Weekend Danger Zone (H: 85.5)

And so the weekend begins.... *scary music*

Ok ok I actually love my weekends, but I have to be honest, I ALWAYS gain weight over the weekend. I try not to, but I do! So this weekend I'm being super-conscious of what I eat and do and I'm determined to come out on Monday morning weighing less than I do today - ie: less than 85.5 on my home scales - even if I have to stand on one leg, lean out at 45 degrees and wave my arms madly to do it!

A snapshot of my weekend, and how I'm going to put my plan in action:

Friday: was meant to see a friend for movie & dinner, but piked due to late night Thursday night. Ended up just sleeping at home, so I'm not really going to count that lame excuse for a night out!

Saturday (today): Plans = meet friend for coffee at 10.30, finish practice file for assessment on Monday (high stress!), food shopping for empty house, & house party tonight.

Plan in Action: Have a skim chai or skim FW at coffee, NO banana bread! ... Eat diet jelly for sweet fix for studying, AVOID chocolates ... Write a list for shopping and stick to it. Buy a good study treat - like a rockmelon or a watermelon - and some sugarfree V cause I'll need it tonight... eat dinner before the party tonight and arrive lateish so there are people to chat to, buffering the way to wherever the food is! Drink lots of water, eat only 3 things and TRACK THEM - and only if it's in my points. Enjoy catching up with friends.
Go for a walk today! At least do the river walk, if not do a "Sydney Walk".

Sunday (tomorrow): Plans = Church in the morning (with 2 morning teas, remember!), lunch at D's parents place, study to finish the practice file. Dinner at home with D.

Plan in Action: Take breakfast in the car to eat on the way to church - it means I finish eating just before we start so there's not stomach grumbling when I see morning tea! And take a bottle of water in my bag to avoid the juice - maybe even take an apple to munch on while others eat cakes and slices... Eat a small amount at lunch, drink lots of water, hope it's healthy~ ... Go for a walk with D. Track what I eat. Enjoy the day :D

See, when it's put down in writing, it's not so bad. Just remember a jumper on those walks - the weather's getting chilly!

Sydney Walks Book
Yesterday I bought a book of different walks around Sydney. It was only a few dollars ($4 or $7 I forget which one) from Basement Books (in the devonshire street tunnel next to Central Station - best bookshop ever - if they have what you want) and it has all these routes of walks with little explanations you can do around Sydney. They's lots of suburbs walks, as well as the bridge walks, beach walks, cliff walks, etc - even 3 or 4 in my neighbourhood! So (I proudly informed D yesterday) D & I are going to do every single one of the walks! I'm looking forward to it actually - I've even got out a highlighter and pen to mark off the walks as I go! One a week would be ideal, but I'm happy with the start. Most are very short - about 2km, some are about 5km, they all look pretty gentle, and there's a paragraph or so on the the landmarks and features of each route. Good hey.

Ok, well it's 7.30am now so I'm about to morph into a nerd and hit the books. Wish me luck! This file is worth 40% of my course and I have hours of work to do on it.

xx

Points
7.10am Half a bowl of diet jelly [study cravings start early!] (0 > 0)

8.30am Toast (1) with Baked Beans (1.5) (2.5 > 2.5)



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Ok, I'm going to be honest. I've eaten a huge amount. I've had tastes of leftover vegies (0) from last night, and a piece of bread with jam and butter (2). And a rice bowl full of peanuts, (?) some mint baileys (?) and milk (1.5). I've eaten 2 biscuits (2) and just gotten home from maccas where I got an XL diet coke (0), small chips (4.5), and a McFeast burger (?? 9-10?). And I still want to eat - I feel like I can't study without junk food - and I'm studying, so I'm craving, big time. I feel like marshmallows, V, chocolate, and my all time fave study food, killer pythons.

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Okay - just got home again. I got home from maccas, wrote that post, and as I was writing my wonderful best friend showed up for our coffee date (which had been postponed since this morning) but instead we went for a walk - almost 5km! Now my pedometre's got over 11,000 steps on it, I feel refreshed and I just rang D and said to not worry about any of the junk food (just the sugarfree V!). I know I'll get a star for exercise today on my home star-chart, and I'm sure I can recover from the food I've eaten so far. So, I'm going to track it. But first, this calls for a picture of Hellena, my best friend :D So here's a picture of us from my wedding day.


