Cook up!

 Today was cook up/recovery day. Only burnt bout 3500 calories but I did manage to do a big hill walk (the driveway). There is a block walk which basically goes up one driveway and then around the block and up another driveway. I'd say maybe 2kms but very hilly. I plan to do it on Sunday (our day of rest!).

Today we planned for all our meals for the next week and cooked them up. After a journey to the local Woolworths. I managed to get a soda stream refill and so we have been having soda water this arvo and everyone is loving it.

So basically 144 meals needed to be cooked and we ended up choosing 8 recipes. Everything is under 250 calories and has been converted by us or past guests from other recipes (or memory).

• Tacos
• Goulash
• Chicken Florentine
• beef stroganoff
• Chicken pizza (chicken as the base)
• Bolognese
• Lasagne (eggplant with ricotta and spinach white sauce)
• Breakfast muffins (mini muffin frittatas)

Interestingly at Woolworths I didn't heavily crave anything despite being surrounded by varying foods. Though when I walked past the pita bread, of all things, I could have broken!

There is no option at the moment and so it is easy to walk away!

Lots of lessons today, both from the staff here but also in my own head.  Main thing is that food is fuel and can be pleasurable but there is something basically different in the way obese people think. So we need to use it as fuel only for a while until we change ourselves.  We had a great class about connecting everything bad you put in your mouth with the future.

One of the things Adro says that resonates is that really there is only one question. If you asked yourself this every time you had an urge to eat/drink something harmful and that is:

Do I want to stay fat? Answer is always no!

Another saying about not wanting to throw food out, throw out  excess that doesn't fit into the calories or send a half eaten plate back is:

Waste or Waist?

Super Saturday tomorrow with over 6 hours of physical sessions, I expect to be shattered but will try post. Then free time all of Sunday! Though seems like a waste to not try and fit some sort of hard work in so I am sure I will.



No weigh in till a week tomorrow. As much as this place is about weight loss it isn't about numbers. It is all about changing us. No real gimmicks here either, it is simple calories in vs calories out and if you can mentally change.

In order of priority

1. Thinking Thin (Though I prefer to say thinking normal)

2. East less

3. Exercise More

By the way, I am not posting ugly head shots for no reason, I want to journal the changes in my face over the next couple of months. In part as a reminder for if I every slip backwards (which I am sure I will once or twice).

Two more photos! The first is of me on 1000 steps on Tuesday, the other is on suicide hill yesterday.