Polly Dolly - Bump

Welcome to Polly Dolly Challenge - Week 31:  This week's topic is .  Go visit www.danimezza.com and check out some of the other bloggers links too.

I have not yet been pregnant but if I happen to become pregnant in the next 5 years this is what I would wear!

What is your Dolly wearing?

Fat to Fit - Simple changes

WHAT SIMPLE CHANGES CAN YOU MAKE TO BETTER YOUR LIFE?

• Add more fibre to your diet - Change your bread or cereal
• Snack on fruit of vegetables not processed food
• Slowly reduce your sugar intake
• Eat healthy oils
• Add extra vegetables into dishes like spaghetti, lasagne, pasta sauces you won't even notice after time 
• Avoid shopping on an empty stomach
• Park your car further away in the shopping center car park
• Invest in a pedometer
• Drink green tea instead of coffee
• Eat smaller meals 
• Up your water intake

WHAT I DID LAST WEEK:

• I rode 23.26km Cross Country Mountain Biking @ Daisy Hill on Sunday 31st October
• Monday - Friday I ate fruit instead of processed snacks
• Wednesday - Went for a 5km walk with my partner and dog

CHANGES I'M MAKING THIS WEEK:

• Do more exercise
• Eat more whole foods instead of processed foods
• Watch portion sizing
• Eating fruit and vegetables instead of processed snack foods 
• Doing a morning workout with My Workout on Lifestyle You channel or afternoon workout with Zuzana on www.bodyrock.tv

My Aim this week:

• Is to drink less and exercise more.
• I am limiting myself to 2 alcoholic drinks on 2 days a week. 
• Do more free weight training
• Start running
• Walk the dog
• Ride more

Pedometer readings for the week of 30th October - 4th November

Friday	9795 steps	5.97 km
Saturday	6262 steps	3.81 km
Sunday	15484 steps	9.44 km   1.0 Points
Monday	10823 steps	6.60 km
Tuesday	11326 steps	6.90 km   0.5 Points
Wednesday	17355 steps	10.58 km 1.5 Points
Thursday	11269 steps	6.87 km 0.5 Points

Measurements

Waist: 68cm (at smallest part)

Hips: 82cm (on hip bone)

Bust: 87.5cm

Arms: Right 26cm Left 26cm

Thighs: Right 50cm Left 51cm

Weight: 49.5 THURSDAY AM.  

What simple changes are you making?

Wednesday Wants

Wine Glass rings

 Jansartsmocks

 

Passion for love

 

Hand poured Creations

Dandelion Lampshade

The Owls are Hunting

Post-it-note Tuesday

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What's on your post-it's?

Blog This - Challenge 60 - Vegetables saved my life

Challenge 60 is to share with everyone one of those lessons that you had to learn the hard way, and that you therefore won't forget!

Challenge Starts: Friday, 29th October
Challenge Ends: Wednesday 3rd November 8 pm
Voting Starts: Friday 5th November
Voting Ends: Thursday 11th November 8pm Sydney Time
Winner Announced: Sunday 14th November

The Hardest Lesson I learnt!

I am 30 and the hardest lesson I have had to learn is how to eat vegetables.

You might think it is strange that I had to learn to eat vegetables but I did. I used to only eat: Peas, Potato, Carrots, Corn and Green Beans, nothing else! I had always been a small and fussy eater as a kid and teen. My diet consisted mainly of carbs and meat with very few vegetables. When I turned 28 it all changed, I had put on 20 plus kg. It was all because hadn't eaten a salad until I was 28. 

I began a diet by Tony Ferguson, which consisted mainly of vegetables and meal replacement shakes. I did this diet knowing to be successful I'd have to force myself out of my comfort zone and eat vegetables (those nasty and icky ones with no taste or looked horrible). For almost a year I was on this diet. I introduced zucchini, broccoli, broccolini, avocado, spinach, watercress, shallots, cauliflower, squash, snow peas, lettuce, tomato, celery, sweet potato, asparagus, olives, pumpkin and many more colourful and weird looking vegetables into my diet. 

