Saturday, February 5, 2011
Will be back to edit
Friday, February 4, 2011
Still Chunking
OK now to continue chunking down my goals, in order to lose the next 21.4 kilo or 670 grams per week there are things I must continue doing and there are things I must commence doing.
I am sorely lacking in imagination at the moment so I am going to copy and paste from Dory's blog and go through those steps, Zoe is pretty clued into what is needed.
Steps to take to lose 670 grams a week
I also need to increase my veggie intake, I eat salads, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, olives a lot, with the crazy prices of broccoli and cauliflower I buy them frozen and will cook up a bag with each meal, usually though by the time I have dished up everyone else's meal there isn't a lot left over for me.
My exercise is cruising along, I walk/run every morning for about 40 minutes, I cover a distance of about 3.5 klms. I would like to bump that up to an hour which would at a guess be about 5klms I was walking. So to do this I simply need to reassess which walking tracks I am taking. I live on 120acres of mostly bush with lots of walking tracks everywhere, so as of tomorrow I will take a left turn instead of a right and see where that takes me. Once I have accomplished the new path I will take another right where I would normally take a left.
Gym sessions: yeah I'm slack, there is a complete home gym set up on the back deck, and I use it probably once a week. So from now on I will use the gym Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Sugar and fats, I don't eat sugar so that's one thing I don't have to worry about hehe. As for the fats, I am happy with how that is going.
Daily food diary, Yep I keep one, my issue is not over eating more so not consuming enough calories, so I keep track of what I have eaten mainly to stress myself out because I am usually about 600 cals down on my daily intake. I use the Calorie King food diary but find it a pain in the ass accessing it on my phone so I have an iphone app called shape up that works in KJs which I use most of the time. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing because I am not only 600 cals down but way over 1000kjs which makes it look worse.
Parking further away from the shop doors, Check! I usually park over the far side to get away from all the idiots that can't park and keep hitting my car, I have a newish car now and don't need people banging their doors open on it hence parking way over yonder.
Walk more hills, the hill I start up after dropping my daughter at the school bus in the morning has a 45deg incline and it's all hills from there in
Play more games with the kids, we walked down to one of the water holes on the property today for a swim, it was nice, I do need to spend more time mucking around with them, I would like a wii, I think that would be fun, that might become one of my goals I think, " buy a wii' Anyway getting the look...signing off for now
I am sorely lacking in imagination at the moment so I am going to copy and paste from Dory's blog and go through those steps, Zoe is pretty clued into what is needed.
Steps to take to lose 670 grams a week
- Drink at least 2 L of water
- Increase veggie/fruit intake
- Walk more then 30 mins per day
- Use the gym 3x a week for cardio
- Do weights 2x per week
- Cut down sugars and fats
- Daily food diary to stay accountable
- Park the car further from the shop door at the opposite end from the shop we need
- find the hilly way to walk... if that's an option
- play more games with the kids eg. tiggy, trampoline, bike riding, wii boxing
I also need to increase my veggie intake, I eat salads, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, olives a lot, with the crazy prices of broccoli and cauliflower I buy them frozen and will cook up a bag with each meal, usually though by the time I have dished up everyone else's meal there isn't a lot left over for me.
My exercise is cruising along, I walk/run every morning for about 40 minutes, I cover a distance of about 3.5 klms. I would like to bump that up to an hour which would at a guess be about 5klms I was walking. So to do this I simply need to reassess which walking tracks I am taking. I live on 120acres of mostly bush with lots of walking tracks everywhere, so as of tomorrow I will take a left turn instead of a right and see where that takes me. Once I have accomplished the new path I will take another right where I would normally take a left.
Gym sessions: yeah I'm slack, there is a complete home gym set up on the back deck, and I use it probably once a week. So from now on I will use the gym Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Sugar and fats, I don't eat sugar so that's one thing I don't have to worry about hehe. As for the fats, I am happy with how that is going.
