Wednesday 29th September
Weight: 66.4
Exercise: 60 Mins Treadmill - 35 Mins Running, 25 Mins Power Walking (8.47km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Banana Smoothie, 2 Slices Brown Toast with W/W Margerine
Lunch: Banana, Pineapple, Strawberry & Yoghurt Smoothie
Afternoon Tea: Low Fat Vanilla Yoghurt
Dinner: Coleslaw, Small Chicken Fillet, Cordon Bleu
I think all this effort is finally starting to pay off. The scales are now moving down slowly and I can feel that there's not so much stomach excess hangover when I sit down!!
Need to lose at least another 2kg's by Friday!!! (Going out!!)
Tuesday 28th September
Weight: 67.0
Exercise: 30 Mins Cross Trainer (4.77km), 10 Mins Rower (2133m), 20 Mins Cycle (8.51km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Pineapple, Strawberry & Yoghurt Smoothie, 1 Slice Whole Grain Toast with W/W Margerine
Lunch: Ham Sandwich on Whole Grain Bread, 1 Chunk Low Fat Cheese
Dinner: Fried Minced Steak with Peas & Carrots, small dollop of Mashed Potato
I'm happy enough with what I ate today. Didn't have much energy to do anything that took alot of my time otherwise I would have had more veg with the minced steak. At least I had a junk free day today!!!
Monday 27th September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Banana Smoothie
Morning Tea: Banana
Lunch: Ham & Low Fat Cheese on Whole Grain Bread
Afternoon Tea: Bag Choc Bullets
Dinner: Pineapple, Strawberry & Yoghurt Smoothie
I went to the cinema, and wanted something to munch on. I couldn't see anything that I fancied other than the bullets. So that's what I had!!
Sunday 26th September
Weight: 67.0
Exercise: NO
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 4 Slices Raisin Toast.
Lunch: Can Chilli Beaf Soup, Ham & Low Fat Cheese on White Bread Roll
Afternoon Tea: Oreo McFlurry
Dinner: 1 Slice Whole Grain Bread with Lemon Curd, 1 Sausage in Whole Grain Bread, 2 Glasses Champagne
Snack: Mini Packet Plain Potato Chips
Let's just forget about today!!! Think I was in hangover mode and just seemed to shove anything and everything into my mouth!!
Tomorrow is a new day!!
Saturday 25th September
Weight: 67.2
Exercise: Treadmill - 45 Mins Running, 15 Mins Power Walking (8.92km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 4 Slices Raisin Toast with W/W Margerine
Lunch: Banana Smoothie
Snacks: BBQ Shapes, Savoury Shapes, Cheese Sticks
Dinner: 2 Honey & Soy Kebabs, 1 Hamburger, Salad, Coleslaw 1/2 Boiled Egg, 6 Glasses Champagne
Late Snack: 3 Chewy Caramel Tim Tams
It was Grand Final day today, and so I had munchies laid out when we watched the game.....wasn't going to deny myself as that's the reason I'd bought them. The champagne was a bit excessive and I had a huge headache late in the evening. Probably due to dehydration as I didn't drink any water during the day!!!
Friday 24th September
Weight: 67.4
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Banana Smoothie, Croissant
Lunch: Can of Chicken & SweetCorn Soup, Small Brown Roll with Ham & Low Fat Chese, Small Brown Roll with W/W Butter
Dinner: Beef Ravioli, Low Fat Lemon Meringue Yoghurt
So how come I can eat badly yesterday and I lose weight today? Doesn't make sense!!
Thursday 23rd September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Treadmill - 30 Mins Running, 30 Mins Power Walk (8.3km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Banana Smoothie
Lunch: Strawberry & Pineapple with Yoghurt Smoothie
Afternoon Tea: Packet Dark Choc Covered Raspberry Licorice
Dinner: Beef Stir Fry with Hoi Sin Sauce, Bottle of Cider
Dessert: 3 Apple & Spice Muffins
Really tried to walk past Darrel Lea, but that licorice just called out to me. I only bought it to eat on the train as I was in the city and wanted something for the ride home. Could have gone into 7/11 and bought some fruit I suppose!!!!
