week three and 1.7 kilos lost

Hi All,

This is so hard to keep up, I spend so much time either at the gym, packing my gym back, researching recipes, meal planning, calorie counting and then shopping and endless hours cooking, I don't have my energy left for my poor old blog.

I have lost 1.7 kilos so far, I'm a bit dissapointed, but will work harder this week.  I am exercising well 5 days a week, but need to do 6 days.  My Basal Metabolic Rate is only 1440, and with ten kilos to go, it is only going to get lower, so this means that if I eat the 1200 calories per day, I only have a deficit of 220, so I really need to eat about 1000.

This does scare me though, what will it be by the time I have lost my weight? I'll be eating 1200 calories just to maintain as I'm so short! ripped off!  It makes me angry though when you read in passing things like 'women need 1800 calories a day to maintain a healthy weight' etc I can't remember where I have read things like that, but I know they are out there, and so I wonder how many short woman are gaining weight, thinking they are doing the right thing?

Anyway, off I go to continue my slow journey.

its been a while...

So, I now see why other 12wbter's haven't kept up with their blogs! busy busy busy.

I have finished all the pre season tasks and started 'properly' yesterday.  I did my normal body pump class at lunch, and today at lunch will do Michelle's first cardio workout.

Oh and I'm wearing size 12 pants right now!

A great work out today

I had a great work out today. I did pump class, and then fifteen minutes on the cross trainer. I had those good endorphins going, and only left as i had to go back to work. I think i will use the cross trainer a lot during this challenge. The treadmill seems to upset my hip which is dissapointing.

Ill go back tomorrow and i cant wait for the challenge to start in a week. I have already met my first goal, to fit into size 12 pants before it starts, one more week and i will be able to wear them to work.

The difference between a treat and falling off the wagon?

Today we went out to lunch at grilld. Then we bought some groceries and i bought a 45 gram dark choc bar to share with my husband.

I am not sure if this is bad or not...i havn't started the challenge yet, but even then we are allowed a treat meal once a week.

I actually feel a bit yuck, i think my burger had a lot of salt...

Readers: what are your thoughts? Ok treat, or did i crack?

stupid pants fell down

I quit today cause my pants fell down.

Am on my way now to get new pants. I'd better not have to pay $80 for a new pair!

not a good morning, but I'll JFDI

Why oh why after a week of good eating as per crunch time (except two nights of weight watchers recipe pizza) and 3 great gym sessions do the stupid frigging scales say I've gained 100 grams.  Talk about de motivating.

No more weight watchers pizza's for me - maybe its the Lebanese bread at dinner time or something? Or maybe my combined breakfast, lunch and dinner had to many carbs in it? oats, pumpkin soup and then Lebanese pizza?

Maybe last week I was really dehydrated so the result wasn't 'real'? Maybe since being back at pump I've gained muscle?

All I know is I want that stupid number to go down.  This is what happens in the past, I look on a friday and see that I've not lost much weight yet and say 'well what does it matter if I have a ...' and I eat loosely on the weekend and then get back to being strict on the monday.  I will not eat anything not approved by Michelle this weekend. There I've said it, now I'll stick to it.

Am meeting friends from out of town at a bakery tomorrow.  A BAKERY.  I didn't have the heart to suggest somewhere else as I didn't want to be a pain in the ass.  I hope they serve coffee! otherwise I'll eat nothing and watch my son eat a lamington. yay. oh can you hear the sarcasm in that yay?

My first run today

Hi,

Well today I started C25K. I ran at 9km/h and then finished it off at 10km/h! then I stayed and did the bike and rower until I hit 560 calories burnt.

Also, I liked 'Creme Brulee' flavour tea from T2.  It gets me to 3pm so I can have my snack, and it smells divine.

Green curry chicken and back to the gym

Well we tried the green curry chicken. After having done a cooking course in thailand i was dubious...its great! I cooked double and we had left overs tonight. I even liked the eggplant.

I went back to the gym today after a month off with bronchitis. I did pump and halved my weights. I could have had more on the bar so will go to 3/4's of normal weight on thursday. I stayed behind and did ankilometre on the rower and a little wqlk until i hit 560 calories.

Tomorrow is a rest day and im going to investigate the tea shop...

Oh oats...

A giant steaming pile of blandness even wih my stewed apple. I just couldnt do it.

Crunch time meatloaf

Mish's meatloaf is really yum and filling. Hard to beleive dinner was only 265 calories!

I am satisfied enough that i wont be ruining it with one of the cupcakes i baked for tomorrow's morning tea.

(baked as to only have one and send the rest home with friends before the program starts instead of chucking in the bin, and as my treat meal)

My fridge is full of fresh healthy foods!

So yesterday i sat down and planned the family meals and snacks for the week. Then this morning we went to the fruit and veggie shop, then the supermarket and bought all our nice ingredients. While i was in the veg shop it smelt so good and reminded me of something. When i was pregnant i had a great sense of smell and was horrified to find that food courts smelt like garbage. Real garbage. They must have lots of waste just out of sight or something. In comparison the fruit shop smelt super fresh and lovely.

Our shopping came out slightly cheaper than normal so that was a bonus. This week we will be having oats with home stewed apple, weetbix, toast with tomato, pumpkin soup, sandwiches, salad, green curry, meatloaf, pizzas and a prawn stir fry.

I ate a crap lunch and then 5 easter eggs

I ate choc at work because it was there and I wasn't strong enough to not say no the first time due to an unsatisfying lunch.  I then got the taste of choc going and went back for seconds.

Lessons: Eat a better lunch, say no, and don't eat when I am bored - it only solves the problem for 30 seconds and leaves me feeling bad all day.

Cottage Cheese is not for me...

I was so motivated to get going I bought the ingredients for my first recipe to try. Cottage cheese with chives and tomato on toast.  Yuck :o( I only put a small amount of cottage cheese on, not the 125grams Mish suggests, and I didn't like it.  I made myself eat the first piece of toast, but had the second without the cottage cheese.  I might try philli cheese instead.

I'm also dubious about oats cooked with water and not milk...

I bought the crunch time cookbook today...

I think i am as nervous about the cooking as i am about the exercise. What it i never like lasagne again? What if cheesecake makes me feel sick because it is too rich...what do healthy people eat for a special meal out? I know these are stupid thoughts, but i genuinely wonder...

Anyway, in my first week of pre season, i have picked the following to try:

Cottage cheese and tomato on toast, this i am most nervous about, as cottage cheese looks gross.

Smoked salmon and avo wrap

Chick pea baby beet and fetta salad

Thai green curry, no rice...will be a bit weird, more like a green curry soup?

Meatloaf, i really hope oliver likes this one.

I am pleased with the snacks, a wholemeal crumpet with whole fruit jam, yum. But what is whole fruit jam...

I am going to do this shopping at the veg shop and the butcher. If i am going to make so much effort with food and exercise i may as well buy it from its source and in season etc. Ill update on the recipes later, ill cook them on the weekend.

Bye.

I signed up today...

Hi,

Im not sure if anyone other than me will read this, but i thought id give it a go. We had a belated easter today, that will be my last chocolate for a good while i imagine. I then signed up for round two of the 12wbt. I cant wait to be healthy and fit and slim. I am very nervous about this program, i work full time, and have a toddler so i know it will be hard.

But i shall give myself over to the process, my husband is supportive, so that should go a long way with my ability to fit stuff in.

I am just getting over a bout of bronchitis, hopefully i can get back to my thursday pump class this week - it is my favourite, and i have been absent now for three weeks and can really feel the difference, both strength wise, and mentally too.

Bye for now.