B and I have just gotten back from a wonderful weekend away in the Hunter Valley for a friends wedding. The weather was simply beautiful and the bride and groom were stunning.
Overall it was just amazing to have a weekend away, just B and I and it was great to have a chance to dress up and let loose.
Boy oh boy did I let loose!!!
I ate what I wanted, when I wanted and didn't really think about anything nutritional. On Saturday night I drank so much wine... looking back, it was probably close to 2 bottles... yeah... it was a lot!! Especially for someone who hadn't been drunk in over a year it was a pretty epic night!!
One thing I did find was that some of my passion for helping people with their diets/nutritional aspects of their lives. A friend of ours has recently been diagnosed as being gluten intolerant and also cannot eat onion or garlic. While she is seeing a dietician it was great to be able to talk about nutritional values to foods and help to give ideas. She has the opposite problem to me in that she keeps loosing weight (I just keep finding it!), but didn't know how to eat more, and needed ideas on how to start eating breakfast. I don't pretend to know as much as a dietician (hence why I am studying to be one) but I do know some tips on how I was able to eat breakfast, or healthy snacks and whatnot. I also directed her to the
Healthy Food Guide magazine which has lots of recipes for people who are gluten intolerant as well as some excellent articles.
As you can see from the above photo, the outfit went well, as did the shrug. I was so glad I made it, not only to cover my arms, but it actually got a bit chilly with the wind that was there.
I have to admit that while I love the outfit... I am not very happy with how I look in it, or in any of the photos. In fact, there isn't a single photo that I haven't cringed at, but I know the only person who can deal with this, is me.
Whenever I travel I always make excuses for how I eat. It's almost as though when I leave town calories didn't exist, and nutritionally everything has the same value... which we all know is not the case.
While I ate so much crap while I was away, and B and I even had pizza for dinner tonight as we were exhausted from all of the travelling, I am really looking forward to getting some real home cooked meals in. The thing is, the way I eat is up to me, so is how I exercise. I keep putting blame on B for not cooking things that are more nutritional in that he may not like it, but I think I need to put myself first on this. I know that B will support me in this (as long as there is some form of meat involved), I just don't want him to feel as though he is missing out... That I am forcing him to eat things that he doesn't like... but I have a feeling this is a common thing??
When I was
tracking over the last couple of weeks it was nice to have that feeling of control, but it was also great to know that I could eat what I wanted, I just needed to make it work. I had forgotten this and I love the freedom that it gave me. I am looking forward to getting back to this tomorrow.
It is also now October, which means
Walktober is here! Don't forget to
join my team if you want to!! I think it's a great challenge, and I think it's going to be a great motivator. In fact, I am putting it on here that tomorrow I want to go for a walk! I am wanting to get up at 7am and go for atleast a 15 minute walk... just to start small, but to at least get started. Hopefully once I get going I will just keep going... you know, like Forrest Gump... maybe I'll even get to the point where I will be running... hopefully not the way Forrest runs though...
I have also decided that I will keep the
Progress and
Goals pages as they are, but just keep adding to them now. There is no point in deleting the information on them, because this
is my journey... and there are going to be hiccups along the way.
Right now I am trying to think of a new goal to have. While the wedding one didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to, the truth is, my mindset is so much better than it was back then, and I over the last few weeks I have managed to put a few things into perspective, and seem to have a bit more stickability and perseverance as well as a long term approach. While I am not back to the way I used to be, I know what the building blocks are, and I just need to start putting them back into place.
Seeing as it is October, Christmas is now about 12 weeks away (I know!!!! I don't want to admit to that either!!), but in regards to losing weight it is a good goal to have! At half a kilo a week, that would be 6kg. While this next weigh in is probably going to be a gain due to this weekend away, I am hoping it will put me under 100kg! Now that's a goal!! I will update the blog with this goal after weigh in on Wednesday.
It's time to get this sorted, I keep talking about it all, but now it's time for action... and that means continuing to calorie count and also to include exercise!
