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Had a few celebratory wines last night so am loving my water this morning!! But threw in a coffee also... and 4 pieces of toast with peanut butter... oops... I must admit I woke up and had forgotten about the challenge :redface: I am going to be better for the rest of the day!!
Happy 2009 everyone!
tk, I have a coffee every morning and it is only 0.5points on WW (allowed 20 points per day) and I have it white with one sugar so it's not too bad at all! Yum, wish I had peanut butter on toast this morning, would have been really yummy!!
Spice - jump on calorieking and calculate calorie intake for your weight and etc... it's much more accurate. I needed to consume 2000 calories a day while breastfeeding, not including if i was exercising. If anyone is calorie couting check it out because it is a really great way to know how much you should be consuming to lose weight
CookieMonster, I love CalorieKing! Though I had stopped entering the meals recently and just eating whatever but am now back into it.
Spice, I factor my coffee into CalorieKing but I usually enter it as black no sugar or I enter a black tea... today was naughty day!
Happy New Year everyone!
Not sure what I am going to do yet in terms of diet, think I might just go with making healthy choices. We had Maccas for the last time last night! I'm also going to try and walk at least 3 times a week as well as 2 group training sessions that I've been doing.
Wishing you all luck!
Good luck Kellie!!!
I have a fridge full of healthy food from my shop yesterday, now I have to remember to eat it - my biggest downfall is that I don't remember to eat, but I have made up a container of salad (2 types of lettuce leaves, spinach leaves, grape tomatoes, celery, cucumber, boiled egg and mushrooms) to grab some out for lunch & dinner, have also got some nice pieces of organic meat (beef & lamb). Had my first coffee for the morning - there is no way I'm going to drop the coffee but I will stop drinking it after 2pm.
Today's exercise is washing down the walls in preparation for painting tomorrow. I also have to give my bedroom a thorough clean & clear as my new bed arrives on Saturday morning & I'll have to get the old bed out of there before then. May even wash down the walls in there and repaint tomorrow. I have 2 days in which to get my place painted in anticipation of the arrival of a new bed and dining room table.
punkin, well done on the healthy food! protein is good to push you through, fills you up longer i reckon. i always make sure i include protein at lunch so i'm not hungry around 2 or 3pm and if i am, i have some fruit. ****...i get those afternoon sugar cravings!!!
thanks queenbee!
just checking out calorie king and measureup.gov.au - they are great sites!
I would be walking RIGHT NOW if Shel wasn't so bloody paranoid and wouldn't hide my keys just in case someone breaks in and tries to steal her car :angry: ANNOYING!
Morning everyone!
Bit of a slow start here this morning. I was going to go for a walk but by the time I got organised (about 8:30) it was waaaaay too hot. Instead I cranked the AC and put on some Nine Inch Nails and had a good old fashioned dance off with my 2 and a half year old DD. With finger poised over the mute button for when the swears come on though! :lol:
I don't really have a set plan for what to eat or not, I just try and eat the food I know my body needs. I don't eat meat so have to be pretty careful about getting my protein in!
It sounds like everyone is off to a great start! :dance:
Oh no Leasha! That sucks! Is it as hot up there as it is down here? I can hardly move without sweating :rolleyes:
Is it too late to send in my stats?????
Well I woke up with a headache (no grog, I think I'm just tired!) so went back to bed whilst my star of a Dad looked after the boys. Got up at 10:30 and had 2 weetbix, banana, coffee (white with 2, really need to stop that...)
It' now 1:05pm and I'm thinking about lunch... probably tuna sandwich with lots of salad. And water.
I went shopping yesterday and bought a heap of fruit, so there's lots of healthy snacks for me. Grapes, bananas, apples, etc.
Only issue for me is that I'm going away from tomorrow to Monday, and I won't be cooking on those days, so I have to exercise and then watch my snacks!
Sending everyone willpower vibes!
DH and I are doing this together. We have different diet problems but my diet goals arebroken into three week groups. For the first group (wk 1-3) my diet goals are to not eat junk food at work and to recognise when I am hungry and when I am full. Junk food at work is a killer for me as I have an office to myself and work on the computer all day. I can eat a whole packet of tim tams and not even remember which is scary. If I eat junk food I at least want to enjoy it! Maybe I would then realise it isn't that yummy after all. :)
Good luck everyone for the journey. I am sure we will have our ups and downs but if we can encourage each other to get back on the wagon we will sail through.
We got off to a great start today- DH suggested we all go walking to the park and have a play, which was cool as I have been going early in the morning (about 6ish) with one or both kids in the pram. This morning I slept in a bit, so it was nice to go out all together, and for DH to be the one doing the motivating (so far this week I have done 5x 45 min walks)
Diet wise I am following an eating plan from my dietician,which is 3 meals, 3 snacks- also following as much of a low GI diet as possible to help with staying fuller longer. My biggest thing is watching portion sizes as I tend to get carried away.
I have actualley been on my health kick since before christmas- when I saw a friend who had lost 15kgs and felt very jealous, so I decided right then in that moment to get on with it, not to wait till after chrissy/ new year- which for me is a big thing, I am always putting it off to later.
I have also started a diary in which I record daily excercise, food intake, water intake any thoughts/ feeling and just writing down general inspirational sayings and stuff. I like having it on paper so I can pick it up whenever I want to, instead of having to wait to get to the computer, and sometimes 'forgetting' what I have eaten.
Wishing everyone the BEST of luck, I am loving all the determination and motivation in here at the moment.
I am just going with healthy meals and snacks at the moment if that works ok, I will stick with it, if I have trouble then calorie counting it is. I have done my exercise today, 1 hour of wood splitting, keep my family warm this coming winter and good for my core strength and did'nt cost a cent. Still cool here in Vic ;) Day one feeling good and confident as you would hope.:rolleyes:
I only just got my stats in today, I used all my download and had to wait until today to get it all in.
The changes I'm making -
*Drink a mug of warm/hot water with lemon first thing in the morning. Highly recommend this one, its an excellent morning kick-start for your liver and cleanses your palate.
* cutting back from 2 sugars to 1 in my tea
*more water every day - will fill a water bottle each morning and work through it daily
* good snacks on hand, my fave is a handful of almonds and dried apricots in the arvo
* multigrain bread instead of white
*eat breakfast in the morning
*eat dinner with the family instead of running out the back with a cup of tea for a quiet moment whilst they eat
*chop up all vegies into straws the day I buy them. The kids are more likely to tuck in if its easy to grab a handful and it makes cooking up a quick stir fry easier at the end of the day.
*no more pigging out on chocolate at night when I get hungry after missing dinner!
WEAPONS at the ready for improving fitness -
Cans of soup for weights!
3 kg weights (not ready for them yet!)
Stepper machine
I have to try and find an excerise routine for at home - crunches, squats etc. I'd love a Wii, but will have to wait for that one!