Under Construction

So my weigh-in wasn't as successful as I'd thought it would be.  Down 0.2 kg after 2 weeks of solid effort.  Trying my hardest to find a glimmer of hope, some positivity... but it's nowhere to be found.  Seems like low carb didn't work for me. I found it so hard to struck a balance, but if I was low on carbs, I was high on my fat intake, or my sugar (sugars from fruit, but sugar nonetheless) intake was too high.  Don't know what hindered my efforts, but something is still not right.

Is it another plateau?  I can't seem to think it's that... so soon after my December binge.

Did I give myself over to emotional eating this weekend?  Yes I did...

Do I have a plan for this week?  Nope, nope and nope.  Just taking it day by day

So for now my plans are under construction... have to find a better way to a new me.  That  doctor's visit is definitely on the cards - planning on taking print outs of my MFP food and exercise diary along, as well as records of my weigh-ins and ask him WHAT THE HELL?

Hopefully when I post again I will have something more positive to say...

Yummy Food

I'm a real foodie, I love good food... preparing it and eating it as well.  Hence why I'm on this journey.  With that being said, I must also add that during week days I didn't do much for myself with regards to breakfasts and lunches.  During the mornings I usually grabbed a packet of Oatso Easy, Jungle B-Fast Energy Cereal or a bowl of Oatees and milk.  Lunches usually consisted out of toast, sometimes with avo, sometimes egg, and sometimes just plain tomato.  Quick, easy and no trouble at all.

Thanks to all my inspiring friends who are following Paleo, Reboot or Low Carb, I have decided to cut out or rather curb the amount of carbs I take in - especially bread and cereals.  It's now my third week eating low carb.

Now my breakfasts consist out of scrambled egg with tomato and a huge splash of Tabasco to give my metabolism a good rev.  Lunch I'm trying to do veggies or salad with fish, chicken or lean meat.  The first week I had horribly boring tuna salad, but with time I learned to zhoosh up my lunches and still make it tasty.

My lunch yesterday and today consisted out of grilled fish and veggies.  Super yum @ just over 300 calories!  I could easily have this every day - that's how tasty it is.

Monday update

Thank goodness last week is over and done with!  So I managed to keep within my calorie allocations with me not exercising, but still I decided not to weigh-in.  I was still undecided until Saturday morning, but when I had a 5am wake-up thanks to Jamie and I pumped my body full of caffeine I decided to forego weigh-in and have a good weekend with my eating plan so that I can have a super great weigh-in this coming week.

I managed to eat as healthy possible keeping treats to the bare minimum this weekend which already is much improvement.  I did have a few treats though that included a Dom Pedro, a mini easter egg and some popcorn with a small pack of smarties... oh yes and a Twix.  Not bad for a whole weekend, not for me anyway!

So this week I'm able to start exercising again which I'm very excited about.  I missed it so much.  Plus my hubby dearest agreed to go walking with me and Jamie in the evenings, so that's a bit of extra exercise :-)  Eating-wise I'm upping my calories to about 1530 daily thanks to a terrific calorie calculator I found on www.freedieting.com, which also helped me to work out my protein, fat and carb proportions.

Yes - it's all systems go for this week!  I have to get back on track and amp things up as much I can.  Looking forward to blog a great loss this week.

Moan post

I LOL'd so hard at this pic when I saw it this morning!  Almost want to say the same when someone asks me how my week is going... it's not a good one!

Eating-wise it's going well, but haven't had the opportunity to exercise.  They started with the repair work to our house yesterday, so house full of builders, furniture covered and moved around; and no time to exercise after they leave, barely have time to get dinner sorted in time.  So I keep my eating to the minimum @ about 1300 calories with me not exercising.

Sinusses is also acting up with all the dust and paint fumes and started with a sore throat last night too... not happy with it at all.  Have been struggling with it since August last year and so tired of it by now.  The pharmacy is making a bucket load of money out of me with all the meds that I'm purchasing.  Jamie also has a snot nose... I guess the change of season is also contributing.

With that being said, I'm keeping strong!  Will try my best to turn this week around and make it a good one.