And I don't want to talk about the muffins.....not feeling great about them. In my defence I did the shopping on an empty stomach.....probably don't need to say any more!!!
Wednesday 22nd September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: 30 Mins Cross Trainer (4.19km), Treadmill - 10 Mins Running, 20 Mins Power Walking (3.89km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Slices White Toast with Lemon Curd, Porridge with Golden Syrup
Lunch: Wholegrain Bread Roll with Ham & Low Fat Cheese, Banana
Dinner: Kashmir Beef with Brown Rice, Wholegrain Roll with CBINB, 1 Bottle Strongbow Cider
I know that I wasn't going to drink alcohol during the week, so I'm not sure why I went and bought the cider. Still feel like I'm eating too much breakfast.....and probably not enough veggies today....hang on - no veggies at all today!!
Tuesday 21st September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps, Treadmill - 30 Mins Power Walk (3.49km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 3 Weetbix with sprinkle of Splenda, 2 Pieces whole grain toast with Lemon Curd
Lunch: Can of Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup, White Bread Roll with CBINB (Can't Believe it's not Butter)
Dinner: Piece of Steak, Piece of Chicken Breast, Fried Onions & Courgettes
Dessert: Strawberries & Cream
I seem to be eating more, probably due to my exercising. Not sure whether this is a good thing or not, but I do feel a bit hungrier in the morning when I come back from the gym.
I've now realised that Weetbix doesn't fill me up, so won't be eating that anymore!!
Monday 20th September
Weight: 67.4
Exercise: Day off today!
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Porridge with Golden Syrup
Lunch: White Bread Roll with Ham & Low Fat Cheese, 1/2 Bread Roll with Ham
Afternoon Tea: Mandarin, 4 Strawberries, W/W Apple Crumble Cereal Bar
Dinner: Plate of Chips, Bag of Raspberry Choc Bullets.
Haven't felt great today. Have the makings of a cold again!!!
Not sure what happened with Dinner, but it wasn't too good. The craving for carbs really kicked in and the chocolate bullets were just not necessary, but as Nick had asked me to pick up some chocolate for him, I felt it was okay for me to eat it too!! When will I learn to say NO!!
Sunday 19th September
Weight: 67.4
Exercise: Walked Round Royal Melbourne Show!
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Porridge with Golden Syrup
Lunch: Jacket Potato with Savoury Mince, Coleslaw, Cheese & Sour Cream
Afternoon Tea: Flake Ice Cream
Dinner: Light Cream Cheese Spread Sandwich on Multi Grain Bread, 275gm Bag Raspberry Licorice
Okay I feel really sick now after eating that bag of licorice. It was very moorish but I'm probably going to pay for it later.
As I went to the Royal Melbourne Show today, there was alot of temptation to buy really junky food, but I did try to refrain myself, and I didn't even buy a showbag with lots of chocolates inside....in fact I didn't buy a showbag at all!!
Did lots of walking, so hopefully I walked off some of the calories from the Ice Cream!
Saturday 18th September
Weight: 67.4
Exercise: Treadmill - 60 mins Power Walking (7.19km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Porridge with Golden Syrup
Lunch: Chicken Meat & Low Fat Cheese Multi Grain Sandwich, Crust with W/W Margerine
Afternoon Tea: W/W Apple Crumble Cereal Bar
Dinner: Can Beef Stockpot Soup, 2 Slices Multi Grain Toast with W/W Margerine, 1 Bottle Champagne
So the weight has started to decrease as soon as I stop doing low carb!! I really must have been doing something terribly wrong when I was low carbing!!
Enjoyed my food today!
Friday 17th September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps, Treadmill - 15 mins Power Walk (1.76km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Wholemeal Crumpets with W/W Margerine
Morning Tea: 2 Butternut Snap Biscuits
Late Morning Tea: W/W Apple Cereal Bar
Lunch: Pasta Bolognese, Side Salad, Low Fat Strawberry Yoghurt
Afternoon Tea: 2 Mandarins
Dinner: Chicken with olives & Tomato stir in sauce, Green Beans, Brussel Sprouts, Cauliflower
I feel much happier eating this way. I didn't realise it before but I really felt alot of pressure on me when I was eating low carb. I now feel as if a weight's been lifted off my shoulders and the pressure is off!!
