To make sure I wasn't overreacting to yesterdays weird gain, I weighed in at the same time today and STILL over 88kgs. I actually feel bloated today.. and when I thought about it, I realised what could be a possible reason for it. Could be something to do with er, certain toilet habits or lack of them! Sadly we're all out of Metamucil, but I took some vitamin C tablets and plan on drinking lots of water/green tea tonight to see if that helps.
Doesn't help that when I weigh/look/feel bloated and overweight, I have professional family photographs booked in for tomorrow!! Fingers crossed they'll turn out alright, though I didn't actually want them booked yet - I wanted to wait. Bleh. Ah well.
Breakfast - cereal w/ light milk Recess - Cup of fruit salad in juice, tim tam (just 1) lunch - 2x white bread, 2x low fat cheese slices, grilled Snack - yoghurt w/ muesli
I'm cooking tonight - bought some lean chicken mince and I'm making a meatball recipe out of one of my WW cookbooks. Just chicken and herb meatballs with spaghetti or fettucine pasta strands. Should be interesting, the last time I made it the meatballs totally fell apart!!!
I try and stop myself from weighing on days that aren't my weigh in Monday, but I've been feeling NON healthy in the last couple of days (since the pizza/snickers monday pigout) and I was horrified to get on the scales this morning and weigh 88kgs. That's over a kg put on! Geez.
I even felt heavier running today - my shin pained me, and I felt more out of breath. I think I'm just convincing myself something is up.. but still, not the best motivation. Everyone who I've told my weight loss to gives me the look up and down, and I KNOW it isn't noticeable, but gosh it's frustrating. I've lost 8kgs and MORE, yet nothing is different?
Must not get sucked into the giving up thing.. as tempting as it is to say yep, I tried, I failed, nothing worked, boohoo, pizza. Not going to do it that way!
Hopefully in the next few days I'll start feeling better, but weigh in isn't looking good when it's still four days away.... ack.
(Couch to 5k sucked tonight. I didn't enjoy it one little bit. Boo.)
Hope your day has been great. Mine hasn't been too bad, actually. I'm longing for the weekend already.
Cereal for breakfast lately just hasn't been filling me up. Since it's turning into winter here in Australia, I'm considering switching to toast of a morning with a green tea. Milk just doesn't seem as appealing when there's frost on the lawns!
Today I ate my cereal, a low fat yoghurt at recess time, chicken & capsicum (or red/green peppers for the Americans here) with rice and a fruit juice. I even ate an apple driving home from work. I got the munchies! :) Tonight for dinner I am craving Subway, so fingers crossed I'll be able to convince my darling brother to drive out and grab me some.
(I'm feeling lazy now, and sweaty too, since I just did my 30 minute 3k walk.)
Okay, so for some reason I have been feeling completely unmotivated when it comes to eating and exercising. We know I blew it big time last night with a HUGE amount of cheese pizza for dinner, which I later followed down with 2 mini Snickers bars (ack! I know!) and I also did no exercise at all, other than walking around a wildlife park for our school excursion.
Today I was finding it so hard NOT to go crazy. It's like I was noticing foods, justifying myself about to make a bad decision, craving things like chocolates and icecream and things I don't even usually eat. It's not even that time of the month. My belly has gone haywire! I bought a summer roll type chocolate nougat bar at lunchtime to satisfy the sweet tooth craving which was about 250 calories, so worked that into my points for the day.
But then I came home and saw the Mars Bar my brother had bought for me in my junkfest last night. God, it's been tempting not to eat it. I even opened it up to sniff the chocolate. But sense came to me at last, it's sitting on his bed right now as a treat for him when he gets home. What the heck is wrong with me? Why am I wanting this stuff now? After a loss last week, too. Bleh.
In other news, I'm up to Week 4 of Couch to 5k and CRAP it's hard. This is today's run structure:
10 minute brisk walk 3 minute run 1.5 minute walk 5 minute run 2.5 minute walk 3 minute run 1.5 minute walk 5 minute run
I cannot believe I can run for 5 minute intervals now! I'm not saying it was easy, it was tempting to cut it out and just walk for a bit longer but I made myself keep going. I love the feeling of your legs going numb/tingly after a while. I also need some better breathing practice. My right side starts paining in the middle of my longer stints at running, so obviously I'm doing something wrong.
Breakfast today: half a bowl of cereal, green tea Recess: low fat yoghurt, green tea Lunch: small plate of rice noodles w/veges and chicken, coke zero
Dinner tonight? No freaking idea. Am too exhausted to think about it just yet, but we'll see.
I lost another 800g. :) Why it can't be an even kilogram is killing me. :P Am very happy!
