Day 19 BBEC

Breakfast:

2pcs of Toast with butter (multi-grain)

2x cuppa tea (@1sugar)

 

Morning Tea:

Forme strawberry yogurt

 

Lunch:

lean Cuisine meatballs and beans

 

Afternoon Tea:

handful of m&m’s

cuppa tea

 

Dinner:

Tuna Bake with Sundried Dried and Baby spinach

plus some salad

 

Supper: 

A few more m&m’s (nearly the whole 200g packet :()

plus the choc cookies (about 4) that I forgot to mention!

 

Exercise:

none! :(

Something a little different

As I was reading the intro chapter for the Gabriel Method, I remember he mentioned meditation as part of his methodology.  So as I am application hunting for my iPhone I have come across a hypnosis app for weight loss which I tried out last night and I think I will use again tonight.

It seems to have had a positive effect already as I was quite calm today and didn’t feel the need to ‘be naughty’ with my food.

I will update later with how it is going!

Day 18 BBEC

 

Breakfast:

Cuppa Tea

Might McMuffin + Hash Brown + Sml coke Zero

 

Morning Tea:

Cuppa Tea (Jumbo, 1sugar)

 

Lunch:

Sml serve vegetarian Fried Rice

 

Afternoon Tea:

Apple

 

Dinner:

1 beef sausage, 1/2 cup mash potato, 1 1/2 cups of vegetables (pumpkin, mushroom, beans, brocolli, bok choy, carrot)

Glass of water.

 

Supper:

 

Exercise:

C25K Week 8 Day 3

Day 13 BBEC

Had a couple of days off for my presentation - I was evil in my food choices too!

Exercise:
C25K Week8/D1

Breakfast:
Forme Yogurt, Apple
cuppa Tea
Banana and Honey Muffin (still warm... melt)

Morning Tea:
None - had that muffin before!

Lunch:
Going for a Salad sandwich and bottle of sparkling water!

Day 10 BBEC

Breakfast:

2 pc of toast with jam

2x cuppa tea

Morning Tea:

carrot cake

Lunch

Fried Rice

Dinner:

satay chicken (from noodle paradise)

Day Nine BBEC

Breakfast:
cuppa tea x 2
toast and boiled egg

Morning Tea:
Crusket x2
cuppa tea

Lunch:
2x sausage and bread

Dinner:
Steak and vege with 1 boiled potato

Supper:
tin of spaghetti

Goals

So what is life without goals.  If we are not moving toward something we are falling behind.

My most immediate goals are:
To get under 60kg
Compete in:  Harvey Norman Series in Rockhampton on the 15th May
Give my Preliminary Honours Presentation on Tuesday

Day Eight BBEC

Breakfast:
Cuppa tea
2 pcs of toast with butter

Lunch:
chicken nuggets (ingham 100% breast) plus tonnes of salad
1x tim tam
pepsi max

Afternoon Tea:
2x timtams

Dinner:
baked chicken breast with one boiled potato and mixed steamed vegetables
cuppa tea

Supper:
crusket
tin of spaghetti
2pcs of wholegrain bread (I stayed up late!)



Exercise:
C25K Week 7, Day 3.  5k total walk/run (4krun in 25mins)

Choosing Every Day

Every Day I choose…

I choose to live my life with integrity and grace. 

I choose to respect myself – both in body and mind.

I choose to love my family in my thoughts and in my actions.

I choose to trend gently in this Earth and leave behind only footprints in the sand.

 

Every moment is a choice, what will you choose?

Day Seven BBEC

 

Weigh In: 60.9kg

Breakfast:

Toast with butter

cuppa tea

Morning Tea:

Cuppa Tea

Carrot Cake

3 cream biscuits

Lunch:

Fried Rice and water

Dinner:

Spaghetti Bog with pasta

Dessert:

Tim Tam x 2

Supper:

Baked Beans

Just to keep me going today....

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."


Mary Anne Radmacher

Day 6 BBEC

Breakfast:
toast with butter
cuppa tea

Morning Tea:
Water
tim tam (1 only)

Lunch:
cuppa tea
huge salad sandwich on multigrain
small serve chicken chippies (only had half!)

