yay a loss

About time I had a decent loss - if you call 700 grams decent.  Which I do by the way.  My usual losses are around 2-300 grams.

Last week at weigh in I was back to where I was at the start of this round - so disappointing.  But I know where I went wrong and that's a good thing.  Hopefully I won't do the same thing again - at least not too soon.

On Friday I managed to walk for around 1.5 hours shopping with the youngest.  She needed (according to her) a new dress for a 21st she was going to that night.  We did have Devonshire tea with milk shake for lunch - oops.

Then on Saturday I was helping out the calisthenic club move their costumes from storage bay to another about 150m away.  90% of the costumes are in full 55 litre plastic tubs, the rest are in suit bags.  Each tub had to taken out of storage, loaded into a car and driven around to the new area.  I don't know how many car loads I did but it was a lot.  I do know that I did nearly all of it.  Another lady did 2 cars loads and I did the rest. 

I had decided Friday night to wear my HRM just to see how many cals I would burn.  It is fairly easy work and I had originally thought I would do 2 hours and no more.  Well I arrived at 9am and left at 3 pm.  The last hour and a half I turned off the HRM as I had slowed down and everything was moved.  On checking the monitor I saw I had burned 1522 cals.  What a Super Saturday Session!!

Then on Sunday whilst getting dressed I had an 'Ah Ha' moment. 

If I could do the things I had done in the past 2 days what is stopping me from walking around the block??  It's only 770m - a mere 1925 steps. 

I thought about this and figured out that it is the distraction of things to look at, a job to do, people to talk to that made it easy.  Yes my knees hurt even with pain killers before hand.  When going for a walk there's just me in my head and I can concentrate on pain.

This is something I have to work on.

After starting Round 3 for 2013

and not really losing much weight, I have decided it's about time I actually got my money's worth and used recipes from the 12wbt site.

I have picked things for each meal from over the past 2 weeks.  Meals like yoghurt and berries for breakfast, ploughman's lunch for lunch (obviously), Bimbap (rice, veges, chicken salad type thingy)for dinner.

Now the only problem will be knowing who is home for dinner and how many times I have to increase the recipe to suit.  I get 1 serve of each of these, but hubby and son should get 1.5 serves, and the girls should get 1.25.  If I serve up the same for the girls then I will have to ensure I have 6 serves according to the recipe - ie tripling most of them.  That's always assuming everyone is home for dinner.  BUT they often only give me a days or less notice that they won't be home - sometimes it is even as I am starting to cook!!

I also used google to measure how far it is around our block - 770 meters.  So with 2 sore knees I am going to start walking - slowly - around the block.  That will be fun.  :(

And I have even written up an exercise plan that I will start to follow.  It's easy but I think it covers most of the major muscles groups - all except for arms.  I may have to include some biceps curls using son's weights.

Wish me luck...... and motivation.......