Sunday and the motivation kicks

Ok so it's Sunday night and motivation has kicked back it....where the crap has it been hiding for the week just gone??!!?

Spent a great weekend catching up with an old but much loved friend and her super awesome lil man. It was great and I really enjoyed socialising with someone other than hubby or family. I managed to also get an assignment done, do a lil shopping, and spend some time with my gorgeous D.

So plans for the coming week:
 Detox - lots of juices, veg and salad
 A lil walking, even just 15mins a day...just get moving
 Wake up an hour before I leave each day and prepare for the day

Half my problem is that Im lazy and enjoy my time with hubs too much, the other half is that I don't prepare...and like they say 'fail to prepare and prepare to fail'...yeah well, it's true!

Also caught up with one of my besties this arvo and it was great. I loved just sitting and chatting with her, she lets me just vent, listens to my crap and I walk out feeling like a weight has been lifted. I have been feeling so stressed lately, I forget that just having that person to chat to can make it all so much better.

So thanks huni...you're awesome!! xoxox

ooooh pirdy...

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just cos its funny...

Plans...

So I post a lot about plans and I never seem to follow through, well I'm back here again making plans. I've been watching a lot of what I'm eating, trying to keep sugar low. Yesterday I was pretty good, failing only with crumbs on chicken strips and something else which I forget. Today was some m&ms, 1/3 of an iced coffee and some cordial. All still 100% on what I have been consuming!! So I have some chicken done up for tomorrow, will have some bacon for breaky, and so far so good. Not just to add a bit of exercise in and I'm all good :)

D and I are heading to the gym tomorrow for a weeks free trial, then we will try another local gym after that and choose our favourite, the goal is to find one and commit to an hour a day for the next few months. I know this is probably too hard too fast, but we need to spend a few months really focussing on our health. I want to be pregnant by the end of this year, this is the way towards it.

Moby xoxo


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Fleas and Ear Mites!

Yup...literally!!! we have been inundated by fleas this summer....no idea what to do! We have had to take our poor kitten to the vet due to ear mites, and now issues with a massive flea invasion. Does anyone know what to do with these lil suckers??

So I have been researching, and we have found the lemon steeped in water and sprayed on helps, as well as flea combs, but I have a bischoodle...good luck getting it through his coat!

So tomorrow is operation Flea irradicate! First step is brushing the puppies, and then taking them down to the hydrobath. Here we will wash and then spray for fleas and ticks. Kitties will be getting revolution and a flea comb. While we are out, my dad will be liming the yard and hubby will be vacuuming carpets. so much involved because of these lil buggers!

So does anyone have any handy hints? especially to get rid of them for good?

everything seems so hard...

well a bit of a woe is me post...I guess I had to do it somewhere, and twitter is probably getting sick of hearing it..

We are moving house, back in with my folks for a lil bit to try and save money, but things have been pretty shit going.
we moved into mums early..BIG MISTAKE...it left us 3 weeks to pack up and move. But I also got hit with a mass of college assignments, and D got rostered on every weekend. so instead mum and lil sis ended up packing everything for us, we called in removalists and had hoped just to have to clean the house. well....we kept running out of boxes (I wasnt there to throw stuff out), the removalists didnt take all of our stuff, so we still had to hire a truck, and the cleaning has taken 3 days and the real estate still isnt happy. So we are at the last weekend. I have a varnish stain on the carpet from our side table (crap!) and just over it. So I am leaving the real estate to call in a cleaner. Tomorrow I will go up and try WD-40 on the stain (Im all out of other ideas), wipe over a few others cupboards and leave the walls to the professionals. Time to bite the bullet and just fail! I hate how fussy Delfin is about its houses, we have never had this drama before!

So we are moving forward. I am on my second last semester at college, that has started, I thankfully finished summer semester...thank god! and now for new adventures. we are focusing on trying to pay all our bills out and buy a house. Fingers crossed we can do it. Now to learn to be super frugal and get cracking! from next week we should have all our bills paid and then to focus on paying out the credit cards. Well that and make our room here more liveable.

Work is getting a bit tense, we are close to the end of our contracts, so it wont be long until I have to find another one. I would really love a government position, but will have to see what I can find. I want the stability of government, the money from government and the ability to go further in gov. But we will see what happens over the next few months.

Something I am toying with as well is going vegetarian with the option to go vegan later. D is really bad at being able to process meat, his system just cant do it, so Im thinking it might be a good idea. We both hate how inhumanely animals are treated in the process and could live a little happier knowing we dont have anything do to with it.

Just stuff to think about.

mobyxoxox

Personal Excellence + Healthy life challenge

Ideal Vision of health, fitness and lifestyle


My Ideal vision – I am around a 10-12, and fit. I don’t want to be buff, I want to be toned but still feminine. I want to be able to run 10km easily and at least 3 times a week. All up around 20-30km running a week, and cycling 3 times per week. Lifestyle would be up early every morning and doing an hour of exercise before work.



What do you want to accomplish at the end of the 21 days

Over the next 21 days I want to lay the foundations of a healthy lifestyle. Getting up and walking, starting with 10mins of a morning and working up to 30 minutes. If possible I would like to fit in another 30 minutes of an afternoon with the dogs. With food I want to cut out the crap food and get to a point where I am eating 80% unprocessed foods. Cutting out majority of dairy products except for some milk and yoghurt and small amounts of cheese.



Get ready. What are 3-5 things that you can do now that will help

The most helpful would be to find a job close to home. Other than that, preparing food, getting up 30 mins earlier to have breakfast and go for a walk.

I need to get up early enough to prepare breakfast and have a cup of tea. This is number 1 priority, otherwise I am too tempted to get something on the way into work. Breakfast could be weetbix, oats or toast with eggs. The other thing that is a must is preparing something for lunch, and having a snack. Whether it be a stirfry, steamed veg or salad. Snacks can be fruit, nuts or yoghurt.



Day 1. Drink 8 glasses of water. Daily requirements are 3.5Litres

Eeek this actually equates to 15 glasses of water. I need to start chugging. But this could also be why I am having so many issues like waking up feeling ill, being constantly hungry and fluid retention.



Day 2. Create Calorie List – use my fitness pal

Calorie list is pointless, I don’t really have general things that I eat constantly.



Day 3. Calculate Daily expenditure. BMR 2152 - + 1.2 for sedentary lifestyle = 2582



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Good morning



So far today I got up at 5.30, took my puppies for a 15 min walk (starting with babysteps) had weetbix for breaky. Just devoured a tuna salad with wholemeal roll for lunch and will most likely have a stirfry for dinner.



On the drinking side of things, I am going for 2L a day for the first week, 3L the second week and working up to 3.5L. I have just bought some cordial to add to it. I know its not the best of ideas, but it does help it go down, and I have already nearly finished the first litre.



I have logged my calories for yesterday and today. So far I am at 900calories for today and yesterday I finished up on 1783. so a definite deficit.