Uber quick one for Bella

Hey babe thanks for being so supportive :D
xx Claude

Motivation

Holidays are always good in the way that you leave your usual routine, see how great it was and love it when you get back. I spent the whole hols thinking how it wouldn't matter if i ate that piece of cake or pasta cuz i would crack down majorly when i got back. Um...so i just had two uber pieces of banana bread what of it? Lol.

Got my hair done today, always good when it's in the middle of lunch and goes for three hours. So during the day just had a fruit salad (250), smoothie (330) then dinner had gourmet ravioli (400) w/ sweet/sour (80) totals 1060 which would have been fine, great in fact if not for the banana bread. Handmade by my butter-and-sugar loving grandma so possibly 250 a piece. (probly three hundred but i don't like to admit it). So 1600 and call it a day.

Tomorrow is the murder mystery party and the takeaway is a pizza/pasta joint. Sooooo not good but i'm going to order an Italian salad, a tomato based pasta and a chicken/vege pizza. Unfortunately we're doing chips/dips, a chocolate fountain, slushies and i'm putting out the rest of the banana bread. I am going to aim to eat breakfast, small lunch and have diet ginger ice cubes then for dinner: salad (100), tomato ravioli (200) and 1 slice pizza (200?) and if i have to pick at stuff maybe i'll cut up carrots for the dips...good thinking. Also everyone has been raving about air popped pop corn as it's  fiberous, filling and low calories so totally jumping on that bandwagon.

Anyway psychologist is next friday which again means i'm in that last minute lose-three-kilos-in-a-week race. Thank god school goes back, the gym starts and tennis lessons so i'll be nicely distracted from food. At 55kg SW, need to be around 53 to have maintained and preferably would like to be 52 but we all want to be lower...

Got Cleopatra, Gustav and Olive back from their minders so the bearded dragon and fish are back where they belong. Dad and my step mother are fighting.

Oh i might have mentioned...the baby is a boy and we are calling him Lachlan Thomas (i chose Lachlan :)

xx Claude

I'm Back!!

From two things, the first my laziness and lack of posting. I recall this was around christmas? Anywho I literally (ok three hours ago) just got back from an epic holiday. First stop was the great barrier reef and snorkelling and such then Japan where we got made over as Geisha's, went to a nine floor spa world, universal studios etc and finally went to Melbourne to see the Australian open, which was the coolest if i do say so myself. We saw (in top notch seats) Andy murray, Djokovitch, Kim Clijsters, a bunch of doubles peeps and this awesome new guy Dolgopolov.

I returned tonight totally amazed, I am pretty much (maybe a kilo heavier) the same weight as when i left. This is crazy because i ate SHIT as in Japan they don't even have skim milk in starbucks frappacino's let alone diet or healthy stuff. When you think Japan you think healthy sushi etc but in reality it's epic portions and either raw fish or deep fried meat. Then melbourne i overate with big meals and desserts yuck. So i think it's a combo that i'm on my period and haven't eaten much today.

School goes back in three days and i am actually super excited. This is because 1) i have a killer routine that i'm excited for,  2) i can get out of eating three big meals a day being watched by family and go back to one , 3) i have joined a gym with my friend where we just get one membership and she can bring me free whenever we train and 4) i'm finally a senior so think new uniform, free periods and no compulsory subjects. My killer schedule really is epic.

Monday: Coffee, school, flute choir and flute lesson (get home seven pm)
Tuesday: Coffee, school, hour tennis lesson
Wednesday: Coffee, half day school, gym with my friend, chemistry tutoring
Thursday: Coffee, school, occasional driving lesson, tennis (1.5 hours)
Friday: Coffee, school, beach interval sprints with my dad
Saturday/Sunday: work, interval training

So i'm hosting a murder mystery party on Saturday. The theme (it comes as a set with instructions etc) is mardi gras/masquerade and there are seven peeps coming over. We're getting take away which will be awkward seeing as we're also having a chocolate fountain and chips and dips. Tomoz i have an unbelievable amount of english essays to work on (the annoying thing about doing accelerated) and a hair appointment. Right now it's thirty something degrees or a hundred degrees farenheit, and in a word it is feral.

 new DKNY bag woot

 The australian open

 Fat photo, aus open.

Also one more thing. My step mum is being a total bitch. I'm sick of it and her.

xx Claude

The only thing to worry about...

... is when there's nothing left to fear.

lol.

