12wbt update: W2 D3

Weigh-in day - up 100g which is pretty encouraging for the future. If I can be a little cavalier about my eating habits and stay pretty much the same weight through exercising, that is a Good Thing. :)

Eating: Off plan. Made the effort to have a 12wbt breakfast, then undid that with a mini pizza lunch (yum, with Brie!), then made Sang Choy Bow with pork mince which would have been a bit over on the 300-ish calorie allowance for a dinner, but it was good and reasonably healthy. Apart from slicing into my finger while cutting up the onion. Man, I hate cooking.

Exercise: BLISTERING cardio today - after the fairly sedate rowing, jogging, and cross trainering, I did 12 minutes of 30 sec on/off sprints. Starting at 9kph and getting up to 14.5kph - a personal best by 1kph! Peaked early as I thought I was doing it for 8 mins then realised there were still 5 rounds to go at 7 mins in. But it felt really good to get that fast, even if just for a little while. At Christmas, 12kph was super fast for me. :) Burnt about 700 calories exercising today in total, including babywearing walks to and from Autumn's school.

Feeling very snacky. Want chocolate constantly. Probably hormonal and also a bit of a comfort eating thing. Duncan got desexed today so we definitely won't be having any more babies in this family. Although my body is not great at pregnancy or early motherhood, and I am (let's face it) often a cranky bee-yatch of a mum, I was really feeling ambivalent about not having any more babies. I love my kids so dearly, and damn, those little babies are just so gorgeous.

I just have to keep soaking up as much joy as I can out of these early months with Zane, and these early years with Autumn. And kissing Zane's baby-toes at every opportunity, before he starts getting his feet really dirty...

12wbt update W2 D2

Food: out of control. Small block of dark chocolate for dinner. And a meat pie for supper. A long day of childcare and over tired. Bad form...
Exercise: nonexistent today, spent the whole day and most of the evening caring for the kids, but burnt off over 500 calories yesterday running slowly. No exercise over the weekend, was just completely exhausted. Generally a bit physically out of sorts.

Wow, I've really had a tough week as far as 12wbt is concerned. I just haven't seemed to get into the groove of calorie counting and have missed 2 scheduled exercise sessions, 1 last week and 1 this week. And I've been missing making daily quick blog posts too.

Lately I have worked out so much and still had more 'tough' days than I feel the environment really deserves. The lack of continuous sleep is really breaking me down, though. More than 3 hours in a row would be really, really great. The fact that the exercise is not keeping me on the sunny side of the street consistently sometimes makes me feel like going "Oh, screw it! It's just not working. Why bother.". Which is silly as I *know* it is keeping me at a much better level of sanity than I'd otherwise be at, and it's also been having a great effect on my overall fitness and my figure.

Doing the daily status updates last round did help keep me on track and thinking about how things were going. I need to keep doing it regularly this round, too.

Time to get back into the game and JFDI (that's Just Freakin' Do It!, a Michelle Bridges catch-cry).

Tomorrow I will get a workout in and aim for 500+ calories again. I am committed to burning 3000 calories for the week so need to get a wriggle on...

In other news, my little boy turned 5 months old yesterday and is now eating baby rice cereal and avocado happily. He has also discovered a love of the Jolly Jumper. His sister has discovered a love of treating him like a bouncy puppet in the Jolly Jumper. :-)

The times they pass

It has been such a long time since I started this blog, and once life started getting really hectic with Autumn, that was kind of the end of any extended periods of spare time!

I go on Facebook in little flurries, then don't have time to go back for days or weeks again. I keep in sporadic touch with people via email, but like so many others write as often, or to as many of my friends and family as I'd like to.


Autumn went through a period of growing super slowly during her first year but never stopped being a healthy little girl.

She is now a pocket rocket who loves to talk, sing, hum, colour in, draw, chase and cuddle our cats, dance, jump around on slippery dips (argh!), "read" books, play pretend games with her toys, and hide things in boxes, bags and drawers.


When we go visiting or have people over, Autumn is usually very quiet for a while and sometimes doesn't talk at all for the whole visit. Then we are bombarded with chatter - much of it gibberish, but increasingly intelligible - until she feels caught up on her talking.

I haven't done much craftwork in the past year and a half (wonder why?!) but have been chipping away at an over-one version of an already-small Mirabilia pattern: http://www.mirabilia.com/crossStitchFrames/ls6.html. It's almost done but I think I won't get to finish it this year.

That's it for now. :-)