Life is back!

My last post was so depressing! Things just wasn't coming my way but thank god things changed. We got power and water back Sunday night, which was the beginning of a fresh weight loss start.
I feel like we have been on a diet for so long but the true is that my weight has been stable between 109-110.5kg ever since October. It is a good thing that I manage to stay stable but with so much weight to loss then I don't have time for this!
I knew the scale would show a horrible number but I wasn't expecting it to be that bad! I went on and it showed 111.7kg
It was time to get back on track. Emilio and I decided to cut down on our meat, that way we would hopefully loss more weight but also safe some money. Therefor we have decided to eat soup once a day! Not a boring water soup but a good creamsoup, chickensoup, vegetable soup yeah you name it all kind of soup! That way we get tons of vegetables at one of the meals. The rest of the meals are normal Paleo. Protein, vegetables and healthy fat.
Also I try to drink tons of water and mate which is a kind of green tea! It seems like it is working well! So far I lost more than 2kg in the first 5 days, yes I do know it isn't all fat but hey I am stupid enough to just be happy and enjoy the scale going down.

Anyone that has a good soup recipe!? Not sure I will be allowed to cook the soup tonight, yesterday neither of Emilio and I was able to eat our soup as it was way to spicy! Ups but hey isn't chili suppose to make you burn fat? ;)

Angry? YES!! Frustrated? YES!!!!

My weight is going up that is for sure!

I was actually doing so fine until Thursday night.. Once again our building went out of power, and as I am studying through the internet then I NEED internet. So to be able to study and have shit to do I decided to move in to Starbucks. It is now 4 days later and we are still out of power and WATER!!!

Seriously it is impossible to stay at an apartment with out water. Even worse when you live at the 10th floor. Our emergency stairs are dangerous and  the emergency light went out 4 days ago so it is all DARK!! My legs are so sore but at least I get some good work outs.

The bad part is that we eat out for all of our meals which makes me put on weight. I love Starbucks but lets be honest, Frapuccino and Tea Chai Latte, bagels and all there other food just isn't healthy.

Hopefully life will be back to normal soon!

Weigh in

The past week has been so much fun..! Though not for the diet so I am really surprised and happy about the result!
I have lost ½ kg. That even though  I ate like crazy :) Saturday night we went out for Burger, onion rings, cheese fries and beer! It was a really nice night but had nothing to do with the diet :) I even got roses :)

OH yes we ate it all :)

Monday night we decided to go out for ice cream after dinner! It was a really good and BIG (emilios says small) ice cream.
You would think this should be enough crap in a few days but nope, yesterday after sleeping in I decided to go to Starbucks to get a frappucino for breakfast! ARGH it gotta stop, but it just feel so nice to get out of the house and enjoy each other.

Emilios birthday is coming up on Sunday, so we are going out for fondue! AKA CHEESE and CHOCOLATE fondue! Sound sooo freaking good!!

School stuff is going better, looks like we are almost done with out project! That makes me a little less stressed!

I hope to be at the same weight next week.

Life overwhelms me

Life goes up and down and I am sure that is how it is suppose to be!

Lately things hasn't turned out the way I wish it would. I am finishing the 4th semester of my bachelor and that is taking a lot of my time. When I do something, I like to do it with my whole hearth. Meaning I want to do things perfect and with the time it takes. Unfortunately that just ins't possible right now, as there is so much to read,  so many exercises to do all together with a big project that I have to finish and while I need to do all this I still need to attend classes... Honestly I can't wait for January to finish and get to start on my 5th semester. Not that I think it will be much better, as we are starting out with an exam right away, but still I hope there will be more time doing the 5th semester to actually work with the topics. 

Together with all the stress from school, I still have to deal with stress from other part of my life. I just fixed my visa so I don't need to worry about that again as it will last for 90 days. It shouldn't be stressing to fix that as it isn't a big deal here in Argentina.. Basically you just show up at an office stay in line wait 1000 of hours, pay some money and VOILA your visa has been extended. My whole issue with all this is that my Spanish still isn't good, and the people at the immigration office doesn't speak English, so yeah I was hoping not to screw it up! It all went well and with some help of good contacts I got to do it all in just a few hours!! 

