End of week 2

Hello all!
So, the whole group weighed in on Monday and I still weigh 71kg. I was terrified that I would gain weight...but I had remained the same. Yet I had worked hard, and put a lot of effort into my meals...I didn't loose weight on the scales. What I did loose was cms...16 all up! I was pretty happy about that. And it is most likely muscle that I have built considering I have been doing more squats, lunges and arm exercises than I would ever imagine possible.

I think the highlight foods from week two included:

Vego salad with peri peri sauce and lentil patties<3

Green wellness juice: kale, cucumber, apple, ginger, lemon, carrot, celery<3


Exercise!!

Saturday saw the first all in group challenge, and they worked us...hard! I had tears in my eyes it was that hard. But I was determined to pull through and give it my all.

End of Week 1

I have now completed one week in the biggest loser at my gym and what a week!
I am feeling more:
energised
happy
& nourished

...and after only one week of clean eating and intense training. I burned 3132 calories in the gym with five days working hard and Sunday being my rest day. I think Sunday will always be my day off so to speak to let my body recover.

The whole group weighed in on Monday and I now weigh 71kg.
That is a loss of 1.6kg from my starting weight of 72.6kg.

What am I wanting to do better this week?

1) Drink more water!!!!!

2) Sleep more (baby allowing?)

Fingers crossed for an even better week two!!! xxx

Crave attack!

So one of my biggest faults when it came to dieting was when the craves would kick in. And I'm not talking about any crave when you feel like you just NEED to have chocolate...I'm talking about the cravings when you go somewhere in particular and just NEED to have that particular food because that's just what you normally do there...for example, you go to an Italian restaurant, order the healthiest dish you can find: but also order a helping of garlic bread. Why? Because it's what you do when you eat Italian!

I faced one of my biggest fears this weekend. I drove to Sydney to have a night out with my old work and a few friends after. We were to be going to Gold Class at the movies and then after to the pub. All where there would be the craving options of alcohol and fine foods. Do you see where I am heading with this?
In an attempt to prepare myself for the night, I ensured I had a vegetarian sushi roll on my way in for dinner to hopefully fill me up. Did it work?
When you go to the movies, what do you get? A popcorn, drink and ice cream, right? Well let's just say that these three options were provided free to me and all of my work mates. There I was, sitting in the theatre when I had the best feeling come over me. I didn't even crave any of the options in front of me. I did however ask for a soda water with lemon in place of my soft drink which was rather refreshing!
I left them there in front of me as if testing to see if I would cave or not. I never once felt the urge to de-nourish myself with processed food. The key was ensuring I ate prior so I wasn't starving and feeling accountable for what I am eating each day!
Following the movies, I went out to the local pub with some friends where alcohol was also an option. I had zero, no drinks what so ever but water! I was very proud of myself. A few weeks ago I would be downing as many as I could, since I had a baby free night. But I choose my health and emotionally wellbeing first and that really made my weekend that much better! I woke up feeling energised, no bloating and ready for the gym!  

In fact, the whole weekend let me with no cravings. It was a great weekend of self control and the great way to start living nourished for the rest of my life.
xxxx

Motivation Monday

xxx

Nourish your mind, body & life.

I consider myself pretty active, and I am only 10kg off my goal weight but when I get there does not equal the end of my journey. This act of living nourished is a lifestyle and my way of saying thankyou to my body for all that it does for me.

I'm healthy, have a beautiful daughter and loving friends and family. I have to ask myself; 'Why would I want to ruin any of that by not nourishing my mind, body or life?'

Do I really want to starve myself?
Do I really want to over eat?
Do I really want to eat that deep fried crap?
Do I really want to wake up lethargic?
Do I really want to have blemishes?
Do I really want to feel stressed?
Do I really want to have excess fat?
No! I really don't.

So why do we do it? Why do we put ourselves through such distress, depleting everything that we have going for us?

This is a question I have asked myself countless times...For a good portion of my life I have lived through self diagnosed eating disorders. One moment I would starve myself, eating only small portions of food when needed...and feel in control. The next, I would be overeating like there was no tomorrow...feeling very much out of control.

I felt helpless, sluggish, unhappy, never good enough, exhausted...unhealthy.

I believe the key to breaking free is to discover what is making you this way. What negative obstacles and making your mind, body and life unhealthy?
Only when you can accept that food is a beautiful part of life and that it's ok to sometimes have a treat...that exercise can make you feel happy but then again so can sitting at home reading a book...will you be able to truly nourish your body.

My negative obstacles have always been how I see my body. As fat! Fat to me seems like such a dirty word, and that worries me...I have been living an unhealthy cycle where I would eat, eat, eat (all the wrong things) then realise how unhappy I am with how I look...so I would turn to restricting what I ate. At one point of my life (pre-pregnancy), I was going to the gym twice a day, working full time in the city and only eating a spoon of peanut butter. I felt like I had such control over my mind, body and life. When in reality I was so out of control and I never wish to return to that place ever again.

When I fell pregnant, I gained 30kg. I was huge...so after I gave birth I was determined to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight (remember I had been just eating peanut butter?) Needless to say, I didn't turn to the peanut butter this time thankfully, but I finally got back to the 73kg range. Most of it naturally came off, some of it was from restricting how much I ate, some from the gym.
As soon as I got there though, I still wasn't happy. My mind, body and life were far from being nourished.  

My body mass index (BMI) is currently at an unhealthy weight range, and has been pretty much my whole life. I decided it was time to do something about it and take my health serious for once.

That's when I saw that my local gym was running 'The Biggest Loser' for the next ten weeks. I figured, why not? I doubt I will win since I only wish to loose a minor 10kg but it will keep me motived, on track and accountable. I get a weekly personal training session, a weekly group training session and a weekly weigh in where my food intake is also reviewed.

You want to know the best part? I started exercising and eating rather healthy almost two weeks prior and I already feel amazing!!!
Not only am I waking up feeling happy, energised and ready for whatever comes my way...but my skin looks brighter, I look forward to nourishing my body with food and I don't overeat! It's like there was this whole other side to life that I have been missing out on for the past 24 years. It's now time for me to nourish my mind, body and life.

From now on, I'm Living Nourished. xxx