Sunday, May 9, 2010

Sunday 9th May 2010

Hey Followers,

Sorry it's been so long but it has been such a huge 4 weeks, I've had some ups and downs and now i think things are finally on track.

I have lost 10kgs all up so far and that also includes a very bad week of my putting on 1.7kgs :-( like i said bad week, but now i have pinched myself and stood tall and am doing great.

Ok Well over the last couple of the weeks i have tried a few things and the best thing i found was my version of a soup diet, i had a normal breakky which was weetbix or porridge and then soup for lunch and tea, with 2 pieces of bread and butter, and that filled me it was great i lost 3.3kgs in 4 days and i was flying high, i then fell into a little bit of a slum and went back to normal food, not bad food and i wasn't over eating and i still did loss weight but not as much as i was so this week im starting back on the soup and gonna try to stick to it this time :-)

Some non diet news, My partner brad and i have decided to part ways and enter into friendship as been in a relationship just wasn't working for us, i am very happy with this decision and i am actually more determined to loss the kgs ready for my next chapter in my life of children, love, friends and family!!.

I will try to keep you all updated more often, Happy Mother's Day as well to all those Mummy's out there ♥♥♥

Friday, April 16, 2010

Saturday 17th April 2010

Hey Everyone,

Well this week has sucked big time!!!! i have been so busy and also doing the right thing with my food and i haven't lost a dam thing, i don't know where i have gone wrong as i have been following my steps and counting everything, very dishearten but i am going to keep pushing on!!! i owe it to myself to go that little bit further and try.

So as of today i have gone out and brought myself a box of Opti-slim shakes, i never thought it would come to this, but i will try it for a week and see if not eating does anything???

Don't worry im not not eating, i need to incorporate 2 cups of veg and 2 cups of fruit a day along with the shakes for each meal and at least 2 liters of water as well. I really don't see this hurting me as i am morbidly obese and the Opti-slim recommends that obese people do this so here i am!!

You know i read so many different things and watch so many things to do with weight loss and all that and it astounds me how many different things one can do and shouldn't do its no wonder people aren't sure whether there Arther or Mather, i was told many moons ago only to ever weigh yourself once a week yest last night on the biggest loser the professional on there said you should weigh yourself every day???? go figure. but again it is each to there own what works for you might not work for me and vice verser.

Well i will let you know if anything changes as the hours progress, i mean days...hee hee.

but as there wont be menus as such i will just post if anything good happens, so until that beam of light shines down on me and zaps some fat away have a great weekend and a safe week.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Wednesday 14th April 2010

Hello,

Tuesday was my no/low carb day...it went alright had a few slips but in the end once i worked them out on my calorieking web page i was still under, so even thou i didn't go over i still feel bad cause i wasn't meant to have all those carbs...but oh well. stupid me got up this morning and forgot to weigh myself only just remembered now actually..hahaha. so i will just wait till Saturday when i do my weigh in and measure my body parts :-)

Tomorrow I'm trying the biggest loser shakes for breakfast and lunch to see how i go and then for tea im making butter chicken with a bed of rice, only 207 calories per serve i was quite impressed with that!!!

if i am hungry i have made sugar free piklets as a just in case snack with jam on them. :-)

I'm loving getting back into the kitchen and making food and also been able to realize that things can be made the healthy way and don't need to be filled with empty calories and fat. its amazing how once you make something and then work it out using calorieking that one small serve wont break the bank at all...every thing in moderation is so true and im finally getting the hang of it and learning from it :-)

so what did i cook today...well the piklets, zucchini and carrot muffins, cupcakes (for the girls not me) chicken and corn soup.

i froze everything for a later date, so simple, i place the muffins in a freezer bag 1 per bag, the soup in a bag as well and frozen flat and the same with the piklets.

Anyone can do this leave a day free a week and have a cook off with your self or get a relative over or even a friend to help, its amazing what you can do and how much you get out of it, like with bread i brought burgen soy and linseed placed 2 slices in a freezer bag and froze them that way, so from one loaf of bread i got 9 servings from it and if you freeze it fresh it un thaws the same as the day you put it in the freezer :-)

my chicken and corn soup i made i got 4 servings out of it and froze them all that will now last me up too 2 months maybe 3 depending on when i want soup again. Well worth it!!

tomorrow afternoon i will let you know how the biggest loser shakes went, tasted and alj the other good stuff....and i wonder if it will make a difference in my weight loss???? Hmmmm

Monday, April 12, 2010



Monday 12th April 2010.