Hopefully with the amount of exercise I'm doing, the fact that I can still eat lots of nice things this way and no pressure, should bring my weight down a bit more rapidly than it has (or hasn't!!) in the last couple of weeks!!
Thursday 16th September
Weight: 68.0
Exercise: 20 Mins Cross Trainer (7.05km), 10 Mins Rowing (2145m), 20 Mins Cycle (8.23km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Porridge with Splenda
Morning Tea: 4 Vita Wheat Biscuits with W/W Margerine, 1 Butternut Snap Biscuit
Lunch: Mashed Egg with Salad, Strawberries with Splenda
Afternoon Tea: Mandarin, Packet Chocolate Bullets
Dinner: Pasta Bolognese
So I've given up on Low Carb, and I *allowed* myself to eat the Chocolate Bullets. I just hope that by trying to eat "normally" my brain doesn't automatically think that normal = lollies, chocolate, cakes etc!!....well not in excess anyway!!
Wednesday 15th September
Weight: 68.0
Exercise: 30 Mins Cross Trainer (4.22km), Treadmill - 30 Mins Power Walking (3.44km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Omelette with Shredded Ham
Morning Tea: Cubes of Cheese, 1 Butternut Snap Biscuit
Lunch: Left Over Chicken Stirfry, Strawberries & Cream
Afternoon Tea: Fried Halumi Cheese rolled in Bacon, Bar Cadbury Lite Chocolate
Dinner: 2 Slices White Bread with Lemon Curd
Okay I'm now giving up on Low Carb. My weight has just gone up and up and I'm now feeling very demoralised. Have decided to just eat "normally" if there is such a thing. Can't be any worse than what I've been doing.
New start tomorrow!!!
Tuesday 14th September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs
Morning Tea: Cubes of Cheese & Mixed Nuts
Lunch: 1 Low Carb Sausage, Roast Pumpkin, Roast Pepper, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli & Caulimash, Strawberries & Cream
Afternoon Tea: 2 x Choc Ripple Biscuits
Dinner: Chicken Breast, Stir Fry Vegetables with Soy Sauce, 6 Fried Halumi Cheese rolled in Bacon
The biscuits just called out to me!! I was getting a bit peckish around 3pm and I didn't have anything left to eat.....yeah I could have drunk a cup of coffe (which I did anyway), or I could have put some gum in my mouth to chew on, but once again, those sweet cravings took over and I just put my hand in the biscuit tin and pulled a couple out!! Not good, not good!!
Monday 13th September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Treadmill - 60 Mins Power Walking (7.04km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Ham & Cheese Omelette
Morning Tea: Cubes of Cheese & Mixed Nuts, 5 French Vanilla Chews
Lunch: Low Carb Lasagne, Green Salad, Strawberries & Cream
Dinner: 2 Low Carb Sausages, Caulimash, Broccoli & Brussell Sprouts
I'm still debating about changing the way I eat, but I'm definitely moving toward the South Beach way of eating.
Bad thing happened today. Oven doesn't work. No idea why...one minute it's roasting my pumpkin, next time I look it's dead...no gas coming through at all. What am I going to use now to roast my foods?
Sunday 12th September
Weight: 67.6
Exercise: 30 Mins Cross Trianer (4.4km), 30 Mins Treadmill - Power Walking (3.35km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast/Lunch: Low Carb Lasagne
Snack: Cubes of Cheese, 2 French Vanilla Chews, few mixed nuts, one spoonful M&M McFlurry
Dinner: Mixed Nuts, 1/2 can JD & Coke
Well that wasn't very good eating!! Just didn't have the motivation to do veggies, or cut up salad...I'm a lazy cow sometimes!!
Really have to consider whether doing low carb is working for me. I've also got the South Beach Diet Book so have been having a read through that. I'm going to do low carb for another week to see if I get any results and then I'm probably going to change to South Beach. It looks slightly less restrictive and it's more about low fat dairy, and I'm much happier eating low fat rather than full fat. Anyway I'll see what happens during the week.
