What a weekend!

I had a weak moment on Friday and agreed to go for a run at Bondi with Nathan on Saturday morning.... for fun! HE'S A PERSONAL TRAINER. What was I thinking?!! We started off together, then I sent him on his merry way to run ahead and pick me up on the way back! There was no point even trying to keep up! It was good though - we did about 6km.

Saturday night had dinner and a few wines with a girlfriend and then Sunday flew to Melbourne. My girlfriend picked me up from the airport and then took us off for a manicure and pedicure! It was such a nice surprise... an afternoon of pampering. Had dinner at the pub. Hmmmm chips. Haven't had chips in a while... they were good! But very naughty. Spent Monday at our Mt Waverley office. It was so good to see everyone - just like coming "home". Which I guess it was, cause I used to spend more time there than at my real home! Couldn't believe how easily I slipped back into old habits though. Got busy and forgot to have breakfast. Then went to the pub for lunch. Started off well... Diet Coke, grilled chicken with mushrooms... except it came with chips. I can say no to chips... unless they are on my plate in front of me. Twice in one weekend. That is so bad. Had a great time, but spent the plane trip back to Sydney sulking about my lack of willpower (there was chocolate involved Sunday night as well). Hopped on the scales this morning for a sneak preview - and I lost 100g. I seriously expected a 1kg gain. But no! Yay me! Back to the gym tonight....

Thank God it's Friday!!!

Bring on the weekend! I just want to go home tonight and do NOTHING! I need to do housework and washing, but I am going to do that in my PJs at home all by myself! Yay! Tomorrow night I have dinner with a girlfriend and then Sunday I fly down to Melbourne cause I have a meeting Monday morning. Staying with a girlfriend so that should be fun.

My arms are feeling better. But now I have sore legs! I have been doing PT for 20 weeks, and I still get sore after every session. Even though I love it I am looking forward to having 2 weeks over Christmas so I can not be in pain! I'll still run and maybe do a couple of pump classes though. Can't live without my exercise anymore!

Tiny Donna and Em battle it out....

... to hit 25kg lost! I have been challenged - and I accept! Lets see who can get to 25kg first – Donna has 3.4kg to go, and I have 4kg to go. It's a race!

On your marks, get set, go!!!!!!!

My body hurts :(

... well more specifically, my arms. They don't work so well after last night's PT session! As I am training 2 days in a row this week (instead of having a day in between) I did upper body last night, and tonight the legs will be tortured. This means that my arms did heavy weights (ie. boys weights) for a whole hour last night. I thought they were going to fall off! Tonight I have an hour of running, stairs, lunges and squats to look forward to.

I joined up on the calorie king website yesterday. I have been reading it for a while and think it has a lot to offer, so for $29 for a whole year I figured I had nothing to lose - except kgs! Similar to WW, you can enter your menu in and it calculates for you - except calorie king calculates calories, fat, protein, carbs etc. Much more useful I think. It seems I need about another 30g of protein a day. That's quite a bit. Might talk to Nathan about protein shakes or bars cause I don't really want to eat more meat or eggs. Can't have much more fat though (unless I cut out cheese from my lunch!) so need to find something high in protein with less than 3g of fat.

I'm a bit confused by the way it includes exercise though. It takes the calories you burn during exercise off your daily allowance – which means I would have to eat twice as much to get the calories it recommends. Doesn't really make sense to me, but it would probably help if I read through the information first!

Xmas Parties and Stuff

What a weekend! Oh my God it was hot in Melbourne. I landed on Saturday morning amongst alot of smoke... the bushfires are so bad. Spent Saturday with Mum and Dad and then we went out for dinner with a girlfriend and her husband. Had a great time. They hadn't seen me for about 5 months or so – so were a bit surprised by the new me! It was so good to see Mum and Dad. Only 2 weeks til Christmas and I am back home for 2 weeks – can't wait.

Sunday was the work Xmas party. Except for the fact that it was 42 degrees I had a great day. It was so great to see everyone. There wasn't even much alcohol consumed cause it was so hot – we all sat around drinking water until the cool change came through about 3pm. Very unusual for our xmas party! Went for a swim to cool off when we got home.

Here's a pic of me with two of my workmates...



Seeing that I didn't drink much over the weekend, ate healthily and sweated like you wouldn't believe, the scales are looking pretty good this week. Should get a 2kg loss this week if I keep going the way I am. Yay! It's been ages since I had a loss like that. So running tonight (got new shoes to try out, and my shins are feeling much better), personal training tomorrow, swimming Wednesday night. Then weigh-in Thursday morning - bring on 2kg!!! If I can do that, I'm still a chance for hitting the 25kg mark for Christmas.

