Going Backwards

Why hello there.

It seems my feeding and drinking frenzy (yes, I was a beast) is catching up with me.

On Sunday my weight was 110.5 kilos (243.1 pounds) and today it is 110.8 kilos (243,76 pounds) which puts me back at the weight I was on the 6th of May. Last week I was in the 109s fuck shit fuck.

So all the hard work I have put in over the past 3 weeks has been for nothing. All that effort gone in one crazy night.

Very disappointed in myself. And just a tiny bit angry that I can’t even have one night off.

This is usually when i just give up because it all seems so hard, but I know I will feel better tomorrow and if I keep going, doing what I have done, I will see results again soon.

Maybe even tomorrow??? Please scales????????

See That Spec In The Distance???

See that spec there in the distance? The one with the chunky arse? The one that looks like they have one of those sumo wrestler suits on? Well, that is me. Avah and I went walking today at our local footy oval and David took this lovely photo of my fat arse waddling away there while he sat in the car and waited for us. I walk too slow for him so he did not bother coming with me.(Thanks Dave)

Waddle, waddle, waddle. Was an awesome walk though. Avah had a ball throwing all the autumn leaves at me.

My sexy hubby

My sexy hubby has been working out A LOT and his arms are getting so big and yummy and have great definition. I could just eat him up but I am not sure I have enough calories left today.

Monday -You boring day, you!

Worked out twice today. Right on!

A 20 minute walk/run at the local football oval and then 35 minutes in the gym. A 20 minute walk for me is pretty good (I did stop a couple of times) and I was walking (waddling like a penguin) pretty briskly,

All up 57 minutes and 262 cals burnt. Average heart rate 132 with a max of 161.

Now for some more veggie soup for dinner, a shower and then bedtime snuggle/watch tv time. Lovely

I did my first Couch to 5K run/walk yesterday. It was hard but I loved it. I felt so awesome after it. I only burnt 118 calories. Thought it would be more but I guess it is better than a kick up the arse (as my mum would say)

After the awesomeness that was me working out, we went to our friend’s place for dinner. We had pizza and wine. And dessert. We did not leave until 4am at which time I was pretty plastered so I went totally berserk and got McDonalds on the way home. What was I thinking????? Silly drunk biatch.

So this morning’s weigh in was not a good one. I put on .9 kilos and am back up to 110.5.

Back on track today though with veggies and brown rice for lunch and homemade vegetable soup for tea. Lots of water but no workout.

I have a date with my treadmill in the morning though.

Late Night Inspiration

So inspired by all of the blogs I have been reading.

I decided I would like a bit of structure and discipline to my workouts (lol yeah coz I am a fitness freak) so I have printed off the C25K schedule and I am going to have a crack at it because:

- I have always fancied myself as a runner (waddler-like a little fat penguin)
- I got pretty good at running (waddling) a few years ago so I am sure I can again
- I think I will stay fairly motivated because I know from past experience I should see improvements in my fitness fairly quickly
- I have a treadmill inside and a track I can use right out my front door
- I can keep going with the program when I go on the cruise because the ship has a gym and a running track

The first week is 3 workouts that consist of a 5 minute warm up and then alternating 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for 20 minutes. I can do that!

I start tomorrow and I am pretty excited.

This was inevitable.....

This was going to happen sooner or later. I was hoping later rather than sooner. But it is too late now, it has happened.

Yes, Avah has played her One Direction cd so many times that I now love it. I even have a crush on them. All of them. I have even googled them. 

I can only tell you blog, because I cannot tell anyone in real life. How embarrassment.

Workin' Out

Me striking a pose before I went out into the wilderness to workout

This is taken from my front door. That is Mount Macedon in the distance

Avah and I running/walking/huffing/puffing outside

Striking a pose after my walk/run. Felt good and was quite hilly so am impressed with myself. Look at those out of control eye brows..look at them!! My gawwd. How embarrassment.

Weigh Day

A not awesome, but not bad, loss of .7 this week. So am 109.6 now. Sigh. It takes so long. But I am so much better than I was 3 months ago. So I keep thinking of how much better I will be in another 3 months.

Since moving to Tumblr I have been reading lots of blogs and am so impressed with how fit some of these lovely people of the Internet are. I am inspired. They make my effort look rather pathetic really.

I think I get put off by seeing how far and how fast other people go because I will never be able to run 5 Ks in 30 mins or whatever. But I won’t get anywhere by comparing myself to others.

I need to beat myself.

Hoping to record some awesome effort here this week.

Nearly Went Crazy......

I have had the busiest day. I did not finish work until after 11pm last night and then I started again at 6.30 am and have been going all day. (I know, I know, i am a champion) My eyes have gone blurry from looking at the screen all day.

I completed a good chunk of my project and have just sent the first draft to my client and I am feeling sooooooo relieved now. I called David and told him I wanted a bottle of wine and Indian takeaway for dinner because I had been so stressed out.

But then I came to my senses and thought it was not such a good idea because well, you know, my fat arse and all.

So, a homemade curry it is. Yay!! With water. Yay.

Weigh Day (late, late, late)

Weigh day was Sunday and I am not sure if I posted my results. I was 110.3 kilos (242.66 pounds) only a loss of .5 for last week which was shitty because I was working out like a champion.

Well that is how I remember it anyway.

Winging It

David’s family have always camped at Christmas time down the coast at Portarlington. For the last few years we have camped there too and I have come to really enjoy it. I lurrve having a lot of people around me and the park we stay at is very, very busy on the holidays.

But I also love it down there once everyone has cleared out and we have the place to ourselves. That is when I can do really embarrassing things like ride Avah’s power wing around the place. 

Right on.

