Food Glorious Food

Geez. We have eaten out every night since last Thursday. Very hard to lose weight. I’ve tried to make sensible choices but a sneak peak at the scales this morning had me 200g up from last Wednesday. Coupled with the fact we’ve had no time for exercise since Thursday’s PT session and I’m an unhappy camper. Here’s what we’ve done/eaten:

Thursday night: GB’s sister in law’s bday at pub -
GB and I share grilled fish and chips. I ate small amount of fish and a few chips. There was a salad bar so I had a small saucer size plate of a few not very healthy salads.

Friday night: Dinner with friends at The Pony Club -
Tapas restaurant, so small shared servings. If you ever go - order the marron - it’s to die for! We ordered 4 tapas to start with 4 serves on each, so we each got a taste. Then ordered one main (a seafood risotto) and 2 more tapas. Dessert - shared churros (like donuts but sticks not circles with choc dipping sauce) between the 4 of us. One cocktail for me (aptly called a Mood Adjuster with Vodka, Baileys and espresso) and a couple of glasses of wine. Didn’t feel like I ate too much so that was good.

Saturday - 10 of us were to take part in an Iron Chef Cook Off Challenge. The boys to cook, girls to judge. 3 ingredients chosen which had to be used in all the dishes. I was busy with work stuff so I didn’t make the lunch time offering but went for dinner. GB and I shared - 3 asparagus stalks in lemon juice with parmesan cheese, mushroom, white wine risotto, some baked (whole) fish, tiramasu. One glass of champagne for me.

Sunday: GB’s folks are off to Scotland on Wednesday so went out for lunch -
GB and I order the grilled fish and a greek salad. I had a small piece of fish and about a quarter of the salad.

Sunday Night: Dinner with my mum & sisters -
GB and I order the grilled fish (again!) and a caesar salad. I had a small piece of fish (again!) and about a half of the caesar which wasn’t very big to begin with. About 4 wedges and a bowl of gelato vanilla icecream.

So I think I’m starting to be able to eat more than I should. I said I would review my fill after about 6 weeks because we’re not booked in again to see Doc Watson till mid September when we return from Europe as he didn’t want to put more fill in just before we left. I’m still dealing with PB’s a few times a week. I get a little bit hungry in the mornings but not too bad. I don’t think a fill this close to going to Europe would be a good idea so I’m just going to have to use some of that self control thing I’ve been hearing so much about.

Anyhoo, no plans for the next couple of nights so I’m going to buckle down and try to NOT put on weight this week!

Em

Pride

Well GB smashed through his Europe goal this week, losing 1.7kgs and dropping to 98.8kgs, freaking amazing. He’s lost over 27kgs and 82cm since starting Optifast, two weeks before banding. His personal goal is 90kgs - well within his sight. I’m so proud of him, he’s worked so hard.

Week 14 Review

Hey-ho, sorry about the sporadic posts - just ridiculously busy at work. I’ve even worked at home the last couple of days because I can’t get interruption free time in the office. Grrr

So I didn’t think I was going that well this week, then TTOM reared its ugly head. In the opposite way to convention, I tend to lose more weight not less at TTOM. So it was a 1.8kg loss this week - yeehaaa. That takes my 14 week total to 15.7kgs since receiving the band. Also on track to reach my weight goal for Europe (just over 4 weeks to go!) - I need to lose 3.9kgs.

GB was 500g off his Europe goal last week. He was really disappointed but he’s done SO well. I mean he’s 4 weeks ahead of his goal! He’ll definately get there this week.

Exercise wise this week wasn’t TOO bad. I think I went to the gym last Thursday, then nothing much Fri/Sat, then we walked to Gloria Jeans and back on Sunday (about 20mins each way). Monday was the PT again and yesterday we walked the Burswood/Causeway bridges in about 1hr 15mins. It was a tough walk due to some heavy head wind and we did try to jog for bits of it. Tonight it’s Squash Mk 2. We’ve bought new balls and new grips for the rackets so I’m sure I will play a lot better this time around!

You may notice some dodgy looking pics in my flickr photo bar to the right. We had a bogan party on Saturday! It was awesome fun. I surprised GB coming out with a big preggers belly, cigarette, high pony, teased fringe, blue eyeshadow, wife beater, flannel shirt, trackies and pink uggies. Yep I was attractive. Have a look at the staged fight photos between me and GB - very amusing.

I’ve started taking iron tablets this week. I’ve always struggled with my iron levels and floated into anaemia territory on more than 1 occassion mostly due to lack of red meat and vegies in my diet. Well the other day I noticed my left leg is covered in massive big bruises and I have no recollection of banging into anything. This happened a couple of years ago when I lost a bunch of weight and I thought I had cancer or something - had a shit load of blood tests and the doc decided that I am just “prone to bruising”. But I thought it might be low iron so will give a course of ferretin a go and if I’m still bruising will go to the docs.

Anyway, better get stuck into some work.

Hope everyone is going well - I will try to stop by your blogs this week! And thanks for all your comments everyone!

 

Brrrrrrr

Holy moly I’m freezing. Due to the gas shortage and as I work for a government department, we were instructed yesterday to reduce our aircondititioning to 20C. As that was even colder than outside I decided to turn ours off all together. Worked yesterday as the day warmed up but this morning my office is 16.3C. And I’m in a massive coat and contemplating getting my scarf out of the car. But I keep telling myself - better to be cold than one of those people losing their jobs.

PT was an absolute bastard last night. I literally thought I might die. Pullups, pushups, crunches, skipping, running up and down stairs, jumping lunges, calf raises…….. arrrggghhhhhh. I could barely see through the sweat running down my eyes!

Anyway, have to go for a walk and get my blood pumping before it freezes.

Em

Measurements Updated

Hey All,

I’ve updated my measurements on the appropriately titled “Measurements” page. Another 19cm gone this month. I’m pretty happy with that. That brings the total to 54cm since being banded.

Squash was fun. I totally won. I had a bit of trouble serving. And backhands on the full. And backhands with a bounce. And overhead shots. But aside from all that I was awesome. It was a bit difficult to keep score but when we had 1 minute to go on our session I said that who ever wins that rally, wins the game. I won after GB hit the ball over the back screen and across the basketball courts. We’re going to try and keep doing it on wednesdays as a bit of a break from the gym and walking. You can definately work up a sweat even if you don’t know what you’re doing!

Em