Day 90 - the end of the year!

Be coz i...wrote this post once and it didnt up load this will be a quicky:

morning = jog

arvo = movie Tron Legacy 3D(good movie)

night = fireworks with the family

see you next year Bee!

Bfast: toast

Lunch: rice paper rolls and Banana sandwich

Dinner: omelette

snack: nuts and frozen yoghurt bar

Day 89 - we're going to the zoo!

Be coz I.... Was out playing cards last night I am just posting yesterday's post this morning. Had a fun night learning how to play poker - texas hold 'em style.

We took the kids to the zoo today and I got to see my two fav white lions, I think I have posted a pic of one of them early on in my blog? Anyway it was a fun day, then it was back for dinner.

They all had mash chips and gravy it smelt so good! I had rice paper rolls, I started of with four but Billy and Ian ate one each so I had crackers and dip spread thin to make up for it!
Well things to do people to see - bee x

B'fast: toast
Lunch: diet shake and grain bar
Dinner: rice paper rolls, crackers and spread with yoghurt!
Snack: 5 mini microwave popadoms and some cashews

Day 88 - mushrooms!

Be coz I ....have been eating well all Christmas my treat to myself was to be found at the Taste of Tasmania - tempura mushrooms! Yum! I enjoyed every mouthful. Even did a 25 min jog in the morning to make room for all those mushies.
Had a great afternoon watching the boats come in from the Sydney to Hobart yacht race chatting with friends who are also in tassie for the holidays!
Live is good - Bee
B'fast: toast
Lunch: tempura mushrooms and a lick of my dads rum and raisin ice-cream.
Dinner: beans on toast with a fibre grain bar and a few prawns.

Day 87 - all kitted out!

Bee Coz I ....got stung three times by jellyfish on christmas day i decided to treat myself to a full body wetsuit. It is made of the new stretch material so it will be fine even when i lose more weight. The guy who helped me in the wetsuit factory chose one size down so that it would last me longer. The suits are $275 in the shops but its a family business that has their own shop front factory and if you buy it from them its only $190 - just shows you the mark up on some things.

 
Anyway back to jellyfish, i got stung on the top of my foot and back of my calves, boy it smarted for bit then was ok as the water was so cold it acted like ice! I cant wait to go snorkeling again. Ian took an underwater pic of me on christmas day, cant wait to see it, i think it will be funny.

well i am going to cook my dinner now so see you tomorrow - Bee

Bfast: poppadoms (done in microwave) cherries and a boiled egg on soy and linseed bread.
Lunch: prawns, pumpkin spread on crackers with a high fibre grain bar.
Dinner: Geoza with yoghurt and poppadoms (lol)

Day 86 - back to the land of Internet!

Bee coz I.... Just got back from Bruny this will be a quick post! Woke up this morning to the sound of hail and looked out the window and saw there was snow on the mountain range on the mainland on Tassie! I can't believe I was snorkeling one day and it was snowing the next! Squeezed in a jog today then whipped up a quick dinner. It will be an early night tonight and I will be glad to four walls again so I can't hear my dads snoring! I was sleeping in a suspended loft and it sounded like there was a sawmill down stairs!
Sleep here I come - I have missed you Bee

Up date: after being in bed for an hour my Bro and his brother in law came over so i got up and played playstation with them until almost midnight!

B'fast: tartex on snow
Lunch: haloumi wrap and cherries
Dinner: salad and prawns with a fiber plus grain bar.

Day 85 - one big hill with one big lighthouse

Bee coz I .... Walked up a huge hill with my new buddy Miss T. I got a picture to prove we were there.
When we got to the top Miss T. Said to me " that took a lot of breathing to get up the hill" and I agreed with her.
Learned to play Canasta and then we played songstar.
Off to bed now so night night - bee
B'fast: toasted veggie sandwich,
Lunch: crackers and hommus with fruit and yoghurt.
Dinner: veggie juice, pita pieces and soup with fruit, nuts and diet dessert.

