My pet rabbit Bella has been sick for the last two weeks, I've been treating her with medicine here at home and have been to the vet three times in two weeks (costing a pretty penny). She's still not well.. meaning tomorrow she'll be heading in for exploratory surgery to try and figure out what is causing her puffy face, most likely something to do with her inner teeth that we can't see. Suffice it to say, I've been pretty miserable all day knowing that she'll be in the vets tomorrow.. bunnies don't go well with surgery. Please keep my sweet rabbit in your thoughts over the next few days!
Instead of eating, eating, eating to try and make myself feel better, I've been extra good. I recieved a compliment today from my partner's dad (who is pleasantly oblivious on most occassions, and I mean that in a nice way, he really is lovely!) who said "gee, you've lost a lot of weight!" I felt really good afterwards, except for the frustration that the clothing STILL doesn't fit differently! I am being very patient, which is unlike my personality at all. ;)
I just complete training #2 of week 3 of C25K. It's certainly not easy, this jogging business. If it's not my shins that bother me, it's trying to figure out the best way to pace my breathing through the three minute stints. I really am an amateur at this running business! One day at a time...
Breakfast: Cereal w/ skim milk Lunch: Sandwich on brown bread w/ roast beef Snack: WW apple bar, green tea and one diet chocolate biscuit (got those guilty feelings gone, and for less than one WW point! bonus!)
Dinner will likely be an easy one tonight as everyone's heading out and I don't feel up for cooking much. I also made some low sugar jelly for dessert later. Yum.
Just another day here.... You'll have to excuse me blogging an awful lot lately, but I just like to see in writing what good things (or naughty things!) I've done. Makes things seem very worthwhile even if the scales/dress sizes don't change.
Breakfast: Cereal w/ light milk Snack: Low fat yoghurt and WW apple bar. Lunch: 6 vitawheats w/ vegemite, Coke Zero can Dinner: Bread roll w/ skinfree chicken and a Diet coke.
Tonight was line dancing night !!! 6.30 to 8.45, dance dance dance. Loved it, had a ball. Especially the faster ones, hop, kick, jump, step.. good fun without the boringness of gym! :)
Nothing super exciting to report today. Hope yours was fantastic!
I was SO proud of myself today! At school we had our staff only development day (the kidlets come back tomorrow!) and that basically equals a huge morning tea and lunch buffet that the social club provides. Generally I use a boring day full of meetings as justification to snack, but I was REALLY good! Here's my food so far:
*Breakfast was 3 x ultra thin rice cakes w/ light cottage cheese (only 75cals each, love them!) *Morning tea was 1 x weight watchers apple bar and 1 x low fat yoghurt (while everyone was eating cakes and biscuits and slices!) *Lunch was 2 x pieces of wholemeal & grain bread w/ two ultra thin slices of devon and 2 x rockmelon slices. *Afternoon snack was 6 x vitawheat crackers w/ vegemite.
Ultra thin is my word of the day !!! Lots of small meals, all healthy, all filling. I love being back at school! Routines are lovely. :)
I am also weirded out at the moment, since I was dreading today's exercise really quite horribly. I'm just beginning week 3 of my Couch to 5k training, and it starts increasing the bouts of running this time. I was terrified my shins wouldn't hold up, or my breathing wouldn't let me complete it. But I did it!
13 minutes of brisk walking for a warm up. (Supposed to be 5, but I increased it to 10 for my shin splints and then ended up walking a wee bit further because a favourite song came on my Ipod!) (2 minute pause for some shin stretching) 90 seconds of brisk walking. 90 seconds of running. 3 minutes of brisk walking. 3 minutes of running. 90 seconds of brisk walking. 90 seconds of running. 3 minutes of brisk walking. 3 minutes of running. 90 seconds of brisk walking. 90 seconds of running. (I wasn't meant to do this last jog, but I was feeling pumped so did a little extra.)
I know it's not much in the scheme of things, but my heart was pounding, I pushed through the laziness, and I came off alive! And feeling great! Just walked up the stairs and was puffing it all out, telling mum she should start the programme. Weight loss aside, running is something I never thought I'd do. Fingers crossed I keep on enjoying it, and managing to get through the longer runs without hurting my shins.
Sorry to blather, I'm excited. And tonight, we're heading off to a birthday dinner out at a restaurant for my brother. I'm looking forward to a very nice gourmet meal, with no cheap and nasty junk food options, just special YUMMY food.
Alright, yummy dinner all complete. I ate a small serve of beef voulezvant (spelling?) for an entree, followed by chicken w/ marsala sauce (scraped off, a bit too heavy for me) and I followed it with half of a miniature apple pie, gave away the icecream. Also had a diet coke with dinner too. YUM. It was perfect. Good night all!