Hey all, straight into it....
Menu:

Breakfast: fruit and muesli toast with spread and strawberry yoghurt.
Lunch: mince meat, carrot, onion, brown rice, pasta sauce and cheese. (made a yummy spag bol)
Dinner: chicken and corn soup and 2 slices of soy and linseed bread.
Snacks: lemon sorbet.

Had a great day didn't feel hungry at all, didn't need any snacks and i was even able to have a bit of dessert.
Tomorrow is another no/low carb day, since it went so well i thought i would do it every 2nd day.
let you no my menu now for Tuesday then i will post again Thursday morning with my weight loss result.

Menu for Tuesday:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, tomato, mushroom and ham.
Lunch: Ham, Chicken, cucumber, tomato and lettuce.
Dinner: Tuna, cheese, cauliflower, carrots and zucchini.
Snacks: cucumber and Ham.

:-) ♥

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sunday 11th April 2010.

Menu for today:
Breakfast: 2 eggs 2 pieces of sourdough bread, milk and yoghurt.
Lunch: Wrap with lettuce, tomato, ham, cheese and mushroom.
Dinner: chicken tender, peas, corn, carrots, potato with cheese and zucchini.
Snacks: Apple, yoghurt.

Still on a high from lossing 2kgs over saturday on my low/no carb diet, i was going to do a no/low carb day once a week but after much thought and will power i may do it every 2nd to 3rd day just to get the ball going in the weight loss, but i will see how i go, because im not having the Carbs i get rather hungry quickly so i need to re-asses my food and try and fit more food in that is filling but no carbs, so i will work on that tomorrow.

5.7kg loss to date :-) ♥

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Results of my No/Low Carb day Sunday 11th April 2010.

Hey everyone,
Well my no/low carb day worked......

I lost 2 kgs, 1 cm of my chest and 2cms from my waist hips and thighs the same. So very happy now i no i can do it. so from now on i will make Friday's my no/low carb day and Saturday my weigh in day

:-) ♥♥♥

No/Low Carb day Saturday 10th April 2010.

Hey all,
Today i am trying a no/low carb day, which means no or almost no carbs for the whole day.
i will post my weight loss (if any) tomorrow once i weigh myself.

so my menu for my low carb day is
Breakfast: 2 eggs, bacon, mushrooms and a tomato.
Lunch: ham, chicken tender, cucumber, lettuce and tomato.
Dinner: chicken tender, cauliflower, peas and cheese.
Snacks: Milk, cucumber.

At first i was a bit hungry but i sat myself down and watched movies all day and only got up to go to the toilet and meal times. thank goodness the toilet is at the opposite end of the kitchen...haha.

Don't forget to check in tomorrow for my result of my no/low carb day. ♥

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Week D - Day 7 Friday 9th April 2010

Happy Friday!!

Yee Haa my last day on lite n easy YES!!!!!

Ok my results:
Chest: 2cm loss
Waist: 1cm loss
Hips: 2.5cm loss
Thigh 0cm loss
Weight 1.2kgs loss

very happy with this result.:-)

ok now for my last lite n easy menu.

Breakfast: 2 pieces of fruit loaf, milk and vanilla yoghurt.
Morning Tea: Orange
Lunch: chicken chow mein, and a fruit cup - pear
Afternoon snack: spinach and fetta muffin and a chocolate muesli bar.
Additional snacks: rice pudding and a fruit medley.
Dinner: crumbed fish and veggies.

Not happy with lite n easy anymore, i have had to juggle my food so much this week due to them not supplying all the food, i have missed out on an egg a fruit cup a muesli bar and a rotten tomato that had to be thrown out......so im not a very happy camper and so glad i am giving it up.

But enough of the past i have some awesome news (well i think it is anyways) my engagement ring is now on my finger...it fits (again) when i first placed it on my finger it was a little snug and over time it got tighter and i had to stop wearing it due to it cutting my blood flow haha and now 2 years later i tried it on last night and wella so excited.

