25 years young

B - Oats. 3 glasses water

L - 1 ww bread mackerel 1 ww bread chicken liver pate + beetroot. 1 glass lf milk and 1 portion yoghurt. 3 glasses water

S - half dried apricot. b coffee

S - Apple tbls fruit and nuts

D - taco beans with salad and water

B - Oats with lf milk + glass of water

L - Apple. 1 slice ww bread mackerel in tomatoe sauce. 1 slice c liver pate and other half of the slice with chicken cream cheese had sundried tomatoe. 1 portion of strawberry yoghurt mixed with natural yoghurt

S - Coffee and loads of water after lunch.

D - Banana. 1 slice ww chicken cream cheese, slice smoked turkey & sundried. 1 glass lf milk and 1 portion mixed yoghurt (same as lunch)

8.30 Woke up feeling extremely exhausted. Body aching and an insane headache. I know why I feel this way though, yesterday’s exercise was tough. But I am having a cup of coffee to wake me up and start work.

Yesterday, while half asleep I was flicking through the tv channels and started watching a CNN special about France on the Move. It was interesting to learn and listen to views on culture, economy and lifestyle. Reason for my writting about it, is that I was totally fascinated with the French finance minister’s style and poise. Her name is Christine Lagarde and I think she looks fantastic for her age!

Did a 45 min cycle class, was fun and then burned 100cals on the treadmill. Wasn’t feeling all that great before the class, think I had a slight fever and a runny nose. But afterwards, I felt fine. My finance was very overprotective about me going, and it was sweet. But, I know my limits so that’s ok.

Just finished watching some old episodes of Sex in the City on tv. I know I shouldn’t be watching as much tv as I do but after gym, all I really want to do is just lay back and be entertained. And, I love SATC. Before that was Cashmere Mafia, which is really growing on me.

Good night! xoxo

B - Oats with cinamon and a glass of water

L - Fruit salad: 2 kiwis + banana with 2tblsp berry yoghurt

S - 1/2 dried apricot. 1 glass lf milk with cinnamon and a banana.

D - Vegetable soup, 1 whole wheat crisp bread with chicken creamed cheese, 1 tblsp fruit + nuts mix.

This morning was a little scary for me. I knew today was the day of my weigh in and I guess I was really nervous as to what my whole week’s worth of eating well and exercising like a crazy bunny, would amount to. So I went to my 10am bike class and it was 55 min and then I burned 100cals on the treadmill and did a couple of weight lifting exercises. I know I need to include more weight exercises.

When I got home, I was bracing myself for the scale. I mean, I told myself both yesterday and minutes before getting on the scale that no matter what that thing reads, I will not give up as I have many many weeks ahead of me. When I got on, I wanted to scream out really really loud but  some people in the house were sleeping. Anyway, in the start I weighed 82.4kg (according to google 1 kg = 2.2 pounds so I weighed 181.2 pounds, that sounds allot!)

Drumroll … this morning I weighed in at 80.8 kg !!! So that is a 1.6kg loss in a week, which i think is very good and right on target (which reminds me, I need to post my targets up). It was an INCREDIBLE moment for me. I actually lost weight with all the hard work I was doing. I am really very proud and it is an awesome incentive to keep going. And keep going, I will … I have a 4pm bike class and I am full of energy for it!

Bring on week 2!

Woke up at 8.22 and was worried my alarm didn’t go off. Then went back to bed and woke up at 9.30. Felt like hell. So exhausted and decided to call and cancel my class. I felt like such a coward when I called in. But I knew that if I went, I would sit dazed and confused on that bike. Went back to sleep and woke up disgustingly late - 3pm.

Felt hungry and so I made this chicken burger thing. Which was processed but I was hungry and I was bored of cream cheese and liver pate. So I made the thing, ate a little. Then decided that I would not do this to myself. I threw it away and decided to make a sandwich on whole wheat bread. Only meat that I could eat in the fridge was left over roast beef. Sadly no white meat in the fridge. But anyway, I decided I would have that and some cheese with sundried tomatoe and a cup of tea. I felt a whole load better!

