What an enormous month it has been since I last posted on here!
The most major thing that has happened is a big move. We have moved 2 hrs away to the rural Victorian town of Euroa. Our first proper day there was glorious...well until lunch time when it started pouring! For most of the first week that we have been there it has been raining. That wouldn't be so bad but we don't have any power on so I don't have that luxury of putting the Wiggles on to entertain the kids when I have run out of ideas! That also means that there is no heater to dry the mountains of clothes which are being created in a muddy yard! Then, over this weekend we were warned that it would be flooding. As far as I know our place has not flooded, but I have not been there all day. We had to give the generator that we were borrowing back and I couldn't handle the thought of being stuck inside with 2 feral kids, no way to entertain them and no clean clothes left! So I bailed to mum and dad's to do the laundry and give the kids a fix of the Wiggles and myself a fix of the internet being on a screen bigger than my phone!
I am mostly enjoying our new house. I am looking forward to it not being so wet. The house is much smaller than where we had been living so I am having the fun task of finding a home for everything, and then trying to remember exactly which home I put it in when it comes time to find it again! So it's getting there!
Weight wise, I'm going great guns! When I weighted in this morning I was 104.9. That is a loss of 5.1 kgs since I started. I've also lost 5cm from my waist (well i think I have, I find it difficult to take my own measurements!) Yay. So what have I been doing? Mainly I've been watching what I eat. It is the things which I think are not so bad which are the killers for me. It's that spoonful (or 2) of peanut butter (which to my shock was about 500kjs!!!) It's that 'health food' bar which has the same amount of kjs as a main meal! I've been reading the kjs and being aware of the amount of energy I am putting into my body. I've been keeping an eye on my portions; the carb serve at dinner time can easily be enough for another meal if I am not careful, so I've been using a smaller serving plate. It makes it look like way more than it is and I have been careful to eat slower and enjoy it more. I've also been making sure that I don't eat anything after dinner, I don't really need it anyway!
I've also been inspired by the facebook group Fat Chic Slim and the event that they are running: Around the World in 80 Days. Basically the aim of the event is to get 'around the world' in 80 days. If you do an hour of exercise, you contribute 100kms to the journey. Now while so far I haven't contributed many hrs and thus kms, I have been doing a little bit and am aiming to, in the following weeks, contribute way more. I've also shouted out my goal (to lose 10kg by Christmas) to the folks on the FCS page and now I have that out there I feel like I'm really accountable to someone! I know that you shouldn't be living up to anybody's expectations but your own, but personally it really helps me to know that I have that encouragement there to help keep me on track. I want to be able to post that I am losing weight and have that 'hey good job' response and that is what helps me to make better choices.
At the moment I really feel like I am on track to easily reach my goal and am hopeful that I may be able to add another 5kg to that goal. I don't know when I'll get back on here but I'm sure that when I do it'll be with good news of my shrinking butt :P and hopefully a picture!
