New Bike

Okay so after reading Bitcakes Blog, I'm feeling very motivated to start riding again.  I just love her bike its so cool!  

Sheryl's Bike

 So I have begun the search in Australia for a bike that is similar.  Now little did I realise they range from $400-$600 for a Cruiser Bike.  I've found quite a few in Penrith, but I'm having trouble deciding which one.  Here's hoping you can help!

1.  Giant Transend 2 Ladies - website- http://blackmanbicycles.com.au/products/giant-transend-2-ladies1/

Cost - $599

2.  Giant Transend Ladies 3 - http://blackmanbicycles.com.au/products/giant-transend-3-ladies/

Cost - $499

3.  Giant Suede Ladies - http://blackmanbicycles.com.au/products/giant-suede-ladies1/

Cost - $549

4.  Giant Via Single Speed Ladies- http://blackmanbicycles.com.au/products/giant-via-single-speed-ladies/

Cost- $429

 5.  Merida City Ladies-http://blackmanbicycles.com.au/products/merida-city-ladies-3.0/

$549

Opinions needed, I did have a look on Ebay but to be honest they weren't much cheaper and unfortunately didn't seem to be much cheaper!!

 

Self Esteem

So I was reading this blog post about self esteem and how it can make us ugly people.  Generally I don't have the best self esteem, due to alot of things that have happened to me over the years and the non- supportive family that I have.  Well I shouldn't say totally unsupportive- they support what I am doing with Weight Watchers, but if it looks like I'm eating too much food- which I know I am not, because of how my weight loss is going I mean come on, I've lost 9.1kg in 5 weeks! I must be doing something right!!  But my mum always cooks my meals for me while I'm working.  So thats really all the support they offer.  

I often get told that "somethings not right with me" or "I need to see a psychiatrist", which isn't something that a supportive person should be giving out to people especially their daughter.  They often say that I have an angry out look on the world, and that its no wonder I don't have a boyfriend.  

I mean yeah I can get angry at people and myself, but so do a lot of people.  Let's look through the checklist:

Do I have anger? Yeah
Do I have joy? Yeah
Do I have love? Not in my life right now
Do I have laughter? All the time!
Do I have trust? Well, I have issues with that one.  I do trust only around 2-3 people in my life. 
Do I have fear? Yes
Do I have disappointment? Yes

Why do I have all these?  Because I'm human.  I'm not a non emotional alien from another planet!   We all have atleast some of these issues.  I do get angry at my immediate family, mainly because they think they are helping my harrassing me, but infact they are just making things worse.  The constant harrassement and persistent bothering are just not what I need and unfortunately they don't listen to what I want.  


Self esteem for me is a constant battle but at the moment I feel like it's a battle that I'm winning.  I went out to a Salsa Club this past weekend, all dolled up in a dress that suits my body shape right now, hair done and make up on.  I actually felt like such a girly girl, but it was awesome and my friends and even people who I'd never met told me how fantastic I looked and how much fun I was having and how happy I looked!  I realised then that myself esteem was at all time high!! I projected out positive and happy vibes because I really was happy!! 


Projection is a massive thing it allows yourself to project to other how truly happy you are.  I will definately be using this tool alot more often!

Since flying on that high, I am back in the kitchen on this public holiday Monday, cooking up a storm with my Goats Cheese, Spinach and Pumpkin Mini Fritattas!

Prepping the pumpkin and the spinach

Adding the goats cheese

Final Product!

10km Run Today

So today I decided it was time to tackle the "big block run".  Which is from my place, down the Northern Rd, down Andrews Rd, along Castlereagh Rd, then up Coreen Ave, til we reach again the Northern Rd, then run along there for around 1.8km - 2km til we reach home again.  

I measured the distance and it was 10km even!  Nice new running track for me!  The last time I ran 10km it took me 2 hours and 10 minutes this was at Norwest.  Today I ran it in 1 hour 40 minutes!  So stoked with how much I have improved.  Its definately all the running and kickboxing its starting to help strengthen the leg muscles, and its getting the endurance / miles in the legs in prep for City2Surf.  Now only 63 days to go!  Time to rip into the training and get the miles in and break in the new shoes and get some running done!

