Nadine's Food n Exercise Journal Week 2

56.5 kilos. (Down 1.1kg)

Monday am - 2 glasses of fresh juice (orange, mandarin, pineapple, apple, beetroot, ginger, carrot, tangello.) Small bowl of peanuts and dried pineapple.
pm - 2 skinny pieces of homemade bread with butter and vegemite, half a vege roll from the bakery, 1 glass of juice, dried fig, big bowl of bacon, tomato n vege pasta, 2 bits of choc

Tuesday am - a bit of cornflake coconut choc-chip biscuit dough and a biscuit.
pm - tuna n lettuce sandwich, sticky rice, small bit of choc cake, jarrah vanilla coffee, small bowl of bacon veg pasta.
Exercise - ZUMBA!!

Wednesday am - poached egg on toast, about half a litre of pumpkin soup!
pm - about a litre of pumpkin soup! Couple little homemade bickies. Gold kiwi, pecans.

Thursday am - big bowl of kiwi, cherries, fresh date brazil nuts and yogurt for brekkie.
pm - Little bit of left over pasta, couple bites of hot chook. Huge dinner at Amanda's - almond chicken stir-fry, roast veg, savory muffins and bruschetta, chocolate almond mud cake, berries and cream for dessert (got some left over if you want to come down!) plus a sliver of caramel tart!!!!!

Friday am - kiwi, cherries, fresh date brazil nuts and yogurt for brekkie.
pm - sml chunk o mud cake with fresh cream and strawberries.
At the Show - Half cup chips and sauce, waffle with fresh cream, 1/3 of a plate of Girl Guides chicken korma curry and rice, fairy floss.
Massive bowl of cereal when I got home. (Had to finish of a few different pkts to make room in the pantry!)
Exercise - 40 minute hill walk, 3.3 k's.

Saturday am - porridge with honey, pumpkin soup and italian herb bread
pm - red deli chips, gold kiwi, dates and yogurt, couple pieces of white choc.

Sunday am - 2 spring rolls, bit of sticky rice and some thai vege curry
pm - Izzy's favourite tuna chilli pasta, piece of homemade sweet pumpkin pie n cream, n homemade peanut butter n chocolate chip biscuit (n dough).

Tiff - Week 2

Goal for the Week - Cut treaties from ONE day this week and do ONE session of meaningful exercise.

Monday - 71kg
AM - Punnet strawberries, 2 tangelos & granny smith apple
Lunch - punnet of strawberries, bit of olive roll with Quark drizzled teaspoon of honey
PM - Apricot chicken & Rice, bacon & cheese muffin
Do you think walking in high heels could be considered exercise??

Tuesday - 72kg (WTF?!)
7am - Punnet strawberries, 2 tablespoons passionfruit yoghurt.
12md - 1 pancake with a blob of cream and teaspoon maple syrup
3pm - Punnet strawberries, 3 bacon & cheese muffins
5pm - 3 choc drop cookies (had someone over for afternoon tea)
9pm- 2 slices toasted olive roll with leftover apricot chicken, 2 choc drop cookies

Wednesday
7am - Punnet strawberries, 2 tablespoons yoghurt
1.30pm - Chicken, pineapple, cheese toasty
5.30pm - Punnet strawberries, bite of Ivorys biscuit, 2 bits of kabana (first time I've tried it and it was totally gross).
6.30pm - Olive roll and BBQ chicken with slathering of tartare sauce.
8pm - 6 cookies (Ivory stop baking!)

Thursday
7am - Punnet strawberries, mungalli yoghurt
4pm - Muesli bar (thanks Rave) and berry yoghurt
6pm - 5 Cookies
8pm - a few sucks of Ivorys strawberry boost smoothie
9pm - half a tropical baked spud from Ivorys work

Friday
7am - Punnet strawberries, mungalli yoghurt LUNCH -
1130 - Small chinese takeaway - egg, lemongrass chicken and chow mein noodle.
4pm - Cookies... I dont want to say how many, but they're all gone now, so no more baking Ivory or Rene!!
7pm - nibblies at Mary's party - a stuffed vine leaf, a handful of vintage cheese chips, a couple of bocaccini stuffed capsicum... a whole bottle of sauvignon blanc
1am - Spag bog (thanks Rene).

Saturday
12.30 - 3/4 of a pancake with maple syrup
4pm - 2 muesli bars, 1/2 punnet strawberries
7pm - A bowl of spag bog with cheese, a glass of ginger beer and a few of Rene's cookies.
9pm - Thick slice homemade bread with Quark and honey

Sunday
9am - punnet of strawberries
10am - a few of Rene's cookies
12.30pm - 2 slices homemade bread, toasted with butter and vegemite
4pm - Muelsi bar
7pm - Chinese noodles and fried rice


Reflection
I think portion size (over-eating) is the most notable thing thus far this week...

