Thank you everyone - you are so kind it means alot me.
Well day 11 didn't go as planned i am afraid to say. It was not intended that way......I think the weather set the tone for the days events. I was meant to start the training in the park but due to the rain it was cancelled....so a few of us decided to go have a coffee.....and this is when the turning point came one of the mums who I am very close friends with was very upset and needed someone to talk too she was going through an emotional time.....so we ended up staying out all day and just talking and getting alot of things off her chest.
Now my devaition wasn't an unhealthy choice of food it just wasn't on plan. And for dinner i made a chicken and veg stirfry no oil and so forth but I did team it with a minute bit of rice and then had heaps of water after.
So I think i did alright except for the bread....but it was sugar free one????? It stated it on the menu. So I am still in the zone and i actully used my affirmations with my choices today.....I chose the healthest thing from menu omitted the chips had water instead of soft drink and had a green tea after. As for dinner it was all to plan except for rice bit.
Tomorrow is a new day and I am all organised so I am not panicking I am using my strategies to get me through this day and move on to succeed tomorrow. I actually understand this way of eating much clearer now then originally.
Goodnight for now.....I need to try and have one early night and it's already gone 10pm here in Brissie.
Sometimes these things happen Sam and I think you have handled it amazingly. You chose the best you could, made conscience smart healthy lifestyle choices and you haven't allowed it to send you off track. You have jumped straight back on that horse!
I feel so much more relaxed with the weight issues this year.....last year it consumed my every waking moment and if I gained - it affected the whole family....I was so grumpy and took it out on them. This year I "am" in control and I am not going to let my emotions take over.
Yesterday i felt good that I been their for a friend. Food wasn't the most important thing on the agenda for a change......and she and I both felt good about our respectives outcomes - for me being there for a friend and for her being able to talk openly without any judgements made.
Well i am back on track I have everything planned for today as mentioned in last nights post....and I am staying close to home.
I must say I do feel a bit bloated and that is probably due to the bread yesterday. So lots of water is being consumed today. Will come back here later.
Day 11 finished.....and I was feeling hungier then normal. I attribute this to yesterdays deviations. I know it will pass by Friday, it just goes to show how sensitive our bodies are.
Hope everyone else has had a great day. We have had pretty much non stop rain all day again and it looks like it will be here for a bit.
Day 12.....and the rain has gone but the humidity is thick in the air. Helped out at School today and got back a little while ago and have to head off again. I think I will drive today it's much too hot and I think it may storm again like yesterday.....the boys and I just made it home before the heavens opened up. My ys has been protesting with his walking to School so I will give him a reprieve today seeing it's so hot.
Today.....back on topic of weight I have been bloated again. I had a cup of laxative tea last night and all went well this morning......and I have been pretty active today - so I am lost at what could be causing this. I feel yuk and fat.....I must be having one of those so called "Fat" days. At least I know I've lost besides the scales telling me but because my bras are not hurting and giving me headaches anymore.
Anyway I'd better go take the washing off the line and go pick up the boys.
I'll check back tonight.....I hope by then they'll be a bit more activity.
Well here I am checking back in.....and no one is around!!!!!!
Well day 12 is completed and i am feeling bloated and hungry. Not good at all. I am feeling tired and irritable as well. I have just settled the boys to bed and have cleaned . up after dinner and hubby is home snoring on the lounge.
I am going to go have a shower and get ready to watch "LOST" it starts back tonight....are there any other fans out there? I am addicted and so is my sister and one of my other friends. I don't watch that much TV mostly ABC especially their murder mysteries - omg!!!!! that is a lie I do watch TV but nothing on a weekly basis I am a serial flicker you see and we have foxtel and you would think with all those channels there would be something to watch.....the kids love it though and hubby enjoys all his news stations...I mainly watch!!!!!! THE FOOD CAHNNEL...lol.
Enough of my carry on. Will see you all for day 13.
It said on sunrise this morning that Tassie and all the places in the southern regions would be experincing very cool weather. We are still hot and humid here after the rain....I wish we had that pool in now.
Well I have just got back from walking the boys to School and I am just passing time till I leave for my swimming lesson. I have to admit I am a bit nervous, I also hope it won't take me long to learn the breathing then i can actually do this as an exercise. Some of the mums at school are on a squad and they have super fit bodies.
So it is day 13.....I crashed into bed after watching lost...it was so exciting except for all the commercials. I am so tired in the evenings......is this what I am to expect when turning 40. Even more reason for me to get fit I suppose. Anyway I had better get a move on......wish me luck all.
Hi - I got back from swimming a little while ago and I yes I was nervous which my swimming instructor picked up on, she was very good with me and very patient though.
I didn't realise I was doing so many things wrong....I thought it was just my breathing, but I've since found out it's my stroke and my kicking!!!!!
I am pretty tired as well, my fittness level is not good so once that improves so will my swimming she said. I also have homework!!!!! breathing, kicking and strokes. Now I need to fit that in somewhere next week and find a pool..... the one I go to said i should ring on the day to see whats availble but my days are limited with helping out at School.
I've thought about my neighbour....."NO" not the nosey one. I have a lovely nieghbour who's kids are my babysitters and we meet up for coffee now and again....they are such a lovely family when we moved here the gave us a card and bottle of wine to welcome us to the area. Well they have a pool and i thought i should ask them to use it maybe only once a week when they are not in. I will need to sleep on this i don't want to inconvenience them and be a pest. But it would only be short term and then once I learn all the techniques I can join a swim squad. Our neighbours from our previous home have a pool and they would let us use it and the other neighbours as well, so i know i wouldn't of had any issues then.....but that was then this is now.