Saturday 11th September
Weight: 67.4
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps, Treadmill - 30 Mins Power Walking (3.3km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs
Lunch: Small Chicken Breast, handful of Mixed Nuts
Dinner: Low Carb Lasagne, 5 Chocolate Biscuits, Bottle of Champagne, 1/2 bag chocettes
Hanging my head in shame. Don't know what this chocolate binge is about!!
Tomorrow is going to be a better day!
Friday 10th September
Weight: 67.6
Exercise: Treadmill - 60 Mins Power Walking (about 7.9km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Low Carb Blueberry Muffin & Double Cream
Morning Tea: Cubes of Cheese
Lunch: Bacon Mayo Salad
Afternoon Snack: Orange Chupa Chup
Late Snack: Slice White Bread & Butter, 3 Sugar Free French Vanilla Chews
Dinner: Chicken Breast, Cauliflower, Green Beans & Gravy
I think I'm having carbohydrate withdrawl cravings. Had this real urge to eat some bread, so I had some. Not sure if it made any difference, and I have to be honest and say that the bread didn't taste as nice as I thought it would!!!
Please note, no alcohol was consumed tonight!!
Thursday 9th September
Weight: 67.2
Exercise: No
Food Intake
Breakfast: 2 Slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs
Morning Tea: Cubes of Cheese
Late Morning Tea: 3 Chocolate Biscuits (aagghhhh!)
Lunch: 1/2 Chicken, Coleslaw, Strawberries & Cream
Dinner: 1 Hamburger, LeftOver Stirfry Veg with Cheese Sauce, Sugar Free Jelly
I ddin't do any exercise today. I did a spinning class last night and I could hardly walk this morning as my calves were just so sore!!
Not too happy with myself about the chocolate biscuits. We'd had a meeting and they were just sitting on the table. Of course once I'd had one, I wanted the whole plate......but controlled myself by just eating three of them!!!
Wednesday 8th September
Weight: 67.6
Exercise: Weights Workout, Situps, Spinning Class (evening)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Low Carb Pancakes with Splenda & Lemon Juice
Morning Tea: Cubes of Cheese
Lunch: Tuna Mayo Salad, Strawberries & Cream
Afternoon Tea: Small piece of Fruit Cake (oops!!)
Dinner: Steak with Stir Fried Courgettes, Capsicum, Broccoli & Cauliflower in Soy Sauce
I've really started to enjoy my weight workouts. I'm adding more reps each week but am keeping the weight lower than I used to as I don't really want to bulk up, just tone up. I think it's starting to work as I don't have such a huge lump hanging over my bra strap anymore, and my arms are not looking so much like bingo arms any more either!! Stomach still needs a hell of alot of work and my child bearing hips still seem to think that I'm going to bear more children!!!
Tuesday 7th September
Weight: 67.2
Exercise: 15 Mins Skipping, 15 Mins Cross Trainer (2.35km), 30 Mins Treadmill - 5 Mins Running, 25 Mins Power Walking (3.6km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs
Morning Tea: Cheese & Mixed Nuts (maybe too much cheese??)
Lunch: Coleslaw, 2 Bacon, Cheese & Egg Muffins, Strawberries & Cream
Afternoon Tea: 2 Bacon, Cheese & Egg Muffins
Late Afternoon Tea: 5 Low Carb Biscuits (to drink with my cup of coffee)
Dinner: Shepherds Pie (no potato topping)
Definitely not enough veggies today.....in fact I'm not very happy with what I've eaten today at all. I feel like I've just eaten crap and it's making me feel really heavy, if that makes sense.
Think I might cut out the nuts, biscuits, cakes and extra "bits".
Monday 6th September
Weight: 67.8
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps, 15 Mins Cross Trainer (2.12km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs
Morning Tea: 4 Low Carb Biscuits
Lunch: Tuna Mayo Salad, Strawberries & Cream
Afternoon Tea: Cubes of Cheese
Dinner: Chicken Breast with Stir Fry Veggies & Soy Sauce, Chocolate Cake & Lite Cream
WTF!!! Can't believe my weight on the scales this morning. I really feel like I'm starting to tone up, yet I'm gaining more weight....now I know that muscle weighs more than fat but come on!!!!
