Day 2

Hey

 Day 1 wasnt so bad... I made it through without eating Mcdonalds ONCE.. that is a feat my friends.
May I also add, I ate pretty darn healthy for the most part. All until my aunty brought up the last few peices of pineapple pie, and of course I couldnt waste food like that. SO yes that was my major cheat of the day, a couple peices of pie. But overall im pretty happy with the day..
My biggest complaint... drinking so much water, means im sitting in the loo every 5min.. even through the night.. MEGA annoying. However.. i just keep thinking .. flush away them toxins

I know I need to do my measurements and weight at some point. I dont have a scale but im sure I have a measuring tape somewhere. will post when feeling brave...

I have also been keeping a food journal... writing down everything that goes in my mouth ha ha. so far the most exciting thing has been that pineapple pie.

Well its the witching hours in my house and the worsst possible time to blog, but i needed a wee bit of sanity. back to the grind and will do a proper blog after the kidlets are sleeping.
fare thee well.

"D" day has arrived.

It is 9:53am. Im hungry. Day one... I was woken up by my son this morning at 6am. However I dont sleep that well as of late, and find myself waking up almost every hour during the night. I am so congested I sleep almost sitting up. Its so annoying. My allergies and asthma in NZ are terrible.. I cant remember the last time I could actually breathe out of my nose. As my neice has so lovingly labled me.. I am the snot queen. So my first thought upon waking up is COFFEE. Nice hot coffee. However my hubby gets up and makes me and the kids MILOS.. mmm just as good. And as I sit in bed drinking milo with my kids, watching Elmo, I think .. OH CRAP, how much sugar did he put in this milo. CRAP my whole diet is screwed.. wow if its screwed already then, I wish I had some buttered french bread with this milo. This is a prime example of how my brain works (or doesnt work, if you want to look at it like that.) BUT I did not send my hubby to the bakery, as normally would be the case. No instead I remembered my goals for this week. more water, 3x exercise. OK so I havent messed up my healthy lifestyle change. Having this milo is not the death of this "diet". It doesnt mean now I get to eat a loaf of bread either, slathered in 10 cows worth of rich creamy butter. It means Im having a milo, and im enjoying it. The end. Did you hear that brain. I didnt feel like eating breakfast. I never do. But as all us professional dieters know, thats the problem. SO I ate breakfast: 9:00am - 1cup of cherrios with 1 yogurt (I dont have any trim milk at the moment, so I used the yogurt instead) I also followed this breakfast with a bottle of water. (Just tapwater in a drink bottle we have, not sure the size) I never realized how hard it is just to drink water when your not thirsty. It was hard to drink that bottle of water, and serisouly my baby bladder is making me pee every 5min now. All for the cause though right??! Another thing I thought I would try, because I have terrible eating habits (when and what) is to try and eat every other hour, small meals or snacks, and nothing after 7:00pm. Thats all for now.. will update later.

My last day before the "D" day...

Ok... "D" as in diet.. wait wait, let me refrain and make it P.C.... before my Healthy Lifestyle Change. Haha.. now im bound to succeed :) SO I guess as this is my first post I must introduce myself, and as much as I like talking about myself, id rather just get into the now, so ill just bullet point me.. - I am 28yrs old, a few weeks away from 29 -I have 2 children Florence - 6yrs old from my first marriage, and JJ -almost 2 yrs old from my second and current marriage -I just got remarried Dec.31 2010 to my hubby Jonathan -I am currently a stay at home mum.. or a stay in bed or on the couch mum -My hubby was made redundant a yr ago from his career in radio and went back to study and will be a teacher come june -I was born in New Zealand, raised in Canada, and have been back in NZ for 5yrs AND ok im getting bored so thats enough stats for now... lets get to TODAY... April 10, 2011. I have a best friend. well more like kindred spirit as we are so similar in our thinking ways, and she is also a stay at home mum of 2 at the moment. I call her "Twiny" and will throughout. SO twiny and I were talking about how depressed we are about ourselves and the day to day, and decided we really need to get our asses in gear and get back our former HOTNESS. Yes HOTNESS. that is what is driving me. SAD i know. and let me be honest here people, I am rarely honest when it comes to weight, but what is driving me is the pure selfish need to feel HOT again. Of course it would sound lovely and nice to say I want to be able to keep up with my kids, and run around the park, and bike, and swim, and do marathons all while baking no fat carrot muffins, and rubbing my husbands feet, but look, i am only human and I just want to be hot again. Hell id settle for fit pants that dont have an elasitc waistband. But of course all those other things are lovely side effects of losing weight. So all positive right?! SO ANWAYS, tommorrow we start this healthy lifestyle change. And its something I have wanted to do for so long, and know I need to do, but have been putting it off, till TOMMORROW. Well its a year later and tommorrow has never come. So TOMMORROW arrives TOMMORROW. for real. I have decided to set 2 goals for this week.. they are - Drink at least 2Ltrs of water a day (I did have 1ltr, but my twiny is doing 2 so my competitive nature had to keep up.. another perk of doing this with a friend) -Do at least 30min of exercise/3x this week. So those are my healthy lifestyle goals for this week... these are some other goals to myself.. -Blog regularly to keep myself in check -Be HONEST with myself and twiny, to keep our mulis (samoan term for butt) in check. stay tuned folks...