Each loss is my gain

Hi ladies-

Like Jenna, I LOVE 3FC, but in terms of blogging and considering the fact that I hope to be doing this for a long time to stay on track (and don’t want to run out of MBs) I’ve moved my blog  to:

http://lose2gain.wordpress.com/

I hope to see you all there!!!

(((hugs))))

Why, oh why do I have to have a streaming nose, scratchy eyes and sneeze my head off EVERY morning?  Enough is enough.  This has been going on for more than a month now and I’m getting a little peeved.  Arrrggghhhh.  I feel so listless too.  I should’ve done my biking by now, but instead- I’m on the computer AGAIN! I have a million things to do before the end of the month and although I really needed a lazy weekend, it’s TUESDAY!  Yesterday was fabulous- we went to the beach, the water was GLORIOUS! I love the sea here, it’s so different back ‘home’- not all that relaxing being pulled under by monstrous waves whilst on the lookout for sharks.  Ha ha.  Anyway, where was I?  Ah, yes- LOADS to do before the 30th.  Need to make a list.  First, I’m going to get my butt of here and go do 10 mins on the bike to get myself started.

Oh dear!  Surprise, surprise- up 0,5kg.  Then again- I averaged 1869 cals a day and only managed an average of 8,5 minutes on the bike per day.  It’s a wonder I didn’t put on more!  Arrgghhh.  What I have I learnt this past week?

1. Don’t eat and think you’ll ‘work it off’  ha ha - Simply doesn’t happen.
2. Pans & co OR popcorn, not BOTH- piggie!
3. Stop thinking ‘I’ll do better tomorrow’  Do better NOW.  NOW.

POA (plan of action)

1. 1500 calories a day. 1500! 
2. 30 minutes of bike a day (2 x 15 minutes).  No excuses.  I am on holiday and at home.  Don’t be a lazy oaf!
3. POSITIVE thinking!!!

I’m officially on holiday — woo hoo!  16 days to get my act together before 2 months of summer classes and the HEAT start.  I have soooo much to get done in these two weeks and with any luck I won’t leave everything till the last few days (procrastination is a NASTY thing)  Needless to say, yesterday I did diddly-squat and this morning I rolled out of bed at 11am.  LOL.  Can’t remember the last time I slept till that time.  Must have needed it.  I got on the scale 5 times this morning and got 3 different readings.  Bastard!  I think it’s possessed.  I shouldn’t be weighing myselk until TOMORROW anyway, and if the general reading’s anything to go by, I’ve not lost a thing.  Not surprising really.  I’ve been slack, slack, slack.  As of today I’m back!  I love the feeling of waking up in the morning and thinking ‘I’m a tiny bit thinner than I was yesterday’.  Not so long ago I used to wake up and think ‘what’s for breakfast?’  My level of determination is regulated by those 2 early morning thoughts.  Right now I’m alternating- I WANT to get back to ‘I’m a tiny bit thinner than I was yesterday’  Who cares what’s for breakfast!

Last week went pretty well in terms of food.  Exercise could have been more, but I’m working on that this week, even though my cal intake has been SHOCKING.  I’m really dreading getting on the scale on Monday, but I need to get myself out of this slump and be careful.

Last week: 1-7 June 2009:

AVERAGE CALORIES/DAY: 1560 cals

AVERAGE EXERCISE/ DAY:  10 mins

LOSS FOR THE WEEK:  0,7kg

On a daily basis I am challenged with lessons and tests which the Universe expects me to face with courage head on. When I remain positive and keep my energy vibration high and in tune, nothing matters, except that gratitude, love and my angels, both earth bound and Spirit are there assisting me to my goals. ♥

NOT having a good week food-wise.  I’ve just gobbled an entire frozen pizza on my own.  I had recently convinced DH to share them with me, which is what we’ve been doing - 1/2 pizza and salad BUT tonight he came home with not one but 2- he was hungry.  So, I could have eaten 1/2 and left the rest- but NOOOOO - what did I do?  I ate the damn thing.  I’m really pissed off with myself.  Things have just gone downhill after the ‘movie disaster’ Monday night.  I know I’m slipping and to make matters worse I keep getting on the scale, according to which I have GAINED 2 kilograms since Monday morning.  TWO KILOGRAMS?  F&%$ 

I’ve been reading Ellen’s newsleters for many years now and although I received this one, have never gone through the exercises,  possibly subconsciously not wanting to’ go there’ I KNOW that the excess weight/overeating/etc have deep roots somewhere.  Maybe now’s the time.  Consciously I have said- YES, I want to lose weight- this is the time, BUT maybe that isn’t enough (as past experience has shown me)   I have to exercise and reduce my calorie intake, but  do believe there is MORE, I need to GO THERE, look at it- and work through it. So, I’m going to post my findings here, bit by bit.  I have previously been given permission by Ellen to repost her work. Ellen’s site is: www.healpastlives.com and I’ve given the link to the article right at the end of the post.

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Went to the movies again on Monday evening- and we hadn’t had dinner- so bought at Pans and Co.  Not a bad thing in itself, although in retrospect I should have had chicken and NOT British bloody bacon.  Hmpphh.  Silly me.   1000 cals easily.  Then later at the movies, DH told me NOT to, but since when do I listen to him?  Popcorn (caramel) and a handful of chocs.  OMG.  By the end of the movie, I’d polished off both, had such a sugar high and was sooo dizzy, I thought I’d pass out.  HELLO- what a piggy I am!  So, all in all the evening set me back 1400 OVER my cal allowance for the day and left me feeling frustrated with myself, because I DO know better.  Damn!  So- I have to ‘make up’ the excess this week-

1. 15 mins extra cycling (110 cals)
2. Eat 100 cals less

That should do the trick (or so I tell myself). 

LESSON LEARNT: Next time, no Pans and Co. and a big box of salted (not caramel) popcorn OR chick Pans & Co. and NO popcorn.  NOT both.

Hopped on the scale this morning and I’ve lost……0,7kg (1,5lbs) this week.  Woo hoo! I’ve lost 3,8kgs (8lbs) in the past 3 weeks. All I need are another 52 weeks like this and I’ll be at GOAL!  I ‘ve increased my cycling to 15 minutes as of today.  Eating plan going well- toast/coffee at the beach this morning, tuna salad for lunch, dorada tonight.  I feel GREAT! Yipeeeee. 

Oh, one thing- PLEASE leave a link back to your blog, or I have no idea who the comments are from.  Thx