Morphing into a Runner

Now as most of you know I am not a runner I don't generally enjoy it I guess mainly because I was 140kg and trying to run was painful the body and also running out in public with everything wobbling around its not the nicest feeling.  But in saying that I'm no down to 118kg and am no longer worried about what people think if they wanna yell idiotic things or whatever then thats their problem.  I did actually get a few honks on this mornings run, which was kind of nice.  So stoked I got through it though.  

I am going to do Knapsack with Robyn tomorrow which is going to be awesome I can't wait!  I will definately be icing down tonight and tomorrow so my knees will be okay to handle knapsack tomorrow.  

But now since I am running almost everyday now, I am kind of starting to enjoy it (damn it! My physio - the runner said I would start to enjoy it! He was right) But my week started yesterday and I'm already 10km down.  Gonna try and aim for between 15-18km this week and see how we go! 

Bring on Knapsack tomorrow, will post photos soon!

Plan of Attack- Week Starting- 11/6/2011

Ok, so I have weighed in for the week just gone and had a good loss of 1.2kg.  Now its time to plan for the coming week

1.  Cooking both selected Weight Watchers Meals
2.  Cook the Pumpkin, Spinach and Goats Cheese Tarts
3.  Schedule in exercise for 6 days with 1 rest day
4.  Clock up 12km worth of running- thats a 2km increase for City2Surf in August

To achieve the first and second goal I have selected there I have left the ingredients out so that I can do them tomorrow once I get back from my run in the morning.  

Goal 3 - I will definately be achieving this goal this week as I will be scheduling my exercise as:

Week Starting 11/6/11
Sunday- Either Knapsack Margarets Lookout / 1 hour swim or big block run (from my house to down Andrews Rd, along Castlereagh Rd, up Coreen Ave and back along Northern Rd)- This will depend on the weather

Monday- If the gym is open I will go early and do 1 hour interval sprints on the treadmill @10km per hour - atleast 30 seconds on til as long as I can go for and 1 minute rest- repeat for 1 hour.  Then Kickboxing Class for 1 hour.  If it is not open then I will Knapsack as long as the weather is fine.

Tuesday- 1 hour run- trying to stay at a steady pace around 7.5-8km per hour on the treadmill for as long as I can then go onto interval training.  Then Kickboxing for 1 hour.

Wednesday - 1 hour run- trying to stay at steady pace for as long as possible.  1 hour Kickboxing

Thursday- I really would like to try and get to a Jam class this week- so if possible I will try and go tonight.  If not, then 1 hour Kickboxing

Friday - 1 hour interval sprints on treadmill @8km to start then working up to 10km per hour for 1 hour.  1 hour Kickboxing. 

Saturday- Is weigh in day- no training- this is the scheduled rest day

Weigh In 11/6/11

Another Saturday arrives which also means for another weigh in arrives.  As most of you know weigh ins tend to inflict alot of different emotions on people.  For me, it creates- excitement, celebration, nervousness, and sometimes disappointment.  

For me- I have had an awesome run since the start of my Weight Watchers Journey.

Week 1- Start at 127.1kg
Week 2- 124.4kg - 2.7kg loss
Week 3 - 122.4kg- 2kg loss
Week 4 - 120.4kg - 2kg loss
Week 5 - 119.2kg - 1.2kg loss
Week 6 - 118kg - 1.2kg loss


The run that I am having is just fantastic, I have been very strict on myself, but still eating the foods I want but tracking religiously!

This weeks results

So far now I have lost 9.1kg in 5 weeks at the best part about this is that I am now starting to get compliments from work mates and on a good day even family members.  My work mates say to me, "your looking thinner".  My parents say you finally look like your loosing the weight- granted kind of positive but not wholly.  


I am stoked to be so close to my 10kg loss only 900g off.  Just gotta keep chipping away at it and tackling every day and every kilo as it comes


Start Weight - 127.1kg
Current Weight- 118kg
Total Loss - 9.1kg
Goal Weight - 60kg
Weight to go - 58kg

Body Image + Your Body

We here alot of people everywhere talking about body image, and what we'd like our bodies to be like.  It seems funny to me that most people are never really 100% happy with our body even when we are fit and lean and healthy.  At the moment me at 119.2kg of course I'm not happy with my body, but I'm not even sure I'll be 100% happy then, but I believe I will be much happier than I am now.  

I mean to be honest, my ideal body would probably be similar to Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider- strong, curvy and sexy, but I know that I will never look exactly like that but I will work damn hard to make sure I become strong, slim and healthy!

