fULLON wKEND

Well it was a pretty full-on wkend. We went out with a bunch of mates for dinner at Thai flame just around the corner from work. It was a pretty good price and the food was very tasty. I managed to consume most of a bottle of wine so was feeling rather cheery after that.

On Saturday once we finally managed to drag ourselves out of bed (at 9:30!) we loaded the van with the two dirt bikes and gear. We’d been rather concerned with the fact that two dirt bikes just might not fit on, but managed to squish them in there without too much fuss at all!. We were out at Woodhill by 12 o’clock, it takes just over an hour to get there. We then spent the next 4 ½ hours blasting around the tracks. It was great fun riding with Greg, it’s the first time he’s ridden his bike (its been a work in progress since he brought it at the start of the year), so he was happy it didn’t fall to bits. It did boil the coolant at one stage after a mammoth uphill, which I’ve never heard a bike to before but it seemed pretty sweet after that. Greg’s since brought a new radiator cap. We were out of there at just after 5 and home at 6:20. Since we had a party to go to in Balmoral at 7, it didn’t leave us much time to do anything so the bikes stayed in the van for unloading and cleaning the next day.

I was completely shattered after the riding and only lasted at the party until 9:45 (loser!) before we had to pike as I was starting to not make any sense.

We then got up about 8:30 the next morning as I wanted to go to Botany and get my hair done. I haven’t been to the hairdresser since November so it was looking a bit straggly. Got 12 foils in blonde and brown and a cut, and it only cost $66! I think she must’ve made a mistake as I’m sure it cost me 100 last time. I wasn’t about to complain though!

We had lunch at the pub then did a bit of shopping before heading home to unload the bikes. Got them out and found that the hose wasn’t there so we couldn’t wash them so decided to drive out to the Hunua ranges and do a bit of mountain biking instead. Out there by 4pm, we went down a trail we haven’t been on before. After a while it started getting dark and we were getting rather concerned as we looked to be in the middle of nowhere and had no idea at all where or when the trail ended. We stopped at one point and could see what possibly was the gravel road cut into the side of a hill so took another trail heading in that direction and we were lucky enough that we found it.

We were quite a long way from home and by the time we got back it was pitch black (but only 10 to 6 damn sunset) headed home and chucked a casserole on for dinner and ate cookies and cream icecream while we were waiting. Damn that stuff is good.

 

So we ate lots of bad stuff in no moderation during the wkend but also did a shite-load of exercise. Weight wasn’t looking too good this morning though at 69.1! But hopefully it will head back down.

 

Hmm, its been a while!

Morning weight: 69.2 (was 69.4 on Saturday)

Points eaten yesterday: 19.5

Exercise: Nada

 

Well it’s been a while since I updated so I thought I should pull finger and write something (not that anyone reads this!). I’ve been really busy with racing, travelling and all that. I’ve also NOT been losing weight and the pair of jeans I use to measure my fatness are rather tight. Bad leo!

So yesterday was the start of leo-stop-eating-everything again and so far its being going good.

 

I brought a copy of the Healthy Eating magazine. They’ve got a great looking recipe for lasagne in there that I will have to try sometime. Anyway they talk about your metabolism and how’s its made up of 3 parts. Your basal (basic) metabolism is the amount of energy required to tick over in a steady state and makes up 60-80% of energy used by sedentary adults. The diet-induced thermo-genesis is the amount of energy needed to process food eaten, and the last bit and only bit we can really control is physical activity and can vary the metabolism rate from 10-15% in lazy people to up to 50% in active people.

They also made the comment that people losing weight lose lean muscle mass which slows down your metabolism so it becomes even more important to exercise to try and not lose that when dieting. So I need to keep that in mind and kick my own ass to do some exercise.

Although in saying that, my quads are extremely sore at the moment from racing, and I can barely hobble along let alone exercise! I even resorted to buying deep heat last night to rub on them. Wish I had brought it to work today.

 

I made a big batch of pumpkin and chickpea soup last night to bring for lunches. With a bit of light sour cream on top and some toast it’s divine! I had a WW cheesy macaroni last night for dinner, its not the best but at least it was hot and went some way to filling the gap.

 

One last thing, what ever you do DO NOT buy the Tip Top Cookies and Cream icecream. It is soooo good with huge chunks of cookie and so so so bad!