I went swimming!

I have sore shins from running, so that's out. My trainer said not to do heaps of walking either. I so badly needed an alternative cause I couldn't not exercise given the week I have had. So I braved the pool! I have not been swimming in years and I had forggoten how much I love it. I did laps for about 30 mins and was surprised at how quickly I got puffed. So here I find a new challenge and a different form of exercise to keep me motivated. And the best bit is that I lost 300g.... so that little gain is GONE already!!!

Can't wait for the weekend. I'm flying to Melbourne tomorrow morning and Mum and Dad are picking me up from the airport. I haven't seen them in about 2.5 months – so hopefully they will see a big difference! I've got my work xmas party on Sunday, and my work mates haven't seen me for even longer so that will be exciting too. They'd better notice!

I'll report back on Monday with the results of the big reveal!

My first gain :(

I gained 200g this week. Not much in the scheme of things, but it is my first gain and I am devastated. I knew I wasn't doing well this week and I struggled to change it. This week sucks!

So time for some thinking. Why do I want to get to goal?
• I want to wear bathers
• I want to shop with my girlfriends and try on the same clothes as them
• I want to run 10km with Nathan at his pace, instead of 5km at my pace
• I want to go on 'active' holidays instead of worrying that I am not fit enough
• I want to do the Harbour Bridge climb
• I want to be hot – instead of the fat chick with the pretty face
• I want to be healthy
• I want to be confident and not self concious about my body

This is why I am doing this. I want to get there so bad!

I've come to confess....

my sins. I have made some REALLY bad food choices this week. I haven't been able to get back on track since the weekend. I've exercised, but haven't eaten very well. My main problem has been eating too much... and I haven't done that for 5 months. I had dinner last night and even though I wasn't hungry I ate more. And I don't know why. That's the worst bit – I don't even have an excuse! I HATE the feeling of being too full.

Today I am trying really hard to go back to normal eating. I've had porridge and yogurt for breakfast, a low fat raspberry muffin for a snack, lunch will be a salad, afternoon snack is a muesli bar and dinner a beef and vegie stirfry. That's it. No more. I'm also going to try get out of work a bit early so I can go for an 8km walk.

2 days til weigh in – I will lose weight this week.

Blow-out weekend

Whoops! Massive weekend. It all started with Friday night - my Personal Training xmas party. I expected that to be a big one, and it certainly didn't disappoint! I had an absolute ball. Drank too much champagne, however didn't eat any of the fried food that was being passed around. Although, in hindsight, I probably would have been better off eating something! Met lots of people who's names I cannot possibly remember, and had fun with those that I already know. Caught Nathan bragging about my 20kg loss to one of the other trainers - he was taking all the credit so I jumped in!

Saturday was very hungover. I attempted Oporto for lunch (yes I was feeling crap!), but that didn't help so only got through 3 chicken nuggets. By dinner time I was feeling much better though. Had Vietnamese with some friends and then went out for coffee afterwards. I couldn't say no to the chocolate and hazelnut mousse cake.

Sunday I went to a friend of a friend's housewarming. This proved difficult cause I needed to be back on track with my eating, except there were no healthy options. And I didn't know the people so it felt a bit uncomfortable. I ended up having 2 glasses of champagne and then went and helped myself to water. Had a bit of the cheese and bickies, but then tried to focus on something other than the food in front of me.

I couldn't face 3 days in a row with alcohol, fat food and no exercise so I went for a run/walk for an hour last night when I got home. Weighed myself this morning and have stayed the same. Guess I can't ask for anymore than that!

Fantastic weekend, but back into the healthy food/exercise thing today even though I could easily have a few more days off! I will not undo my hard work!

Cool t-shirts

Just found this great website which sells some very funny t-shirts.... www.lazybonesfitness.com
Here's my favs - I can't decide which one to get!

It's December already!

Yes that's right. December. Only 24 more sleeps til Santa comes. And between now and then there are numerous Christmas parties, bottles of wine and nibblies to get through! My plan is to have fun, but keep up the exercise so I can hopefully reduce some of the damage. I've got my PT xmas party tonight, and work xmas party next weekend. They'll be my two big nights out. After that I'll be on my best behaviour, cause I really, really, really want to do this.