Uggghhhh Monday's!!

I thought I would start doing progress pics every few weeks so here is my first photo! gotta get a full length shot still but here is one of my fat face! lol It's a bit fuzzy but the best I could do with my iphone!

Wow the weekend absolutely flew by and here I am back at work again! Boooooooo

So anyway had a really good weekend food wise. Well except maybe for Saturday coz I slept in and had my breakfast at 11:30 and then just dinner and a couple of snacks so was waaayyyy under my calories for the day - like by about 700 or 800 I think! lol Oh well better than being over I suppose??

Last night I had my friends birthday dinner at a Thai restaurant which could have been really dangerous as Thai is my absolute all time favourite cuisine!!! I ordered the pad thai as I remembered from my weight watchers days it said in one of those little books you get from the meetings that pad thai is the best thing to order at a Thai restaruant and to stay away from the coconut milk based curries (my fave! lol). I also only ate about 2/3 of the food on my plate and didn't have entree so I was pretty happy with that! :D I had kept my cals pretty low for breakfast and lunch as well just to be on the safe side, you never know what they put in the dishes I suppose!

I did a big cook up yesterday morning and froze some stuff so I should now be set with all my meals for at least the next 2 weeks which is a huge relief. Sometimes (ok a lot of the time) the last thing I can be bothered doing is cooking when I get home from work!

I have another brithday dinner to go to on Thursday night so will be interesting to see how I go on the scales on Saturday. I don't think it will harm my weightloss as I am being really careful so will just have to wait and see I guess!!

Oh and I have also decided on how I'm going to reward myself throughout this old 'journey' of mine......with every 10kg that I lose I'm going to treat myself to a full body massage! I absolutely looooove massages but only ever have one a year because my brother gets me a voucher every birthday! hehe.

Anyway fingers crossed for another great week.....

Andrea x

Motivation levels - all time high!!!

Well I had my first official weigh in today anndddd.........(drum roll)............I lost 3.6kg!!!!!!! I still can't wipe the smile off my face :)
Now I'm not diluted and I'm well aware that I won't lose these numbers every week (funnily enough this is not the first time I have tried to lose weight! lol) but even still, there is nothing like a 3.6kg loss to boost your motivation!! hehe
All I want to do is get outside on this beautiful Saturday morning and go for a walk but I still can't get my runners on because of my stupid broken toe!!! :( uggghhh SO over it! I'm hoping I won't be off it for more than another week then I can't really get this show on the road!

I was faced with sooo much temptation yesterday.....my friend from work is lebanese and she had bought in some lebanese sweets to share with everyone (it looked like custard wrapped in pastry with syrup on top - healthy!!! not! lol) and I politely said 'no thank you' and she practically tried to force it down my throat!! I had to say no at least a dozen times I reckon. But the REALLY weird things was that I actually didn't want it?!?! I've never experienced that before....EVER! haha
So.....temptation number 1 resisted!!

The next temptation was the fortnightly morning tea at work. I didn't go, but the thing is there is always left overs and they get left on the kitchen bench in the kitchen so I had to walk past it every time I wanted to fill up my drink bottle, get food out of the fridge etc. I shot a quick glance to see what there was there and it was all my favourites: brie cheese, crackers, dips, chips etc etc. But....
Temptation number 2 resisted!!

My next temptation was at my friends house. It was her husbands birthday and they were having people around for dinner and cake. I declined the dinner offer (it was Chinese takeaway!) but around there after dinner. My friend offered me a piece of cake and I said no, of course. She then offered me ice cream...no. ice pole? no. a glass of coke? no. She was trying to find something that I could have but that weird feeling came back again and I actually didn't WANT anything.
Temptation number 3 resisted!!!!!!

So very proud of myself this week, I honestly don't think I could have done much better! No slip ups, no giving in to temptation....feeling fab!!

Anyway it's 11:25am and I am starving...time for breakfast! ( I know it's late but I slept in a fair bit this morning! lol)

Until next time.....

Andrea x

The start of a healthy new life!!

So this is my first attempt at a blog, ever, so bare with me if it seems a bit amateur!! lol
I've decided once and for all that I need to lose weight. I'm currently carrying about 55-60Kg more than what I should be so now is the time and I'm going to attempt to keep a blog about my weightloss journey to keep myself accountable!!

So to begin, a little about me......

I am 25 and live in Melbourne, Australia and am working full time doing admin based work.
I have been overweight or obese for a veerrryyy long time......probably since I was 9 or 10 I would say??
I have attempted just about every weightloss program you can think of : weight watchers, jenny craig, sure slim, celebrity slim...the list goes on! I have lost weight doing all of these programs but obviously none have helped me keep the weight off!
This time round I have decided to keep things simple (and not mention a lot cheaper!!). I am using calorieking.com.au to keep track of my daily calorie intake, exercise and water. I've only been using it for 5 days but so far so good and I couldn't recommend it enough!

So far I haven't had any major cravings or anything which is a plus and very strange! lol.
Last night I went out to a Japanese restaurant for dinner and only ate half of the food that was on my plate rather than polishing off the whole thing so I was very proud of myself for that!

Anyway that's enough for my first post! hehe

Andrea x