Ok, now points, honestly. I can't remember all the times but I'll put down all the food.

Diet Jelly [0] = 0
Toast with Baked Beans [2.5] = 2.5
Bread with Margarine and Jam [2] = 4.5
Rice bowl full of peanuts [3 for 50 peanuts, I don't think I ate 50...] = 7.5
Baileys (2.5) and milk (1.5) [4] = 11.5
Two Arnotts "nice" sugar topped biscuits [2] = 13.5 (at this point it was still redeemable!)
Maccas XL diet coke [0] = 13.5
Maccas small chips [4] = 17.5
Maccas McFeast burger [12 - ouch!! no wonder I was full after half! Oh I should have not ordered it, or at least just thrown it away] = 29.5

Ouch, 29 and no dinner yet. Oh well, all I can do is get back on track from now! So here I go again, hauling myself back onto the metaphorical wagon.

At least I did the walk, all up we took about 2 hours. Which is worth 5 bonus points. Wow!! So the net damage is only 24 - that's only 3 over. Maybe I can even get D to come for a walk tonight and undo the damage, or at least fit in a bit of walking.

Anyway, with all this stressing over how much I've eaten and the walking and the maccas and everything I've still got hours of study to do! So, ciao for now!

xx

Food after 6pm:

2 cups water [0]

Diet coke [0] - finishing off the maccas diet coke

Marshmallows (hmmm)

Ravioli for dinner (not too much)

Food at the party:

Apple pie with cream - as small a slice as I could cut

Babaganoush and Hommus on pita bread - about 6 dips

Amazing Cheese Platter - about 5 slices of cheese, maybe only 4

One glass of Punch

Back at home:

Sugarfree V

And tomorrow is a brand new day, thank goodness!

Off to see the wizard(/supervisor!) (H: 85.9)

Off to see my thesis supervisor - will report in later!

x

7.30am Two Toast - one with vegemite (1) , one with peanut butter (1 + 1.5), and a glass of skim milk (1.5) (5 > 5 points)
12.30pm Pasta (4) with Bolognaise (2.5) (6.5 > 11.5)
2.30pm Two Freddo Frogs (3 > 14.5)
2.30pm Two starburst lollies (0.5 > 15)
2.45pm Gloria Jeans Iced Coffee (5 > 20) [OUCH!! I didn't realise it was so high!!]
6.30pm Couscous (2 > 22)
8.00pm Fish Korma (4 > 26)

... well I'm over by 5 points (damn gloria jeans!!) but I guess that's just life.

In other news I had a great report from my supervisor today so I'm feeling more on track which is good.

Oh - last night we went out with some friends and saw STEP UP 2 - in a word "wow". I really want to be able to dance like that! So I did some push ups and sit ups this morning to build up to being able to control my body like that. Wow! Totally recommend it. Unfortunately cause it was the 9.15 session we got home late after hanging out and I was really tired today - thus the afternoon chocolate and coffee :S

xx

WI Day Rolls Around Again (H: 85.1) (WI: 85.2)

This is the most nervous day of my week. Weigh In Day.

Wish me luck!

Note: I'm so nervous. I'd love to WI under 85kg today, I'd LOVE to break that barrier, it would make me the slimmest since I started ww, and the slimmest I've been this year. But I'm so nervous that I might achieve it that all I can think of is everything I want to eat BEFORE I weigh in. I'm thinking I should drink 2L of water now, eat a huge bowl of couscous, devour some ice-cream. My mind is trying to sabotage me! But I won't give in - I'm not eating a bite until I've weighed in. I'll do what I always do and take something to eat during the meeting... rather than my normal sandwich I might even take couscous - I don't need to eat it now if I know I'll eat it in 2 hours time. I'm so nervous, if I do go under 85 I never want to be above it again, this is a big morning for me.

... I caved.

