Yes here we are. A new week. When I was young, about 7 years old, once I got 99% on an English test. My only mistake? There was a question about what is the first day of the week? I wrote Monday, apparently it's Sunday. Well, for me Monday is the first day of the week and the loss of that mark for a perfect 100% did not make me change my mind.
I have decided to shift the weigh-in from Wednesday to Monday. I lost the 1kg I had gained, hip hip hurray. Originally I had opted for Wed as the official weigh in because the weekend is the worst for me so that gave me Monday & Tuesday to recuperate. However, I was becoming worse during the weekend lately as I always counted on the Mon and Tue fallback. If weigh in is on a Monday I'll be more on guard on Saturday and Sunday and slip less. Well that' s the theory anyway. We'll test it for these couple of weeks and see if there is any psychological (and numerical) difference.
Today I got delivered with a beautiful size 12 dress. Now I'm not a size 12. I am a size 14 now (for some time I was hovering in the 16). Needles to say it did not zip up. But mark my words, it WILL zip up all the way - maybe not in April or May but I'll wear it this Summer for sure. Ironically the person who sold it on e-bay did so because she thought she would eventually shrink into it but didn't.
I'm a bit miffed at the moment. I dropped my purse and I overran it with my car. I had my pen drive in it and it's not working now . The problem is that I have some files of which I don't have a back-up. Still it could be worse. At the time, on Saturday, I thought I had lost the purse and I had just purchased 2 VIP Bryan Adams tickets which cost a fortune for myself and my sister-in-law. So better the pen drive than the tickets and credit cards in it.
Have a good week my dears and may it be blessed with lots of lost weight in lbs and kg.
everyone. May the joy and the miracle of the Risen Lord fill you and your family with peace and love.
I woke up this morning, went to early mass and then went on a 1hr 20mins walk. I wore my knee support and it felt better. I so needed this walk after yesterday's sumptuous dinner. I tell you, the dessert alone, a dark chocolate mousse which had about 4 layers of different types of chocolate, must have had a zillion calories.
I was really happy yesterday cause I wore a pair of black pants for the first time. When I had bought them a couple of months back I went in the shop, got these size 14s on the small side *(don't you find that sizes differ from one shop to another) and while I managed to close them I had flesh bulging out, there was no way I was going to wear them. I asked for a size 16 but since they were on sale they had run out of 16s so I got the 14s anyway hoping I would shrink into them. And I did!!!!! Yesterday I wore them, admittingly still a close fit but nothing bulging out. A couple of pounds less they will be perfect. I am posting the pic of what I wore yesterday to show off a bit I admit.
After dinner, around midnight and a bit drunk, I did the mistake of coming on ebay and bye bye the 2 week self-imposed ban - bought three items - a PS2 game for my nephew, and 2 jewellery sets that would make perfect presents for a cousin and a friend. Now I got them at really good prices and I should save them for Christmas presents (once I bought a Christmas present way back in February) but I always find myself giving them before then. So we'll see.
For all of you who are adding friends like crazy here in EP, read Deserve Better's 2nd April blog on how to use Google Reader - it saves Lots of time while keeping one on track with what others are writing.
It's Good Friday. We are pretty religious in this country. I consider myself spiritual though I have restarted attending mass on Sundays this year. One of the rules of the house is no meat is eaten on Good Friday. So instead today we had delicious snails baked in the oven. Snails apparently classify as vegetable not meat. I'm not sure there was any sacrifice involved as I much rather eat snails than meat and we hadn't had it for ages.
Two days without chocolate. However, today I got given a HUGE box of BACI. This is the biggest box you can get on the market. And here I was thinking I was safe cause I had gotten rid of the Ferrero Rocher by eating them!!! Still I'm less a Bace enthusiast than a Ferrero Rocher and I think I'll take it Monday to work and offer it to students as they leave their exams.
