what?? No ketosis?

Had a lovely day with the kids as we had gone out for lunch (Dad got to have a whole quiet house to himself).  Went back to the Indonesian restaurant and ordered the Udang Bumbu Bali which consisted of prawns, sugar peas, onion, capsicum and pineapple tossed in Balinese sauce and a slight touch of chili and served on a sizzling plate. As per usual it was delicious. My 6 year old son ordered the Mi Goreng Special and it was massive and he actually was able to woof down more than half of it like there was no tomorrow! My 4yr old daughter just wanted her fruit toast with jam, that does her just fine.

I took one of those tests that you can check to see if you are in ketosis state and unfortunately it came up negative! I was really hoping it showed that I was slightly in ketosis but it was not to be. I'm going to be very strict with myself these next few days and check again.

Looking forward to my treadmill workout and the Biggest Loser weigh in. I will do a little mid week weigh in myself and see if I'm still on track.

Before I go here is a couple more tasty dinners I made last week:

Fish with mushrooms and chilli & fish and soy sauce served on an avocado and green salad (with lime dressing)

TF wrap for pizza base, chilli beef, capsicum, mushroom, red onion and ricotta cheese

Weigh in day

Went and weighed in and discovered a 1.4kg loss bringing the total for two weeks at 3.6kgs (7.9 pounds). I am quite happy with that so far.

It's only morning here so my day hasn't really started to post what I got up to so I've decided to post up some of the yummy dishes I've made during the week.

TF Chicken curry vegetables on no-natoes

Chicken strogonoff with vegetables on cabbage

I made this recipe using the allowable beef strogonoff sauce (from the chicken tonight products) and added chicken, mushrooms, capsicum and diced zucchini on a bed of steamed cabbage.

I have a couple of others to post up so I will do that tomorrow. Just have to try and stay cool today with the temperature hitting 38c (100.4 degree Fahrenheit) apparently we are having this same temperature for the next 7 days.. phew!

Finally Friday!!!!

Missed a night but after I managed to get my treadmill program in I practically crashed into bed. Watched the Biggest Loser and one of the challenges was on the treadmill and I thought I would try and match them, I think I scare the kids when they thought I was going to go flying off as it was so fast (well 10-12kph is pretty fast to me).  My ankle is still giving me pain, when I was on a holiday I was walking on a jetty and just quickly turned one way and my ankle turned the other. Boy that hurt a lot! and here I am now 6 weeks later and it still kind of hurts a little.

Shakes, water, salad, fruit all that again and for tea I had my left over chilli beef with no-natoes which is a substitute for mashed potatoes. It's cauliflower steamed (or boiled) and light philly cheese and pepper and mixed with a hand blender to smooth it out with no lumps. So much more healthier than the potato.

My exercise:

Thursday
Time spent on treadmill: 60min
Distance: 5.61kms
Calories: 280
Within the above time I was on and off with the speeds 5 - 6kph. For 30minutes I went from 5kph to 8kph for a light run, continued to do this for 2mins (walk 2min/ran 2min)

Friday
Time spent on treadmill: 36min
Distance: 2.16k
Calories: 108
Program: P6 (Same program I did on Tuesday with the walk/run/walk/run every 3mins)

My weigh in is tomorrow, so I'm excited to see how that goes.

Let's get ready to Zumba!!

Went to zumba tonight but for some reason my heart wasn't in it. I had a feeling because I worked so late and rushed home to get dinner ready for the family and then by the time I sat down and had my dinner, Zumba was starting within the next hour. Usually  I don't like eating one hour beforehand but I also don't like eating after my workout. So now I feel blah and bloated.

The TF program wasn't too bad today, did everything I was suppose to do. I jumped on the wii this morning to check my weight on wii fit and it told me I'm losing weight way too fast and I should only lose the kilo in two weeks not one week. I'm aiming for the kilo a week so will have to put up with its telling me off every time I jump on it.

Ate my spicy beef again because I so enjoyed it the other night. I'm not one for liking chili but it does actually give lots of flavour to a meal. So now I'm fan.

Time to say goodnight and lets see what tomorrow brings in my fitness world.