Day 84-Merry Christmas!

Bee coz I ....am strong willed this is probably the first Christmas that I did not feel sick from over eating. We did lots of snorkeling in the chilly waters of Bruny, played some trivia, ate, walked, I squeezed in a jog then we did karaoke into the wee hours. It was a great day! I enjoyed my strongbow.
-bee

B'fast; cereal and toast
Lunch: pita pizzas and strongbow and a diet dessert.
Dinner: soup, crackers with tartex and fruit.

Day 83 - mobile posting

Bee coz I .... Worked out how to post i can give little updates while on Bruny. We hit the island at about 1pm and had some lunch then headed to the accommodation, my sister in law and bro are staying with the inlaws a few houses down. The lads went kayaking, I went for a walk with the kids. Had a great night now going to bed so Santa will come! Ho ho ho x x Bee
B'fast:salmon on toast
Lunch: crackers and cheese & banana
Dinner: wholemeal pasta with pesto then fruit and yoghurt and nuts.

Day 82 - last post for a few days - or maybe not!

Bee Coz I....am off to a small island for the next few days i will be missing in action, i don't have Internet access there and i don't know if i can blog from my iphone, I will try but just in case, i hope everyone has a very nice Christmas or holiday time. My days will be filled with walking, jogging and kayaking but not Christmas eating, as long as no one brings dry roasted peanuts I'll be fine, i have packed my esky full of healthy food and 2 drinks for Christmas day (strongbow sweet) plus lots of water! i also have two black current and licorice lollies as a treat on Christmas day. I will be sticking to my usual food menu and ignoring all the roasties and Christmas trimmings.

Today we christened the Wallace family kayak (we one of two). Billy went out off the beach where i went walking the other night. Its a bit of a walk down with the boat and a harder one back as its all up hill, we are going to buy some wheels when we get back from the trip. The name of the road that the beach is off is called SHARK POINT RD! hmmmmm does that mean anything???????

Well talk soon (either tomorrow or next monday) ho ho ho Bee x x

Ps, thanks Chris for your eating and jogging advise - you can win my guru of the year award, and thanks to Carli for commenting -you can win my commenter of the year award ;0)

Bfast: toast with tartex and some nuts
Lunch: rice paper rolls with yoghurt and cherries
Dinner: omelette with broc and the usual
Snack: banana and more cherries

Day 81 - call me Forest Gump

Bee Coz I....wait for it....jogged 20 mins today without stopping i felt like i had won the London marathon, i even did a punch in the air when the sexy man on my iphone ap said "cooldown" signaling the end of the 20 min jog. About 30 seconds later i felt like i had run the London marathon!

The rest of the day was spent shopping, then later in the day we met up with my brother and his inlaws and went to the pub for dinner, my worst nightmare pub menu's soup of the day was pumpkin so i just had that! it was a bit creamy but i didn't eat it all.

Well i am having another early night, i could get used to all this sleep!

see you tomorrow - Bee

 B'fast: cereal and crackers with Tartex.
Lunch: smoked salmon on crackers and nuts.
Dinner: two rice paper roles (turkey and cabbage and carrots) before I went to dinner and pumpkin soup at the pub.

Day 80 - another awesome day

Bee Coz I....slept like a log last night i was full of energy today. Alex my beautiful nephew came over and played all afternoon, he did a little happy dance when he first saw me so i will just have to get the kid an extra Christmas prezzie for that (just joking).

Had a nice lunch and made a delish dinner with eggs from my brothers chickens, I love fresh eggs.

Then to top off an awesome day i went for a walk down the beach which is at the end of my mum and dads street. Beautiful veiws.

Nigh night Bee

Bfast: Sultana Bran and cherries
Morning tea: cruskit and philli
Lunch: smoked salmon on crackers and veggie soup
Dinner: omelette with broccoli halluimi and prosciutto and diet dessert

Day 79 - 6.5kgs to go

Bee Coz I....got up at 5am to go to Tassie, this will be a short post as i am very tired.

