Today was a big milestone in my journey. I have often felt my dearly beloved sister has been either disengaged or unaware of the huge changes I have been making as a result of my sleeve without a huge amount of feedback. But specifically over the last couple months she has really been supportive and
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Today I had my 12 month appointment with the life coach as a part of my surgeons aftercare team. I had a really good appointment and talked through my mental barriers and mental demons that have appeared on my sleeve journey. As I stop and process all we talked about I have come to the
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Wow what a busy busy stressful day!! My day was supposed to start at 5.20am when my alarm went off to go to my PT session with Anita, however my day instead started at 2am with a bad news email! Today was a big day for me at work with the production of a promotional
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Weigh in Wednesday is here again! It comes around so quickly.  And I’m not going to lie, I am REALLY disappointed with this weeks results. I know that I should be happy with any loss, I know that weight is only 1 measure of my successes and I know muscle weighs more than fat. I
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5.45am start to my day! It was so much easier to get up that time of the day when I went to bed much earlier than I normally do! Head off to the gym doing 20 minutes on the cross trainer, 15 minutes interval running on the treadmill, 10 minutes on the stair master and
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Me being the person I am, for my entire life always put others before myself. To protect, care for, advocate for and support them! It has been a huge and really difficult shift for me to adjust to allowing myself to put myself first for a change. For me to stop and acknowledge that it’s
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Sunday morning started with a session at the gym dragging along a good friend with me to hook in the gym torture….I mean fun! 760 calories and some more treadmill jogging later I got home and stuffed! Had a family day at Marion shopping centre and came home at 2pm realised that I hadn’t eaten
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Protein Almond Bread Makes: 24 Ingredients: 1/2 cup egg whites 3 scoops (90g) pure protein powder 1/4 cup low calorie sweetener 3 tablespoons coconut flour 1 tablespoon sugar free maple syrup 1 tablespoon almond milk 250g almonds Method: • Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. • Beat egg whites with an electric beater until soft
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Saturday morning means one thing…..gym date with my main little guy! Off we went on our little weekly outing together! I was preparing myself more than I normally do, wardrobe wise and I decided to double bag the wind socks!! Lately as I have been pushing myself more I have found the jiggle factor has
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Christmas Cake (protein enriched) Makes: 12 portions Ingredients: 250g mixed dried fruit 1 & 1/2 cups milk (of your choice) 150g mixed chopped nuts 3 scoops (90g) chocolate protein powder 1/4 cup coconut flour 1 teaspoon baking powder Method: Place the dried fruit in a mixing bowl and cover with 1 cup of milk and
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