Now I can't imagine going back. Not only have I introduced vegetables but many other foods I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I now eat prawns, fish, scallops, oysters, sour cream, duck, sushi & shashimi. (I am sure there is more I have forgotten) 

I now love exercise; in my 20's the only exercise I did was walk around University or the shops. I would not have ever thought I'd regularly ride 20km on a Sunday morning, or run 5km and enjoy it. I do weights and cardio of a morning and follow it up with 5 - 10 km of walking around my workplace. 

I have changed my diet and lifestyle and lost around 25kg to become a healthier and happier person. I didn't want to die of bowel cancer or a heart attack like my grandparents.

Over the past two years:

• I have learnt to try new things
• I have learnt in order to become healthy and fit I've have to learn to like things I would never have thought I'd like in my lifetime
• I have learnt because a vegetable may look or sound gross it most probably won't be once you try it.
• I have learnt to love cooking with new and different ingredients
• by trying new things I broaden my taste-buds
• I have become easier to please with food choices (I now can go to a seafood restaurant and not worry about what I am going to eat)
• I have become less irritable
• I have become stronger
• I have become healthier
• I have become lighter
• I have become a better ME!

What lesson have you learnt?

Renovations Week 6

Polly Dolly - Lace

Welcome to Polly Dolly Challenge - Week 30: 
This week's topic is Lace. 
Go visit www.danimezza.com and check out some of the other bloggers links too.

Polly Dolly - Lace & Pearls by adalita featuring lanvin handbags

What is your Dolly wearing?

Fat to fit - Go Figure

WHAT SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE BODY CONFIDENCE?

• Smile
• Standing up tall and  do not slouch
• Wearing clothes that suit you well and fit
• You can accept yourself and be yourself, and still dislike certain parts of your body and personality
• Realise there is no perfect body – only good health
• Shake of negative thoughts or comments
• Commit to exercise, keeping fit and healthy
• How you stand; if you stand with arms cross it does not look like you are happy or confident
• being confident with your skin, moisturising and looking after it by eating well (not wearing fake or a real tan)
• Focus on living your life not just going on with day to day tasks

CHANGES I'M MAKING THIS WEEK:

Do more exercise

Eat more whole foods instead of processed foods

Watch portion sizing
Eating fruit and vegetables instead of processed snack foods

My Aim this week:

Is to drink less and exercise more.

I am limiting myself to 2 alcoholic drinks on 2 days a week. 

Do more free weight training

Start running

Pedometer readings for the week of 15th- 22nd October

Friday	9351 steps	5.64 km
Saturday	16340 steps	9.96 km 1.5points
Sunday	8450 steps	5.75 km
Monday	9963 steps	6.07 km
Tuesday	8291 steps	5.05 km
Wednesday	10491 steps	6.39 km
Thursday	--steps	-- km

Measurements

Waist: 74cm (at smallest part)

Hips: 86cm (on hip bone)

Bust: 88cm

Arms: Right 26.4cm Left 26.1cm

Thighs: Right 50.1cm Left 51cm

Weight: 48.6 THURSDAY AM.  

What do you love about your body?

Wednesday Wants

CocoRuby

Stone keyring

"The Journey" CanTeen Bandanna Necklace

Flights of fancy 

9ct Gold Cross necklace 

BowerBird Designs

Tea for one

Hey Emmaline

{ All photos from www.madeit.com.au }



What are your wants?

Post-it-note Tuesday

 Today is Post-it Note Tuesday!

What's on your post-it's?

Renovations Week 5

This weekend was very exciting as we did some more demolition inside the house and most of the external frames are up. We are waiting on trusses and the structural steel to finish the rest. I hope it survived the rain last night as there are a few holes in the house now.

new laundry

4 car garage onto entertainment area

the master bedroom

new ensuite

my walk in robe and bed 3 extension

Entry to our master bedroom and Greg's Walk in robe

The old study (to become bed3)

The old laundry (to be the entry to our master bedroom)

laundry ceiling

It is very exciting. Yesterday we finished a few heads and window framing. Greg is working today at the house so hopefully more progress.