Tomorrow I shall try and walk some good distance. I will wear my knee support since I'm trying for a long distane walk . We'll see how it feels. Now I'm off to play soccer on the playstation with my nephew. A cool Aunt's job is never done!! I have added a picture of one of my nephews and my niece. The other nephew was unavailable yesterday morning.
Well today I had to log in my 1kg gain. So now I'm up to 73kg. Was expecting it as I've been eating chocolate like there is no tomorrow.
My blog title is 'Change of plans' because before this knee crisis I had planned to be 69kg by the end of the month. Now that obviously has changed. I honestly have no idea where I'll be by the end of the month. For now I think I'll take it week by week. By Wednesday next week I want to be 72kg again. Seeing the way I'm eating and my self-discipline re: food right now I think it will be a miracle if I'm 71kg by the end of the month. At least my chocolate mania has gotten rid of the ferrero rocher. They have disappeared now because I have eaten them. Hopefully, no-one will buy me another one.
I have included my full length photo in my blog - taken yesterday by my wonderful nephew Karl. He's like a son to me as are my other nephew and niece - I love them to bits and am forever taken them out to films, pizzas, playmobil, etc... I even took this particular nephew, Karl, to EuroDisney as a present for his Confirmation. Very expensive gift but we had so much fun!!! Once the other two are older, God willing, I will treat them to a trip abroad as well. I firmly belief we should broaden our horizons as much as possible especially seeing that we, in particular, live on a small island. I admit, EuroDisney is not the most cultural place to start my nephew off with, but did I mention it was REALLY FUN?
Am on holidays right now but still have exam invigilation from 3 to 8:30pm nearly daily with just fri,Sat and Sun off then same hours MOn, Tue, Wed. It's a loooooong time and I have to be careful. In a week I have bought 11 items on e-bay and while they turned out really cheap, the postage puts the cost up. It is still worth the purchase but it is very easy to pay with paypal and then get the shock when looking at the VISA account. So I have banned myself from buying more things on ebay until my next pay-cheque which is in 2 weeks time!!!!! Well let me tell you having 5.5 hours computer exam invigilation infront of a computer looking at ebay without being able to buy is just like having tons of ferrero rocher in front of you and not being able to eat them!!!
Well that's all from me now. Have a good day to everyone.
for being so supportive in my Monday post. My knee is as it is - after 4 operations I know I cannot even run. Most of the time I accept it and am Ok with it in the knowledge that it could be worse. I also find myself accepting that there will be days when it will feel worse. But on other days like Monday I don't accept it at all and find myself yearning to run and jump and do all the things I did before. I also find myself angry at all those people who abuse their body and do not take care of it and yet they have perfect knees and they can run (although they don't) and jump. Well, I want to do an MRI to know exactly what is wrong on the inside. I am aware that this might be all I can do in the sense that my knee has already undergone 4 operations and a 5th one might be too traumatic for my knee and for myself.
On the 6th may there is a 10km walk and I want to do it so much it's unreasonable. I think it's not so much the walk per se that I want to do but I want to know if i'm still able to train for something and do it. It's a stupid walk and an even more stupid and stubborn thing for me to decide to do but it's like I NEED to do this for myself. I'm probably not making any sense, sorry.
I have been reading some of your blogs and it seems I'm on the same wavelength like some of you in that I'm finding it incredibly hard to stick to the 'good' food and stay away from the 'bad'. It's just that the 'bad' is so damn delicious (excuse the term)
Btw I have gained 1 kg this week - 2 lbs - expected. But my heart is so much not into it at the moment. Still for next week at least I'll try maintaining. We'll see - Have a good mid-week everyone and thanks again.
thank you all for your super encouragement about my mere 1.3km fun run. That is so kind of you. I had really had fun yesterday and, as I wrote, I was contemplating doing the 10km walk in May.
