This is it – Day 1

This is it is what I’m calling this challenge. My final journey to my goal weight. I am committed and focused and ready to go.

This morning I got up and went to the gym for my 20min cardio workout on the elliptical. I felt a little sick by the end so know I must have worked hard. Later I walked Christy to school (30min return trip) and later will ride back to pick her up. Meals have been planned and I’ve updated my Body for life tracker to keep me “on track”. I’ve also put my before photos on tracker. Pretty scary still but soooo much better than when I last did BFL.

Todays plans are a washout

Well, I had planned to spend time outdoors today. After it rained nearly all week, yesterday was lovely, bright and sunny. Alas we spent most of indoors. So today I had planned on spending time in the veggie garden and cleaning up the chook house/yard. Then I woke to see this… with yesterdays washing still hanging on the clothes line.

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My other jobs for the long weekend – helping Kevin clean out the computer room and study aren’t very appealing so I’m not sure what we’ll get up to today. Maybe just a family day at home…

The girls have spent all morning like this…

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I’ve told them 10 more minutes then they need to get on with their morning routine – which includes breakfast…

Kevin recently had his first taste of rock climbing and instantly fell in love.

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He’s bought all his own equipment and has been going to local indoor rock climbing gym whenever he can. He took the girls last weekend and they loved it so yesterday we all went in so I could belay Kevin and he could do the girls. Kevin is really enjoying the challenge and I’m so pleased that he’s found a physical activity that he enjoys. It’s certainly something he couldn’t have done before WLS.

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Weekend round-up

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Had a nice, but busy weekend. On Saturday the girls had drama, then Amy had two birthday parties to attend in the afternoon. I pottered around a bit and finish off this little album that I started on Friday afternoon. I love how it turned out – and it’s something very different for me -but was really oh, so, easy – which really is me.

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Kevin was away Sat and Sat night – he wanted to try out camping with the motorbike – he was very cold and I don’t think too impressed. The girls and I went with Mum & Dad to have a look at a caravan park for us to stay at in the October school holidays. It looks very nice, has a kids club and is only 30mins from home. The girls can’t wait.

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Afterwards we had a nice lunch in Gerringong.

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Then had a look through some shops – Mum & I found these wonderful goodies at a cute little shop – couldn’t believe how cheap things were. We did buy more but some is for my birthday next week.

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Menu Plan Monday

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For the first time in a long time I actually made all the meals that I planned for last week. Let’s try for two weeks in a row.

MONDAY : Potato Gnocchi with homemade cheesy sauce & garlic bread

TUESDAY : Leftover organic steak/ Veggie fingers (for me), Corn cob, potato

WEDNESDAY : Spanish Tortilla (new recipe)

THURSDAY: Mac ‘n’ cheese (making extra to freeze for our vacation)

FRIDAY : Lentil Dahl with brown rice

SATURDAY : Pumpkin Lasagne (new recipe)

SUNDAY : Mexican Bean Nachos

For more great menu ideas visit Laura at the Organising Junkie