Tuesday and Wednesday

This morning my weight was 64.8kg's ( 142.9 lbs )

For breakfast today I had Jungle Oats from South Africa ~ the instant packets which someone mailed me as she knows I love oats and cant find the type I enjoy here in Germany. Sarah often sends me the American version of instant oats ~ maple and syrup being my favorite as i don't need to add anything to sweeten it and its 5 WW points.

Today I sweetened the oats with honey...giving up on brown sugar as I have with sweeteners which was the only things I used till I was told about the danger of Aspartame.

As I love fruit and always have it in the morning with my muesli and yogurt I had it as a snack about 3 hours after my oats and really enjoyed it....

Am one of those people who cant live without my fruit...

Yesterday I came home from training my client to see hubby had washed my trail running shoes, my Asics Gel road running shoes and my Reebok flip flops with a pair of his own shoes...

It was great as my shoes were very dirty from running in the forest after the rain...

but, but,but,

I was going to run later and worried they would not be dry in time and also now I would hate to get them all dirty again as there is a certain patch in the forest that the sun cant get to and its just mud and that's where my shoes get really dirty each time....

So last night my faster neighbor and I went out for a 8 km run...

I noticed her pace starts off a lot faster than mine, I need about 20 mins before I start getting into a rhythm and feeling comfortable, whereas she is strong.....as the run progresses I begin to feel stronger and can up my pace and she is tired and needs to slow down. Last night I just ran my pace and waited for her towards the end of the route by jogging on the spot.

She says she suffers from asthma and her HR went up to 182 the last part of the run while my HR was only 134...the most it goes up to is 142 and then I am going uphill and running slowly.

My resting HR is 58

Yesterday did two workout and burned 957 calories

Ended my day on 26/29 points.

This evening the same neighbor and I will do a 6km run along the road and not in the forest as we heading out at 7pm and not wanting to run that time in the forest as I usually wear glasses and cant see where I'm placing my feet if its getting dark...

I think thats how I hurt my foot...wrong placing.

Weigh In Day

I want to share this with you and get your opinions...

I find this so typical me and very interesting.

Got up and weighed in this morning as I am going to do every morning

65.2kg's ( 143.7lbs ) the heaviest weight for the last year.

I then had a cup of coffee and banana

Went to train my client and drank 4 glasses of water while training.

I burned 465 calories in our 47 mins workout.

Got home ~ blogged ( Private blog )

Went up to shower, weighed myself

64.8 kg's ( 142.9 lbs)

So what would you consider as my weight for today??

So if my weight is 65.2 kg's and I want to be 60 kg's again

that means I have 5.2kg's to lose in two months

( 11.5lbs )

The time period I have is from Yesterday till 26 October when I fly out to Cape Town

Another thought that has come to me is that I have not taken enough care of myself over the summer ~ I have put my focus onto others.

I have slowed my pace when I run to keep the other ladies motivated and wanting to come back for more, I stopped going to gym where I did weights at least 3x a week to train my client who had baby weight she wanted to lose.

She has lost 8.5 kg's ( 18.7 lbs ) while I have gained

This has to stop.

My 3 month challenge with her comes to an end the 7th September

I have to work on what I need to do for myself during September and October.

I know that I have to get back to the gym and do weights and I have to do elliptical or bike once a week instead of running 6x a week as it is doing nothing for my body anymore.

While losing the weight I used to mix up my training...never did the same thing two days in a row...I have to go back to that again....

I have to take better care of me

AND

I have to drink water again

I've stopped that habit.

I ate a block or two of chocolate and 30 g of chips now and again when I lost my weight, and always work that into my points allowed for the day when I did have those cheat foods.

But for Sept and Oct I will lay off them totally

This I will add to my challenge

Monday...a new start ....I AM GOING TO LOSE 3 KILO'S (6.6lbs)

I've been *living a bit* the last three months ~ advice I'm often given by people when I talk about my struggle with eating too much, or gaining a little weight.

LIVE A BIT ~ you work so hard you deserve to have a break

Where has living a bit gotten me? ..~ Weight gain

Trust me I'm not piggying out like I used to, have cut many foods out of my diet and am VERY aware of what I eat and drink..

I track my foods...but lately ( 3 weeks ) I start tracking but by midday I stop!

So today am going to track and count my points.

I also need to get back into the habit of drinking water...thats something I struggle with in the colder weather,and the weather is a lot colder lately adding to my struggles.

I'm going to sit and think up a plan for myself for September and October as I want this weight off before I go home ( Cape Town ) the end of October as there I need a few extra pounds to play around with.

I know my weight gain is not HUGE, but if I don't stop it today it will become HUGE

so I might sound like an obsessive person with regards to my weight, but I know how many times I've lost weight to gain it all back in the past, cannot fall into that trap again....

NEVER EVER!

As from tomorrow I am going to get back into the habit of weighing daily and recording my weight here.

I need to know I am accountable for a few things again..that helped me lose the weight.

So far today have had 18 points to eat

Am allowed 29 ( WW Europe plan )

that leaves me with 11 points for the rest of the day...only dinner left!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Friday night I drank nearly a whole bottle of Rose' while BBQing with hubby and another South African friend who was here visiting from the UK ~ then I also found these maize chips on Friday that tasted like the Nik Naks we get back in SA, so bought a packet and could not keep my hands out of the bowl which was on the table in front of me before we ate dinner...After dinner which was a healthy grilled chicken and salad I had two scoops of vanilla ice cream...so over did it on Friday...am feeling I need to do something drastic and am losing it...