A friend had posted a quote on her blog and I'm going to borrow - its says "Love your body- not for what it looks like, but it what it can do and what its capable of doing".  I love this quote- it re-affirms my beliefs that our bodies are capable of alot more than we do to them.  

Instead of being disappointed in the way your body looks now and thinking negative thoughts about it.  Think about how good are you going to look and what you are working to achieve.  Think about what your body does for you in 1 day.  It keeps your heart beating, it keeps you alive, it lets you drive, swim, lift, walk, run, bend, stretch, type.  What would be do with out it?

Next time you start thinking negative about your body.  Stop...rewind and start thinking positive and name 3 things you love about your body.  

Start embracing it for it all it does for you and stop thinking about the negative things.  Start making changes for the positive starting right now!

 

Running Intervals + Kickboxing

So during the day today I had every intention of going home getting changed getting to Jabout early and do some running before class.  Then it got about 4pm and I don't know what came over me, but I just didn't want to do, maybe it was just the cold weather.  It got to about 5.45pm and it was sitting at home twiddling my thumbs thinking - "what I should do" and just thought screw it - I'm gonna go to Jabout kick my ass on the treadmill and stay for the class and I'm so glad I did!  

I ended up doing interval sprints for 3km on the treadmill @ 10km hour started at 1 minute on 1 minute off, but as I started to fatigue it was more like 45 seconds on 1 minute off, but I did that continually til I reached 3km and then stuck around to tackle the 1 hour kickboxing class at 7.  Which I managed to get through, but was flat out on the ground afterwards!!

But I know I definately worked hard today burning 1618 calories in 2 hours of training

Its not a very clear pic- but training time is 2hrs 11 minutes, 1618 calories burned and HR 122BPM

I've run 6km total this week, Lappo says I need to get a 10km week, so I'm thinking either just smash out 4km tomorrow or do 2km tomorrow and Friday, but we'll see how the legs feel tomorrow!!

Measurements + Training

Hi Guys

So as mentioned in one of my early posts, I was saying that my training session I had with Viyash last week was really easy, had no DOMS, didn't really feel like I was working all that hard.  

This week was another story before the training begun it was time to get the measurements done again.  Here is the results:

Upper arm was 45cm- now 42.5cm,
Waist was 106cm now 103.5
Hips was 135cm now 132cm,
Thigh was 72cm now 77cm

All these improvements in 2 weeks!

I was really happy with these results especially in only 2 weeks.  I also went and did a bit of shopping and was able to fit into a size 18 jeans down from a size 20.  Really happy with that!  Bring on then size 16!    

Tonights session was good, it was mixture of hill runs, med ball cleans and throws, push ups, planks, squats, tree sits, (yes tree sits- like a wall hold, but on a tree!), sit ups.  Really got the heard rate going which I was wanted out of the session, now onto tomorrow and the next of the week! 

Knapsack 5/6/2011

I woke up this morning trying to decide what type of exercise I should do today- hmmm I was a toss up between hitting the pool for some laps, heading down to Nepean River and do the bridge to bridge walk or head up to Knapsack at to the hard trail.  Previously I would have chosen the course I think to be the easiest which probably would have been the river, but decided to challenge myself and do Knapsack.  

So I jumped in the car around 0730 this morning and headed up to start my walk.  There is quite a few different tracks you choose from but I did Margarets Lookout, which is considered one of the harder ones.

Track Options

Once I had decided which track I was going to tackle it was time to hit the 1km trek to the bridge

These guys definately had the same idea as me!

Then once I finally got to the bridge, I was beginning to rethink my options about the track I had chosen- 3 new options

The first path - takes you upto another lookout- didn't choose this one

Not really sure where this one goes, so didn't choose this one!

Winner!

 The I made my way almost at a jogging pace to get to the rocks at the bottom to start my journey to the top

Now having done this track before I knew exactly what I was in for a steep accent and lots of stairs and boy do I mean lots!! Check em out

So proud- I did these stairs all unbroken!

 I shouldn't really say the "whole track" was stairs, there were a few flat bits also

But I knew I could so this as much as I was in I was determined to get to the top!

I knew once I saw my rock sculpture friends that I was so close- check em out!

 
Next thing I knew I was powering to the top.  I had done, I had a few mishaps along the way like falling flat on my face, lucky I don't have a photo of that!!  But I did it! Check out the celebratory photo and the view from the top

Me celebrating at the top!

