I’m at Goal!

Just a quick update I am at my goal, actually right on it at 71kg…

and I might not update until the new year due to a busy personal life at the moment, I really need to focus on my family, but I am also focusing on my health too, I just don’t have the time too continue blogging as much as usual. Once I sort a few things in my life, I shall be able to update my journey of ‘maintenance!’

I’ve treated myself to a bit of a new wardrobe and pulled out all my ‘old’ fav jeans etc and they all fit :)

Anyways goodbye for now, and hope all has a Wonderful Christmas and new year!

What’s for Dinner – Roast Beef & Beetroot Salad

Dinner Load Meal | Save Meal Cals kJ Fat Sat. Fat Prot. Carb. Sugar Fibre Sod. 114 g of Meat Dishes: Roast Beef, Average All Cuts, Lean Only 201 839 6 - 36.1 0 0 0 - (1 serving, 10 rings (60g) of Vegetables, fresh: Onions, average all types, raw 25 105 0 0 0.6 6.1 2.6 0.8 2 15 leaf (2g) of Vegetables, fresh: Lettuce, Rocket, arugula 8 31 0.2 0 0.8 1.1 0.6 0.5 8 40 g of Cheese: Feta, Reduced-Fat 93 390 5.8 3.6 10.3 0 0 - 440 1 serving (85g) of Golden Circle: Vegetables, canned: Beetroot, Sliced, drained 52 215 0.1 0 1.1 10.4 10.1 2.1 281 10 mL of Always Fresh: Vinegar: Balsamic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Meal Total 378 1580 12.2g 3.6g 48.8g 17.6g 13.3g 3.4g 730mg

This is what I’m having for dinner tonight, I’ve bought the roast beef sliced directly from Woolworths Deli, bought red onion, packet of washed rocket and reduced fat Feta cheese, I already have on hand sliced beetroot (can use baby beetroot instead – which I will be next time) and also have Balsamic vinegar on hand too.

I’m cutting the roast beef into small slices then combining with the salad then crumbling the feta on top and the drizzle of Balsamic and that is all there is too it.

The meal is a total of 6 Weight Watcher’s points.

Spring into Action Week 5 - Workout Tracker

I’m going to get serious again about getting back into exercise, after prolonged periods of being away overseas and not keeping track… writing it down should give me the motivation I need to keep going and hopefully I will see some results because of it!!

 

Monday 16th- 5 min Ellipitical, 3 min Spinning, 30 min Circuit, 20 min Walking = 419 calories burned/ 4 WW Bonus Points

Fortnightly Calorie Average’s Begin 31/10 and Food Confessions and Good Food Choices

 

I’ve been overseas a bit, and half paying attention to what I eat and catching up on writing it down the day (or two) after. The averages pretty much look the same, except I think the fat has gone higher (which means my Weight Watcher points have been higher and I haven’t really been ‘saving’ any points.)

Daily Averages food calories: 1,332 cals exercise minutes: 10 mins exercise calories: 76 cals net calories: 1,256 cals fat: 43 g   saturated fat: 15 g carbohydrate: 108 g   sugar: 36 g protein: 53 g fibre: 4 g sodium: 1,423 mg potassium: 373 mg calcium: 146 mg iron: 1.8 mg zinc: 1.4 mg cholesterol: 70.2 mg effective carbohyrate: 43 g water: 4 cups

We recommend that around 50-60% of your calories should come from carbs, 15-20% from protein and under 30% from fat.

I’m so close to goal (even though I want to go further then goal eventually) that I have had a few self sabotaging incidents. I recognise I’ve done this in the past, so I just have to keep on coming here and making ‘confessions’ to keep me on ultimate track.

FOOD CONFESSIONS:

• Eating fries of my kid’s plates whilst away on holiday… (very bad at least 3 times!)
• Accepting a Drumstick icecream and eating it, when I don’t even really LIKE icecream at all. (I eat only once a year or so, as I’m not a fan.)
• Taking a bite of my son’s giant chocolate chip cookie.
• Eating fried battered prawn’s at chinese restaurants on two occasions.
• Skipped breakfast a few times whilst away… not a good idea!

Okay so that is about it, not too much, but bad all the same. I made some good choices on many occasions too like.

