I am still here!

Sorry for the break, but it is for the most stupid of reasons! I went to write something and blogger had signed me out, so I could not be bothered to sign back in!
Other reasons include, but are not limited to:

• We had some family come and visit
• there were floods
• I was trying to dry out downstairs and save my house from the mould invasion
• we had family come to visit (seriously this took up so much time it had to be put in twice)
• oh and did I mention the floods?
• Ryan had an appointment at hear and say - this takes over half a day - he did so well!
  
• Keira had to get her genetic testing done (was more painful for me then her!)
• Keira has also been sick with lots of icky stuff coming out of her ... you DO NOT want to hear about that!
  
• ummm.. .is that enough excuses for lack of posting?

Where am I at in roller derby land... Training started again and I was so happy! Started with Jacks as I didnt yet have my clearance letter from physio saying - hit people hard. At the end of training I was so sore all over my whole body. My feet hurt so much I could barely walk. but in saying that I was so happy!

Wednesday night I was back at training again and really enjoyed it, until I strained my hip flexor! wtf!! thank god we train with a physio who knew what I did and how to treat it. I went home in so much pain and barely able to walk - cried lots and rang my mum. layed on ice at home and cried some more. in the morning it was feeling alot better, still hurt to move certain ways, but was not aching otherwise. Went to see my physio on Friday and get my clearance letter... happened to tell her about the hip flexor and was given a little talking to about making sure I am very warmed up and if I am feeling twinges then to take it easy - my body is trying to tell me shit while it recovers to 100% .... Then as if by magic I realised on Saturday I had not felt one twinge in ages! I love when bodies get all better nice and quick.

I was then excited to get back to Sunday training and to skate with my Queens... but alas the horrid bug that Keira has had she passed onto my Mum (designated babysitter since J was working). got a call at 10am ... was sad. Keira must have known as she then decided to poo all day for me. At least Ryan was really good, poor kid must be so stircrazy and housebound. If it is not the rain, it is his poo machine sister keeping us in.

So how have I been with food?
wellllll I made some super yummy banana loaf and ate lots of it and I am trialing a choc cake mix for Keiras birthday and ate lots of those muffins...
I really should not try to follow a diet plan as I suck at it!
I did start following the Roller Derby workout diet until I realised half way through day 1 - I am breastfeeding and I must make sure to eat enough to produce BM too. So except for the little holiday I took with some crap this past week, I will return to normal tomorrow.

Exercise
Other then my 2 roller derby days, I have been doing my physio exercises and walking with the kids on the beach a couple of times.
tonight while I was trying to get Keira to sleep I did like 50 squats, 20 lunges each leg and when I was holding her to try and get her to sleep I did the little hip check squats with the cot! It took me 30 mins to get her down, so that was 30 mins of by the cot exercise.
I am about to head to bed now, so might do some crunches and some tricep dips since Dodge put me to shame and INSPIRED me with her awesomeness on Wednesday night :D

so here is to getting back on track and keeping away from the chocolate muffins.

BamBam Pow :D

I finally went to the gym tonight and did a Boxercise class. I really enjoyed it - gave my upperbody an awesome workout and cardio was up there. Boxing was the best stress relief - Bam, Bam Pow!

So I also went to another gym to have a look around and I have come to the conclusion that I don't want to join a gym. They are expensive and not something that I have the money for. My kids, uni, house and derby will not always give me time to get there more then once a week at the MOST! I will spend more time on the beach walking/playing with the kids, in the yard or at the park. This is my life... so while I really enjoy doing some classes, given the lack of flexibility in my life I think that I will only pay per class that I go to. SO Ms Dodge I will put it back on you to encourage the shit out of me if I am slacking off too much or complaining that I am just not improving etc..

Now for confession time (good and bad):
at the Gym we had to do this circuit with things like 30 sit ups, 100 punches, 10 squat jumps (totally rocked these thank you Derby thighs!) and while it was hard I am proud to say I counted every thing I had to do and did every single one!

Food wise I had such good plans and I did *mostly* stick with it. I did have the skin free chicken for dinner with steamed vege, I did have the salad with trim lamb for lunch (no cheese or dressing) I did drink plenty of water ... BUT I also ate a dairy free lamington and some chocolate soy ice cream. It was in the freezer and it was the last one - I know I shouldnt do it, but I was feeling a little low before the gym and just could not resist. I felt terrible afterwards for not eating some fruit instead. I think that coming down from all the crap food will be baby steps this week (you know what I am talking about).

SO now there is no bad food left in my house. There is no Chocolate, no coke, no cakes, no biccies (that I can eat anyways). I have done all my shopping with the exception of fruit and vege - and for the next week I will not be buying any food that is not in my house (except more milk and bread). So NO snacks, no chocolate, no chips and no take away. well ... I am going to the movies tomorrow, but I will have coles organic popcorn and sushi for lunch! I will keep you posted on how that goes!

New Years Eve Eve cleaning and the case of a naughty 3 year old!

The sun is shining! But am I out skating or running or swimming... no! Why? Well quite simply I have to clean up my house in the aftermath of all the rain. There is mould and mildew everywhere that wasnt there a few days ago. I am sad of all the things that are wrecked because of this bloody weather.

I am also trying to clean up as we are having an everything fun New Years Eve party at my place which I am entirely unprepared for. I am hoping that everyone just drinks a lot and has fun - so no one notices that I feel unprepared :D Because j is involved I am sure the whole thing will look and be perfect because he would not stand for any less - however in the process it will totally do my head in. My idea of a good party is music (any music will do!), alcohol and some nibblies! J wants to have all the right lighting, the music set up in the right way and place and all the right music (apparently this will make or break a party), games set up so everyone will have the required level of fun... either his method or mine, I am sure that it will be a fun night!

