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Blog Moved

Posted jitterfish on July 20th, 2011 | Filed under Nonweight, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Edit: Well after a couple weeks of being unable to get to my blog 3FC finally sorted me out. However I’m moving to http://wigglyjigglywobbly.blogspot.com/ .

Last entry: So Tired

Today was a struggle and I think I’m going to skip the gym tomorrow.  I feel kind of guilty but I’m listening to my body not my brain on this one.  I’m about to go to bed (its not even 8pm).  When I woke up this morning I almost said fuck the gym.  Luckily I packed my bag the night before - mornings in our house go something like this:

Awake usually around 6:30 (sometimes as early as 6:00), get Willow’s breakfast made, breast feed Oakley, give him breakfast, make lunches, kids dressed, kids cleaned, realise I’m still in my PJs so running for the shower and mad dash to get myself dressed and sorted for work, before trying to find Willow’s shoe or bag or deal with a tantrum (way too frequent right now) and be out the door by 7:40.  On gym days at least I skip the shower and its out of PJs into work out clothes. The amazing thing is no matter how early we get up, we still are dashing out the door (chasing cats out of rooms because they set the house alarm off lol).  So I try to get organised the night before.

Tonight, I cannot be assed.  My gym stuff is dumped in the hallway where I left it when I got home from work.  Stinky sweaty and wet towels from the shower.  It feels like too much work and I just need sleep.  Oakley is still very hit and miss with sleeping, he will sleep through a couple nights, then wake once to four times a night for about a week (at least he is only awake about 20min for some boobage).  Add in Willow having growing pains and deciding that she really is a big girl and wants to go to the toilet at night instead of nappies (I hadn’t intended on night toilet training her until she was three) my sleep is pretty broken.

Guilt go away.  Little angel/devil on my shoulders.  Someone give me a water pistol to squirt the angel and knock her on her ass.

Night all, hope your week is going well.


Woohooo and kebab is back on the menu

Posted jitterfish on July 19th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

So I posted about kebabs being 1000cal and I was all wtf.  Turns out UK kebab does not equal NZ kebab and yeh, ours are smaller and healthier.  So I’d say I was close with my estimation of 400-600 cals depending on sauces etc.

Nom nom


I know I should write…

Posted jitterfish on July 18th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

But really I don’t have much to say.  Stayed on plan, feeling ok.  Scale not budging, feeling ok.  If I’m the same next week, might not be so ok :)

Hope your Mondays treat you well.  Mine was cold but beautiful blue skies.  A shame I was inside teaching all day.


Midsummer #3

Posted jitterfish on July 15th, 2011 | Filed under Summer Splash | 1 Comment »

Third work out done.  Leg work out on the kinect instead of pilates.  Willow joined in, god so cute!  She told me off in one instance because I wasn’t doing one of them right -LOL-

I’ve installed a tracking app on my phone, to track calories and exercise.  I feel like I need to really refocus and get down below the 90kg mark.  I’ve been hovering too long, bouncing up and down.  It really is the weekends that kill, so come on, keep the focus!  Lets make it through the weekend without regrets.  Oh and the hubby, second time in a week he has bought me chocolate bar when he has gone down to the store.  I told him no, he ate the first one.  And then tonight he rocks in with a kit kat.  Grrrrr.  Come on Mr, get on my page would ya.  I will ignore the siren song, I’ve told him to eat it so he will probably snack on it later.


Summer splashing

Posted jitterfish on July 15th, 2011 | Filed under Summer Splash | 3 Comments »

Next challenge is up and running, Didi’s Midsummer Splash challenge.  I’ve worked out two times so far, really hoping to be able to do 20min x 7 days although on weekends with the kids it is usually pretty hard to get anything done.  If its fine I can take them in the stroller so I can at least get something done.  And once they go to bed I’m just too exhausted.  Good thing is I have pilates DVDs so really I should just pop those in after they go to bed and do it (although DH usually complains then -LOL-).

