Healthy Eating??

 

Food at Work

 

 

Lasagne!

 

The most amazing Nacho bake ever!!
Totally not that healthy..

cheese saturated fat and dairy.. veggies i added were good!

Corn chips, carbs and sodium!

saturated fat in the mince all the additives in the sachet seasoning and salsa!

My new favourite!!

Strawberry kiwi cruiser cask!

overloading you liver with alcohol makes it hard for your body to process toxins and in short lose weight.. amonst other things!

 

The awesome Salad book my bestfriend bought me!

 

AMAZING!! king prawn fried rice from Noodle house with satay sauce..

Oohhh man..  

some serious carb overload and saturated fat mania!

 

Ferrero Roche Cupcake from Squeeze & Grind..

sugar overload

AMAZING african chicken from The Art house!

Serioudly the best meal ever!!!

The orange sauce is spicy! It has cous cous with veggies! The chicken is yumm!

Ice cream mango and coconut

very summery and refreshing! Really not that bad but just watch how much ice cream you eat and how close it is to when you go to bed!

 
 Our Anniversary Dinner.. Roast pork belly & Chocolate danish w/ ice cream

Saturated fat.. carb overload.. sugar more saturated fat and dairy! eep


















Cue the awfully tasty holiday food!

Ofcourse i found frozen yoghurt! =)

 

Ice creams with my girl at the pool

 

 Valentines Day! Had to make everyone some choc coated strawberries!

 

The most amazing lychee & watermelon cocktail!

 Entree was a spinach, balsamic, sundried tomato, goats cheese (YUCK!!) & olive (YUCK) salad!
Main was asparagus and artichoke baked chicken mMMMmm with a red wine jus and baked potato mash stack thing

 

 Dessert blueberry chocolate fondant with ice cream =)

 

So amongst all this shit food i still ate kind of well.. apart from the ben and jerrys and the alcohol..

lately my eating has super slipped.. combinations of things but mainly sick of trying to hard to eat well when my family dont support me. 3 year olds dont like veggies!

Also just lost my motivation to be organised.. had no energy to worry about food when i have been so stressed out. Which really is the worst thing to do! Dont give up on your eating! It affects so much more than you know! Your mood, your energy levels, the amount of money you spend!

Saying this it was a nice reprieve to eat whatever i wanted on our holiday =) but im happy to get back to some good eating!

Super awesome family holiday!

Having the Best time on our family holiday!
So far we are into day 4! The plane trip was great both girls did really well and I didn't let my anxiety get to me too much :-) settled into our two bedroom apartment and I'm pretty sure I want to live there permanently! Haha the view is perfect! We can see the beach and the little inlet! Air conditioning is amazing!!!! We are going to die when we get home.. The kitchen is beautiful and our closet is HUGE!!

I brought some nice dresses to go out for dinner and some of my heels! So looking forward to getting all pretty one night! :-)

Yesterday we went to movie world!! I'm a pretty tough girl I can do some amazing things but OMG I was having big anxiety over the damn roller coasters haha my favourite "superman" ride was CLOSED!! What?! Lucky the new "green lantern" ride was awesome!! I'm fine with upside down and fast rides its just the slow accent up into the clouds that really freaks me out! Haha never being a patient person and prone to terrible anxiety the worst part is the wait.. I always enjoy myself and want to do it again but it's managing the irrational fear that pops into me while waiting and slowly going up click by click that I need to conquer.

 Immy & Evie enjoyed their first ride! And the merry go round was the happiest moment of the day! Imogen's face could have lit up the entire world! Just look at it! She's so cute!






Surprisingly healthy-ish lunch! Went to a buffet kind of like sizzler! Made a salad and had some battered fish.. Not much in the way of healthy protein sources unfortunately! Did avoid the Ben & Jerry's shop!! Didn't drink nearly enough water! Need to buy bigger water bottles! I did half freeze two pump bottles and the girls juice poppers! Such a good thinker!

The weather has been beautiful up until this morning! Rainy! So we decided to take a bus ride to the shopping plaza! I've wanted new swimmers for AGES! My black ones are too big and I hide behind them too much! So... I bought a BIKINI!! Whhhaaaaaaaatttt?!!!

I think I've come to the realization that maybe ill never be the size 8 body I want! But uno thats ok!
I've always been thick in the hips! I'm not using it as an excuse to stop working my ass off, I know I still have atleast 8% body fat to lose and that loss could change my shape a little, but just trying to take some of the negative self body image away! You have big hips.. So work it! Haha and run run run off that excess fat! Haha
For my birthday I want a DEXA scan! Then I can see what my body shape is and how far I have to go! Also it'll give me a bit of motivation and a good before shot for when I'm finished!
I bought lots of magazines to read and one was "oxygen" I was also looking for "shape" but no one ha it! I need to trim down and I need the results and these magazines are all about working hard for what you want! I love the muscle women! Sure they're a bit extreme but what's that saying? Aim for the moon and if you fall you'll land on a cloud? Something like that! So I'm aiming for Pluto and we shall see how far I get :-)

 

Obviously haven't been eating the best.. It's hard when you don't have your kitchen! Had to stock everything! Admittedly I did bring my protein powder up! Justin was worried they'd think it was drugs and have to search my stuff haha I haven't had any yet!
Breakfasts have been good! Snacks have been terrible.. Water consumption has been really bad. I made a nice BBQ the other night and I made myself have a salad! I'm craving this Thai resturant that we have downstairs!! It looks so fancy!

