That was my dinner tonight - chicken with tarragon and mustard sauce.. and Dessert!

Well, only one of them is for me.. one each for the family!  And the kids had icecream with their's!

(Okay, the apple dessert was waaaay too sweet and I could only eat half of it.  And I had a peice of strawberry liquorish (sp?) instead!)

DAY-4 Toning Day

Whoo hooot!

Just done my work-out - 150cal and some muscles built up.
Went to the shops this morning and picked up some more running shorts for the hot weather that will eventually get here when the rain goes away, some nice white sandshoes (nothing like white to show off an awesome set of legs with a nice (fake) tan!), and some shorts for the kids.
(lol shhhh - but the shorts for the kids are because I have run out  thanks to the rain!  Hopefully I won't have to run out to buy them more undies tomorrow! lol)

Food so far.. special k for breaky (had to use fall-fat milk coz I ran out of my low fat milk!)
Be natural honey and nut bar - about 100cals I think???

Lunch is cauliflower soup which I am heating up now!  Oh, I picked up a stick blender too - makes a huge difference to the cauliflower soup!    Creamy..... mmmmm!

I really feel like my entire life is changing!  I am eating food I would never dream of.. I'm exercising everyday with this wonderful vision of a flat, bikini ready stomach... I know it is only the beginning, but man, you know, it's those first steps - the anticipation, the fear, the excitment, the knowing it is gonna happen, knowing you're gonna have to work it at, but just KNOWING it is gonna happen!

ahhh!  I am soo excited!

DAY 3 - WEIGH-IN

58.7kg (-100g)

Off to a great start today!

Special K for breakfast
Lunch is packed:
Yogurt yum!
apple eaten just after my run - have an hour to wait till dinner!
Beef, avocado, tomato, lettuce.... oh no!  I forgot the mustard!
Looks like it will be a quick trip home for lunch!  Bugger!
Anyway..
Mountain Bread, cottage cheese, and cucumber all packed as well. OMG - soo yummy!  Unbelievable!  that was the yummist thing ever!
and my cool Bottle of water ( http://www.cheeki.net.au/ )
Dinner - I just need to buy the yogurt for my cauliflower soup.  Grabbing the yogurt when I pick up the kids from care!  No phone calls today!  Yippee!
(Gosh that sounds awful doesn't it?  Apparently the reports in state that it tastes fantastic! Odd!)
Not sure how great my cauliflower soup is going to turn out!  I realised that I don't have a 'large pot' large enough so I have to use my slow cooker - I cooked up the small ingredients in the pot but then added the 4cups of stock and tipped it into the slow cooker and added the cauliflower and the rest of the stock.  Just gotta hope that the cauliflower gets soft enough!


5k run is tonight for exercise   oh .. I think I am getting shin splints.. the bone of my shin is aching when I run.  I might head to the podiatrist if it doesn't get better over the next two days!  I couldn't find my HRM so went without it, but according the Runkeeper I burnt 350calories!

My chest is aching from all those push-ups yesterday though!  Killer!

Study wise... I am doing up my results today and will have a first run of the results section by Monday!
And I will be doing my M.cat section of my lit review over the same time frame!

To all my readers.. .you so totally rock!

I am thinking of doing a video thing but not sure what to say... should I or shouldn't I?????

Day 2

Good morning everyone!

Plan for today.. make up my exercise deficit from yesterday, do my first 'strength session' and do my fitness test.

AND... do some kitchen planning!

4pm I need to go in to do my counts and will be busy for a few hours so I need to 'diarise' for today!

So the Plan for today:

10am Breakfast (apple and cinimon porridge - a bit yukky, added golden syrup but didn't help - I don't like porridge made with water even if I add milk after)
Lunch: Corn relish and ham wrap (I have the ham and ingredients ready to go)
Snack: yogurt
Dinner: Chargrilled beef with avodcado and corn salsa (beef is out to defrost)
Supper:  baked beans
Snack:  a mandarin will be with me at all times for munchies!

Now:  print out the menu for tomorrow done!

At 11am I will do my strength training Took me half an hour to prep up my area and get going.  For the 10min warm-up run I swapped it for 10min cardio kickboxer vid on sparkpeople, I did 20 skips between each rep, and did a 3min skip instead of the power 800m run at the end.  The stretches were too long and I shortened them to 30secs each.  I only made 10 and 20secs on my two attempts at a plank which was a bit disappointing but otherwise I blasted the intermediate level - I should move up to the harder level by 4 weeks!  \Time for lunch now! (and lots of water!)  200calories burnt!

After lunch: bake some muffins for kids   all done - and I didn't lick the bowl!  time for a shower!

At 3pm I will do my fitness test  Done, but I stuffed up the 1km run because my Runkeeper stuffed up and told me 1km when it was only .5km!  I will re-do later in the week when the rain calms down!

At 4pm I will ride my bike into uni to do my counts (with my HRM on)  that should take care of my extra cardio.  Having to cancel this due to RAIN, RAIN, and more Rain!

