Ok so 2 months now have gone by that I've been on the Melcra lifestyle diet and I've lost 10.8kg.
I think this has to be the easiest "diet" ever, its just making good choices for fueling your body instead of craptastic food that does nothing for you (even though it tastes super yummy and I did have a fleeting craving for pizza the other night!)
Current weight: 89.2kg
Total weight lost: 10.8kg
Sunday 24 June 2012
Sunday 17 June 2012
Putting the fun back into exercise
Sunday is a good day to have a rest of exercise, sometimes during the week doing it every day gets a bit boring and sometimes you just can't be stuffed doing it.
So today was supposed to be our rest day, both Elf Man and I burnt up a good amount of calories yesterday on the cross trainer so we didn't really want to do much today. So instead, we took the kids down to the "park" and had some of their balls and just kicked them around and ran after each other. Other than Speedy and Bubbles being clingy for some of it, I had a really good time. We also did a lap around the oval (because it wasn't really a park with swings, just a running oval with lots of space) and that was difficult to do whilst holding Speedy's hand! It actually felt good just to be silly and run around and kick a ball, and not be concerned as to how many calories I was burning.
In fact, it felt so good - we decided to do it every week as a family. Hopefully it will bring us closer together as a family too.
So that was our exercise for today, tomorrow its back to jogging/walking at 6am with my walking buddy!
Was also a weigh in day today (normal Sunday weigh in) and here are the results:
Current weight: 89.7kg (finally made it into the 80's even if its only just scraping in!)
Total weight lost: 10.3kg
Yah! Go you big red fire engine!
So today was supposed to be our rest day, both Elf Man and I burnt up a good amount of calories yesterday on the cross trainer so we didn't really want to do much today. So instead, we took the kids down to the "park" and had some of their balls and just kicked them around and ran after each other. Other than Speedy and Bubbles being clingy for some of it, I had a really good time. We also did a lap around the oval (because it wasn't really a park with swings, just a running oval with lots of space) and that was difficult to do whilst holding Speedy's hand! It actually felt good just to be silly and run around and kick a ball, and not be concerned as to how many calories I was burning.
In fact, it felt so good - we decided to do it every week as a family. Hopefully it will bring us closer together as a family too.
So that was our exercise for today, tomorrow its back to jogging/walking at 6am with my walking buddy!
Was also a weigh in day today (normal Sunday weigh in) and here are the results:
Current weight: 89.7kg (finally made it into the 80's even if its only just scraping in!)
Total weight lost: 10.3kg
Yah! Go you big red fire engine!
Sunday 10 June 2012
Another week, another weigh in
Another week gone, this one implementing our new eating habits - ie, eating after the kids go to bed instead of having dinner at 5pm and then snacking all night till we go to bed. So far it's working really well, I've stopped snacking and just have a cup of coffee usually when the kids have their dinner. Well, not that they eat, it should say "when I make dinner for the kids and they bitch and moan about how they don't want to eat it".
Anyway, a better weigh in this week - woohoo! I've also been getting up in the morning while it's still dark and going for a walk with my new walking buddy. It's so much easier to force yourself out of bed on this cold mornings when you know someone is waiting for you! So I've been doing that exercise, I'm happy if I get bit of exercise every day, no matter how little, the main reason for doing this is to get fit not necessarily just to get skinny. No good being skinny if you still can't run around with the kids because your cardiovascular fitness is up to shit.
Current weight: 91.1kg
Total lost so far: 8.9kg
Bring on this week!
Anyway, a better weigh in this week - woohoo! I've also been getting up in the morning while it's still dark and going for a walk with my new walking buddy. It's so much easier to force yourself out of bed on this cold mornings when you know someone is waiting for you! So I've been doing that exercise, I'm happy if I get bit of exercise every day, no matter how little, the main reason for doing this is to get fit not necessarily just to get skinny. No good being skinny if you still can't run around with the kids because your cardiovascular fitness is up to shit.
Current weight: 91.1kg
Total lost so far: 8.9kg
Bring on this week!
Monday 4 June 2012
When scales go bad
Ok so this week I gained weight. I know why. I snack of a night time. We have dinner at 5pm with the kids and by the time 7.30 or 8pm rolls around I am bloody starving!
So instead of admitting defeat as my past self would have done, Elf Man and I have come up with a new plan.
We will feed the kids at 5pm and one of us will exercise. The other sits down with the kids and has a cuppa or a banana or something. Our dinner time is now at 7.30 to try and stop those nightly bingings.
It worked last night, dinner at 7.30 and a little bit of ice cream at 8.30, cup of tea at 9.30.
Hopefully this new plan wil keep my exercise regular, it's hard to exercise at night when The Baby has been unsettled and waking all the time. By the way, The Baby will now affectionately be known as Bubbles.
So with my weight gain this week - if it's not working, change it!
current weight: 93.5
So instead of admitting defeat as my past self would have done, Elf Man and I have come up with a new plan.
We will feed the kids at 5pm and one of us will exercise. The other sits down with the kids and has a cuppa or a banana or something. Our dinner time is now at 7.30 to try and stop those nightly bingings.
It worked last night, dinner at 7.30 and a little bit of ice cream at 8.30, cup of tea at 9.30.
Hopefully this new plan wil keep my exercise regular, it's hard to exercise at night when The Baby has been unsettled and waking all the time. By the way, The Baby will now affectionately be known as Bubbles.
So with my weight gain this week - if it's not working, change it!
current weight: 93.5
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