Salad isn’t food…it’s what food eats!

Well, I’m off on holiday tomorrow and won’t be back until monday 29th September. And I can’t WAIT after the week I’ve had. What with having a cold, the bad news I had on Tuesday, dealing with a the re-occurance of my sprained ankle injury ( I need Physio) and an infection in one of my toes post-sponsored walk- well, ive had enough. I need a break. So for the next week i’m not worrying about food and exercise. I’m taking the opportunity to rest my ankle, refresh my head and start fresh on the Monday, including starting C25km again from week 1.

So that’s it.. I’m on holdidaaaaay!!!! yay!

Hope to have maintained weight at 144Ibs.

Well, it’s not been a great week as far as food and exercise went. I really should have done more cardio down the gym, and definitely shouldn’t have had pizza on thursday!!

Only 2 days until my sponsored walk, and i’ve only got £10 to go to hit my £150 ($300-ish) target! I wonder who i can badger for money now…. 20km!! That’s the most I’ve walked ever. In one go at least! lol

Weigh day tomorrow, i hope to have lost a little.

Monday
Breakfast: 1/2 tin of tinned pineapple
Lunch: cheese on toast (3x low fat cheese slices on 2 small slices w.meal toast)
Dinner: vegetable chilli
Snacks: 250ml fruit smoothie, double bacardi and diet coke. 2x babybel cheese. 1 bag ryvita minis

Tuesday
Breakfast: low fat yoghurt and 20g cereal
Lunch: small tin veg soup. small bag crisps. (50kcal)
Dinner: bolognese, spaghetti, garlic bread. small glass red wine
Snacks: 250ml fruit smoothie. handful of dried fruit, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds.

Thursday
Breakfast: 2 small pots fromage frais. 150ml fruit smoothie
Lunch: jacket potato with cheese and salad
Dinner: 1/2 cheese and tomato pizza with parmesan, 2 slices garlic bread
Snacks: 1 options hot choc. 2 double bacardis and diet coke. 660ml bottle lager. 1 babybeel cheese
Oh dear

Friday
Breakfast: melon
Lunch: low fat yoghurt, 250ml smoothie
Dinner: jacket potato with tuna mayonnaise (v low fat mayonnaise)
Snacks: Chocolate Eclair (someone’s birthday at work) Tin chunky fruit salad. 2 glasses of red wine.

… so here i am a few glasses of wine later wondering what i’m going to do after next week- what am i going to do to keep myself focused on getting down the gym? I only have a limited amount of holiday time to have off work so i have to be careful about what i’m doing, there are no runs or anything planned in for next year on any charity websites. I’m worried that i’m just gonna let it all go, and i have been making small steady progress with weight loss and fitness over the last six weeks, so i don’t want to let it go. And well, seeing as i have just polished off at least a half a bottle of red wine there is a possibility that  i could just get the lazy bug again.

Anyone got any ideas?

ps. it took me ages to write this as i had spell check myself every word! And i still might not have caught them all!

Good day because….
Nice day out at the seaside
Had fish and chips, didn’t eat most of the batter, left half the chips. So, not too bad.
Didn’t have ice-cream
Nice walk on the beach
Walked up some killer steps from the beach back to town to go home.

Bad day beacuse…
Also had a hot dog with fried onions
Have had several handfuls of Haribo sweets
Didn’t go to the gym or swimming
I am currently drinking a large glass of red wine…
Hmmm, better make that 3 glasses and a muffin.

So, starting tomorrow I will start another food diary and will also keep an online exercise diary. I still use the exercise log i bought but perhaps if i ‘go public’ for a week or two it will inspire me to put it more into it again. I have 3 weeks until i go away and i would really like to be down to 10st (140Ibs) by then.

… 2.6Ib. I know i should be really chuffed but somehow, for some reason, i feel disappointed. i think i really wanted a bit more off… 3Ibs or so. It all comes down to wanting instant results, i guess i just need to work a bit harder. Or eat a bit less. Well, I suppose 2.6Ib was not too bad considering i was eating such junk at the weekend and on monday. Ok, I think i’ve talked myself into being a bit more positive. 2.6Ib off in 4 days isn’t so bad!!

… but i really want the scales to say i’ve lost weight tomorrow. I know actual weight loss is not the be all and end all but i’ve started to loose some of my enthusiasm for the gym and i feel i need to see some results to stay positive. Fingers crossed for tomorrow…

Maybe, just maybe…

I spent the whole night awake because i felt so ill after all that food yesterday. I had to call in sick to work as i had had absolutely no sleep because of the nausea, stomach cramps, bloatedness, etc etc. So i spent all morning sleeping and managed to fit in a little food. Also, my legs are killing me from the ‘cardio-yoga’ I did yesterday.

I appear to have lost my usual yoga dvd (admittedly i haven’t seen it in about 2 years!!) but i did find one my othe dvd’s had a 30 minute ‘cardio-yoga’section so i thought i’d give that a whirl, and it was actually quite hard. My legs especially feel so…

Anyway, I don’t like today because i am tired, feel nauseous, and ache in a variety of interesting place from yoga and being sick last night. Great.