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).
Monday, November 28, 2011
Week 12
Another loss of 600gms this week. Total now 14.4kgs. Not sure if it is finally slowing down or if it is related to having a bigger variety of foods and trying different things, but either way, I'd be happy with and ongoing 600gms per week loss. I'm now just exactly that much away from my 15kgs by Christmas goal, so if I can pull that off this week (3 weeks ahead of schedule), I'll be stoked. Then I can look at my next interim goal.
One downside of weight loss is the clothing issues. 3-4 months back I finally gave in to my extra weight and bought some much needed clothes. By 8-9kgs down, they no longer fit (in a good way), so I was back to needing some new clothes, but not wanting to go and buy some knowing they would also only fit for a couple of months. I was however delighted to find that I could fit some clothes in the back of my wardrobe that I hadn't worn for a long time. This weekend I was trying to find something to wear and found that even some of the clothes I just got back into are now also too big. Yes it's a good thing really, but darn annoying too, as there is still no sense in really going and buying anything decent until I'm closer to my goal weight, especially when money is already tight. I will go get a couple of cheap tops to tide me over though, as I seem to have enough pants to carry me through for a while.
One downside of weight loss is the clothing issues. 3-4 months back I finally gave in to my extra weight and bought some much needed clothes. By 8-9kgs down, they no longer fit (in a good way), so I was back to needing some new clothes, but not wanting to go and buy some knowing they would also only fit for a couple of months. I was however delighted to find that I could fit some clothes in the back of my wardrobe that I hadn't worn for a long time. This weekend I was trying to find something to wear and found that even some of the clothes I just got back into are now also too big. Yes it's a good thing really, but darn annoying too, as there is still no sense in really going and buying anything decent until I'm closer to my goal weight, especially when money is already tight. I will go get a couple of cheap tops to tide me over though, as I seem to have enough pants to carry me through for a while.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Weeks 10 & 11
Week 9 was a pretty poor week, so I did my usual in week 10 and tried to make up for it. More exercise and better eating - 1.5kgs, so was happy with that.
Week 11 was so-so. Was trying different foods and also let a few of my old triggers back in - mainly -waiting till I'm so hungry to eat that I eat too much or eat the wrong things. But as soon as I had done it, I realised and tried to correct myself for the rest of the day. Lost 600gms.
Total now is 13.8, just 1.2 off my goal of 15kgs by Christmas, which is exactly 4 weeks and 2 days away, however so far this week have lost ZIP! But, I have been having a little bit of this and a little bit of that and it is surprising how quickly it all adds up. On Wednesday I sat down after dinner and thought back through my day and what I had eaten. Definitely not that bad considering what I would previously have eaten, but trying one of the blueberry muffins right out of the oven and trying the new rice thins and having a scoop of the ice cream (even thought it was low fat), all on top of my regular meals and snacks, without making allowances or changes was actually about another 1000kjls for the day. But, I keep reminding myself that even 1 bad day, or a slack week doesn't end the weight loss regime and that overall I am healthier and just need to keep going.
Too many times we have a bad day and think Oh, I've just blown my diet, but in reality, it's just a little bump. A good way to look at it is this - draw a grid/table 7 columns across with 16 rows down (or roughly how many hours you are awake for each day). Each column represents a day of the week, each box represents an hour in the day. For each hour you are on track, or eating what you should be (or not eating - which means you are still on plan), colour the box green. when you go right off the rails and eat outside the plan, colour the box red, then just move on and try to keep on track. At the end of the week, there may be the odd red box here and there, but overall you will see that most of the time you are on track, so just stick with it.
Week 11 was so-so. Was trying different foods and also let a few of my old triggers back in - mainly -waiting till I'm so hungry to eat that I eat too much or eat the wrong things. But as soon as I had done it, I realised and tried to correct myself for the rest of the day. Lost 600gms.
Total now is 13.8, just 1.2 off my goal of 15kgs by Christmas, which is exactly 4 weeks and 2 days away, however so far this week have lost ZIP! But, I have been having a little bit of this and a little bit of that and it is surprising how quickly it all adds up. On Wednesday I sat down after dinner and thought back through my day and what I had eaten. Definitely not that bad considering what I would previously have eaten, but trying one of the blueberry muffins right out of the oven and trying the new rice thins and having a scoop of the ice cream (even thought it was low fat), all on top of my regular meals and snacks, without making allowances or changes was actually about another 1000kjls for the day. But, I keep reminding myself that even 1 bad day, or a slack week doesn't end the weight loss regime and that overall I am healthier and just need to keep going.
