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  1. Rock bottom.. again

    July 11, 2012 by Lizi

    Breakfast-okish

    Lunch-bad

    3x $2mix at movies -bad

    LARGE frozen coke-bad

    XL popcorn-bad

    1st dinner-bad

    2nd dinner-worse.

     

    Watching Emma Stone being a babe all glowing skin and shiny hair while I am stufffing my bloated dry spotty face – bad

    a emma stone 3 Emma Stone goes blonde... thoughts? (4 photos)

    Decided that I have had enough and history shows that once I actually get to the gym and get the endorphins pumping I am addicted – get the “exercise bug”

    So have booked a pt session ( that I def cannot afford) tomorrow night with my trainer. I usually just float around the gym not actually breaking a sweat but when I am with Kris she makes each fibre in my body hurt individually. She has learnt not to give me anything that requires several moves together (BURPEES) because I am so severly challenged in the co-ordination area that once I had to fake a knee injury to leave a step class.

    Fingers crossed this time tomorrow I will have an excess amount of energy!

     

    Am also setting my alarm for 6.30am for the first time since before I had a baby. Now she sleeps through at night and is in daycare most of the time I have no excuse to grab that extra hour of sleep because I was going through all 10,000 items on the ASOS sale page. Its also not appropriate to continue taking my clean and well dressed child to daycare in my sister and stepdads old trackies with so much panda eye that is actually joining in the middle. Went to Cotton On today ( the home of cheap crap) and brought a basic navy hoody that at least fits me and is clean. Its a start.

    xx

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  2. Nausea and Yoga

    July 10, 2012 by Lizi

    I’m going to give myself a solid B for effort for last week. I tackled some major life issues ( ginger regrowth, eyebrows and a side fringe) and also started to eat on my meal plan.

     

    But I managed to fail miserably at drinking enough water and doing any form of exercise.Woops

     

    This week I have started strong back on my meal plan, only to be tripped up by a boy bringing over a box full of Donut King. By the time I was onto my second cellphone shaped ( but the size of a home phone) donut I felt so sick but I literaly could not stop. I decided to leave that out of my new “my fitnesspal” diary.

    I drove past the gym wearing gym gear yesterday which is also a step in the right direction I feel! I convinced myself that if I came home and watched Geordie Shore on my laptop I would be able to do more squats then at the gym anyway… yeah right.

    Got to stay positive though, off to yoga with my friend Mel tonight ( who has lost 2kgs in a week and a half on Ashy Bines) so ill be one of those thin stretchy chicks soon.

    Amen!

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  3. Browza!

    July 4, 2012 by Lizi

    I have been trying to ignore the fact that big groomed eyebrows are in fashion. My glam  friends Leish and Nads have some of the best eyebrows and feature ratio I have ever seen.

    Cosmo told me that the proper eyebrow shape will change you life, if Cosmo says it , it must be true!

    As a teenager the combination of some over enthusiastic plucking and a genetic thining of the brow left me with just half of a sour gummy worm above each brow. Most of the time brow mainatance for me is catching my reflection in a harsh light every few weeks and running for the wax strips. I never end up investing in a pen so usually cut out an eyebrow shape from the strips.

    With every satisfying strip of wax thats removed some more of my actual eyebrow seems to disappear. today I went to Phoenix Cosmetics and had a brow magic session.

    Phoenix Cosmetics use trained make up artists in their salon and rather than just tidy up the strays ( which I usually get professionally done twice a year) they actually look at your eyes and face shape and draw your eyebrows on. This part is terrifying as they pretty much make you look like Brooke Sheilds- and my large features did not require eyebrows that big!

    I decided to just go with it and would rather have too much eyebrow than not enough ( we all know that girl!) and sat while she tweezed away.

    I then got a light brown brow tint and my usual lash tint.

    Afterwards when I looked in the mirror I was so pleased! Actual eyebrows that look like they have been airbrushed on, best money I have ever spent.

    Phoenix Cosmetics also do amazing lash extensions for $55!

    Here is their link

    http://www.phoenixcosmetics.com/

    If you do want to go to Phoenix- definitely recommend signing up to Flossie.com for daily vouchers. Today my treatment only cost 35 for shape and lash tint and then 25( because of my ginger brows for a brow tint).