Well tomorrow is my low carb no carb day so i will fill you in on that Sunday on how i actually went and later i will post up what i am going to consume for my low/no carb day :-)

have an awesome weekend everyone!!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Week D - Day 6 Thursday 8th April 2010

2 more sleeps until im on my own.....very excited to be going off lite n easy and going my own way, now that i no portion control and have learn't about my calories, i must admit i am a little disappointed with lite n easy there food is good but its not a sure fire way to lose a lot of weight which is what i thought would happen, in most diets i have tried i have lost kgs in the first week but with lite n easy i haven't even lost 5kgs, this is why im going back to calorieking.com last time i was on it i lost 22kgs in a few weeks. so i think my way is best, i just needed lite n easy to give me a kick up the bum and have someone show me in my own way and time about portion control and now I'm set.

This isn't going to be a walk in the park i no that but i also no from past try's i can do it, and with the help from my family especially my sister Caroline i can do this. i went out and got the new Calorie fat and carbohydrate counter book which is fantastic, great size for the handbag, also great if you get stuck somewhere and you have to eat shop food you no what you can still have...awesome!!

ok now for my 2nd last entry on lite n easy.

Breakfast: fruit and bran cereal with skim milk and corn fritters with bacon and tomato.
Morning Tea: red apple.
Lunch: hamburger with sliced tomato, beetroot relish on a sour dough roll and an orange.
Afternoon Tea: fruit and nut mix and a muesli cookie.
Additional snacks: Honey soy stir fry.
Dinner: Homestyle savoury mince with rice.

weigh in day tomorrow so stay tuned for the results.

have a lovely day and always look on the bright side of life. :-)

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Week D - Day 5 Wednesday 7th April 2010

Hey All,

feel fresh as a daisy today, and had all the energy in the world to clean my house from top to toe and even enough to go on a walk later this afternoon, can't wait, going down to the river again.

now to the menu:
Breakfast: 2 weetbix with skim milk and 2 pieces of mulit grain taost with honey.
morning snack: black forest pears
Lunch: Broccoli and chicken pasta bake and a red apple.
Afternoon tea: rice crackers and salsa dip and a banana and date muffin.
Additional snacks: baked vegetable pattie with chilli sauce and an apple crumble.
Dinner: Chicken with ratatouille and polenta.

Well off i go and from the words of a very wise lady on my facebook list Shannon Gray- Anyone who is offended or threatened by your growth isn't a true friend, Real friends GROW with you!!

Week D - Day 4 Tuesday 6th April 2010

Hello, what a day, been everywhere and lots of walking today, so my calories are looking good.:-)

ok to today's menu.
Breakfast: 2 eggs and bacon on and tomato on a multigrain muffin.
Afternoon tea: fruit cup - peach.
Lunch: soy chicken tender with salad and hoisin dressing in a wrap and an orange.
Afternoon tea: a ricotta spinach cake and a greek forest berry yoghurt.
Additional snacks: Mediterranean omelette and a small grain roll with spread.
Dinner: crumbed chicken with veg and wedges.

My calf muscles are a bit tight at the moment but brad did some magic and wella there all good again, so tomorrow more steps!!

until then keep healthy and remember no one can make you feel anything be strong and push forward!!
:-)♥

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Week D - Day 3 Monday 5th April 2010

Hey everyone,

Well what a great weekend, and i hope all of you had a wonderful Easter. So first up my menu...
Breakfast: Fruit muesli with skim milk, and baked beans on a piece of soy and linseed toast.
Morning tea: fruit salad.
Lunch: Greek meatballs and a chunky potato salad and a red apple.
Afternoon tea: popcorn and 2 spicy fruit biscuits.
Additional snacks: fried rice with BBQ chicken.
Dinner: Honey soy chicken.

Ok my first bit of big news, my check in day is going to be on a Friday so i will fill you in for the 2nd April then each Friday after that i will post my results.

Chest: 2cms loss
Waist: 1cm loss
Hips: 1.5cms loss
Thigh: 5cms loss

weight loss: not sure for i did not have scales until Saturday just gone, so friday 9th April i will no if i have lost anything, but if i go by my weight from my last weigh in at the doctors i have lost...
2.5kgs loss.

more news: i am only going to do lite n easy for this week and then my sister (Caroline) and i are doing calorie king.com together, the only reason i did lite n easy was to understand what my meals portions were meant to be and to kick start my body into detox and to start the weight loss challenge, so as of Saturday 10th April i will be on supermarket food.

