After week 1 beiing back on track, week 2 beiing yuck...week 3 I fell sick with the flu.
Why is it that when I am sick, I don't lose my apetite? Not only was I too sick to exercise (and go to work), but not sick enough to eat?! Why was my throat so damn sore I couldn't swallow...but I could swallow my food? And why when you are sick and you want to eat, why do you crave all those things you shouldn't eat???
But despite that, I have recovered, and I have been exercising, and I have been doing well on the food side too. I haven't tracked, and I know I need to, I haven't planned my food like I did week 1...but I know I am eating my 5 vege, 2 fruit, eating high protein and fibre foods, low GI carbs and watching the portions.
My exercise has included pump, boxing, bootcamp, bodycombat, boxercise. I have felt a bit tight in the chest doing some of the exercise due to the flu, but pulled up well. The boxing (kimax it is called at the gym) almost made me spew...OMG it is soo hard. I did boxercise with the guy who runs the bootcamp tonight. It was good, he made me work (better then the bootcamp), and he got me moving my hips properly so I got a lot of power in my punch...proud to say I hit the hardest amongst the 11 of us there. There was too much waiting around unfortunately, but on the whole I got a good workout.
I have yet to weigh myself, I would hope that maybe I have lost 1kg, but surely not a gain! I think i am scared to weigh, I feel good, I can see it in my stomach, I can feel it in my clothes...and I know that is better then scales, but we all know, you work your butt off (hopefully literally) to lose on the scales...and it is disappointing if you don't get it.
I will make Wednesday next week my weigh in day.
Here is to good health! :)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
bad week
So after a good first week, second week was no good.
Didn't help being sick. Daughter being sick. So much happening with house, work issues, lots of things...but all the food issues could have been dealt with if I could exercise...but at the moment breathing is a slight issue for me...so no exercise...AT ALL.
I'm already exhausted, needed a nap at 10:30 this morning...my daughter heard me breathing (or lack of) and shoved the spacer on my face and puffed ventolin into me, and I barely recognised she was doing it...and this is without any drugs for this stupid flu. So what would exercise do to me? EXHAUSTION PLUS!!!!
Back to the ventolin thing...the worst of it...i am allergic to ventolin. So now I am suffering with a headache...i can feel the wrinkles in my forehead setting in as it struggles with the pain. the last time i had a ventolin headache was about 15 years ago and it lasted a week...I so hope it will disappear before then. Before my dr and I worked out the cause of my headaches, i was booked in for catscans...it was the last minute and i clicked that they occurred everytime I took ventolin. Apparently I am a 1:1000000 sufferer...and everyone tells me that it is better to have a headache then to not breathe. Well...for those who don't have headaches like this, i can see your point...but when I can manage my asthma incredibly well, and the last time I had an attack was about 20 years ago and the last time I got truly wheezy was probably 7 years ago...I would rather suffer with a bit of wheeziness then have a headache...it is so not worth this!
Thankfully I normally take other stuff, but since losing my weight I have not needed to use it, well barely.
So I must look at this week, and realise that yes it was one week. tomorrow, I am back on track, watching my food intake knowing i cannot exercise, but not suffering asthma is just one of the benefits for keeping the weight off and losing more weight.
Now to let my gorgeous 3 year old know the dangers of sharing medication! Drug education starts young!
Didn't help being sick. Daughter being sick. So much happening with house, work issues, lots of things...but all the food issues could have been dealt with if I could exercise...but at the moment breathing is a slight issue for me...so no exercise...AT ALL.
I'm already exhausted, needed a nap at 10:30 this morning...my daughter heard me breathing (or lack of) and shoved the spacer on my face and puffed ventolin into me, and I barely recognised she was doing it...and this is without any drugs for this stupid flu. So what would exercise do to me? EXHAUSTION PLUS!!!!
Back to the ventolin thing...the worst of it...i am allergic to ventolin. So now I am suffering with a headache...i can feel the wrinkles in my forehead setting in as it struggles with the pain. the last time i had a ventolin headache was about 15 years ago and it lasted a week...I so hope it will disappear before then. Before my dr and I worked out the cause of my headaches, i was booked in for catscans...it was the last minute and i clicked that they occurred everytime I took ventolin. Apparently I am a 1:1000000 sufferer...and everyone tells me that it is better to have a headache then to not breathe. Well...for those who don't have headaches like this, i can see your point...but when I can manage my asthma incredibly well, and the last time I had an attack was about 20 years ago and the last time I got truly wheezy was probably 7 years ago...I would rather suffer with a bit of wheeziness then have a headache...it is so not worth this!