Well, now I feel like crying. My knee today has started to play up and even walking is bringing discomfort. I feel upset and angry. Upset because I was Malta's national team volleyball captain for years, training every day, running, jumping, doing everything, always active and now today, when I start seeing some light of some sort of activity, my knee starts playing up again. Angry cause I really took good care of it. I did everything the doctors said to do. This last operation was a major mess for which I paid around 2000 dollars. And 2years on I'm still struggling as ever. I'll be phoning to have an appointment with my surgeon once I post this - I just want an MRI - I want to know what's inside that is making it so bad. I guess it could be worse and some people do have it worse - at least I'm walking, till now. I dread to think about the future. And all this does not compare with deeper sorrows that other people are facing. In that way I feel selfish in feeling so sad about this thing. But these last two years, since I have lost the joy of at least running and living in fear of waking up and not being able to walk on my leg, well, it's as if it's been the death of the active me who used to run 10k like it was nothing and used to train from 9-11pm like there was no tomorrow. Well tomorrow apparently is here and it's not fun.
Sorry about being such a downer for this post. But I need so much to get this off my chest and I feel guilty in troubling my immediate family with it. I'll just give up my walking for a few days and see how my knee feels. Take care.
Got an early call this morning from my brother, asking me if I'd be willing to take my niece to a fun run as he couldn't take her. I'm a kind person so I complied. My niece is 7 years old and she had this 1.3km fun run. We went, we didn't meet her friend with whom she was supposed to run and so I ran with her. Thank God I wore my jogging shoes though I was in jeans!!!! As those who take the pains of reading my blog know I cannot run because of my knee but I managed to jog this little distance. It was actually fun,w hich makes sense seeing it was a FUN run.
There is now another fun run on the 6th May. I might try the 10Km walk actually cause if you do that you get a t-shirt apart from the medal and goodies bag. The fun run (1km this time) only get teh medal and goodies bag. Well, that is not really the reason. It would be just good exercise as well. We'll see.
For those who, in reading my morning Saturday post, wondered at my ferrero rocher a day discipline, stop wondering. I got an 'I must eat' craze around 5pm. I recognize these craves where my body just needs to eat for some time although I am in control enough to decide what while recognizing my body's immediate need. Well, yesterday it was the turn of 6 ferrero rochers (=450 cals) in a row. They were delicious. I refuse to feel guilty about it since it can't be taken back and the last such craze was 2 weeks ago. Still if I'm to see that under 70kg result by the end of April, I MUST make sacrifices. However, yesterday I felt like an alcoholic who takes one drink thinking it will be the only one and then just continues to down one after the other. Well, there is still half a box left which means I did not go for it all. It also means that the continuous temptation is still there - I just wish the others would just eat them. Some might tell me I could throw them away but for the life of me I would NEVER be able to throw away something so deliciously good. It would go against my very own nature.
everyone, still Saturday morning here in Malta - today is a public holiday since we celebrate Freedom Day. We don't really like it when it falls on a Saturday since we loose an extra free day during the weekend. Still it's the weekend so we rejoice.
Yesterday was supposed to go to walk but did not manage to. However this morning, met with my friend David and walked a nice 1hr 15mins on the beach. I do feel this walking is paying off so I try to keep it up. Work does not allow me to do so very often but tomorrow I'll go again and next week we start a week long Easter break from Wednesday to Wednesday and I'll try to make it every day. I will still have to work in the afternoons til 8pm since we have computer exams but I will be able to manage it first thing in the morning. Getting less that 70kg (153lbs) is really looking like an achievable task now and I'm looking forward to see a 6 as one of the figures on my scales!!Right now I'm at 72kg (158lbs).
Thanks all for posting - have kept my water challenge this week and the system I have devised is working well for me in getting 2 glasses before work, 2 glasses at work, 2 glasses before afternoon work if i have it and then 2 glasses again dinner time. It doesn't feel like so much an effort.
Nothing much planned for the weekend. Still don't know what we're doing this evening. I need to get a little bit more into socialising but that means clubs and bars and not drinking as much alcohol as before and watching theappetizers I eat limit the fun so to speak. It is amazing how drinking and eating forms part of our social life. Might go watch a film and then go for a glass of wine later. Well, I've been really good food wise this week so I'm not ruining it these two days though I will make way for my one single Ferrero Rocher a day.
