AussieGirl's Diary

March 5

I'm afraid I still feel like I'm on holiday's, so my eating choices haven't been the best. But I'm happy to say that yesturday I felt like a treat, so while I would normally buy a box of cookies or a regular cake...going TOTALLY overboard, I bought 2 individual cheesecakes, one for me and one for a friend. I felt good making a better choice. Tomorrow I'm going back to the gym. I'm gonna do this!!! I reckon if I get into the habit of going to the gym now, when I go back to work, it won't seem so difficult...who knows I might even like going again!! :)
 
Hi, welcome back. I am glad you had a good holiday. It is realy hard after a holiday to get back into the swing of things I know. But you are improving your choices and you should take pride in that. Its all the small things on the way that help us change our lifes for the beter. And really thats what its all about not just the diet but to change our habbits and ways of thinking because it has to be a life long change that way when we do lose the weight it will stay off. So keep it up, your on your way.
 
March 8

Right now I feel like if it's not one thing it's another. I got sick on my trip, and yesturday morning I woke up sick again. I'm having trouble eating, I'm hungry, but the best thing to eat is like liquidy stuff. Anyway, today I went to the shops and picked up my RX, well you can't go any where without seeing the lovely easter chocolate! Oh it looks soooo good. I said to myself, it could just melt in my mouth, not even like food. Then I said "NO!" :mad: I got home, and was thinking "Icecream would be nice...it also would just melt in my mouth.";) Then I said "NO!!" I decided I could make some low fat moose and have a couple spoons of it. I also had fries today, and in all honesty I definatly won't be doing that again until I'm feeling MUCH better...hopefully not even much after that!!:eek: I got to the gym yesturday, but not today. Tomorrow I will definatly be going again. I'm happy because my membership expires next Friday, and I reckon I'll switch gyms. I REALLY NEED to get on this weight loss thing!!!!
 
March 10

I've realized that I've let myself go too far. On my vacation I ate chocolate, and then I came home and just yesturday I ate a icecream bar AND a blizzard. If I would have just had one it wouldn't be so bad, but of course I don't have any self control! :( I REALLY need to get a handle on this it's driving me NUTS!!! Anyway, today my friend and I went out for tea, and I ordered the quesalia, and ususally I would have gotten fries with it, but I got a cesar instead. Unfortunitly, when it came I realized I should have asked for the dressing on the side, because the lettuce was swimming in it! After we ate, we walked around the shops looking at everything. The first shop that got my attention was the "Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory" I've never even been in there before, but it looks soooo good and yummy. My friend was a good friend, and told me not to even look that way. We then went and looked at clothes, that's motivating, I want to fit those clothes, how can I eat crap?!?! :confused: Anyway, when my friend dropped me off, I thought, I could just run over the Safeway and pickup some chocolate. All of a sudden I said to myself, "if you eat that crap now, you're just gonna want more tomorrow. Either you stop now, and get a handle on the cravings or you keep eating it and gain and gain and gain! So I didn't get anything, I just finished the last piece of the quasidella. I woke up this morning thinking about changing gyms, I'm excited about doing something different. Especially looking forward to the "Bike Races" this gym has. I have a new attitude, now if I can just keep it!!!!
 
March 11

Today feels like a success! I made good food choices, nothing I would be ashamed if anyone knew about. That's a big deal. Also I joined an actual gym today. It was great. They have really good hours, almost as good as my old gym. They have a cycling class, and I'll go to the beginners class on Wednesday I think it is. It's only a half hour, so I'm excited. Today I was on the eliptical for 35 minutes. When I was at my other gym I'd easily go an hour, so it's something I really need to work on. After that I did some weights, and I'm sure tomorrow I'll be paying for it. At this new gym they also have a climbing wall (is that what it's called?) Anyway, my goal is that by summer time I'll have lost enough weight to be able to do it comfortably. Right now I just feel like nobody wants to see this big giant ass crawling up a plastic wall!!;)
 

Hey - don't feel bad! I just started on the elliptycal again and I can barely make 15 minutes! I've got a climbing wall at my gym too! It's wicked - if you can catch it without people on it! And get that giant ass up that wall! - Haha... you're doing great, don't think about what anybody thinks because they're too busy with they're own jiggles to worry about anyone elses! Keep up the great work!
 
