Day 12 - I'm increasingly tired...more and more everyday. Although it's only the first half of the mornings from Wednesday-increasing in tiredness untill friday... Last night I had a hand full of nuts and a quarter can of condensed milk for dinner... That could of course be one of the tiredness culprits :-) . I had a usn shake for breakfast (i prefer to drink it with water). Morning snack was a large green apple. And for lunch i indulged in a bowl of lean biltong slices! Oh, it was yum! But probably too much. And then i drowned myself with 2 cans of coke! I never even drink coke, but I gulped these 2 away in no time. So now I feel really guilty... Plus we don't have dinner plans yet, so I'm fearing that... Hoping that I choose salad tonight! I only did a small amount of tummy exercises today, but see this as my rest day. Tomorrow I'll be running 20 odd kilometers with the club and can't wait for it! And then there's the tea party which I've been invited to... I hope they have salad!!!

Day 10 & 11... Yesterday went super well! Although I had to walk twice up the hill at the end of our 10k AM jog. I felt on top of the world because my head is in the right place concerning this challenge and I'm not craving anything! But I was tired at work. But the day went fine. Today I struggled again with a lack of energy on the last hill of our run, but Juanita wouldn't allow me to walk and I'm so thankful for her for pushing me to finish it rather! I'm feeling a bit down...and tired. I really want to go climb in bed and just sleep this day over... I'm disappointed in the lack of energy I have because I also wanted to go do some speed training with the athletics club this afternoon, but I don't think I'll make it like this! I had a shake for breakfast and a cheat meal for lunch - kfc wrap, chips and a juice. Compared to everything healthy yesterday. Tonight I have no idea what I'll eat... My cupboards are empty. I hope I'll stand strong and make it a proud moment!

Yesterday I weighed in... I've picked up 200grams which is not a train smash since it's also PMS-week for me and I'm probably holding back some water. But the important bit, is that I lost 0.3% body fat during last week! And that's huge for me! I'm currently weighing 59.4kg and have 18.9% body fat. Weight-wise I don't have a goal, but I would like to get my body fat % down to 14% during the next 11 weeks of this 12week challenge. My friend Nerine has a goal to loose 9kg's and we're weighing about the same now, so I've challenged her to see who of us can get so 57kg's first!! And so far, this week has been good. For breakfast I had 2 apples and a naartjie. My mid morning snack was a bite of chicken and an apple. Lunch was 100g's of chicken (here I cheated-i added some mayo)... Afternoon snack is an apple and a naartjie. I'll only af taking my 1Usn capsule at 4pm before my 45min. spinning class. Followed by dinner at around 7pm. Which will be salad and chicken.

Day 8... Drank 2 phedra cuts before am run. Ran 10km's before work. Breakfast: half water/half milk usn chocolate shake-blended with a small banana-YUM dot com!! For real! And now i'm going for my weigh-in, in half an hour! Super nervous since this weekend wasn't picture perfect eating and exercise-wise... I'll be having fruit for lunch. And a 4pm snack followed by 2phedra cuts to help with my pm training, which will be hill session with my athletics club. I can't wait for it, since I haven't been to one of those in about 2months! I'm excited to see how my strength is doing! Dinner will be before 8pm and will consist of about 100g skinless chicken en a BIG plate of salad!! This week is THE week that I'm NOT going to cheat on fatty, sweet or excess carbs!!

(Another) Day 2

So, it's Day 2 of my "loosing 3kg's in one week" -week.

And honestly - I already want to give up...

Last night I ate a bread roll AND pudding!

Of course both of which aren't on my eating plan...

:-(

Can you feel my discouragement?!

But breathing in (and sipping on my non-fat, basically-no-calorie hot chocolate: Tantelizing milky mix drink https://www.pnponline.co.za/ProductList.aspx?CategoryName=Groceries&SearchFor=milky), makes me feel a bit better.

Head up high I must remember the awesome Hill-session I had last night. I really gave it my all and wanted to die most of the way, but I'm hear to tell ya'll about it - meaning I survived (and burnt the calories!!)

Going for a beauty treatment in an hour's time and as we all know: this makes the world of difference, because I'll feel perky and ready for life again!

Taking on my challenge with full confidence!

I forgot my strawberries (lunch) at home today - so I'll just substitute one of my apples (snack) to go with the hand full of nuts for today's lunch.

Otherwise, I'll be eating (and planning to eat) the same as yesterday.

Also, tonight I'll be running a 4km time trial for exercise. (Not exactly the amount of exercise I should do, but it'll have to do - we're looking at going out tonight so there just ain't any other time.)

Okay, boring blab's gonna stop now...

And I'm gonna make it through the day and SUCCEED!!!

3 Kg's to loose!!

This week I WILL loose 3kg's!!!

I know it's too much at a time, but I know that I can go for a boost, since I've been eating so badly over the weekend!

(Inhale and exhale...)

There!

Now I'm ready!!

Breakfast: protein and vedge/salad (today was a bit silly, but the only thing in this line I had time for was a boiled egg [without the yolk] and a quarter of a cucumber)

10 o'clock snack: 3 provita's and an apple

Lunch: I went out with mom, who's visiting and had half a vegetarian wrap (but was going to eat some strawberries and a hand full of nuts)

3 o'clock snack: (the one which I'm having now), is again 3 provita's and an apple.

Dinner will be some vedge/salad with meat (protein).

I"m only on my 4th glass of water and only have an hour left before I stop taking in fluids - I'm exercising (running hills with the club) right after work and there are no loo's in the vicinity!!

Weighing in at just over 63kg's...I'll see ya'll on the other side of those 3kg's!!

M

My 2nd half marathon...

And I did it!!
And it was awesome!!!

Although I'm glad I didn't take picture of how I looked in my new outfit, because...ish - white legs and the ski-pants was way too short PLUS it kept riding up as I ran...eeek!
So that memory aside (and the main reason why there's no pic) - the rest of the experience and memories still puts a huge grin on my face!!

We started running and I was advised to take it slow - which was my strategy, since I won't know how my body's going to handle the long distance (without resting inbetween).
I was running with the very last pack and gradually just moved up my pace untill I felt comfotable at 5:37min's/km. I forced myself not to go faster than that.
I focused on the tranquil scenery - the woods beside us, the stream below us...it was 'n great day for a run. Some misty-like rain and overcast...everything green and fresh...

Untill we reached the halfway mark - and I could tell that I can better my previous time (of 2h and 6min's). I picked up my pace and started focusing on the guy infront of me - in catching up with him!!
As the km's flew past, I saw that I would be able to make it (probably) in, on 2hours!!
I grew extatic!!
But decided to save the last splurtch of energy for the last 3km's.

And so I did!

I gave it my all and finished super strong in a PB of 1h and 57min's!!!

I still can't believe that my body felt so strong (even afterwards)!!!
It must be the extra practice runs I've been putting in?!

Yesterday I went for a casual run from home and felt like a million bucks!
But tonight's another mile stone...4km time trial: running the 4km's as fast as I possibly can...

Frightened yet again...The worst I can do is 20min's. The best I can do is 19:20min's...and I so hope that I'll be able to do it like that...

I got a bit of a nasal drip enflaming my throught, but that won't keep me from running (the neck-rule applies here: if you're not dizzy and the sickness is just from the neck upwards - you can run...rule of thumb).

Okay...hou duim vas!