Accountability August - Day 3

Day 3

Day 3 was okay.

It was voting day, so we were all off and at home. Didn't get much sleep because my little girl started with her night wakings again, this time getting out of bed when she wakes up.  My son keeps acting out with extreme anger issues, that coupled with my daughter's terrible twos made for a difficult day.  I kept with my day's goals though, so success!

I feel bloated though.... eeek!  And it looks like I'm sporting a food baby (it shows on the pic below), all the repercussions after my birthday and this passed weekend's carb fest.

My day included:

• Exercise - weights & kettlebell workout
• Sleek Geek Challenge - 30 Burpees (oh yuck)
• Fitbit steps - just over 7000 (it's difficult to reach 10000 on a non-running day when I'm busy with the kids and the weather is crap), so 7k is good - had to do some dancing to reach that.
• Macros were reached successfully - my meals included low cal toast with avo and a generous portion of lean biltong for my protein (best meal ever) and a mince-dinner (nothing exciting)

Lunch, post workout, barbell pre workout and a pic my boy took mid lift

Accountability August - Day 2

Day 2

It was a tough day!  But I made it through. Had extreme problems with my boy's medication that made him aggressive, so psychiatrist advised we take him off yesterday. At 1 teacher phone saying it was the worst day ever, she brought him home for me to avoid further problems at aftercare, scheduled follow up with psychiatrist, but all this (and more) so caused me wanting to do emotional eating. I almost did, I seriously contemplated stuffing my face with Oreos and every morsel of sugar I can find. I ate 1 Oreo and then found the strength to stop. I'm fighting the same demons today (day 3), with even more issues, but I'm fighting hard and will report back tomorrow as to how today went.

Here's a summary of how my day went wrt health and fitness:

• I ran 4.92 km and saw the most beautiful sunrise.
• Sleek Geek's Move More Challenge for the day was 6000 steps, I aimed for 12000 and did 13000.
• Macros were spot on, bar one Oreo. Main meals were soup and stir fry.
• I did not give up - kudos to me...

Post Run Selfie, meals, sunrise while out running and my steps for the day

Accountability August - Day 1

Day 1

It was a good day!

• I ran 5.19km in the morning
• My Fitbit steps for the day totaled just over 10000
• Sleek Geek's challenge for the day was 30 star jumps - I completed this
• I did 5 sets of 5 deadlifts @ 30kg (and I'm feeling this today)
• Macros were perfect. My two main meals for the day were Beef & Veggie Soup and for dinner Rump steak, sweet potato chips and avo salad

Pre & Post Run Selfies and Dinner:

Accountability August / Awesome August

Wahahaha I can't decide what to call my challenge for the month of August, I just know it's going to be AWESOME, and I'm going to stay ACCOUNTABLE.

Okay, last time I blogged I'm close to breaking the 80's and I got closer with only 1.2 kg to go, but then my boy's birthday happened and then mine and I had carbs galore and was a lazy pants with this cold and rain we had.  So I don't know where my weight is sitting at, I will weigh Friday and see.

It's a new month and I am super amped about it and I'm going to give it my all this month, because I want to be in the 70's by Spring.  So my plan for this month is as follow:

1. I'm going to update my blog every day to stay accountable.  I will blog the exercise I did, the steps according to my Fitbit and if I stayed within my allocated macros.
2. I'm going to take photos - selfies post exercise and sometimes of my food etc and blog that too.  More accountability (So if you're subscribed and the posts irritate you, unsubscribe now cause there's gonna be 31 posts this month!)
3. I'm going to do Sleek Geek's Move More Challenge.
4. I'm gonna run! Also doing the Diva Run on Women's Day.
5. Eat according to my macros.
6. Lift (borrowed some extra weights from my BIL)

Let's do this!

Do I dare say?

Do I dare say I am close to getting out of the 80's, so close that I can smell the 70's?  Because I really don't want to taunt Murphy, but at the same time I'm so damn proud of where I am right now.  ((Check my weightloss top right!!!)) I have 1.6 kg to go to break the 80's and I really want to give myself the gift of breaking the 80-kg barrier for my birthday in 3 weeks.  Then again, I have an uphill battle before then as it's my boy's birthday and party, I can't run as much at the moment due to school holidays... So I need to remain patient with myself and accept it might not happen exactly before my birthday (we all know at what slow rate I lose weight!), but hear my words it's going to happen soon afterwards, because I'm not done fighting for it.

There.... I have said it out loud now. I'm going to make this happen!  Plans forward - IIFYM as I've done this past year - I have great success with it, it's easy to follow and stick to; and I will exercise as much I can and move move move now that I'm almost over my cold.

Breaking the 80's is a big deal for me as it's been a big mental block.  I've also spent much too much time here as I was 3 kg away before I fell pregnant almost 3 years ago and it was quite a fight to lose the pregnancy weight and drop below that again.  I'm tired of this 80's seesaw now, upwards and onwards. Wish me luck!

#Powerful

Yes! This!

Mini Goals Achieved!

I'm just gonna put this here. .. and then do a hop, skip and jump!!!

• 5km in under 40 minutes - tick! 
• Under 8 minutes a km - tick!
• And a bonus of distance of 6km, and 45 minutes+ of consecutive running with no walking - tick!

Happiness is a lekker run!

Next goal: 7 minutes per km - but this is a long shot and it's going to take me a while, me thinks...

EDIT. I just realised it's a month since my last blog post where I still struggled to fit a 5km into my exercise time and now I did a 6km.  "I still got a lot of fight left in me!"YAYNESS!