WEIGH IN

I'm making Wednesday my weigh in day to coincide with the 10 week challenge.

Wgt today: 121.6 kg (267.5 lbs)
Loss for the week : 1.4 kg (3.08 lbs)

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!

NO MORE EXCUSES

The tough love concept is working for me, the tougher I am with myself the better the performance I give. I am of course talking about my food and exercise plans!!! lol. Got to the gym today, did 10 mins on the bike as a warm up (before my buns lost their blood supply), then did 2x sets of 15 on the weight circuit and finished off with 15 mins on the treadmill walking at 4kms per hour. I feel great at the moment.

Tomorrow is the start of the "Loose 500gms (1.1lbs) a week for 10 weeks" challenge devised by a fellow blogger Chubbymum,if you wish to join please do so as the more the merrier.Set yourself any weight loss goal you wish doesn't have to be the the 500 grams and place it on your side bar to record your progress - simple. I do hope you all join in for a bit of fun and hopefully motivation.I'll be posting my start weight after weighing in tomorrow.

BACK INTO IT

Thanks to all of you wonderful people for your encouraging words, it really has been a support. Reading over my post again made me cringe a bit and I can hear my mother's voice telling me "not to be so vulgar" lol. I think my little (OK, BIG) hissy fit did me some good and made me sit up and take stock of the situation. I made a pact with myself I wouldn't do anymore posts until I had something positive and constructive to write about.

I have worked out I need to be regimental about my eating, for the last three days I have not let ONE thing pass my lips that I wasn't supposed to have, not even let myself lick a serving spoon. I even resisted the cakes we had at work for a colleagues birthday on Friday which I can tell you is a feat in itself for me.I find if I have these things I just want more. Then I tell myself "oh well I've slipped now, might as well eat what I want for the rest of the day" only trouble was that was happening 4 out of the 7 days in a week, so my weight was yo-yoing all the time.

The other problem was the exercise - or lack of it.So I arranged my weekend so I would have time to start back at the gym on Saturday morning first thing, as if I left it to the afternoon I may have chickened out and made some pathetic excuse not to go. I made it - and what a relief the first session is done and out of the way.My session consisted of 3 x sets of 10 on the weights circuit and 18 minutes on the treadmill walking at around 4kms per hour. Nothing flash - but it's a start. Actually I surprised my self on the treadmill as I thought if I could handle 10 minutes I'd be happy (as that is all I could do when I started several moths ago) and even at 18 mins I felt I could do more, but I wanted to stick to the original plan of easing myself back into exercise again as I want to be able to walk tomorrow. So that's it I have more focus at the moment, something I haven't had in a long while,and it feels good, it makes me feel somewhat empowered. I know I have a long way to go.

THE BIGGEST LOSER

No, this post is not about The Biggest Loser TV show, it's about me - The Biggest Loser.

I'm a loser because I cannot stay on the plan for even a day, I'm a loser because I wont get off my ample butt and get back to the gym (while still paying for it), I'm a loser because I can't get my shit together long enough and am wasting so many opportunities.I'm a loser because I'm fearful of the TBL TV show ending as it is my one source of inspiration I have, when I watch the show I want to do better.I'm a loser because I always settle for second best, I hate my life, I hate my job, I hate myself, loser,loser LOSER!!!!!!!!

The Biggest Loser aka fattiboomsticks, fattiboombalata, barge arse, fatso, hippogirl.When I bend over everyone thinks there's a solar eclipse about the happen, hell I'm so fat you'd have to roll me in flour to find the wet spot!

OK, now I've got that off my chest tomorrow is another day, gotta pick myself up, dust off the crap,get back on the Ass (my horse died from the load) and try again and again and again.

CHOC'D OUT - WELL AND TRULY

This Easter I have received by far the most chocolate I have ever received. I am appreciative of the thought behind the gifts but have had a few silent screams.I even bought myself a small Lindt bunny (before all the gifts)just so I would have some chocolate and not feel left out. Well, that has not been the case and my cup is running over - with chocolate!!!!

Had a pretty quite one this Easter which is good.Pottered around the house, hired some DVDs, saw The Departed which I thoroughly enjoyed and Casino Royale which I will have to get out again as I feel asleep half way through it.Didn't really get enough viewing time to say whether I like the "new" James Bond but one things for certain, I like Daniel Craig - hubba hubba!!!

One more day off then it's back to the same humdrum of work. I shouldn't complain if I didn't work I'd get bored at home, but I could handle only having to work 2 or three days a week - dream on!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

WEEKEND OVER

My weekend is almost over and as usual I spent the large part of it doing housework.The only time I had to myself was Saturday morning when I participated in some retail therapy as I was looking for some winter boots.I thought I might have a chance of fitting my gherkin legs into some knee high black boots since I have lost some weight. I had noticed several pairs of boots had adjustable straps at the top and thought I might be lucky. Well I was wrong, though I did manage to get one pair zipped up, I couldn't get the buckles done up and they really looked shite, not to mention I looked like I was walking with pineapple shoved up my derriere - not a good look. I had to settle for some ankle boots (or in my case - cankle boots! lol
They are black suede with a wedge heel, so comfortable. The rest of Saturday was spent washing, ironing and vacuuming. On Sunday I did the grocery shopping,purchased some Easter gifts, finished off the washing, stripped all the beds-yadda yadda yadda!
All I seem to do is bloody housework on the weekend, I like to hear from my fellow bloggers out there who work, if they are in a similar situation, or what they do to get some "me" time. I just never seem to get any.

My eating has been good this past week and I have not weighed my self yet as I want to get,what I think and hope will be a nice surprise when I do.I'm a bit worried how I'm going to go over Easter with all the chocolate I will be around.I think I will have to be on my guard and really work on the will power. I recently read that our conscious thoughts and a behaviours represent 2% and the other 98% was our subconscious thoughts and behaviours. Now I don't know if this is right but I know there are many. many times when I've done something and later had no memory of it or wished I had at least thought about my response before doing it - particularly with eating that's for sure.Maybe I need some subliminal messages playing in my ear when I go to bed, at least it would cut out the noise from hubby's snoring. Hmmmm, something else to think about.