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  4. Mirror Mirror- Goal 3

    July 2, 2012 by Lizi

    My mirror is definitely a fat mirror- a blessing and a curse. Its a great self esteem boost when you catch a glimpse of yourself and you have an instant 10kg weight loss- but that only happens if you can bring yourself to actually leave the house when you think you are an ogre

    So my goal this week is to chuck out the fat mirror and invest in a new one. I have also moved the new mirror away from my window ; harsh winter light is never going to do me any favours! I do my make up in the bathroom and then leave the room.

    Already I have noticed the difference! The combination of not being thirsty and headachey with dehydration and not being bloated from eating well + not spending hours crying in the mirror are slowly but surely bringing me up!

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  5. 30% Protein, 40% Carbs and 30% Fat.

    July 2, 2012 by Lizi

    For most women , the numbers on the scales are a thing to be kept secret at any cost. Only my closest friends know what I weigh. When boys ask ( and god do I wish they wouldn’t)! I take at least 7kgs off on the spot and pray they wont question it. At the start of this week I weighed 72.5 kgs. My post pregnancy weight was 78kgs and the lowest I have been is 67kgs pre pregnancy. I’m putting it out there because I hope every day I move further away from that number, and at the end of the 52 weeks I hope it will become irrelevant.

     

    Today is day two of my new food programme. My trainer Kris ( will put her link down below) is amazing, she is one of those super humans who works really hard and has the body to show for it.

    I asked for her help in learning to eat in a healthy balanced way after a few months of having her as my personal trainer. I want to know how to control my portion sizes and what it is to look forward to intereasting nutritious meals and not just fill up on bread and pasta.

    For the next month Kris will be giving me a meal plan specific to my needs as a gluten free fussy vegetarian and then I will see if I can go it alone.

    So far for the first time in my life I have actually kept to a plan! It is 3 meals and a snack each day and I feel full after each one. No cottage cheese on a cruskit or eat every half an hour binge inducing plan here.

    Best part so far has been my amazing hotcakes I had for brekkie.

    3 eggs,1/3 cup cottage cheese1/4 cup wholemeal flour.

    Sounds unappetisingly healthy! Mix it all up chuck some splenda and lemon on top and boom. Actual nice AND healthy brekkie.

     

     

     

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  6. Lush-bubbles and scrubs.

    June 30, 2012 by Lizi

    Lush is my ultimate fave store ever.  The last few weeks I have branched out from my basic ” Sex Bonb” bath bomb ( the obvious choice) and hit the bubble bars, moisturisers, lip and body scrubs.

    First off- Bubble bars. I love bubble bars because they have a stronger fragrance than bath bombs. Rather than giving a big fizzy splash you crumble a section under running water and save the rest. The hippy lady at Lush says she crumbles it in with shower gel to use as a scrub AND washes her clothes with it. Lush-a-holic for sure.

    Best bubble bar ever is one they make called The Rose Jam Bubbleroon

    http://www.lushnz.com/shop/product/product/path/196/id/1296/whats-new-rose-jam-bubbleroon.

    It is so delish.Amelia ate a bit and didn’t vom so thats a good as endorsement as any!

     

    The other product I have fallen in love with is the solid sugar scrub.

    http://www.lushnz.com/shop/product/product/path/136_140/id/627/showers-scrubs-sugar-scrub

     

    I gave it a little lick ( obviously!) and its like soap mixed with sugar. I love really rough scrubs- like the St. Ives apricot face scrub and this is great with granules of sugar coated in oil so they don’t dissolve straight away. Leaves skin moisturised without being oily.

     

    A few months ago I tried to make my own scrub with sugar and olive oil. Don’t try it at home. Mum made me clean the bath three times and it smelt like pasta for weeks.

     

    The item that freaked me out at lush was this massage bar. Smells AMAZING  and the girl sold it to me said that the choccy feature  ( big lump in the middle )was 70% fair trade dark choc. So I went home , used the back of my phone to gouge out the chocolate and ate it.

    Now i just have a massage bar with bits of sticky chocolate. I would buy this again without the chocolate. Nobody wants a sticky bod!

     

     

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  7. Being a ritzy mum.

    June 29, 2012 by Lizi

    When I found out I was pregnant, I was 2 years into my Communications degree.

