#6 or is that 7???

Who knows - maybe I shouldn't be numbering them, it gets confusing.

Anyway - yesterday was weigh in #2.  I didn't feel any different, but according to the scales I have dropped 2.6 kilos!!  That's since last week where I dropped 200 grams.

I think that sort of a drop is amazing.  I have been eating low fat for months now, but not exercising.  Not that I did much exercising during last week anyway.  I just did not have the jfdi in me to jfdi.

On Saturday I jumped on the scales to see what was going on and found I had dropped 2 kilos - in 3 days.  I put a lot of that down to having had a laxative the night before and having been to the toilet courtesy of said laxative prior the mid week weigh in.  I felt I needed the laxative as I had some discomfort in my tummy and I knew what that would fix things up.  I don't generally suffer from constipation but that first week I was a bit clogged, so to speak.

I have recently found a 'new' brand of greek yoghurt.  It is thick and rich and creamy and 0% fat, if I buy the right flavours.  The only things is hubby has found them in the fridge too.  I have been having 1 of these as part of my breakfast, so I consider them mine.  I got quite annoyed when he started to eat them too.  I mean it's my food - I bought them for me, not him.  But yet I am prepared to share them with the youngest.  Go figure.  I used to hide nuts/chocolate/lollies etc. so he wouldn't eat them on me.

I have read a number of posts on the 12wbt forums about 'my food' v's 'their food' and how people cope with it all.  I have reads these posts and gone to myself, since when is fresh fruit and veges the specific domain of the 12wbt'er??  Shouldn't all the fresh wholesome food be made available to everyone in the posters house??  Yet here I find myself with a similar, if not the same, attitude.  Get your dirty mitts off my yoghurt!!

This week I bought hubby some flavoured custard, in the vain hope that he would eat those and not MY yoghurt.  To no avail.  One night he had what I would consider to be 4 desserts - 2 flavoured custards (together, he likes to mix his flavours), 1 cupcake and then 1 yoghurt.  I told him that was disgusting.

As far as exercise goes, I have made a decision.  I am going to exercise - every day if possible.  I will not exercise if hubby is home.  So that rules out Sundays and his RDO's.  I have done a Michelle Bridges shape up dvd a few times.  Whilst I can manage to get thru 60-75% of it, it leaves me an absolute wreck the next day with very sore knees.  So I have found my old Nutri System video - yes video - and have started doing that on the first level.  The first time I could not manage to get the coordination happening with some of the moves, but today I had it.  I have nearly got to the point where I can do the whole thing without stopping.  Not with as much knee bending or twisting as the presenter does, but getting there.  When I find that this is getting easy I will move onto their level 2.  Once I can do their level 2 fairly easily, I will go back to the MB dvd and mix it up with the NS level 3 video.  I have never even looked at that one.

Now I realise that this video is not going to push my body to get 400 cals burned each day - it barely gets 100 done in the 20 minutes it goes for.  But I figure it is better than nothing and it is a start.  I have not exercised in over 20 years, so starting slow and easy is the way to go for me at least.  You may be different.  Maybe I can do the MB one as my SSS - super Saturday screamer.

This whole program is about getting off the couch/computer chair/etc and moving and counting the calorific value of what goes in your mouth and staying under a certain limit.  So that's what I am doing.

#6, Chicken Noodle Soup and Mothers Day

hmm,  just had a look again at tonight's dinner recipe.  I made it last Friday for hubby and I and it was really nice.  Hubby even asked if there were left over so he could take it to work for his lunch - sadly no.

But in checking the recipe again there should have been left overs.  I made it as per  the instructions and served it up between the 2 of us.  Made for 2 really big bowls and no wonder.

It's supposed to serve 4 - not 2.

Geez am I an idiot. 

So tonight when I make it there will not be as much in our bowls, unless I add a bit more water.  There is going to be 4 of us home tonight, so I need to ensure there is some for the girls when they get home and not eat it all myself.

Yesterday was a low emotional day for me for some reason.  Not sure if it was just 'cause it was mother's day and my kids were not home until late in the afternoon or it was hormonal and I was late in taking my perimenopause meds.  But I could easily have cried quite a few times during the day.

On a lighter note, they got me what I asked for - a pedometer with a battery that I can change.  The last one I had I could not change the battery - what do expect for a kellogs product.  They also got me a new satin nightie and dressing gown.  In a smaller size mind you, so now I have something to entice me to keep strong with 12wbt.

After my workout this morning I looked for my old Nutri System videos.  I thought they had been thrown out, but guess what?  They hadn't.  Yay.  So now I have a couple of different styles of workout to enjoy.  I also fished out my belly dancing videos too.  So that gives me 3 differing workouts.  I will have to do these new/old workouts with my hrm on just so I get a feel for how they work my body.

Mind you, if I had of realised that 12wbt put up videos online to work with on a daily basis I would not have bought the MB one in the first place.

Fitness Test

Are my results all over the place or what?

It takes me 15 minutes to walk 1k, yet I can reach 5cm past my toes and hold a plank on my knees for 58 secs.  I can't do a wall sit for longer than 12 seconds and that's with my knees not even at 90 degrees to the floor and I can only do 13 push ups (not even all the way to the floor).

The 1k walk was very painful - in my knees and in my lower legs.  About 5 years ago I used to do letterbox dropping of leaflets.  I got paid a pittance, but I thought it would be a good way to get fit.  I had to go out every week to deliver leaflets to 500 houses - it would take me a couple of hours twice a week.  Some days I could walk no problems - no pain in anything.  Some days it was a real struggle and it seemed that my legs would drop off below the knee.  I could never figure out why - I still can't.  It's not like on the good days I would do anything different than on the bad days, nor did a bad day follow a good day.

