Rocking The Casbah!

This week was a bit rough. Aunty flo was visiting, i felt awful all week, ate a few naughty things, and exercised 4/7 days. Let me break that down a bit.
No-one wants to exercise when they feel bloated, sore & miserable. But i did the Just Dance twice anyway. And 2 of those exercise sessions were a little boot camp i created in my back yard, so I've shaken things up a bit.
Just before Aunty Flo got here, i had to have chocolate like a vampire needs blood [i do that every month. I'm not a chocolate lover any other time. As soon as my period starts the craving is gone] so i bought a small packet of scorched almonds and enjoyed them immensely. And in order to have some damage control, i skipped lunch. In hind sight that's not a good idea. I'll have to look at better options. The chocolate is a given but Even if i had of had the scorched almonds AND a light salad. It's only one day a month, but i want every day to be the best it can be. No guilt, no dramas.
Then on Thursday Rose bought home some delicious biscuits she's made in her cooking class at school. I had to have one [1] to let her show them off, but then she held a gun to my head and made me eat the rest. Not really ;o)

Other than that, the week has been ok. I haven't had one energy drink and it was fairly easy to give them up. Last time i gave them up for a while, it actually felt like the blood was being drained from my veins. One of the most bizarre feelings ever! But that was when i was drinking the red Mothers too, and they are full sugar etc. This time it was the low carb ones. So because it was fairly easy, i thought i'd dive into my next baby step - switching to soy milk. Only to find that soy milk is actually no healthier than cows milk and is quite controversial. So i'll give that a miss. But i also tried Almond milk for a recipe i found for banana & almond smoothies on The Biggest Loser website, and i LOVE it! It was nice in the smoothie & on other things. It's filling too. I tried it on my weet bix. I have 2 and i felt like i'd had 3 or 4. It's definitely going to be a regular in my pantry!

Dinner in our house has become a bit haphazard. Half of the time it's 'get it yourself', because i just don't want to cook two meals. I feel like Super Chef, juggling 2 lots of pots & pans! But the upside of cooking 2 meals or just for me, is i can cook stuff that i like, at the consistency i like. Example: John & the kids like their veges boiled to a pulp [gross!] But i like mine only just softened. I like a little spice, but no-one else does. So i get to cook awesome stuff. Woot!

And this week i cracked the 10 kilo loss! I lost 2.1 kilos [4.6lbs] making my total loss 10.4 kilos [22.9lbs] so far this year. Woot! Here's what that 10 kilos of life destroying fat looks like....

I'm totally rocking!