooker... you just have to love photos and want to preserve your memories. And it's not a granny craft either... most of the scrapbookers I know are young (under 30)... it's the most amazing, uplifting, relaxing, exciting and addictive hobby! I've met some of my most precious friends through it too.
If you're curious and want to see what all the fuss is about, there is a truckload of info on the web. My fave sites are Scrapboxx, Two Peas in a Bucket (check out the 'Creating Garden') and Blue Bazaar. But maybe the best way for a beginner to get started is to pick up a copy of Scrapbooking Memories magazine. It's the best Aussie mag and there's a listing in the back of scrapbooking stores all over Aus, so you can go shopping or sign up for a class.
I'll share some of my work... if you want to see more just go to the gallery at Scrapboxx :)
This is my latest layout... about my gorgeous Mum! I'm gonna frame this for her for Mothers Day... hope she doesn't come on here and see it first! lol.
This is a little mini book I made about six months ago. It's about my first year with Miles... every second page is an envelope I've filled with memorabilia about our first year together (movie tickets, cards, printouts of emails etc). This one was featured in Scrapbooking Memories recently.
This one is from my Book of Me (an album I'm working on that's all about me... hopefully there'll be some weightloss-themed layouts in there soon!) It's called Things I Love About Being a Woman. On the little circles I've written about all the best things about being a gal!
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One last one! This is a mini accordian album I made for Miles' mum. The piccies are of Miles and his younger brother when they were little. Aren't they cute!!
If you're still with me... thanks heaps for looking! :)
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| Warm 'n happy -- Thursday April 7 |
| 04.07.05 (3:15 am) [edit] |
There's nuthin like sitting in front of a computer with a big fluffy HOT PINK terry-towelling robe on to make a girl happy.
LOL! How sad am I?
It's true though... I am happy. I'm happy cos I'm sitting here in my warm dressing gown and Miles has just turned up my fave song ('Just Like Heaven' by the Cure) so I can hear it. I'm happy because I got a nice box of free scrapbooking goodies to play with today. I'm happy because I've finally found a gym buddy (my gorgeous work pal, Emma, has ditched her Fernwood membership in favour of the gym at our work and the company of lil old me) and I did 30 mins of cardio today. I'm happy because I worked late and my beautiful boy had dinner in the oven when I got home. I'm happy because said beautiful boy has learnt how to cook yummy and healthy dinners, just for me.
Life is good!
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| I won! -- Wednesday April 6 |
| 04.06.05 (2:30 am) [edit] |
I never win ANYTHING, so I was super excited to discover a free pedometer in my Special K box today! Apparently one in three boxes has a pedometer... and the first box I picked up kinda rattled a bit, so I bought it. Not sure how accurate it is (it doesn't actually measure your stride length or anything) but still a bonus! And to all those who've been on the 10,000 step challenge... I salute you... I don't know how you did it! I went for my usual 45 min walk expecting to clock up maybe 6 or 7000... but I only made 3500. Bah humbug!
And I've achieved something huge tonight... Miles is at basketball again, I'm all alone, but I haven't binged! Woohoo! Okay so I did eat a bit too much of that delicious Mother Earth salt & vinegar popcorn (mmmm I LOVE salt & vinegar!) but that was because it was bloody YUMMY, not because I was depressed and trying to drown my sorrows. I'm pretty proud of myself, can you tell? lol.
I also challenged myself to make a new recipe for dinner... dahl with yummy toasted turkish bread (found on the Weight Watchers website). It was so good! Filling too.
I'm feeling so motivated reading everyone's blogs... it's so nice to know I'm not the only crazy one out there with a bad relationship with food!
Well, think I'm going to snuggle up in bed with a magazine... until SVU starts, that is. Miles has gotten me addicted to that show!
Hope everyone's having a good night :)
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| Two-week blitz -- Tuesday April 5 |
| 04.04.05 (2:23 pm) [edit] |
Thanks so much everyone for your gorgeous messages... I never would have dreamed that I'd 'meet' so many amazing supportive people just by blogging! Starting this thing might be the best thing I could have done for my weightloss efforts :) So thank you guys! Love you all!
I got an email from AJ Rochester yesterday... the first intake for her Healthy Body Club will start on April 18... and assuming I get into that first group (I am pretty much stalking her to make sure of it! LOL) that gives me two weeks left 'on my own'. So I've decided to push myself... to see how much I can lose by myself before I start AJs program. I'd love to have lost 5kgs before then, but I'm not totally sure that's possible (2.5kgs in two weeks is a LOT for me)... but I reckon 4kgs is!
So my challenge is to be as perfect as I can be for two weeks... tracking every day, eating three pieces of fruit, exercising five times a week, and trying like hell to stick to my points every day!