Daily food diary, Yep I keep one, my issue is not over eating more so not consuming enough calories, so I keep track of what I have eaten mainly to stress myself out because I am usually about 600 cals down on my daily intake. I use the Calorie King food diary but find it a pain in the ass accessing it on my phone so I have an iphone app called shape up that works in KJs which I use most of the time. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing because I am not only 600 cals down but way over 1000kjs which makes it look worse.
Parking further away from the shop doors, Check! I usually park over the far side to get away from all the idiots that can't park and keep hitting my car, I have a newish car now and don't need people banging their doors open on it hence parking way over yonder.
Walk more hills, the hill I start up after dropping my daughter at the school bus in the morning has a 45deg incline and it's all hills from there in
Play more games with the kids, we walked down to one of the water holes on the property today for a swim, it was nice, I do need to spend more time mucking around with them, I would like a wii, I think that would be fun, that might become one of my goals I think, " buy a wii' Anyway getting the look...signing off for now
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Chunking My Goals
http://dorysaysjustkeepswimming.blogspot.com/2011/01/goal-setting-and-evaluation-day.html
This is the blog the girls in our Just Keep Swimming group and I are working on.
Today I am to chunk down my goals into smaller steps.
My goals copied from my previous post
Health and fitness
to get down to 65kilos,
the PCOS symptoms to go away and never come back,
to be able to outrun my dog ;)
to look good in my wedding dress
My 1/2 way mark chunk
I have allowed myself until September 2011 to get down to 65 kilo, as of this morning's weigh in I am 86.4 so I have 21.4 kilo to lose in 221 days. Divided down this is a loss of ...
10.7 kg in 110days
or 5.35kilo in 55 days
2.7 kilo in 27 days
or 1.35 in 14 days
or lastly 671grams in 7 days pffft how hard does it sound now! lol
As for the other goals, they will come about as the weight goes, I am still low carbing which is really helping with the PCOS symptoms, this is obviously a long term / lifestyle change that I have made, so I guess I could interpret that goal into something like "Find new Low Carb recipes because the few that I have are getting boring"
But for now I am tired, it's been so hot here the last couple of days, the brood have gone to bed, and I think it's nitey nite time for me too. Will continue this tomorrow.
This is the blog the girls in our Just Keep Swimming group and I are working on.
Today I am to chunk down my goals into smaller steps.
My goals copied from my previous post
Health and fitness
to get down to 65kilos,
the PCOS symptoms to go away and never come back,
to be able to outrun my dog ;)
to look good in my wedding dress
My 1/2 way mark chunk
I have allowed myself until September 2011 to get down to 65 kilo, as of this morning's weigh in I am 86.4 so I have 21.4 kilo to lose in 221 days. Divided down this is a loss of ...
10.7 kg in 110days
or 5.35kilo in 55 days
2.7 kilo in 27 days
or 1.35 in 14 days
or lastly 671grams in 7 days pffft how hard does it sound now! lol
As for the other goals, they will come about as the weight goes, I am still low carbing which is really helping with the PCOS symptoms, this is obviously a long term / lifestyle change that I have made, so I guess I could interpret that goal into something like "Find new Low Carb recipes because the few that I have are getting boring"
But for now I am tired, it's been so hot here the last couple of days, the brood have gone to bed, and I think it's nitey nite time for me too. Will continue this tomorrow.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Setting Goals
My homework this weekend is to write down my goals and aspirations.
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up so goal setting has always been a challenge.
I want to ...
to get down to 65kilos,
the PCOS symptoms to go away and never come back,
to be able to outrun my dog ;)
to look good in my wedding dress.
to buy a house
to find a job
I want that job to be one that fits me, a job that I feel is mine, was meant for me.
to become financially independent
to declutter the house, I would love to live showroom style with a few personal touches to make it feel like home
I want chooks
I want veggie gardens
I want to foster dogs
to be more content with who I am, it's a hard one this one, because my discontent with who I am is pushing me to enrol in learning again this year, it is pushing me to lose another 20 odd kilos and so it goes, so I can't be content with who I am until I am who I want to be.
