I'm on a mission #4: oh dear!

oh dear!

I haven't really been a good girl in terms of super healthy lifestyle this last week. therefore I can't really post anything related to  success/ progress this week.

I maintained. Let's call it that. It's just that I did have a good week last week. and somehow I seem to be allowing myself treats as soon as I had a good week. I'm like " you can treat yourself to a nice ice cream cause you've done so well last week...." and somehow when I start a week like that - the whole week ends up being a "treat week"...

I feel like I'm floating aroung the "healthy" space trying to land onto planet "healthy lifestyle" and sometimes I can touch the ground and I feel super happy there. it feels like home and then all of a sudden I'm being sucked back into the deep black nothingness of "bad choices". that's what I somewhat feel like at the moment.

I'm trying here. But sometimes trying isn't enough. I have to just do it. keep it up. dig in there! not give up.

so here's the deal... my plan for this week. (and if I don't stick to it you can beat my with your cyber whips as hard as you can! understood?! :) )

water, no soda. and I mean no soda or anything else than water at all. (except coffee.. I love coffee and I'm not gonna give it up just yet.)

exercise. nothing big. (I don't want to put up those goal where I can't reach them so you could acutally beat me up with your whips) so I'll say: today's thursday.-....hm. big walk with pup friday, saturday and sunday(my days off) and next week. monday, tuesday I'll work the hometrainer. at least 20 minutes....

food: eat breakfast every freaking day! at least a yoghurt! I'm not gonna change lunch cause I keep that fairly healthy already and then dinner --> NO FAST FOOD or PIZZA! possibly no carbs... but don't hang me if I do have some carbs for dinner. :)

so that's the plan! do we all agree on it?! GREAT!!!!!!! :D

Raven and Kirsten have been are a great motivation but still.. these might help you me..

I'm on a mission #3: pitstop on my road to an active me

Reporting on my week in terms of healthy lifestyle:

Loads of water: Check.

No snacking: almost check.

healthy food: mostly check.

exercises: nope. not really. some. not a lot. can't really call taking the pup for a walk exercising? can I? so it's check.  nah, not really.

weight loss: 1kg check. *happy dance!!*

as you don't really see any differences in photos yet I won't post any. like not in progess photos. there is no point really. don't you think so? I'm gonna post some healthy food instead.

I know last week I posted all these yummy cupcakes and sweets. I still love to eat those. I don't think that will ever change. BUT I didn't have any cupcakes this week. instead I was eating healthy food as in fruits and veges and the occational fries ( yeah, busted, I know.) but still. pretty healthy sums it up. :)

so I made some fruit salad yesterday night for dinner and had a yoghurt with it. yummmmmz!

strawberries...

nectarine...

grapes (pitless I tell'ya)...

apple...

my super cute bowl

taaadddaaaaaa: my super healthy fruit salad!

 And a yoghurt to go with it. coconut with vanilla.

I'll start yoga classes in 2 weeks so I ordered some appropriate clothes. some super comfy pants and a shirt to go with it.

both from www.zalando.ch

linking up with Raven over at her blog

I'm on a mission #2 : Link up to a healthier me!

I know I'm late! but it has been a busy week. But I was planning on posting my weight loss themed things on thursdays and then Raven and Kirsten joined up to host wth this "inspire me - healthy" link up which is on thursdays as well...
I might just join in. even though I'm one day late. sorry ladies! :D


 
I just recently posted about my weight journey here so you might wanna check that out. well, I just recently started this whole blog :) there's always a beginning but hopefully not an ending too soon :)

As I have already talked about my journey to a happier and healthier me I decided to just post some photos. Sorry there aren't gonna be any bikini photos atm.... I'm just not confident enough and oh well, it's a bit early on in the journey for me. but if I reach my goal body I will of course post some ... it's always like that, aye?!

a before shot. well the only pic I found of me in full body not wearing my wedding dress (which doesn't show my lower body as it's hidden beneath thousends of layers of fabric, might do a wedding post one day) was this one taken in NZ on our honeymoon.

before shot: I'm gorgeous! look at me, no makeup and geared up as a tourist. loooooovely!

