A new photo

Here are two photos from the weekend. Although only head shots I think you can see the difference!

One is of me alone, which I have put next to a pic of me exactly 12months ago, the other with my wonderful Fiance.

I REALLY need to get some proper progress photos (with full body shots) happening!

first weigh in after my gain

Well I had a GREAT result yesterday, 2kg lost!! What a great birthday present!!!

I'm thinking I possibly found those 2kgs again after being surprised to dinner at a fancy restaurant!

I don't care though, I had a WONDERFUL night, and thoroughly enjoyed what I ate, and made better choices than the old me would have, as well as actually stopping when I was full, (considerably less than it used to take to get full too!)

It was a LONG dinner, we arrived just before 7 to Gemelles, a divine Italian restaurant, and didn't leave almost 10!

We started with some bruschetta with tomato, and also some with olive tapenade and a salad of rocket, parmesan, pear and gorgonzola (omg divine!)

Entree then followed, I had seared scallops with mediteranian salsa and Sam had the chilli soft shell crab.

Then for the main, Sam had something with chicken, prawns and a white wine sauce, and I had grilled spatchcock with vegetables and pearl cous cous with olive and capsicum.

By now we were very content, but decided to share a serve of gelato, hazlenut, coconut and lime sorbet .. YUM! (not all mixed together, obviously, that would be weird)

So anyway, I know I went over points, but I still made healthier decisions, and at the end of the day, it was the best night out ever!

So, lets hope the rest of the week stays on track for another good result!

My first gain

Well, I can't say I am surprised.

I had a gain of 0.5kg this week, dropping my total loss down to 21.4kg.

I know how it happened, and feel so much better since getting weigh in over and done with.

I had our 6th anniversary dinner Saturday night, we were planning on the local pub and I was going to have grilled fish with veggies. Well, they were fully booked, so we ended up at the local steak house.

I picked the smallest size steak on the menu (200g) with calamari (all the others had creamy/cheesy sauces). I pulled the batter off the calamari, and ate lots of salad with it, I also asked for no butter on the baked potato. For dessert I picked the waffle (Rather than the decadant sounding chocolate mud cake) and asked for no cream, I did have ice cream with it, but only ate about 1/3 of it, enough to go with the waffle. I ended up being over by 15 points that day.

I enjoyed myself though, and am proud of the fact I made healthier choices, where as 6 months ago I would have had a big steak, all the batter, butter on my potato and the mud cake, probably also full strength soft drink or wine.

I had planned to save 4 points each day after that, which didn't happen, I did save between 2-3 each day though.

So, I'm not too upset, of course no one likes to see the number go up, but looking at the overall picture, I did well.

The other thing that helped ease the weight gain blow is that I did my measurements, and am pleased to report I have lost 100.5cms!

So, there we go, my first gain over and done with, hopefully I won't see too many more of those!

What a week

Sorry for the late post this week, but it's been crazy.

So, I lost my job on Wednesday .. I'm not even that upset as there was so much stress and crap that it is a relief to not have to deal with it. On the other hand, financially this is going to add more stress till I find something else... I think more than anything I am angry.

The positive of being angry not sad, is that I don't binge eat out of anger.

Anyway, enough of that and on to my weigh in.

I lost 1.6kg this week (wha!!! how did that happen???) I was not expecting ANOTHER big loss, the last few weeks I've done really well, I thought for sure it would settle back down to smaller losses. No complaints here though!

Not much has changed food/exercise wise, I'm still eating the same, ticking all my food groups, drinking all my water and getting some exercise (I really do need to bump it up though)

So, that's where I'm at. I promise to come on more when i'm a little less stressed with this work situation.

Hope that those of you following my blog are going well :)

Weigh In Today

I'm was feeling quite positive about today before I went to weigh in.

The start of the week was terrible as I had a horrible cold, so I induldged in ice cream on a couple of occassions which was so nice on the sore throat, and you know what, I didn't feel bad about it. Yes I went over points, but it didn't mean the end of the world, I cut back on points a few days later in the week.

Usually i'd bump up the exercise as well, but still not 100% I didn't feel up to it.

The main change I've made this week was going back to ticking all my food group boxes! I didn't allow myself to induldge in brownies or chocolate mousse unless i'd already had my fruit, or my yoghurt or whatever else i'd allocated that was in the servings of each food group required.

So, on to my results .. loss of 1.5kg!!! YAY!!

Guess what the total is now ....20.3kg can you believe it .. wow!

I'm about a month a head of time for my goals that I set (on the right hand side of the page) but I'm hesitant to edit the dates as I know that as my weight loss goes on and I have less to lose it is likely to slow down, besides that I feel awfully proud when I see i'm achieving goals I set back in January ahead of what I expected.

So that's it for today, lets see what the coming week brings!