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Well, how's this for a bad excuse to overeat:

I was in a bad mood about the Budget.

So I had 4 pieces of toast + marg + jam, fistfuls of lollies, actually I went food blind and I can't remember what I 've eaten the last couple of days, it's ended with a steak sandwich, potato cake & chips - just in defiance of a Budget that promised so much but gave diddly squat to this family.

At least I've been walking!  I'll hop on the scales in the morning and check out the damage.  I'm over my dummyspit, so tomorrow it's back to writing the food diary in my nicest writing (it's just a little motivational thing I do), and being discriminate about what I eat.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

Thought it might be worthwhile to post here what my goals are for when the road is rocky:

To get to 75kgs by the end of Nov06.  When I'm at goal I will:- fit comfortably in jeans, move more freely, be more flexible and agile playing with kids, enjoy clothes shopping more, have greatly reduced risk of ill-health of all descriptions.

When I have reached goal, I will have gotten there by: brisk walking 45-60 mins six days a week, being discriminate about food choices, having organised daily routines to accommodate my requirements as also deserving priority.

Short-term goal: get to 95kgs by June 12 by walking every day, with kids in tow or not, and tracking my food items.  Not getting on scales until June 12.

Todays goal : walk - done, but didn't track so I will tomorrow.  And I'll post each day (if I can) that I've achieved each goal (walk and track).

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

Hi Lollylorna,

Thats a great idea. I think I might copy it for myself this week. Focus on what I have done at the end of the day. Thanks for the idea. I'll keep a watch on your posts to see how you are doing.

Have a lovely weekend.

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Cindy
Enjoying life - and discovering the things I CAN do!

Gee I love reading others journals, its interesting to see how people handle problems and just watching the story of their lives unfold.  V.Cool.

Anyway, had a bad nights sleep thanks to my noisy baby (ha, and the night before I had the baby monitor on the wrong channel and got someone elses crying baby during the night, couldn't figure why my babe was sleeping so sound!).  I ended up having a nap in the arvo because I was major cranky.

I tracked but you don't want to know!  Didn't get my walk .  Getting out with pram, babe and hippity hoppity 5yo 2moro morning.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

I just want to say goodluck with your minigoals..its nearly june now so i do hope when you stand on the scales your pleasantly surprised...Keep up the hard work and im sure you will be rewarded! You are making changes to your life and getting the children involved as well by taking them for walks with you..when my son was small he used to ride his bike along the footpath whilst i walked as long as he was involved he was happy!

I wish you all the very best and look forward to reading more, when you achieve your goals!~

Judex

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Quickie update!

Yes, I did get out and walk in the freezing cold. Brrrr. Tick, job done.  And I tracked.

Today, I tracked and took two hours to do the grocery shopping so that's going to have to count for exercise.  So lots of ticks.

Tomorrow, 5yo swimming in morning and kinder in arvo - if weather holds out then I'll pram the baby after dropping off 5yo at kinder.

Quick story - I was trying to find some lost texta lids that 5yo had tossed and wasn't cooperating in helping me find them.  I was on my hands and knees looking under the chairs, when he says,'Mum, what are you doing?', and I said incredulously, 'Looking for your texta lids that you're not helping me find!'.  So he says to me, 'Oh.  I thought you were exercising.'  Oh ha bloody ha.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

All i can say about your little story is "out of the mouths of babes"..its amazing what they come out with and are so serious when they say it...

I remember a few years back i was at my god daughters birthday party when she was 4 and there was a little boy there with his father and he was talking to me and i had mentioned it was my birthday soon and he said how old are you going to be and i replied "i will be 39 in november" and he said with this wide eyed and mouth open "ANd your still alive" i replied "yes just" and at that moment the look on his fathers face you  know the kind where they want the ground to open up and swallow them....But when they were leaving the party the father called out to me and said "have a happy birthday"...

ANyway keep up the good work and have a great day!

Judexx

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Lol - thanks for that, Jude!

So where the bloody hell have I been?  We got a puppy about 10 days ago and it's been hectic slotting a dog into the household routine (which was barely existent anyway).  He's a little gold lab, and we're very happy to have a four-legged member of the family again.

Had loud words with my dh this morning about the whole 'you don't recognise what I do' and you know...so wasn't a happy camp here this morning.  It wasn't all me, takes two to tango but you know.  As a result he absconded to the garage and gave it a thorough clean and made places for garden tools to hang etc.  He fell asleep on the couch at 7.30pm.  Before he headed for bed, I asked him to take the photo of me, and he told me to figure out the timer.  I said I couldn't be fagged, I wouldn't stick with it anyway because everything else is more important and I don't get the time I need to exercise properly.

So I was huffed up to the computer room, and decided, bugger it, I can do the timer, and I did, so I sent in my photo.  I look after everybody elses needs and have to seek permission to do my own thing.  I can't just drop everything and leave everyone to fend for themselves.  I hardly have time to get on the computer and at night just want to veg out.  So Argh!  I really do deserve my time - I just want to go for a walk and not return to a screaming baby and a 5yo doing headstands on the couch.  Sometimes I feel unsupported with the responsibility of caring for us all but he doesn't get that.  Then I realsied that for this goal of mine, even if support is misdirected at home, there's support here on this forum.  People with the same goal as me, and it gave me the little push I needed to go in the new me competition.  I doubt I'll win, I just want to participate consistently for the 8weeks, and achieve something.  Don't want to quit, or find that I don't have time.

