25 years young

Felt extremely tired this morning when I woke up. Actually I felt like I had way too many tequilla shots and my head hurt like hell. I suspect the reason I felt this way was because my body is adapting to the exercise regime and the food.

I am getting more and more anxious to get on the scale this Sunday. I am not sure if I am thinking about this too much but when I looked in the mirror, I felt happy. Mostly because my pants felt a little loose

4.20 - My fiance felt like making waffles for a pre dinner thing. He is crazy about waffles and could eat them every day if he could. Norwegians really love their waffles though. Sadly, my nose also loves them too. I can smell their sweet smell permeating through the apartment … The great news though is that I have to go get ready for a 5pm cycling class. So I will wonder no more about those sugar-laden waffles!

6.10 Showered and back from gym. It was a really great class, many more people than previous classes and I thought the instructor was great too. Her choice of music was stellar. Working out to great music is extremely important to me. I was tempted to go and do a 20 min run on the treadmill afterwards but then I thought that I would be overdoing it. I mean I want to be able to keep this up for a lifetime. Anyway, I have an early morning cycle class scheduled for tomorrow at 6am.

8.17 Sitting on the balcony on a beautiful light and airy Norwegian summers evening and listening to the wonderful sounds of Elvis. Have to say though that I haven’t really adapted to the daylight thing, I mean it stays light till something past 12ish. Which is late and then I end up sleeping late and waking up late. So tonight, I am going to bed at a decent hour. Probably around 10pm. I do have a reason though, I booked myself online to the cycle class tomorrow which starts at 6.30am. So I will have to wake up early.

Going to do some Norwegian lessons now before I head off to bed. Have to start speaking the language soon and stop looking like a fool. You should see my face each time they talk, I look like they’ve hit me with a Japanese rocket science question. I feel like an idiot not speaking the language yet and I don’t want to feel like this anymore so I will put the hours in to learning the language.

Good night!

My ass hurt so much this morning when I sat on the bike. I didn’t know whether I should leave the class but then I thought how stupid I would look if I left on account of a sore ass. I looked around at the other ladies in the class and it made me want to stay and just see the class through. And I am glad I did!

Today, I am really looking forward to getting on the scales on Sunday to see how this little experiment of mine has worked out. I am going to be really positive about it because I know there are many many weeks to go through. So if I don’t get the results I aimed for, I will have to figure out how I can fix it so that I am on target the following week.

B - Oats, handful fruit and nuts mix (unsalted) and an apple. Two tall glasses of water.

Ready for the day!

L - Whole wheat crisp bread with chicken liver pate and beetroot. Cup of coffee. Two glasses water

S- handful nuts

Had the nuts a couple minutes before my cycle class. Went for one of the BEST cycling classes I have been to. The instructor played a video of cyclists riding through mountain areas of Norway. It was beautiful! But of course I was too out of breath to notice much of it. It was a really tough class!

For dinner, the guys wanted to make a dish with red meat in it. Knowing them it is probably going to be meat, potatoes and a fatty fatty sauce. I am in the mood to have a little meat tonight. However, I think I will prepare a little pan fried with soy sauce and add a little chick peas in it. Maybe even see how it would work with some vegetable broth. Not sure yet but I want to try and make it as healthy as I can. Not sure whether I should skip the meat all together … hmmmmm

Ended up having the meat. It was really yummy but I had a portion so it was good. I have to admit it was really hard watching the boys eat their dinner .. which basically consisted of grilled meat, oven baked potatoes with Parmesan and mozzarella cheese, pepper sauce with extra cream, deep fried beer battered onions and brussel sprouts. It was hard to watch but I don’t know at the same time I didn’t want to because I really did workout today and I didn’t want all my hard work to amount to nothing.

Going to bed now. Too late. Good night all!

Felt really good yesterday. Ate all the right food and remembered my portions plus I had loads of water. I went for a 75 min cycling class in the evening, which was tough but I know why I am doing this so it is worth it!

This morning I went to gym and did 15 min on the treadmill and 10 min rowing then some weights. Also have an evening cycling class scheduled this afternoon. For breakfast I had my oats and I am continuing to drink my water.

B - Oats

L- 2 slices whole wheat bread one with lf cheese & other with mackrel. Also tried a low sugar rasberry jam on half of one of the breads.

S- Banana & orange

D - 2 slices bread with lf cheese & sun dried tomatoes, an apple, handful of nuts and yoghurt

Did a 45 min cycle class before dinner. I can feel my body getting stronger.

Earlier this year it dawned on me that this year wasn’t going to be just another birthday. I will be turning 25. When I was 12, I planned out how my life would be. According to my somewhat foolish plan, I would have been an extremely successful lawyer in a NY lawfirm, have a stunning Manhattan apartment, be involved with a handsome rich man (I did warn you that it was foolish …). Of course, this plan included me being thin. Glamourously thin.

Today, I have one of my goals met. I did meet my handsome rich man. Well not so much rich but we’re getting there! But, I do love him and we have been madly in love for the last three years. Engage, too. In terms of location, well we have moved to his home country - Norway. Living in the beautifully expensive city of Oslo and are about to begin our new lives.

Last week I made a spreadsheet which was basically my weight loss chart with targets for each week. According to the chart, I have a little over 22 weeks till my 25th birthday and I will be be at my target weight - 60kg. The first week of my weight loss chart started out positively but I ended up consuming far too much “healthy food” and not going on any of my well planned calorie-burning morning jogs. So at the start of this week, I got on the scales and found out that I didn’t lose any weight but I had managed to gain a kilo!

So yesterday, I joined the local gym and I know I will stick to the gym plan because the membership fees are extremely expensive! I lost weight previously doing allot of cycling classes so I have decided to stick with what I know.

This is my plan for the next 22 weeks :

- Drink enough water.

- Eat healthy energy giving foods. Oats for breakfast. Fruit/nuts as a snack. Low fat light lunch & dinner. I will remember to eat with portions in mind. More importantly, that the size of my stomach organ is small so it is just cruel to stuff it with more food than my body needs.

- No sugar.

- Train everyday with at least a 45min cycling class.

The plan is simple. And I will simply stick to it. I have done it before and this time this will be a change that I will stick with for life.

Here’s to a good life!

Oslogirl xoxo