Good luck everyone this week... lets all work towards good losses hey! :D
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| A smooth-running Brooke is a relaxing experience -- Sunday April 3 |
| 04.02.05 (11:14 pm) [edit] |
Can you tell I'm addicted to the Advertising Slogan Generator too? (Thanks Kimba!)
I've been thinking a lot about deprivation today... ever since an anonymous poster made me feel like a total freak for trying to avoid feeling deprived while I sort out my new healthy lifestyle. (For the record, no I don't feel deprived when I see junkies shooting up, because heroin is not my drug of choice... food is! But hell, I bet if I were an ex-junkie coming clean and I was watching other junkies shooting up, I might feel a tad tempted to join in!)
It's not that I TRY to feel deprived... in fact, I've been consciously working on trying to view junk food as just that: JUNK that will make me feel bad and poison my body. That way, when I see people eating fatty food, I won't think 'ooooh I would kill to eat that', I'll think 'yucko, I'd feel so crappy and bloated if I ate that!'
I AM starting to get my head around it... but sometimes I just decide to avoid the possibility of feeling deprived by having 'a little' of what everyone else is having, so I feel like I'm not missing out altogether. Does anyone else do this? (Speaking to my fellow healthy lifestyle bloggers here!) Or do you just go cold turkey and reason with yourself that you'll feel better if you have none at all?
I'm sooo damn hormonal at the moment... lol... got all teary last night thinking I was such a failure because I had a bit of banana from a banana fritter (I only ate a couple of bites of the banana mostly minus the fatty fried outer shell)... mum rang up to congratulate me on how well I'd done with food yesterday (how sweet is that!), and all I could do was wail 'But I had some banana!' LOL. Then Miles reasoned that I should think of the good things I did yesterday rather than concentrate on the bad, which is so true... I was imagining earlier what I would've eaten yesterday PRE-healthy lifestyle, and almost puked at the thought! Yesterday I mostly avoided chocolate (had a tiny bit of an easter egg that my sister's boyfriend gave me, but that was it... COULD have had much more!), had no prawn crackers, no spring rolls, ate lots of veggies, no icecream or cream on my pancakes, and the list goes on. Normally I probably would've put on a couple of kilos I reckon, but I'm hoping to actually lose this week.
 So YAY to my new lifestyle... and yay to the sexy bikini I'll be in next summer because of it! ;) Oh, and in case you are wondering what the semi-naked girl is doing on the left, well, that's the bikini I'm gonna be wearing towards the end of next summer! :) LOL
Hope everyone had a fabbo weekend! Can't believe it's Sunday night already...
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| Danger zone -- Saturday April 2 |
| 04.01.05 (2:56 pm) [edit] |
Well here I am. In the danger zone. It's Dad's birthday today, and we're going to the Pancake Parlour for lunch, the movies, and a chinese restaurant for dinner. I can't go to aerobics because we'll be munching on pancakes at that time. There's leftover mud cake, apple crumble and fruit mince pies in my parents' fridge. There's chocolate literally EVERYWHERE. But I'm managing to avoid it all! I truly hope I can come on here tomorrow and tell you all what a good girl I've been. My plan of attack is:
Eat pancakes with NO cream or icecream, and a Diet Coke. No extra nibblies off anyone elses plates, and no nibblies in the movie.
I'm not sure if there'll be cake tonight, but if there is, I'll have one small slice. I don't want to feel deprived, but I DO want to lose weight this week!
No dessert or prawn crackers at the restaurant. I'll eat chinese veggies with steamed rice, or something else I know is point friendly. No spring rolls!
I'm going to track every single crumb I eat.
I'll go for a walk tomorrow morning to make up for the missed aerobics class.
Wish me luck... I might need it!
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| My cute lil purchase -- Friday April 1 |
| 03.31.05 (12:02 pm) [edit] |
I was in Borders last night and this lil notebook caught my eye.
Aint it cute?! This is my new food tracker. I've somehow lost my WW one (LOL) but I'm almost glad now... I'm hoping the cute colourful stripes will jump out at me when I ruffle through my bag and remind me to track!
On that subject, I tracked everything I ate yesterday, went about 2-3 points over but according to my scales lost 0.5kgs in one day. I don't know what it is with my body, but I find (at the moment) that I can eat a couple of points over my 23 point limit and still lose heaps of weight. Maybe it is the exercise? I'm not sure. Eventually I'd like to be sticking to my points every single day, but for now I'm just going to focus on tracking every day... but I'm sure I'll be creating some sort of challenge in a few weeks time along the lines of 'eat no more than 23 points'! It's heaps easier on 'normal' days when I just have work... but on Tuesday and Thursday I have uni after work, which means I don't end up eating till about 9pm... very bad! And of course there's like nine hours between lunch and dinner so I end up snacking way too much... but that's another story.