Had a bumpy flight down to Tas. Was great to see Mum at the airport, Dad was working. Dumped the bags at their place and had lunch, which included home grown cherries (yum) then went in to town to catch up with Ian as he had a meeting in the city, Sharon was in the town too, so we all had coffee (well i had water).

Then back to the house for the afternoon then this evening i went for a jog, did 5min warm up walk (which included chasing a puppy round the street and catching it as it had escaped from its house) then 2X8min walks with a 3 min recovery walk in the middle and 5 min cool down. It was awesome running on the road with country side all around and a view of the marshes and lagoon. It was a great run a bit hard but the frogs cheered me on!

Well all the fresh air has made me tired so night night - Bee

B'fast: diet shake
Lunch: roast beef and salad sandwich on grain bread. Yoghurt and cherries.
Dinner: brown rice with tuna, salad and chick peas.
Snack prunes, tartex on bread.

Day 78 - a busy day!

Bee Coz I....had to do some prezzie dropping off, do the housework, drop the dog off to a friends and pack, today was a little crazy. I was suppose to mow too but the lightning put a stop to that!

I squeezed in interval training today W5D1 C25K it was 5 min warm up followed by three lots of 5 mins jogging and 3 mins walking plus 5 cool down, I felt good jogging today and even found my mind wondering to other things instead of just repeating my mantra of  "left foot, right, foot your not going to die" I also felt like my grandad Bill jogging today, not that i was running like an old man, but because my eyes were running the whole way around due to the chilly wind blowing my way.

Got sent this funny pic today by Jorja's mums friend, its funny....

Night night Bee

B'fast: tartex and crackers
Lunch: salad and ham on soy and linseed
Dinner: Beans on toast.

Day 77 - A killer class

Bee Coz I....enthusiastically went along to the gyms Mega class, billed as some Christmas fun and a mixed taster class (bit of this, bit of that a mix of all the group exercisers offered at the gym) i was sightly shocked that it was two hours of full on cardio with Body attack, Step regular and free style with a little bit of Jam and pump and zumba thrown in. It was a killer, i did every track, unlike some of my zumba mates who sat some out, even if i did look like a banana trying to figure out step moves, i just made my own up in the end and had fun!

After that we went on the waterslide, only 3 participants stayed and and fun with the instructors going down the slide, i was a bit chicken at first and was just going to watch but they all talked me into going down and it was great, i had loads of goes.

 

Then we had a great night at Rod and Tracy's doing the Christmas thing, Jorja had a blast and i got the best prezzie a self watering veggie patch box, as modeled by Jorja.

Great day around even though i know i wont be able to walk tomorrow as my arse muscles and legs are already saying " what did you do to us"

night Bee

Bfast: toast and tartex
lunch: grilled fish and salad
Dinner: crunchy noodle salad and a sliver of fruit pudding, watermelon and cherries.

Day 76 - a great night

Bee Coz I....allowed myself to have one alcoholic drink tonight i chose to have a mixer with cola, now i am wide awake and its 3.16 am, i have a 9am Christmas mega class on at the gym tomorrow, or today i should say so i hope i can nod back off to sleep soon! Did an extra interval training at 6am this morning  yesterday so i could have something nice to eat, the food is great every year - except this one! so i did all that work for two tasteless mini spinach quiche and a mini meet pie, that i considered my dinner now i am starving.

I also duped out at lunch, i ordered a pita wrap with salad, feta and olives they should have called it tomato and lettuce wrap with 2 mm of feta and 2 olives - waste of $14.50

One the very bright side i had an awesome last day at work for a month, playing mini golf and lunching and parting with my work mates.

I will miss work, Bee

B'fast drinking yoghurt
Morning tea: avocado on wholemeal
Lunch: crap wrap
Dinner: 2 party quiche and a mini savory mince pie
Drink: i can of beam and coke. and 1 diet cola.