I think I have hubby and his bedroom Olympics insistence to thank for the plank time.  Oh and a good magic wand..........


Been thinking about the forum.  I think the 12wbt forum is good, but if 1 person wants to keep a journal of their thoughts they don't seem to be able to do that within the forum.  I have yet to find anything like that anyway.

#5 - buddies

So I got signed a buddy through the facebook page #d30.  I thought I had said maybe, but oh well.  A buddy could be good.

A list of questions went out for us to answer and send off to our buddies so they could get to know us a bit better.  Below are the questions and my answers.

1.       Are your parents married or divorced? Married for over 50yrs

2.       Are you a vegetarian? Goodness no

3.       Have you ever come close to dying? Nope

4.       What jewelery do you wear daily? A friendship ring hubby gave me early on.  I was devastated when I thought I had lost it once on hols – uncontrollable sobbing

5.       Do you eat the stems of broccoli? You bet

6.       Who is your hair stylist? Me myself and i.

7.       Ever have any surgery? If so, what? Yeah – 11 yrs ago an umbilical hernia was removed.

8.       What do you want from 12wbt? To  prove to myself that I can do something totally for myself

9.       Do you color your hair? yes

10.   What do you wear to bed? undies

11.   Have you ever done anything illegal? speed

12.   Can you roll your tongue? yep

13.   What kind of shoes usually? runners

14.   What is your natural hair color (do you even remember?) I think it is mid to dark brown mixed in with ever more grey – the grey I know about

15.   Do you snore? probably

16.   What are you looking forward to the most on 12wbt? Getting rid  some excess kilos

17.   If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be? Canada

18.   If you won the lottery, what would you do first?  Jump up and down saying ‘oh my god’

19.   Gold or platinum/white gold?  gold

20.   If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?  Mexican

21.   City, beach or country? country

22.   Where did you eat last? Is this out or at home?  If it’s out then that would tgi’s.

23.   When’s the last time you cried? Last weekend when I caught hubby binning perfectly good fallen leaves that were supposed to go into the compost or on a garden bed as mulch.

24.   Do you talk in your sleep?  No idea

25.   Ocean or pool?  Ocean even though I only like gentle waves, now if river was an option…

26.   Window seat or aisle? window

27.   Ever met anyone famous?  Sadly no

28.   Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it? twirl

29.   How long do your showers last?  Under 6 mins

30.   Automatic or manual?  Auto – hate having to drive daughters manual

31.   What makes you self-conscious?  Not a lot really, sure I am overweight, but I will strut my stuff in all sorts of gear given the chance (and the right environment), I can easily talk in public, so…..

32.   Have you ever ridden in an ambulance? No

33.   Can you tango? no

34.   Last gift you received?  A kardashian wallet, a pair of purple earrings and a lovely tinkerbell card

35.   Last sport you played?  Goodness that was in high school – maybe netball???  Or totem tennis..

36.   Things you spend a lot of money on? fabric

37.   Where do you live?  Mill Park

38.   Where were you born? Adelaide

39.   Last wedding attended? Hubby’s cousins daughters last November

40.   Most hated food(s)? mushrooms

41.   What’s your favorite food? Something I don’t have to cook

42.   Can you sing? According to hubby and the kids - no

43.   Last person you instant messaged?  I’m with you on this one

44.   Last place you went on holiday?  Easter – Bright Victoria (we have a caravan up there)

45.   Favorite regular drink?  Earl Grey Tea

46.   What’s the first thing you’re going to change about your life on 12wbt?  My lack of jfdi attitude.

I had planned to have a date with Michele yesterday but my knee was really sore, so I didn't.  I need to get off my arse and go to that date today.  I also have to do a fitness test.  I already know that for one part of the test my results will be advanced.  That's the sit and reach and I can already get my fingertips past my toes by about 5cm.  That test is all about flexibility in your hips - and mine have always been flexi..

#4

Just finished Michelle Bridges Shape Up DVD.  This is the first form of formal exercise I have done in around 20 years!!!!!!!

I am amazed by myself that I actually managed to keep moving thru 80-90% of it.  There are few things that they do on the floor that I did not do - not the planks though, I did a version of those.  some things I am uncoordinated with and others I need to touch (not quite hang on to) a shelf for balance on one side.  But all in all I feel quite proud of myself.

I need to use my HRM a bit more to figure out how to get it to work.  I managed to get it going half way thru the DVD - 27.41 mins and 191 cals burned.  And my heart rate has dropped quite quickly.  I thought it would have been pounding along for awhile after I stopped working out.  The max it got to was 162 beats per min near the end.  Not sure if that is too high but am going to google it to see.

I now feel quite alert even if I am sweaty.  Although I am not as sweaty as I thought I would be - which is a bonus as I HATE having sweat drip from me.

#3

After a bit of deliberation and some encouragement from my youngest I have today taken a couple of underwear pics of myself. 

Ewwwwww is all I can say.

They are not what I see when I look in the mirror.  Mind you I have a pic that was taken a few years ago that I think is equally as horrible.  No I was not in any underwear, but fully dressed; taken the morning after a late night out that was quite warm.  I look tired and my hair is a mess.

Why did I take these pics this morning.

Well I have heard and read from a number of sources that people who do the 12wbt, or any fitness program really, wish they had pics of themselves when they started their weight loss / fitness journey.  So now I can say that I do.  I suppose it will be a nice reminder of where I started and how far I have come.

On another note, I tried to get my new bathroom scales to tell me how much fat, water and bone I am carting around.  They came up with an error.

Apparently I have to much fat for it to display :(