Too many times we have a bad day and think Oh, I've just blown my diet, but in reality, it's just a little bump. A good way to look at it is this - draw a grid/table 7 columns across with 16 rows down (or roughly how many hours you are awake for each day). Each column represents a day of the week, each box represents an hour in the day. For each hour you are on track, or eating what you should be (or not eating - which means you are still on plan), colour the box green. when you go right off the rails and eat outside the plan, colour the box red, then just move on and try to keep on track. At the end of the week, there may be the odd red box here and there, but overall you will see that most of the time you are on track, so just stick with it.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Week 9
Really not a lot to rave about this week - seriously - 100gms!!! Yes it's still a loss, but it could have been so much better. I reverted back to some old style actions and thinking this week and it wasn't good.
- One night I was preparing dinner and was hungry, but instead of going to my trusty WW jelly or having some beetroot, I nibbled away on the grated cheese (then had to grate more for the dinner itself).
- I made chocolate brownie and was determined not to have a slice of it, but licking the spoon, then eating the crumbs from around the edge - almost the same as a slice.
- Didn't plan well for a late night out and ended up eating just about everything in sight and nothing really on my list of foods I should be eating.
- Served up one of my favourite foods and served myself a pre-diet sized portion. Was full half way through, but kept eating.
- Gave in to my son's desire for Burger King, which was fine, but had it myself, which I haven't done in 8 weeks previous. Okay, so I could have had the junior burger and a coke zero and salad later if needed, but automatically ordered (and ate) a meal with chips and a vanilla shake - all small, but still!!!
- Putting away the grocery shopping - nibbled on this and that, mainly broken biscuits, trying the new crackers, strawberries etc and then sat down for lunch, when I had in fact probably just had enough for a meal!
So one of those things in itself would not have been too bad - but all of them - in one week - not so good. Other than the timing (I see I struggled around this time last month), I have no reason as to why I was just so off track this week. I know I'll have days like that on this journey, but wasn't expecting an entire week of it. So, to start off this week, I just reminded myself why I am doing this:
- Improve my overall health - especially lower my cholesterol (and this was reinforced when dad had his heart attack a couple weeks after I started to lose weight)
- Improve my fitness - I'd love to get back into some kind of sports, or even just be able to run around with the kids again, without getting totally out of breath, red in the face and dripping with sweat after 5 minutes.
- Look better - I'm sick of the baggy hide my belly & butt clothes and long to get back into firstly; clothes I bought around my 40th when I was 20kgs lighter, then secondly; a size or two smaller again. I'm not aiming to be a size 10 or anything, just reach a comfortable, healthy weight that I can easily maintain.
- Wear a swimsuit and go swimming! Currently, I wont go to the pools or to the beach in summer. It's too damn hot and I wont wear a swimsuit or go swimming, so no point going to just sit there and sweat and I miss it and so do the kids, as they keep asking me to go with them.
- Photographs - I am always behind the camera and that is in part because I'm the one with the camera, but also a huge part of it is that I hate my photo being taken as I hate seeing photographs of me at this size. Problem is though, I'm scrapbooking my family's story and I'm not represented in the photos!
- Happiness - plain and simple, I am a happier person when I am smaller. I'm more lively,more easy going, do more and am just plain happier with myself and my life - just ask my husband - he knows.
So, I'm back to looking at where I want to be and the goals I originally set:
- 7kgs by October Scrapbook Retreat - Achieved - yay!
- 15kgs by Christmas - 11.7 gone already, so 3.3 to go in 7 weeks and as long as I get back on track, I'm confidant that I can do it. Then the final goal was:
- 30 kgs by my next birthday (July). It's 35 weeks away, so that makes it 18.3kgs in 35 weeks, which should be achievable, but I'll focus on the Christmas goal first, then perhaps set an interim goal in between to break it down a bit. Sometimes we set our goals too far out and they seem too huge to reach, so we give up, so interim goals are the way to go I believe.
Well that's it for this week - a loss, even though small, but one which could have been better, but onwards and upwards right? Here's to a better week.
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