Sleepy Sunday afternoon :)

Don't you just love Sunday afternoons? I know I do... it's generally the only time of the week that we are all home together and actually have time to do things together.

I went out to dinner last night with the girls from the salon that I work in... and am very proud of myself for avoiding fried food and alcohol. Had some grilled fish and salad, and drank water all night. Yet despite not drinking I still managed to trip flat onto my face and have a grazed knee (I am such a clutz- lets hope that improves as I try and do more exercise...lol)
I worked this morning (my 2nd job- working in a coffee shop as a waitress/barista/short order cook) And even though I only worked for 3 hours I had sweat pouring out of me and hardly stopped the entire time.
Came home and had some lunch, then did a light work out with some free weights and then played the Wii with Andrew for a while.

I'm looking forward to this week... I'm surprised with how focussed I still feel considering I'm in my 4th week- normally by this stage I have lost interest, or at least my motivation has dropped but I'm still here and still looking forward to becoming much healthier and fitter as I continue on this journey. I think I've also surprised Andrew with how motivated I still am.

Hope you all have a fantastic week...

Bella

tough day, but it's all good

I had a really bad day today, emotions running all over the place, and I actually cried on the way home from work (left early- had no clients booked in)... I felt like curling up in a ball, no actually I felt like filling myself with all sorts of yummy yet "oh so naughty" food. Instead I went and walked all around Bunnings looking at different plants etc that we want for our front yard. Then I went grocery shopping, avoided temptation, came home had lunch and then had a nap (both Andrew and I aren't feeling too well, so a nap was needed)

Looking back on the day, I'm actually quite proud of the way I reacted to today. A couple of months ago I would have driven home via Maccas or KFC and stuffed way the feelings. Instead I let myself acknowledge the way I was feeling, and then made some positive choices about how to deal with them.

'Til next time :)


Bella

Week 3 and another loss!!

27/01/2010

*YAY* another 1.4kg gone!! Bringing my total to 6.5kg in 3 weeks.

So I've been a bit busy... I've started a second job- working part time in a coffee-shop. Had a great day today, although I was busy and forgot to eat .... need to make sure I have some snacks prepared so I can eat on the run.
I'm sitting here now letting my dinner settle and still have over half my points left for the day- and that is without calculating exercise points for the day... oops.... guess that means I might be able to have an extra special treat tonight.

Back to school for my 3 munchkins tomorrow... with my eldest Lachlan starting high school...eek ... now there's a way to feel instantly older. LOL

Andrew has a week off work, and was doing all the "stay at home parent" running around today...lol... I think he was a tad surprised at busy you can get when you stay at home with children :) Child-free day tomorrow, and both of us have the day off work...so not sure what we are going to do, may just stay at home and enjoy the quiet.

bye for now

Bella

Being sick does nothing for your appetite

Sun, 24 Jan 2010

I'm sick, and have been for over a week... but now it's really getting to me.
I've got tonsilitis and an infection under one of my teeth (more about my teeth and dentist phobia at a later date)
So anyway on Friday morning I woke up to find the right side of my face swollen... so off to the drs I go.
I am now on 2 different types of antibiotics that have to be either taken immediately before food or immediately after- and the pharmacist said to try and avoid taking them at the same meal.
The only problem is- I feel sick, I don't feel like eating.
I've been struggling to eat my points each day (for those that don't know with Weight Watchers food has a point value depending on the kJ's and saturated fat, and you get a certain number of points to eat each day depending on age, height, weight, activity level)... and having to eat to take these tablets makes it hard... and to make it worse, having something light to eat isn't enough- if I don't eat with these tablets I feel like I'm going to puke.

Anyway I better go and have some dinner...blah


Bella

Here goes nothing

23 Jan 2010
Ok so I figured that this is going to be a long journey- this losing weight and getting healthy caper- so why not try and document it all.... get my thoughts out of my head, and hopefully be able to make some sense of my life.

So I started Weight Watchers for what feels like the millionth time 2 and a bit weeks ago (06/01/2010), and at the moment things seem to be going pretty good... my motivation is relatively high. Probably spurred on by the fact that I have lost 5.1kg in those two weeks :)

My husband, Andrew, is supportive as he always is... but I think he's just waiting for me to lose focus and put the weight back on. And given my history over the last 10 years, I can't blame him.

I have set myself the goal of losing what Andrew weighed on the 6th Jan 2010... 67.9kg.... that will bring me to just above the "healthy weight" range for my height. And while I have a numerical goal in mind, I'm going to be happy to be able to buy normal clothes... to be able to buy jeans from Jeans West :)

So thanks for reading...

Bella