    I had awesome friends and family and was happily indulging in food and drink most of the time.

    Now, nearly 2 years later I still have the best people in my life. + one little chick.

    Motherhood is hard, really fun and enjoyable but hard.

    I used to rewash my hair if it didn’t blow dry right and now I find myself straightening sick into my hair and thinking of it as mousse. Kind of works the same.

    Where there used to be clean clothes and dirty clothes, now there are clean enough, cleanish, wearable and dirty-but-im-going-to-wear-it-anyway clothes.

     

    I never hand in assignments on time anymore- mind you I don’t think I ever did pre-baby either.

    I get more stressed about Amelias outfits than I do my own. She is quite tubular in shape, being a baby stylist is hard! Sometimes when her daycare teacher says her outfit is

    “interesting”  or ” special” 

    I lie and say my mum dressed her in the dark.

    Walking the fine line with make up, hair and clothing between funky mum and sluzza mum is harder than I thought possible. It is impossible to push a pram in wedge boots without looking like you are off to the liquor store. Same with wearing skirts. Hair extensions- forget it.

    The only solution I have found is to seperate my wardrobe.

    Mum clothes : must be mature. Not low cut or low rise ( saggy boobs and no bum), classy enough to make it look like you are in your late 20’s and good at family planning but young enough for the other mums to still think you look nice.

    Lizi clothes: must be modest so you don’t look like that chick from school who got knocked up. Clean ( to a normal persons standard), a bit fashionable ( not too fashionable or you look like you spend all your money on yourself) and most importantly ritzy enough to get a cheeky wink so you don’t get too depressed at being alone forever.

     

    I give myself till 25 before I give up and hit the Ezibuy all purpose capris.

     

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  8. Week 1: Goal 1. Drinking 3 L of water a day.

    June 29, 2012 by Lizi

    Every week I will try something new. Acupuncture- Yoga- Protein Shakes- BB Creams- Magic Undies. All the things that I have convinced myself will change my life .

    At the start of week one I have regular headaches, am tired and hungry, little bit fat and my skin is dull and wrinkled.

    3L of water a day …

    This ones a no brainer!

    Join me and leave suggestions for my next 51 goals.

     

    :)

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  9. Binge eating

    June 29, 2012 by Lizi

    Its not a mystery why I am wobbly.  I eat . ALOT and often. Portion sizes are made for very small people. Font size 8’s at the most. I am a comfy Times New Roman 12.  I know I am not fat,  I am just a cuddly big boned chick.

    I will never be tiny and petite- my bones will get in the way. For my daughter Amelia, I expect she will face similar challenges.

    Before she is old enough to copy me I need to stop eating 5 bowls of pasta and cheese when I am not hungry. I eat until it hurts and then I laugh it off.

    While researching how to tackle my biggest issue ( as I currently see it ) I encountered some problems.

    1) Eating little and often so you never get hungry enough to overeat. Whoever wrote this did not understand binging. We eat when we are not hungry. Eating often just opens the floodgates to the biccies a little earlier in the day.

    2) Drink water to trick your body into feeling full. I drink a litre of water then a loaf of bread. I just feel more  bloated..

    3) Eat protein first to fill you up. Same issue as problem one.

    These tips and many others all don’t address the real cause of binge eating. The little switch in your head that turns off and ignores what the rest of your body is saying.

    I hate the people who can have one square of chocolate and not want anymore- but I also envy them.

    To not be afraid of food, and of loosing control would be a liberation.

     

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  10. Week One: Binging, blogging and babies.

    June 29, 2012 by Lizi

    When I wake up everyday, more often than not I am unhappy with the day that I face.

    I know that inbetween looking after my 10month old daughter and showering I will spend half the time looking for lost keys, lost cards and wiping snot off my shoulder. And the other half the time feeling inadequate for not being perfect.

    I’m tired of not being perfect. There are so many thoughts I have each day on how I want to improve my life. I know being perfect is impossible but surely there must be some simple things I can do.

    My friends and I talk about it all the time, I read it daily on blogs and in magazines. I never follow through on any of them.

    Over the next 52 weeks, I want to change my life. I want to try all of the things that I think will change my life and see if they make a difference.

    If I can do it, and show my bubs what a happy life looks like. Then I think I will be as perfect as I will ever need to be.



     

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