9.02am One Cup of Couscous (2 > 2 points)
10.30am Water (600ml) (0 > 2 points)
11.10am 3 Macadamia Nuts & Bite of Chocolate (1 > 3 points)
1.15pm Three rolls of sushi (7 > 10 points)
1.20pm Coke Zero (0 > 10 points)
3.00pm Oreo Biscuit (1 > 11 points)
4.20pm Water (0 > 11 points)
5.20pm XL Diet Coke (0 > 11 points)
5.20pm McDonalds Snack Wrap (4.5 > 15.5 points) - and it didn't even taste good.
6.16pm 2 Grapes (0 > 15.5 points)
9.15pm Subway Turkey & Ham 6 Inch on Italian Herb & Cheese Bread with Sweet Onion Sauce (4.5 > 20 points)

I'm not sure if I have to add a point for the cheese and the sauce from subway? Anyway I'm counting it as it is on the etools, hey, I had it as they suggested (and dairy's important, right?). So I'm counting today as a star-day :D

... anyway I weighed in at 85.2, so still a loss, but didn't break the 85 barrier. Next week it's mine!! I'm sticking to the letter this week - bring it on! Still, I'm back to my pre-Easter weight :D

The Up(Down)Side to the Flu (H: 85.1)

[Star Update for Yesterday: One star :D Under points (by lots!), but no non-incidental exercise.]

One day of the flu and I'm down a kilo. Which is good in short term, but if that's why it's been lost it will be a struggle to keep it off for next week.

Yesterday when I started sleeping I just crashed - I slept for 6 hours, then spent the rest of the day on the couch. Today I'm a bit better, but still have achey head, teeth, eyes, back, feet, throat and fluey feeling. So today is another quiet rest day. I ate a vegemite toast for breakfast, but I don't feel hungry.

I don't have anything more interesting to write, because I had such a boring day - sorry! I did watch some of "Good Luck Chuck" it's so-so... on the lower end of so-so.

xx

7.45am - Toast with Vegemite (1 > 1 points)
11.00am - Diet Aeroplane Jelly, Lime (0 > 1 points)
11.40am - Leftover Chicken Wing (2.5 > 3.5 points)
12.00pm - Peanuts (0.5 > 4 points)
12.30pm - Popcorn with salt and tbsp margarine (3pts for marg! ouch!) (4.5 > 8.5 points)
12.55pm - Large Water (0 > 8.5 points)
1.05pm - Teaspoon of Peanut Butter (0.5> 9 points)
[1.30 - 5.30 = sleeping, 4 hours]
5.39pm - Two Spoons Diet Jelly (0 > 9 points)
7.30pm - Couscous with prawn and vegies, 1 cup (2 > 11 points)
7.50pm - One Glass Orange Juice (2 > 13 points)
8.00pm - Three Glasses of Water (0 > 13 points)
8.30pm - Watermelon with 1 tbsp Mango Frozen Yoghurt (1 > 14 points)

Wow that looks like a lot of food.

Going Under! (H: 86.1)

[Star Update for Yesterday: No stars :( Went 2 points over, and no non-incidental exercise. Try again today.]

Yes! I just jumped on the scales and am a little less - back to losing for this week. I WI on Thursdays so although I try to lose weight every day, I tend to actually drop on the scales post-weekend, and this is a good start. This is what I weighed last Thursday (at home) so I'd like to go under it for this Thursday's WI - aiming at 300g loss, delighted with more, will perservere through less or even a gain. Oooh, but I hope it's under!

Back to the office today, feeling a bit better after some sleep, ready to earn some dollars.

...
Well, I didn't go to work. It's just after 9 now and I'm about to curl up in bed. I took a sick day. I always feel guilty taking a sick day on days like today, when I know I could carry out the motions of doing the work, but every fibre of my body just wants to sleep and rest. And be cuddled, but I'm home alone. I feel a bit better knowing I don't have any leftover work to get done today, so I'm not putting anyone behind, and I'm casual, but I feel guilty anyway, even though we've now paid for our tickets to India and are going well with our budget. But I do feel sick, and I got D to take my temperature and it was up.