View from the top!

The it was time to make the journey back down the track and at this point I was really quite knackered and was in search of some breakfast so I think I almost sprinted back, except for the path to get back to the bridge.  I think I was almost rock climbing vertically, check it out!

Getting ready for the trek back

The track to get back to the bridge

Me at the end red as a beetroot but happy I did it!

 Such a great way to start the weekend- what did you guys do?

How to be a jogger - Courtsey of WW "MY WEEK"

Small Steps
If you want to be a jogger, you need to be a walker first.  Once you can comfortably walk for 30 minutes at a brisk pace daily, you are ready to introduce jogging gradually.

Let's Go
Ensure that you warm up first (start by walking at a slower pace) and cool down after with static stretches for the lower body.  It's important to have supportive footwear and a supportive bra for the ladies.  Remember to wear a cap in the sun and keep hydrated with plenty of water.  On the days you are not running, stay active by doing other activities you enjoy.  

Week 1 (4 days a week)
Monday - 30 minute brisk walk including 1x 1-3 minute burst of running
Wednesday - 30 minute brisk walk including 3 x 1-3 minute bursts of running
Friday - 30 minute brisk walk including 1 x 3-5 minute burst of running
Sunday - 30 minute brisk walk including 3 x 3-5 minute burst of running
Total Running Time....

Week 2 (3 days a week)
Tuesday - 30 minute brisk walk including 1x 5-10 minute burst of running
Thursday - 30 minute brisk walk including 1x 10 minute burst of running
Saturday - 30 minute brisk walk including 1x 10-15 minute burst of running
Total Running Time......

Week 3 (4 days a week)
Monday - 15 minute brisk walk and 15 minutes of continuous running
Wednesday - 15 minute brisk walk and 15 minutes of continuous running
Friday - 10 minute brisk walk, 20 minutes of continuous running
Sunday - 10 minutes brisk walk and 20 minutes of continuous running
Total Running Time....

Week 4 (3 days a week)
Tuesday - 5 minute brisk walk and 25 minutes of continuous running
Thursday - 5 minute brisk walk, 25 minutes of continuous running
Saturday - 30 minutes of continuous running- congrats!
Total Running Time....

I'm hoping this program will help me with the City2Surf and the 9km Bridge Run!

Favourite Marinades

Hey Guys

So most people think that loosing weight you really need to starve yourself and live on meat, fruit no sauces, or nice tasting meals.  Well as per my previous posts on the WW program we definately eat well.  The only thing I have struggled with is finding some low fat marinades, and finally Weight Watchers have released awesome marinades and sauces and instead of keeping them to myself.  I thought I would forward them onto you guys!  Enjoy


Barbecue Marinade - 1 Propoint per serve- Serves 8
In a food processor or blender process, 3 garlic cloves (chopped), 1/2 a small brown onion (chopped) 1 tsp mild sweet paprika, 1/4 cup (55g) firmly packed brown sugar, 1/3 cup (80ml) tomato paste,  1/4 cup (60ml) lemon juice, 2tbs red wine vinegar and 2tbs of soy sauce until smooth.  Place mixture in a small saucepan and bring to the boil high heat.  Reduce heat and simmer, covered for 10 minutes or until thick.  Set aside to cool before using.  

Note- After marinating you can boil the marinade to use as a sauce. 
Marinate- Beef or lamb ( for 30 minutes or longer)

Mustard Marinade - 1 Propoint per serve - Serves 8
Whisk 1tbs Dijon mustard, 1bs olive oil, 2 garlic cloves (crushed), 2 tsp lemon rind and 1/3 cup (80ml) lemon juice in a medium bowl.  


Note- You can use wholegrain mustard instead of Dijon
Marinate- Chicken (for 30 minutes or longer) or fish (no longer than 15 minutes - or it may start to "cook') 

Cumin and Rosemary Marinade  - 3 Propoints per serve - Serves 4
Heat a small frying pan over medium heat.  Cook 2 tsp cumin seeds for 1-2 minutes or until fragrant .  Using a mortar and pestle crush seeds .  Combine cumin with 1 tbs finely chopped fresh rosemary leaves, 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind, 2 garlic cloves (crushed), 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper and 2 tbs olive oil in a small bowl.


