Meh

I sneaked a peek at the scales this morning, in a weird compulsion - because I've been so good at staying scale free so far! I was planning on weighing in on Saturday though, back to weekly, but as of today's sneak, I'm exactly the same as of last week.

Now I know why scales are frustrating! Grr!

In exciting news, I saved enough money to finally apply for my UK visa. Thanks to a hefty $550 application fee that went with it though, I'm now completely poor! Yikes.

Walked today for an hour (6.5kms total) and did some work on the stomach roller thingy for about 10 minutes, nothing flashy.

blah blah

Walking 6.3kms in an hour totally burns off the ONE measly piece of pizza I consumed as a snack today, right?

I sure hope so! Because it wasn't even very good! I had saved some points/calories to eat a mini iced cupcake, but held off on that since I had the slice of cheesy goodness. Bah! Wish I'd stuck to the cupcake.

This was a random entry, eh?

Phew. Stuffed!

You won't believe it ---- today I ran for 5km! :) Combined with walking, I totalled 7km on the treadmill under an hour.

Not all in one burst (heck, no, are you MAD?) but with some bursts of walking in between, I kept going and managed to finish! Here's how it went;

1.0km run - about 7.30 minutes
0.5km walk - about 4.30 minutes
1.0km run - about 7.30 minutes
0.5km walk - about 4.30 minutes
1.0km run - about 7.30 minutes
0.5km walk - about 4.30 minutes
1.0km run - about 7.30 minutes
0.5km walk - about 4.30 minutes
1.0km run - about 7.30 minutes

Total distance/time run = 5km / approx 37.50 mins
Total distance/time walk = 2km / approx 17.20 mins

Now if only I could actually run that distance in one setting, eh? I have jelly legs and am going to be sore tomorrow!

Grr Extra Pounds, Grr.

I wish it would email me when people leave comments, because I hate seeming rude not answering/responding to them! I looked at my blog the other day and saw I had eight comments (a record for my weight loss blog!) and hadn't been told about a single one of them. Grr. :)

Yesterday I had a TERRIBLE day - was out most of the day and did no exercise, but instead of eating smart? I binged on random junk all day long. I'm trying to ignore it now though, and focus on how good I started this Monday off . . . ate well all day at school, ate a good dinner, and did some exercise.

45 minutes of Walk Away the Pounds w/ 2kg handweights to fit in with the workout, followed by 20 minutes of brisk walking on the treadmill @ 6.5km an hour. Not too shabby!

Is it the weekend yet?

Weigh-In

Well, I exercised for 12 out of the past 14 days, and ate well for about 80% of the time - I did splurge in the last few days by eating take out twice (including pizza yesterday, silly girl) so I'm happy for a loss at all.

I weigh 81.2kgs - or 178.64 lbs. I'm in the 170's! This is awesome! :)

If that's not motivation to keep up the exercise and to stop giving myself splurges, I don't know what is ... am one step closer to my 80kg goal. Can I get there? I bloody hope so!

I think I'm going to go back to weighing in weekly though - because I find myself WANTING to peek and I don't want to start obsessing over the bloody scales again. So if I change my weigh in to Saturday, I can work hard during the week and hopefully see results at the end of the week.

Yep. That's what I'm going to do! Today I have to ration my points/calories though, because we're going out for Thai lunch-yum!

yuck!

I had an absolutely horrible day food-wise yesterday - I was at an inservice all day, I snacked on cake squares, ate dessert at LUNCHTIME and then finished it off with fast food for dinner. Yikes!

After such a horrible disaster, I did 90 minutes of walking today with Walk Away the Pounds, covering 6 miles total. Tomorrow is the first of my fortnightly weigh-ins, so the goal is to be UNDER 82kgs. Wish me luck! :)

blah tuesday

First up, I'm SO glad you're all still around. I'm glad I've stuck it out this long to be honest, and I don't want to give up now! :) We can do this! No checking out today . . .  but tomorrow's another day, haha. Kidding, kidding.

I jogged for 22 minutes today (still can't go further than that, BAH shins, BAH) and walked for the remaining 8. Also did 10 minutes of crunching on the ab roller thingy, and boy, I'm still stuffed from it even now!

Dad brought pizza today, and if there's one weakness I have it's LEFTOVER PIZZA. (Gosh that's gross I know, but yum!) Tonight's goal - eat something else, just NOT THAT PIZZA!

Here's something STRANGE.

. . . I got checked out today by a cute guy at a service station.

Why is that strange? Because being completely honest, I haven't been checked out in YEARS. In fact, even Jase doesn't check me out anymore - because let's face it, after almost five years I suppose the novelty wears off.

Gosh it felt good. I felt smily and happy and drove home with a really good feeling in my stomach. Le sigh!

But my goal is for him to TOTALLY check me out when I step off that plane and he meets me at the airport. :)

Food was good today - and exercised for 45 minutes before collapsing into a heap. Tired girl today. Very tired girl. And wishing my EP friends were blogging more, I feel very alone lately. Sadness. Come back, ladies!

Mmmm

Well, last night's Thai food was every bit as good as I had hoped. I had chicken & veggie stirfry with boiled rice, and made that my main meal of the day - so fit well within my points balance. Woohoo!

Today I exercised for 90 minutes, doing 6miles of Walk Away the Pounds with resistance. I swear, this tape is incredible. It sounds very easy walking on the spot - but when you add in all the aerobic moves like knee lifts, side steps, kicks and kick-backs AND the resistance for upper body, it really takes it out of you. I was sweating like crazy today!

Not much to report today . . . wishing the weekend could go on and on and on.

Concert :)

Well, it was fantastic! I made a couple of decent food decisions in a tricky spot - still splurging, but well within reason! The day didn't start well, since I never got around to exercising - but I figured I'd done 90 minutes the past two days, I could spare a day. Snow Patrol were incredible, I reccomend anyone seeing them live if they get a chance!

My friend and I snacked on a small popcorn and water at the venue - that was my first good choice. Usually I'd get the standard combo of a LARGE popcorn and a COKE. Ha! Yay!

On the way home, we stopped through for a really late McDonalds dinner - I had a McChicken and passed on the chips, and we shared some nuggets as well. And considering I had eaten low calories the rest of the day, I still worked out under my limit!

This morning I exercised to make up for the splurges - I jogged for 20 minutes, walked fast pace on the treadmill for 10 minutes, and then did the 45 minutes 3mile Walk Away the Pounds tape. I think I'm actually starting to develop a teeny tiny bicep muscle from using the resistance belt. :)

It's been a week since I weighed in, but I'm sticking it out again and waiting yet another week before I weigh on in. Hope you're having a great weekend, I'm ordering in Thai food tonight. YUM!