Afternoon Tea:
1x tim tam
cuppa tea

Dinner:
Lamb cutlets, vegies, and mash

Exercise:
walk to pick up kids
and c25k 25min run plus walk rest of 5k distance

Day 5 BBEC

Breakfast:
2pcs grain bread toast with butter
cuppa tea

Brunch
Fried Rice (small)
bottle of water

Afternoon Tea:
pc of carrot cake
cuppa tea
mandarin
2x black forrest tim tams

Dinner:
 1.5 pcs crumbed fish, couple of chips and salad

Supper:
baked beans

Exercise:
Walk to pick up kids from school

Day 4 BBEC

Breakfast:
muesli and milk
cuppa tea
2pcs of multigrain toast with butter

morning tea:
small serve of chicken chippees
with gravy

Lunch:
fried rice with honey chicken

Dinner:
Salad with a little quiche

Supper:
handful of s&v crisps

Day 3 BBEC

Breakfast:
muesli with milk
2x cuppa tea

Morning Tea:
herb bread (only had a couple of peices as the kids hoed into it!)

Lunch:
none!  opps!

Afternoon Tea:
Baked beans (small tin)

Dinner:
KFC!  Opps again!  I had two peices of chicken (wing and breast) and a handful of chips.
Not very nutricious!

Supper:


Exercise:

6k walk with 25min of running (had to walk an extra k to avoid some scary dudes who were following me!)

40 B4 40 – Go Bushwalking!

MT Archer, Rockhampton, Qld.
With the end of Easter holidays upon us, I decided that we needed to take advantage of the last two days and get out of the house!  A bushwalk seemed the way to go – something we haven’t done as a family before and Mt Archer is the closest to us!  We left at 9am in the morning, with much whinging and complaining by the kids about being dragged away from the shiny screens!
It turned out to be quite easy to turn Dyllan to our side by offering him video camera duty!

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There were a couple of road stops along the way up the mountain which we took advantage of and grabbed some great photos but it was great to reach the top of the mountain!  It is a great set-up!  There is a small coffee shop and lots of BBQ’s and picnic tables.  There is a nice short walking circuit that was about 500m but OMG!  The view of Rockhampton was amazing!  We were able to zoom in to our neighbour shops on the video camera, and could see so far away! 
We got back from that walk and then had a look around at all the mobile phone and radio towers set up and noticed another walk – Fantastic!  Lots more whinging from the kids though!  Off we went and this time the walk was a bit longer and the path a little less well travelled!  The look-out was fantastic when we got there!  I am sure we could see the ocean!  The views were just amazing!  The photos no where near capture the clarity and the distance that you can actually see from the lookout – I could make out cars on the road, the river and even the bridges over them!
On the way back we took a different way back and I discovered another walking track – 12 kilometres!  Guess where I am going next!

Day 2 BBEC

Breakfast:
Cuppa Tea
Muesli with Milk

Morning Tea:
Apple

Lunch:
BBQ chook - breast on a white bun with gravy and lettuce!
split iceblock!  Raspberry!


Afternoon Tea:
Mandarine


Dinner:
Beef Strogonoff (packet mix)
Vegetables and Brown Rice

Supper:
1/2 a big bag of tomato flavoured crisps :(


Exercise:
Went bushwalking! 
The 500m Walking Circuit and the Bracken Ferntree Way 1.2km return walk to GrassTree Lookout

Meal Planning

I did try this in my other blog but I think I went too hard at it!  The plan is to slowly add meals to it and to just use the dinner planner for now!
As I add a meal in here I will add it to the list and see how I go with some baby steps!

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/meal-planner.html

I’ve decided to use the monthly planner as it only has space for main meal plus sides which suits me fine!  I’ve made some of the sides more general – rather then selecting the vegetables I can choose roasted vegetables or steamed vegetables which allows to me use whatever is in the fridge or in season and cheap at the shops!

Some Inspirational Quotes

Feeling healthy and feeling good about yourself is not a luxury - it's an absolute necessity.

When you discover it's your choice and your attitude, things start to happen!

Nothing tastes as good as being healthy and full of energy feels.

The secret of success is having the courage to begin in the first place.

Have you hit a brick wall? Aim higher and jump over it.

Choice is a gift given to everyone. It is a powerful gift that can change your life.

Venture forth into new horizons, even to places those around you do not have the courage to go.

It's your choice - will you choose to be a victim or the victor?

 

If you don't know where you are going how will you know when you get there?

Marathon runners don't worry about the conditions, they just run anyway!

 

Winners feel like winners
Losers feel like losers
How do you feel?

Inspiration!