Sunday 5th September
Weight: 67.2
Exercise: 20 Mins Cross Trainer (3.03km), 20 Mins Bike (8.31), 20 Mins Treadmill - Power Walking (2.39km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Cheese & Ham Omelette with 2 pieces bacon
Morning Tea: Low Carb Biscuit, few cubes of cheese
Lunch: Turkey Roast, green beans, carrots, broccoli, 2 JD's & Diet Coke
Dinner: 1 Bacon, Egg & Cheese Muffin, few cubes of cheese, 2 glasses Champagne
It was Father's Day today and we went out for a meal. I had the roast but asked for the potatoes to not be put on the plate....cos I know I would've eaten them otherwise. The meal was a bit of a letdown though. Won't go there again!!
Saturday 4th September
Weight: 67.0
Exercise: No
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Low Carb Pancakes with Lemon Juice & Splenda
Lunch: Roast Pork, Roast Beef, Broccoli, Courgettes, Carrots, Green Beans, Cubes of Cheese, Teryaki Beef.
Afternoon Tea: Low Carb Chocolate Cake & Cream
Dinner: Mixed Nuts, 3 Glasses Champagne
I went to a pub today that was an "eat all you can" type thing. I felt really proud of myself that I managed to eat all the right things, without the feeling of deprivation that I used to get if I didn't indulge in everything so that I got my money's worth!!!
Friday 3rd September
Weight: 67.2
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps, 10 Mins Cross Trainer (1.36km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Pancakes (if you can call them that - looked more like scrambled eggs!!) with lemon and Splenda
Morning Tea: Mixed Nuts & Cheese, handful sugar free lollies
Lunch: Roast Pumpkin, 3 Bacon, Cheese & Egg Muffins, Chocolate Cake, Strawberries with Cream
Dinner: Butterfly Pork Steak, Brussel Sprouts, Cauliflower, Broccoli, 3 Glasses Champagne
Late Snack: 1/2 block Lite Chocolate
I probably didn't need to eat the lite chocolate as I was quite full after my dinner, but I just felt the need for the taste of chocolate. It didn't have the same taste, but it didn't taste horrible either, just not so chocolatey....if that makes sense!!!
Cut back on the champagne too, I didn't finish the whole bottle!!!
Thursday 2nd September
Weight: 67.0
Exercise: Treadmill - 30 Mins Running, 30 Mins Power Walking (8.52km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Fried Eggs, 2 Slices Bacon
Morning Tea: Cheese & Mixed Nuts
Lunch: 2 Low Carb Sausages, Coleslaw, Strawberries & Cream
Dinner: 1 Low Carb Sausage, 1 Bacon, Cheese & Egg Muffin
Scales still haven't moved!! But at least I'm eating better and I'm not cheating at all!!
Wednesday 1st September
Weight: 66.8
Exercise: 20 Mins Cross Trainer (2.99km), 10 Mins Rowing (2070m), 20 Mins Cycle (8.37km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: 2 Slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs
Morning Tea: Cheese & Mixed Nuts
Lunch: 2 Low Carb Sausages, Strawberries & Lite Cream
Dinner: Chicken Breast & Roast Vegetables with Gravy
I think this was a good days food!! Wasn't really hungry at lunch, so just ate the sausages (they are quite spicy and they really make the place smell when I heat them up!!).
Need to do more baking now.....especially for sweet things - might make some biscuits and chocolate cake......yummm!!
Tuesday 31st August
Weight: 67.2
Exercise: Weight Workout, Situps, Treadmill - 10 Min Run, 5 Min Power Walk (2.18km)
Food Intake:
Breakfast: Low Carb Blueberry Muffin with Lite Cream
Morning Tea: Unsalted Mixed Nuts
Lunch: Tuna Mayo Salad, Strawberries & Lite Cream
Afternoon Tea: 2 Low Carb Bacon, Cheese & Egg Muffins
Dinner: Chicken Breast, Roasted Vegetables, Gravy
Did alot of cooking last night and tonight, so there's plenty of tasty low carb snacks in the fridge now. Stops me from picking at other stuff.