Tiff's Journal Week One

Now I am a contributor under my own account, I can't access my last post without signing back in as Nad...

I think this is going to be a transition week... although there is no devilish triple layer sponge with chocolate mouse layers, choc chips, ganache and butter cream sitting in my fridge... there IS almond bread and macaroons from the Mission Beach markets yesterday and Giant Fruchocs that came in the mail today from Adelaide...

Monday - 72kg
AM - 1 passionfruit, 1 apple, 2 tbsp Mungali passionfruit yoghurt, cherries, tangelo
Lunch - Beef hot pot from Corea Corea (Thai food restaurant),
Dinner - omelette
Treaties - almond bread, macaroon, 2 Fruchocs and lots of green tea.

Tuesday - Couldnt do up the pants I fit into last week!
AM - 2 punnets strawberries, 2 tangelos
Lunch - fruit salad
After work - slice of omelette
Dinner - bacon, beef, tomato pasta
Treaties - a handful of dark choc drops (for cooking!)
Exercise - walked a couple of blocks between Cairns Private and the Base.

Wednesday
AM - 1 Boiled egg, 3 strawberries and a couple tablespoons of Mungali passionfruit yoghurt
Lunch - Mini chicken wrap (sounds healthy right? but it was from Hungry Jacks in the car between clients)
After work - Vanilla & honey Mungalli Yoghurt
Dinner - Crumbed fish (the yucky frozen kind picked up on my way home from work) and salad (raw beans, grape tomatoes and cucumber), slatherings of tartare sauce
Treaties - oh my gosh I am shamed to say, another handful of choc chips from the freezer! I felt sick afterwards if its any consolation.

Thursday
AM - Vanilla & honey Mungalli Yoghurt, 2 passionfuits
Lunch- 4 jelly snakes (someone brought them to work! I HAVE to learn to say no!), 2 passionfuit, cheese crackers
PM - HUGE chicken, cheese & mayo roll

Friday
AM - Handful of cherries, 1/2 punnet strawberries & 1 tangelo
MT - Slice of chocolate cake at what would have been Angelbaby Brooke's 1st birthday
LUNCH - BBQ chicken leg (skinless), lettuce and an olive roll
PM - 2 slices pizza, cherries, 1 tangelo
Treaties - 2 NICE cookies, passionfruit cheesecake

Saturday
AM - 1 punnet strawberries, Carmen's apricot muesli bar, soy crisps (thanks Anakin!)
Lunch - Slice homemade chive & parmesan bread with butter
PM - 6 inch meatball sub
Treaties - 3 NICE cookies, slice passionfruit cheesecake, grainwaves (at the movies)

Sunday
AM - 1/4 left over subway & thick slice homemade chive & parmesan bread with butter
Lunch - Strawberries
PM - 1/2 a pizza... yep half a fricken pizza
Treaties - Cookies that Ivory made... one from every batch.... dont ask me how many batches! THE TREATIES HAVE TO GO!

Reflection
What a shock... If you asked me before this week I would have told you "I don't eat much junk" but looking back on this week I have eaten something 'junky' every single day this week... and I don't even really like sweet stuff!!!!

Biggest Loser: Nadine

Okay, so it's been a couple of years since I looked in here and no, I never did shift that extra 5 kilos. In fact I've had another baby and now weigh, not 5, but 7 and a half kilo's above my ideal weight! I'm breast feeding so I think weight loss needs to be slow and steady so my milk supply isn't affected. I've developed a passion for ZUMBA which will hopefully work in my favour! During the last couple of weeks I've had plenty of visitors that needed feeding up and Anakin and I celebrated our birthdays with delicious chocolate cakes of course! Some of which is still in the fridge, so expect my food consumption to still contain delicious things, but just every second day I hope! As I've mentioned the mere thought of actual "dieting" makes me want to shovel things in my mouth twice as regularly. I love to bake with the kids and much of my social life revolves around shared meals and morning teas with friends and family and I don't want this to change too much. A few tweeks to my eating habits plus regular exercise to increase my muscle mass will have to be enough to give my metabolism the boost it needs to disappear the puddin' and give me back some bitching curves and muscular definition. A little modification has been made to the stats below and everything else still applies! xx