Haha that made me laugh the bit about climbing up the wall. I needed that, but hey I say who cares what anyone else thinks if they've got a problem with your arse then I say its there problem. Climb up there and wiggle it around proudly lol. It does sound like heaps of fun though, I never heard of a gym that has those in it. I think we are a bit behind the times. I really glad to hear that you a getting back on track after your holidays. Sounds like your starting to get things back in line. and hey 35 mins on that elliptycal trainer is awsome, man I could never last 10mins with out colapsing in a heap. They are great for weight loss though so keep it up. Hope you are over your flu now. keep up the great work.
 
Hey thanks so much Elizab3th and Zoila! Both your comments about the wall made me laugh pretty good. It's extra good to hear from you Zoila! Hope all's going good! :D I think when I do make it up there I'll have to shake my derier! :eek: Anyway, I alway's take Sundays off as my free work out day. I always need one, so there's no guilt. So with no exercise, I didn't do too badly with food yesturday, granted I did eat ONE cookie my little brother made, but compared to the 3 or 4 I would normally scarff, that's not too bad I reckon!;) Today, I went to the gym, I was going to go to an actual class, the gym has 2 arobic floors on either side of the gym, and I thought it was on floor 2, but the class I wanted was on floor1 and I didn't realize until after it was over. I saw all these super skinny girls going to the class, and I knew right then it wasn't for me. I got on the eliptical facing them instead of joining the class. Thank goodness I choose the eliptical because when I saw what they were doing I KNEW it was the wrong class, at least for me!!:eek: I ended up doing 25 minutes on the eliptical (because that's all it would allow me to do) then 10 on the bike and then weights. At least I know where to go for the class next time!!! As for food, I was doing good until the very end, and boy did I REALLY go out with a bang!! See my buddy has the best kitchen in the world, there's ALWAYS something in it!! Today after the gym I went over, and had cheesy cheesy lasagna, a cookie AND 2 icecream bars!!! Yep when I go bad, I go REAL bad!!! Tomorrow I plan to have a extra good day at the gym, because it's a day off, PLUS watching what I shovel into my face!!! Here's to nothing!!!
 
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Hey well done on the exercise, and good luck for staying on track today, I know you can do it.
 
March 15

Ok, so I've had the past 2 days off work. I've been to the gym every day this week, with at least 35 minutes of cardio each time. I've noticed that I'm sooo much more hungry since I started at this gym. I feel like I could eat forever!:p I've been pretty good about it though, because I've really wanted real yummy chocolate, but I haven't given in...yet! ;) I wanted something yesturday after the gym, I wanted a Booster Juice,and I got one. It's in the mall, so as I walked into the food area where Booster Juice is, I smelled the Cinnamon buns, the Arby's, pizza EVERYTHING :( I bought my juice, and walked over to Chapter's and looked at books for like half an hour. By the time I was done that, I totally forgot about the smells. I came home and finished my B.J. and fell asleep...it was like 6 pm!!:eek: When I woke at 9, I REALLY wanted something again. The office upstairs had bought dounut's during the day, and there were some left, at like 10 pm I came upstairs and ate half of one!:( Then I was still wanting something, something chocolate!! Then a friend called and I told her how I felt, she told me to drink some hot chocolate...she's a smarty!!:) Very good advice, I tell ya what!!! Today I went to the gym, and at the end of the evening ONCE AGAIN, I wanted something! I decided to go to the shop and get something. My "bad" choice was fudgsicles...120 cal's each. Not too bad, compared to a candy bar!!! I've also set a new goal for myself. Starting today, I want to loose 10 lb's in the next 4 weeks. I think it's doable!!!:)
 
you know what kicks my chocolate cravins? Chocolate protein bars!
I've heard that if you eat high protein atleast 90 minutes before a cardio session then you'll have more energy - you'll stay on longer... but is HAS to be 90 minutes or else you'll still be processing the protein and you'll feel fuller and won't be able to workout as much. But the chocolate ones taste great! :D
 
I agree with E.- get some Luna bars or Zone bars or something like that- not uber high in cals, taste great, and have good amounts of protein in em... So that way you can eat something that will not only help your cravings, but also help with your workout endurance :)
 