We clear out of there too this weekend so I get to have my weekends back at home. Kind of sad but kind of Yay! at the same time.

Last Weekend at Portarlington

We are heading to the beach in the morning, That’s right. Camping. In this freezing weather. 

Not surprisingly, there are only about five other sites with people on them in the whole park.

David has Monday off so we have three full days down there. Yeeeehaaaahhh.. I love the beach at winter.

Going to do some walking and burn some fat off my ass.

What I want right now

I would really like one of these right now

But it has been a hectic day, so this would probably happen

And then I would be all like drunk and stuff and put
a headband around my head and smear chocolate
all over my mouth and teeth.
Coz that's how I roll when I drink.

I can jump

Want to hear something AMAZING? Well, you won't think it is amazing, in fact you aren't really going to give a shit, but I am pretty happy.

I can remember back a few months ago, I was dancing with my daughter to some song that had the word 'jump' in it. Every time that word was said you had to jump.

But I could not jump.

I could not have both feet off the ground at the same time. I had to kind of doing a skippy hoppy thing.  Too damn fat to lift myself off the ground.

Well, today during my workout/housework frenzy, I was feeling particularly energetic so I thought I would have a crack at it.

And I jumped. It was pretty easy. I was so excited that I started jumping around like a kangaroo. I even showed David when he got home from work. He was as excited as you probably are now (ie. not very)

I was so happy today that I even took a photo of my big, fat, hot, red face.

My workout/housework/jumping frenzy lasted for an hour and I burnt 236 calories. not much I know, but I had to keep stopping to find good songs because I was listening to David's Ipod and most of the songs were crap.

I can say that because he does not read this blog.

Sneaky Gym Pic

Went out to the gym/garage to talk to Dave and got so inspired by him working out I did a quick circuit. I also typed up and printed off my program to hang up on the wall out there.

I also took this sneaky photo of him.

Going to kick the shoes off, sit back, relax and watch The Biggest Loser Finale (Australia). I really do not know who I want to win.

Run Lynda, Run

I just did a run/walk. It lasted for thirteen minutes and thirteen seconds and I ran for a total of five minutes.

Right on!

Full and uncomfortable

I went out for lunch today to our local pub. A spontaneous lunch (that is how I roll, I live on the edge).

I did not drink (miracle #1) and I did not eat junk (miracle #2).

I had lots and lots of veggies with my lunch which filled me right up but then came home and I ate a big tea (healthy, but big) so now I am feeling very full. I hate it. I used to feel like this after every meal but I am not used to it anymore and it is rather uncomfortable.

So I guess I won't be doing that anymore (miracle #3?? I hope so..)

Now, time to sleep and snore. xo

Dr Phil

Fatty Boomba Weigh-in

Weighed in this morning at 110.8 kilos (243.7 pounds).

A loss of .8 kilos (1.76 pounds)

Right on! Am happy with that because my weight went up earlier in the week.

Productive Saturdays are Back

I love, love, love being productive on Saturdays. I don't know what it is but Saturday mornings (well it was actually afternoon before I got motivated) are just a great time to get things done.

It has been a while since I have been as productive as I was this morning because for a long time I was not moving much at all. I wake up and move from my bed to in front of the computer. And that is where I would stay all day.

But today has been awesome. Washing and hanging out clothes, cleaning my kitchen, playing with Avah and packing for our overnight trip down the coast tonight. And before we go, I am going to squeeze in a workout.

It is hard to believe how different I am compared to a couple of months ago.

Hideous, just hideous

Completing our passport applications ready for our cruise next month (OMG I cannot believe how quickly it is approaching) and we went to get our photos taken.

The woman who took our pictures got down at some ridiculous level so she could get the best angle of my enormous chin.

Good God, look at it!!

I mean I know it is there and it is big but doesn't she know that chubby/fat/chunky people like me take the photo from a higher angle to hide the fatness of the chin????

Has she not been on Facebook??? Does she not know that  cameras are now digital so we can move around and try the best angles, poses and duck faces to get the most desirable look?

I have to have this as my passport photo for ten years! TEN YEARS!!!!!!!

And she nearly made Avah burst into tears. Avah gets in front of the camera and smiles and instead of explaining to her in nice way that she needed to have a neutral look, she abruptly yelled "NO, NO, THEY DONT WANT ANY SMILING....DON'T SMILE.!"

David and Avah both look nice in their pics though.

Only 36 days to go until we are cruising. Which means I really have to pull my finger out and get losing weight and getting as fit as I can as quickly as possible.

The Home Gym

So here is our gym. It is in or garage.

 Please note the shrine David has created to the North Melbourne Football Club.

As you can see we have collected lots of equipment (and dust) over the years which is now finally getting a workout (funny pun intended).

You will also note a few pieces such as the mini tramp and boxing bag for Avah when she joins us.

The workout tonight was shit.

We went to my Mum and Dad's for tea and then by the time we got home and did a few things it was 9pm by the time we got out there. I did not take my water bottle or my heart rate monitor and I jumped straight on the elliptical without warming up so I lasted like 2 minutes. So I did a few lunges and squats..all quite half-arsed and then I got on the treadmill for 10 minutes.

The highlight was running for two minutes continuously without coughing up a lung. Yay...felt good. But I know I can do better.

What's Cookin' Good Lookin'?

Cooking up a storm in the kitchen today. Making super healthy versions of Chicken Tikka, Lasagna and my special chicken, veggies and brown rice concoction. I have even been using wholemeal pasta. oh yes-sir-ree things are happening on the nutrition front in Lynda's house.

It is all so healthy my insides are tingling.

Looking forward to another awesome workout tonight with David in our spectacular, state-of-the-art home gym. (lol everything is shoved in our garage).