So yesterday i 'broke the fast' (if you count forty hours as a decent fast). Had a short 9-12 shift, then had lunch in the form of a diet yoghurt (85) and mexebeans with olives (280). Then for dinner we went to chinese and i ordered sweet and sour vegetable stir fry (no idea? what do you think?) and unfortunately two san choy bow (400 max?) so a good day following a fast. Today was meant to be a fast but mother dearest wants to have dinner, so we're going to a pizza place where i'll have a small greek salad sans dressing. Cuz it's not a fast day i decided it'll be a restrict-ish day, so i'm starting with this awesome rice pudding (see below, 230), then going shopping where i'm thinking of having a muffin break low fat or weight watchers muffin (280/240) and a salad (300) then dinner (salad-200). So total... = 970. Yayy just under 1000.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup precooked brown rice
• 1/3 cup skim milk (I substituted 1/4 cup reduced fat soy milk and enough water to make 1/3 cup of liquid)
• 1 egg white
• pinch of salt
• 1 dash ground cinnamon
• 1 dash ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 Splenda packets (You may want to use another sugar substitute like Stevia. However if you use Equal, sprinkle on your rice after cooking)
• 1 small apple, sliced

Directions:

1. Mix cooked brown rice with 1/4 cup milk in a saucepan. Add sugar (and a pinch of salt if no salt was used in cooking the rice). Cook over medium-low heat for 15-20, until thickened and milk is absorbed.
2. Take sliced apples and cook in micorwave until tender. Use a GLAD SimplyCooking microwave steaming bag for perfectly steamed apples. Or just cook in a covered microwave safe bowl.
3. Beat egg white with remaining milk. Stir into rice mixture and add vanilla. Cook 2 minutes.
4. Dust with cinnamon and nutmeg and serve on top of apples.

Nutritional Information:

Calories 222 
Fat 1.3g 
Carbohydrates 41.1g 
Fiber 2.7g 
Protein 10g

I'm spending today being the biggest lazy person ever. Watching repeats of grey's anatomy, facebooking and lounging aroudn then i'm gonna spend heaps of moulah on after christmas sales :)

xx Claude
stay strong

Coincedental fast (:

Yayy so an eight and a half hour shift and a spontaneous movie night right through the day means i accidently (" ") ended up sans food! Woot. So i'm going to replace tomorrow (tuesday's) fast with today seeing as i'm going out to dinner then fast wednesday, added bonus of breaking it up. (preventing my metabolism being snail trail slow)

how is everyone going post christmas? Ps forgot to tell you BonesArePure but i totally made your cookies and they were delicious. Maybe it's cuz family are used to butter and sugar laden desserts so stuff thats made healthily just doesn't taste the same, but i thought they were awesome.

Cleopatra three weeks old :)

xx Claude

Fasting pact?

What are we thinking of a joint fast? Say... two days starting like tuesday? Then we can still have boxing day and the next day just in case of snooping family etc. Maybe allow liquids (for me diet drinks and diet jelly). Anyone game? Feel free to change the days/allowed foods/liquids i just REALLY need to get rid of this food baby and go into the new year feeling a tad skinny opposed to my current beach whale-ness. see attached pic of me as a beached whale.

 

So disgusting. Observe pudgy stomach and flabby thighs. Vomit.

xx Claude. Merry Christmas for those in the northern hemispehere and get your fast on biatchez!

The inevitable christmas binge...

The average person scoffs 25,000kJs on Christmas Day. That’s enough energy to fuel a 29km walk.


This stat totally shocked me - until i began christmas day that is. Of course I'd planned to have minimal breakfast, maybe nothing in anticipation of a slightly larger lunch, yet still small. This was because we were going to the Crowne Plaza buffet (one hundred and fifty bucks a person, the fanciest of the fancy) and i'd googled the menu. Of course it was huge, but they had a number of lower calorie options (think sushi/sashimi/seafood, heaps of salads, salmon etc). The minute my grandparents got here with a box of chocolate and sliced fruit cake for everyone, things started going down hill. By the time we got to the buffet there was no chance. I had a gigantic plate with everything imaginable and then went back for even bigger bowl of dessert (think cheesecake, fruit pudding, eclairs, slices, pavlova). Tried to purge and it was obvious i was going to go do it which made it even WORSE when i couldn't bring anything up! Worst feeling in the entire world is being stuffed and not even being able to purge. Another bad thing is right now i'm waiting for my parents to go out and use their christmas presents (kayaks) so i can eat the aforementioned box of chocolates and fruit cake and watch movies... Just relying on starving the next few days.


On the upside (of another totally shit christmas) I got some great christmas presents: My baby (the bearded dragon) who is only three weeks old and smaller than my hand, i called her cleopatra :) She came with a handmade white wood enclosure and my Pop built an awesome white table... 


On the downside my mother rang...and she is getting engaged. Shock. disbelief. You'd understand if you met her, she is on so many anti-depressants that she is just a block of ice. She has no emotions and is condescending and i can't believe this has happened... And they're planning to get married at the same time my little brother or sister is born! (the one she doesn't know about). Shite!


Who's feeling the need to fast/start a crazy diet to recover from the feral-ness of christmas bingeing? Ps what did everyone get/partake in?


xx Claude