The fact that I have a 90 days visa now also makes my departure date comes closer. I will be leaving Argentina in just 88 days. On one hand I am really excited to go back to Denmark as I really miss my life, family and friends there.. I have been in contact with my old work and hope to start there again as soon as I get home.... BUT it also mean that I have to say good bye to Emilio once again! I honestly thought we were done living apart, but we will need to do that again. It is never easy to be separate for long time, but I guess my life isn't suppose to be easy. Right now we have no idea, of when we will be back together, but I true hope it wont be to long. I have made a limit of 3 months apart, so I guess no matter what, then we will see each other in July. How or where is something I can't know, but I hope it will be Emilio who will be moving to Denmark to live with me. I guess time will show.

All these things is taking a lot of my thoughts everyday and leave me so tired. I wish the scale would go down as I really need to loss weight before getting pregnant, but it just doesn't happen right. I have been stocked at this weight since SEPTEMBER!!! I am not sure what I am doing wrong as I really feel that I am eating the right things.. Mmmh Maybe I am just eating to much? YEAH I think that is what is wrong together with the fact that I am not moving around at all.. Most of my day is sitting down in bed studying or crochet.

Crossing my fingers to get under 109 kg by the 14th of January.

 

A new year has started

Wow 2014 is already here! 

I have really big expectation for this year, hopefully I will accomplish at least some of all of my dreams. 

It is my goal to loss 20 kg this year, and Emilio and I are already back on track, trying to stay on a healthy diet. Christmas time wasn't good for me I did gain some kilos, but Emilio actually manege to drop some kilos, not sure how he does it haha... Hopefully I will find a way of motivate myself to do some exercise. But most important I will keep eating after the Paleo rules. 

2014 is also the year where I am moving back to Denmark. I am really excited about starting a "normal" life again. Hopefully Emilio will get to join the life in Denmark as well this year so we finally can start building a home and home together.

What is you guys plans for 2014.

Marry Christmas

Life hasn't turned out the way I wanted for the past 2 weeks. I have constantly been thinking about what I eat, though yet I haven't been able to actually stay on track and eat healthy. My diet has been full of Sugar and bad carbs. 

My body has been feeling sick, and my mood has been horrible. Yet I haven't been able to treat my body nicely and giving it the food it deserve. I look like a 5 month pregnant lady and feel like shit. 

I went on the scale to see how bad it was. Happily I only gained 1.1kg. 

I am sitting at Starbucks with a big frappucino trying to find my motivation. Ironic right?!

Thank god a new year will start soon.

Marry Christmas and Happy new year for everyone!!

Final status for my school project!

The 7 weeks are already over and it is time to make status on the project. As I was already in the progress of loosing weight then I honestly didn't change much. I kept doing what I already started, the Paleo lifestyle.

I made the goal to loss 3.6kg in 7 weeks, which would take me from 112.6kg to 109kg. It might not sound like a lot, but as I was already on the track of loosing weight I knew it wouldn't be going really fast. I still would have loved a better result but I DID LOSS 3.6kg. I hit my goal when it comes to the weight loss and that feels amazing. My total weight loss is now 6kg!

I also made a goal to walk 3 times a week and I was suppose to walk 30km a week by now. Let me be honest that didn't happen. It should have and I am kind of mad at myself for not doing it but the true is that the heat in Argentina is killing me! My body just can't work with 30 Celsius degrees.

The Paleo lifestyle definitely changed my life style, and I both feel better and look better :) Even though this school project has come to an end then my weight loss journey is still in the start phase.

This weekend will be a huge challenge. We are so lucky to have a visit from a German Girl who we meet in the state. I wont be able to follow Paleo for the next 3 days that together with Christmas coming up makes me a little scared. I have therefor made a pretty small goal for the last 19 days of December.

Next goal is to be 108 kg by the 31st of December.

Weight in

This week has been a mess!!

