Ok, the title sounds a bit more grim than it means. :D I have my first operation tomorrow afternoon and I'm not allowed to eat for six hours before the operation and I'm only allowed to drink water up to two hours before the op. This means that I'm breaking intermittent fasting a bit and stuffing my face with extra tonight.


We had fajitas for dinner tonight and had a few left over so had them with some sour cream and ketchup, a Muller yoghurt and a few bits of Cadbury's Oreo chocolate. That chocolate is absolute heaven. I'm not a fan of Oreos but this is just something completely different. Yum.


And now in order to try and relax, time to read through this month's Women's Health. :) I should be back to blogging on Thursday with hospital pics and reports!

Well. Not quite what I was expecting this week! :D I haven't exercised at all because of my ankle, I've only done the squat challenge four times over the week. It just really shows how important your diet is when losing weight. :) And I'm sure intermittent fasting has got something to do with it as well.

Next week is going to be a bit iffy again, my other half booked me a last minute weekend trip to Netherlands to celebrate my friend's birthday. In a way it's a good thing, my friend LOVES dancing so might burn some of that booze on the dance floor... :D I think I'll be quite ok in all fairness, with my monthly progress check being on Sunday / Monday. 

The rest of the week is going to be very odd for me. I am going up to London tomorrow to meet up with a bunch of friends. This means alcohol, lots of eating out, no working out.. On the other hand we will most likely be walking a lot, shopping and sight seeing being something we've planned. I'm quite confident that I'll be able to stick to IF and eating healthy, just need to figure out what drinks I can have without feeling insanely guilty. Maybe vodka and diet lemonade. Or sugar free mojitos (one of my friends makes incredible mojitos, would be a crime to say no to him!). Oh we'll see.

As I'm only coming back home on Monday afternoon, I'm also skipping this week's weigh in. Even if I had a scale at the place I'm staying at, it'd give me an unreliable reading. I learned it such a long time ago that sticking to one scale is one of the most important things during weight loss. Using the same scale will give you the most reliable results, as the configuration and placement is the same week after week. We actually have two scales in the house and the readings can be incredibly different. I'll most likely have a look when I get home on Monday to see how much damage I've done, but the official weigh in will have to wait til next Sunday. :)


I also made a nice schedule for 30DS the other night but various things have just screwed it up completely. I haven't actually started the program this week, I've just gone for long walks (again). So yeah, going to start 30DS on Monday when I'm back home. I think a break from these programs will do my back good in all fairness.

Oh and I've gone pink! It's not a permanent colour, it says that it'll wash off in 6-8 washes. Just about perfect for this weekend haha! There's also a possibility of landing a job in the near future so I'll most likely have to cover it up anyways. Sad times.

Have a wonderful rest of the week everyone!

Well, what a nice surprise! :D If this is what intermittent fasting does to you, I'm very happy. I'm not looking to lose quite this much every week though, I prefer to do it slow as it's healthier. I've nearly hit the same number as I did my first weigh in (-2.6kg), when I lost all that water weight from my body. Good stuff.

I've been struggling with my back this week though, the back of the body workouts just seem to put too much stress on it for some reason. I never had an issue with them before, just this week. My front of the body workout + cardio is completely pain free as well. Might just skip the back workout on Tuesday to rest my back a bit more.

In order to try and get rid of this silly plateau I've been stuck at for ages, I'm going to change things around a bit. Exercise wise I'm going to start doing other things on my cardio days, such as swimming, walking and cycling. I'm still a bit unsure about cycling as it could be quite painful, but I suppose I'll just have to see how it goes. I'm obviously gonna stick to the resistance workouts I've been doing so far, cardio is just a lot easier to replace with something else.

On top of that I'm going to try a different way of eating. A friend of mine used intermittent fasting during his weight loss process and has been talking very highly of it ever since I met him. IF is simply just about eating your calories in a 6-8 hour time frame and fasting for the rest of the day. This is pretty much what I do anyways with the exception of sometimes eating quite late in the evening, but it shouldn't be too big of an issue in all fairness. I've chosen my "let's stuff my face" period to be between 12 noon and 8pm, also going to be a bit more religious with counting my calories from now on.

I've also been tempted tonight! The in laws bought me a Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar, I'm quite proud to say that I didn't even feel like eating it instantly! At 110 calories it's quite a heavy treat, but I'm sure I'll be able to budget it in tomorrow. :) Yum!


Talk about determination.. :p