Life will always have something going on

What a week. (total understatement!)

I'm back in Melbourne.

My dear father-in-law Hughie passed away on Tuesday.

My husband is organising everything for the funeral,
with lots of help from the family.
And, may I say - what a LOVELY family he has.
Actually, I will say, What a LOVELY family I have.
This week I have been fully embraced by the in-law's as a daughter.
Not a daughter-in-law...
A thick as blood true blue daughter.
I feel loved.

Now, even though I've had a hell of a week (pardon my french)
I have stayed committed to living a healthy lifestyle through it all.
Because even though I have a perfectly good excuse to "give up" or at least "pause" on the weight-loss,
ya know - just temporarily,
but this week I've looked back and didn't like what I found.
I noticed that I have become a person who is VERY good at finding any excuse.
To start again later.
Perhaps tomorrow...
Monday's a good day....
Next Monday, lol

But here's the truth:
Life will always have something going on.
But the bigger truth is this:
There's no excuse worth living unhealthy.
No more excuses.
Yeah, yeah - I know this week life has thrown me a big one.
But I've found this week that I can
and I will
rise above life's curve balls.
I will live the life I'm meant to live!
I AM meant to live healthy.
It's who I am.
I am a new creation
and I no longer have ANY excuse.

Okay, okay, so I have been drinking a little bit this week...
I'm not perfect and never will be.
But I haven't been drinking excessively, and I've been eating small meals,
(it helps to be with my husband 24/7 - he's what I'd call a "skinny eater")
and I've been walking every day!
And, surprise, surprise:
My body feels good!
Taken care of properly, ya know?
It's the least I can do for myself during this hard time.
I deserve it :)

So, now to play catch up with my 12WBT challenge, here are my goals for the next year:

Overall Weight-loss Goals

Lose 18kg (get down to 59kg)

Fit into Size 10 jeans

1 Month Goal

Lose 3.5kg

Run 10km

How:

Eating less!!!

Run 3 times a week, starting with 60min run/walk,

building up to 10km distance within that 60 minutes.

Map it out on walkmyrun.com

3 Month Goal:

Lose 10kg

Run 21km

How:

Keep training, keep myself in check,

and book my first 1/2 marathon.

6 Month Goal:

Get to my goal weight of 59kg.

Run 1/2 marathon weekly (by myself, not in fun-run).

How:

JFDI

12 Month Goal:

Maintain my loss, keeping my weight at 59kg

Celebrate with a nice Family photo for Christmas 2012

JFDI

Easy Peasy :)

Peace out!

PS

I lost 1 kg this week! YAY!
(American translation, 2lbs!)




I only have one more year in my Twenties! (I'm 29).
I'm a stay-at-home mum to three gorgeous children.
My son is 10, and I have two girls, 7 & 4.
I also have a perfect husband (sorry ladies, it's true!)

This year, is my year.
All my kids are in school full time.
I'm going back to Uni, at QUT!
I'm taking the pledge to become an Aussie Citizen!
And I'm re-claiming my body back.
Because I deserve to be healthy and happy.

I signed up for this a week ago, and I've already lost 1kg!!!
In seven days!!! STOKED! Ready for more

Gardening photo's

I want to share with you my favourite hobby.
Gardening.
I started out gardening for a couple reasons.
My first reason was to save money (grow instead of buy!)
However, I realised within a year that this will NEVER save me money.
Each time I visit bunnings, I spend more than I would ever at coles.
Oh well.
Now, I garden for JOY, health, and taste.
The taste of a fresh tomato and fresh garden herbs....
compared to supermarket produce...
okay - There is NO COMPARISON!
It's worth the time, $ and effort, believe me!!!

Okay, before we begin, please remember I've been out of town for 3 weeks, and only back for about 2 weeks, not enough time to get this garden going again. It's messy.

In fact, the back yard has been completely overrun with weeds, as shown, and is in bad need of some attention. I'll show you anyway, just to show you the potential gardening site I have available, if I'll ever get around to tidying it up.

Okay, here's the mess:

I had to put the net up because bush turkeys and possums are killing me!

Kitchen window, my pride and joy. I just re-planted it with new chives and baby basil plants. It'll look full and lush next month. Yay!

 While I was at it, I re-planted this one at the back window. It has thyme on the left, parsley in the middle (not looking so good at the moment though, uh oh) and lemon thyme on the right. 
If you don't have lemon thyme growing, DO IT! It's amazing :)

  My Chookies :) 3-4 eggs a day.

 

Front stairs landing. Strawberries with runners, new seedlings, and Coleus flowers.

My newest garden. The next step is to build a border, and cover the black with nice pebbles. Pretty!

This front garden, with good sun and little possum trouble, has been an in-ground garden for Four years. After coming back from holidays, it was completely over-run with weeds, and I realised that I had to do something about it. Initially I thought, it needs to be raised so the weeds can't creep in. Then, 7pm at night, I had this vision of this black tarp sitting in the garage I could lay down. I immediately got to work ripping out the weeds, at night LOL. Hey, when inspiration and motivation hits, nothing can stop me :)

We all make Mistakes

HAHAHAHA....

It's happened again.
Dieting Yo-Yo.
I had 5 wonderful,
alcohol-free,
exercise filled,
self-controlled,
healthy and happy days...

Then came the weekend.

Bugger.

Mistake #1.
I didn't get up to walk "Because it's Saturday."
THAT is a bogus excuse.
Never again.
My alarm will be set to 6am EVERY DAY.
Not just every week day.
Every day.
Even if it's just a walk, it's good for me.
It set's the tone.

Mistake #2.
Beer
I've gone ALL week without it.
I decided to "just have a few" because it was the weekend.
Again, bogus excuse.
I'm trying to lose weight!
I shouldn't be drinking.
PERIOD.

Mistake #3.
Over-indulging when eating out.
Again, I've gone all week doing good.
Eating small, healthy portions.
Not overeating.
And feeling great.
Just because I'm at a restuaunt does NOT give me a licence to stuff my face.
And besides, it feels gross.

URG!

Okay. Today's a new day :)

I'm Yours God

I had another 50-min walk this morning, 6am.
Just my MP3 player and me.
Everyday, from now on.
Why not?
I love it :)

It clears my head and gets my priorities set for the day.
It gives me time to pray and meditate about what would God have me do today.

After all, "my" agenda isn't so important that I can't change it for God's.
And the peace that comes from doing what He wants me to do,
instead of just going with the flow, floating along mindlessly out of habit.
Or even rushing around trying to cross things of my never-ending "To-Do List"....
I must rise above.

Today, I'm yours God.