Anyway, I was talking to D this morning, and he was like 'you look and sound sick' and I was like 'I feel sick' and he was like 'how do you feel sick' and I was like 'I'm ok' then we were getting ready for work, then I started crying (go figure!) and he was like 'are you ok' and I was like 'my eyes hurt and my nose hurts and my head hurts and my skin is hot-cold-hot-cold-hot and my thesis is due in 6 weeks and I have 2 practice files and India is soon and I don't know how to plan your birthday celebration or what day to have it and I have sore bones and my head hurts and I don't have enough time to keep our house clean and I'm not a very good cook and my stomache hurts and I'm so fat and so overweight and so tired and I feel really overwhelmed *sob sob*' and he was like 'stay home sick' and I was like 'but I'm scheduled to work' and he was like 'but you're sick' so I was like 'ok'.

Well, it was a bit more stressed than that but that's the gist. So I'm rugged up and ready for a nap. Now I have permission to stay home and sleep, that's all I want to do - I don't even want to look at my thesis.

I did put on my trackies to go for a jog before my sleep (today is my jogging day) but have been firmly told not to go out in the cold and rain and not to exercise and just to rest. So I might go for a walk later, but for now, just resting sounds really good.

Ok, points (is this very boring, blogging this?)

7.15am - Toast with Vegemite (1 > 1 points)
7.15am - Glass of Skim Milk (1.5 > 2.5 points)
[9.30 - 3.30 = sleeping, 6 glorious hours]
4.31pm - Small (100g) Tub of plain Vanilla Yoghurt (1.5 > 4 points)
7.30pm - Wholemeal pasta (about 3 tbsp) (1.5 > 5.5 points)
7.30pm - Bolognaise, about 2 Tbsp (1 > 6.5 points)
7.35pm - Milk Smoothie (sml banana, skim milk, ice, vanilla essence) (2.5 > 9 points)

Well, it's not an ideal amount to eat - less than half what I'm meant to eat in a day, and I think the pasta and bolognaise estimates are a bit high, I had about 1/3 of a little rice bowl for dinner. But at least I managed the drink the smoothie, which has dairy and fruit, so that squeezed in some points, and nutrition. I'll feel better from that.

I'm so tired.

xx

Rain, Rain, For a Fresh Start Monday (H: 86.4)

It's raining today, I love the rain. But I must confess, I love the rain more when I'm inside under a doona watching a romantic comedy than when I'm going to have to run for a train! Still though, I like the rain.

Well, I'm another 100g up from yesterday, but I track SO much water last night, not to mention a huge amount of DC so I'm hoping there's some water loading there that will flush out by Thursday's WI. We also had a curry for dinner, that's going to stick in my belly for a little while maybe. Anyway, it's a new day! And last night was so lovely - we watched a romantic comedy on dvd (where Catherine Zeta-Jones is a waitress who looks after her orphaned niece and falls in love with her co-chef). We originally got a crappy version - it was scratched and jumped through the whole second half of the movie, so after trying skipping chapters, restarted, etc etc we just walked back down to civic and asked for a replacement and a second new release, which they let us have! So we actually ended up with 2 dvds for the price of one, which was very nice. So we watched the end of the first movie last night, and have one to watch tonight :D

We also went for a bit of a walk - we shop on the weekends and were out of bread, fruits, vegies, so we decided to go for a walk to our local shops and buy them there, which was nice to get out together. And with the extra hour sleep last night (seeing as we went to bed early because it felt like 11 when it was only 10!) I feel very refreshed now :D

In other news, yesterday I was looking through our iphoto to see if there were any photos I should put up as inspiration, and it was so disheartening - ALL of them would be good motivational photos - that's pretty bad. In fact, the few I do have on this blog are probably some of the slimmest of me! I wanted to do a post just putting them all up, as a reminder of how serious my weight issue is, but I got too embarrassed. Maybe I will later, but I just couldn't face it yesterday. Especially photos of me with friends, looking way out of proportion. It was gross. Even the photos where I got down to 70s and thought I looked really thin, I still look 15-20kg overweight (which I was, to be fair). Maybe that post will come, but it was a very impacting moment.

