Welcome to my new life!

Follow me on this year-long journey to creating the new me.

I know year after year I have always made resolutions to lose weight and create a better mind space, but I'm sick of not keeping promises.

My resolutions this year are -

Lose approx 20-25kgs

Be proud of who I am and what I look like

Kick my sugar addiction

Wear a bikini by December 2012

Bit much to ask for? I don't think so!

I have clothes in my wardrobe I've bought and held onto for years as "goal weight clothes", but yet I have still never been able to fit into them. It's gotten to the point in my life where I'm settling down and in a few years I want to have children. I want to be at the prime fitness at that point so I can bounce back quickly and have the energy to run after little ones.

I also want to die from old age, not from an illness or sickness I've gotten from being over weight or not looking after my health. So starting this journey is going to be a very large life changing experience.

First off I started with some inspirational reading to combat my sugar addiction

I have to say, I am not finished reading it. I'm one of those people who read read read then put a book down and don't touch it for a couple of weeks. I will continue reading and finish it though. So far in the book I have learnt a lot, reading labels correctly, finding out which is good and bad sugar etc. Also steps to take to cutting it out of your diet entirely. I have to admit, I don't do cold turkey well. Therefore I have gone with the "cutting out each week" plan, where each week I cut out something I would normally eat. I have stopped having that chocolate or sugary drink at work with my break, I have replaced it with iced water and some very low sugar yogurt or muesli bar. Going very well so far, although the other morning I witnessed myself stuffing a timtam into my mouth whilst standing at the fridge. Bad girl! But it's better to give into the small temptation at the start than ignore it, otherwise you can relapse hard and have a big binge, which is much worse than 1 timtam biscuit.

I started this resolution very well, on January 1st I started making packed lunches/dinners to take to work, so that I wouldn't be tempted to buy bad food. My lunches or dinners so far are only salads (I will start making other things once the weather cools down enough to cook), which kinda look like this -

It changes everyday with what I have in my fridge/pantry, but usually it's cucumber, tomato, capsicum, tuna, felafel and egg. I've been told that when losing weight you should make sure each meal has a protein in it, still trying to have protein with breakfast, but the other meals either i have a meat or tuna and eggs.

Another thing I learnt from my book is to make a motto on helping you along with your goal.

"Junk food doesn't make you beautiful, determination does."

I drum this into myself each day, and anytime I feel like eating something bad. It's going to be a long uphill struggle, but the more you use your will power, the stronger it gets.

I will get there.