The saying goes "fail to plan; plan to fail".
So with that in mind, I'm going to do something I've thought out in my head but never actually written down. By writing out my "plan" for this week, I'm hoping to make myself more accountable. No it WILL make me more accountable.
For ages now my weight has hovered around 68-69kg. 5-6kg above where I want to be. 63 is my magic number. That's what I weighed prior to miss bubble but more importantly, that's the weight I was at when the majority of my wardrobe was acquired. So in my thinking, if I get to 63kg, I get a bigger wardrobe without actually spending any money on clothes. Win-win! I am aware however, that since having 3 kids, my body shape has more than likely changed. A lot. So time will tell how much more wardrobe I actually get.
I was struggling with exercise for quite some time now. The last 5 weeks to be honest. So I had the last week of September off which coincided with mum being here. We were then away for the October long weekend, so in the past fortnight I've exercised twice. And I'm ok with that because when I went back on Wednesday I could tell the "fire" was back in my belly. I had my exercise mojo back! Woop!!
So it's not the exercise which is holding me back. Any more at least. I've know what I can do there. I've got the plans from 12wbt and I'll be printing them to have in the future too.
It's my diet. It all comes down to diet.
I do not particularly enjoy cooking. I cook for the girls and then once they're in bed I cook for myself, and try and prepare the agent's meal so that it's mostly prepare for him once he's home. I'm over it! Whilst bubble is quite adventuresome with her eating bug is not. Struggle to get that kid to eat potato unless it's looking like a chip. So whilst I'd like to think I could simply put the foot down and "make" her eat what the agent and I eat I imagine that would end up with a lot of food wasted and me very stressed out because she wasn't eating and I was getting upset with her for not eating. Not an ideal situation.
So what to do with it all? With the food, the exercise, the children, the sleep (or lack of), the husband? Well, here's my plan...
*do dinner at lunch time
*do lunch at dinner time
*workout an evening routine (DONE)
*put said routine in place
*get to be earlier by following above routine
*get to the gym at 6am. Working out before the first meal of the day is proven to blast fat from ya booty! And other body places too I would hope!
*get to the gym during crèche hours (between 9 and noon) (this one I have no problem with)
*NO MORE CHOCOLATE! And to help with this, each day I go without chocolate I'm going to put $1 towards a little something for myself from tiffany & co.
It is a friend's wedding in 4 weeks 6 days.
It's the real estate awards night in 6weeks 6 days.
It's Christmas in 11 weeks 3 days. I am not going to be spending Christmas unhappy with my efforts!! We are also spending Christmas at my parents. In my home town. Be damned if I'm not at my goal weight when I go up there!
I weighed myself this morning. 69.2kg.
My plan is to get down to 66.5kg by my friend's wedding. That's a loss of 2.7kg in 4 weeks 6 days. We'll call it 5 weeks. 2.7kg in 5 weeks is totally doable.
My plan is to be at 64kg by the awards night. That's a loss of 5.2kg in 7 weeks. Again totally doable.
I will have to be focused.
I will have to rein in my inner teenager who has major tanties and likes to take control when I'm feeling frazzled by the girls.
I will have to be organized. "Suffer the pain of regret or suffer the pain of discipline." I've reminded myself of this saying often, and it's worked and been the kick in the pants I need to get up and do things.
I will have to train hard.
I will finally admit that the saying "you can not out-train a bad diet" is the truth. You can't! I've been trying to for nearly three years now! I quit! I give up! The saying "80% diet, 20% exercise" is the truth. Don't matter how hard you train. If you don't think about what you eat, your efforts are in vain.
So that's my plan. I'm hoping to have the time blog about it all more. But as its newly midnight, right now I'm off to bed. And I'm also off for a run in the morning too! A full hour or more out of the house. Longer than 5km, even tho my feet hurt after about 5k grrrr.
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