Today I start using my "My Journal" from ww, I'm excited. My goal is to use it EVERY DAY until end of April. Yesterday I drew up two sheets of paper - one with a map of April, and one with a chart of my weight every day until the end of April. I know, I know, I shouldn't weigh everyday, but I already do, I already put it on this blog! Might as well see what that looks like as a graph. For every day I stay on track, I'm going to give myself a star (I've already put them next to the calendar) and another one if I do a real chunk of exercise. I love stars :D

I'll fill you in on my points a little later :D

xx

8.50am - Sugarfree gum (0 > 0 points)
10.30am - Bread with Pesto Spread (1.5 > 1.5 points)
10.30am - Medium Banana (1.5 > 3 points)
11.10am - Big Glass of Water (0 > 3 points)
12.40pm - Tablespoon of Icecream (1 > 4 points)
1.00pm - Wholegrain Sandwich with Ham, Salad, Hommus and Pesto (5 > 9 points)
3.15pm - Chocolate Gelato (about 2.5 scoops, maybe a bit less) (6 > 15 points)
6.45pm - Fish and vegie Korma (4.5 > 19.5 points)
on Vermicelli (1.5 > 21 points)
Water, lots of water (0 > 21 points)
8.45pm - Two Iced Vo Vos (2 > 23 points)

So close!! Those vo vos put me over - auuuggghhhh!!!

I tracked everything though, and now I know my minimum exercise for tomorrow has to be 2 points worth, I can do that.

I had a good day though, just catching up, and tonight was another India meeting, which was pretty good too. I feel pretty seedy though with this flu, I'm contemplating a sick day tomorrow but I know I won't, because that's not my style. I'll go, and I'll do a damn good job at whatever I'm given, then I'll come home and crash. That's more my style. For now, I'm wrecked. Goodnight and sweet dreams - and Happy Birthday JoGirl!! Just had a sneak at your blog, those happycakes look great!!

xx

Easy like a Sunday Morning (H: 86.3)

I love weddings. Catie looked gorgeous in a beautiful gown (and my veil, which was kind of special) and I love hearing people make their vows, especially now we've had our wedding - having put so much thought into what the vows mean when we got married, it means lots more now. My prayer felt quite long (I'm not much of a public speaker, so even reading a prayer was a bit nerve wracking) but a few people came up and commented on it which was nice, and lots of married people said they thought it was good things to pray for - which is good because it's what I pray for D & I. Anyway, the service was great, with wonderful music, a great talk, beautiful marriage, everyone looked stunning (including AP, who I mentioned before was losing weight to be a bridesmaid - she looked HOT), weather was perfect, company delightful and it was just a great day.

The Bride And Groom :D

Between the service and reception lots of my school friends (and the boys we're now attached to!) came back to my place to spend the time, which was wonderful. Some people had a nap, we drank lots of water with lime (after a glorious afternoon tea/lunch in the church hall we were very full - even too full for champagne!) listened to some Explosions in the Sky and other cruisy music and just caught up on life. It's amazing to think we graduated almost 6 years ago but we're still so close and can giggle and laugh and d&m and chat our way easily through an afternoon, and giggle lots more! It was good for D too - he and Alan (Alex's hubby) had a coffee on our balcony to catch up, and later he took Phil (Pun's bf) out with him to buy some turkish bread, hommus and chunky basil pesto dip for a snack, which meant he got to build more on friendships with the boys - it's good that the boys make an effort with each other - some even play on indoor soccer teams together - it makes it nice when all the girls catch up with partners - and means they can chat together while we giggle our way through an afternoon!

Caught with my hands in my pockets..

School Girls (minus the bride!)... half the photos been cut off but I don't know how to fix it!

The reception was beautiful - it was at Mosman Art Gallery, which is like an old restored church, and the food was amazing. Good for ww too! They had several types of salads (a roast pumpkin/walnut based salad, a chickpea/herbs based salad, a green salad, etc) on the table with lamb, potatos, breads, quiche, etc so you could serve yourself what you wanted to eat - like each table was a mini-buffet. So I had a little bit of everything, more of the salad, and that was good. Also for some reason when dessert time came D didn't have a dessert plate in front of him, but that worked out because we shared my mini-mud cake. That said, it wasn't that healthy a day, because there was lots of champagne, a lovely red wine, some soft drinks to counter the champagne and red wine... not to mention the champagne and food at afternoon tea, or the 2 wedding cakes!