GOOD CHOICES:

• Ordered fruit platter of room services as a light lunch
• Prior to going away, tucked into a subway chicken salad instead of bbq’d sausages and fare at a bbq
• Ordered a very healthy Hainanese steamed Chicken rice on a couple of occasions (when could of easily gone the ‘fatty’ meal route.)
• Switched to red wine on allot of occasions instead of white wine. (I drink it slower, thus drink less.)
• Started eating healthy breakfast’s immediately upon return to home, have a few Ultra Slim shakes ready too, incase too busy or late to have breakfast before having to leave the house.

I just have to hope that I have a much better upcoming week, whilst I can restart my exercise slowly too, as I’ve been about once a week to the gym for a while, so need to rebuild my fitness fast!

Till next week! Ciao

Weekly Averages for Week Begin 24/10

 

Daily Averages food calories: 1,317 cals exercise minutes: 20 mins exercise calories: 202 cals net calories: 1,116 cals fat: 32 g   saturated fat: 9 g carbohydrate: 124 g   sugar: 41 g protein: 55 g fibre: 7 g sodium: 1,665 mg potassium: 730 mg calcium: 154 mg iron: 1.1 mg zinc: 1.5 mg cholesterol: 61.3 mg effective carbohyrate: 86 g water: 4 cups

We recommend that around 50-60% of your calories should come from carbs, 15-20% from protein and under 30% from fat.

Weekly Averages for Week Begin 17/10 with Food & Alcohol Confessions

Here are my weekly averages, as you can see the calories are up, but not too high.

Daily Averages food calories: 1,501 cals exercise minutes: 7 mins exercise calories: 67 cals net calories: 1,434 cals fat: 48 g   saturated fat: 17 g carbohydrate: 136 g   sugar: 44 g protein: 75 g fibre: 6 g sodium: 1,851 mg potassium: 481 mg calcium: 203 mg iron: 0.6 mg zinc: 0.9 mg cholesterol: 80.0 mg effective carbohyrate: 47 g water: 4 cups

We recommend that around 50-60% of your calories should come from carbs, 15-20% from protein and under 30% from fat.

FOOD CONFESSIONS

I was just happy to be back home in Australia eating all my usual foods again, and after being sick the previous week, I was also starving to eat for a couple of days and even..

• tucked into a “Mighty Angus” Burger from Mcdonalds, but don’t think I will be doing that again anytime soon, considering they are 687 calories and about 12 points on Weight Watchers!
• Ate 3 of my Weight Loss Accelarator “Choc Bars” in one sitting as a snack, which is 446 calories, but probably not as bad as eating real chocolate, which I don’t have access to at the moment. Note to self, next time only purchase 2 bars at a time.
• Mexican Dinner, did go with fajita’s which are healthier then cheese options but did tuck into a bit of nachos and sourcream, but asked waiter to take bowl away when me and hubby had enough, so wouldn’t have too much.
• In a fit of sadness I did drive and buy a medium serve of McDonalds fries at midnight when I was upset with hubby… 368 calories down the drain there when wasn’t even hungry. (I haven’t done this in so many years, and don’t think I will be prone to doing it again, I felt really silly for going out and driving in the first place.)

ALCOHOL CONFESSIONS

• At Saturday night party, I think I lost count of the amount of wine I drank, but I wasn’t hungover the next day, so could of been 5 or 6 glasses… darn those people who refill your glass and you can’t keep a track of how many had!!

Weigh in 26/10 a 400gram loss and 10% of Body Weight Lost

My 12th weigh in at WW this week, (actually at the meeting!) I lost 400grams….. and weighed in at 72.1.

This means I officially achieved my ‘10%’ Weight Loss with Weight Watchers, and got the little keyring

that they give. This is the closest I have got to my goal with the help of Weight Watchers, all the other times I eventually got there on my own.. I think its important I get the support there, and to continue there at goal weight for extra help.

This is also Week 2 of Spring into Summer Action Challenge,  I’m ready to restart all my exercise, spinning, walking when possible, just need to motivate myself a little bit more to go to the gym. There is only 1.1kg to my goal and before can begin the maintenance plan at WW, so this is a big motivation.

Until next week!

 

Weigh in Day 19/10 & Spring into Summer Challenge

Would of been my 12th weigh in at WW this week, and I weigh in at 72.5kg at home.

A new Challenge has begun over at We Are Slimming “Spring Into Summer” 6 Week Challenge, so this is my starting weight.

My 6 goals, for the 6 weeks are -

1. Lost 2kg (and get to my Weight Watcher’s goal of 71kg)
2. Start the maintainance program at Weight Watchers.
3. Walking twice a week.
4. Gym twice a week.
5. Spinning twice a week.
6. Fit into a size 11 pant and size 10 dress