Nuts About Food Diaries

Just a quick update on my end of week 5.

It's 20 to 7am and I am up and just about to start getting the kids ready for school and then go to my Monday Morning session at Glass House.

Last week Wednesday and Friday sessions were hard but fun. The team games on Friday especially. Being on the 12 week challenge, Bianca asks you to do a food diary and a daily summary, where you mark yourself out of 10 for how hard you exercised, if you stuck to healthy eating and how much water you had. I don't know why, but I completely forget to fill it out. I go for days and then remember, even when it is on the fridge. So this week my challenge is to make sure I do it.

The eating plan is now routine. I have changed my habits and my head must be in the right place as it doesn't interfere and send me messages and try to jeopardize my aim. I seem to be content with sitting down and having a bowl of cereal in the morning and then a protein shake, rather than three or four pieces of toast with butter on, eating while making packed lunches or dashing out the door.

I grab a handful of nuts mid morning and then enjoy a chicken or tuna wrap crammed with salad for lunch. Mid afternoon, some cold meat and then tea is chicken, fish or beef with plenty of veg. I had a icy pole the other day and some wine at the weekend but I managed to enjoy a healthy BBQ on Saturday by having a little steak and plenty of salad.


I know I have been sticking to a healthy plan, but going back to the weight obsession, I am still the same weight as I was last Monday. I have to tell myself that my body is changing, the weight will come off, but sometimes it's hard to get it into my stupid head. You want that steady weight loss. Used to being weighed once a week and getting a slow clap from other people in the circle. I am sure I am not alone. So maybe this week is the week where you are really good and nothing comes off, which can be a trigger for saying those classic words 'bugger it'.

Maybe I am having too many nuts, as they are easy to put in a container for when you are out and about. They are also moorish so I might be having too many and that is not good. I will cut down on my nut intake this week and see if this makes a difference.

It is tough and no matter what you tell yourself, when you work hard and those scales don't move, you are disappointed. What I am being positive about, is that I am moving house in 11 days and so for the rest of the week and next, I will be packing up the house, packing and moving boxes, stacking them downstairs in the garage and this means I am going to be more active than a normal week and hopefully next week, the scales may move just a smidge!

Off to do packed lunches and enjoy sitting eating my breakfast!

Endurance Training - It's Not Just About Running

For someone who has never run, I have watched myself learn to move faster than a walk over the last 4 weeks. I still don't consider that the action I do with my feet moving in a forward motion whilst huffing and puffing is actually running, but I know as I continue to practice each day, I will in fact be able to turn this funny jog thing into a proper run.

Yesterday we worked on our endurance. It was a hard session and we had a new lady Peta and a couple of ladies who have joined at level 2, which means they already have some sort of fitness level unlike me who started on level 1, coming from a very sedentary inactive life.

We ran, did some stretches, ran, did some lunges, ran, did more lunges, ran, did sit ups, ran, did squats, ran, ran again, ran some more, did core work, ran again and did I mention.... we ran! All this running, as I explained, is more like a steady jog for me, but at least I was able to keep going until the end. Something I never could have done four weeks ago.

Yesterday morning I weighed myself and was extremely surprised to have lost around 8 kgs. This was short lived as I realised this morning, the needle on my scales were not set to zero (possibly having been played with by a child!) so once I had adjusted it, I could measure properly. I have lost a stone or 6kgs, which is still fantastic coupled with my new measurements from Friday.

I have a very busy few weeks ahead of me. We are moving house in just over two weeks and I have yet to put anything in a box in preparation. We have visitors staying this weekend and the following weekend it is the schools fair and my husband and my anniversary. So there is very little time for packing either weekend really and I refuse to celebrate our anniversary by packing up our house again. We moved here from the UK in December and this will be our 4th rental house. So you can image how tired I am of moving.

I know my weight gain is stress related and all that moving house several times, has meant my mental state has been a catalyst for weight gain. With Bianca's help and training, I know I am going to be less tempted to disappear into the pantry to make myself feel and cope better.

Endurance is the ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions. After enduring all that running, when weeks ago I couldn't have done it, proves to me that with a positive mental attitude I can cope with this next move and not gain weight, no matter what life throws at me.