What is it they say...'It never rains, it pours'!

Well. After my declaration last week I woke up early on Wednesday morning to find Aunt Flo coming for a visit. What a great start! Despite that I went for a walk by myself and threw in some extra cardio things like running up a few hills and some stair runs. What a great feeling and a great way to start the day. I did the same on Thursday, but alas I haven't been out by myself since. Life gets in the way... In the form of a super clingy 9mth old with separation anxiety and a boisterous 2 year old! But that is ok, cos I'm following plan B (the B standing for babies...I guess I could make it plan C for children...or maybe I should make it plan L for life!) But, I have been out every weekday which is great!

Food wise I'm doing well. I am eating way more than I was before cos I am having snacks, but I am making sure I don't go overboard with my mains meals as I have always been inclined to do. I am serving all my main meals with a measuring cup and not going over 1 cup of starchy carbs (pasta, rice, spuds) and keeping lunch to one good sandwich (with a 'meaty' multigrain or soy and linseed bread) with protein(usually tuna or ham) in it. The hardest thing I am finding is that when I sit down to enjoy whatever I have prepared for myself, I have my 2 year old and 9mth old seagulls begging me for some of it! Even when I have just fed them their own food. Such is a mother's lot I suppose.

I am very happy with/proud of the effort I have put in in the last week, and I am feeling quite well in spite of the trying week I have had. It would have been very easy for me to call it quits many times. I think that many of us overweight mums think that I'll do it when such and such calms down or after we move or when the kids go to school cos it will be easier then, but I don't think there is ever a 'good time'. There will always be something going on that is hard to cope with, kids, husbands...life really! So I'm pleased that I didn't get sucked into it this time and hopefully I won't ever again :)

I weighed myself this morning and am happy to report that the scales were kind and read 107.4kg! That is a loss of 2.6kg. I'm happy with that! Though I am not expecting such a dramatic result next week.

I was going through some of my skinny clothes and discovered a pair of jeans which I forgot I had. I found them at the op shop. They are from Colorado and I used to wear them all the time. They are the perfect style for my extremely chunky legs (even when I was slim I still had huge legs). Here I a pic I took to help keep me from blowing it!

And here is a detail of the cute pockets on the back.


Thanks for reading, see you next week :)