Marinate- Beef steaks, chicken breast or thigh fillets or lamb cutlets, steaks, chops, backstrap or rumps (for 30 minutes or longer

From Left to Right- BBQ Marinade, Mustard Marinade and Cumin + Rosemary Marinade

Moroccan Marinade- 1 Propoint per serve- Serves 6
Combine 2 tsp ground corinader, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp mild sweet paprika, 1/2 tsp ground feennel, 1/4 cup (60ml) lemon juice, 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil, 2 tbs chopped fresh coriander and 1 garlic cloves (crushed) in a small bowl

Note- You can use parsley instead of coriander.
Marinate- Meat, chicken or fish (brush on just before cooking)

Chilli Lime Marinade - 2 Propoints per serve- serves 4
Whisk 1 tbs sunflower oil, 1 tsp sesame oil, 2 tsp lime juice, 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind, 1 tsp sambal oelek, 1 tsp grated fresh ginger and 2 garlic cloves (crushed) in a small bowl.  

Note- You can use a small fresh red chilli (finely chopped) instead of sambal oelek
Marinate- Chicken (for 30 minutes or longer) or fish (no longer than 15 minutes - or it may start to "cook")

Honey, Orange and Soy Marinade - 1 Propoint per serve- Serves 8
Combine 1/3 cup (80ml) soy sauce, 1/3 cup (80ml) honey, 1/4 cup (60ml) orange juice, 1 garlic clove (crushed) and 2 tsp finely grated fresh ginger in a medium bowl.

Marinate- Fish and seafood (no longer than 15 minutes- or it may start to "cook") or pork steaks or chicken (30 minutes or longer)

From Left to Right- Moroccan Marinade, Chilli Lime Marinade, Honey, Orange and Soy Marinade

Another One of My Favourite Recipes- Chicken Singapore Noodles

Chicken Singapore Noodles

Ingredients
400g fresh singapore noodles
1 tbs peanut oil
1 medium red onion, halved, thinly sliced
300g brocolli, trimmed, cut into florets
1 medium carrot, halved lengthways, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 celery sticks, thinly sliced
80g snow peas, trimmed, halved
2 tsp mild curry powder
2 tbs kecap manis
1/2 cup (125ml) chicken stock
280g cooked lean chicken breast

1.  Place noddles in a large heat proof bowl and cover with boiling water.  Soak for 5 minutes or until softened.  Drain

2.  Heat a wok over high heat for 1 minute.  Add oil and heat for 30 seconds.  Stir Fry onion, brocolli and carrot for 3-4 minutes or until softened.  Add garlic, celery and snow peas and stir fry for 2-3 minutes or until celery is tender.  

3.  Add noodles, curry powder, kecap manis and chicken stock.  Stir Fry for 2-3 minutes or until heated through.  Add chicken and stir fry for 1 minute or until heated through.  Serve.

Note- Kecap Manis is a thick sweet Indonesian Soy Sauce.  It is available in the Asian Section or sauces of most supermarkets or Asian Grocery Stores.  

How its supposed to look

Recipe from the book!

How mine turned out- kind a close!

 

One of My Favourite Recipes- Pumpkin, Spinach and Goats Cheese Mini Frittatas

Pumpkin, Spinach and Goats Cheese Mini Frittatas

2 Propoints per Serve - Makes 6- Prep-15 minutes- Cooking- 50 minutes

Ingredients
800g butternut pumpkin, chopped into 1cm pieces
50g baby spinach leaves, chopped
75g goats cheese, crumbled
2 eggs
3 egg whites
1/2 cup (125ml) skim milk

1.  Preheat oven to 180 degrees or 160 degrees fan forced.  Lightly spray a 6-hole (3/4 cup /180ml) capacity texas muffin tin with oil and line the bases to prevent sticking.  

2.  Place pumpkin in a small baking dish, lightly spray with oil and bake for 20 minutes.  Layer pumpkin, spinach and cheese in prepared holes.  Whisk, eggs, egg whites and milk in a medium bowl and pour into pan holes.  Bake for 25-30 minutes minutes or until golden.  Stand for 5 minutes, then serve. 

Tastes so good!

Weigh In + My Week

So before I start blogging about the day affectionately know as weigh in day let's back up to Thursday.  I woke on Thursday deciding to capture this weight loss journey I am with photos - now alot of overweight people are not the biggest fan of the photo and I'm no different.  But I sucked it up (to be honest wish I'd sucked it in!) and stripped down and took the dreaded fat photos!