I’m going to add some signatures and inspiration images I am doing onto here so I can access them and get motivated on demand! lol

 

 

Day One of the Bouncing Bunnies Easter Challenge

 

Breakfast:

cup of tea (milk with 1 sugar) x 2

muesli with milk

apple

 

Morning tea:

yogurt (french vanilla - forme)

 

Lunch:

double serve of salad – lettuce, cherry toms, cucumber, sugar snap  peas, leek, mint sauce and a little grated cheese

3x tempura chicken dinosaurs and 2x fish sticks

 

afternoon tea:

2 cruskits with toast

icecream

 

Dinner:

Baked chicken with salsa and roasted vegetable salad

(pumpkin, sweet potato, leek, mushroom, baby bok choy, zucchini)

 

Supper:

none – went to bed feeling ill after eating too much of my dinner!

Smoked Cod in White Sauce

 

 

Not sure how this rates on the healthy scales but on the yum scale, it rates highly!

• Grab a pyrex baking dish – the long flat one (yup, highly specific).
• Give the base a quick spray with olive oil just to prevent sticking.  Layer onions or leek over the base thinly and lay two pieces of smoked cod on them (cost about $7.50 for the smoked cod at Woolworths).
• It should take about a cup and a half of milk to cover the fish, then you can spread around a bit of chopped garlic, thyme, a bay leaf, peppercorns, whatever takes your fancy really.
• Bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour – until the fish is just nicely cooked.
• about 10-15 min’s after you put in on, you can add some brown rice to a pot of boiling water, then chop up your vegetables and place in a steamer above the pot of rice (any vegetable juice that drips with be absorbed into the rice!).
• Once the 30mins is up, take out the fish and plate it up with the rice and vegetables.
• Pour the milk portion into a small pot (it’s fine for some of the chunkier stuff to come with it!).  Add in about a teaspoon to a tablespoon of corn-flour (depends on how thick you like the sauce!) mixed with cool water and bring to boil before simmering for a couple of minutes until the corn-flour just starts to thicken.  Be sensible with serving size!

 

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!  The two pieces were plenty for two adults, though I could have quite easily sacrificed a bit of mine to a toddler!  For middle sized kids I would say about half a piece would be plenty.  I am an evil mummy however and my kids enjoyed some crumbed fish fingers from the frozen section of the super market!

From Then to Now

So this is me in 1999 at 25yo.  Dyllan was a few months old and it was my first night out.  I loved this outfit.  It was probably one of the first really nice outfits I wore, even though it was a throw together of hand-me downs!
I was 43kg when I weighed in at the doctors at 6wks pregnant just a year before. I am probably just scrapping into the healthy weight zone here - around 45kg I would say.  I have to say that pregnancy at least gave me a little shape!

 

It is scary to think that at this stage I was so hugely affected by my anxiety disorder.  I managed to stay out for about 2hrs before heading home.  It was the last time I went to a social outing for about 3yrs, and then the next one was to a niece’s 1st birthday bbq!

Please excuse the dodgy photo editing (especially the side of the my face) but the kids had torn the photo on me!

Day Zero of the Bouncing Bunnies Easter Challenge

Starting Weight:  61.7kg

Breakfast (bed to 10am):
muesli with low-fat milk
2x cuppa tea
1x glass water with 1tsp bene-fibre
apple


Morning Tea (10am - noon):
1pc of WW carrot cake
1 220g tin of baked beans
(note:  I now feel bloated and sickly!)
cuppa tea

Lunch (noon - 3pm):
1L bottle of water (drank about half so far)
shoulder ham (square!) and a handful of lettuce on white hi-fibre bread (not very nice I might add!)
another cuppa tea

Afternoon Tea (3pm - 5pm):
2 party sausage rolls with a tonne of sauce - eww I was eating the rest of the sauce by itself after I had eaten the sausage rolls!
1 cruskit with a square of shoulder ham and cheese melted in the nuker -another yuk moment!
whole medium carrot!

Dinner (5pm - 8pm):
smoked cod baked in milk with brown rice and steamed vegies (baby bok choy, broccoli, baby carrots, pumpkin, zuchini) - the brown rice was done under the the steamed vegies so should be extra nutritious! I did have probably a little too much white sauce with it!
2 x large glass of Pepsi Max!

Supper (8pm - bed):
Peters triple treat icecream


Exercise:
C25k week 6 day 3 (walk rest of 5k) - approximatly 200 cals burned
And yes, I ran for 25mins without stopping!