All in all, a lovely day. And we danced a little :D

Then this morning, instead of the (intended) extra sleep in, both D and I were awake early-ish, so we ended up spending the morning in our dressing gowns catching up over a yummy breakfast. We had a 'recovery breakfast' of ham, cheese, tomato on turkish bread melted in the grill- mine had some pesto and hommus on it too. Yum. Oh, and warm tea, love a morning cup of tea. Then we headed down to church for the last day of the Moore College mission - which of course meant more food (it's the churchy way). We had our 2 morning teas (one halfway through church, one at the end) but I just had one amazingly yum biscuit creation, which was like a soft anzac type biscuit moulded into a little cup, with caramel cream in the middle -wow! And then after second morning tea we had a sausage sizzle lunch!

It's a lot of food, but it does mean a good chance to catch up and talk to everyone, and because there's not that many of us in total it's good to get to know the other people. Plus, a morning tea just before the talk is a good way to stretch and refuel to help pay attention!

On the way home I did the scungy 'morning after' thing and drove through maccas, but at least I was fairly controlled - a mega-sized diet coke, and a mcflurry. The mcflurry's probably almost 10 points, but I avoided the chips, burgers, nuggets that usually call to me when I'm near maccas! Hopefully I'll soon be cutting down to just the DC.

Not much else to blog about - today I'm planning to write the rest of my thesis, maybe go for a walk with D this evening (not another run after yesterday, not yet anyway, maybe after the champagne wears off!). I have the WW points tracker journal, which I'd forgotten about last week, so I'm starting that tomorrow morning - so I can track there and on this blog. I'm staying relaxed this weekend and not tracking, especially after Friday's binge. I know if I'm just a bit easier on myself now I can be back on track tomorrow - that one mcflurry is better than not getting it then going a bit crazy with eating when I got home!

Ok, end of a long post, cya later!

Today I ate:

Breakfast - Turkish bread with pesto and hommus, ham, low-fat cheese and tomato, grilled + a cup of tea
Snack - Amazing biscuit-caramel-thingo + 3 cubes of cheese + 2 teas (one at each morning tea) + 3 waters
Lunch - Sausage with tomato sauce on 1 piece of bread + Huge Diet Coke + McFlurry
Dinner - The best meal I think I've cooked so far! Fish, pumpkin, potato and coconut korma with brocolli and peanuts cooked in, on a bed of vermicelli. Wow! It was really yum, and full of vegies, had fish, and tasted great. In fact, after I ate this amazing meal, I was so satisfied and content I didn't even desire icecream when D got some for him.

Ooh! And lots and lots of water. We're having fun with water at the moment - tonight we had it in a big jug with ice and lime, and each had a very large red wine glass with lots of ice and lime slivers, and a big piece of lime on the rim of the glass, like a water cocktail! Hehe, yum.

xx

Wedding Day (H: 86.1)

Today is my friend's wedding day!! I'm so excited for her - I'm saying a prayer at the wedding so I've been up since early to work out what to say and to write it down - it makes me so excited about their new life together, and I reflect on me & D's marriage too. Marriage is such a special gift, when you marry the right person.

Anyway, D's agreed to come for a run today, so we're going now - better go! Will let you know how I go today... don't think it will be easy - there's the wedding, with an afternoon tea and a reception (and it starts at 12 so we'll probably be pretty hungry when it starts!) then the girls from schools (and their bfs, husbands, etc) are coming over to our unit (which is still a mess, hit by the thesis-bomb!) for lunch!! So just hope there's not lots of left overs (and at least we can make something light), then off to the reception for dinner!! I'm heaps excited though, I think it'll be a really fun day.

