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

Challenge begins!

Week 1 Day 1. No iced coffee so far, but I have only been awake for a couple of hours. Oh yeah and I had a choc thickshake from Macca’s on the way in. Geez I’m seriously useless. 400g loss in the past week so back into the 70’s for the start of the challenge. I’m really going to look at portion sizes too. I’m sure I’ve been going way over the 1/2 to 1 cup rule.

Very excited for GB. He’s decided to enter his first ever triathlon. As I’ve mentioned before, he and two of his friends are doing the Busselton Ironman Triathlon in December but he’s decided to try it out himself in a sprint triathlon on Sunday. It’s a 750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run which he can piss in separately so I’m sure he’ll string it together ok. He borrowed his friend’s expeno racing bike the other day and stacked it riding to work. I think he broke his pinky finger too! Plus grazed his leg down one side. Mostly just his pride injured though I think.

The fill I had last week has had some effect. I’m not as hungry as I was which is awesome and I’m feeling restriction kick in earlier which is good too. Still feel like my portions are too big but I’d rather try to work with that myself than get more fill in at this stage.

Hope everyone is well!

Em

Fun with Canon EOS 5D!

I mentioned a few posts ago that we bought a digital SLR camera and were taking a few lessons. Well thought I’d post some pics we took the other night in East Perth. Some are pretty good for beginners I think!!