Now to sort those goals into categories
for the purpose of homework I will stick to those goals that are JKS goals
Health and fitness
to get down to 65kilos,
the PCOS symptoms to go away and never come back,
to be able to outrun my dog ;)
to look good in my wedding dress.
Now to elaborate
I was 63 kilo when I found out I was having my first baby, I can see myself at 65kg, this would put me in size 10 jeans and 12 tops.
My PCOS symptoms include annoying little pimples on my chest, lethargy, irritability, excess weight, lack of period, my menses have come back since I stopped eating sugar and the pimples have gone so I know I am on the right track
My dog being Chomp, an American Bulldog, I want him to be at his peak physical state and to do that I need to exercise him. He loves his walkies and I would like to be able to run with him.
Wedding date is looming, I still have 10 months to go, I have yet to chose my dress but it will be a size 10 or 12, who wants a fat bride lol
Stay tuned for part two...............
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up so goal setting has always been a challenge.
I want to ...
to get down to 65kilos,
the PCOS symptoms to go away and never come back,
to be able to outrun my dog ;)
to look good in my wedding dress.
to buy a house
to find a job
I want that job to be one that fits me, a job that I feel is mine, was meant for me.
to become financially independent
to declutter the house, I would love to live showroom style with a few personal touches to make it feel like home
I want chooks
I want veggie gardens
I want to foster dogs
to be more content with who I am, it's a hard one this one, because my discontent with who I am is pushing me to enrol in learning again this year, it is pushing me to lose another 20 odd kilos and so it goes, so I can't be content with who I am until I am who I want to be.
Now to sort those goals into categories
for the purpose of homework I will stick to those goals that are JKS goals
Health and fitness
to get down to 65kilos,
the PCOS symptoms to go away and never come back,
to be able to outrun my dog ;)
to look good in my wedding dress.
Now to elaborate
I was 63 kilo when I found out I was having my first baby, I can see myself at 65kg, this would put me in size 10 jeans and 12 tops.
My PCOS symptoms include annoying little pimples on my chest, lethargy, irritability, excess weight, lack of period, my menses have come back since I stopped eating sugar and the pimples have gone so I know I am on the right track
My dog being Chomp, an American Bulldog, I want him to be at his peak physical state and to do that I need to exercise him. He loves his walkies and I would like to be able to run with him.
Wedding date is looming, I still have 10 months to go, I have yet to chose my dress but it will be a size 10 or 12, who wants a fat bride lol
Stay tuned for part two...............
Still going strong
It's been a while since I last posted, I have shed 6 kilo since October, so not a shabby effort, I essentially stopped my diet tracking over the Christmas break, I knew I was going to go off the rails and figured if I keep filling in my food diary that I would just get the guilts and it would all fall apart, I kept up the exercise and for the most part ate healthy foods, but I allowed myself a slice or 3 of Pav over Christmas and the Rum Balls I made were just divine, there were other nasties that crept in, and I spent a week at my parents house, just the thought of going there adds a kilo, I caught up with my brothers and sisters that I haven't seen in ages and a couple of boozy nights followed, it was a great time. And best of all, I am back on the wagon and not at all feeling like I have failed.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Kids in the Kitchen
The primary school my children go to run a Kids in the Kitchen program, it is a spin off of the 2 fruit and 5 veg healthy foods campaign and is a great government initiative in my opinion. When I was given the opportunity to be coordinator I must admit I was quite excited. I like the idea of getting kids busy in the kitchen, I know how tempting it is to tell them to scoot while I am cooking, because it is easier doing things on my own, so this gives the kids an opportunity to get involved and enjoy the end result. One boy in the year 1 class the other week was such an eager helper and while I could understand where his enthusiasm stemmed from, my daughter has ADHD and does the same thing, it was hard not to dampen his spirits by not letting him do everything, he said to me while we were cleaning up that he always gets in trouble for helping, which is really sad, I can totally understand why, having my own little energiser bunny, but it made me think more about my little squirrel and how keen she is to help and I have resolved to include her more and bite my tongue and not get so frustrated with her when she spills the milk and gets flour all over the floor.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Beef Curry Pasties
I go through stages where we will eat a lot of meat, usually chicken and beef and then I will cook vegetarian meals for a couple of weeks. The other day I pulled out a kilo of rump steak but didn't feel like a steak meal so I ground it into mince and divided it into two portions, the lasagne last night, which was a huge success was made using half the steak and the other half I cooked on Friday night, again I started cooking without having any idea what I going to make, my original intention was pasta with a savoury mince, topped with grated cheese but decided I wasn't keen on pasta so in the end I cooked curry puffs. Compliments all round, and when feeding 8 people with 8 different taste buds to have them all enjoy their meal without complaint is always a bonus.