My mission: to cut out temptation i have signed up for home delivery with Coles online. my first lot of grocery's for the week will arrive Friday 9th April in the morning. i then sort threw it and assemble my meals, just like been on lite n easy. i have my week menu written out and i have worked out all my calories with calorie king.com. so im all set.

Saturday my tribe and the Knights went down to the weribee river and went for a walk on the track took about an hour.
Sunday we walked to Caro's instead of taking the car.
and today Monday i did 6 minutes of steps...which nearly killed me but boy did i feel good after wards, and then Brad and i went for a walk to the supermarket.

so until tomorrow be healthy and cook don't dial :-) ♥

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Week D - Day 2 Sunday 4th April 2010

Happy Easter!!

Menu:
Breakfast: Fruit and Bran cereal with skim milk, a ham tomato and cheese omelette and a passion fruit yoghurt.
Morning snack: Red apple.
Lunch: egg spread and baby spinach on a long grain roll and a fruit salad tub.
Afternoon snack: roasted chick peas and an apple and cranberry muffin.
Additional snacks: Lebanese chicken tender and cucumber raita on a soy and linseed roll.

♥ be kind to the Easter Eggs!!!

Week D - Day 1 Saturday 3rd April 2010

Hi all we are now onto a new menu for a new week, Week D which is the Brown/orange card.

Menu:
Breakfast: Bircher muesli and a toasted fruit muffin with spread.
Afternoon snack: Mandarin
Lunch: Sweet chilli beef and noodle salad with a fruit tub - melon medley.
Afternoon snack: vanilla yoghurt and a walnut and date cake
Additional snacks: chicken satay.

Day 7 - Friday 2nd April 2010

Early Edition.

Last dinner of the week will be Beef and black bean.

Menu:
Breakfast: Apple and cinnamon oats with skim milk, Ham Tomato and cheese omelette and a soy and linseed piece of toast with strawberry jam.
Morning Tea: Red Apple.
Lunch: chicken Alfredo and a fruit cup - two fruits.
Afternoon Tea: crunchy noodle snack and a piece of zucchini and carrot bread.
Additional snacks: tuna, cheese and tomato on a sour dough roll.

This is the end of Week C.

Don't forget your 6-8 glasses of water a day

Today is my weigh in day i will be measuring and weighing myself....wish me luck.

:-) ♥

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Day 6 Thursday 1st April 2010

Happy April Fools everyone!!

last nights dinner was spaghetti bol - very yummy, will be getting that one again.

Ok today's menu:
Breakfast: fruit and bran cereal with skim milk and baked beans on 1 piece of grain toast.
Morning Tea: Fruit cup - pear.
Lunch: veggie burger with sliced tomato with sweet chilli sauce on a sour dough roll (finally a hamburger) and an orange.
Afternoon Tea: Greek style Vanilla yoghurt and a fruit and nut bar.
Additional snacks: Mediterranean vegetable and meatball pasta.

Dinner tonight will be sausages with onion gravy and veggies.

I am shocked at how well i am doing, i have not had one single craving to go to the cupboards nor do i want to.

I went shopping just before to get some Easter eggs for my daughters and you know i didn't even want to buy them not because i thing i will eat them but because it makes me sick to think of that dark sickning chocolate, I'll admit i will be having one little egg on Easter Sunday but that's it, and i only got a small amount for my girls as there foods need to be cut down also, their not big girls but it wouldn't hurt them to lose a few cms. :-) and changing our diets is going to be a lot better for all of us, teaching them this now will pay off in the future and I'm hopeful i can start my generation off on a healthy food for my grandchildren and their grandchildren.

calorieking Website.....

i can now see what i am consuming and because of this i can enjoy Easter Sunday with my family, knowing what i am going to consume for the day i can work out what im aloud to eat with out stuffing up my lite n easy. I am going to try out all 4 menu's A B C & D and then by that time my body should be ready to only eat the amount i should, am am confident i am ready now but i really don't want to risk it and fall apart, so 4-6 weeks time i will be saying goodbye to lite n easy and going on my own merry way.

I'm going to put up the next couple of days menu's so i can enjoy my weekend.

