12WBT day one – over almost before I began
Today’s daily food intake… So today was kick-off, the first official day of the Twelve Week Body Transformation Program (12WBT) and I got up early to do my shuffle (I’m starting again because I never got out in the morning again last week after my Monday morning efforts) – determined to make a good start to the week and start as I meant to go along – with daily exercise in the form of a shuffle, followed some nights of the week by extra exercise. Except of course, being...
Read MoreChicken schnitzel
Today’s daily food intake… Weigh in day Previous weight: 106.9kg. Today’s weight: 104.6kg. 2.3kg loss YAY, great weigh in today made me very happy that finally my weight had stabilised and all that extra weight I put on last week came off, plus a wee little bit more I was concerned after weighing in on Saturday and being up to 107.3kg that I’d done something wrong, but it seems all is good. Having said that, tomorrow I am going to have to do some extra training that’s for...
Read MoreBeginning to hate weigh ins
Today’s daily food intake… Weigh in day Previous weight: 106.8kg. Today’s weight: 106.9kg. 100g gain Warning: Issues of a feminine nature ahead… So today was weigh in day and after my sneak peak on Sunday I’d really amped things up, was totally within my calorie range and did exercise every day (twice yesterday, burning 808 calories which for me is quite a lot), so I thought for sure that I’d lose a little weight. That was my aim, not to have a massive loss like last week, but to at...
Read MoreSneaky weigh in
Today’s daily food intake… Uh-oh….. Sneaky weigh in this morning reveals that my last week hasn’t been good.. I’ve gained 400gm. Wonder how much I can lose by Wednesday if I really focus? Damn that steak sandwich (and the salt and pepper squid, and any other crap I’ve eaten this week…)
Read MoreStarted with a loss, ended with an aha moment
Today’s daily food intake… Weigh in day Previous weight: 111.1kg. Today’s weight: 109.1kg. 2.0kg loss I’ve learned a few of things today. The first is that even though you might be hungry at breakfast time, don’t go overboard. Perhaps the cheese and Vegemite and butter was overdoing it. A little. The second is that I need to learn to eat slower. I noticed while I was eating my lunch that I was eating as if there were a hundred hungry people behind me just waiting for me...
Read MoreYesterday bad – today better
Yesterday wasn’t one of my best days. To an outsider it would have been like any normal day – I looked the same, I acted the same, hell I even smelt the same. But on the inside I was just a jumble. I’ve been working on rebuilding one of our websites at work and it’s been going good, but yesterday it seemed like it was one hurdle after another with this stupid site. In particular yesterday, I was working on the menu structure and a search function and for the life of me, I couldn’t get...
Read MoreSecond weigh-in for 2012
Today’s daily food intake… Argh today was not the best day! I woke up feeling all great and ready to face the scales, which I did. Then I wish I hadn’t. I wasn’t expecting a huge loss, but I was expecting a loss. I know from having done the 12WBT program before that you can still lose weight on the program even if you aren’t doing exercise. Not that I would encourage that kind of behaviour, because really, that is going to defeat the purpose of getting a healthy...
Read MoreAnother weigh in day… Not so great
Okay so how many weeks have I been saying this now? I need to get my butt into gear and get back onto the 12WBT? Too many weeks now,without really doing anything about it. So today was weigh in day again (yes I still follow weekly Wednesday weigh ins) and I have put weight back on again. Yes it was only 500gm, but seriously, since the wedding and getting sick, I’ve been so slack and not doing everything I learned over the official program. So while I’m hovering around the same mark,...
Read MoreThis That quilt
Well I have officially named the quilt that I am working on now. Introducing the DisDat quilt – because it’s a little bit of This and a little bit of That. I’m still working on getting all the block patterns drawn up – I’ve been quite slack lately, just chilling and trying to get back into going to the gym, and weirdly having a bit of a spring clean at home. I’ve been obsessing more about my cleaning lately than ever before. Ack!!! In between drawing up all...
Read MoreIt’s new quilt project time
So a while back I stopped over at Mid Mod Quilt Bee and came across this post which gave me some inspiration to start a new quilt. I fell in love with the simplicity of it and really wanted to try something similar. While I love the colours that are on the drawing, they weren’t quite what I wanted. So I set to work on a design for my quilt, and this is what I came up with: Hopefully you get the idea from that. It’s pretty rough at this stage, I’m still working out what all...
Read More12wbt day sixty five – Devastation
I was going so well with the 12wbt program, but last week was definitely a slip up. I knew that today’s weigh in wasn’t going to be great, I expected a little weight gain, but I gained a whole kilo. I really hadn’t thought I’d done quite THAT badly, but apparently I had. So there was major disappointment to myself this morning when I looked at the scales and saw that the number had jumped right up. But there is nothing I can do about the week that has passed, so I can only look to the...
Read More12WBT days forty three & forty four – Nothing new to report
Well as the title suggests there is nothing new to report. I’ve been a bit slack on the upkeep of my food journal, but rest assured I have been making good food choices, with nothing bad thrown in the way. In fact Nat’s lasagna has been a real hit at home and we have it at least once a week now, and I’m making up an extra dish of it this weekend so that I can freeze it for ease when I have nights at the gym. Speaking of the gym. I went in last night for my official induction...
Read More12WBT day thirty – Back into food swing
So today was weigh day. I actually managed to lose 600gm this week, which was a complete and utter surprise to me and I have to say I was pretty thrilled that I lost that, as I was pretty sure that I was going to gain. However, I’m certainly not going to let myself slip up quite like I did last week, it really was a disaster. No more take away food, no more nights with meals unplanned. Now I really need to work on ramping up the exercise and I will be completely back on track. The...
Read More12WBT days nineteen to twenty four – Hard times
Well how is everyone, I feel as if a part of my life has been missing over the last few days without my daily blogging and my daily intakes being written down. I’ve been off having a lovely time camping and spending time with my family during the school holidays. I would like to say that I have been eating fantastically and exercising like a mad woman, because for once I have so much time. But alas, neither of those things is true. I had everything planned out really well for camping,...
Read MoreHappy weigh day
Booyah!!! Okay I woke up in a good mood this morning even after having a crappy sleep last night, and got back on those scales full of pessimism (because that’s what I do, I always think the glass is half empty, never half full), stood there naked, on the scales in front of the mirror thinking *YUCK* and looked down. Woohoo 1.5kg gone. So I’ve gone from being in a good mood to a fantastic mood. I’ve hit the 10kg weight loss mark and I’m super thrilled, I can’t wait...
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