Refocused...

After having a bad couple of weeks with food and very small amounts of weight loss I am refocusing my efforts to get a better result this week. 

I am noticing though that bits of me are getting smaller.  My clothes are getting looser.  So things are happening not just fast enough.  I can lose more each week I just have to be more discplined. 

Unfortunately food did control me again the other night and I ate all the wrong things...bacon cabonara pasta, choc chip biscuits and a hot cross bun.  Did my body thank me the next day?  No it did not!

So I am back in control!!  The only major area I need to improve on is my water intake.  Need to drink a lot more!!  This will help with the weight loss.

Feeling somewhat blah...

I don't why but just feeling blah today.  Don't know if it is due to waiting to find out if I have a stress fracture in my left foot or starting to feel it a bit with eating not so good food this week ie the indian and italian...not sure.

Went out for dinner tonight and didn't make good decisions.  My body will be rejecting me tomorrow.  Caesar Salad and garlic bread...oh and 2 glasses of postmix orange juice to go with it.   For future reference...one should not go out for dinner when feeling like I do today...chose the wrong food and now feel even worse after eating it!!  Don't feel guilty just feel sick...

Lucky there is no icecream in the house or I may have sat down to the container and ate. Big glasses of water instead to try and wash some of this awful food out of my body...

Tomorrow is a new day...no more eating out for the next few weeks I think.   Until I get my body healthy again.  I haven't felt like this since before I started TF...so no more of the unhealthy food...my body doesn't want it!

Happily cruising along...

Things are going along nicely.   I am really enjoying this diet / change in lifestyle.  That is saying something!  I am very much in control of my eating not the other way round for a change.  I can choose to listen to my food cravings in the middle of the afternoon give in or go and find something physical to do instead.  I haven't been in control of my eating in a very long time! 

I now allow myself to have normal food when I go out.   I had Italian (pasta and garlic pizza) on Wed night and then ended up having Indian on Sat night.  In the past as soon as I have tasted this food I want more of it and tend to slip out off my diet and be back at square one.  But, yay for me, I am in control!  So when home again I am back to my strict regime and all is good!  I feel better eating the food that is on my diet than eating the other.  It tasted lovely and I enjoyed my meal without feeling guilty.  My body may reject me a bit the next day or so due to it not being used to eating pasta and cream sauces.  But I am not badgering myself over what I ate.  The next food I have is the healthy option and my body thanks me.

A little update... after 3 weeks I have lost a total of 4kgs and lost 4cm around my waist.  I may put a little on in the next few days due to the Italian and Indian food.  But it will come off again. 

So happily cruising along...

It is getting easier in some areas...

The diet is getting easier as time goes on...I can even drink the shakes in the morning with no problem.

I have had little tastes of the food I would normally have had in the past and my taste has changed...

For example:
1) noodles from chinese takeaway...one small mouth full...no more thanks!
2) ate some tasty cheese (one of my major weaknesses)...tasted fine...after taste not good.   Hmmm.....
3) diet cola drinks...skip those...

BUT...unfortunately...well maybe not...TimTams and turkish delight chocolate still taste just wonderful...LOL
So these will have to be kept for special treats.

Update on my feet...I have no fractures which is excellent...went to podiatrist starting some treatment to get my feet working how they should be.  Off to buy new support sneakers tomorrow...so I can start walking for fitness.

Weigh-in on my scales end of week 2...I have lost a total of 3kgs...very happy with myself and starting to see and feel the difference already.  I can even bend over comfortably to do up my sneakers...impressive!

Not a good day...

Feeling pretty off today...

I gave in last night and had the rest of the boys homemade pizza and then also proceeded to make myself a steak with some vege.  Do I feel better for it...not the slightest!  I feel bloated, low in energy and generally yuck! 

I haven't even had breakfast this morning...well because I don't feel like it...

It is this time of the month when I can get depressed and the emotional eating happens.  This is a quite a big hurdle but not impossible to conquer...

I need to get back onto my multivitamins...think I have missed taking them the last few days...doesn't help...

I have been to the chemist to get my next lot of shakes.  So it is time to regroup and refocus! 

Come on girl!   YOU CAN DO IT!!

Interesting....

Well yesterday I hit one of those days at about 3pm that I could have eaten anything!!  But to curb the desire to binge on all food bad for me...I sat down and ate the rest of my TF jelly!  Phew...got through that one...

Then while taking the boys to swimming all I wanted to do was go out for dinner afterwards and eat whatever I felt like.   So off we went to Fasta Pasta...first I ordered a Coke Zero (haven't had one in 1 1/2 weeks)...

Looking through the menu...Do I feel like pasta?  No.  Do I feel like pizza? No.  Do I feel like steak with bacon, cream sauce and chips? No.   Hmm the warm chicken salad with balsamic dressing sounds nice...

When I ordered I asked for the warm chicken salad and decided that the salt and pepper squid for entree would be good too. 

The Coke Zero...ewwwww!!!  It tasted awful...I think I forced myself to drink maybe 100mls of the stuff.  Never again!  Can't believe how quick my body has detoxed itself to not want to drink this anymore!

The chicken salad...YUM...felt very full and satisfied after!  The squid was my "naughty" for the night...it was deep fried but there was only 5 small pieces to eat. 

So after my brain going on about how it wanted junk and plenty of it...my body told it in the end that no it wanted to eat healthy food...I am so thankful that it turned out this way!

Its a loss!

Well 1 week is gone since I started on TF and guess what....

I lost 2.5kg!!!!

Very excited and it is spurring me on!!

I am finding the diet more and more easier as time goes on which is good.  I was standing near the foodcourt at my local shopping centre today and I was not interested at all about buying anything.   Not even my ususal hot choc with marshmallows.  I haven't had any coke/pepsi products in over a week and I am not missing it at all!  

I have been having alot of pain in both of my feet for quite awhile which I am sure is due to how much extra weight I am carrying.  I am off to the Dr tomorrow to check they are ok as I want to start to do some regular walks but not sure if that it is safe with the possibility of stress fractures in my feet.  

But otherwise...how exciting that I can lose weight for the meantime just doing TF and my day to day activities.