Happy Easter Everyone and remember eggs in moderation :-)

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Handy ideas 2


ok just found this one that looks alot better.

Day 5 - Wednesday 31st March 2010






Hello Followers,

yesterday's dinner was Meatloaf.

Today's Menu:
Breakfast: Weetbix x2 with skim milk and a ham cheese and tomato toasted soy and linseed sandwich. (i had the tomato separate as it wasn't going to all fit)
Morning Tea: Orange
Lunch: Mediterranean vegetable and meatball pasta and an apple and vanilla custard.
Afternoon tea: Greek style passion fruit yoghurt and a chocolate muesli bar (mmm finally chocolate)

I'm going to be adding some scans of my book, my menu's come in week form so you have week A,B,C and D so you can see what i am eating and how it all works a bit better, also i am adding a chart of where to measure ones self while checking cms lost, cause don't forget if you don't happen to lose any weight you could be losing those inches around your chest hips thighs or even waist.

so happy eating, and i really do think we are what we eat!!!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Handy ideas

Hello again, i have re found my old site from my last diet www.calorieking.com.au and just realized that they have all the lite n easy foods in there for me to see and check up on so i thought i would share it with you and then if you are thinking about it or even want to use the website you can see how it all works.

when i first went on here this time last year i actually lost 22kgs but again put it back on, but now im on the right track to getting my self back :-)

So like i promised here is my chart and don't forget to check out www.calorieking.com.au

Breakfast


Cals

kJ

Fat

Prot.

Carb.

(x) 2 serving (67g) of Lite n' Easy: Pikelets: Pikelets

236

985

2.8

7.1

43.7

You have not added any foods to breakfast.

(x) 1 serving (60g) of Lite n' Easy: Desserts: Fruit Compote

92

385

0.1

1

21.8

(x) 1 one slice (32g) of Lite n' Easy: Bread: Grain

78

326

0.9

2.9

13.6

(x) 1 sachet (9.6g) of Vegemite: Sandwich Spreads: Vegemite

18

76

0

2.4

1.9

Meal Total

424

1772

3.9g

13.5g

81g

Lunch


Cals

kJ

Fat

Prot.

Carb.

(x) 1 serving (100g) of Lite n' Easy: Frozen Meals: Lunch, Thai Chicken Cakes

183

764

5.2

16.6

16.7

You have not added any foods to lunch.

(x) 1 serving (28g) of Lite n' Easy: Salad Dressings: Asian Chilli Plum

32

132

0

0.1

7.7

(x) 1 apple (135g) of Lite n' Easy: Fruit, packaged: Apple, Red, fresh

73

306

0.1

0.4

16.1

Meal Total

288

1202

5.4g

17.1g

40.4g

Dinner


Cals

kJ

Fat

Prot.

Carb.

You have not added any foods to dinner.

(x) 1 meal (435g) of Lite n' Easy: Frozen Meals: Dinner, Meatloaf

418

1740

10

29.1

49.2

Meal Total

418

1740

10g

29.1g

49.2g

Snacks


Cals

kJ

Fat

Prot.

Carb.

(x) 1 serving (100g) of Lite n' Easy: Yoghurt: Greek Style, Forest Berry

128

537

3.4

5

20.2

You have not added any foods to snacks.

(x) 1 serving (20g) of Lite n' Easy: Popcorn: Popcorn, Lightly Salted

79

332

2.2

1.9

10.5

(x) 1 serving (75g) of Lite n' Easy: Pancakes: Apple & Sultana

122

507

1.3

2.3

24.7

(x) 1 meal (317g) of Lite n' Easy: Frozen Meals: Mini Meal, Beef Lasagne

339

1423

7.9

21.2

45.3

Meal Total

668

2799

14.8g

30.4g

100.7g

Food Total

Cals

kJ

Fat

Prot.

Carb.

Day Total

1797

7513

34.1g

90.1g

271.4g

Day 4 - Tuesday 30th March 2010

Hello, today's menu:
Breakfast: 2 pikelets with fruit compote and 1 piece of grain toast with vegemite.
Morning snack: Greek style forest berry yoghurt.
Lunch: Thai chicken cakes with asian coleslaw and chilli plum dressing and a red apple.
Afternoon tea: popcorn and an apple and sultana pancake.
Additional snacks: Beef lasagne.