I haven't been able to get back on track, I keep finding an excuse to eat something unhealthy.
Friday we had dinner with Emilios parents, we had a huge barbecue with some cream mushroom potatoes. The potatoes was for 6 people and had 150g of BUTTER, 2dl of CREAM, mushrooms, onions and potatoes.. Not something healthy but it was soo good!!
Monday Emilio and I went out for lunch. I had a huge portion of delicious pasta with pesto, lots of bread and a cheese cake for dessert. It was good, but definitely not Paleo. For dinner Monday I decided to have sushi.. So yeah not a healthy day....

Looking back on the week I have to admit that I am more than happy with my 0.3kg loss!

Friday is the last day for my school project. So far I have lost 3.3kg during the project so I still have 0.3kg to go before I hit my goal.. Hopefully that will happen before Friday.

This week will be hard. A friend from Germany who Emilio and I meet in the US is coming to visit us.. We are so excited but I also know it will means some unhealthy food.

Bad week good weight in!

Food wise this has been a really bad week..! Thursday I had pizza and Sunday I had a HUGE ice cream. (If you ask Emilio he would tell you that my ice cream were small NOT TRUE.. Haha) Beside this two stupid meals, I did good the rest of the week.
My biggest issue is to be creative for all of the meals... In Denmark my lunch would normally be an open whole grain sandwich, which is so easy. But now with this diet, I need to figure out what to cook for both Lunch and Dinner!! It seems like we just keep eating the same 5 meals over and over again! Not that those meals are bad THEY ARE ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD!! But it gets boring.. I guess it is time to get some Paleo cooking books! :)

Christmas is coming up! In Denmark that includes tons of UNHEALTHY food.. I guess that is how it is all over the world actually, I just seems to like the danish Christmas treats more. I love Christmas and all of the traditions. This year will be different, as I will be in Argentina during the Christmas month. First of all the weather is different. I am use to snow or at least freaking cold weather! But now in Argentina it is freaking hot, we already have more than 30 degrees a day.. It is HORRIBLE!!!! Another very different tradition is the food. I am use to my duck, pork, caramelized potatoes, gravy and a delicious rice, cream almond dessert. This will all have to wait for next year, though I am planning on making a small danish Christmas dinner for Emilio and I for the 23th of December.. It is a hard time of the year, as I am missing my family as hell!! But I will try and enjoy it because next year Emilio and I will be together in Denmark celebrating Christmas..  

The scale showed a 0.5kg loss since last week which is perfect.

Late weight in.

It has been a pretty stressing week, with all the action that was going on in our building last Tuesday. It was really scary and honestly I have probably never been as scared before. In the beginning I was freaking out by being alone, but I am feeling a lot better, now and have no issues being alone anymore.
The other thing that had stressed me is my weight loss. I honestly feel it is going to slow. Specially last weeks gain hit me hard, but I know my body sometimes act weirdly. I knew my week was good and that I ate healthy, which is probably also why it was so frustrating not to loss weight. I still believe Paleo is a healthy lifestyle and that it will help me to loss weight. Just take a look at Emilio he is kicking ass! So far he has lost more than 11 kg! So proud of him and also thankful that he keep supporting me.
I have been reading tons of stuff about carbs, and have got to the conclusion, that I will try and stay with vegetables that grows over the ground. That will I can keep my carbs down and hopefully that will make it easier for me to loss weight. So a minimum of carrot and sweet potatoes for the next month. (OH NO)
Also it is my plan to start eating some more fish. We both love fish, so it is plain stupid that we doesn't eat it some more. Another thing I am trying out, is the effect of the Argentina mate. It is a warm drink like green tea, and should help boosting my weight loss. Who know at least it makes me drink some more water.

This week went by really well. I stocked to the plan of low carb, but I had ICE CREAM one night. It was something really needed (not really but it was good anyway). I had the hope that it wouldn't fuck up my weight loss, but instead trick my body. I lost 0.8 kg which feels amazing, and even better it brings me sooo close to be under 110 kg again. I am still in the process of my school project and made myself the goal to be 109 kg by December 13th. It seems possible and shouldn't be a big deal to accomplish that!

Feeling sick :/

The last few days hasn't been good at all. I have lost my energy completely and my body has been in pain. to the fact that I have been having migraine twice this week :(

Food I have been doing excellent if you ask me. Except from yesterday night where we decided to enjoy each other and get some ice cream. I know it wont help my weight loss but it was a nice evening.