Nadine, 36, 161.5cms
Initial weight: 57.7kg
Goal weight: 50kg - 52kg
My Strategies: 1) Increase cardio' exercise (Zumba twice weekly, hill walks pushing Anakin and André in his Ergo, cross-trainer). 2) Choose fresh raw food before lunch. 3) Eat dinner as early as possible and then no more eating. 4) Ease back on the cream consumption and other unhealthy fats. 5)Try to get more sleep. 6) Drink more water.
Synopsis: I have a penchant for tea and cake (or danish or chocolate or whatever else is going...) and the dinners I cook are often rich and heavy (and tasty!) Although my diet is mostly healthy I tend to overeat and I don't help matters any by being less active than I should. My saving grace is that I don't drink sugary drinks (no softdrink, alcohol or sweeteners) and I've never really "dieted", (my body knows it's going to be fed regularly and in abundance so doesn't bother storing too much). Calorie counting is too much fuss for me but I do think keeping a "Food and Exercise Journal" will help me restrain from eating random things on-the-go (or every time I happen to be in the kitchen!) And help keep me motivated and accountable. I don't want to deny myself too much so I'm hoping the few strategies above will do the trick and shift the few extra kilo's I have retained since my last pregnancy.
My Motivation: Getting married in November! I can't wait to fit into my clothes nicely again, without it all squeezing out over the top and buttons popping when I sit down! I want to look scintillating for my partner ;) Love to see the cellulite disappear.
My Reward: If I reach my goal I'm considering buying myself a treadmill.
My Tips: Plan ahead so you don't have to prepare food when you're really hungry, this tends to be when you shovel any old thing in for a quick fix. Only eat calories, don't drink them as well(unless of course it's a healthy juice or smoothie and replaces solid food). If you are going to treat yourself to something nice, sit down and really enjoy it! Notice how good it is.

Nadine's Food and Exercise Journal

Week 1

Monday am - a few teaspoons of sticky rice, half a black sapote and cherries.
pm - chicken and salad wrap, gold kiwi fruit, dried fig, big dinner at the bistro.
Exercise - 15 min' cross trainer

Tuesday am - a glass of passionfruit, sml piece of birthday cake.
pm - piece of crumbed fish, 2 gold kiwi fruits, dried fig, chicken and salad wrap, date scone and butter.
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA

Wednesday am - black sapote n honey, big omellete with roast veg, chicken, mushroom n havarti cheese.
pm - v.sml piece of cake, date scone and butter, fist size portion of tuna pasta, a dried fig n few pecans with cuppa.

Thursday am - Starting my days with apple cider vinegar and a big glass of water! paw-paw (they ripened!) n banana, home-made sesame, sunflower n walnut bread with butter n honey (you picked beautiful honey!).
pm - watermelon, said bread with vegemite, sushi rice with tuna n mayo, dried figs and pecans.
Exercise - 1hr ZUMBA NO JUNK FOOD TODAY!!!!

Friday am - paw-paw, porridge with honey.
pm - homemade bread n vegemite, 3/4 of a chicken teriyake foot long, slice of Tiff's baked cheesecake.

Saturday am - vegemite dinner roll.
pm - californian suchi roll, couple mouthfulls of Greg's Golden Wok, piece of Tiff's homemade bread, piece of cheesecake, dinner roll with chicken, anti-pasto and pasta salad filling.

Sunday am - bacon and egg muffin with hashbrown and iced coffee (not the creamy kind unfortunately!), dinner roll with chicken, anti pasto and pasta salad filling, half Anakin's vegemite dinner roll, Ivory's chocdrop biscuit.

Weekends away aren't crash hot for my dietary intake! STARVING FOR FRUIT after 2 days without it!! Need to go raid the fruit stalls tomorrow!

Crashing the Blog

Hi... I'm Tiff... I'm crashing Nad's blog in the hope that we can motivate each other to lose 7kg (hopefully by the end of the year!).

About Me:
Tiffany, 36, 162cms
Initial weight: 72kg
Goal weight: 65kg

I tend to eat when I am not hungry... I am not a huge junk food fan, but when I eat it, I go overboard. I have struggled with my curves since I hit puberty but since having kids have struggled with the bulge. I am peri-menopausal and spreading everywhere! My weight can yo-yo 3kg either way on any given day, then gets stuck usually on the higher number... I consume about 1400-1600 calories a day and still gain weight. If I dont exercise I cant maintain a basic weight and gain despite a good diet and low cals (increasing cals doesnt help, I just store more). I dont believe in diets - I think they are a croc! I don't expect I will ever be 50kg again, I am happy with 60-65kg to be healthy and comfortable.

My Strategies:

• Exercise sometimes in some form...
• Eat fresh raw food until dinner
• Keep my calories around 1000 (it sounds low, but much more than that and I store it!)
• Eat dinner around 5-6pm
• Keep my portion size about fist size
• Reread French Women Dont Get Fat for inspiration
• Limit alcohol

My Motivation: Nad's wedding... I want to fit into a dress that doesn't make me look like I am a frump in a satin sack!

My Reward: My health basically, and to feel comfortable in my own skin!

Nad! Its time to update yours too!!