Thankfully I normally take other stuff, but since losing my weight I have not needed to use it, well barely.
So I must look at this week, and realise that yes it was one week. tomorrow, I am back on track, watching my food intake knowing i cannot exercise, but not suffering asthma is just one of the benefits for keeping the weight off and losing more weight.
Now to let my gorgeous 3 year old know the dangers of sharing medication! Drug education starts young!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Sick girl...bad splurge, but surprisingly still doing it!
DD had NO sleep last night. Which meant mum and dad had NO SLEEP last night.
Woke up to a snoring girl in my bed who couldn't breathe...then suddenly she woke up with a blood nose.
Her breathing was just horrid.
So took her to the Dr. who said she had something stuck up her nose, a blue thing, and it was restricting her breathing. Told to take her to emergency at the hospital. Kept trying to ask her what she put up there, but she said nothing was up there. hmmm...
went to emergency and they were brilliant. but nobody could see what this blue thing was, couldn't see anything. had xrays...nothing. But her breathing was terrible. Had ventolin and atrovent and breathing better. 3 hours in there for observation, a white sullen out of breathe child clinging to her mummy became rosey cheeked, excited and couldn't stop talking...to absolutely out of it and fell asleep in my arms.
It was a precious moment.
Sucker mum then went and bought her a mermaid dress and a new barbie movie. Well, she is sick!!!
We also had donuts, coffee and then my food plan for the night, lamb shanks went out the door because it was too late to put them on. So we had gnocchi instead. I didn't realise the points on gnocchi!
So my perfectly planned points for the day, ended up being 46! WOW!
I was supposed to go to a class and a get a weights program done, which i couldn't do with DD there, and i had to be there for her. But i went to combat tonight. I am unco with the moves, but I don't find it hard, even though i do it high intensity. Whereas Kimax (boxing) was bloody hard and i could NOT do it high intensity the whole time.
Anyway, I only put a value of 3 points in for exercise.
So even with a huge 47 points, I still was nowhere near my 49 points for the week. Wrapped! Because I was sticking to the points, planned, I was able to keep a lot of extras up and I did well.
Did I lose weight? The gnocchi i can still feel in belly says no. but it isn't about that. It is about being back on track, having my reason for it.
And now, it looks like my girl has asthma. So I think it is really important that as an asthmatic, i show her that we can still do exercise. I don't use asthma as an excuse to not walk, not run...and neither will she. she can't! She needs to know that we have to know our asthma triggers and avoid them...so for me an over indulgence on dairy (cheese and thickshakes!) is a no go. And of course that helps with the weight! So her having asthma means I have to be an even better role model for her!
today was pretty emotional for me. I nearly didn't go to combat, i was buggered. I ate donuts, and I nearly pulled the plug. But I came out of it alive, I did it, and although I already know how much I love my little princess, gees today really bought it home for me. The times I just think "Aaargh, you are driving me crazy....if i hear the word Mummy, one more time I will scream "etc...today just let me know how lucky I am that I have her to drive me crazy, and Mummy is a nice word...especially when she searches for my hand to hold when she is scared!
I love you my fairy princess!
Woke up to a snoring girl in my bed who couldn't breathe...then suddenly she woke up with a blood nose.
Her breathing was just horrid.
So took her to the Dr. who said she had something stuck up her nose, a blue thing, and it was restricting her breathing. Told to take her to emergency at the hospital. Kept trying to ask her what she put up there, but she said nothing was up there. hmmm...
went to emergency and they were brilliant. but nobody could see what this blue thing was, couldn't see anything. had xrays...nothing. But her breathing was terrible. Had ventolin and atrovent and breathing better. 3 hours in there for observation, a white sullen out of breathe child clinging to her mummy became rosey cheeked, excited and couldn't stop talking...to absolutely out of it and fell asleep in my arms.
It was a precious moment.
