Ouch!

OMG! My legs are sooore today! Walking lunges will do that to ya!

Just wanted to do a quick post before I head off to bed! I succeeded in each and every one of my mini goals I posted yesterday. I drank so much water today I spent a lot of time in the loo :-(
I also had 5 servings of fruit and veg today too!

I had a great workout at the gym. I ran on the treadmill for 30 mins with a few walking breaks - my legs were toast and I couldn't really keep running non-stop :-(

Time for bed now - I really need to work on getting to bed earlier!! It's after midnight now! Golly!!

Goodnight everyone!

Three time's the charm!


This is my third day blogging in a row! Yay! Go me! And not only that, but I went to the gym todaaaay! I had a personal training session and it was fabulous. I didn't mean to sound so down about my trainer in my recent post. I suppose I was looking for my "downfall" to be someone else's fault, when in fact it is I that has control over ME. I know ME better than anyone and I suppose I was trying to make it sound like it was the trainer's fault I came off my diet. She told me to eat HEALTHY, and not obsess about every little thing I put in my mouth. But I used that as an excuse to go absolutely nuts! I spoke with her about it today and she was very supportive. She is actually going back to college to study Psychology and said to come back and see her in 4 years when she will be able to tell me what's wrong with me! lol

Aaanyway! I had a great training session and I felt so much better - isn't that an amazing thing??? Exercise makes you feel gooood! And I think it helps when you look in the mirror - you somehow see a smaller you. Well I do anyway!

Tomorrow my diet will be CLEAN! I had a few slips today, but I caught myself in time and I have just thrown a pile of CRAP in the bin! No more of that stuff is going in this body! I have had a headache almost everyday since I came off my healthy eating regime. I know how to feel good and it's only a few healthy meals away!

I really need to start setting some mini goals again to help give me focus. I have 5 and a half weeks before my vacation!! Yikes! I know I won't get to my final goal weight by then, but I know that exercising and eating right will help me feel more confident and good about myself and I suppose that's the main thing at the moment!

So - here are my mini goals for tomorrow!

1. Drink at least 4 bottles of water (500ml size!) so that will be 2 litres!
2. Wear my Fit Flops around the house and when walking the dog.
3. Eat at least 3 servings of fruit and veg.
4. NO DIET SODA!!
5. Exercise for at least 30 minutes (probably running on the treadmill!)
6. Take some photographs :-)
7. Get up tomorrow at 7.30am (I am flexi time and lately I have been getting up waaay too late - about 9am!! - I am a lazy biotch!)
8. Go grocery shopping for healthy food!
9. Watch "Charmed" - this one will be easy!
10. Get to bed earlier!!
11. Track what I am eating.

Amelia, thanks for your comment! I know exactly how you feel. I don't if there is any liberation from the insanity! I suppose it's down to choice - we are choosing what we are eating - even though we know it's wrong! Maybe making more good choices than bad ones will eventually beat it?! - good for you for throwing the ice cream away - it's hard to do but you feel a million times better for having done it! I hope I find the answer to it one day - if I do I'll let you know!! :-)

Christina - the poppy seed dressing is amazing!! Sooo good!! You will not be disappointed!


Ok, I think I better get to bed if I have to be up for half 7!! Ha ha!!

Goodnight :-D

Baaaad!!!

Hey y'all! Are you surpsrised I have blogged two days in a row?! I am!

Today was going well up until lunchtime, when my mind went that hazy way and I decided I wanted to buy a jar of Nutella chocolate spread. I told myself not to buy it, I argued with myself when I was opening it and even as I was spooning mouthfuls of chocolatey goodness into my mouth, I just didn't care. And I don't know why! I eventually came to my senses a 1/4 of the way through the jar and poured some antibacterial handwash into it and threw it in the bin. If I hadn't poured the handwash over it, I know I would have fished it out the bin and finished it later!

I felt disgusted with myself all afternoon - I felt so full and FAT!!

I redeemed myself (almost) at dinner time. I had a lovely salad with poppy seed dressing and two fish cakes.
So yummy!!!

I am loving my new camera and still trying all the different settings on it. I am mostly using the Auto function at the moment but these pictures were taken in creative mode!! Go me!

I'm off to watch Charmed now - I love that show - I'm sure I've said that before!! I wish I had witchy powers!! Ha ha!!