Dinner last night was beef stroganoff with pasta, and after an apricot pudding.

Yesterday was a lazy day i was so sore from my workout with the girls i couldn't do anything, but today my sister Caroline got me up off my butt and we walked to the post office and back which is roughly 2kms.

I'm properly the only one but you never know someone out there may feel the same, but when i wake up in the morning i instantly no whether it is going to be a fat day or a thin day...lol.
explanation: when you feel like crap and nothing looks good on you and you just want to go back to bed...there my FAT days. But when i feel happy and can take on the world or i feel light on my feet i no i will be having a THIN day. for you skeptics out there i know i cant be both but its how i feel on a particular day, and let me tell you i love my THIN days. makes everything i do more fun and worth while, just wish i had more of them...lol.

Thats about all today i have washing to do so i make sure i place the basket on the ground so i have to bend for the clothes, then hang them...up and down up and down...hehehehe.

till tomorrow may your day be great!! ♥

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Day 3 - Monday 29th March 2010



Ok straight into today's menu then a story.

Breakfast: two eggs and bacon with a toasted multigrain muffin.
Morning tea: a red apple and my milk.
Lunch: Dijon chicken and pasta salad and a fruit salad.
Afternoon tea: vegetable frittata and a muesli cookie.
Additional snack: apricot pudding and roasted chick peas.

So my dinner yesterday was roast chicken...didn't think much of it so i don't think i will order that one again.

tonight's dinner still unsure as there are still 5 to choose from....lol.

Well yesterday was interesting, Brad the three girls and myself took ourselfs off for a power walk, which was great i didnt get a sore back and my legs where only hurting a little bit, that was about 11.30am then i had stupid thoughts after lunch around 2pm and said to Rhiannon to go get her music box and a cd and meet me out side with her sisters, looked up on the internet for some warm up exercises (which i will put up on here) and went outside and did them, then once we were all warmed up we did some star jumps and running on the spot and steps, i felt fine until i got up this morning..lol
sore legs sore neck and my mussels in my stomach feel it too. but over all about 15-20mins of exercise plus our 20 mins walk. and i feel pretty good.

My Motivation

I was asked today what my motivations are for now wanting to lose the weight!!

Well I have many reasons, some are personal and some are just your normal reasons, like to live longer and just to be simply healthy.

So with all my strengths I’m going to share with you why I am doing this and explain on the way how some things came to a point of no return, and how some are small things that I just brush away everyday and some that are deep scars that will stay forever or as long as I am “FAT”.

This is harder than it looks, and its not going to be an easy task to write down and share all of this with you, but I feel if I do this I will empower myself more to push along and succeed in my weight battle.

People: whether its family, friends or complete strangers most would look at me and say yep she could eat a horse!! (And it shows) But in Hines sight that isn’t true, yes I am big and yes I love my food, but it wasn’t the quantity I was consuming it was the quality, high carb foods, fatty oily foods, take away, it was all to much and the weight packed on.

So here is the start of my life just to get you in my mind.

I admit I was never a “skinny” kid, chubby from birth and pudgy as a kid and it went on, when I was 12 my Granny watched my diet very carefully and I even got down to a size 10 dress. I was rewarded with a beautiful flower dress that I loved and kept wearing until I was 14, and that’s when the weight started to pile back on, I ended up putting on 30kgs in a short time frame of 6 months, so from then until I was 19 I just kept putting it on slowly, until I feel pregnant with Rhiannon, my weight then stayed the same until I gave birth and I was actually starting to lose it, been a first time mum and all, I was running around like a mad woman, then 3 months later I find out im pregnant again this time with twins, and again the weight starting getting put back on and again didn’t stop.

So here I am today fed up with all the yoyo diets and crap that hasn’t worked, I now start lite n easy.

Now that I have basically placed your mind in a moment of my life you may now understand my next battle of explaining my motives to lose the “FAT”…….

Motivation one: the big one

(This is what pushed me to the point of doing this, mind you for the past year I have dealt with this by eating, yes I know it sounds stupid but I felt like the problem would go away if I ate, obviously it didn’t!!)

So back to my motivations: Children telling my girls that their mummy is fat!!! It may sound like something I should have brushed off but it got to me that bad that I stopped going to the school and even now if something needs to be done at school Bradly goes up for me.