10.20am
Well we went for the run. It was awful. I couldn't make it through each run session. I guess that's what you get for not exercising for 2 weeks! At least we went out, and we kept moving for the whole time, and I ran as much of it as I could, then walked, then ran again - I even ran during the cool down time to try and make up for all my non-running in the running times. So frustrating I haven't kept up. I'll have to try some more until I conquer the week 3 of c25k!!!

Catch ya!

xx

Let's go, new week, another loss to come! (H: 86.1)

A new weeks, and I'm ready to go and hit up a new week with a new loss!! I'd like to lose 1kg this week, but heard good advise from the ww mtg last night - to aim for 300g a week, and if you get it, great! If you get more, wonderful! If you don't get it, it's still a loss. If you get a gain, learn and move on. So, my goal is 300g, my hope is 1kg!

Points...

7.35am - Water [0 points]
7.35am - Banana [1.5 points]
8.15am - Water [0 points]
9.15am - Sliced potato, spray olive oil, chilli and herbs, baked [1.5 points]
10.34am - Tbsp Peanut Butter (hmmm) [2.5 points]

The rest of the day, until 3pm was a total write off - a big binge (like half a container of icecream, with milo and chocolate sauce -think 4 bowlfuls, instant noodles, chicken wings, peanut butter on bread... yikes) - at least at 3pm I decided to go to sleep, at least I can't eat and sleep at the same time! At least I didn't vomit or anything after eating so much. I watched Dr Phil with a story on anorexia/bullemia and it made me realise that any sort of unhealthy relationship with food is so damaging to my body, so I really want to change.

Tonight we had an amazing dinner out - friends took us out to La Libertine in Kings Cross, it's an amazing french-vietnamese restuarant witht he most incredible food and wine. Wow! We had duck and squid for entree, my main was hot-pot vegies (after the binge today I though some vegies might be good!) but I tried the seafood curry, the whole cooked fish and the beef brisket, and we had a cheese platter with vietnamese coffee for dessert. A wonderful night. We just got home, about 11.30 and I'm pretty sleepy (and tipsy!) so I'm off to bed.

Night - mwah!

xx

WI DAY! New Week of Tracking, Day 7 (H: 86.1) (WI: 85.7) - 1KG!!

WI day today - come 10am I have to stand on those scales and face up to a week of tracking, but tracking too much, and pretty much no exercise. But I'm going to do it!

Meanwhile, I'm pretty frustrated at the moment with some stuff at home, and a bit worried about finances, we may have to pull out of the India trip and either way may have to withdraw from (paid) ww for a while. I hope not!

One of the tips I read on the ww board was to print/draw a calendar for April and put on stars for days you stay on track - maybe one for points and one if you do exercise. I like that idea, I think I will. Because I'm already a compulsive weigher I might also put down my weight, and a little graph of how I go through April - seeing as I'm hoping to get to my GWEA of 82.5kg!

After Weigh In..
I lost!! I lost a whole kilo! Yay!! I guess the tracking really helped, even though I ate lots, I must have eaten less than if I hadn't tracked. Wonder how this week will go, with each day being no more than 21 points, and with exercise. Happy, onwards and downwards!

Ok, Points... I have to be honest, I'm not very into counting points or being strict the rest of the day after a WI - so I'm not sure yet what everything is worth! And I was out for dinner with 3 wonderful girlfriends, and we went for spanish tapas and pizza, then AMAZING icecream at french riviera - if you live in Sydney and haven't been, you haven't lived. It's soooo good (but big servings, dieters beware!) - but I did have only one thing from the tapas plates, one small piece of vegie pizza, and the other junk food was for thesis writing (but I got to 954 words!). Have to go - D's making lunches and tidying up while I type and he's getting grumpy!!

