Monthly Archive for March, 2010

Preggo update and stubborn fat

Published on March 28, 2010 in Articles and weight loss. 1 Comment

So I had my 2nd spew last Thursday morning – I got up at the usual 4am and didn’t really feel any more sick than usual but I must have gulped my water too fast (water not really something I am enjoying at the moment, hard to get down).  Straight after the water I was sitting on the floor in the loo.  I must say I felt really good after a good heave, LOL! 

I had a good day yesterday, I even had enough energy to go for a walk, with some stairs and a bit of running – 45 mins all up so was happy with that.  Today I was planning to get my butt in the gym but it wasn’t to be.  I didn’t wake up good today.  I did make myself go for a 30 min walk however.  I also just did some stretching, leg lifts and foam rolling just to get my muscles active!  I’m hoping very soon I will be able to get back to a routine of some sort, for the gym and my eating.  I desperately need to wash my hair but I can’t be bothered today!

Apparently my weight gain (for my starting weight) for the pregnancy should be a minimum of 25lb, an average of 30lb and a max of 35lb.  Holy moly either/or that’s a lot of weight.

We are cooking a rabbit dish tonight, I looooooooooove rabbit.  I remember mum used to make rabbit casserole and it was awesome.  While at Nadia’s the other evening I was browsing one of her recipe books and I found it.  It has onions, red wine, crushed tomatoes, garlic, cinnamon, and other herbs/spices.  I reduced the amount of oil by heaps.  We decided to add carrots and mushies too but I think we may have ruined it because we had to add a lot of water to cover everything.  Oh well, see how it goes.

Now to diet and training stuff (it’s starting to sound like a baby blog).  I had an email from a past client who was having trouble keeping that last bit of fat off.  I’ll share it with you because it seems that many people think that competitors stay competition lean year round. 

Hi Sue:

Thank you for this newsletter.  It’s nice you keep us in the loop.  I have to tell you, I feel like a fool every time, I write you about this.  As you know from all of my past e-mails, I have been  a client of yours for a long amount of time.  But why do I never keep it off completely.

Sometimes you need to give yourself a bit of a break – it’s often the last few lbs that is really hard to get off and keep off without being absolutely religious about it.  That’s why in the off season I don’t mind sitting a couple of kilos over what I’d prefer.  It takes too much work and gets in the way of life sometimes!

I am gaining weight on tummy again.  I hate it.  I am still wearing smaller sizes in clothing, but the weight is gravitating to my stomach.  I’ve purchased many programs from you, and I just need to be on a program which after I finish the program to continue with my results.

Maybe your age has something to do with this too – not saying you’re old by any means (hey I turn 41 very soon), but that is what happens as you get a bit older.  The only thing we can do is train and eat well, and, perhaps get your hormones checked to see if there is some kind of imbalance there.

Usually what I do after I finish the program, is I mess up during dinner and my husband is such a bad deal for me.  He loves his wine at night and his snacks and at times I give in.  I hate it.

Yes, well obviously this will not be helping.  It comes down to what you want the most I guess – choices.  But you should not be so hard on yourself as it is difficult to be so regimented all the time.  Sometimes we need to splurge a little.  As long as you know what ‘phase’ you are in, then I think it’s ok.  For instance, try being ok with it for awhile – then in a month or so you might want to really kick things up a notch and get serious again.  Just give yourself a little leeway and be ok with it once in awhile.  My total effort is when I compete – otherwise I’m a bit more liberal so I can actually enjoy social occasions etc.

Well give me words of wisdom, again.  But tell me my long range solution to keeping a flat stomach.  Help!!!!! Again, hopefully this time I can stay lean without feeling like I am cheating myself.  I’m turning 42 this year, can you believe it, I have to take control.

Basically you need to be on your game the whole time if you want to be in fantastic shape all the time, or be a little lenient every now and then and accept that at these times you might carry a little more.  Your choice :)  It doesn’t happen by chance.

For those who are really keen to get rid of that last little bit of stubborn fat, there is a great 6 week program recently released and designed for precisely this purpose.  It combines different training methods such as lactic acid training, density training and dynamic training, each having a specific effect on appropriate hormones.  Check it out.

http://www.idealbodiesonline.com/final-pha

Ok, well the rabbit was only so so.  The rabbit was good but as we suspected, the sauce was too watery.  Nice and healthy though.

Sick and sorry

Published on March 25, 2010 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

Feeling very sorry for myself at the moment.  Today I feel really sick and exhausted.  Yeah yeah all for a good cause I know, I’m just sick of being sick, it’s so boring!  I just hope it’s not getting worse instead of better!  So, I am very unproductive, it’s really hard to get much done.  I’ve been up at 2am for the last 2 days, jeez how I would love to see 6am on the clock when I wake up.  So, I get up, I make coffee and I go to work.  Then about an hour later my stomach feels like it’s being sucked into my spine and I have to eat.  I actually don’t feel that hungry anymore, just this knawing empty sick feeling.  I am eating every 2 hours.  But I can’t eat a lot at once so I am probably not eating a huge amount more than usual now that I have settled into a routine after holidays.  I am however, eating carbs at every meal.  I even had a craving for a banana smoothie at 5am this morning.  Yet I haven’t been able to stomach anything like that before.  Today went like so.

