oh boy over eating this week and pick up the excercise

Well pretty sure the extra calories consumed this week could be a bad thing come weight check time Monday morning - it's currently 11.12 Sunday night and I should be sleeping not writing this

Well when did things go pear shaped? Wednesday things went that way picked up miss 9 from training and she had taken a tumble - took her to Dr's sent to after hours clinic as required x ray and local ones close at 4 training finished at 4.15, x ray done and all looking good - hopefully will be okay to play netball on Saturday unless specialist calls if they see something regular Dr does not
got home late - slightly bigger then normal evening foods - dinner was okay husband cooked made noodles and chicken ... then got the munchies had a ham sandwich - exercise down as missed my dance class taking her to town - should have sent her with her dad...

Right  - Thursday hmm.... food for lunch - ended up at Burger King - points there - the sundaes OH BOY that was a killer on the calories front, thought I was being kind of good as I left the chips though.

Friday focus try to get foods back on track - Saturday - got 10,000 steps Sunday loaded Pokemon go app to phone if I was worried about people tracking me or knowing where I am I  would not use google maps either, I do not share locations with face book though I think that one is asking for trouble.


Made a chocolate peppermint slice from a low sugar cookbook called sweet enough and it looks to be a bit healthier then other slices - base is flour and Weetbix... there is only 1/4 cup sugar in that
the icing /top however has 1 cup icing sugar and then its topped with melted dark chocolate - a small piece satisfies then chocolate craving and unlike some foods did not feel like I needed more,  Small victory there!

With the Pokemon go app we got to over 20,000 steps before bedtime tonight - considering we had not even got to 10,000 Wed or Thurs that was quite and achievement - especially as I got my 2 daughters walking with me


so until next time dear readers - goodnight

rush rush rush

Right - anyone with children whom are active and busy trying out stuff to see what they like whilst still young will understand this

I give my girls every chance I can to try things and do stuff
When I was growing up - it was either too far away (mum didnt have a car and dad wouldnt take us to stuff) , too Late, or too expensive and we could not afford it.
So I stopped asking my mum if I could do things that cost money

I like the girls to understand the expenses we put out for there activities so when they ask if they can have - oh a new tablet  / laptop etc.. I ask and just how are we paying for that then say well I suppose you can always stop doing ... insert favourite activity here ... then oh we would have enough to pay for it in say 6 months 1 or 2 years... that is if you do not get into trouble do not spend that money else where ... or here is a novel idea we could Save our pocket money - do things to perhaps earn some yes... you do not get money for doing nothing

so what has this got to do with weight loss journeys well that last paragraph could equal money stress = emotional eating ....
the not enough time .. bad food choices - grabbing that piece of brownie or that slice of chocolate cake on the way out the door

Our fruit bowl  ;( poor thing I try to full it up with fruit and every time it gets empty or even when fruit is in it - people stick other stuff in to it...

So tonight when I should have helped myself to a piece of fruit I found my self going what is there to eat and grabbed a piece of chocolate cake instead - oh bugger that was a not so good choice
but once in a while its not so bad especially when only having smaller pieces.. Just do not do this too many days in a week - and defiantly not more then once in a day

40th birthday and 46 kg to loose (Yikes)

first blog on this site....
lets try to make this a regular habit then....


Went to Rarotonga with my DH (Dear Husband) for my birthday this year
flying is an uneasy experience
but not as much as snorkelling when your not confident - I have been calorie counting since Feb and tracking my exercise as well

I have found eating plenty of fruit n veg has been helpful - trying to stay away from a lot of chocolate ice cream cake and lollies all those wonderful foods you should not eat a lot of an not much very often either

so far I have managed to loose a total of 24 kg in 5 months to some people that is going to sound like a large amount and to others that is not much

mind you I have tried the 6 week body make over - it worked had children gained back every kg then some - found it too restrictive to stay on for too long however I will say this I  learnt that a diet high in proteins fruit and veg works well with my body

we have a total gym in the garage horrible location for it for the winter so using resistance bands I purchased from the warehouse (NZ) with a dvd - inside instead  also trying to dance for 30 minutes most days - so far have succeeded for 4 out of 7 of this week

Most diet blogs talk about the food the exercise all that stuff that goes with weight loss - okay I will do some of that I will also rave about the weather how it affects things amongst other stuff ...

Right now I am cold - its winter here in NZ - we live in a damp part of the country when it comes to winter - today we had fog until about 1 pm then we had a little bit of fine-ish weather with cloud cover sun came out around 3 and the fog returned for this evening at about 4.30 pm

had our fire going but left DH in charge of it and pretty sure he has let it go out or its just gotten so cold outside that heat is not travelling through the house as well as it should be

Will weigh myself in the morning and see how this week is going

If your wondering what tools to use - My fitness pal (MFP)- food tracker fairly easy to use or Livestrong.com have one too ...   use Livestrong.com calorie calculator to work out what calories you should be eating to loose weight then change it up - every other week by recalculating on my current weight
track through MFP as it connects with my garmin vivofit app connect  - and the best thing is these sites are free not paid for

if your going to calculate your calories in MFP - you will need to go to goals
then view the guided set up - plug in your details and let it work its magic for you
I had found livestrong previously because I had been unable to work out MFP - the updates have made it much more user friendly - also livestrong has some good articles - but also check the MFP blog it does not seem to update much though

I have a bit of a hectic life at the moment - only have dance classes on Wed right now tuesday is currently on hold - the day job (that is the one I actually get paid for) sees me working on monday - friday yes I know bad grammer / spelling but that is not what I am writing this blog for ..

must go getting late have a long day tomorrow!