Going out soon to meet some mums for coffee....for me a green tea. One of the mums has her son in the same class as the nosey neighbour and she just told me that the nosey neighbour has volunteered herself for class rep and has already started the year off rubbing the teacher and a few mums up the wrong the way. Another mum was also telling me about it this morning on the way to school......she is back with her this year as well. So it's just note me being paranoid.....I am so glad she is out of my hair.
Moving on I will check into night and see if their is anymore activity happening. Where have all the newbies gone?
I think you are so brave doing the swimming lessons. We have a pool and the WF will probably die if he couldn't swim every day. Me on the otherhand can swim, but I'm not a very good swimmer. Since I was little I hate being under water. The WF and a friend of ours are eager divers but I prefer sitting on the beach, getting a tan My biggest problem is that I can't go under water and stop water from coming up my sinusses, causing an immediate and horrible head ache. Like I said, not a wonderful swimmer
Good luck on the swimming and the diet. Time really does fly.
Glad to see you back. It was a little quiet in here this week.
Yes the swimming thing!!!!!! well I am feeling pretty sore today from all the kicking and arm movement. I have a sore ear today aswell which is not unusual... this was the reason as child why I didn't learn to swim properely I always got ear infections and couldn't swim, I had gromets put in as a child.
So I have been practising my breathing techniques every few hours but not in water!!!!! and I have been continuing to think about where to swim and practise????
I think I will ask my neighbour...I feel comfortable doing this and then I looked out at my backyard this morning and realised we have a spa!!!!!!!it's a very large one but I have never used it since we bought this house, just hubby and the kids do. So there you go people I will practise my breathing in the spa. I really wish we had that pool nowthough.
So it is day 14 and I feel much lighter, I think I burned quiet a few kilos at the pool yesterday she had me kicking the full length...so I really want to succeed at this and put my fear of water behind me and continue this as a form of exercise. I have a friend who does this she just holds onto a board and kicks back and forth she said when she began she couldn't complete a full length and then she was eventually doing 75 laps and had lost heaps of weight.
I am also walking to and from School so there's another form of activity for me. I also can see my ys son benefitting from the walking and he is also doing swimming 3x a week it's an activity he really loves.
My os son is so lean you wouldn't pick them as brothers.
Anyway like I said it is day 14 for me I will weigh in on Friday. The longer I leave it the better I feel.
Better go check out the rest of the diarys.
Well done on tackling something that has perhaps made you nervous in the past! It takes guts to get help to overcome something that worries us! What a great sense of achievement you will get out of doing this! It will be great for your kids to see you do this too!
Can you get a ticker? so that we can follow your progress to your goal?
Love reading your diary Sam...thanks for sharing your journey!
Good on you Sam with the swimming. I just love swimming and think it is an important thing that we all should learn. I started Shai in swimming lessons when she was 6mths old, and now at 2 1/2 she just loves it, no fear at all, she is such a water baby.
I also use to love walking and wish to do it again once my back is all fixed. When Shai is old enough for school I plan to ride with her there for a daily dose of exercise.
Anyway keep up the good work and I look forward to hearing you results when you weigh in.
Thanks Sal.
Your daughters face is so gorgeous it always makes me smile when I see it...they are so unhibitated with their emotions when young.
Day 15 - going well....I seem to get hungry and then when it comes time to eat it's passed. I have nothing really to report. Yesterday was so hot and humid here that we stayed indoors with the air-conditioner on all day. I read my book....I love reading but when I start a book I can't put it down...but yesterday I read pretty much all day and hubby mowed the grass then he relaxed the rest of the day and kids just played....we have a huge rumpus room and all their toys and tv games are there so they are occuppied. I think they are so tired from School at the moment that they just want to come home and play and come bed time they crash and are out for it.
.....What else happened yesterday.....oh!!! we had another quote for a pool and it looks like we will go with this guy...the quotes both came in pretty much the same but we just like the content of his quote etc... Hubby said he will try and get the quote down if he can.....it is not cheap getting a pool in people but speaking to another friend of mine who lives on the coast she said my quote was very reasonable compared to what it is where she lives.
I'll come back later.....I think we are off to the beach today????
go check out everyone else now.
Glad you also had a nice and quiet weekend. I'm sure the boys will love the pool when its finished. Just wanted to say hi and I hope your Monday is nice.
Just checking in quickly before I pick up the boys from School. Day 16...I have been shopping for groceries today and have made bolognese for the rest of the family.... today is swimming and gymnsatics for the boys respectively after School, so I am prepared and I can just boil up some fettucine and grate some paremesan for them.
I must say I am doing really good and am sticking to plan....I am getting compliments that I am losing!!!!!! weigh in Friday.
Will try and check back in her tonight. Hope everyone is well and had a great weekend.
Hi Sam, It is great that you are back to being so focussed. Good for you! Your life is so busy so I think you do especially well. You'll have to get that ticker up & running. Maybe with your first start weight, new goal? I should do a graph! Cheers Cate.
A bit frustrated here I have spent nearly an hour trying to put up my ticker with no success (obviously). What I am doing wrong??????
I have followed all the instructions but it won't go. Each time I press the control and V button it only puts the web address in but no the ticker.
What am I doing wrong people please help or I might be driven to........dare I say it....no I won't (no junk) I must manage my emotions. I will go and prepare a lunch now instead.
Hi
I am back and a bit calmer after lunch. Still haven't worked it out. But I have posted my first weight loss success and what I am currently needing to lose now.
It will have to do till I get some feedback about what I doing wrong.