Yes you can. Shelley brought it up in her comment and it's true. You have to be careful although the incidence of water overdose are not common. Here is what I found:
Overhydration occurs when the body takes in more water than it loses. The result is too much water and not enough sodium. Thus, overhydration generally results in low sodium levels in the blood (hyponatremia. Usually, drinking large amounts of water does not cause overhydration if the pituitary gland, kidneys, liver, and heart are functioning normally. To exceed the body's ability to excrete water, an adult with normal kidney function would have to drink more than 2 gallons of water a day on a regular basis.
A few months back I had read about a 30 guy who was really fit and had been running. He drank too much water at one go his sodium levels went down suddently. Long story short - he died. In upping our water intake please make sure you spread the water throughout the day and not drink a litre of water at one go at 8:30pm to make sure you get what you intended to get.
Yesterday started experimenting with E-bay. I know it has been around for a loooooooooong time and actually i have bought from it through a friend but it was only this week that I actually tried my hand at it. So I bought an MP4/MP3 8GB thing which I 'm looking forward to receive and use as my current MP3 is lost. Must say e-bay is very addictive and one has to be careful as it's easy to bid and go overboard.
no more 74kg on my scales. This morning, my official weighin (sound of drums).....72kg. That is a 2kg loss (4.409lbs). Very very happy about that. I hadnt' posted a loss in 3 weeks!!!! I know I have not lost 4lbs in a week and it must be an accumulation of the weight loss over the 3 weeks. And I'm really happy with that (have I said this already?) If I manage to keep up an average of 1lb a week I can see the sixties by end of April which is my next goal.
I bought a book from a floating bookshop (the ship Logos II) which comes to Malta every 2 years or so. It's about Nutrition and one of the motto that it makes is - If at first I fail at succeess, I will try, try and try. Now I don't go round saying that to myself as I would feel like an idiot but it comes to mind at times. I do feel I have been rewarded for my persistance and patience so far.
It is funny that I'm so thrilled about the 72kg mark. When I was actively playing volleyball I was always hovering between 69-71kg - always the heaviest in the team by far but still healthy. Then when I was 30 I settled at 72kg, at 31 I settled at 75kg - I would always go down a couple of kilos but settle back up again - now at 32 I realized I was settling at 77kg. It was like every year I was putting on 2kg and they were staying. And that is the trend I am looking at breaking. 72kg was my settling weight 2 years ago. Well I'm not settling anymore.
This morning one of the items onthe news was that Donatella Versace's daughter is suffering from anorexia. It must have been a known secret as these last few years every photo of the poor girl showed her to be a skeleton. How tough it must be to grow up in such an image obsessed world where you're surrounded by skin thin models as your mother designs for them, being always in the limelight and under scrutiny, having to live up to the expectations of being a fashion icon's daughter. Poor girl. My heart goes out to her and her family. And it should emphasize the problem of how youths and young adults are trying to emulate the models of the fashion industry in such a way as to get them to practically kill themselves through lack of nutrition. Other shows should follow the example of Madrid in banning models with a BMI of less than 18. Some complained that these young girls can be naturally thin - but I fail to see how a young girl in development can naturally be under 18 BMI unless she is consciously making a great effort to be a living skeleton walking.
Sorry for going on like this on this particular issue but it is something I feel very strongly about. We so need healthier role models like the present Tyra Banks figure and the lovely talented Jennifer Hudson.
The water challenge is in day 3 and it's not so tough to keep though the loo and myself have been meeting more often these last two days. Yesterday I did not go for a walk as my knees were bothering me and I try to listen to my body that way. Today I will try and fit in some walking in the afternoon. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays are my crazy days as I work mornings and evenings.
Well, thank you for your comments. I really appreciate your input and look forward to what you have to say both in my blog and in yours.
