Taihape Half marathon

2014!!!

I have not been eating well of late so I've made a conscious decision to start eating breakfast. 

This is my breakfast this morning.  

- A banana (half on my cereal)

- 1 slice of Wholegrain bread with olivite spread and marmite 

- Muesli (can't remember the brand) with almond & coconut milk

- 1 heaped teaspoon of LSA

- 1 Deva vegan multi vitamin with greens 

- 1 coffee with 2 tsp raw sugar + a dash of almond and coconut milk

Not doing so good!

I've just finished my second serve of ice cream for the evening and albeit "light" I was already at 45 pro points for the day BEFORE I decided it was a good idea to have a complete binge out on ice cream.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

I plan all day what I'm going to eat and how I'm going to eat and what I'm going to do when I've reached goal weight etc etc but I go ahead and SABOTAGE myself and my efforts.

I just don't get it. I just don't get why I do this to myself.

WeightWatchers take six!

After many a month of procrastination,  I have finally made the move to rejoin WeightWatchers.

It took a bit of coordination to get myself to the lunchtime meeting today, but after few unplanned excursions with my daughter I managed to get to the meeting, rejoin and enjoy the awesome motivating vibe that only a WW meeting can bring!

I purchased a tracker, because I'm not yet in a position to sign up to the e-tools, so I'm going to give old fashioned tracking with a pen and paper a go!

 This time I'm not going to tell any of my real life friends what I'm doing.  All of the other times (count them six!) I mouthed off to any and everyone that I was doing WW.  When I made the decision to rejoin I knew that to really make this time count, I had to change my approach.  So the first thing I thought of was to not tell everybody.

So my personal goal is to wait until I have lost 15kg and then I will tell people what I'm doing.  I figure by that milestone I may lose a bit of mo-jo and telling everyone that I've lost 15kg using WW, but I've got another 22.5 kilos to go.  I think that that would give me another booster.

The following is a list of personal goals as of today:

1.  5% = a weight loss of 5.37 kilos and would bring my weight to 102.13kg
2. #99 - to get into the double digits! = a weight loss of 8.5 kilos and would bring my weight to 99kg
3. 10% = a weight loss of 10.7 kilos and would bring my weight to 96.75kg
4. 15% = a weight loss of 16.1 kilos and would bring my weight to 91.37kg
5. 20% = a weight loss of 21.5 kilos and would bring my weight to 86kg
6. 25% = a weight loss of 26.8 kilos and would bring my weight to 80.6kg
7. 30% = a weight loss of 32.2 kilo and would bring my weight to 75.25kg
8. 35% + GOAL = a weight loss of 37.6 kilos and would bring my weight to 69.8kg
9. LIFETIME = to maintain my weight between 68kg - 72kg

Lunch challenge update

Well I'm very happy to report that my self imposed lunch challenge has been going great.

I stopped doing a daily update just because I don't have enough hours in the day.

It was a challenging week seeing as it was my boss-of-ten-years last week of work so there were a couple of lunch dates to contend with.

Luckily both of the eating lunch out excursions were paid for so my wallet did really great this week.

I made sure to take packed snacks to work for both morning and afternoon tea and just left out the main part of my lunch on those days.

I also discovered a fabulously delicious addition to a lunchbox regular, my faithful friend "yoghurt". I added a handful of frozen blueberries into the container and "voila". They just make yoghurt that little bit more divine!

On tuesday a supplier that I work closely with shouted the office two big platters of subway. Awesome! On that particular day I was feeling rather famished and had eaten the majority of my lunch by 11am. (my excuse is that us in Nz have just come off daylight savings time so my stomach was still adjusting).

Next week I have a planned Lunch date on Friday. It's with one of my girlfriends so I'll encourage her to pack a lunch and we can make the most of the end of the beautiful weather by enjoying an outdoorsy picnic together.

Day 3 and I'm still smiling!!!!

Here's my gorgeous lunch for today

Today I toasted a wholemeal pita pocket and spread some glorious chilli and lime hummus on it, followed by shaved ham and some sliced radishes.

I had my raw vege medley with favorite dipping sauce and wholewheat crackers and tasty cheese.

For a snack I had wasabi peas, chilli peas, spicy broad beans and roasted almonds.

Fabulous!!!

Here's my delish lunch for today:

1. Pottle of Fresh and Fruity Apricot yoghurt
2. Wholemeal pita pocket with hummus and ham
3. Wasabi peas, spicy broad beans, almonds and pistachio nuts
4. Radish, broccoli, capsicum and cherry tomatoes with my "oh-so-delish" coriander, ginger and lime dipping sauce.

My work mate was totally impressed and tried out the raw vege and dipper... and she actually enjoyed it!. I think I have a convert!!