Up at 2am, coffee (1/2 regular, 1/2 decaf)

Meal 1 3am- slice of grain toast spread with cottage cheese and topped with turkey breast

Meal 2 – 5am Banana smoothie

Back to bed until 7.45am

8.30am Slice of toast with cottage cheese, ham and tomato

10.30am 2 Vita Wheat with peanut butter and cheese

12.30pm Slice of bread with avocado, bbq chook and grated cheese

1.30pm Sleep until 3pm

3.30pm 1/2 orange

4.30 pm curry pasta, ham, tomato

7pm lamb rogan josh and rice

Holy cr*p that sounds like a lot of food.  As I said, small serves though.  In 10 weeks as of yesterday I had put on 1.8lb.  However, the scale shot up a couple of lb overnight (we did go out for dinner last night though).  Considering I am barely doing any exercise I wouldn’t be surprised to have put on a lot more, but, let me tell you even though the scale doesn’t register a lot, the change in body composition is very real.

I’m looking forward to the day I wake up and have a baby bump instead of just feeling chunky :)

So, I’m getting fat and my hubby is losing weight :)   I don’t think this has ever happened before!  He’s lost 8.5kg in just under 8 weeks so far.  You can certainly see the change.  Now when we go for a walk he is ahead of me and I’m the one struggling to keep up.

So I’m crashed on the couch tonight.  That’s about all I can manage.  I imagine I will be in bed soon though if I go too early I will wake way too early. 

I made an effort and went out for dinner last night – it really is an effort most days, but I have to do something sometimes I guess.  We went to our local Thai, first time I have been there and it was sensational.  I am in love with Tom Yum soup – I’ve never had it before but it’s just something that really agreed with me when I was feeling sick.  I wanted some tonight too!

I’ve managed to get a few things finished despite feeling ill.  Slowly slowly it goes though. 

Thanks again everyone for the well wishes.  Oh yeah we had the 10 week scan a couple of days ago and all still good.  Damien saw an arm but I could still only see a smudge.  Smudge has grown from 1cm to 2.5cm in 2 weeks.  Next scan is not until 14 weeks and that will be the big one where I am screened for Downs Syndrome.  Scary.  The odds increase like crazy every year older you get.

I hope you all enjoyed our newsletter today.

Back in sunshine!

Published on March 19, 2010 in weight loss. 1 Comment

So I’m home.  The day before we left was nice and sunny so all in all we had 2 clear days, and 5 days that pissed down.  I managed all of 2 hour long walks in the national park while I was there.  That was the extent of my exercise.  I didn’t feel up to going to the gym at all.  From Hastings Street we had a big steep hill to climb via stairs to get back to where we were staying.  I had to stop at least twice to catch my breath every time I climbed it.  I feel so weak and have no stamina.  I don’t like it much!  I am going to ask for an iron test on Tuesday when I have my next scan.  He said he’d do it at week 12 but I want it done now.

I caught up with Di for a coffee while in Noosa which was lovely – we decided then to catch up again (with the boys) the next evening for dinner at the Coffee Club in Coolum.  We had lots of laughs as usual. 

I’m back to my old ways of waking at 3.30am on the first morning home.  Bugger.  So I’ve felt worn out all day and again, no exercise.  My eating has been a lot better though and it needs to be.   Still feel crook but the morning sickness pills are doing a reasonable job.

Had some great feedback from my Drop a Dress Size Diet just now.

Just wanted to thank you for sending me a copy of the “drop a dress size” diet. After being “on plan” with my diet all year, I decided to go “off plan” for one week and just enjoy our holidays. Even though most of my main meals were healthy, and I did continue with my weight training, I also had quite a few treats and wines in between. By the end of the week I was feeling quite bloated and lethargic. I had already made the decision to eat clean and low carb and drink lots of water the following week to flush out the excess fluid I was carrying. Then I came across your generous offer which took all the guess work out of it for me. The only change I made was having green salad instead of green veges at lunch. All I can say is WOW! I dropped almost 4 kilos and felt great. Being just fluid weight, I regained 1.5 of those kilos when I went back to my regular healthy eating, which now brings me back to my “happy” weight. I love that it was so easy to stick to and it only took 5 days. I will definately be using this diet again when I have a special event coming up.

Again, THANK-YOU! I am definately back on track now,

Regards Lynne.

Ok well I think it’s time to clock off and give my brain a bit of a rest.

How much fruit can one eat in a day?

Published on March 13, 2010 in Uncategorized. 8 Comments

Yesterday we had our spa treatment which was heavenly. Though afterwards I really felt quite ill – I think all that massaging and stuff really stirred things up and made me feel very off. Oh I got sucked in big time too, after my treatment they applied a light make up using Jane Iredale mineral makeup. I decided to buy the pressed powder and a brush to go with it as I’ve never used mineral make up and it looked nice and natural. I just said yep I will have one of those and a brush thanks. Ah hem – $168 thank you very much! The damn brush was $83! WTF?? I know I could have gotten it for at least half that on the net. Next time.

