Was hard watching Rich eat his fish pie tonight as it looked and smelled gorgeous, but when I really asked myself if I wanted to taste a wee bit, I knew I didn't. Am doing this for 30 days and am over 1/4 of the way there now!
Tuesday 5 November 2013
Day Eight
...and still going strong. A real metallic taste in my mouth today and a bit of a runny tummy, but Hey, it's all good. Another 1 kg gone! So far it's 6.1 kg lost!!! Yeehah!
Was hard watching Rich eat his fish pie tonight as it looked and smelled gorgeous, but when I really asked myself if I wanted to taste a wee bit, I knew I didn't. Am doing this for 30 days and am over 1/4 of the way there now!
Was hard watching Rich eat his fish pie tonight as it looked and smelled gorgeous, but when I really asked myself if I wanted to taste a wee bit, I knew I didn't. Am doing this for 30 days and am over 1/4 of the way there now!
Monday 4 November 2013
Days Five, Six and Seven
All went by in a blur. No problems, all fine and feeling great.
Sat - 300g lost
Sun - 1.1 kg lost
Mon - 200g lost Total of 1.6 kg in three days, making it 5.1 kg lost so far
Thrilled with the weight loss, the good sleeps and how well I feel!
Sat - 300g lost
Sun - 1.1 kg lost
Mon - 200g lost Total of 1.6 kg in three days, making it 5.1 kg lost so far
Thrilled with the weight loss, the good sleeps and how well I feel!
Friday 1 November 2013
Day Four
Thought it would be tricky with a yummy morning tea, but as I was serving it with no time to really see it, inhale it or eat it, no worries. Not much chance to drink either, although I had some water. Juice after the day had ended in the staffroom so caught up on myself a bit.
Not a lot else to say except slower weight loss this morning - 400g which is a total of 3.5 kg lost so far - very pleased with that even though it is obviously slowing down.
On with the weekend!
Not a lot else to say except slower weight loss this morning - 400g which is a total of 3.5 kg lost so far - very pleased with that even though it is obviously slowing down.
On with the weekend!
Thursday 31 October 2013
Day Three
Excellent! Down 1.6 kg so now at 3.1 kg lost for the two days. Felt good all day, enjoyed the juice, not tired but a bit hungry when I saw Rich's bikkies! But smelling them was good enough.
A few possibly hard days coming up with:
Morning Tea tomorrow at Athletics Day
Dinner (and cake) at Sonia's on Saturday
Morning tea - again - at school on Monday
Jeff coming for dinner on Monday
BUT I can handle it - the aim is to Reflect and Reboot, which means reflecting about past habits and how to change them. I need to be around food, not having to eat it but know that I can have it sometime down the track and just a little bit of it. It also means Rebooting my lifestyle, which definitely means not building a life around food, recipes, cooking and thinking about it all the time. Rethinking lots of habits, mostly bad and learning to enjoy making better choices for my health.
Keep listening to the body and the brain, not the stomach!!!
A few possibly hard days coming up with:
Morning Tea tomorrow at Athletics Day
Dinner (and cake) at Sonia's on Saturday
Morning tea - again - at school on Monday
Jeff coming for dinner on Monday
BUT I can handle it - the aim is to Reflect and Reboot, which means reflecting about past habits and how to change them. I need to be around food, not having to eat it but know that I can have it sometime down the track and just a little bit of it. It also means Rebooting my lifestyle, which definitely means not building a life around food, recipes, cooking and thinking about it all the time. Rethinking lots of habits, mostly bad and learning to enjoy making better choices for my health.
Keep listening to the body and the brain, not the stomach!!!
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Day Two
...started very well with a loss of 1.5 kg.
Slept really well but had bit of a headache when I woke up. However, by the time I had walked down the road to the bus, all was well again.
Having brekky with Sonia and I felt a bit rough - just a bit sickish and pathetic. Luckily that only lasted a little while and I was fine. Today's juice was a bit too silver-beety - note to self - don't fuck with the recipes!!!!
Had a good day at school and plenty going on in the evening with Katy dropping by, then Jeff and a drinks invitation upstairs. So it was easy to handle the hunger although I am feeling peckish now. But only an hour or so till bed and I can deal with it easily enough.
Just thinking about the way I feel about food. Still feeling a little resentful, if I'm honest, that I 'can't have' dinner with Rich tonight, with the Turnbulls on Sat or Jeff on Monday, but only juice. I need to try and get out of that mindset and think of the fact that I have given myself the opportunity for this R and R - because my body needs it and I think my mind does too. I really want to be smaller, I want to wear smaller clothes and feel fitter and healthier. I need to think of food as fuel and realise that, with my lifestyle, my body doesn't actually need that much fuel. I want to plan ahead with future meals so that I can eat quality food and not quantity. There is no reason I can't have any kind of food I want, but it needs to be a small amount and only occasionally.
I will investigate micro and macro nutrients by the weekend and have some sort of idea of how that fits on with our Paleo When Possible lifestyle.
Two down - only 28 to go. I can do that! Hope the weight loss keeps up steadily. Need to plan for a plateau somewhere or other and how to deal with it.
Slept really well but had bit of a headache when I woke up. However, by the time I had walked down the road to the bus, all was well again.
