Week 2 Challenge Recap

Grrrrr… more grrrrr…. yet more grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Have put on 200g this week. I’m so disappointed but only have myself to blame. Have stayed away from icecream since the choc top and have exercised 5 times this week. I have been drinking RIDICULOUS amounts of water. At least 2L a day, sometimes 3-4L! However, it was GB’s birthday on Friday. Went out for dinner, had cocktails, wine, dessert… Then Saturday had lunch with his folks (another cocktail, more wine)… Saturday afternoon – caught up with his mates at the Balmoral (more wine plus wedges!). Sunday I surprised him with lunch at Millbrook Winery with all our friends. Great food (fattiest thing I probably could have chosen – Duck!… MORE WINE!!! (Seriously, their wine is bloody awesome!). Anyway, I’m sure you can sense a theme there! Then I ate my body weight in mars bar & chocolate fudge slice, cheesecake on Tuesday after one of my receptionists retired. Come to think of it I was lucky to get away with only putting on 200g! 

I’m also due for TTOM in a few days, so perhaps could be retaining. It sure does explain my mood lately! I’m seriously grumpy. We’re off to Bunbury this weekend for a triathlon so the boys can have a trial run before the Ironman in December. We’re camping – which I don’t mind normally but it’s going to be farking freezing. Plus the boys get together and become obnoxious annoying drunks, the only other partner going is pretty much exactly the same (She spent 4 hrs of an engagement party sitting in the toilet), and I just don’t have anything to talk to her about, you know? Tried to convince the other partner to go but she has things on this weekend so couldn’t. So the only thing getting me through spending a weekend in Bunbury (no offence Bunbury people!) is that I’d planned for us to all go to Casella’s Tapas which has a pretty good rep for dinner tonight. But GB just pointed out that we can’t do that now coz we’re all taking our dogs and can’t leave them unattended at the caravan park. So I have fully cracked the shits. Not that I didn’t know about the dogs, but I hadn’t put two and two together on it.

And you know what else is pissing me off? You people!!! Leave a farking comment every once in a while!!! I’m such a whiny bitch right now! Must try to get out of my mood. Sorry for the outburst, I just wonder if anyone gets anything out of my rambles besides the 3 people who regularly comment and now I’ve probably alienated everyone else anyway!!! I guess I really do this for my own purpose, sort of a journal of sorts anyway, but being a fatty – I do require positive reinforcement. Even if you want to tell me “snap out of it you whiny ho-bag!”

Wedding stuff is starting to gear up. We’re working on our invites wording etc and hope to have them out early January. We were going with the minimilist look at the reception being that it’s a cocktail party and I didn’t see the point but then I started thinking how it wouldn’t look special blah blah blah so now looking at hiring chair covers for the few tables that will be scattered around plus possibly those high bar tables. Looked at ottomans and benches but far too expeno to hire. I’m stressing about money as it is!!

Anyhoo, I’m going to take my mood and emerse it into reading job applications for our reception position…

Hope all are well,

Em

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Challenge Week 2

Hiya,

So I got through the week with no iced coffee…. amazing! Exercised 5 days out of the week too! Including a 10km walk around the river on Thursday night. Other than that though I didn’t really do much different. Struggled with dinner a few of the nights and was quite ill on Wednesday night. PB’d up dinner and then had excrutiating backpain all night – didn’t feel stuck though. So weird. I did lose 500g though which I’m pretty happy with.

Friday was GB’s 35th birthday. To celebrate he went out in the morning before I woke up and ran 21kms. The equivalent of a half-marathon. Fricken amazing. Another goal of his ticked off. We both took the day off from work which was nice. We took a walk down to Tomato Lake and had a coffee (my first iced coffee in a week!), then caught up with a friend for lunch in the city at The Lucky Shag. After that we toodled off to the movies and saw All About Steve. We were the only ones in the cinemas which should have twigged us to the fact it was shite. Lordy bigordy what a big pile of stinking dog poo that movie was! After that we had a quick drink at our local pub then got frocked up for date night. As it worked it out it was his turn to organise it! We went to The Old Swan Brewery and had a couple of drinks at the bar. Yummy argentinian chardonnay! Checked out the menu there for shits and giggles. It’s basically a grill – lots of steak. One of which was a 900g steak of which the cow was hand reared, grass fed, wrapped in bubble wrap, lined with gold and cost $110!!! Wowzer! We went to dinner at the other restaurant there called Zafferanos. We had a table overlooking the river which was gorgeous.  They had one of my fave cocktails on the menu (and is quite hard to find) – a Jo Jo Ivory. So I started with one of those and GB had a Martini. It was a pretty pricey restaurant (thank goodness for the Entertainment Book!) but the food was delicious. I had the red emperor which was a special with carrot puree, lemon buerre, and scalloped potatos. Sooooo nice. One of the nicest pieces of fish I’ve had in ages. GB had a mixed seafood plate which he said was awesome too. Then, because we’re slow learners, we had a look at the dessert menu. GB decided he wanted cheese so I got the pannacotta e torte with caramal bananas (YUM). About a quarter of the way through I thought I was going to vomit. Not because it was stuck – because I was soooooo full! Both of us ended up leaving about half. Oh well!

The festivities continue today with lunch with his parents and catching up with his mates for drinks this afternoon. He doesn’t know that I’ve organised a surprise lunch with all our friends at the Millbrook Winery tomorrow! Going to have to squeeze in some exercise somewhere so I don’t put on 2kgs over the weekend!!!

Anyway – confession – already blew my no ice cream challenge for Week 2 by having a choc top at the movies yesterday – oops! But I will go saturday to saturday with no ice cream I promise!

Hope all are well!

Em