I did manage a beach run on Monday morning! It was great! Forgot how effing hard it is to run on the beach! I had to run back on the pathway because the tide had come up too far! Managed 7kms in just over an hour! Kept getting scared someone was behind me because the sun was just coming up! Haha
I miss the gym! Worried I'm not doing any weights and was tempted to go find one! The gym here really is quite disappointing! Might drag Katie and Clive in there this arvo before we have BBQ hamburgers!

My HOW TO Manual

 

I started this blog with my goal in sight.. I wanted a complete diary from start to finish! The big WOW before & after and exactly how I got there.. When I was first starting out these were (and still are) the biggest motivation for me

People's before & after photos!

 

 

But unfortunately you can never really see the story of how they did it. This is what I've done! Well this is what I'm doing! This is the magic Pill! This is how it's done! This is my how to manual..
When i was first starting off thats all i wanted.. no gimics.. no friggen money wasted on stupid crap.. just the formula! JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!! I quite liked Michelle Bridges 12wbt.. it really was a simple introduction! Eat Healthy, Exercise this much and dont forget to deal with your issues!
But after the 12 weeks.. it was expensive and kinda repetitive so i didnt want to sign up another round!

Youve gotta change it up alot.. So im going to try and do more of what i started! The HOW TO!
This is what im doing.. this is what youre not supposed to do lol this is how i deal with it and these are my results.. Im human.. i have a life, i have kids, i have a job, a husband, friends, family, and everything has to fit together! Im not a machine! I dont workout 3 times a day and eat nothing but chicken, brown rice and brocolli. I stuff up, i work hard, but ill get there eventually!

 

I know I'm not there yet and I won't be for a long time.. Sometimes I get really down 'maybe I won't get there.. I'm so big and my body could never shrink that much..' But I try my hardest not to let my thoughts bring me down
I know I have to keep at it day by day and I will see results in time. I just need to keep imagining the end goal and love my body for being strong enough to fight through all the torture! Hehe

I've been testing out my new workout routines this week and I'm loving it! Its amazing the knowledge I've gained! I'm more confident in walking into the muscle man cave that is the weights room I can hold my own :-) but ohh boy my legs are still sore from Mondays leg session! Phwoah what a killer!!

Excited!! I ordered new Running Bare gear! Gotta love 40% off sales! I went wild and got the bright pink cheetah print pants I've been drooling over! Why not?! Just do it!! Hehe

I Want i want i want!!

I want so many damn things at the moment what is wrong with me?!

Bangin body!

cute denim overalls!

New sexy family car! 

Graduate Uni

 Live on the beach!

Awesome hair

 Go out dancing!

MORE RUNNING BARE!

NEW SHOES!!!

A DAMN COMFY COMPUTER CHAIR!!

More fun time with my girls!

 

A beautifully huge closet!!

a big neat main bedroom!! With a fancy made bed with lots of cuchions!

Yikes.. An epiphany

So apart from all the emotional shit that's been happening in my life right now that's been severely kicking me off track! I realized that maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing.. I've been trying to focus all my efforts into "controlling" my eating. Yes I use that word for a purpose.. I have not been eating well for my body I have been trying to forcably control what I'm eating. Which anyone knows if you tell yourself NOT to do something automatically you'll wanna stuff your face with spinach & ricotta puff pastries! So I haven't been working out.. The old "abs are made in the kitchen" saying has been taken far too literally..
What I realize is the shift in my mind when I exercise.. I feel skinny and I want to nourish my body properly.. And in turn workout more to sustain that awesome feeling! Instead of trying to control my eating and then fucking up and binge eating due to severe emotional stress and then hating myself even more.. It's a terrible cycle of negativity.. When you're in that cycle it's really hard to exercise too so it's even harder to break it! Arghhh fuck food!!! Haha
SO!
Starting this week.. I will organize and diarise my workouts! My new workout plan I'm constructing at the moment is legs day, arms and shoulders, core & Back.. Included with each program will be atleast 30 minutes of cardio at the beginning and stretching at the end! Also ill try to super set or create circuits so I don't drop my heart rate too much or get bored haha
Also I was thinking to rotate the exercises in each specific days routine every 2 weeks so my muscles don't get used to the exercises. The in between days ill try and do laps or classes.. But my main focus will be the toning routine and getting back into the gym! God wish me luck! Self guided workouts haha
Of course I will be trying to eat as clean as possible.. Hoping my workouts improve my eating habits but also trying to separate my feelings from the foods I eat! Being able to deal with my emotions rather than stuffing it down with food. I will endeavour to eat regularly too! Stuffs me up when I don't eat and then I'm starving so I cram the junk!

My sister in law and I did a sample of some core circuits I've been toying with.. We only did it for 20 mins before yoga but I am so sore today!! It's great :-)