Hope everyone has had a great start to the week!! I have less than 6 weeks before I leave for Florida!! Yikes!!





My new toy!

I have always loved photography ever since I was a little girl. My first "proper" camera was a Canon Eos 1000 (or something like that!) that took good old fashioned film! Then as a a gift about 6 or 7 years ago, Kenny bought me a Canon EOS 350D - which I loved. But for the last few weeks I had been hankering for a more sophisticated camera, something a little bit better. And so today I bought a fabulous Canon EOS 50D! I absolutely love this camera! It makes the 350d seem like a toy! I recently got a bonus at work and I thought why the hell not! I was out earlier tonight and took some photos before the sun disappeared. Unfortunately, I missed a cracking sunset because it took so long to get the camera strap on!


The Moooon!

Click on the photos for the full effect!!


In diet news - it's going a little better!  I will be back in the gym tomorrow and I'm going to try and run for 40 minutes without stopping or walking!  I know I can do it!!


Enough is Enough

So the last few weeks I have fallen right off the wagon. I was doing so great with my diet and exercise and then BAM! It all kinda started when I went for my usual training session one Tuesday a few weeks ago and she had "double booked me". I was furious and upset and once I got back to my car I was in floods of tears - I don't really know why I felt so upset but I felt that I wasn't important and that I didn't matter. So set off a chain of events that led to me cancelling a couple of training sessions (I haven't been to see her for nearly two weeks!) and I cancelled my PT training altogether. I still have 3 more sessions that I have already paid for and then that will be me finished with it. Because she kept telling me she wanted me to come off the diet for two weeks, I begrudgingly did it - I did tell her before I was just going to keep on counting my starchy carbs and that it was working for me but she said it would be better to come off the diet and just eat healthy, allow a few treats, have a glass of wine, go out for dinner etc, so I allowed a few treats, and then I wanted more treats and couldn't resist them.

So long story short.......I am back up to 180lbs. I was down to 171.2lbs just a few weeks ago.

Last Friday was my birthday - I turned 33!!! OMG!! How did that happen?? I can't believe I'm 33 - I certainly don't feel 33! We went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Edinburgh and it was FABULOUS!! I just love their onion rings with the BBQ sauce - they are to die for!! Oh and not forgetting the Strawberry Daiquiris! Yum!

I am back on the wagon now - I have started the day with a healthy breakfast of porridge oats with a teaspoon of honey and some low fat soya milk (I think I will change to soya milk now - cow's milk makes me feel blech!)


So my stats for today are:
Weight: 180.0lbs
Body Fat : 43.5%
Water: 40.3%
LBM: 96.6lbs

Now for some scary measurements!

Waist: 34.2 inch
Hips: 45.2 inch

Time to start taking care of myself.



Update

Boooo! I didn't get to my 14 pounds like I had hoped. Never mind though - it will come off when it's ready. My trainer has told me to take 2 weeks off my diet. But not to go crazy - healthy eating with the odd treat! So no counting carbs for two weeks! I don't know how I'm going to be able to handle that. She also told me to tell Kenny he has to take me out for a meal!! I had some chocolate yesterday, and a tiny portion of Chinese food - and I had a REALLY BAD headache. I was in my bed at half nine! So I cannot handle too much crap in my diet anyway. Though having said that I just had a Cadbury's Flake and a couple of biscuits (Will have a nice healthy dinner tonight though!) I had my trainer today and it was so tough! I burned 600 calories! Woo hoo!! I feel so good right now it's quite amazing!

I am getting more and more excited for my Florida vacation - we haven't had a vacation in 5 years :-( Need a break and time to get away! It's only 9 weeks away!!

Our iMac at home seems to be acting funny. It won't start running Mac, but will start up in Windows mode (we have two "partitions" or something that makes that possible! Don't know much about it!!) I hope Kenny can fix it because I love using the mac - I'm not a fan of Windows anymore :-( I just hope I can save all my pictures!!

I bought a delicious dressing last week (American of course!) Brianna's Rich Poppy Seed Dressing - it is to die for!! Has anyone tried this?? It's quite high in calories but there is zero saturated fat! Beautiful!


Well that's all for now - aren't you all glad it's almost the weekend!!