Some degree of guilt is settling in though. I haven’t done any exercise for the whole day and now the gym is closed. So I will have to go and do two cycling classes tomorrow. And tomorrow is my freaking weigh in day. I can’t believe that I just let myself go yesterday and today. I really hope I didn’t mess up my weigh in.

11.25 My day was totally messed up and only because I decided to stay up really late and didnt have enough energy for my gym class. So if I could have chosen correctly, I would have done the obvious thing and went to sleep early. But anyway, I guess this journey of mine is going to be tough and I have to be prepared for my ups and downs and it is going to be how I deal with it all. So here is for a fresh start tomorrow morning.  Good night! xoxo

B - none

L - 2 tblsps of some processed chicken burger thing. Then decided it tasted like hell so had a roast beef sandwich with cheese and sundried tomatoe. 2 yogurt portions. 2 tblsp of fruit and nut mix.

D - 3 glasses water. Fruit salad 2 kiwis, banana, apple and 2 tblsp berry yoghurt.

Got up early this morning. Strangely, I was extremely excited about my class that I almost couldn’t fall asleep properly. It was as if, I was excited at the thought of buring serious calories! Hehehe it sounds funny.

The class was very good. Challenging and music was spot on. The class was 55 min, afterwards I went on the treadmill and a walky-type machine and burned 200 calories. Felt really happy when I got back home. Full of energy and just generally happy happy

Watched ‘The Secret’ again and reminded myself to have a positive attitude. Such a powerful meaningful message.

Was feeling really tired and hot as the temperature was crazy hot. Around 29 degrees C. Had a cup of coffee and cold shower and decided to go to the cycling session anyway.

Got back from the class and decided that tonight I would cook the boys an healthy dinner. Since they have been eating hotdogs and burgers for most of the week. They both over 27 and should be able to cook food for themselves but since I am the only girl in the house, I am looked at as the “the mommy”. So i decided to make these yummy grill sticks with chicken and veggies on it. And a whole wheat pasta salad to go with it. I was worried they would think it was too healthy and decide to put a hotdog on the grill but they didn’t. They loved the food so much that there wasm’t any left overs.

Dinner also included an evening of wine. Lots and lots of wine. I decided that I would have one glass of red wine as I wouldn’t over indulge and also I had a class in the morning. So I behaved. But the boys didn’t, they drank themselves silly. Between them they had 5 and a half bottles of wine. I ended up sitting and laughing with them on the balcony till past 2.30 am. It was fun, have to admit. Till my fiance got sick. I felt really sorry for him though, he isn’t a huge drinker. In any event, they were hugely entertaining. I set my alarm for 9.30 am. So extremely tired.

B - Oats. Loads of water, didn’t really measure. Also had about 2 tall glasses at gym.

L - 2 slices whole wheat bread. 1 chicken liver pate 1 chicken cream cheese and both had sundried tomoatoe. 1tblsp fruit and nuts mix. 1 portion vanilla and forest berry yoghurt.

S - coffee

D - 4 grilled sticks with chicken, peppers, onions, mushroom, dried apricot and pineapple and a serving of whole wheat pasta salad with spinach, sundried tomatoe, olives, and handful of Parmesan and mozzarella cheese. 1 glass of red wine. 2 glasses water.

B - Oats with cinamon .. 3 tall glasses of water

S - Orange, didn’t eat much of it because i didnt think it tasted of much.

L- 2 whole wheat crisp breads. 1 with chicken liver pate and beetroot and 1 with mackrell. 1 glass of lf milk and a portion of forrest berry yoghurt mixed with some vanilla yoghurt

S - Black coffee

D - 2 whole wheat crisp breads. 1 3% chicken cream cheese and 1 9% chicken liver pate. 2 sundried tomatoe halves sprinkled on both. 1/2 glass no sugar lemonade. 1 apple.