This week has been good although challenging. I feel like I have spent the majority of the week being a single parent. I think my hubby was home with us for one or two nights but he has spent 4 days and 4 nights 2hrs away working on the house we are hoping to move into sometime soonish hopefully! It has not been too bad really. The boys have been quite good and it has been nice(ish) to be able to do what I want. Which has mainly been watch telly!
Let me tell you about television in our house. We have never had a telly in our house for the 5 years which we have been married. I have never minded not having one, cos I actually think that most of the content on tv is rubbish. It does make it a little bit difficult to join in some conversations, not having any idea what is going on in....whatever, but really, how much do people talk about telly? Anyway, we have had a projector and a DVD player so we watch movies (we aren't completely sheltered!), but alas! that broke and I was left without a babysitter (read Wiggles or Bob the Builder or Thomas the Tank) to keep the kids entertained while I'm trying to get dinner together. Oh how I missed that! Anyway, youngest brother to the rescue with a free tv for me! Hooray! I am enjoying watching Sesame St and Playschool with the kids and discovering new shows like Chugginton! I've also been watching Masterchef (I like it lol!) and have watched a few movies. What I do like about television is the ads. 'The ads...are you nuts?' you ask. Well no, because during the ads I would get up and do some dishes! Yay for me! Books or the internet don't have ad breaks therefore my dishes don't get done during them! So television = clean dishes and kitchen!
Food has been pretty good this week. Not the best, but trying to keep my portions under control and my self control in check. For example: I wanted Hungry Jacks today. So I had some. Though instead of my usual Large Whopper with cheese meal, I got a Small Whopper Jr with cheese meal. Same taste that I was after, much less calories! A healthy choice you might say! Well let's just settle for a wise compromise! Other things I have eaten this week include a potato, Brussels sprout and sausage soup (sounds gross, looked gross, but tasted delicious! It did not photo well so I won't show you!), tuna and rice casserole and roast veggies with slow cooked lamb...mmm!
Exercise wise: ok, but not brilliant. I have not been out by myself, but I have gone for a few walks with the boys. I was going to the Combat class tonight, but I was 5 minutes late and the lady wouldn't let me in. She kindly informed me that the class started at 5:30... DUH! I know that, but there was rain, and the traffic was bad, and then there wasn't any parking, and then I ran to try and get there quicker...but no! So I cried and went home and chucked on a CD which my youngest brother had compiled for me and did some crazy made up workout. It consisted a lot of me running or jumping on the spot or pretending I was in a dancing movie like Step Up! I was worried that my neighbours would think there was a herd of elephants stampeding in my house, I was also worried that they might see me, so I shut all the doors and pulled blinds! I'm sure I looked quite ridiculous, but I got my heart racing and my legs hurt cos I threw in some squats and lunges. So all was not lost!
But what did the scales say? Drum-roll please.
107kgs
That is 1 kg down on last week and 3kgs down from my start weight. Only 7kgs to go till I reach my mini goal!
Yay!
Thanks for reading, see you next week.