Today we are going on an excursion to Featherdate Wildlife Park with the kids, so I'll be doing some walking and enjoying the sunshine. Hope your day is fantastic!
In the middle of all that rambling, I forgot to mention yesterday that I walked 6kms! It took me 60 minutes, which was pretty good. I felt great afterwards, but this morning woke up with a very sore backside. I must have a "hippy" kind of treadmill walk or something! :P
Today (due to stiffness) I walked again, 3kms in 30 minutes this time. It's sort of nice that I can average a 10min/1km distance. Tomorrow starts Week 4 of jogging. Eek.
I've felt queasy the last couple of days for no reason. It's sort of a strange feeling, like you feel ill but not actually sick. And it's almost a hunger pain, but the thought of eating is far, far away. (I'm not even hungry by the way, I'm eating lots of small meals and not being silly.) It's just a strange feeling. Hopefully it's just a little bug that I've caught off the kidlets, but it'd be nice for it to go away - I have another nine weeks of teaching to go this term before I can afford to get sick!
This morning I ate some cereal for breakfast, with a half a cup of coffee. Since I've run out of green tea, I made the coffee as a spur of the moment thing, drank half and tipped the rest down the sink - I knew there was a reason I wasn't a big coffee drinker. I had it in my head that I wanted to make myself an egg and cheese omelette for lunch, so went downstairs and did just that. Picked at it a bit, ate probably 1/3 of it, and tossed that out too! I'm a fussy thing today!
I've just made myself some Vitawheat crackers with vegemite and a glass of diet lemon squash. Hopefully since it's nice and bland it will tide me over until dinnertime. Funny weekend. Hope you're all have a wonderful one, and thanks heaps to everyone who stops in to leave a comment. Loving Extrapounds!
Eeee. Weigh in day tomorrow. Considering I've been doing well this week food-wise and only missed one day of exercise, I'm hoping for a small loss. As long as I'm still 87.6 or under, I will be very pleased. :)
I feel like I'm plodding along fairly well with my lifestyle change this time around. Nothing I've done has been very stressful, I rarely feel like I'm missing out on things, I'm just.. continuing. It's actually a really nice feeling, to NOT feel like I'm dieting. I would love to keep this mindset going, because I think it's working for me. Dare I say I'm even quite pleased with it all?
When the kilograms don't look like a lot, I decided to try converting them to pounds, just to see the difference. I started this particular leg of my journey at 95.6kgs (though my highest weight has been 97kgs at the beginning of the year.) 95.6kgs = roughly 210lbs. Yikes. I'm currently hovering at around 87.6kgs. In pounds? About 193.
My weight loss tally in kilograms is 8.2kgs. When I converted it? That's a loss of 17 pounds.!
I think that is amazing. It's really made me feel proud of myself. I like pounds, haha. Bloody kilograms...!! So next time I complain, someone just smack me. ;)
My next mini goal is 85kgs. That will bring me down under the 190lb mark. I'm very excited. I hope to get there by the end of May. That's being reasonable, and brings me closer and closer to my goal weight. Speaking of which, I'm not sure that 80kgs really is my goal. I chose a healthier weight than my starting weight that was actually achievable, as I didn't want to be getting disheartened by choosing a figure way, way lower. If/when I get to this goal, I'll re-evabluate. But for now? I'm feeling good.
As for fitness, I'm happy with my progress. Here is my rough weekly schedule, with some changes here and there:
Mondays - Couch to 5k training Tuesdays - Line Dancing Wednesdays - Couch to 5k training Thursdays - Brisk Walk Friday - Couch to 5k training Saturdays - Brisk Walk Sundays - Brisk Walk / C25K / Rest (depends on the day.)
Food so far today: Cereal w/ light milk Green tea w/ 2 weight watchers biscuits Bowl of scrambled eggs w/ light milk and some salt. Dinner will most likely be a roast with vegetables and potato. Yum. :)
Thanks to the sweet replies about my pet bun.. I have her companion bun Lucy to look after now and make sure she's coping. I'm just glad Bella isnt in any more pain.
Today I ate some cereal and a green tea. For lunch I had a mashed banana and brown sugar toasted sandwich. It sounds gross, but I needed comfort food and this was the least bad thing I could think of. The worst part is the brown sugar, but only 1tsp per sandwich is nothing really. Bad part? I ate a second one at about 3pm. 2tsps of sugar is worth it though, over a huge junk binge.
I also completed Week 3 of the Couch to 5k. Eek. Shins hurt lots today, have to make sure I'm warming up properly on Sunday. Week four scares me already!
