Open letter to my bathroom scales.

Dear Bathroom scales,

I have put up with your miscalculations of my weight for far too long.

When I purchased you, for the expensive sum of $100.00 (yes that's right!) It was 10 years ago and now I can purchase a much more slim line, super seeded model for 1/4 of the price and I am sure they will do a much better job.

How dare you tell me this morning that I weigh 82.4, 81.8, 85.6kgs.  It is your job, to tell me the correct weight. Don't you realise, by telling me 3 different amounts and being way off centre, that it sets my day up for destruction and possibly failure?

I am giving you this letter as I will no longer be requiring your services anymore from this Friday when a nice new slimline model, will be taking over your space on the bathroom floor.

Kind regards

Felicity.

81.6kgs

Yep you better believe it back at 81.6kgs.  My plan is to be back in the 80's this week.

I am going to go and buy a new set of scales on Thursday. I am sure these ones need replacing.

Yesterday I was back down to 81.2kgs after hitting 82.4kgs the day before. It amazes me how much our weight can go up and down over a 24 hours period.

I felt sore still with this stupid hip of mine but still went to gym and had a great training session.  It was just a shame that the gym closed at 4pm as I could have kept going.

This morning I pulled up very sore and with a huge headache again.  However, I come good by the afternoon when my bones have warmed up a bit.

Nothing is going to slow me down.  Of course I worry about this injury, as last time, on the final of my 12 week challenge last year.  I went to run and my back went. I don't want a repeat of that as it was just out of the blue.

Michelle's Podcast today is "Say it out loud" and making a commitment to her and letting my family & friends know what I want and making it clear to everyone, just how I am going to do it.

I am going to think about it before I post because I want to be sure and have clear plans on how I am going to do it.

Happy Mothers day and only 2 weeks until the challenge starts.

82.4kgs Friday 6th May.

I feel like I am loosing this battle with the scales again.

I have been tracking my food and had Thursday as my day off other than having a "low carb" beer with dinner ( I don't normally drink beer) but my taste buds have changed since cutting out alcohol from my diet.  I was a little naughty at dinner time.  As I decided to wait from my hubby to walk the dog and eat dinner with him.  So it was close to 8pm by the time I ate.  I had been picking at other things, I guess and that must be were I went wrong.

I am struggling with my back and hip pain after doing the Zumba class.  I don't know if it was all that hip shaking, or that I had a Chiro adjustment the day before and it was too soon.  It also could be that I did weights this week for the first time.  Sadly, I did too many new things again and I can't pin point what sets the pain off again.

I think I am going to have to get this hip operation done before the end of the year.  Its holding me back from getting to goal.

I will not eat food I don’t need. 

I will not reward myself with food. 

I will not medicate with food. 

I will not allow situations, circumstances or other people to influence or dictate the way I eat. 

I will not rationalise poor eating. 

I will not be a food martyr; I will simply do what I need to. 

I will not lie to myself or others about my eating behaviours. 

I will not eat in secret. 

I will not repeat the mistakes of my past. 

I will not allow my mind or emotions to sabotage my physical potential. 

I will eat consciously.

81.6kgs

I think I am stuck on 81.6kgs it must be my new plateau or something.

Today I went to my very first Zumba class and I loved it and can't wait to do another one.

My poor old hip and low back didn't like me for doing it but I haven't smiled so much through an exercise class for so long.  It was a great calorie burner which I was really surprised with.  For being so uncoordinated and not doing the class at full pace I still managed to burn 550 calories.  I also did another 150 on the treadmill warming up before the class.

So not bad calorie burn considering from past experience I was only expecting to burn around 200-300 calories.

Food wise has been just OK for some reason I was really hungry in between my warm up and before my class.  I went to the gym cafe and they had nothing quick or healthy to eat.  They had fruit salad but I couldn't eat that quickly. No protein bars not even an apple.  So I ended up having the most delish muesli cookie which I am sure had like 200 calories.

Anyway no photo's to share today.  Hope to see the scales move down tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

81.6kgs

Day 2 of getting back on track.

