Fresh start... but not this morning...

MMM Nutella, Nutella sandwiches (with white toast bread) are so yummy and totally associated with my childhood memories. I made the big mistake of buying it last week when we were waiting 3 days with no fridge and stove. I figured bread and nutella are hardy breakfasts.haha!

However, now I'm addicted and pretty much finished half the jar in a week.

Last week must of been the worst of my eating of all time! I can not even express the amount of donuts and french fries I consumed in a week!

BUT, I need to get back on track. Should I just throw away the half eatn jar? Or just stash it way back in the cupboard. Hmm I know if I leave it in the open I will continue eating it everyday!

My husband finished painting the spare bedrooms and I decided to put my gazelle and mini trampoline in one of the rooms for easy access to my workout equip.

New goals for the week start today! (similar to all my goals) but really I have no more excuses now!

1. No donuts or french fries!!!!!!
2. Eat as many home cooked meals in a week at least 5 days of the 7
3. Limit carb intake at dinners
4. 1/2 hour on the gazelle
5. 5 mins a day on the trampoline
6. drink plenty of water/tea
7. Supplements; Take fish oil pills with lunch, soy lecithin twice a day and 5htp at night.

I also heard that bathing in Epsom salts are really good for water retention. Do you know if that is true? I'll look that up now too.

Catching Up

Yikes, I'm so behind on reading all my fav blogs, sorry everyone. I'm going to try and catch up with my reading today.

The move went smooth and we already have lots of painting completed and most rooms are set up. I have my office all set up (well all books are still in the boxes BUT they are hidden in the closet for now and maybe forever haha!) I'm sitting in my new office right now. Check out my new view!

I'm so happy we chose a house with the greenery around too, I love love love nature! (and behind those trees in the above pic, is a trail! Whoohoo) (Below is the old view)



Even though this is our second house there is still so much I need to buy to make it complete.

I hope some of you can give me your opinion on this Chandelier below. It is in the hallway near the bedrooms, the old owners left it, but they took the one that was in the dining room. So to save some money on a chandelier I'm thinking of putting this in the dining room and buying a normal type light for the hallway and save like 300 dollars (I think, don't really know how much chandeliers cost, never had to buy one before I assume they are expensive haha)

This week I NEEED NEEED to get back on track with all my goals. I decided to not weigh myself for a long while. I'm too chicken! Our appliances just arrived on Tuesday and they are still not set up yet, so just imagine my food intake since Friday. I think I ate at every fast food place existing.

By Monday I want to have my new workout/eating plan for a fresh start.

Since I'm also looking for the dreaded J O B I need to set my goals on this as well. Today I updated my resume again and started applying to some jobs so that's a start.

Tomorrows Friday already and that will be a week that I've been in the new home! ;)

suburbia, say hello to the city couple

Finally the day has arrived! Tomorrow we move from our city home downtown Toronto to the Suburbs! Although the city we are moving to calls itself Vaughan, the City above Toronto haaah It's true it says that on signs and on their city website. It really is only about 20-25 mins to get back and from down here so I can't really complain. Down in the city we still have both our parents and brothers and sisters so we will be down here a lot I'm sure.

Some things I won't miss from the busy city.
- Parking tickets! I have 5 in my purse right now!
-Parking permit to park on the street
-Traffic EVERYWHERE
-Construction EVERYWHERE
-Toronto's Mayor (not on my good list)
- Garbage bin TAX (grr, we need to pay to throw out trash!)
- higher car insurance

Our pockets will be happy when we're gone!

Some things I'm looking forward to in the new city are;

-Closer drive to coffee ...and groceries,... and mall...and salons...and everything within 5min driving!
-NO street construction!
-PARKINGLOTS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! ahahah
-Quiet calmer streets
-cheaper car insurance!
-No garbage tax!
-the happiest thing for us a GARAGE! whoohoo. No more street parking!

Another thing I'm looking forward to is the jog through all the streets and trails, can't wait to get back on track next week after the move.

I have NOT done my weight in for a while and don't plan to until next week. Next week I am going to get focused and start fresh, new start for the new home, new job and a new me;)

Excited!

Always a First

MMM Churros. This weekend the neighborhood had a festival at the park in front of our house and since it was our last weekend here we decided to go and have fun! Fun meaning eat all the yummy food they were selling. If you don't know what Churros are, you sure are missing out! It's a spanish donut sort of thing... fried dough pretty much coated in sugar and whatever topping you like. I had plain and Caramel milk ones. Yum! A gazilion calories I am sure.

We also stopped at a favorite ice cream shop up the street where I grew up and had a Limone ice cream in memory of my Dad for fathers day. My dad use to always take us to this place when we were little and it's one of my happiest memories of my dad.