Saturday we went to a South African BBQ in Frankfurt...the morning before I left I did a 7.5km walk/run with my girlfriends...had Oats for breakfast and was ready to go...but before I left about 3 hours later I had one Roll with peanut butter and honey...off we went...a few hours later hubby brought me a salad for lunch...no meat, just salad with light dressing...then the drinking started....one Savannah ( SA Apple cider drink ) water ~ had two bottles of water, a glass of red wine and a shooter, a springbok ( SA traditional shooter ).

Springbok shooter in pic above

Savannah Apple cider drink in pic below.
I ate salad again...with my meal...Turkey kebabs, a small piece of Ostrich ( South African tradition again ) 2 small mielies ( cob on corn ) mielie pup and sauce ( a huge tradition in SA, which I never ate there but now living away I do, well I did yesterday never cook it myself ) and I had a vegetable kebab.

Now that would have been okay...then the pudding arrived.

I had a piece of milk tart, some weird cake with custard poured over it, and then went for 2nds!!

The rest of the evening I drank water...water...and more water.
Today we had breakfast at the hotel...I kept it to small portions...so did well there

Came home and hubby bought Mac Donalds...No thanks, not for me...had a small bunch of grapes and an apple...later made 2 slices of toast with Avocado on..not heavy but a smear as Avo is a good fat.

I have my hubby on leave this week so hoping I will be able to get on plan as I am planning to do....I am desperate to lose the weight I have gained....4 kgs ~ I can see it on my latest photo's and I am not happy with that one bit...my arms look so fat again.....4kg's to my body makes a big difference...I have seen that now...I am going to drop that weight gram for gram...

Much needed hair cut

Thursday's eating and training

So I started off with oats yesterday instead of my usual breakfast...am one of those people who eat the same breakfast for months on end, the same, never think about changing it up....I have a challenge going for next week on my Healthy Lifestyle group where we have to change up our breakfasts on Monday, Wed and Friday and take photo's of those meals..so will post those pics on this blog as well as on group.

I am having a block of dark chocolate and about 30 g of crisps daily...this week am not going to buy either as if not in my house I dont eat them....besides those two treats my food is very good....but yet I still am struggling to lose the 3kg's I gained when I stopped all products with Aspartame. I'm going to be 100% honest and tell you that I am actually thinking of going back to sweetener and leaving honey and sugar as I am desperate to drop those 3 kilo's before Cape Town, but am having a fight within myself as I know how bad sweetener is for one and of course for my MS.

It did shock me that I actually have thoughts of going back to be honest!!!

I ran in the forest with my client yesterday, I felt really good and wanted to GO, but she was tired and not feeling it, so kept to her pace while encouraging her to keep going...we did 7km in just under an hour, which is slow going...but I burned calories so was happy, am sure I was in my fatburning zone most of the run anyway.

Last night I went off to teach a class....spoke to the group and said that I will not be teaching Dance aerobics as most struggle with routines ( after 5 years ) so going to the more PT type class with lots of high impact...they were all happy with this idea....I taught the class that way and whereas I usually burn over 400 calories I burned over 600 in the same period of time, so PT type classes gives one a much better workout...

Last night I got home and made a tuna salad for dinner....

This morning ( Friday )

I taught my client a Circuit class with cardio and toning for one min at a time, then when we completed the circuit we went out and ran around the block, came back in and started the circuit again and so we went for three sessions, each time we went out for a run we ran an extra block around ~ I burned nearly 600 calories so am happy as it was a good way to start my day today.

Wednesday

I did so well yesterday with my eating..
Took the day off from training as I knew today ( Thursday ) I would have two sessions of training so it would not be a train smash. All I had to do was watch my calorie intake.

I went to the hairdresser yesterday, had a few hilights and a much needed cut...went at 4.30pm and got home at 7.10pm to hubby and another South African visiting Germany waiting for us to go out for dinner.

I ordered a glass of red wine...
A salad
Grilled chicken ( thin slices )
Broccoli and Green beans
Cappuccino

Sounds good ~ well I would have thought so as well..

The salad had too much oil on it and the balsamic was so bitter, I hated it
The grilled chicken was lying in a layer of lemon oil
And the veggies had oil all over them
NOW IT ALL TASTED GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
I never cook with oil or salt or any of the flavoring ( boring )
So enjoyed it very much, but knew that although I had made the best choice from the menu, it was fulled with calories I could not see.

So I have no idea where I ended with my calories yesterday and would guess about 30 points.....guess and I have no idea when not cooking my own foods.

I'm back!!!

I'M FEELING MYSELF TODAY...MOTIVATED

AM TRACKING AND BACK ON TRACK

Will update blog tonight with my menu...

Monday and Tuesday

Yesterday and today my eating is still not under control

Told hubby today that I think one of the reason's I'm feeling down is the fact that I have lost control over my eating the way I used to have.

Two weeks I have started tracking my foods but never completed a day....now that is not me, I am not taking my vitamin's, which I need to take not only for health reason's but also my MS...I am NOT drinking water instead I am drinking 3 cups of coffee a day with sugar, and tsp with each cup.

Running is the only thing keeping my weight down at the moment, and when the weather is as miserable as it is this month I dont feel like going out to run...I have been, but with great difficulty..and then when done I am grateful I did.

Last night I ran 9 km in the rain with my neighbor...

Today I did a cardio workout with my client and burned over 500 calories in 53 mins, I pushed myself hard.

I need to sort myself out....I told myself this about two weeks ago and still haven't.......

Reflecting on Sunday

I'm going to begin the new week by taking photo's of my meals and counting my points and tracking here on my blog..

I need to do more as I feel I am getting comfortable in my skin and know that when this happens one gains weight..

I do not want to gain the weight I've lost back.

So today I am thinking what my goals are and how I am going to reach them.

I eat well as I have MS and there are many foods I cant eat, or don't eat as they make me feel worse.

I train at least 6/7 times a week....

I need to change?????????

There are things I can change...