Day 75 - why wont the presents wrap themselves!

Bee Coz I....left the wrapping paper and sticky tape out next to the presents i was half hoping the Christmas elves would work some magic but alas they haven't so i guess I'll be wrapping them myself.

Had a busy day today, sorting out all the stuff that needs sorting before i have my month of work. Funny enough i booked this leave thinking i would get fit over the Christmas break, i booked it in July. Little did i know that i would have lost 14.5kg before i even started the leave. I lost 2kg's before i started on the 20kg and this blog.

I am very happy with what i have lost but i am determined not to cave over Christmas, it will be hard enough with no gym classes to keep losing but i will do interval training and walking to try and keep losing, i will be away for two weeks from Monday so my goal is to loose 1kg while i am away over Christmas.

We all had takeaway at lunch time today, everyone had burgers and chips but i was more than happy with my grilled flake (fish) and Greek Salad.

Tomorrow is the work Christmas party so i will be having one drink and one food treat, I'm hoping they have garlic prawn skewers again this year because that will be my one treat!

Must get my beauty sleep - Bee

B'fast: crackers and tartex

Lunch:salad and fish

dinner: beef and rice.

Day 74 - Chocolates in a bowl look good

Bee Coz I....am not a huge Chocolate fan i no longer want to eat it, but i do think Chocolates look good in a bowl, there is just something real Chrisstmasy about it!

I did an okay job mowing in the dark yesterday with just a few missed bits! ah well.

Had arvo tea in work today to celebrate myself and two co workers hitting 10 years in work, it was nice, we had a laugh remembering some of the funny things that have happened in work over the years.

Well I'm off for an early night!

Bee.

B'fast: English muffin
lunch: salad and ham sandwich with cherries
Dinner: chicken and salad in mountain bread.

Day 73 - three lessons learned

Bee Coz I....worked late tonight  decided to do interval training instead of water aerobics, i learned three things while training today...

1. Never ever drink a diet shake and decide to go interval training 10 mins later.
2. How to dodge mean looking dogs while training
3. I am very determined, i wanted to give in 7 mins in to the training but kept going.

When i finished i decided to treat myself to a big bottle of sparkling mineral water, there is nothing like the feel of cold bubbles in your mouth after you have sweated buckets!

When i finally got home it was about 8.30pm and the sun was mostly down, next doors had done his lawns and it was making mine look bad to i gave it a cheeky mow, we are not suppose to mow after 7pm here but there are no kids in the area and next doors said it would be fine. I was dark when i finished so it will be funny to see what it looks like tomorrow! i'll let you know.

Night night Bee


Bfast: cereal
Lunch: tartex on multi grain rolls.
Dinner: diet shake.

Snack: 1 digestive biscuit, 1 small chicken sandwich triangle and water melon.

Day 72 - The silly season

Bee Coz I....left the work Santa suit at the swimming club Xmas party, i have to get up early in the morning to go and pick it up so this will be another quick post, in fact my posts may get a little shorter as its getting busy with the silly season fast approaching!

In my job i get asked to lots of morning teas and Christmas parties. Avoiding food and drink has become much easier as time goes on. When i see all the yummy food i just think...would it be worth an extra session of interval training? answer is always no! sorted!

No pics today sorry as i forgot to take my phone to work!

Zumba was awesome again tonight

- Bee

B'fast: cereal
Lunch: sushi
dinner: roast beef and salad sandwich.

Day 71 - 7.5kg to go!

Bee Coz I....fell asleep early last night i woke up at 5am.

I was fed up lying in bed so i got up at 6am and went and did the dreaded week 4 Day One of the Couch to 5 km program (C25K) i survived it - what a victory. I was really worried about jogging for 3 and 5mins a couple of times in a row, i does not seem that long ago that i found it hard to jog 60 seconds! i really enjoyed the recovery walks in between the jogs.

update: fogot i weighed in, the scales are still moving 7.5kg to go! just think i was hoping to be 10kgs to go by xmas! i'm very happy!