I like the occasional of this (healthy food)

But I do prefer loads of this (homemade btw! chocolate ice cream! YUMMY)

So does hubby. He likes my little treats :)

and some more...

and because I love them so much. one more!

and this me beloved readers is me at my smallest I can remember. see I was never skinny but smaller than I am now. the is my goal. and I'm gonna so damn make it there!!!! you can bet on this little rocking beauty!

I'm healthy and I know it...lalalalla

I wanted to write "I'm sexy and I know it..." at first. But I guess that would have pushed it a bit far. no?!
There must be something sexy about me. at least at times..otherwise I wouldn't have found my lovely husband, right? or maybe he just married me because I'm such a good housewife and I cook for him every day the best meals ever.. right. (can you spot the irony here?)

well.. it's monday and that means it's time to reflect on the last week in terms of healthy lifestyle, weight loss, being active.

hmmm... not much to report. damn. really?!

let's think again.

eating has been good. BBQs with salads, no bad snacking in terms of chocolate bars or chips, I did have some cake on sunday but I didn't overeat ..
water intake? check. at least during the week I'm going strong with 2 litres of water. I should try to cut back on coffee though. I'll try that next week. maybe..

on the fruity, vegetable front I'm doing ok. there were some bananas, grapes, apricots, nectarines... yummy. I love nectarines. YUP! :) vegetablewise, I eat veges everyday. not really gonna list them all. too boring.

being active? well, as you know I'm doing the whole dvd thing. I did keep up with them during the week but I slacked on the weekend. I do walk the dog, sometimes even for more than just 15 minutes...hehe. sometimes.

the numbers? well, there has been a loss. not something worth mentioning but at least a loss.

no photos today. but there will be some tomorrow.

tomorrow is gonna be a big day! curious? well check back tomorrow!

I'm on a mission #1 - Fitness dvds

As I let you be part of my life I will also let you be part of my mission. My mission to lose some weight. yeah, I know. Of course I don't have to lose any weight and I know that I'm beautiful the way I am. I KNOW. But I also know that I am overweight and that I don't feel comfortable anymore and that I have to change something. I just have to. For those of you who have known me for a while know that I have never been the skinny one. never. that's ok. and I don't wanna be the skinny one. I just wanna be the healthy one. I wanna change my lifestyle. I will probably never be a marathon runner or something like that. But I would like to live a healthy and active lifestyle.
That is why I don't really have a goal weight. Well, maybe the weight I need so I'm in the range of healthy in terms of BMI. But I'm not like "I wanna be 60kgs otherwise I won't be happy". nope. not like that.

So what have I or let's say what have we done (as hubby has to get into this to. it's a team effort, a family thing)?

We have changed our eating habits. Well, let's be realistic. We are changing the habits. it's not always easy and we sometimes indulge in stuff we shouldn't. But we agree on the fact that we don't diet. We change our ways, which also  means we don't have forbidden foods. We just don't have fastfood that often anymore. We just have it on special/ certain occasions. We don't skip dessert on sundays, we enjoy it. we just don't have dessert every day. We eat loads of vegtables and fruits. Still eating carbs but not having pasta every day. You get the groove of it?
We also started exercising (again). Again because hubby used to workout when we met and kind of stopped (bad influence right here!). And I used to exercise more than I do know but I nver stuck to it. So we're trying now. No we work out regularly!

So that was the basic information you needed on the mission.
Now some words on fitness dvds. I have ordered 2 different fitness dvds. You might ask why I don't go to fitness classes like aerobics or something like that. I just don't like them. Especially when I go by myself. I just don't. Even though I paid for them, I end up not going. That's it. I just don't like them.

So here's the deal. I have bought the Jillian Micheal's 30 day shred and the Slim in 6 by Debbie Siebers.
The 30 day shred obviously takes 30 days and the slim in 6 is a 6 week program.  Marshmellow and I have done 10 days of the shred and stopped but we will take it up again. I started the slim in 6 yesterday and we will see.

Jillian Micheal's 30 day shred

Debbie Sieber's Slim in 6

I have also signed up for a weekly yoga class and I'm looking into a weekly spinning/indoor cycling class which won't start until the end of october.
The mission started!

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me??? not quite! :D