Now these are just going to be random as I think of them… Been able to put socks on with out asking Brad or one of the girls to do it for me, I noticed the other day that I have no full body shots of myself, all photos are chest up shots, so that was another motivation, wanting to play sports with my girls, (under 18’s close your eyes) a better sex life in the bedroom, going to the movies and been able to sit comfortably in a seat, not having to step sideways into a shower or a door way, to walk into a shop and not having to go straight to the + sizes, people not yelling out oh look at the elephant, a certain person asking if my clothes came from tent city!!!!!! To see my feet lol, and to have a waist so I know where my boobs and stomach are!!.

Well you have just read what I am afraid to say out loud.♥♥♥

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Day 2 - Sunday 28th March 2010

Well i feel pretty awesome, i had a 44th and 18th birthday party last night, and i now know why people say they put on weight just from the smell :-) but i was so proud of myself even thou the food looked deli sh and smelled wonderful i was not tempted at all to have any, even thou Rhiannon kept forgetting and asking me if i would like something...lol.

Last nights tea i had the sweet and sour chicken, which was really yummy and surprisingly filling.

so today's menu...
Breakfast: two slices of fruit and muesli toast with spread and a vanilla yogurt.
Morning tea: a tub of two fruits.
Lunch: Beef burrito and a salad wrap and a red apple.
Afternoon tea: Soy nuts and a citrus sultana oat biscuit.
Additional Snacks: chicken cannelloni.
Dinner: still 6 to choose from so not sure yet. (will let you know when i choose)

My additional snacks are for if i am still hungry after my day food, i did not have yesterday which was ham, tomato and cheese omelette and pikelets with strawberry jam, i just wasn't hungry. also if i feel i am starving i can also have steamed veggies but no starchy ones.

So nothing really big to post atm for today i feel great and after i finish posting this i will be going for a walk. so if nothing big happens today i will post again tomorrow.

let the sun shine on you every day!!

Friday, March 26, 2010







Day 1 - Saturday 27th March 2010

Hello and Welcome,

Most of you that will start to read my blog and hopefully follow it will no what I am in barking on….for those who don't I have started Lite n Easy.

A sure fire way (I'm hoping to lose the weight). There's no denying it I am over weight, experts would say morbidly obese. So I have taken it upon myself with the help, love and support of my family and friends to start Lite n Easy, and a new way of life.

So today 27/3/2010 I have started my journey to a healthier and hopefully in some time to come a skinner Shannon. So don’t get me wrong I know this isn’t going to be easy,

Just because im eating better food and much less of it, the weight isn’t just going to fall off there is exercise to do and the mental side of it too, believing that I can do it!!

I know there will be times where I want to scream and hurt someone, but I need to draw from the inspiration inside and remember why it is I am doing this. So day 1...... The food: Breakfast: Vanilla crunch cereal with ½ cup of skim milk and a cheese and tomato toasted multigrain sandwich. Morning Snack: Orange Lunch: Seasoned chicken tender and chopped salad with garlic and lemon vinaigrette and a fruit salad. Afternoon snack: rice crackers with salsa dip and a raspberry and apple crumble. Additional Snack (if needed) ham, tomato and cheese omelette and pickelets with strawberry jam. Also 1.5 cups of skim milk a day, so I had milk for breakfast so I still need to have 1 cup of milk some time today, also my 6-8 glasses of water, which im mixing up with lemon juice and lime juice and of course just your plain H2O, variety is a spice of life after all. :-)

My exercise plan will come later as the food starts to take over my body I will get more energy and be able to do more, but I do plan to walk at least 3 times a week and go swimming when ever I can, so as the weeks go by im hoping I feel more like doing it and not just sit on my behind and do nothing.

So until tomorrow keep healthy and please by all means pass this along to your friends and don’t for get to check back regularly for more updates and photos and if im game my stats!!



Well its still day 1 lol. i have just had lunch and im thanking god i have afternoon tea to come, still feel hungry but not at all tempted to go to the cupboard which is a good thing :-) Tonight will be a great test, we have a 44th and 18th to attend but im determined to be good, and beeing day 1 will be the biggest test to date. lots of food around me and I'm going to resisted it all....thank god i don't drink...hahaha. Not sure on what's for dinner as i have 7 to choose from!!