Anyway today I felt good, really good. I swear the morning sickness pills are working. However, now Damien appears to be getting the flu! We can’t win! And the weather is still shit. I only had one sleep today, about half hour.

I never realised how good fruit really tastes. I found some big juicy white peaches in the IGA here and I have been eating 3 a day! And today at Eumundi I bought a pineapple, which happens to be the best pineapple I have ever tasted. And 3 mangoes. I figure surely it can’t hurt if I eat lots of fruit. However, I am also eating lots of cheese. I have a thing for sandwiches at the moment. Ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce on wholemeal multigrain. I also bought some home made butter at the market, oops, and some big muffins – ginger and banana, and feta and pumpkin. Oh and some coffee and walnut greek yoghurt, yum. Tomorrow we are going to the Farmer’s Market – probably much of the same stuff but I will get some more muffins and perhaps another pineapple!

Pic is from the photo shoot I did a week and a half ago.  7 1/2 weeks and I thought I should wear a bit of a loose fitting top :)   We are sitting here deciding what to have for dinner.  Neither of us are particularly hungry, me because I eat all day long and only have room for little bits at a time, and Damo coz he’s sick.  I feel like a couple of steamed dimmies hehe.

My first spew

Published on March 12, 2010 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

Thank you so much for all the well wishes, congratulations and comments – I’m truly overwhelmed!  I’ve been trying to thank everyone individually but I am having a hard time getting my internet to work here.  It works for about 5 mins then shuts down.  Very frustrating. 

So, I had my first spew last night as the headline indicates.  Nice, not.  We had dinner out, seafood platter, and before anyone has a go at me for eating seafood, my OB has no problems with it so I figure he should know.  I think it was the mix of foods, there was hot and cold and various bits and pieces.   Come 11pm (I’d been asleep for 2 hours already) I was up and driving the porcelain bus.  Twice.  I felt a lot better after that.

I am really shocked at how much food I am putting away.  I’m starting to feel it too.  And I still don’t believe the fatigue – it’s really incredible.  I got up at 6am (sleep in), and it’s now 10am and I need another sleep.  I have no inclination to work, to exercise or do anything really.  Not that you can do much in this god awful weather.  I might have to change my favourite holiday spot to somewhere else.  Have has shit luck when it comes to weather up this way.

Tomorrow we will go to the Eumundi markets, and then the Farmer’s Market on Sunday.  This arvo we have our spa treatments.  Kerry thanks for the tip, I have sussed all that out, they know their pregnancy stuff.  No hot tubs, I’m having a body scrub and wrap (not a heating one so ok for pregnancy) followed by a mini facial and a 60 min pregnancy massage.  Cannot wait.

Ok well I simply wanted to say thank you to everyone who has wished us all the best.  You all rock.

x

Going public…

Published on March 9, 2010 in Uncategorized. 26 Comments

So, I have avoided making it public because as you might understand, I feel a bit paranoid and scared about it because of my previous miscarriage.  I thought I would at least wait until my first scan, of which I had today.  I’ve been so excited to just make the scan, to see what is going on inside!  My baby has a heartbeat!  So that’s a good sign.  I’m at 8 weeks.  It just looks like a little smudge on the ultrasound.

My weight is staying stable, yet I’m eating like a horse.  Lots of carbs – fruit, fruit and veg juice, wraps, sandwiches, rice cakes, pasta, you name it. 

I ate a pie the other night for dinner!  Had this thing for pastry.  Chile con carne pie with cheese – was pretty good too.  I NEVER drink juice, but I have had this thing for fruit juice as water doesn’t seem to quench my thirst.  When I went out for lunch with my mum and sis the other day I had a carrot, apple and ginger juice.  Yummo.  I think the ginger helped ease my nausea – so now I have a thing for that too.

I’ve been sick – not physically, but just feeling nauseas 90% of the time, often with a constant headache, and unbelievable exhaustion.  I yawn all day.  By 5pm I’m absolutely stuffed and can’t do anymore than sit on the couch.  Insomnia is pretty bad – waking at 3-4am most days again, though I did have a good 2 weeks where I slept well and thought that was over.   So the sleep deprivation hasn’t helped me in being able to keep active because I just feel wrecked.

I eat often as it eases the nausea.  Some days even though I eat regularly I get so hungry very quickly.  It must be in times of a growth spurt or something, because other days this doesn’t happen.

So all in all I feel like a washed out rag for the majority of the day and night.  I hope it goes away as soon as possible!

I am off to Noosa on Thursday morning for a week – I am SO needing a week laying around the beach and pool.  Have booked in for a 2.5 hour spa treatment at Ikatan Spa on the Friday – heaven!

Ok well I think I might go for a drive to try and find some of these ginger lollies that are supposed to help ease the queasiness.