I would love to do the swimming one, I really miss swimming :(  I have decided that next break (5weeks from now) I am going to add swimming in to my work out schedule for the two weeks that I’m off.  And then it will be 6 weeks back and then 4mos break plus SUMMER (oh how I hate winter) and I definitely be hitting the pool then.  I’m thinking by Christmas I want to be swimming 5km again.  I think that is an acheivable goal.  Then by Feb 10km?  Ready for Whale Island???  This is an open water ocean swim, swimming from an off shore island in to the coast.  It is 9km as the crow flies but you end up swimming more than that because you have to combat waves/tides/currents.  One year that my Dad did it there was a massive current change and they said that the swimmers would have been swimming about 14km.  Lots of swimmers got pulled out (you have to reach the half way mark by a certain time) and man were they exhausted by the end of it.  But I know that if I can swim 10, then I would be able to just keep going.  Its just a level of endurance/fitness.  And if I’m not ready, then I will do the Rotoma Lake swim which is 1.5, 3, 6, or 9km swims.

I’m thinking about putting my food journal tracking on here, at the moment I have my exercise/food journal on paper.  But I’d have to be more organised and get on here every day then -L-  Speaking of food, I am so sad - I found out that the average chicken doner kebab is around 1000cals.  I eat one at least every weekend for lunch!!  I thought they were healthy.  Honestly though I can’t see how they can be more calories than a double whopper with cheese!  I’m wondering what they include (i.e. cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise none of which I eat).  So guess I need to find a new mall lunch.


Legs like logs

Posted jitterfish on July 6th, 2011 | Filed under gym | 4 Comments »

“No matter how slow you’re going, you’re still lapping everyone on the couch”

Oh. ow. wow.

So PT session today, jeepers did he work me hard.  I went in at 11:30 for consultation session where he decided what he was going to make me do, that took an hour.  Awesome because he showed me how to use some of the weight machines that I wasn’t sure about and also showed me how to do lunges properly.  He admired my squat technique, I didn’t tell him it was because when I first started exercising I was using the Kinect which of course acts like a PT and was always telling me to squat lower and stick my butt out more, so I guess I learned!  And once I had lunge technique down he handed my free weight and was like yeh now we’re going to do it with weights.  Then I went back at 3pm for the actual work out session, my legs were already sore from learning how to do lunges -LOL-  But I pushed through it, I’m doing the same number of reps of weights but three sessions instead of two, and at higher weights.

In all honestly I knew that I wasn’t working out as hard as I could be, but I didn’t realise how much more I could push myself with the weights just by having someone tell me that I could.  Having said that omg my thighs are killing me today.  I had planned on going to the gym tomorrow but I thought I had better have a rest day.


Are you going to quit, or commit?

Posted jitterfish on July 5th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

This has become my new motto. I have had to ask myself that a few times today, for example I was thinking of skippng the gym, but I said it and got my ass to the gym. And I worked out harder than normal, I really gave it 150% today - a sign that its time to revamp the work out, to push myself more, no more saying “I can’t do …:

I’m committing!


No Monday-itis for me

Posted jitterfish on July 4th, 2011 | Filed under Weigh day | Comment now »

Booked in for an exercise consultancy session on Wednesday.  I figured it was time for a shake up, I’ve been going to the gym and just doing whatever with no real plan.  Its times to get some professional advice.

40min on the eliptical, man my legs are tired this evening.  I am planning on going swimming tomorrow to win my “just keep swimming challenge” badge ;)

Weight: 91kg


Come on in, the waters fine…

Posted jitterfish on July 1st, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

This morning I dipped my toenail into ONEderland!  90.8kg which for ya’ll translates to 199.95 lbs.  Woohoo.  I am super excited to almost be in the 80s, the weight reduction has of course tapered off but I’m fine with that (or at least I keep telling myself that, of course I would love to go faster!).

Still sick, so are the kids.  Was up for three hours last night, first with Willow and then with Oakley.  So I’m really wiped out.  Seeing that on the scale for my pre-weekend weigh in made me super stoked.  Now I just have to get through the weekend.  Honestly I expect to go back up but just seeing that number makes it so attainable.  I’m just so close to being rid of the 90s.  Last time I weighed 80 something I was 18, so that would be [does some math..still doing math...gets the calculator -lol-] 14 years ago.  And now that I worked it out I’m like duh of course because hubby and I have been together 14 years!


Just a short post

Posted jitterfish on June 29th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Went and played squash today, got my jelly-ass well and truly handed to me but it was a lot of fun.  It made me feel better but soon after I was a coughing monster and yeh, now I’m feeling like death microwaved.  No chocolate consumed today, on plan yay.