Today I hit the gym with my new (yes another one) heart monitor and calorie counter watch thingy.

Garmin replaced my old one but this one seems to take longer to get my calories up.  I know as a rule if I do a good cardio work out of about 1 hour I have burnt no less than 500 calories.  So today after 40mins I had only burnt off 280.  I was a bit ticked off as the machines at the gym told me I was closer to 400.

So I decided to play around with it and get it back to what I believe is right.  Although I do have worry in the back of my head that maybe, just maybe the new watch was right to start off with and maybe I am not training hard enough.   Who knows but I did finally burn off just abit over 1000Cals in just over an 1 1/2.

I am feeling really positive today with starting the new challenge and looking forward to it starting in just under 3 weeks.  I wish it was now.

My sisters 30th Birthday is the 2nd July and my aim in just over 8 weeks is to be around  70-72kgs all going well and my body doesn't give in.

Food wise I have made a few new changes.

I bought myself a new cereal bowl.  Yes I know it sounds silly but I just wanted something new and just mine

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So I had my 45grms of All Bran with 100mils of skinny milk and a cup of tea with a splash of skinny milk
Breakfast Cals 220.

Snack Large banana with a black coffee with a "Vanilla Cafe Mate" 165 Cals

Lunch Salad made with 100grms of chicken breast 2 tble spoons of fat free dressing and a cup of tea.
My salad also had some yummy things added like asparagus, 5 olives (in brine) and dry roasted pumpkin.
Cals 320 Cals.

I am trying really hard to get myself organised to have my meals ready in advance so I have no excuse to eat anything.  

This is the salad dressing I use.  I never used to be fussed on dressing on my salads but I don't mind this one.

This dressing has something like 8 or 10 calories per tablespoon. Nice flavour with very low cals.

Dinner was a chicken stir fry  with 1/4cup or rice.

During the day I also snacked on a sushi roll and some air popped popped corn. 

Heading off the chiro tonight for a hip adjustment as I am hoping to do Zumba for the first time tomorrow with  some friends.

Michelle Bridges 12 week challenge Pre-season

Yay life is back to some sort of routine as of today.

Hubby is back at work and my little guy is back at school.

I hit the gym today and decided today to start back at writing all my food down and counting my calories.
It's so much easier now that I am at home by myself and can hit the supermarket and fruit shop without someone tagging along.

Last week was a shocker food wise for me, no excuses other than I allowed myself to indulge with Easter, My husbands birthday & my best friend going over seas.  Having hubby home also meant we ate lunch out most days as well. It's very rare for just the two of us so I enjoyed our time also it was that time of the month I didn't bother to weigh myself. So I nearly died when I jumped on the scales on Saturday for a quick weigh in, as my smaller jeans did not do up.  I came in at 82.8kgs.

I forgot to weigh myself today and realised when I got into the shower and was all soggy wet.

I did weigh myself once I got back from gym and completely freaked out 83.8kgs.  I was 76kgs last October. Not happy Jan! No one to blame but myself.

Michelle's Pre-season tasks have started and while I have had a quick look at them but haven't had the time to sit down and starting making lists.

Task 1 was introducing myself in the forum (tick done)
Task 2: Get real no more excuses.  So far I have made a excuse box.  I have a packet of yellow sticky notes and have written all of my usual excuses and then written my response on each one and thrown it into the box.  I am still going.
Task 3: Setting my goals.  I love this part as I love having goals.  I know from last year when I completed my other 12 week challenge that all of the trainers would say " You have to have goals & imagine yourself at those goals" and keep focused on them.

So with lots of excitement I went and bought myself a new food & exercise diary.   I still had space in my last one but it was all over the place and having something new and starting fresh just sounded better.

I really like this diary - They can be bought from www.itsallaboutmejournal.com.au - My gym stocks them at $20.00.  I like this one because it has a section for your daily thoughts and feelings.  Every 14 days you can pre-set your next fortnight goals.

Well off to watch Biggest Loser final show.  Can't wait to see who wins and what they look like now.