Another week down

Yeah I've been a lil tragic. I am seriously struggling to keep on track. I have no motivation to exercise, and food has been pretty bad. Still a bit better, just not real good. The last two weeks have been the worst, but alot of that has been bad planning. I have been having cup of soups for lunch, and generally eggs/or toast for breakfast. I have been sneaking in a few too many cold coffees though, so that needs to stop. Back to toast and cottage cheese for breakfast tomorrow with cup of soup for lunch. And I will ensure that I make a proper coffee tomorrow.

On the bright side, mum and I are starting a new business venture...ironically cupcakes and lollies. HAH! hopefully in 6 months once I have my counselling qualifications we will be able to start up a store. Then I might be able to incorporate my counselling room in the same building. I am hoping to have a showroom as such in the front. Displaying the cakes, and lolly buffets, and then incorporate some other stuff. This will be a good base to take orders, do prep work and also have someone there to meet and greet clients as they come in the door. It also makes me a lil more comfortable having clients and knowing that there is someone around if needed.

I am also looking at specialising my clinic towards sexual health and relationships. It's something that I have always wanted to work with, and think that I am open and have a healthy outlook on this sort of stuff to help people. It's all starting to get a lil fun and exciting.

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.

Health and Fitness Challenge

Twitter: mobylovescoffee
Age:29 (in a few days)
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Also include your challenge goals in terms of your:

My non- scale victory - my boardies...I want to fit in them before Summer is over, I don't want to fit in them at all next year :)


My goals with exercise is 15 min walk each day, 45 min exercise vid or wiifit x3 per week


Keep calories under 1600, keep track via my fitness pal

Starting Weight: way too much..lets just say +50 for now

Target Challenge Weight Loss: 15kg

2012 and all it's promises...

Well here we are very near the end of the year and 2012 is holding so much hope. There is so much to be done next year, and I don't want an ordinary year. I want to be busy, I want to feel like we are climbing out of the rut we are in. So many aspects of our lives need to be improved on, and I know where to start, I know how to start, and HAVE started. I just need to keep on keeping on.

Number 1....as everyone knows, my weight. I have seen a dietician this year, as well as exercise physiologist, it has to come down. Exercise is required daily, 3 times a week minimum, and food needs to be cleaned up. No more dairy, very little carbs, many fruits, veg and some protein. (No I am not including real food in my carb count, as long as I eat all of the fruit, bought juices are out)

Number 2... work on our fertility. D is giving up smoking, and he is in on this health kick. It's time to kick infertility to the curb and claim our baby.

Number 3... money. D needs a job, I need a secure full time one. This obviously is a priority. We then have to focus on paying out debt and starting to put money away. Dave Ramsay is going to be my friend this year, he just doesn't know it yet.

Number 4... working on creating at home businesses. We are under no illusion that this will be easy, or that it will be only one. D and I both want to work from home. We want babies in the next year or two and this will be the best way. D is also bi-polar and doesn't get along well with people, this would probably give us more security than him working for someone else. So we will be focusing on Safe Cycling Australia, Sharp Chic, A Fashionable Marriage and Sharp Organising. Somewhere in all of this we will derive an income sufficient enough to be stay at home workers.

Number 5... yes there is more! D and I both need careers. We need to feel like we are contributing to the world, by working on Number 4 and 3, this could happen.

Number 6... I want to socialise and go out more. I don't want to feel that the year has flown by and we have nothing to show for it. I want to go out for dinners, weekends away and exploring our city. I want to meet new people, entertain and hold dinner parties. I want to be social.

Number 7... I want to set my home up. I want it to exude elegance, to be clean, tidy and people to walk in and think 'these people have it together'. I don't like walking in and seeing the mish mash that is our house. I want it to have style, grace, and character. I will be blogging about the changes we make, however slowly it may take us.

Number 8.. .I want to work on me. Not only do I need to lose the weight, but I want to change the way I present myself. In no way and I saying that I wish to change me...just how I present myself to the world. I am doing a workshop hopefully soon to learn basics of makeup and haircare. Next on the agenda is clothing and manners. I am taking the challenge not to swear and this will start from tomorrow night when my MIL arrives.

Number 9...I am committing to blogging. I will have 4 sites up and going. This is going to be a HUGE Task. The plan is one blog post for each blog a week, 2 for the personal blog. This personal blog will also be a record of my challenges, my progress against my goals and my accountability. I will be adding a page specifically to hold these goals and my progress markers.

Good luck to me and good luck to 2012 and all the hope that I lay on it.

love
Moby