17 Days left

I did it!!! One sucsesful day DONE!!!! Super excited about it!!... So, here's what I did: just to explain-desperate times (only 17 days left of our 12 week challenge), calls for desperate measures; so! I had cereal, milk and sweetner for breakfast. 11km Run this morning late. A USN Phedra cut slim pack drink post run. 3 Fruit for lunch. 2L's of water during the day. And chicken and salad for dinner. And at home cell, I did not even eye the presented cake!! Woo-hoo!!! Off to bed!!

19 Days left

Still failing; I'm starting something new tomorrow. But since I've been failing so much, I'd rather only write about it tomorrow night, if I succeeded... On a positive note: yesterday I ran the Winelands halfmarathon in stellenbosch; and did quite well if you take my weight in consideration!! Plus, I enjoyed it!! And that counts most for me!! The day I stop loving running, is the day I stop all together. I want to always enjoy it!! Good night world!! To a better tomorrow!!

20 Days left

If only I can find my happy place... That place where eating healthy becomes a habbit. Naturally I'm an optimist, so I'll say: as long as I keep trying... But I am feeling a bit despondant about my weight. Here's to a better eavening of eating and healthy choices tomorrow; especially at the family dinner tomorrow night! Because it IS possible to pick only the healthy foods to eat out of a table laden with traditional yummies!!! I'm going to do it!!!

23 Days left

The obvious conclusion, is that I THINK that I love running more than food, but my body would say exactely the opposite; that I love food more. Like now: I would love to go to McD's for a breakfast while my son enjoys their play area, but I think I should rather go drink some water (and there-in investing in my running). Here's to a chain of thought that will hopefullybring forth a lasting mind shift and help me loose weight!

24 Days left

I like food more than I care for my body... This is my conclusion after eating a whole slab this afternoon. I gotta stop eating for the body I have, a d start eating for the body I want. And truly: nothing tastes as good as thin feels!! I give up too easily to what I want right now vs what I want long term. God wants a relationship with me. He gave me a body and what I nourish it with is all on me. Oh self dicipline... You are in me; now I need to start choosing you... Goodnight day 24; to a better tomorrow!!

Health (and the scale)...

And so it's another 6months down the line and no real life style changes yet. I still have not lost the weight. I've started another 90 day challenge, of which there are 27 days left and I'm binging quite a bit so one week I'm down on the scale and the ne t week it's all back on again. At another effort to make a change, I'll start again... It's Saturday afternoon. Our 2yr old son's sleeping for maybe another 40mins. I've laid around and overate so far today. So, I'm going to try and pry my body off of this couch in an hours time and go do some speedwork at the gym plus some weights. I've drank 1.5ml of water and want to try and get in another 1.5ml by 5pm today. This is something new I want to try: drinking 3L's of water (rather than only 2L's per day). And then I'll have a protien drink (130cal) after the gym. And whatever we eat for dinner, I'll make it very little. Next weekend is race day: my 5th Winelands halfmarathon. I want to atleast feel strong. Which means I can't starve myself this week. I'm hoping to go run a 20km's tomorrow of hubby's cool with babysitting and me take family time for a run... I want to start doing weight training everyday of the week in the afternoons... We'll see if I can make it happen (time wise). I'm a stay home mom who does some work for hubby's business and I'm struggeling to get out to everything. I need to learn to love, respect and honour the things God has blessed me with: my body and health, husband, our son, our home... But to feel good about myself I need to feel happy and healthy in my own skin. Weightloss. The training this week: Monday some hill work. Tuesday 10km run. Wednesday rest (because of race). Thursday speedwork at the gym. Friday rest. Saturday=D-day. I just want to run comfy under 2hrs. My 1st yr: 2:06. 2nd yr 1:57. 3rd yr 1:45. Had a baby and gained weight. 4th yr 1:53. And this is the 5th. I weigh around 63kg and have 29% body fat. 27 Days... Let's see if I can change some things...

13 Weeks before d-day...

I set challenges for myself so that it'll motivate met to reach my goals... Everybody probably does it. But somehow I never reach the goals, because I loose track of where I'm going... A saying that I appreciate because I understand it (and won't abuse it): nothing tastes as good as thin feel; And then when I'm running and really hurting: pain is nothing, compared to giving up... So, I'll try and refer back to these over the next 12 weeks. I want to run one hundred minutes on the CT Classic half marathon (which is in 13 weeks). My training has started and going pretty well. But I know my body...it can't go that fast with this weight that I'm carrying along. And so, once again I'll have to looooose it!! Sleep is a big thing for me. And I've realized that I go absolutely NUTS when I need sleep and am hungry at the same time. For the next 13 days I'm just going to try and finish a challenge of not eating any sweets for 21 Days (I've failed for 7 days so far :-) ) I'm posting everyday on twitter @Maringa_vZyl And then I'll figure out how I"m gonna eat from there. I want to try some of the LCHF stuff (Banting), but just here and there. Exercise wise: I've not completely found my grove yet, but this is what's happening thus far... Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays I run 10km's with the girls at 5am Thursday's I try and do a speed work session at the gym of about 5km's And Sundays I usually try do a long run (about 20km's). The morning runs have a couple of hills in them, where the girls all walk as soon as they're over it. But I've started running back on lamp post, and speeding it back up and jogging on from there. I need to do some weight training somewhere (maybe on Saturdays). I'll try and weigh myself and take measurements so I can keep track every Friday. Plus, I'll take pics every 3 weeks. Not looking forward to the latter, but we'll see... :-) Lekker slaap wereld! I'm off to bed!!

Feeling strong!

I've finally reached a stage where I'm eating healthily but not super strict. A place where I can eat like this for the rest of my life. What a "lekker" place to be!! Plus, I'm loosing weight - little bits at a time, but it's coming off with out too much effort. Here's my recipe for now: Run 6 x a week = 60km's Breakfast cereal / toast for breakfast 5 x Almond nuts and an apple for 10 am snack Depending on my running, but lunch is a sandwich or some fruit and yogurt Again almonds and an apple for 4pm snack And what ever I've made for dinner (in moderation). Bam!! Easy-peasy! I weigh 60.7kg's now. I've lost 5kg's since December. Hoping to keep on dropping. Will keep you posted.