Slow and steady wins the race but not this slow, come on now!

I had a bit of a bar night last night but had minimal beers with more voddie tonnies….and of course one or two red wines for my antioxidants.  I did not feel like a fatty, too much, because I only had a mango for breakfast, ½ of a cheese veggie sandwich for lunch, and 3 chippies for a snack.
We BBQ’d for dinner and of course I felt full after eating because my stomach had shrunk. 
At least it’s a bit of work to eat chicken wings and you don’t get that much meat, that was a good choice of protein, so I had about 4 or 5 (I should actually know exactly how many, shame on me) un-fried (of course) chicken wings, a nice salad with a vinaigrette, 3 small bites of garlic bread and ¾ of a small baked potato. It was quite the feed but I was active all day and hopefully it will keep my cravings down for the week. 
I am feeling good so far that I am so not craving pizza or any “hang over foods” this day and I will not be over eating, no, no, no aint gonna happen ;) …..but I might allow myself a bite of something naughty that I of course will pay for tomorrow with some serious cardio.

So here are a few good rules to follow that will help us all stay on track:

• ·       Never eat from a sauce pan ever – eat from a (small perhaps) plate or bowl only and always
•    Never eat while you are cooking!!!

• ·       Never eat seconds – serve yourself a sensible single one time portion

• ·       Drink plenty of water, satisfy/stave off cravings with water, drink a glass of water before meals and after, drink a glass of water before anything else when you wake up (w/ a bit of lemon is brilliant), drink a glass of water before bed….water, water, water, we are 98% water so drink it up!

• ·        Chew each small bite of food for a long time, the less your digestive system has to work the better (we will give an example of that later)

• ·       Share your food and don’t by enough food when shopping

• ·       Leave at least 1 bite on your plate – instead of licking it clean like a starving pig (a practice of self-discipline).

• ·       Don’t eat anything that starts w/ the letter “C”

• ·       Don’t eat anything processed!

Follow these rules ½ the time and you will get ½ the results.


Monthly measuring update ~32-29.3-36.2~   
And 11” bicepts, what the?
½ inch reduction goal not met …….hence 1/2 the result of following ½ the rules ½ the time!

I am happy for achieving a portion of the goal but I must do better and achieve this months entire goal.

This October month’s goal= ½ inch reduction down the measuring tape
*FOLLOW {ALL} THE RULES FATTY…..{ALL} the time

I will (am) make (ing) it to the finish (I mean maintenance) line.
I will have a flab, droop free fab after photo.......just watch and see

Oooop, Back On The "Cusp 'O Fat"

Okay, so yes, I seemed to have been on the right track this week. I worked out twice; I was not over eating (or over drinking too much). So that called for an evening/afternoon celebration, right, well it happened to be a mates birthday party, which led to Bloody Maries the following morning……that led to a continued day of ‘celebration’ on into the following evening. On a brighter note I was too busy drinking to really over indulge in anything else. On the darker side, days of celebration can lead to a present of cellulite and bloating, yuck and intense munchies….which lead to breakfast BLT’s and lunch AND dinner of pizzas.  On a brighter note, again, since I have decreased my mad consumption of food and my pig like manner of eating my stomach had shrunk a small piece and I couldn’t gorge myself like I have done in the past because I felt much fuller and too uncomfortable to continue over eating this time.

AND THAT IS WHERE IT MUST STOP.  I felt like I even over ate into the next following day though, oh dear, because I ate until I was full…a second day in a row, a super big ‘no, no’ if you would prefer your stomach to not be totally stretched out again and definitely a diet ‘no, no’ if you don’t want to feel like a lazy, unmotivated, unthininspired fat blob. One big plate of curry, butter chicken of all terrible things, and even a few cookies……and one piece of left over pizza earlier for breakfast. If this is making you hungry just grab a handful of your fat gut and say “no, you’re having something raw baby, shut up fatty”. The thought of all those carbs and fat is still totally grossing me out; the desire for junk food is so not surpassing my desire to be rid of my surplus of fat at the moment now. 

At this rate I will never have “after pictures” because this is “before behavior”……so if you are thinking about carbing out and over eating don’t do it! Wait until Christmas feast time or something because that is how long it is going to take to not yo-yo and actually see some results.

Feeling full is like being shackled mentally and physically. Satiety equals weakness because you were weak to get to that point and now you are a human stain most likely on your couch next to some trough like structure. Stop the cycle in its tracks now. Preventative measures and rules need to be put into place…..we will get into what some good rules are soon.

Now I am basically back where I started on this ‘cusp of fat’ but not worse off and hopefully a little wiser and with the Miss Party Mode a bit out of the system I can get back to being more responsible! I am starting off with breakfast of ½ a Mango, I don’t want to be greedy, and a 1 hour hike outside in the soul quenching nature, ahhh. That should get my week off to a healthy start of matureness and self-control….hopefully.

The positive side

Yes, I am very thankful for the progress I have barely made thus far and for my meager fitness level. 
I am over being almost on the cusp of my appropriate BMI though and I am so over having my waist hanging over my waist band.
I will never stop feeling this way until the problem of the elusive 7 kg is addressed and I can dress without struggle.
This is me.....

I am trapped in flab at the moment and the flab is trapped in a slow release program.
Go to your grocer and lift 7kg of sugar or rice. Go to the gym actually ;) and try and carry around 7kg of weights for a while and see how impeding it can be and tiresome. 
No doubt this extra weight gives me a bit of fatigue.
I was proud last night to wake up super hungry and do nothing about it.

Can you believe this is what I have settled for most of my life!

So, I was finally down to a reasonable size, just over one year ago. I worked my ass off literally for 3 months solid after being postpartum 5 months. Unfortunately that didn't last and look at me now. I was looking pretty fly for at least 6 months, but look at me now. I once again let myself go......go and drink and eat whatever I wanted because I was looking good, technically I was looking "almost there".
So, here we go again, promising lifestyle changes that will obviously have to change my life style, but ultimately the way I look and the way I feel about myself, inside and out!
My fatness peaked out around June so I worked out twice in July, nonce in August, but now I am taking this necessity seriously and have so far worked out at least 6 times this month, yay. Although I did not work out very much these past months I have implemented diet strategies which basically means I have not over eating more than may be two days a week, so about 6-5 days a week my portions and snacking is under control. However my drinking has not been reduced so obviously so has my tightening and toning up progress, especially since I drink mostly beer. Evolution is slow but I am on my way with new determination to implement a permanent lasting effective healthy lifestyle…forever this time.
It will take time no doubt, I am not looking for a quick fix but a lasting steady healthy weight.