Front View

Another close up of the front view (not sure why I was compelled to take this one twice!)

Side view

 When I saw these photos it made me physically sick.  I couldn't believe I had let myself get that big.  But I am officially now down 7.8kg in 4 weeks - so close to hitting that 8kg!- I'll get it next week!  So these pictures very soon will just be a memory of the past!

This past week has been good for me though.  I had a function at work and stuck to my guns and didn't give into the bad food.  I registered for City2Surf and am raising money for the Cancer Council and have started running and always have tracked everything that I have ate and obviously it is paying off!

Tracking religiously has definately helped me on my journey so far

This week I have also tried new things for breakfast such as wholemeal toast with avocado spread, 100g lean ham with tomato and I tell you what this keeps me full to almost 11am and I have breakfast at 7am!

Ham with avocado spread and tomato- so filling

I notice that introducing different foods into my diet is definately starting to kickstart the metabolism leading to such awesome losses.  

This week at weigh in I got to my meeting - knowing that yes I had tracked, training and not given in, but because I had lost huge amounts in the past 3 weeks, I honestly didn't think I would have lost another great amount.  

The last 3 weeks I have 2.7kg, 2kg, then another 2kg and to my surprise when I jumped on the scales this morning it said I had lost 1.2kg- thats a total of 7.9kg in 4 weeks.  I couldn't believe it! I literally skipped out of my meeting this morning.  Now to power onto next week!

Yay, I'm out of the 12's and into the 11's so stoked and along with it came a 1.2kg loss.  That's 7.9kg in 4 weeks!  Couldn't be any happier!

Celebration + City2Surf

Hi Guys

I thought I'd talk a little bit about staying on track at functions.  

Tonight I had a function at work, now I was panicking because I knew what kind of foods (well to be honest I wouldn't call them food), they served chicken sausages, Jatz, Chips- nibblies you know - party food.  But I took 2 mandarins, 30g of almonds and a WW frozen meal (which I waited til I got home and ate).  I was so proud of myself I stayed in control and never gave in once, not even a Jatz!  I did my celebration dance right there at work.  I was so stoked!!

Then I came home at around 7.30pm and ate my beautiful dinner feeling pretty happy with myself!

My Beautiful Dinner of Fettucine in Green Beans and a Tomato Based Sauce

 The I came home and I had been talking about doing City2Surf for the last 2 years and had talked myself out of.  I'm not sure why, maybe the 14km course just scared the living daylights out of me.  But today something clicked and I have just finished registering for it.  I can't believe I actually registered. I'm locked in now and I have paid my $55 and I am raising money for the Cancer Council.  They do a fantastic job and I need your help to raise money for them. 

I am doing the City2Surf this year and I'm raising money for the Cancer Council

 The link to my fundraising page is http://www.fundraise.city2surf.com.au/gillian_steele

I'd love for everyone to get involved in the fundraising effort.  Now its time to start doing more running in prep for the event.  But I can't wait to get in there and give it all I have and prove to myself that I can do this!

Mid Week Weigh Ins

Morning Everyone

I was just curious to know your opinions regarding mid week weigh ins.  Know as most of you know I weigh in on a Saturday Morning, but I also usually weigh in on a Tuesday / Wednesday or Thursday just to make sure my body is working well with the foods I'm eating and that the weight is coming off.  

This week has been a good week for me, I've tracked everything I've ate, I've made good positive food choices and I have trained 3 days since Saturday morning not including today.  And the scales say I've lost 600g in 4 days, which to be honest the way I've been eating and training I would have thought I would have lost more!

Mid week weigh in, the scales are around 400g out compared to the WW ones I weigh in on

 Now I know most people would say "Hey! 600g is a great loss you should be really happy with that".  

Well I don't like settling for less when I know I am capable of more.  

I guess I also need to take into account I have had 3 massive weeks of weight loss- so first week was 2.7kg, then 2kg, then another 2kg.  Maybe it is time for my body to catch up, but I'm gonna tracking and working hard to ensure to a good loss!

I have a function tonight so no training, but I'm going to take my dinner, store it in the fridge and eat that instead of the no doubt chips and dip and lollies and probably alot of other unhealthy food they are planning to serve.  I'm am not to going to be weak and give into the bad food, I'm going to stay strong, go shopping early before work and bring some healthy filling choices to tonights event!

Anyway guys I'm looking forward to getting your feedback!