Preheat oven to 180deg
1 tablespoon olive oil, this is the only oil I use for cooking, there maybe a better oil out there for weight loss, but this fits within my budget and it's gotta be better than gm canola
1 large onion roughly sliced
2 gloves of organic russian garlic,
1 punnet of grape tomatoes, grape tomatoes were on special in Coles this week so I bought a few punnets purely for cooking. I usually use tinned tomatoes but they have added sugar so they are off the list now and cutting up tomatoes is messy and I don't like it so the grape tomatoes are a good substitute, I throw them in whole and once slightly cooked I just crush them.
500g mince
2 finely chopped carrots
2 finely chopped zucchinis
and I cheated and used about 5oog frozen mixed veggies
Cook over a low flame until meat is cooked and veggies are soft, not soggy, I then decided to make curry pasties so mixed a heaped tablespoon of curry powder in a cup of water and stirred through, once the water had absorbed it was ready
In the mean time I thawed 4 short crust pastry sheets, cut into quarters.
I put a heaped spoonful of meat mix into each quarter and folded them into triangles pressing around the edges to seal.
I line my baking trays with baking paper, it's less mess than greasing trays, arrange the pasties on the trays and give a quick spray with oil and in the oven until ready, I left them until they had slightly browned and were crunchy around the edges.
Served up with a salad they were quite popular and will be making them again.
I don't profess to be a talented cook, I like cooking and sometimes I succeed in what I am making, other times are a dismal failure. I have a large family to feed and I need to be able to provide them healthy meals while still coming in under budget.
Preheat oven to 180deg
1 tablespoon olive oil, this is the only oil I use for cooking, there maybe a better oil out there for weight loss, but this fits within my budget and it's gotta be better than gm canola
1 large onion roughly sliced
2 gloves of organic russian garlic,
1 punnet of grape tomatoes, grape tomatoes were on special in Coles this week so I bought a few punnets purely for cooking. I usually use tinned tomatoes but they have added sugar so they are off the list now and cutting up tomatoes is messy and I don't like it so the grape tomatoes are a good substitute, I throw them in whole and once slightly cooked I just crush them.
500g mince
2 finely chopped carrots
2 finely chopped zucchinis
and I cheated and used about 5oog frozen mixed veggies
Cook over a low flame until meat is cooked and veggies are soft, not soggy, I then decided to make curry pasties so mixed a heaped tablespoon of curry powder in a cup of water and stirred through, once the water had absorbed it was ready
In the mean time I thawed 4 short crust pastry sheets, cut into quarters.
I put a heaped spoonful of meat mix into each quarter and folded them into triangles pressing around the edges to seal.
I line my baking trays with baking paper, it's less mess than greasing trays, arrange the pasties on the trays and give a quick spray with oil and in the oven until ready, I left them until they had slightly browned and were crunchy around the edges.
Served up with a salad they were quite popular and will be making them again.
I don't profess to be a talented cook, I like cooking and sometimes I succeed in what I am making, other times are a dismal failure. I have a large family to feed and I need to be able to provide them healthy meals while still coming in under budget.
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