Came home and put a roast in the slow cooker, did the house work then went back to the gym for pump and body balance.

Had Jorja this arvo, while Rod (Billy and Jorja's dad) took Billy out for a drive and Tracy (Jorja's mum) did some baking at home, Jorja decided to have a sleepathon so i watched TV and chilled out for the afternoon.

Had a nice surprise this evening when my bro skyped me, as they live in Tassie  don't get to see them much, so it was nice to catch up sort of face to face.

Well hope you had a good day too - Bee

B'fast: diet shake

Lunch: riveta with hummus

Dinner: roast beef, low fat mash, carrots and peas - YuM

Day 70 - woops

Bee coz I....fell asleep last night waiting for my laptop to turn on, i didn't write a post woops, i woke up at 5 am with the computer in my face!

B'fast: crackers and light cheese with pickled onion on.
lunch: Rivita and hummus and grapes
Dinner:subway, chicken with salad

Day 69 - please dont rain!

Bee Coz I....have to wrap all my Christmas prezzies I'm going to make this a short one!

Great day in work today spent the afternoon checking out the window watching the rain clouds rolling over, wishing them to blow over so i could go do interval training.

 

the skies were very dark but i got through training with no rain, lucky!

- Bee

bfast: baked beans - cold yum
Lunch: grilled fish and salad
Dinner: riveta crackers with tuna

Day 68 - are these my legs?

Bee Coz I .... upped my weights in Pump tonight, by the time i got to the end of Zumba which is after pump, i felt like i had someone elses legs on! my brain was saying left an my legs were going right! my brain was saying - pick up your feet, my legs were saying "we are on strike".

Had a nice hot shower when i got home and jumped into bed!

night night -  Bee

b'fast: crackers and philli
lunch: bread roll with the guts pulled out, filled with beans in one side and tabulli in the other, followed by the other half of my pomegranate.
Dinner: ocean trout on toast with beetroot and fruit juice.

Day 67 - call me old fashioned

Bee Coz I....dance to my own drum beat in life i have never really worried about what i wear, if i like it, its in! It is not unusual for me to wear my slippers to the shops, or Gym if i am doing body balance as you take your shoes off anyway. They are not even my slippers. I think they were my mum or dads (they are men's- grandad slippers) and they left them behind when they moved to Tassie.

Talking of Tassie, one other thing i like to wear to body balance are my leg warmers, don't panic i only wear them for the relaxation at  the end as it gets really cold when you stop and lay still.

Busy day in work today then i went off to the opening of a friends new shop, it was very good to catch up with friends and i got some good bargains which was a bonus.

Well can't think of  anything else to say so I'll leave it at that!

oh 300 visits clicked over today on the blog! nice one!

- Bee


B'fast: toast and tuna spread
Lunch, Tabuli, soup, muffin and half a pomgranite.
Dinner: cereal.

Day 66 - Fun in the water

Bee Coz I....had deep water aerobics tonight i ate dinner as soon as i got home from work, it was very tasty.

Took the hound for a quick spin around the block then headed to the pool. We had a great laugh at the pool and had a very hot spa afterwards, someone must have cranked up the heater - it was ace! just what i needed.

Picked Billy up then home to bed, i had weired dreams all night last night so i am going to try and make up some sleep tonight.

I have some regular readers now, don't be frightened to leave a message ;0)

Night night Bee xx

B'fast: cereal
Lunch: spring roll and vermicelli with salad
Dinner: finger pizzas and died yoghurt

Day 65 - a great day at work

Bee Coz I....love my job (i know i say that all the time) i really like going to work, i love the challenges it brings me. I work with a great team of people who inspire me, a really am lucky. I'm not sure if i have said this but i have just clocked up 10 years and got 12 weeks free leave, not bad ! I'm not sure when i will take it.

