Back to the future!

Without my little blogging world community I am not sure where I would be. Actually I am pretty sure my hand would still be in that bag of chips! Thank you to every one of my supporters. I have noticed a few new followers as well and I am goign to try and catch up and visit your blogs as I know all of you will be able to inspire me as I follow your journeys.

I have taken some massive risks lately. risks I wouldnt ordinarily take. It's funny that  in days gone by I would not have shown anyone photos of me and now I feel so good showing people how far I have come. The support, encouragement and inspiration that you have given me in my Swimsuit post and easing my fears about it and then picking me up when I had lost my way, encouraging and inspiring me to get back on track have been invaluable.

Well I am back on track. I weighed in this morning and am back to 79.5kg so that means last weeks half kilogram gain is now a 1kg loss and I am back on the path to achieving my goals and it is great to now be heading in the right direction. I cant believe that your help has helped me to tur myself around and get a loss with 4 days of hard work. Not only that Ihave broken through the 80's (just) so now I am a 70's girl! It has been a long time!

I have been so busy lately but need to keep reminding myself that I need and deserve my time as well. I feel like I am time poor (hence catching up on all of yout blogs at 1am on a Saturday night and then being so tired this morning but things just seem to be so busy!

Today marks only 3 weeks to go until our holiday to Fiji. Putting the dress in to be altered this week. Cant wait to show you what it looks like.

Right now though I have added a couple of photos from this weekend of my gorgeous girl and I!

 

A lifestyle of healthy habits!

Something I always dreamed about was changing my lifestyle. The last few years has seen me live quite a sedentry life where I got to know my couch far too well. I would often choose not to go out, mainly because I was embarrassed but also because I was lazy and would prefer just to eat.

Well that has changed now and we are including the great outdoors, movement and healthy eating into everyday life.

Sunday saw our family take a trip to one of the world's most famous zoos.

Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.

It is situated on the gorgeous Sydney Harbour with views of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. These animals live at some of the most expensive pieces of real estate in Australia!

It was a stunningly warm Winter's day with the sun beaming down giving us a great day to let Miss Twinkle Toes explore the world of animals that she has seen in her books come to life at the zoo.

Let me tell you, exercise was not forgotten on this day. We covered a lot of kilometers walking around the zoo, lots of hills, often carrying a backpack or a child weighing 10kg. I even walked around with her on my shoulders just to get a bit more of a workout!

If I wasn't carrying something, I was chasing someone around who keeps me on my toes! We were at the zoo for about 6hours which I thought was a massive effort with an 18mth old!

We had a fantastic day.

I managed to stay healthy with my eating by being prepared and packed a picnic lunch for our family as well as some snacks I had made for us. Some fresh sandwiches of breast chicken and tomato on wholemeal bread and lots of fruit and plenty of water. Normally at places like this I would have bought hot chips and the like but not this time! :-)

I am looking forward to blogging more over the next few days. I have so much that I want to tell you all about but have not had the time with work being so busy.

Here is a photo of my gorgeous girl and I after a very long day!

Please excuse her messy shirt. this was after dinner (which always ends in a mess especially when dessert is juicy strawberries)!

I can now see how much weight I have lost off my arms, face and although its a bad photo of my legs as I am all scruched up, I have lost heaps of weight of them as well.

YAY!

Sunday Song!

Today was weigh in day (even though I have had a feew sneaky peaks through the week)!

The song that became Sunday and had me dancing after getting up at 10:30am

(Love it when kids sleep in)

was.....

Rock DJ

by Robbie Williams

Warning: this music video is quite controversial and you shouldn't watch if you have a weak stomach so think carefully before clicking on Robbie's body!

So the reason for a bit of Rock DJ was because I am down another Kilogram which brings me to 83kg. This song always makes me dance and is a "happy' song for me!

I can't even begin to tell you how many compliments I have received over the last week. Returning to work after 2 weeks holidays made a lot of people notice some changes. I think when you dont see someone everyday you really can tell. My other half has been giving me lots of encouragement and praise for my efforts and is really proud of me and most importantly I am proud of myself.

I have 6 weeks until my island holiday. Did I tell you we are attending a wedding whilst we are there for some very good family friends? I will get the dress that I intend to wear altered 2weeks before we go as it is an Australian size 16 and now I think I would need a size 12! I am still a size 14 but because the dress is quite flowy I could comfortably get away with a 12.

My weight goal for my holiday is to lose another 6kilograms. 6 in 6! I think it is doable and not an unrealistic goal.

It will still require hard work so my plan is:
Biggest Loser shakes for breakfast
Carrots/capsicum/celery and other raw veges wih either hommus or salsa as a snack
Lunch will be my main meal
Small dinner
If hungry at night I will have green tea.

Exercise this week will include:
5 sessions of at least 5km of interval training each session on the treadmill
100 situps and 50pushups each day.

You may notice I am not around toomuch at the beginning of the week for the next few weeks. Work is hectic (I work the first half of the week as I am part time) and recently got a promotion which is code for a shitload more work so I am rather busy up until Thurs/Friday.

Hope that everyone else is going well. Looking forward to checking out everyone's progress towards teh end of the week.

Why .....day?

So which day is your weigh in day and why?

I finally found a weigh in day that works for me and up until now, I never really thought how important the selection of a Weigh in day is.

I used to just weigh in on whatever day of the week I started "the latest way to lose weight". To be honest, with all of the diets I have started over my life, I have probably had a weigh in day on every day of the week!

But it is important! I used to weigh in on Thursdays. Thursdays were bad news! Thursday would allow me to splurge on Friday (which would also lead into weekend splurges) whilst I promised myself as soon as Monday arrives, I will be back into it and work so hard for Thursday. Well, I failed because 4 days of being good is not enough to make a difference on the scales when I was having 3 days of bad!

Monday was also another fail for weigh ins for me. At first, Monday felt appealing....its the start of the week and you can have a fresh start after bad weekends, but Mondays gave me a false security of thinking that I would jsut work hard for the work day week (Mon-Fri) and then I can relax on the weekend. Well for me, its not good to relax for the 2 days before weigh in and undo all of the hard work done during the week

But then I found....

Sunday keeps me honest on my most tempting days/nights (also known as Friday and Saturday), when I know my weigh in day is looming so I am more likely to pass on the temptations that those days and night offer.

Sunday gives me a chance to relax a little on that day (post morning weigh inof course) so that I can still be human and have a little treat, whilst still leaving 6 days to get back into it and move those numbers on the scales backwards.

So yes Sunday is best for me!

So when do you weigh in and why?