Step 1: Health

Well I haven't blogged my update each week like I said I would. Sorry about that. Have alot going on. We have just finished week 6 since I started posting updates. I've made little notes on my ipad or mental notes as the weeks have gone on of what I am doing/how I am tracking, just haven't managed to get it updated into blog friendly format. For the most part though, it has been business as usual unfortunately. It's like groundhog week: I get worse as it gets later in the week A few lunches in the park with sushi & chips & chocolate and whatever else Thursday night - KFC binge night Every - single - damn - week... What has it been? Like 5 weeks or something?   Anyway, something changed this week. I don't know if these two things are connected but this is what happened: 1. I opened up to my partner in quite a confronting way. There were lots of tears, but I basically told him I have a problem and him constantly in my face about cal...

Sorry blogger world - I'm putting my "weekly reflection" up very late. I've just finished week 4 since I decided to blog about my progress on trying to recover from binge eating habits. And I'm only up to posting about week 2. I actually had this written up in draft mode on my iPad for over a week just waiting for me to find a minute to edit it and post it on the blog. Anyway, I'll do my best to keep up with reflections, I just realise they might come fortnightly at times when I'm really busy. As long as I keep reflecting myself and noting down feelings and realisations as they occur, blogging about them a week or so after they happen isn't so bad. I thought I'd set up my weekly reflection a little different this week. Maybe in a way that could appeal to different readers. I realised last week's was quite long once I started listing out all the damage I had done. So I thought - what if I put the summary of the week and my reflection first...

After completing a twelve week stint of focusing on weight loss and strength repair, the time has now arrived to reset my goals for the next twelve months. But first, let's look back at what I set three months ago and see if I made it: Goals set 3 months ago: lose 6kgs build sufficient strength to support lower back to progress to beginners 12wbt program Did I hit my goals? Weight loss? Not quite. In total I lost 4.6kgs, however I have put on 1.5 since 3 months ago. So a 3.1 loss (half my goal achieved). Better than nothing. I'm thankful to report that I've nipped the weight gain in the bud as I'm not gaining anymore, but I'm struggling to get moving on the weight loss again. This is mainly due to the resurfacing of my ever-underlying binge eating problem. As I've said previously though - I've recognised this and am changing my focus to really hard on overcoming my binge eating. You can see further down in this post that my goals for...