The scale isn't really showing any results which doesn't make things easier either. I think it is time to push myself to work out even though my body is in pain. Hopefully that will get my energy level up.

Tuesday was a horrible and quit scary day as the police tried to catch a criminal person, who has been living in the apartment upstairs. It ended up in a shooting episode. Crazy!!

I have decided to skip root-vegetables to eliminate carb in my diet. I will still get carb as they are in every vegetable and fruit but I will try to eat the vegetables with less than 5g of carb pr. 100g.

Weigh in will be next Wednesday.

What happened?

Wednesday I did end up having sushi and Coke zero for dinner! The weirdest thing happened, the coke tasted soooo bad!! Saying what?!! I telling myself that I must have been unlucky getting a bad coke.. Or i the truth that I can actually live with out it? One thing is for sure I am not craving it anymore!! Instead I just love my icetea!! The sushi was good! Gotta admit I love sushi and I don't see anything wrong in that, but again I know now after whole30 that I can happily live with out it! 

Apart from this one meal I have been doing great! Eating after paleo, lots of vegetables, protein and fat. Apparently it hasn't been enough as I gained 300g. It is sooo frustrating I just wanna loss weight! I am not giving up one bad week isn't what will define this journey! This week I will try to slow down on sweet potatoes and carrot that way I keep my carbs on a low limit! Also I will change some of the protein with more vegetables. 

Hopefully next week will show a big loss!!!  

Day 30 of whole 30!!!

OMG I actually did it!!!

I am a bit surprise of myself. I really wanted to do it but deep inside I just didn't believe I could do it! Here we are 31 days later looking better, feeling better and most important my level of cravings has gone down! 

The whole30 isn't about loosing weight, but about cleaning your body and get healthier! Though I did it mostly to loss weight and was hoping for some good result! 

I lost 2.8 kg during the last 30 days. 

Emilio lost 4.5 kg during the last 30 days. 

I was hoping for more a lot more to be honest! But looking back then I have lost around 600 grams a week which isn't bad considering my level of work out. Emilio is killing the scale with good result and I couldn't be happier I am sooo proud of him! 

So what is the plan now?! 

I feel good after these 30 days and not planning on going back at all! These 30 days is just a part of the long weight loss journey I have in front of me. Today I will allowed myself to eat sushi for dinner and I might even go and get myself a little Coke Zero just to see how I will react on it! But specially Coke Zero isn't coming back in my diet on a daily basic as it has been for the past 5 years! Yes I will drink coke again, but I will limit it til the days I am going out!

Dairy has been another of the things I have eliminated during the last 30 days. I love cream, hard cheese and butter and on the Paleo 2.0 these items are okay.. But after realizing that my food taste just as good with out dairy I have decided to just keeping it out on my daily diet. No reason to add those calories!!!

Chick peas and quinoa.. See that is another story! They aren't allowed on whole30 and I haven't missed them a lot, but I honestly believe that they are really healthy for me! They contain lots of calcium so I will actually take them back into my diet.. Not something I will eat every day but a few times a week I guess!

3 meals a day.. Dam that was hard in the beginning BUT now it just feels so normal.. I am normally not hungry between the meals anymore and I have therefor decided just to keep my diet to 3 meals a day on less I am starving or working out! 

Would I recommend the whole30 to other!? HELL YEAH!!! It feels so good to accomplish a goal like this and it seriously makes you feel good! 

We are back on paleo this time the strict version 1.0! Hopefully that will help me with the rest of my weight loss.. I am currently 110.4 kg so there is still 15.4 kg to the weight that I have sat as a goal for a pregnancy. With the help from Emilio I know we can do it.   

Just for the record then here is the meals from yesterday, which was day 30!

Breakfast: 

My favorite banana pancakes. Seriously you HAVE TO TRY THEM!!! I LOVE THEM!!!! On the side I had ½ avocado, mushrooms and tomato!  

Lunch: We went out for lunch and this was what I could get. Piece of meat with a carrot salad.

Dinner: I chopped sweet potatoes, onions and carrots and laid them in a tray on top I laid a whole chicken. The chicken got a marinade of lemon, parsley and salt. With it I had ½ avocado! I tell you I love baked chicken!  