Oh and guess what? I found a dancing buddy!! My beautiful friend =http://i2.photobucket.com/alb...Caz is coming with me... and I'm so excited. Not only cos of the dancing, but because I really don't see enough of this girl and I love her to bits! We're starting Sunday next week... at a place called City Salsa Club... Did I mention I'm excited? LOL. Bring on Sunday week!
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| My action plan -- Thursday March 31 |
| 03.30.05 (12:09 pm) [edit] |
Thanks so much to Natti, Sarah and Deb for your support... it really does help so much! :)
Well, I was a little out of control yesterday, and it felt awful. I always feel so powerless and weak when that happens... it's not a nice feeling at all! So as a way of regaining control I've promised myself I will track every little bite that I eat for the rest of the week... even if it means writing down that I've gone over my points... because oddly enough, once I confessed to you all what I'd eaten yesterday I felt much more in control. I think this is the key for me... because I pretty much always track until I leave work and have enough points left for dinner... but between getting home and going to bed I probably have twice as many points as I've allowed in snacks! Tracking is the answer I reckon.
I also typed up a couple of little 'signs' and stuck them around the house (Miles has yet to come home and see them... wonder if he'll notice? hehehe). Daggy, I know, but I really think they might help me!
This one is plastered on the kitchen cupboard we use as a pantry...
It reads: What do you want MORE? What you are about to eat or the sexy bikini you're buying next summer? You CAN do it!
This one is in the bathroom where I can read it every day...
It says: I commit to being the very best that I can be. I deserve to love, be loved and most importantly of all, to love myself. I deserve a healthy body and I will never give up on myself, no matter what happens, and I promise to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. (This is the 'pledge' that AJ Rochester makes her readers take at the very start of their weight loss journey... thanks AJ!)
Anyway, I hope they work... at the moment I do a double take whenever I see them cos they look so weird! lol
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| All alone & binging again -- Wednesday March 30 |
| 03.29.05 (11:37 pm) [edit] |
AGGHH!! What is it about being all alone that makes me wanna binge? The moment I'm in this place alone I just get this enormous desire to clean the pantry out into my mouth... and I don't for the life of me know why! Here's what I've eaten since I got home an hour and a half ago...
Aero mousse (1 pt)
Small bowl cereal (2 pts)
Banana (1 pt)
Piece of bread (1 pt)
Tuna mornay & rice (8 pts)
Popcorn (1 pt)
TOTAL: 14 pts (more than half of my daily allowance within an hour and a half)
HELP! Why am I sabotaging my efforts like this? What's wrong with me? Do you know how heartbreaking it is to have such a good day and then ruin it by gorging yourself on whatever you can get your hands on?! I feel so crap and lonely and bleaghh and I don't know how to make myself feel better.
Natti is calling in about 45 mins thank goodness. At least if Miles was here I could pour out my sorrows to him!
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| Fruit challenge -- Wednesday March 30 |
| 03.29.05 (11:58 am) [edit] |
Okay, so I've come to the realisation that if I really want to kick this weight, I've gotta eat a balanced diet... which means less pasta, fewer starchy snacks (pretzels, rice crackers etc) and more fruit. Well actually I've known this for a number of years now, it just took awhile for me to get my head around it. :oops:
So... starting today, my challenge is to eat at least three pieces of fruit per day for the next week. Yes, even on the weekend when I'll probably have no fruit in the house and I'll be too lazy to get my bum up to the supermarket to get some more. I will go to that supermarket, I will buy that fruit, and I'm sure some harp music will be playing in the background and I'll instantly be transformed into a slimmer me.
So... anyone wanna join me? :D
ps. Phill... Miles no longer has plausible deniability... or does he?! Mwahahah!!
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| Bah humbug (weekly weigh-in) -- Monday March 28 |
| 03.27.05 (3:05 pm) [edit] |
Well, I put on this week. Trying not to let it depress me. As Miles said last night, it WAS easter... but I guess I'm mostly disappointed because I let easter be an excuse to slack off a bit. Okay so I did my walk-runs (have I mentioned them yet? Well, I've been jogging for a bit on my walks... God it hurts, but feels great!) but if I'm totally honest with myself, I might admit to being a bit of a slacker. I had a couple of 'incidents' related to french onion dip (it was labelled as 'light', surely that means I can eat as much as I like!) and apple desserts (apple is healthy so it reduces the kilojoules in the pastry or crumble, don't you know?), and then there were those evil eggs... oh well, gotta just get back on the weight-loss horsey and start afresh today. I know I shouldn't beat myself up about what I've eaten... but it's damn hard not to.