Thank you to fairy tales of years gone by, I was up at 3am assuring my 3 year old that there was no witch with a poisoned apple after him! Getting a baby back to sleep after the 3 year old ran screaming through the house and then not getting back to sleep after all the excitement and the reading of 2 age appropriate stories and a thorough check under the bed and in the wardrobe.

My cleaning efforts today are hampered by said 3 year old who wants so badly to help. His helping makes everything take 3 times as long though. As I have folded clothes, he puts them away.. this involves me finding where he put them and then re-folding and putting them in the right place.

My main exercise today has involved walking up and down the stairs over and over again! This is actually better exercise then what I give it credit for and I have thought about actually doing some stair sprints later this evening.

Food today is not worth writing about. seriously not a good day - feel like crap now, so is all my own fault. Tonight I am making a home made fried rice with marinated chicken, so I dont feel so bad about the whole day... just everything until this point.

Tomorrow I am going to blitz the house for a final clean up before the New years eve party and am I making any resolutions?? Hell yes! Here they are:

• Cut back/out coke. Do I need it... really = NO
  

• Make more snacks for my daily grazing (I am a grazer) and make them healthy!

• Fit in exercise every day. If the only time available is while folding washing, do squats! If playing with kids - engage the core and make the play a cardio workout... seriously kids are endless sources of energy.

• Improve my skating. For this I plan to take more risks and not hold back. Great advice I once read ;-)

• Be a better mother. I love my kids and do so much for them, but lately I havent had the patience for them that I know I should. I have yelled more then I want to and I have lost my cool way quicker then I think I should. So I am going to learn to take deep breaths and count to 10 before reacting. Wish me luck as I think this will be my hardest resolution!

• Be realistic. While I will try to achieve all of these goals they are just that - GOALS! I dont have to achieve them overnight, but as long as I continue to work at them then they will be something I will achieve over the year.

• Be Honest with myself. After all - who else am I cheating if I am lying to myself??

There is a lot more on this list that I have chosen to leave off, I know what they are and that is all that matters.

Happy New Year!! :D

all you can eat & rain makes for a Flabby Fury!

I swear I am going to the gym ASAP! I have a 7 day pass to a local which I was going to start using this week, however as it is a small gym it is only open about 3 days this week and the creche is not open those days.... fail! I would love to join a big gym, but as I am on Mat leave finances do not permit - bloody money!

So what were my plans - they were to chuck the kids in the double pram and do some light jogging or power walking over Alex Hill or even walk around the mountanous tracks I call home. But the rain has put a dampener on that (see what I did there!) So then I think - that is ok I will use the Wii fit ... but my 3 year old tries to fight me for it to the point where I just give up. Then I try my workout from Dodge - awesome workout that it is, only to have my 10 month old throw a nanna because I am negleting her now for all of 5 mins (notice that she is letting me sit on my bum to type this - but do anything constructive and she senses it and puts an immediate stop to it!)

Food today was going to be a better day. BUT (there is always a but... and mine will get bigger soon...) Mum calls and asks me to Sizzler ALL YOU CAN EAT for dinner tonight since we have family in town. How can I turn that down! I also need to point out just incase I havent already - I am breastfeeding, so I do need to eat more then I would if I wasnt in order to produce the good shit for my daughter. :D

Breakfast
Rice Mountain bread with a little vegemite
Snack
2 x mini banana muffins (homemade)
lunch
McDonalds Junior burger (was out and about as my bread went mouldy - bloody rain/humidity), small coke and about 10 fries (I dont actually like fries - but I through a few on my burger and gave the rest to my pop)
snack
2 x mini banana muffins with choc icing (it gets better right...)
an actual banana!
dinner
going to go either a steak and eat some salad or the fish... undecided at this point. will stick to salad and fruit with the all you can eat option though and will endeavour to avoid potato skins. thank god I cant have dairy as this makes sizzler a relatively good option for me.

Exercise
attempts today = 3 all failed...I did however have to mop the floor downstairs a few times thanks to the humidity and have been doing aggresive housework again - today it was scrubbing the counters and the stovetop - very good arm workout! J should be home soon and we dont need to leave to be out to dinner for another hour, so I might do 30 mins of my Dodge workout, shower and then go and eat all I can eat (healthy of course!)

Christmas FEASTing...

Christmas morning started so well... I only ate a banana sandwich which is something I LOVE! But then by 1pm I had been going mad with cleaning, playing with kids, retrieving and throwing the 100 balls back into the ball pool I was doubled over with hunger so I literally inhaled a heap of chips and hommus. Now this was super yummy, but oh so bad for me!
Christmas lunch then extended to the following:
1 piece of chicken, 2 slices ham, 1 slice pork, scoop of potato salad, scoop of risoni salad, baby beets, pineapple ring, salad and that is all I think!
Desert was a mini pav nest with 2 scoops soy icecream and blueberries (sort of healthy right!)
dinner was a ham sanga and a corona :D

Exercise today was all about chasing and playing with kids (see above start to chasing), some hardcore vacuuming (did all the cornices - hello tricep workout!!) and thinking of more, but not having the time! Christmas is just such a full on day!

What next:
Tomorrow I am going to attempt to do some more workout - if the weather is good I may go for a skate! otherwise I will do the Wii and/or Dodges workout. I will attempt to eat better and less - however I cannot promise I will not have coke, beer and chocolate... i will just have less!