POINTS FOR TODAY

Breakfast (10.10am)
Peanut Butter Sandwich = 3.5 points
17.5 points left for today

Snack (12.30pm)
Six Macadamia Nuts = 1.5 points
Water = 0 points
16 points left for today

Snack (1.30pm)
Bread with Peanut Butter = 2 points
14 points left for today

Lunch (3.00 - 6.00pm)
Pide = 4 points
Killer Python = 2 points
Diet Coke = 0 points
Hot Chips = 4.5 points
3.5 points left for today

Dinner (6.30pm)
Spanish Tapas:
Bread Roll = 2 points
Lamb Meat Ball = 3 points
Chicken Skewer = 2 points
Capsicum & Goats Cheese Roll = 1 point
One piece vegie pizza = 3 points
NEGATIVE 7.5 points left for today

Dessert (9.00pm)
Two scoops of icecream from French Riviera (nutella and coconut flavours!) = 9 points (or more!)
No points left for today

xx

New Week of Tracking, Day 6 (H: 86.1 in a jumper)

Brrrr is cold!! I slept in my jumper, I even did my morning WI in my jumper. It's freezing!

Well, it's WI tomorrow and to celebrate I ate a chocolate brownie pre-breakfast. Bum. I wish people didn't give me yummy foods to take home, I already ate some last night!!

I'm looking forward to the WI tomorrow, I think I've lost some weight, although I haven't done any exercise today, or this week. D's been unwell, and now I'm catching this flu. I'm really tired! But I should still be doing some exercise - at least I'm now walking up all the stairs and walking around as much as possible as I do my day to day incidental walking. I think I'll really need to get some big exercise in, I haven't even been for a run since Easter Friday, which is a week, nearly 2 weeks ago.

Oooookay, time to track some points (and confess my brownie!!)

POINTS FOR TODAY

Pre-Breakfast (7.05am)
Chocolate Brownie = 3.5 points
Glass of Water (to combat the brownie!) = 0 points
Total for pre-breakfast = 3.5 points Total for today = 3.5 points

Snacks (8am - 1pm)
8.30pm Water = 0 points
11:30am Lindt Chocolate Ball = 2 points
11:30am Two Glasses of Water = 0 points
5.5 points

Lunch (1.15pm)
Cheese and Vegemite Sandwich = 3.5 points
Banana = 1.5 points
Uncle Tobys Fruit Bar = 2 points
Water = 0 points
12.5 points

Snack (4.00pm)
Lindt Chocolate Ball = 2 points
Water = 0 points
14.5 points

Dinner (8.00pm)
Cheese, cabinossi, crackers
Glass of wine
Glass of OJ
1.5 Chicken Sausages
Small dinner roll
Mushroom and Onion BBQ'ed (in butter)
Green Salad = 0 points
Ricotta Cheesecake
Scoop of Chocolate Gelato
Fresh Fruit
I don't know, it's so hard to count at family dinners when I don't make the food myself and just have lots of little bits. Any help welcome?

So today is finished, and it was mostly ok, it's so hard with family dinners and knowing how to count and what to eat and what to say no to. I just am not that aware yet, and when everyone is eating something I feel like I should eat it too. We're watching James Bond at the moment (well, I'm watching and blogging, D's washing up, because he does this when he gets really tired - the more tired he is the more he procrastinates from sleeping. I try to just let him do it so he goes to sleep faster than if I start cleaning and we end up in a big cleaning frenzy.

Anyway, that was my day. I think I'm ready for sleep. Tomorrow is my thesis day (and WI day!) So I hope it goes ok.

xx

New Week of Tracking, Day 5 (H: 85.7)

I think I did ok today - had work which was a bit boring but it was good. Straight to points...

Breakfast (7.30am)
Banana on toast = 1.5 points
Total for today = 1.5 points

Snack (8am, 9am)
Water = 0 points
Total for today = 1.5 points

Snack (10.40am)
Skim Hot Chocolate = 2.5 points
Total for today = 4 points

Snack (12.35pm)
Uncle Tobys Fruit Bar = 2 points
Total for today = 6 points

Lunch (1.10pm)
Vegemite and Cheese Sandwich = 3.5 points
Apple = 1 point
Water = 0 points
Total for today = 9.5 points

Snack (3pm, 6pm)
Water = 0 points
Two Chewing Gums = 0 points
Total for today = 9.5 points

Snack (7pm)
Bread and Peanut Butter = 2 points
Total for today = 11.5 points

Dinner (8pm)
Rice, chicken and cauliflower, broccoli = 6 points
Total for today = 17.5 points

... and there's still some points for a chocolate brownie at bible study tonight!

xx