Just another workout

 (and Despicable Me)

Today I did my usual thing with the shakes and ate my quota of food for the day but the kids took my attention away in the afternoon with a movie, Despicable Me. Even though they have seen it a number of times, it was my first time actually sitting down to it and really enjoyed it. Dinner was sausages, chicken satays and salad. Everyone full up I went on the treadmill for the P6 workout as last night but this time I saw it through. So happy with myself as I don't run at all and did on and off 12 minutes of running tonight without losing breath. What an achievment!!!

Just so I can keep my own treadmill stats:

36min 1.0
33min 5.0
30min 7.0
27min 1.0
24min 7.0
21min 1.0
18min 7.0
15min 1.0
12min 7.0
9min 1.0
6min 5.0
3min 1.0
0min finished

12 minutes of running for me is just bloody awesome!!! Haven't done that since I was younger lol

Mmmm Pizza

Today I started off with my shake, it was different to the usual shakes Tony Ferguson's has in the range. Apparently there is Omega 6 and something like Omega 3 in the regular shakes. I bought 3 banana Omega 6 shakes and had one this morning, oh my goodness, it's not very nice. It took away the normally lovely taste of the banana and replaced it with something horrible. I will just have to stay away from those ones.

Made a lovely dinner tonight, TF site had a recipe for spicy beef pizza (TF wrap, chilli, mince, mushrooms, ricotta cheese, onion, capsicum) The wrap wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, It does become a little hard and I could imagine it would make great dipping chips.

I managed to check out one of the treadmill inbuilt programs and to see how would I go it went like:

36min 1.0 speed
33min 5.0 speed
30min 7.0 speed
27min 1.0 speed
24min 7.0 speed

That's about how much I did. I had also went to a Zumba class so another 1 hour cardio under my belt. I've been doing Zumba since March 2010 and absolutely love it! So I've go the exercise going well, I'm just hoping there will be results soon.

Treadmill stats Day 1

Morning
Walked 35 minutes
Calories burnt: 138
Distance: 2.76
Incline: 5.0
Speed: 6.0

Biggest Loser weigh in is on tonight and I thought why not do another 35 minutes on the treadmill while watching (instead of sitting there with my big dinner).

Just downloading the C25K Iphone app... don't know much about the program but you do something like short bursts of walking and running and at the end of the 9 week program you will be able to run 5kms non stop. That just made me feel faint just thinking about it!

Evening
Walked 60 minutes
Calories burnt: 265
Distance: 5.30
Incline: 10.0>5.00
Speed: 5.5>6.0

Had a lovely afternoon at a Thai restaurant with some good company. Still trying to think healthy so I opted for the vegetable stir fry in oyster sauce. I was quite happy to pass the steam rice to my daughter.

Time to lose!

I had decided that I need to lose weight and it was a week ago that I had got back on the wagon. I went with Tony Ferguson as I was successful with them before losing 19kgs in 5 months and what a great feeling that was. Now that was in 2007 and now its 2011 and this weight that I had lost has slowly crept back up again.

I have never blogged before but I have a feeling that just maybe this will motivate me to keep going. Even if its only my personal record, at least it will be something I can look back on hopefully at a time that I have achieved my weight loss goals and feel proud of it.

So far this week (started on Saturday, 12th February 2011), I've done my shakes, salad, x2 fruits a day, protein/allowable vegetables, 2 litres of water a day, treats all done all good. When it came to Saturday I went with the help of my sister to pick up a treadmill I've hired for 3 months. It was a fair distance from where I lived and being so early my sister and her friend was hungry so we searched around for somewhere to eat. We ended up at a Dome cafe and looking at their menu, usually I would go for the works... bacon, eggs, toast, mushrooms, sausage, hash brown, tomato. No, I decided to think healthy so went for the healthiest thing on the menu which was muesli, yogurt, fruit, lite milk... and a skinny cappacino, it was yum! and I was happy. Next I knew I had to get a start on my 2litres of water a day, so let that begin. Arriving home they managed to squeeze the treadmill through our little walkway and then we set it up. After me and my kids had a little go, run, walk, push buttons got that out of the way I decided to have my first session.

I went to the pharmacy to weigh in and knowing I had already had 1 litre of water and the Dome breakfast I had still managed to lose 2kgs which was fantastic!

Now lets bring on the next week!