Admittedly it's been a busy time, the puppy moving in.  The 5yo had a cold + coughh and had to have chest xray for pneumonia (it wasn't), and the baby is teething  and grizzly and screamingly vocal with his hand stuffed in his mouth, and cries when I go out of view.   It's hard to get a toilet break sometimes!

Nevermind.  Tomorrow is a new day.  Goal for tomorrow is fill out my homework, track what I eat, exercise in some shape or form.

Hey tonight to do my assessment I went for a walk at 9pm up and down our court.  I guess it's a option if I don't get my exercise done before dark.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

It's so ace when I actually do something I said I was going to do!

Today my first day doing the New Me.  It's gone well too, here's the details:

Bfast: 2 x wmeal toast with sliced tomato & herbal tea; apple

Lunch: Salmon with lettuce mix, tomato, mushroom, celery, free dressing; half banana

Dins: bbq lamb chop, 2 baked potatoes, dry roast pumpkin, peas; kiwi fruit

That's 1190 cal and 25g fat.

This is lower than I'd thought, and just realised I didn't eat any dairy.  I think I'll have a warm milk before bed.  I did 35min walk up and down our street at 7pm.  My HR monitor wasn't connecting properly so I don't know what my avg WHR was.  I'll have to suss that out.

One task still to do is my homework, which is important, but will have to be tomorrow - which is an extremely busy one.  If I can do this now, I can do it anytime.

 

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

Baby had immunisations yesterday and I think he has a cold on top of it, so he's been out of sorts and not sleeping well.  It didn't help him being dragged along to kinder duty all morning today either.  Usually he sleeps through the commotion.  At least he's sleeping it off now.

So yesterday and today were very busy with my children, kinder, swimming lessons, doctor, maternal health nurse.  But I still made sure I got my walks.  Spoke with the other half who agrees that my walks are important and he'd rather be run over by a truck than get in the way of my walk!

So yesterday I was 1510 cals (34.5 fat) and today 1435cals (28.8fat), not including my exercise which was approx 120cals each day.

Tomorrow hopefully I will have time to do my homework because 5yo will be at kinder, and just maybe the baby will nap in the morning!  Lost is on.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

I did my homework this morning albeit somewhat rushed.  I slowed down my house routine today and spent extra time playing with 5yo while the baby slept off his cold (he's getting better).  We played Snap and Memory, and made a truck for Dad, and had a 'teddy chat'.  He's had a developmental spurt I think, little things like straightening the stack of cards so all the edges line up, and he was really very good at Memory.

I bolted out the door for my walk the minute dh gave his trained response 'yes' to my 'can i go for a walk now' question.

I've set my cal limit at 1500 because I'm still breastfeeding altho he gets about 25% or less of his daily milk requirements from me, and the rst is formula and solids.  Today, my total is 1761 cals and 31.8fat.  I went over because I didn't keep a running tally and had a double sevre of chicken and spinach risotto (Symply 2) thinking I still had enough cals left.  so lesson learnt is to keep a count after each meal so I know how much I have left.

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

Had a great walk this morning round my old route, which I did in 50 mins.  I still have a bit of speed to pick up to get to where I was a couple of summers ago.  Got my heartrate up and kept thumping along.  Even got up to 150's coming up a hill near home.

Ate correctly today but was peckish a bit, cold weather I think, but I didn't indulge.  I had 1420 cals and 43.3 fat.

Was tempted to jump on the scales this morning because I'm feeling lighter but I'll wait till Monday.  Getting on the scales too often messes with my head and demotivates me - which is to be avoided at all costs!

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

I just wanted to say to you Well done on your motivation and goal making your doing well and taking on challenges by yourself and i do agree that this forum is a place that you have people that understand that are on the exact same page as yourself...I commend you for juggling house work, children and dieting all at the same time..You are focusing and achieving and working towards the new YOU!!!!

Keep up the great work and i do hope your husband helps you out more and is more supportive of your hard work we all need support that is the most important thing  that keeps one motivated!!!

I hope you have a good weekend

JUde

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Thanks Jude, I've had a great weekend.   And thanks for your encouragement, that's exactly the kind of thing I mean!  My friend with her 5yo twins dropped in and the boys went mad.  My hubby's been very busy trying to support me, and I, in turn, have tried to give him some flightsim time.  Seems a fair trade to me, and I think it's working.

Hope you had a good weekend too!

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SW: Aug08 - 103.8kgs
CW: 95.8kgs (lost 8kgs)
GW: 79kgs by Mar09

Great to see that the tide is turning...good news all round!!!! I always say you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours, that way you can both help each other and in the long run everyone is happy!!!!

ANother week ahead and i hope that things continue to get better and better for you and your family!!!

Take care

Judexx

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