 

Day 29 of whole30

One day left! Looks like I am going to make it!!

Breakfast: 

Spicy grounded beef  with left over salad and an avocado.

 Lunch: Steak and cabbage. one handful nuts and olive oil.

Dinner: Pork with baked vegetables. yum yum

Day 28 of whole30

Why losing weight?

I have been watching a lot of Extreme weight loss episodes. It is so inspiring to watch these people loosing 50% of there body weight in just 1 year! They all have different reasons for why they got overweight and why they now wanna fight the kilos and get healthy. One thing they all have in commend is there low self-esteem and low self confidence. When you don't believe in your self losing weight must be hard! 

  

I am obese but not in the scale of the participants of these programs but I still have my reasons of why I got fat and why I wanna loss weight!

Weight loss motivations:
- Getting healthy for a pregnancy.
- Getting healthy and minimize my health risks.
- Being able to buy clothes in a normal store.
- Looking good on my wedding pictures.
- Makes my kids grow up in a healthy environment.
 - Loving my self and my look.

Breakfast: Banana pancake on the side mushrooms and tomatoes.

Lunch: stuffed pumpkin ( spicy grounded meat) with a red cabbage salad and avocado.

Dinner:

Steak with a salad made with: Lettuce, asparagus, avocado, tomato and celery. Spicy chili oil.

Day 27 of whole30

Stupid knee and hip! 

The pain in my hips is really starting to annoy me. I will have to get it checked out by a doctor as I am to scared of working out right now! I fear it is something bad and I mean with all the weight I am carrying around it wouldn't be weird that my knee and hips are hurting. 

The last few days I have been watching a lot of Extreme makeover weight loss edition! It is so motivating to watch these people losing 50 of there weight in just a year! They work out a lot.. 6 days of 2-6 hours of Cardio work a week + 3 days of weight lifting! 

That makes me think that if I start working out some more I can accomplish even bigger goals! There is a gym 500 meters away from our apartment so Monday we will go there! Of cause I will need to check my hips first but I think it is time to work out a lot more!!

Breakfast: Pancakes (it is basically just a thin omelet 2 eggs, ½ a banana) and a carrot! Wow those pancakes are AWESOME!!!

Lunch: Chicken lever and neck. Butternut squash fries baked in the oven and a red cabbage salad.

Chicken soup with chicken, celery, carrot, onion, garlic and chicken breast

Day 26 of whole30! big challenge.

First big public challenge. 

I have pretty much tried to avoid going out during this whole30. It is just easier not to be around temptations. Though I have been going to my family in laws house which is full of crappy food as I like to call all of that sugar shit!! haha... Anyway it hasn't been hard to say no to ice cream or cake being there.. Probably because my father in law always makes us an amazing barbecue. That mixed with a good salad leaves me satisfied not wishing for all the unhealthy sugar!! 

BUT

Yesterday we had a baby shower celebration. They were serving leg meat, mayo and bread.. For those who has never tasted that I will tell you it is dam awesome.. It is like eating a piece of heaven! That being said I need to find a solution.. Cabbage.. Yes cabbage was the solution we used the cabbage instead of bread and just avoided the mayo. (had a teaspoon of it in my first wrap but it just didn't taste good.) Of cause there were cake afterwords together with a glass champagne but I said No thanks. I consider yesterday as a victory! YEAH 

Also I got to hold Emilio's cousins new baby! OMG it just felt so good to hold that little girl in my arm it reminded me of 3 years ago when I was holding my host baby Emma.. I love babies and holding little Julia yesterday made me even more ready for this weight loss.. I really wanna be healthy for my own pregnancy. 

Breakfast:   

Egg muffin (egg, chili, basil, red pepper)

Lunch:

Leftover osobuco with some spicy meatballs and cauliflower. 