All that being said I can say my weekly goals went out the window this weekend. Since we are moving this week today will pretty much be the last day I cook at home and this week will be far from diet friendly.

Once this week is over I will be sure to start up a strict diet plan, I need NEED to drop at least 15 lbs this summer. Could this be possible!? I don't know. But I will need to work at it a lot harder than I am to get there.

My mini goals for this hectic week:
Choose healthier choices - No Fries - Do donuts! (my weaknesses)
Drink a lot of water
10000 steps 3 times this week.

Simple enough ;)

Hopefully next week I will be ready to re-start my plans.

Oh and as my title says "always a first" I got my first speeding ticket! Going 56km on a 40km street :( I've been driving for 12 years! and this is my first time being pulled over. I was so upset and it pretty much ruined my Sunday evening. Can't get over it! Blah!

Happier things... The move will be fun, my sister and brother in laws are all coming to help :) 4 more days!!! (and 1 more day till our 2 year wedding anniversary! ;) Time flys!

TGIF!

Whoohoo for Friday! Weekend is here and I'm hoping to get some of my trail walks in to make up the rest of my 10000 for the week! I'm doing just ok with eating at home. I get kind of bored with my meals and I guess you can say lazy too! Last night we went for Sushi and I always over eat at Sushi not to mention cause it was a All you can eat Sushi Restaurant Ha! I was doomed from the start. Tonight I'm going to make chicken wings with the new buffalo sauce I bought, mm Hoping it is yummy! One of my easiest meals to make are chicken wings or legs, I pop em in the oven and just make a salad and out comes a hassle free/mess free meal ;) However the husband has been complaining for a more RED MEAT diet, and I'm not the biggest fan of cooking my own meat. I do what I can but I can say that 3/5 times I don't even eat the meat I cook. It's something about the smell of meat when it's cooking that totally turns me off, and if the meat takes llike meat at all, yucky I can't have it. Buuuut give me ribs or steak and a restaurant and I'm all over those! hahah!

One more week till the move, feels like we have been waiting FOREVER! 3 months felt like forever! I'm so going to miss this house and area ;( I consider this my first move just because my mom lives up the street where I was living before so I've been in this area all 27 years of my life! Now we are going to Suburbia half hour away! haha I'm not making it sound too great am I. I admit I'm going through some really weird up and down emotions lately. But weekend is here and I really want to watch the Proposal if we can fit that in :)

My little living room full of boxes!

Have a great weekend everyone.

PS.I've been really thinking of changing up my weight loss routine since weight has not budged for a while. I'll have an update Monday.

Hump Day Update!

I found a site that I was able to put my current weight and desired weight and get these cute images. So I put what I originally started at and a goal weight of 128 (Not even close). Like I mentioned before I am more bottom heavy, I don't think the pics really look like my body- add more thickness to the legs for the top one and there its me lol ahhaa.

Last night my sister and I went for a 2 hour walk and took 12500 steps! I was shocked! :) And boy was I exhausted when I got home!

My weight has not changed for a while now, I'm guessing I should make more changes than what I have been doing but I will reevaluate Monday.

Job hunt has begun, which is really hard. I've had many different positions and have a college diploma in Business and a software testing certificate so I've been in the office industry and in the IT world. I'm a little confused on what to go towards now since being laid off... I will misssss being home!! :( too many changes to overcome these days. All I can repeat in my head is that it only means I'm growing towards my dreams ;)

What career path do you have? Do you enjoy what you do? Have you changed career paths lately?

Food Plan for the week

Last week was good and bad all mixed together :) I did ok reaching some high numbers on the pedometer this weekend. 13500 Sunday alone :) Proud of that. Not so proud of the Big mac and fries I had on Sunday (bad bad!). I'm the classic emotional eater. When stressed, Big mac always makes me feel better, Ha! that is so bad isn't it!

The move is in 2 weeks and the house is upside down! I'm also trying to consume all frozen foods since our appliances don't come till the next day after the move, I really don't want to waste food especially on our super tight budget.

On that note, I'm looking for work these days as well. Our online company is doing well but I think our move was more expensive than we thought. So my job hunt has become more serious!! Boo :( Is it bad that I actually enjoy being home? I love the time for myself I get so much done working on the online business and to tell you the truth we save money too ;) Buuut We need all the extra cash we can get at least until we settle in and get our numbers straight. I'm pretty good at time management so I am sure that even with Full time work I can get all my extra activities fit in there as well. ;)

On a better note. My asthma is improving! With the meds I take daily, I haven't had coughing or wheezing for at least 5 days straight! I'm super happy about this! I'm going to try and run a couple laps this week and see if I have improvement in my breathing :)

Grocery shopping yesterday was a success, I bought lots of meals to be cooked at home :) So I will plan my meals out so that way we can stay AWAY from Fast Food! Bought a new wing sauce for wings :) Love eating weeks cause I can eat them with just a salad as a side. I'm trying to minus the carbs as much as we can.

