watch out ladies - the gloves are coming off

I have been feeling completely overwhelmed by the whole concept of weight loss and exercise. I have been relying on sugar fixes to get me through the lulls. But hopefully I am about to be given an unfair advantage. Tonight the doctor has recommended a course of iron injections as well as on going iron tablets for anaemia plus an increase in my thyroxine dose. I plan on feeling like a new woman.

me vs scales, part 675

I worked hard on the food control leading up to at the end of last year - from 103.3kg on 15 October 2008 to 97.3 kg at the end of November. But then came the festive season and I lost the plot a bit, then a bit more in the new year, including being laid up with a bad back for a few days and feeling craaaap! So this morning I was 101.3kg. Not completely undone, but just about.
So today what did I do - ate! But I did take the kids for a quick ride up the road this arvo (about 2km return) and then after dinner (roast lamb, vegies roasted in the pan, peas, fresh corn, gravy and including dessert - sensational combo of fresh apricots and a peach drizzled with lime curd and wrapped in a piece of shortcrust pastry, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and baked, served warm with a small scoop of icecream) I went for another ride on my own of about 6km return (I could hardly reach the handle bars over my monstrous gut). Slightly redeemed, and enough to help me feel I am not a completely lost cause.
And so it begins...... again

Weigh In

Last week: 89.8kgs
This week: 89.0kgs
Loss: 0.8kgs

A bit of a surprise really, there was still a LOT of eating going on.
BUT
Things I did start on:
- being more conscious of when I'm full
- eating a proper breakfast (something I am always a stickler for but have become slack on during the festive season)
- a lot less junk food


My goals this week are:
- to start moving - maybe doing one of the exercise videos I have at home OR get up to that alarm I've set for 5am to go for a walk OR go to the gym I am paying to be a member of but never go to.
- stick to the food diary

So far off the rails I can't even see the tracks

I haven't even bothered to weigh myself since before Christmas. Enough said.

Every day is a new day

Wake up call

We went to day 2 of the Australia v South Africa test at the SCG yesterday with my husband's work. We were sitting in the hospitalilty suites and therefore had to comply wth a pretty stringent dress code. Ladies are required to wear a blouse with slacks or a skirt or a dress, no shorts or thongs and nothing too revealing. That doesn't sound too difficult but I haven't lost all the weight from my last pregnancy yet and I was already carrying a few extra kgs so, while my wardrobe has lot's of lovely tops, skirts, dresses and pants there are very few things that actually fit. I have a pair of jeans, a pair of shorts and a dress on rotation at the moment. I was able to find a pair of pants (bought the morning of my grandmother's funeral 7 weeks after my daughter's birth) and a top that didn't match the pants but did kind of fit the dress code. I was in tears trying to find something to wear as I realised that I don't just have a little weight to lose but quite a significant amount of work to do before I can get back into most of the things in my closet. My fitness is pretty woeful and my face looks very different to how it did a couple of years ago. Generally I am not happy about how I look and how I feel in my body and it's time to take some serious steps. So here I am, joining Boombalardy to share my weight loss and fitness journey, to lean on the bare-faced accountability of weighing in publicly week after week and to support the other bloggers who also carry more into 2009 than they really want to.
This is where I start - current weight 63kgs, goal weight 50 - 52kgs.
Weekly aim - to exercise 3-4 times a week and to do sit-ups every day.

It's Time

For five years now I have bored friends with discussions of how THIS is the year that I am going to lose weight.

THIS though is the year and in the presence of three other women to inspire and encourage me I want to lose 22kg by the end of 2009.

I am unofficially 91.2 kg - I have decided to do a weekly weigh in on Tuesdays... Mondays can be a bit disheartening if I have indulged myself on the weekends.

The game plan.

I am a fan of Kate Morgan shakes for breakfast.

Lunch will generally be a wholegrain sandwich of salad and protein.

Dinner a small serve of whatever I have cooked for the children and myself.

My downfall - and this is where I would appreciate some advice - is afternoon tea - all those yummy cakes and biscuits I feed the kids at that time.  Sure - I should just not buy them or make them.  Are there things I could make/bake that would be good for afternoon tea and then lunchboxes the following day?

And exercise of course...

New Year

So here we are.

Starting another year where summer = humidity = chaffing = swimsuit angst = resolution to lose weight again.

I'm almost pushing maximum density once more.

Nothing fits.

Everything is uncomfortable.

My body repulses me.

Which is stupid because it's not my body's fault there are rolling loaves of fat and rubbing thighs.

This year Boombalardy is expanding - but less in a loosening the belt and more in an arms wide open kinda way.

Blue Mountains Mary and Duyvken are joining me and Kill. Our own Biggest Loser, except it's not a competition. So maybe more our own Weight Watchers meeting. Hopefully more that than Fat Fighters.

So the starting point.

Weight: 89.8kgs
Goal: 68kgs

Sigh of sighs