'You Come to Me with Excuses ...

Ducked out in a row .. you wear me out .... you wear me out' (REM Country Feedback)

I am sick of making excuses for myself. I have a great excuse everytime I over eat or go over points or don't exercise. I am the Queen of Excuses. It is pathetic. I have given myself a good talking to and I am over it. No more excuses! Bugger it!

I have been humming and harring about whether I want to go back to points or whether I was doing ok enough with my 10 point plan to not go back to counting points. I have decided not to count points ... at this stage. I was doing well and found it so much easier. This has to be a lifestyle change and counting points for the rest of my life is not what I want. I can lose weight by eating three meals a day and chosing what I eat carefully. I have also been lucky lately in that I have been doing so much walking that the odd eating binge doesn't make a difference to my weight.

So here ... (thanks for the name M!)is my .... Italian Challenge (how catchy a name is that! How amazing is M!) :

1) walk 1 hour each day
2) do weights programme at home every day
3) eat breakfast
4) track everything I eat in my new notebook
5) eat three meals per day only - no snacking!
6) eat at least 3 servings of fruit and vegies every day
7) drink at least 2 pump bottles of water per day
8) no weighing (except Fridays)
9) no diet coke or alcohol
10) update my journal daily, catch up on other peoples journals and be positive.

There! What do we think of that! I think it it will be great!

I have been doing my own weights thing at home this week and has been working really well. It saves me money, I can fit it in easier and I enjoy it more - also means no more excuses!

It has been two weeks since I stopped drinking diet coke and now I am giving up the beers! I love beer and drunk quite a bit on the weekends but have decided to give it up for the moment. Two reasons involved - 1 saving money and 2 obviously bad for my health.

I am loving my exercise at the moment. I have stopped doing walks in breaks lately but really miss it so starting up again. C2 wants to go for a run with me this weekend so will give that a go and also want to get into biking to work once a week (15 kms each way!) but will have to time how long it will take me otherwise I may be late for work.

I had better go do some work. BF is organised to meet me at lunch time to walk today which is great.

Will catch u later with my results ... PS starting Italian Challenge tomorrow!

Have a great Friday!