Sucker mum then went and bought her a mermaid dress and a new barbie movie. Well, she is sick!!!
We also had donuts, coffee and then my food plan for the night, lamb shanks went out the door because it was too late to put them on. So we had gnocchi instead. I didn't realise the points on gnocchi!
So my perfectly planned points for the day, ended up being 46! WOW!
I was supposed to go to a class and a get a weights program done, which i couldn't do with DD there, and i had to be there for her. But i went to combat tonight. I am unco with the moves, but I don't find it hard, even though i do it high intensity. Whereas Kimax (boxing) was bloody hard and i could NOT do it high intensity the whole time.
Anyway, I only put a value of 3 points in for exercise.
So even with a huge 47 points, I still was nowhere near my 49 points for the week. Wrapped! Because I was sticking to the points, planned, I was able to keep a lot of extras up and I did well.
Did I lose weight? The gnocchi i can still feel in belly says no. but it isn't about that. It is about being back on track, having my reason for it.
And now, it looks like my girl has asthma. So I think it is really important that as an asthmatic, i show her that we can still do exercise. I don't use asthma as an excuse to not walk, not run...and neither will she. she can't! She needs to know that we have to know our asthma triggers and avoid them...so for me an over indulgence on dairy (cheese and thickshakes!) is a no go. And of course that helps with the weight! So her having asthma means I have to be an even better role model for her!
today was pretty emotional for me. I nearly didn't go to combat, i was buggered. I ate donuts, and I nearly pulled the plug. But I came out of it alive, I did it, and although I already know how much I love my little princess, gees today really bought it home for me. The times I just think "Aaargh, you are driving me crazy....if i hear the word Mummy, one more time I will scream "etc...today just let me know how lucky I am that I have her to drive me crazy, and Mummy is a nice word...especially when she searches for my hand to hold when she is scared!
I love you my fairy princess!
Sunday, September 4, 2011
I am doing it!
Well, I planned all evening meals, up to Thursday this week coming. And I have stuck to it, except changing steak to fish last night.
So really pleased that I have stuck to it.
Hubby has hidden all the chips, and he isn't bringing them out when I am around. He also hid the smarties he bought (why must he buy them???) so I CANNOT attack them!
I went to the casino on Friday night for a retirement. I never go out like that, and stuck to my guns. I planned to have 2 glasses of wine only, and that is exactly what I had. They were spaced out a lot too. I also didn't over eat at the buffet for dinner. I stayed away from all the breads and just had one small baked potato and hardly a serve of pasta (maybe two tablespoons worth!) then everything else i had was pretty healthy, and portioned as much as i could! (except for the icecream... but it is an indulgence I don't normally have...and I had my 49 points to spare!)
I also had 2 glasses of wine last night, They were also spaced out a lot, one with dinner at 6:30 which took about an hour to drink and one at about 9:30.
Had a breakfast buffet thing this morning, lucky it wasn't very nice so I didn't over indulge, but was still full at lunch time, just had something light. Having squid and salad tonight...planned that to make up for the indulgence at breaky. Haven't even needed a snack in between meals, so that is a good feeling!
Went to bootcamp yesterday morning. I am glad I have given it up, only 3 more left. It isn't that I don't like it, I do, and I like the people...It really doesn't push me THAT much. It is not a proper bootcamp, it is outdoor circuit work. It isn't easy, but it doesn't push me as hard as what Step Into Life used too. And it doesn't encourage me to do anything extra or watch what I eat. Whereas with Step Into Life, if I ate bad, I felt it. I needed to run outside of my class, or I wouldn't cope...and I wanted to! Now it is a bit lack lustre!
Joining the gym is a huge change for me. I haven't been back since Tuesday, but I knew I wouldn't be.
I am going tomorrow morning...Daughter is in creche there for 2 hours...I am planning on settling her in (as she has never been before), go and do a little bit on the cardio, do a kimax class (boxing circuit) then a little bit more of cardio or maybe even do somethings on the fitball.
Tuesday I will go in for another class, Power, which is a cardio/pump class I think, and I also have a session with the trainer for her to set up a weights plan for me.
I am also going to go tuesday night for combat, which works out well having a weights class and a cardio class in the one day.