I also had fun at Zumba tonight but did not stay for Balance as i was told  by the Doc to cut back on two sessions over the week for a few weeks until i am fully recovered from the Shingles.

well that's it for me, i'm going to have an early night - Bee

Bfast: whole meal muffins with hummus.
Lunch: brown rice with tuna, tomato and snow peas plus yoghurt and mango.
Dunner: pita bread with ham and salad.

Day 64 - 8kg's to go! got to be very happy with that!

Bee Coz I....have 8 kg's left to go to get to my first goal of a 20kg loss, i thought i would write 8 ways in which i have impressed myself so far with my health kick:

1. I have eaten very healthy nutritious food for 64 days now.
2. I have got to Week 3 of the Couch to 5k's program (C25K) so i can jog for about 3 mins with breaks in between.
3. I have developed a love for exercise.
4. I have continued to exercise even when i was sick.
5. I have had to throw out loads of clothes (well i have given some to the op shops)
6. I have great blood pressure 100/60.
7. I have much more energy (unless i have done 3 gym classes in one day)
8. I have continued my journey solo despite my health kick Buddie putter their journey on hold from week 3.

Bye for now Bee


B'fast: Pita bread with hummus
Lunch: chicken on toast with sweet potato dip (spread thin)
Dinner: Spanish omelet

Day 63 - saying in pics

Bee Coz I....went to carols by candlelight today i have some pics for you....

First we played at the park

Then we danced to carols by Dorothy the Dinosaur

Loved the fireworks

Came home to find a visitor on the front door!




Night night Bee


B'fast: diet shake
Lunch:pita pizzas
Dinner:beef and coleslaw roll

Day 62 - out to dinner!

Bee Coz I....was meeting up with some girls for dinner i was anxious all day about eating out, i had looked at the menu so had already decided what i was going to order, a clear soup with chicken, veggies and vermicelli. I ate only a sandwich for lunch so that the meal out would be my main meal.

So while the group ordered a selection of starters and chicken dishes as mains (which all looked beautiful) i ordered my soup only, then the temptress waitress brought these giant prawn crackers to the table, it took a lot of will power to ignore the curry puffs, Rita bread and crackers while i waited for mains.Wine and soft drink was ordered, i stuck to the water.

Tiny Soup!

Every ones mains started coming then my soup arrived, to my surprise the soup bowl was tiny and contained no more than 200mls of liquid with three small pieces of wafer thin chicken, four mushrooms (chopped = one mushroom at most) two snow peas and three pieces of dianned carrots, 2 pieces of broccoli and about 15 strands of vermicelli. I know because i was trying to make it last and i counted! I had even planned to walk to and from the restaurant to burn off those excess calories from eating out! i was starving after walking home so had a yoghurt! Every ones meal and drinks came to about $30 and mine was $6.90 so guess that was a bonus!

night night Bee.


B'fast: diet shake
Lunch: one salad and ham sandwich and 5 prunes.
Dinner: soup and yoghurt

Day 61 - Freedom!

Bee Coz I....could, i went to Zumba, i did  interval training first then to Z. As usual it was a great class.

I also ate some cereal before i ate to keep my sugar levels up!

Well short but sweet as i just got home - Bee

B'fast:diet shake

lunch: salad sandwich

dinner: toast. sweet potato dip, nuts and fruit.

Day 60 - its begining to look a lot like christmas

Bee Coz I....am still unwell this is going to be another short post.

Did interval training last night, i could feel i was lacking energy but i got through it. Then came home and chillaxed.

Today i got one of my Christmas trees out, its the one i put up when i don't want to go overboard at Christmas.

Well don't think i will be walking tonight as its raining, but it still has 1 hr to clear up! then i will do body balance and that will be my day.

Sorry its short bee



B'fast: cereal
Lunch: mushrooms, halloumi and zucchini on toast
Dinner: soup and crackers with Philly.