Win your covetish wishlist!

Summer is here and Covetish.com is giving you the chance to win your pick of summer style worth $5000!

Sign up and tell them in 25 words or less where you'd wear your perfect summer wardrobe. Once registered, log in to browse, search and save your favourite styles to create your Covetish wishlist!

One lucky fashionista will win their wishlist to the value of $5000, and 6 runners up will win items from their wishlist.


What's on your wishlist?

Fat to Fit - What's realistic?

WHAT IS REALISTIC WHEN LOSING WEIGHT?
Loosing up to 1kg each week any more is not good for your body or metabolism
Have a good support system you will need them
Don't expect to change your diet over night and not have setbacks

Don't expect your body to be perfect once the weight is gone.
muscle and fat ratio is different. they may weigh the same but muscle take up less room; muscle is good!
Find an exercise you can continue all year and in all conditions, you will make less excuses for not doing it.
Don't aim for a number on the scale (I use it to track how I am going) Aim for a size or measurement something more tangible than a number.

CHANGES I'M MAKING THIS WEEK:

Do more exercise

Eat more whole foods instead of processed foods

Watch portion sizing

My Aim this week:

Is to drink less and exercise more.

I am limiting myself to 2 alcoholic drinks on 2 days a week.

Pedometer readings for the week of 15th- 22nd October

Friday	686 steps	0.41 km
Saturday	16793 steps	10.24 km
Sunday	3909 steps	2.38 km
Monday	7823 steps	4.77 km
Tuesday	6174 steps	3.76 km
Wednesday	11489 steps	7.00 km 0.5
Thursday	--steps	-- km

Measurements

Waist: 74cm (at smallest part)

Hips: 86cm (on hip bone)

Bust: 88cm

Arms: Right 26.4cm Left 26.1cm

Thighs: Right 50.1cm Left 51cm

Weight: 49.3 THURSDAY AM.  

What do you see as being realistic in your weightloss journey?

Polly Dolly - My Bag; My Way!

Welcome to Polly Dolly Challenge - Week 29: 

This week's topic is your bag your way. 

Go visit www.danimezza.com and check out some of the other bloggers links too.

polly dolly -mybag; my way by adalita featuring grey jewelry

What is your Dolly wearing?

What would you try if you knew you could not fail?

If I could not fail; I would try surfing.

I am a terrible swimmer, I can swim a little but not enough to get out behind the breakers to surf. I am very uncoordinated, I have no sense of balance. I don't like the feel being underwater, and you need to do this when surfing. I love watching the gracefulness and agility of the surfers on the Gold Coast beaches in summer. There is something hypnotic about surfing, the calmness and yet knowing at any moment you'll be on the high of catching the ultimate wave in. 

What would you try if you knew you could not fail?

Wednesday Wants

Ella Clutch

QueenBee

Summer Stripes Pillow

Emma Kate's

Vinyl Swallow brooch

Turn Left Here

What are you Wednesday Wants?

Post-it-note Tuesday

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What's on your post-it's?

Weekend Wrap up

Saturday consisted of house framing. Which was fun but very busy, I even shot off a few nails with one of the two nail guns we had going.

Saturday Night we were standing in the presence of Metallica. And it was awesome as one banner unfurled by fans across the arena said, "METALLICA... Nothing Else Matters!"
There wasn't any over the top theatrics just Metallica and thousands of their closest fans. They used lazers and coffin shaped lighting rigs in very few songs. The music spoke for itself. My favourites were For Whom The Bell Tools, Sad But True, One and Nothing Else Matters. There were some friendly guys who kept chatting to Koo and I. Maybe it was strange seeing girls at a Metallica concert.

Photo from SMH.com.au

Sunday I slept in and tidied up over at our house. Then went and saw Eat, Pray, Love which was a great movie. I'd recommend anyone to see it. Great scenery, food and story.