Another thing that is making a difference, is I am really focusing on water. I probably drink one glass, sometimes none, in a day, especially in winter. And this week I have made a huge effort to get to the 2litres. Not always getting exactly 2L but certainly more then 1 glass! So huge improvement there...also going to the toilet lots so must be flushing the system out well! :-P
Already today, when I was getting dressed this morning, I noticed that my stomach was looking and feeling better. I have felt it to be quite bloated lately. well since I started putting on the weight, so since march. And now it is not so much! I haven't weighed myself, will wait for maybe two weeks before I do that. I really want to focus on just how I feel. The trainer wants me to do that too, look at my body and how I look and feel in clothes, not so much my weight.
So all going well. I really want to get back to being healthier. I have noticed my skin isn't as good, and I have some chaffing when I wear a skirt/dress, whereas I didn't have that during summer. I am also worried that maybe the extra weight is what is making my knees hurt when I run. So lose the weight and hopefully I will either eliminate the pain, or eliminate one possible cause and then I know it is something else!
Doing it again to feel better, look better and be better!
So really pleased that I have stuck to it.
Hubby has hidden all the chips, and he isn't bringing them out when I am around. He also hid the smarties he bought (why must he buy them???) so I CANNOT attack them!
I went to the casino on Friday night for a retirement. I never go out like that, and stuck to my guns. I planned to have 2 glasses of wine only, and that is exactly what I had. They were spaced out a lot too. I also didn't over eat at the buffet for dinner. I stayed away from all the breads and just had one small baked potato and hardly a serve of pasta (maybe two tablespoons worth!) then everything else i had was pretty healthy, and portioned as much as i could! (except for the icecream... but it is an indulgence I don't normally have...and I had my 49 points to spare!)
I also had 2 glasses of wine last night, They were also spaced out a lot, one with dinner at 6:30 which took about an hour to drink and one at about 9:30.
Had a breakfast buffet thing this morning, lucky it wasn't very nice so I didn't over indulge, but was still full at lunch time, just had something light. Having squid and salad tonight...planned that to make up for the indulgence at breaky. Haven't even needed a snack in between meals, so that is a good feeling!
Went to bootcamp yesterday morning. I am glad I have given it up, only 3 more left. It isn't that I don't like it, I do, and I like the people...It really doesn't push me THAT much. It is not a proper bootcamp, it is outdoor circuit work. It isn't easy, but it doesn't push me as hard as what Step Into Life used too. And it doesn't encourage me to do anything extra or watch what I eat. Whereas with Step Into Life, if I ate bad, I felt it. I needed to run outside of my class, or I wouldn't cope...and I wanted to! Now it is a bit lack lustre!
Joining the gym is a huge change for me. I haven't been back since Tuesday, but I knew I wouldn't be.
I am going tomorrow morning...Daughter is in creche there for 2 hours...I am planning on settling her in (as she has never been before), go and do a little bit on the cardio, do a kimax class (boxing circuit) then a little bit more of cardio or maybe even do somethings on the fitball.
Tuesday I will go in for another class, Power, which is a cardio/pump class I think, and I also have a session with the trainer for her to set up a weights plan for me.
I am also going to go tuesday night for combat, which works out well having a weights class and a cardio class in the one day.
Another thing that is making a difference, is I am really focusing on water. I probably drink one glass, sometimes none, in a day, especially in winter. And this week I have made a huge effort to get to the 2litres. Not always getting exactly 2L but certainly more then 1 glass! So huge improvement there...also going to the toilet lots so must be flushing the system out well! :-P
Already today, when I was getting dressed this morning, I noticed that my stomach was looking and feeling better. I have felt it to be quite bloated lately. well since I started putting on the weight, so since march. And now it is not so much! I haven't weighed myself, will wait for maybe two weeks before I do that. I really want to focus on just how I feel. The trainer wants me to do that too, look at my body and how I look and feel in clothes, not so much my weight.
So all going well. I really want to get back to being healthier. I have noticed my skin isn't as good, and I have some chaffing when I wear a skirt/dress, whereas I didn't have that during summer. I am also worried that maybe the extra weight is what is making my knees hurt when I run. So lose the weight and hopefully I will either eliminate the pain, or eliminate one possible cause and then I know it is something else!
Doing it again to feel better, look better and be better!
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