I've woken up this morning to recieve this beautiful number on the scale. Also, one of my newer bras I had to do up all the way to the inside clasp, because it was just too big for me. Sadly, that's the only article of clothing that has noticed a different, but WOW!
There's nothing better than motivation on a Monday morning!
After relaxing with two weeks off work, I'm back on tomorrow as term 2 starts for my class of Year 2 kidlets. (I'm a primary school teacher.) In a way, I'm not looking forward to going back - work?! Ack!? :P But in a way, I'm looking forward to routine.
When I have routines in place, I'm less likely to fail. I get up at a certain time, I pack food for my day and can only eat at certain times, I take work home with me and focus on finishing that off, I squish in exercise when I get home (no excuses!) and I eat dinner, and flop into bed exhausted.
It's the times when I'm alone, or unmotivated, or procrastinating, that I turn to food. By the end of Term 2, I'm hoping to get to 80kgs, my goal. That's almost three months, which I think is achievable! :)
This morning I walked for 30 minutes.
Breakfast: Lowfat yoghurt, Weight Watchers apple bar. Lunch: Small portion of leftover pasta bake. Dinner: Chicken breast and veggies. (About to go cook now!)
Random outbursts aside, I'm feeling much better now. I did my last CT5K for Week 2, and I managed to do it fairly well. I warm up for 10 minutes for my shins, then straight onto 20 minutes of jog/walk. Next week should be a challenge.
Then I went outside and got crazy with some cleaning - my rabbit hutch was filthy, and needed a good scrubbing. That took about twenty minutes, and it's much shinier now. Excellent.
Then I followed my busy afternoon with a nice long shower, including a new shower exfoliater that smells divine! It's just an Avon one, smells like sugar sweetness. YUM.
(And dare I mention that I hopped on the scales and read 87.8 - 88.0kgs just before my shower?) So not right, considering the junk I ate.
Not sure what's on for dinner tonight. I might make something from one of the old Weight Watchers cookbooks since Jase is coming over, and Mum has declined cooking for the evening! :)
God, I just did it again. Ate shit for lunch and feel horrible straight after. Bloody KFC. I'm an idiot. I ended up tossing out half the chips and drink, and eating 6 nuggets, but not the point.
Why do I do this to sabotage myself? Why can't I just use my brain? I KNOW what is right and what is wrong, so why can't I just say no?
Thoroughly disappointed, and I'm going to go run now to make myself feel better. TOTALLY NOT WORTH IT.
I hope the scales put me as having a gain on Monday. This week has been shocking. :(
Exercised this morning? Check. Ate Breakfast? Crap. No. Green tea and then I just forgot. Lunch? 2x Wholemeal Bread, leftover roast beef. Snack? Icecream x3 scoops (about 250 calories!) Dinner? Plain pasta w/tomato sauce and light cheese.
I actually made a Lean Cuisine meal for dinner, but the smell of it made my stomach turn so I tossed it out and made my own instead. It was Beef Stroganoff with Pasta, and it just wasn't.. nice. A bit wasteful, but what's the point in eating things you don't actually enjoy?
Tomorrow I finish off my Couch to 5K week 2 training. I also booked in my laser eye surgery for May 11th - which means I'll be out of commission exercise wise for 5 days after surgery. I can still eat well in those days though.. I'm excited, but a little nervous too. :)
Woke up early this morning, had a nice glass of low fat milk and did my Couch to 5K Week 2 training session 2. (Jogging 90 seconds, walking 120 seconds.) Went well, shins paining a little less each time as long as I do my 10 minutes warm-up properly.
Had to go in and do some holiday school-work, ate a low fat yoghurt, a Weight Watchers snack bar and some Vitawheats with Vegemite.
The plan WAS going to include going to the gym with my mum tonight, however we ended up staying home instead - I feel good since I did my fitness this morning anyway. Tomorrow, perhaps.
Dinner was a sandwich with some leftover roasted beef. I'm about to top the day off with a few scoops of low fat icecream, because I'm a fair few calories/points under, and I'd like to keep them up.
It feels good to be successful again at having a good day's eating paired with exercise. How did your day go?
Good news is that after a couple of hours poking and prodding my eyes, I qualify for laser surgery! I will be booking a time in the next few weeks to get it done - which fingers crossed, will all go smoothly.
Bad news is that I willingly ate like crap today AND didn't get to exercise. Since it was my choice to eat badly, I am absolutely at fault - it just means that tomorrow is right back on track. I'm all excused out lately, and I don't want to go breaking habits quickly like I have in the past.
I have lost over 5kgs, I am exercising practically every day - now it's time to get back on track. These are huge differences between me and my lifestyle NOW and me and my lifestyle six months ago. No excuses. Back on with it tomorrow. (I even have my day all meal planned out to help!) :)