March 16

Thanks so much for the tips Elizab3th and Jess393! I really appreciate and will pick some up next week. Actually I reckon you can get both those kinds at SuperValue and I ALWAYS shop there. So that's heaps good!!:) The advice comes at a perfect time as today was a VERY bad food day. :( It started off well enough, a had a slimfast shake for b-fast, and some smoked salmon and casserole for lunch, I finished my 8 hour regular shift, then headed over to work 5 hours at the clinic. That's all good, except I was called in unexpectedly so I didn't have time for dinner, or even to make anything. By 7:00 I was STARVING!!! I headed over to Macker's and had a Jr Chicken COMBO...fries and all!!!:( Then to top it off I decided to stop in at the Dollar Store and pick up a Tuttsi Roll, well I saw a new candy bar and HAD to have it...Reese P.B. Cups with Carmel!! I ate it all!!!! :eek: I'm saying I was bad because it's my birthday today, but I'm going out and being bad, tomorrow, AND Saturday...so really I can't use that excuse!:rolleyes: So I decided I HAD to get to the gym, luckily I'm back to a 24 hour gym and can do that at 10:30 at night. I only did 35 minutes on the eliptical, but I reckon it's better than nothing! It's been a long day, and it's just about midnight now, so I'm at least somewhat pleased with my activity today!
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You know these things happen around our birthday, its hard to stay on track at these times, after all they only happen once a year. Enjoy your birthday, do what you can to stay on track, and keep the exercise up and you will be fine. But dont stress it too much, Its your Birthday.
 
March 17

Ok, so I know I've mentioned already that today was going to be a bad food day, but I still have to own up to it! This is what happened, once again all day my food wasn't really bad. But then we had a family dinner, and sure enough it was Chinese...how can ANYONE resist that!! Deep fried lemon chicken, greasy veggies, it SOUNDS so gross, but yummmm is it goooood! :( Anyway, to top off the Chinese I ate like 6 of those Pilsbury Easter cookies my sister baked up!! I have absolutly NO self control!! Oh, plus 1 of those little chocolate easter eggs. Tomorrow is the last day I SWEAR!!! Today I was all set to get to the gym, I really was, but I was lying next to my niece this evening, and almost fell asleep. I'm just wiped!! I'm definatly going tomorrow!!! That'll be 5 day's this week, so that's not too bad. I really want to be doing 6, but for my first full week I guess I'll let it go at 5.
 
March 18

I really don't think today had 24 hours!! There's no way it did!;) Anyway, I'm afraid that because my gym is only open 24 hours during the week, and not the weekend, it's only open till 10 pm. I had my last "bad" day, my dinner was actually not that bad, but I said I could eat some crap as my birthday celebration with my best friend. I ate some cookies and some chocolate, but the funny thing is that when I was deciding what I would "cheat" with I really didn't know what I wanted, to be honest nothing was really "doing it" for me. So in a way that's good right. It's nice I didn't really want much. Plus today I was watching my neices and when my brother and sister were coming home, they phoned to see if I wanted anything from Dairy Queen...on them!! How nice!! Once again, I didn't want anything...nothing at all! It didn't even hurt to say "no"! :D How nice is that!!! Unfortunitly I didn't get to the gym today, so it's only been 4 days so I HAVE to go tomorrow, or there's no more chances for the week to get my 5 days in. I think I also need to get one of those MP3 players. I'm not all that technical but I'll tell you, I was listening to the radio the other night when I was working out, and they played one of Metallica's oldder songs, it was great I was really into it until the song was over. I loved it!! Anyway, back on track tomorrow!!
 
Some help?? March 19

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm looking for some new recipes that are healthy, low fat, and quick...preferably not stir-fry type of things. This must seem too picky, but I really need to start making something better and something different. Thanks a head of time! Anyway, I know I said that I was gonna get back on track today, get to the gym and eat better. Well I acomplished half of that. My eating has been pretty good, but for the 3rd day in a row, NO GYM!!!!!!:( It's just been an extreamly lazy day. I've just been so tired, not doing much today. I really didn't plan on having this long stint of not being there, but I swear the weekend hours are awful!:mad: I guess I shouldn't be blaming anyone but myself. So tomorrow, back to the gym, no crappy food, AND more water!!! That's the goals for tomorrow!! Wish me luck!!!!;)
 
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