Felt like/feels like

Running used to hurt.

I could feel the fat on my legs wobbling. I literally thought that the fat bouncing up and down on my things and stomach was going to rip the skin off my body! It hurt.

I used to wake up in the morning after exercise and the soles of my feet were so sore from the pounding of over 100kg that I would not be able to walk. I would compensate by walking on the sides of my feet which put pressure on my calves and knees. It hurt.

Now it doesnt hurt. Now its empowering.

Now I love to run and the treadmill and I have become good friends.

I leave you with this. I have it printed out on my fridge.

Missing but MIA

Yep, you may have noticed I haven't been blogging as much as I used to, or need to or would like to for that matter!
But I am still here and have been reading what I can of everyone's blogs.

Life is going by at a million miles.
It has been going so quickly that I actually forgot to put my passport application in!!!!!!!!!!
Who forgets that???
Oh well, hopefully get them back this week otherwise on Friday I am going to be paying an extra $300 to get them expressed.

On the weekend I went on a hen's night for my friend who is getting married in Fiji. It was at this fantastic restaurant in Sydney's King Cross called Tharens. Saw some interesting things whle we were out and about but had the best night out in ages! This is me outside the restaurant we started at. It was fantastic

And  let my hair down and had a few too many champagnes but I didnt care! 

I needed a night out and all the walking, dancing and partying would have helped me burn off the extra calories.

The scales on Sunday morning pulled up a littel bit better than me considering I rocked up at home at 4:30am and moved 500grams down so I am not sitting at 79kg.

Lots of hard work these next two weeks!!!!

Countdown! - 3 weeks to go!

So holiday is around the corner which means all systems need to be go for me to make the most out of the time left to exercise and eat well before I jump on a plane.

A few things that need to happen this week:

Exercise
4 x 5km interval training on treadmill (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri)
100 x situps each day
40 x pushups each day
50 x walking lunges with weights in the backyard each day
Chase after and dance with my little cheeky monkey
2 x family walks at the park (6km each time)

Food
Biggest loser Shakes for breakfast
Green tea throughout the day
No carbs after 5pm
Eat dinner by 7pm and not later
Drink plenty of water.

 Let's see how I go with that!

Going to be a busy bee this week!

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!