Here are my new goals for the week. (Well same as last weeks, I didn't add anything from last weeks goals, I think I need to work hard on these 5 goals and FOCUS!)

1. Continue cooking at home (Plan meals)
2. Limit or fully cut out fast food, no fries!
3. No coffee shop foods, only coffee
4. Workout 3-5 times a week (1hour workouts) and/or 10000 steps on the pedometer.
5. No eating after 7pm.

Gotta Step it up! Help!

I only did 4528 steps yesterday, I opted out of my trail walk to watch the movie the Hangover (crazy funny a little disturbing ahahah!)

This week has not been good on the diet side. Altho I'm cooking at home, I'm eating wayy too much and I also made cookies the other night and ate like 10 of them!!!! I don't know what is up with this week I'm thinking (blaming) the move is too stressful and I feel my motivation diminishing. How can I break out of this lazy bump? I need to get it back! Good thing it's still cool here in Toronto because wearing shorts or even a bikini can not happen for me yet. :( I feel so frustrated!

This is the park across my street, today there are a couple of ppl with their personal trainers (ha!I should join them!) watching them is making me feel so bad for not achieving my goals this week. I'm going to head out this afternoon for a walk and hopefully achieve my 10000 steps today. :)

Have a great weekend everyone ;)

Hump day update - gorgeous day!

A nice sunny day love these days! Still a little cool but at least the Sun is out. Monday was so cold that the heat in the house went on! Hopefully our summer comes out soon! Actually I take that back, soon but I also need to get bikini ready which I am not!

I Did my weigh in today and I am exactly the same! I need to boost this up! I've been reading other blogs and I read that Acai pills or Hoodia are really good to aid in weight loss. When I was younger I was obsessed with weight loss pills, I would take anything that sounded promising. I even bought these "Brazilian Diet pills" From a customer from a job I was at for something like 300 dollars for a month in a half! I was crazy! They did work tho. My friend and I still laugh about it because we lost a lot of weight but once off them we both gained double the weight back!!!!!

So I'm verrrry sceptical these days about taking anything different. However, I am feeling a little desperate these days.

I added lunges to my daily routine. I'm more bottom heavy and my thighs are my main issue! My thighs prevent me from finding good fitting pants, and Jeans, ha! forget it! I own only 1 pair and not a fan of how I look in them..I hate it! Tights and long tops have become my daily wear.

I've been doing well with my pedometer, I love how I'm constantly aware of how many steps I do. I haven't hit the park yet so my yesterday and monday I only got up to 7500 and 5500 steps, but today I will reach my 10000 or above when I hit the trails!

Packing the house for the move is almost done ;) I have some empty rooms now. I have mixed feelings of happiness and sadness all mixed together lol whaa to that!

Feel'n gloomy on this gloomy Monday

I wish I got more ZZZZZZ's last night. I was awake all night coughing like crazy. I'm pretty sure that the Asthma meds made me sick, I have a horrible sore throat and coughing soo much. I slept on the living room couch yesterday cause I felt bad waking up the husband coughing all night when he had work this morn. I can tell you I feel horrible today, I went out for lunch and grabbed a latte and right now I'm still dosing off as I'm writing. Not a good start of the week! whaa!

I didn't do a weigh in today, maybe I will be brave on my Wednesday update. I've been doing good and bad. My pedometer is really a great help and I get excited to increase the steps cause it's so fun! Ok so last weeks goals are below, let's see how I did...

1. Continue cooking at home ( I did really well all week, however we did eat out a couple times on the weekend ;( Below was one of the meals I made. Haddock kabob with spinach salad, rice and a samosa YUM!

2. Limit or fully cut out fast food, no fries! (eee had fries once this week ;(
3. No coffee shop foods, only coffee ( Had timbits, not thaaaat bad lol)
4. Workout 3-5 times a week (1hour workouts) ( 4 times)
5. 1 minute push ups everyday (only 3 times)
6. 1 minute jumping on trampoline (i'll move my trampoline to the first floor, my husband said he dosnt want me breaking the house before our move hahahah! Nice huh. ( Did not get a chance to jump around lol)
7. Try and relax and not let stress get to me, read every night before bed to relax my mind (Tried but the move is really stressing us both out and we are fighting a lot!)

For this week I'm going to make similar goals and minusing out some previous ones.

1. Continue cooking at home
2. Limit or fully cut out fast food, no fries!
3. No coffee shop foods, only coffee
4. Workout 3-5 times a week (1hour workouts) and/or 10000 steps on the pedometer.
5. No eating after 7pm. ( I did this a couple times last week and weight was down the next morning, sounds good to me!)


Keeping it short and simple this week ;)