Dinner: Cabbage wrap filled with leg meat! NAM NAM NAM

Day 25 of whole30

Day 25 was really good! Things really seems to get easier which feels good! Cravings are gone completely to the fact that I feel ready to give up my coke zero for good... I will not deny myself coke zero for the rest of my life but I will try to keep it to a minimum... For me a minimum is, to keep my joy of coke zero to special occasions like Birthdays, Holidays or other special celebrations... Lets see how that goes :)

During my school project we have focus a lot on a healthy lifestyle. For me health is a complicated word because we have different conceptions of health and what it includes. Are we healthy if our BMI is between the normal 18,5-24,9? For me the answer is no. Just because we keep our weight in a healthy BMI doesn't mean that we get the nutrition that our body need. This takes me to a questions I have been wondering for a long time.
-        Is a calorie just a calorie?
If I wanna loss around 0.5kg a week then I should eat around 1500 calories a day. (If I decided a diet for which I had to count calories, this isn't my case... But I still find it interesting.) My questions is here would 1500 calories food coming from Fast food like Taco bell, Mac Donald or Pizza hut be as good as 1500 calories coming from homemade salad and meat? If a calorie is just a calorie then the questions would be yes?! I am not talking about not being hungry or anything but just the fact that so many people say eat less calories than you burn and you will loss weight.. Sounds simple but I believe a healthy weight loss takes a healthy diet which included lots of vegetables, good protein and healthy fat. Because a diet like that will give us all the nutrition and vitamins that we need for our body to work. Just as our body react differently to different food..

What do you think? Is a calorie just a calorie?

Let me first post a good drink! For me water gets a bit boring during a whole day so we have tried to make healthy drinks. The other day I made a ginger drink, which was basic shredded ginger, slice of lemon and ice water. It was really good..
The drink on the picture is a home made Icetea that Emilio made the other day.. It is really good! Basically he boiled water and just added normal tea.. Then he made it rest for a long time in the fridge.. It is best ice cold.. YUM YUM

Breakfast: 

2 eggs, ½ red pepper and avocado.

Lunch: chicken wings with a red cabbage salad. I love wings but I need to drop them to much fat!

 Dinner:
Osobuco stew and on the side butternut squash fries baked in the oven.. It was soo tasty...

Day 24 of whole30

Today has been hard I am at that time of the month where cravings are worse mixed with tons of pain! Yes not a good combination! Anyway I need to fight it with out chocolate, ice cream, sushi and coke which would be my normal medication!

I did get to work out today 5.5 km which I am proud of. It is freaking hot in Argentina right now so working out really makes me sweat!

Breakfast: This is a really bad picture of some really good food! It is panned mushrooms, onions and crab mixed with eggs and on the side an avocado.

Lunch: It looked like something I would serve for a dog so I just decided to eat it so no pictures this time. I had the left overs from the lasagna and added 2 sunny eggs and some pistachios. It was dam good.

Dinner: 

Baked chicken with a warm broccoli salad. (panned garlic, onions and broccoli). Good 

Day 23 of whole30

Less than a week left! I can't believe I almost made it through..!! It feels so good to accomplish.. Though there is still a week left but I have the feeling that it is going to be pretty easy...
What still isn't easy is my work outs. I have been having issues with some pain in my hips, ankle and knee.. I guess that is the typical issues for a person my size but it is annoying and keeping me away from hitting the goals. I sure do walk much more than usual but I would wish for more. If we look back on this past week I walk:
Wednesday: 5.5 km Goal was 5.5 km GOOD ONE
Thursday: Off day
Friday: 6 km. Goal was 5 km :) GOOD ONE
Saturday: 6 km Goal was 10 km. BAD ONE
Sunday: Off day
Monday: 3 km Goal was 5.5 km BAD ONE
Tuesday: 2.5 km Goal was 5 km BAD ONE


Out of the 5 planned work outs I only accomplished 2 which is NOT good enough!! But it is a start hopefully next week will be better!

Breakfast:
Scramble eggs with Paleo bread and a warm salad of spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes. YUM YUM

Lunch: Baked Chicken lever and neck and a few wings. On the side red cabbage, tomatoes, pistachios and avocado. I love chicken lever and the good things is how CHEAP it is!! 

Dinner: Paleo lasagna made with tons of vegetables (cabbage, onions, carrots, garlic, tomatoes, and celery) Grounded beef and some left over lever. Instead of pasta I used Egg plants.. It is delicious easy to make and then it is the perfect left over dish!