Still lost weight this week

Well even after our big weekend, I still lost 700g this week :) Shows that the exercise and water are definitely paying off.

Some more updated photos... since it has now been 10 weeks and 12.9kg since I started TF.

Weekend away in Mandurah

Glenn and I went away for the weekend to Mandurah to celebrate his birthday. I had decided that I was going to have the weekend off, and so it was a lovely and stress-free holiday!

Some naughty food was consumed, eg. fish & chips (which were so GROSS to the point that I just wanted to throw up afterwards ), icecream, small packet of twisties and a kebab. I also had some garlic bread with dinner (didn't enjoy it that much either) and 2 glasses of wine.

Sounds bad I know... but you know what? I don't care! Coz I jumped straight back into TF mode when we hit home and had a lovely lettuce, tuna and egg salad for dinner. I enjoyed eating whatever I felt like, but I didn't enjoy the feeling of being full and bloated AT ALL! And I just felt so blah and lethargic afterwards.

The good bit was that I didn't feel like anything other than water to drink - other than the wine at dinner last night. So I drank heaps of water because I looooove my water.

So we had a great weekend and I don't feel guilty at all - nor do I feel like I have fallen off the wagon - I'm still in the right frame of mind and I will keep going :)

Going B2B (back to basics, ie minimal sauces etc) for as long as I can handle this week, and going to keep up the daily exercise (doing about 30-90 mins every day now) and keep drinking the water and I'll be fine :)

Oh and I reached my 2nd mini-goal on Saturday morning before we left - I wanted to be 75kg by 10th November for our weekend away and I weighed 74.9kg on Saturday morning, yay!

Having a weekend off(ish)

Well I am pretty damn happy with my week 9 weigh in results from Wednesday - I lost another 1.6kg this week so that takes it to 12.2kg in total! And I've still been exercising every single day, and it such a part of my routine now that it's easy and I actually really look forward to it and enjoy it.

It's been an up and down week though, but I've stayed on track and am proud of myself for that. I went back to work on Thursday morning, and got lots of lovely positive comments from everyone which totally made my day :) I hadn't worn my white work shirt (size 16) for a few weeks and it felt great! It no longer gapes at the buttons and the arms are nowhere near as tight - ie. it's comfortable now! I remember when I started TF and wore that shirt, it was so tight the buttons were nearly popping off and the sleeves were so tight that they cut into my underarms and hurt - but never again yay!

Had a nice busy day today too, which I finished off with a lovely walk around Lake Monger with Lisa, my good friend who is over from Sydney. Was probably about 3.5km, and we walked quite fast, so it felt good. I'm definitely going to try and do that more often! Now, to find a walking buddy... well Meaghan moves to Greenwood in December so I reckon we'll go walking lots :)

Glenn and I are heading down to Mandurah for the weekend, so I'll be being not-very-strict this weekend. But we plan to do a lot of walking and swimming and stuff so hopefully it won't be too bad. But most important of all we're going to have a great weekend away together and not worry about anything :)

Success!

Well I am a lot happier tonight than I have been for the last week. I had my first session with the new personal trainer, Rhys today. And yes, it actually was a session, haha, and he apologised for what happened on Tuesday.

Anyway, he seems like a nice guy, and his style was similar enough to Daniel's that I felt comfortable. We did a killer workout too, which was awesome. Lots of arm weights, wall squats, some core work and 2 sets of 2 minutes on the rowing machine, flat out and full resistance. It was bloody tough and I felt like I was gonna die, haha, but I did it and I felt awesome after it - and still do now even though it's nearly 10pm. Gotta love them endorphins :)

And because I was feeling so good, I had a really productive and positive day - got heaps of washing done, did a massive food shop, dishes and cleaned out the fridge. Yay me.

Tomorrow I can't exercise a huge amount which sucks balls, because I have a chiropractor appointment at 9:30am and am not allowed to do much more than just ride the bike after that. And then I have to go to the stupid dentist coz some fillings I got a few weeks ago aren't feeling right. But I shall ride my bike for as long as I can whilst I catch up on some trashy women's magazines :D