So here's to a more positive week... hope to lose a kilo this week to make up for the half a kilo I've put on over easter!
ps. UPDATE: Just measured myself and I've actually lost quite a few centimeters since last week... woohoo! Must be those walk-runs... yay for exercise!
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| What the?! Evil Cadbury! -- Sunday March 27 |
| 03.26.05 (1:44 pm) [edit] |
I was wondering why I have put on about half a kilo over the last day or so... I have been pretty good (or so I thought!) and done my exercise... but I checked out Angel's blog this morn and nearly had a heart attack.
I've eaten probably 15 or so of these mini Cadbury eggs since Friday, thinking they're half a point each... but Angel calculated their points for me and turns out they're 1.5 POINTS!!! So much for trying to be good! LOL!
 <--EVIL!>
In a way I'm sort of glad I found this out... because a) I won't be eating any more of those evil little buggers, and b) it explains why I've put on! It means the hard work I've been putting in with my exercise HAS been paying off. Thanks Angel for the eye-opener!
And on a different note... Miles picked up a flyer at Vibe (the cafe he works at) about Salsa dancing lessons! A Latin club a few doors down from Vibe runs the lessons... there's beginners classes every Sunday night, so guess where I'm going next Sunday? Yay! I can't wait, very excited. (And I'm not allowing myself to think about how terrified I am until I get there!)
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| Some inspiration 4 me -- Saturday March 26 |
| 03.26.05 (1:14 pm) [edit] |
So, hands up who has tried losing weight at least a thousand times before with little success? Yup, me too. Over the last couple of years I've rejoined WW probably 4 times (no kidding!) in an attempt to lose weight. And each time, I've lost very little, and at around Week 8 I start feeling like a total failure cos I've paid out something like $120 and lost more weight off my wallet than my backside.
But WW did work for me once before. A few years ago, it helped me lose 17kgs. I've been looking through some piccies today and found some oldies of skinnier me... and I'm so mad at myself. How did I allow myself to fall off the wagon after trying so hard and getting most of the way there?! I only had about another 10kgs to lose back then, and now I've put it all back on (in fact, I'm heavier now than I was when I started back then... depressing huh?)
I could get really bogged down in the fact that the weight has piled back on, and that I haven't been able to lose any of it since then... but that would be the easy option. Instead, I'm going to try to focus on the fact that I did it back then, and there's no reason I can't do it again! The reason WW hasn't worked over the last few years is because I wasn't ready to make the changes... now I am, and I'm more motivated than I've ever been! So I'm going to keep looking at these piccies, knowing I'll soon be even slimmer than I was then.
Christmas 2001 (about 86kgs... I love that cute little top, can't wait to wear it again!)
My friend Caz and I, New Year's Eve 2001-02
Me at my 21st, May 2002 (about 90kgs)
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| A first time for everything -- Friday March 25 |
| 03.24.05 (1:33 pm) [edit] |
Every Easter and Christmas I always see people out jogging or walking and usually think 'What, are they crazy?!' or 'Ohhh I soooo wish I was that dedicated!'. Well today it's gonna be me out there walking... I had next to no sleep last night (note to depression/anxiety sufferers: do NOT forget to take your meds four days in a row... it's not pretty!) but I'm feeling great today... Miles is still tucked up in bed and I'm up wearing my trackies and runners! Hehe!
The scales read 106.8 this morning, so hopefully it stays that way despite the lil bit of choccy I plan to eat today :p
Happy Easter all! Hope you're enjoying the L-O-O-O-N-G weekend!
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Welcome to my journal! I'm a 23-year-old Melbournian, magazine-lovin', creative, scrapbooking-addicted health nut in training. I work as a guidebook editor for travel publisher Lonely Planet, and live in a cute 'n' cozy apartment in Richmond with my gorgeous boy, Miles.
This journal is my refuge, my confessional, the place I come when I need motivation or support on my journey to a healthier me. Thanks so much for reading!
(Updated every Monday)
Age: 23
Height: 173cm
Starting Weight: 110.6kg
Current Weight: 107.5kg
Total Lost: 3.1kg
BMI: 35.8 (was 37)
Goal Weight: 75kg
Next mini-goal: 105.6kg (1.9kg to go)... my reward when I get there is a manicure!
(Updated first of month)
Neck: 37cm (was 38cm)
Calf: 44.5cm
Thigh: 73cm
Upper arm: 40cm (was 41cm)
Chest: 119cm
Waist: 100cm (was 106cm)
Hips: 122cm (was 127cm)
Monday: None
Tuesday: 30 mins gym cardio
Wednesday: 30 mins gym cardio
Thursday: 45 mins gym (cardio & weights)
Friday: Plan: none
Saturday: Plan: 45 min walk
Sunday: Plan: 1 hr walk, 1 hr latin dance class
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