Check-in

With wobbly legs and lots of nerves I weighed in on Friday and I am so glad that I'm down 0.4 kg for last week's efforts. In the same breath I just want to add that quitting the Qlaira in the middle of the pack was such a bad move, because on Wednesday I unexpectedly started my second AF for this month which lasted until Saturday, so I think that messed me around a bit as well, so I'm hoping (and praying) that the side-effects from quitting will all disappear this week and I will have a bit of a better weigh-in on Saturday.  Not that this was a bad weigh-in, because I'm quite pleased that I'm losing... I just need to lose a tad faster now - I have a lot of catching up to do.

Something I really must work harder at is my weekend-eating.  I do try, but not hard enough and once again at the end of this past weekend I realised I could do so much better and that I allowed myself just too much treats.  I made Pina Colada's on Saturday, Dom Petro's on Sunday, had 4 slices Pizza for Friday's dinner and a Zinger burger for lunch Saturday, oh yeah Popcorn and Smarties at the movie, and I'm not even going to try to tally up the chocolate over the weekend.  I undo so much hard work by not keeping my weekend eating in check.  So I'm making a big bold note to myself - BEHAVE ON WEEKENDS!!!

This week's going to be such a challenge.  We bought our house late last year and it's a new development. The builder's did such a rush job to get us to move in over December that there's a lot of patch up work they need to do before the registration goes through... so this week my house is full of builders, and I feel like a guest in my own house.  Now I definitely won't be able to fit my lunch time work-out in for obvious reasons, and my mornings and evenings are way too hectic, so I must still figure out when to do my exercise.  Plus food preparations is a challenge too.  I just had to sneak into my kitchen when no one was in there, to quickly make myself some toast while I have a gap.  I have to plan better for tomorrow, otherwise my low carb plans isn't going to work out...

Good luck to all my fellow Fat-Busters for this week - let's kick some ass!  And...

Sorry...

So I failed my no chocolate for the week challenge... I survived Monday, I survived Tuesday... and then no more.  I need a small dose of chocolate to help me through every day, just a bite of sweet indulgence.... a 17 gram Easter Egg, or 2 blocks of dark chocolate. Without it I'll go insane.  Depriving myself on Monday and Tuesday caused me to have a double helping on Wednesday and I'm sure I'm going to have a double helping today as well - and I'm restraining myself to have no more than that!  I have to as I am weighing in tomorrow morning.  Me and hubby is having an off day tomorrow to spend some quality time together and I won't be calorie counting as we'll probably indulge in a movie and one of our favorite restaurants.  Can't wait!

Upwards and Onwards

Saturday's weigh-in was such a big F A I L ... my bathroom scale and Wii Fit didn't even agree on how much I gained.  But apparently I gained.  I'm not accepting this, and I'm not logging it, and I'm terribly sorry but that's not acceptable!  I gave it my all, had wonderful low calorie days, exercised my bum off and I know I said I expect to stand still or only show a small loss, but a gain wasn't even on my mind, because I knew how much effort I put in.  To tell you the truth, I felt like throwing a proper toddler tantrum because of this.  No man, that's just not right. Fluck it!

I realise that I've been struggling for the past couple of weeks - working hard but yet not seeing the results.  So I asked myself what changed and I realised that I've changed my pill from Yasmin to Qlaira and that quite possibly my body didn't like it.  Listen, I never believed for a minute that a pill can cause you to gain weight, I always believed that it's possible to increase your appetite, then you eat more and then you gain, but I thought it was impossible if you were on a calorie deficit and exercise program.  I went to look at Qlaira's list of side effects and there it was! Common Side Effect - Weight Gain; and Uncommon Side Effect - Increased Appetite, so there is two different scenarios.  I really think it's hindering my efforts and the reason why I struggle so much.

So as of today I'm off the pill to see if it is going to aid me in my weight-loss efforts.  I hope it does, I so hope that I get the results I work for.  I need it, I need it so much!

My changes for the coming week is:

• Off the pill
• Eat as low carb as possible
• No chocolate for this chocoholic this week, not even my usual block or two of dark chocolate.  I got myself some low fat frozen yogurt as dessert to satisfy my sweet tooth.
• Off my USN supplements as well.  

On a good note though - I bought my first Size 16 jeans in a very, very long time and it fits!  So that's something I'm very excited about at least.

This new saying from Nike inspired me:

My impossible is going to become a reality.  One day I'm going to be thin and wear Size 10/12 clothes again!  I will make it happen!