Having brekky with Sonia and I felt a bit rough - just a bit sickish and pathetic. Luckily that only lasted a little while and I was fine. Today's juice was a bit too silver-beety - note to self - don't fuck with the recipes!!!!
Had a good day at school and plenty going on in the evening with Katy dropping by, then Jeff and a drinks invitation upstairs. So it was easy to handle the hunger although I am feeling peckish now. But only an hour or so till bed and I can deal with it easily enough.
Just thinking about the way I feel about food. Still feeling a little resentful, if I'm honest, that I 'can't have' dinner with Rich tonight, with the Turnbulls on Sat or Jeff on Monday, but only juice. I need to try and get out of that mindset and think of the fact that I have given myself the opportunity for this R and R - because my body needs it and I think my mind does too. I really want to be smaller, I want to wear smaller clothes and feel fitter and healthier. I need to think of food as fuel and realise that, with my lifestyle, my body doesn't actually need that much fuel. I want to plan ahead with future meals so that I can eat quality food and not quantity. There is no reason I can't have any kind of food I want, but it needs to be a small amount and only occasionally.
I will investigate micro and macro nutrients by the weekend and have some sort of idea of how that fits on with our Paleo When Possible lifestyle.
Two down - only 28 to go. I can do that! Hope the weight loss keeps up steadily. Need to plan for a plateau somewhere or other and how to deal with it.
Monday 28 October 2013
Day One
... actually went rather well. One juice at normal school breakfast time, followed by a glass of water during the morning session. Then another juice at morning tea followed by half a glass of water. Lunch was a glass of water and then I had the third glass of juice straight after school. The hardest thing was remembering to drink the water!
Morning tea has never been a problem at school as they all eat crappy crackers and fatty cheese with a coffee, but I can see lunch being a bit of an occasional niggle, mostly when it's a shared lunch and there is some yummy-looking baking!
However, day to day at school is going to be just fine. After school is when the hunger pangs hit - years of conditioning and bad habits. "Yay, the kids have gone, I've finished work, time to Relax and Reward - with FOOD!" Now the kind of R and R I'm going to take part in will be Reflect and Reboot. Reflect on what I used to do and work at forming some new healthy habits and Reboot my lifestyle.
Made the juice for tomorrow - Beginner's Green again - and finished today's Berry and Beet concoction which was mixed up with the rest of the bought juice. It's in the bottle, ready to be packed, all ready to go. And I'm all ready to go - to bed! There doesn't seem to be much point to staying up when there's no supper, bedtime snack, bikkies, Milo or ANYTHING ELSE! :(
But when I truly listen to my body, it's not sending me messages to say I'm hungry - it's just sending me the normal, bad habit ones - "Come on, you are not actually full to the brim so you can put a bit more in!" and "It's such and such a time - must be food time!"
I must listen to the new messages I'm going to train it to send - "Thanks for the juice - it was yum!" and "Have a glass of water if you think you're hungry" - all that sort of good stuff. Note to self : LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN!!
Morning tea has never been a problem at school as they all eat crappy crackers and fatty cheese with a coffee, but I can see lunch being a bit of an occasional niggle, mostly when it's a shared lunch and there is some yummy-looking baking!
However, day to day at school is going to be just fine. After school is when the hunger pangs hit - years of conditioning and bad habits. "Yay, the kids have gone, I've finished work, time to Relax and Reward - with FOOD!" Now the kind of R and R I'm going to take part in will be Reflect and Reboot. Reflect on what I used to do and work at forming some new healthy habits and Reboot my lifestyle.
Made the juice for tomorrow - Beginner's Green again - and finished today's Berry and Beet concoction which was mixed up with the rest of the bought juice. It's in the bottle, ready to be packed, all ready to go. And I'm all ready to go - to bed! There doesn't seem to be much point to staying up when there's no supper, bedtime snack, bikkies, Milo or ANYTHING ELSE! :(
But when I truly listen to my body, it's not sending me messages to say I'm hungry - it's just sending me the normal, bad habit ones - "Come on, you are not actually full to the brim so you can put a bit more in!" and "It's such and such a time - must be food time!"
I must listen to the new messages I'm going to train it to send - "Thanks for the juice - it was yum!" and "Have a glass of water if you think you're hungry" - all that sort of good stuff. Note to self : LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN!!
Sunday 27 October 2013
Day One Minus One
It's the evening before. I don't know how I'm supposed to physically prepare for 30 days with NO FOOD, but have done all the mental prep. I have watched and been amazed by the guys on "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", I've researched all the juice recipes and we've bought the juicer. So, the mind is saying, "Let's go for it." The body is definitely ready as well - enjoyed yesterday's trial juice very much and today's lunchtime smoothie and evening pumpkin soup reminded me that I do love liquids.
The gingernuts are all gone and we have no bread - so hopefully that's the cupboard temptations out of the way. Richard is, as usual, 100% behind me in another one of my great ideas. This one, however, feels different. I've done it for 6 and enjoyed it. What's another 24 days? Bring it on!
The gingernuts are all gone and we have no bread - so hopefully that's the cupboard temptations out of the way. Richard is, as usual, 100% behind me in another one of my great ideas. This one, however, feels different. I've done it for 6 and enjoyed it. What's another 24 days? Bring it on!
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