5.30 i will cook dinner for 6pm! (yum yum yum, had to have some extra salad and I will for sure need my baked beans before bed!)

Boom Crash Burn

That, my dear friends, is the sound of me failing.  Miserably.

Today started off with jumping from my bed at 6.30am suddenly remembering that I was meant to subculture bacteria at 10.30pm so that I could do my assay at lunch time today.  So all my plans for today are out the window.  I had to race in to uni in the car and subculture at 7am, then realised that I would need the car for the day because, although I could have, I was too stressed to pack my lunch for the day and figured I would need to come home for a nap.

So the morning went great, I took the kids to the holiday care and headed straight to uni.. I worked like a demon and popped home for a yogurt and to pick up my usb (thank goodness I did have the car as a really really needed it).  I got a good amount of work done and arranged to do my assay at 9pm tonight - but a need to get a part for the centrifuge and person who has it never emailed me back!

I came home at lunch and had my wrap as per the plan and then had an hours break, after which I was going to have my nap before picking up the kids, doing my run and heading back to uni.

But at 2pm or so I got a call from holiday care letting me know that my eldest was misbehaving and having issues with his friend so I need to pick them up... so there goes my nap.  DH got home around 3.30 so I said hello and headed off my nap then... and a friend turns up at the door.  In the meantime, I realise I hadn't heard from the person about the part from the centrifuge so at 5pm I rushed into uni hoping to catch her there but there is no sign of her.  Thankfully I find the keys so I can get to the downstairs centrifuge - not fun at 10pm at night in a deserted uni campus! 

Anyways at this point it is getting dark and is still wet from the rain so the run went out the window.  I started making up my pizza and after I put the ricotta on I just threw the spoon, burst into tears, and went to maccas and got myself something to eat. 

I was so angry and the person I could take it out on was myself.

'When I feel  stressed, bad food makes me feel better'

It does a little bit.  I feel much calmer now.  Well, a little I guess. I guess it was like punching a brick wall - a way to hurt myself to release the stress.  I don't know.  I chose it, I was conscious of what I was doing - made excuses to myself the whole way 'see I am so stressed I am going to maccas'.  I want something bad to happen so everyone can see how stressed I am.  I am so angry with myself for forgetting to go in last night and subculture.  I am angry that the centrifuge that is right behind me isn't available to use and I have to arrange to get the part from downstairs or take my stuff down there!  I am angry that my supervisor didn't tell me that I am only meant to use the centrifuge on Tues and Wed so I got the 'not impressed' email from the one lecturer whom I really respect and adore.  I am so annoyed that I am sitting here, with 4weeks to hand in my thesis and I still dont' have results. I am sooo annoyed that my supervisor is so relaxed and is letting everything just be 'okay' and happen 'whenever'.  It doesn't work like that!  If he had of got his act together and been prepared then he would have known that the cells take a week to culture.  I'm annoyed he isn't letting me do the lab work I want to do and is controlling everything so I can't do stuff and then leaves me to clean up the mess when I have to try and do two assays at once.  Grrrrrrrrrr!

My Honours - Priorities

So peeps, how many hours do we need to set aside just for the 12wbt challenge?

An hour a day for exercise?  An extra half hour in meal preparation?  Maybe an hour added onto the weekly shopping time to find new products and print out recipes?

So why is it taking up ALL of my time?  Why am I checking my blog three or four times a day?  Why am I spending at least an hour reading other peoples blogs?  Why am I checking the forums CONSTANTLY when I know they don't get that many new posts in a half hour?

Because I am PROCRASTINATING!  Yup, I mentioned it in a previous post but I never followed through with my commitment.  I've had distractions but that is just an excuse.  No more time for excuses so I am going to spend this morning doing some planning, move back into my uni office and get my arse moving so I can complete this with first class - something I KNOW I am able to acheive given my abilities, but something that I am not sure I have the DETERMINATION AND COMMITMENT I need to acheive it.

I've wasted enough time already.  Organise and Diarise is now the mission - I can only go to the forums once a day, in the evening, when I have acheived my work goals.  At 5pm my exercise slot begins - I need to have my work completed by then, and then I can come and blog my acheivements, log my food, and browse the forums.  then I need to spend time with my children and plan the next day once they are asleep! 

Off I go!

Swimming Lesson No 3

Well today sucked!

I rode my bike in and I must have been worn out - I think only 2 laps I made it the whole way and I was so upset with myself.  I'm gonna have to join up so I can practice more often.

Important Numbers though...

My first super saturday....

in 2hrs I have done 30mins bike, 1hr swimming and 30mins bike.
A whopping 633calories!

And I still have my run to do later today!

UPDATE:

Went for my run and it was fantastic!  Seemed so easy after the last week of building up.

42mins inc. 5min warm-up walk. 7.64km/hr avg speed
HRM: 46mins and 342 calories

So total it up and todays Cal out = 975.  Damn close to 1000cal for the day!