I waited an extra day to weigh in this week, as thought I would encompass Boxing Day as well, seeing as that is usually a pretty full on food day with Bajan food available - I mean which West Indian could pass up fish cakes with hot sauce, or mum's boozy Christmas cake? Anyway post Christmas weigh in +200gms, so I'm not really even going to worry about it. We still have loads of treat foods in the house and I will have and enjoy a little every now and then till they are gone, but might ramp up the exercise a little to compensate and mainly keep on track so I can reach my goal of 20kgs by the end of January. Currently now sitting on 15.8kgs.
Was so nice getting lovely feedback from the extended family on my weight-loss. Especially those that hadn't seen me since last Christmas. Yay! Well here's to a much healthier 2012!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Weeks 14 & 15
Week 14 was a slow week and definitely hormonal one -200gms, but that's ok, cause it was still a loss. Week 15 was a bit better with a loss of -500gms, which I was very pleased with considering the wet weather meant no gardening and my busy days meant no time for a workout either, so it was a complete exercise free week. I was sure feeling it by the end of the week too. Never thought I'd miss my exercise - lol! In addition, I did quite a bit of baking for cricket and then Christmas baking with spiced cookies and of course the Christmas cake and sampled them all quite generously. We also had an early Christmas get together at mums on Saturday night, as my older sister is spending Christmas in Australia with my brother and so wanted to get together before she left. We had loads of yummy food and whilst my serving size was small, I did have pudding too and 2 glasses of bubbles, so really wasn't expecting much on the scales. Am now trying to be a bit more controlled for the rest of this week so I can relax a little on Christmas day.
Total loss is now 16kgs. I converted that to pounds and it's sounds so much more impressive, as 35 pounds. That's 35 blocks of butter stacked up OMG! As I've said before, so many of my clothes have had to go, as they just don't fit me any more, but to my surprise today, a pair of shoes is now too big for me too! I had to laugh. Was expecting to have to buy new clothes eventually, but not shoes as well!
Anyway, my new interim goal (taking Christmas into consideration) is to lose another 4kgs by the time the kids start school again, making it a grand total of 20kgs, then I'll set new goals from there till I reach my ultimate goal of 30kgs by my birthday in July.
Total loss is now 16kgs. I converted that to pounds and it's sounds so much more impressive, as 35 pounds. That's 35 blocks of butter stacked up OMG! As I've said before, so many of my clothes have had to go, as they just don't fit me any more, but to my surprise today, a pair of shoes is now too big for me too! I had to laugh. Was expecting to have to buy new clothes eventually, but not shoes as well!
Anyway, my new interim goal (taking Christmas into consideration) is to lose another 4kgs by the time the kids start school again, making it a grand total of 20kgs, then I'll set new goals from there till I reach my ultimate goal of 30kgs by my birthday in July.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Kids Cricket
Taryn was selected for North Harbour U15 rep team and over the past 3 weekends, plus yesterday (Monday), she has played her regular cricket on Saturdays (Takapuna U17 Premier Youth Grade), followed by 2 games on a Sunday and 2 games yesterday. She has loved every minute of it - even through the injuries and the tiredness at the end of each weekend.
I was the team scorer and thoroughly enjoyed that too. It was tiring at times as you have to concentrate the whole time, but I really enjoy scoring and feel a bit weird if I don't know exactly what is going on in the game now! Quite funny since I never really liked cricket that much prior to her playing, or understood the game that much prior to learning how to score. Now I am very protective over my score book!
Taryn took some great wickets - an awesome diving catch, a couple of run outs and a beautiful catch behind (wicket keeping). She also went out in the opening batsmen line up a couple of times and whist she doesn't enjoy being out there 1st, it was a good experience for her.
It's been great seeing her get so into her sports this year, returning to netball, continuing her cricket and doing so well in both. Long may it continue.
Jayden is also playing in a team this year, after filling in for Taryn's team on several occasions over the past 2 years, he decided to actually play himself. I think he's the only one in his team that hasn't played before, so it will take time for him to get up there, but glad he is finally back into sports. He has also taken some bowling wickets, 3 last week and 1 this week.
Might have to change our reward system, which is currently a chocolate bar per wicket. It's getting costly and also not too good for their health if they keep taking wickets at their current rate!
I was the team scorer and thoroughly enjoyed that too. It was tiring at times as you have to concentrate the whole time, but I really enjoy scoring and feel a bit weird if I don't know exactly what is going on in the game now! Quite funny since I never really liked cricket that much prior to her playing, or understood the game that much prior to learning how to score. Now I am very protective over my score book!
Taryn took some great wickets - an awesome diving catch, a couple of run outs and a beautiful catch behind (wicket keeping). She also went out in the opening batsmen line up a couple of times and whist she doesn't enjoy being out there 1st, it was a good experience for her.
It's been great seeing her get so into her sports this year, returning to netball, continuing her cricket and doing so well in both. Long may it continue.
Jayden is also playing in a team this year, after filling in for Taryn's team on several occasions over the past 2 years, he decided to actually play himself. I think he's the only one in his team that hasn't played before, so it will take time for him to get up there, but glad he is finally back into sports. He has also taken some bowling wickets, 3 last week and 1 this week.
Might have to change our reward system, which is currently a chocolate bar per wicket. It's getting costly and also not too good for their health if they keep taking wickets at their current rate!
Week 13
Yay! Reached my goal of 15kgs by Christmas. Lost 900gms this week and now sitting at 15.3kgs total. Am stoked because I had a very hungry week and ate loads more carbs this week - however also did a huge amount of gardening, some of it quite heavy duty, so it probably all balanced itself out. Now we head into the silly season and I wont kid myself that I will make it all the way through the Christmas holidays without the odd bump, but the aim is to keep it to a minimum - everything in moderation (including moderation itself-lol).
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