Steak sandwich

Slow week for me.  I’ve been absolutely exhausted all week, mainly from not sleeping too well and from the baby not sleeping as well either.  As a result, I’ve been hungrier than usual and the 1200 calories just isn’t cutting it.  I’ve had a few “extras” to eat while still being mainly good about the choices I make so still managed to drop some weight but I haven’t had the energy (or time) to do any exercise.

Actually, today is probably the first day that I’ve felt up to it all week and I still didn’t do any exercise.  But you know what – I’m ok with that.  For now.  I spent the morning doing other useful stuff that I hadn’t been able to get on to in the rest of the week, so I already feel like I’ve accomplished something today.  Exercise picks up again tomorrow and with it being a long weekend I think I’m going to exercise every day to make up for being slack the rest of the week.

With only 2 weeks left on the program, I’m starting to feel a bit burnt out.  It’s been a lot more time consuming than I expected which has affected all of us.  While the exercise is only for an hour, it takes up most of the morning once you add in cool down and a shower – which usually doesn’t get to happen until the baby has been up for a couple of hours and goes back down to sleep again.  Then the food prep has taken a lot more time than I’ve expected some days as well.  I’m trying hard to stay focussed but it’s getting more and more difficult as we get closer to the end.

It’s not like I’m going to just stop everything once the program finishes either.  We plan on going through the recipes, pulling out some favourites and putting them on regular rotation for dinners.  My lunches have definitely changed too and I’m happy eating a mountain bread wrap or corn thins with some yummy toppings.  I’ll also keep doing regular exercise - I’m enjoying feeling fitter again and that as I’m losing the weight I’m also getting more toned.

So really, I’m not stopping, I made a commitment to see this through, I’m just feeling a bit run down and am looking forward to this weekend and getting things back in order again and seeing what I can achieve in these final two weeks!

Salmon stir fry

No post yesterday because I was absolutely exhausted.  3 days straight waking up at 4:30am to a baby that needed attention but didn’t want to feed yet, by the time she decided to feed it was time to get up anyway.  So not enough sleep, way too early a morning, daily exercise and smaller meals than I’m used to all built up to me starting the day absolutely exhausted…

I thought I would give myself a day off from exercise to let my body catch up with itself.  Then I talked myself into just putting on my exercise gear in case I felt like it.  Then I talked myself into starting to exercise, but saying I could stop after doing half of it.  Of course, once I started I just kept going and managed to complete the lot and I’m glad I did.  The rest of the day was a bit of a write off, but I stuck to the food although I didn’t get to have my snacks.  My meals were slightly bigger than usual, so still hit my calories.  All followed up with an early night and a baby that let me sleep until 6am this morning leading to feeling much, much better today.