Terrible night. Made worse by the fact I had thought we were over the worst since we got back from Scotland - I was wrong. Ted was awake and fussing from 1230 until 330 when I finally relented and crashed out on his bedroom floor again after letting him have his milk. I am sure it is a phase and it might be linked to the fact I have moved his room around to make it easier for him to get in and out of bed without tripping over things and stubbing his toes but it was awful Once he had been awake for an hour without settling he was overtired and that just makes it all harder. The most demoralising thing is 4 nights ago he slept through fine and 2 nights ago he woke only once at 430, but since then it has been not so good. Wednesday night 330 with a quick settle but then awake from 5 - 6, and last night awake at 1130 with quick settle but then 1230 til 330 and awake at 645. Suffice to say neither Ry or I were in particularly comic relief spirits this morning.

Theres not much that can be done about it though. Have read all the books, read all the web advice, discussed with other mums - friends and online in forums, tried all the techniques and nothing works as a permenent fix. Leaving him to just cry is the only way to get him sleeping through unaided, and now he is out of his cot that means leaving him to cry at the gate at his door - which is very loud, and as sson as we go away and change the routine it throws him out and we start again. Am holding off getting a new bed as now we have changed the room around the cot with the gap will be fine and I am not convinced it will make any difference - he moves around so much the bars that are remaining are an advantage.

Sorry to bore with details but am rather at wits end today as more than a little bit tired and already feeling horrible about the prospect of doing it all again tonight. Only consolation is that its not as bad as when he was a baby (yet - touch wood)

Week at work has been fine, not setting the world alight but getting by. Loking forward to the weekend and some family time and the new car pickup on Sunday.

Good news is according to the wii fit my BMI is now under 25 and have lost 4 pounds in the last 2 weeks I am now in the ‘ideal’ category as oppose to the ‘overweight’ category - so thats a plus.

Believe it or not, a thin person can still have a high body fat percentage. The more lean muscle mass you carry, the less body fat you have. If you’re trying to prevent the wiggle under your arm when you wave or lose that last layer of fat from your abdominal muscles, increase muscle first. After you’ve built up your lean muscle mass, you can lose the body fat through diet and exercise.

What we would want to highlight:-

Intervals are Key

Sprinters have the lowest body fat percentages of almost any athlete for a reason. Every time you mix up high intensity bursts with active recovery you will get the benefit of aerobic and anaerobic training in one session. You can do this a number of different ways, but the treadmill is probably easiest. Plan to train for 25 minutes. Warm up for the first five minutes, then switch between sprinting or running fast with walking or jogging every other minute or two. If you’re able to do it longer than 25 or 30 minutes you need to crank up the intensity a little.

Source: Yahoo!

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Remember it’s as simple as F. D.I.

Frequency

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Day 20 March 6th,                   (Weighing in 8 days)

I love the weekend! Not controlled by work. Nothing to dictate your day, it’s great. Anyways for breakfast I had 2 eggs and a cup of coffee. It was delicious but it would have been a lot better with turkey bacon. For a snack I had a beef jerky and cheese stick. Lunch was tuna (chopped pickles with miracle whip). Then for dinner I ate a salad. I should have eaten more but I just ran out of time.

I did exercise first thing in the morning. I almost bagged it because I had so much to do today. But I’m so glad I did my exercises. Today I rode the exercise bike for 30 min then I did

• 3 sets of 15 weight machine butterfly exercise (it works the arms)
• 3 sets of 30 weight machine front leg lifts
• 3 sets of 30 weight machine back leg lifts
• 3 sets of 40 standard sit-ups
• 3 sets of 40 crunches (legs resting on bed, back on floor)

Last night I did the craziest thing I’ve ever done. At night I had the biggest sweet tooth I’ve ever had! So what did I do. I ate half of a banana to put out my sweet tooth! Who does that? Who eats bananas when they want something sweet! I was proud of myself and it did get rid of my sweet tooth. Believe it or not.

 My husband bought us tickets to go see the band who wrote the song we danced to on our wedding day. That was tonight and it was fun. I felt pretty and thin, that felt great. And I did drink a couple alcohol beverages.

Note to self: Your still not drinking enough water. Get on it.

Day 27 March 13th,             (Weighing in 2 days)

It’s so stupid! I feel so beautiful because I’m thinner. It feels so great! So because of this I tried on my Buckle pants (Buckle is a store in the mall), that were my fat pants and they still don’t fit! I can’t even pull them up all the way on one leg. And the stupid part is I felt so fat when I was wearing those pants! Even if I fix my body how am I going to fix my mind? I mean if I thought I was fat at 90 lbs at 13 years old maybe I’ll always think I’m fat. I might have to get a psychiatrist or something.

Anyways for breakfast I had 2 eggs and about 4 or 5 turkey bacon slices. It was so good. Ugh the eggs made me so sick today was one of the worst I’ve ever experienced. It’s always been this way too. Even when I was a little girl and my mom would make pancakes, sausage, eggs and toast and I would always get so sick I’d have to lay down. I never mentioned it because I thought was normal for everyone. I didn’t realize it wasn’t normal until I was about 23. I asked my husband “Don’t you get sick after you eat eggs too?” and he said no. (:( poor me)

I didn’t have a lunch today. Dinner was chili. It was such a nice change. I can have chili because it consists of Meat, beans (protein) and vegetables.

I didn’t exercise today (like usual I have excuses for everything). My son was really sick though. He gets a breathing problem maybe 2 or 3 times a year. It’s like asthma or something. So normally we give him albuterol (it’s an inhaler). But it doesn’t cure it. This time we just put Vick’s VapoRub all over his chest and back and that’s been helping him get through it. So hopefully he wont have to take the medication.

Note to readers: I was thinking that if I haven’t lost 4 pounds that I was going to eliminate stuff out of my diet. Like coffee, cheese or ranch dressing. But then I realized removing those items would just create excuses to not have to exercise. So I decided, if I don’t lose weight I’ll leave my diet alone and just focus harder on exercising.

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered what farmers have known for many years.

Corn will make you fat.

Corn chips, tortillas, corn meal, grits, hominy, raw corn, corn on the cob, creamed corn, sweet corn, pop corn… there are a veritable host of corn food products.

“But I don’t eat corn!,” you may say.

Sure you do. Just read the ingredients labels of the foods you purchase.

Many, if not most, foods contain “High Fructose Corn Syrup.”

Simply read the ingredients label.

Campbell’s Soup brand – Healthy Request Chicken Rice; Healthy Request Vegetable Made with Beef Stock; and Healthy Request Tomato, all contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Kraft brand – Hickory Smoke Barbecue Sauce, Free Zesty Italian fat free dressing, Free Ranch fat free dressing. Light Original Reduced Calorie Barbecue Sauce, and Miracle Whip light dressing, all contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Lea & Perrins, The Original Worcestershire Sauce contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Great Value (Wal-Mart store brand) Maraschino Cherries contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

And, it goes without saying that the exceeding majority of soft drinks contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Led by the soft drink industry,  for the past 40 years, commercial food processors have eliminated cane sugar and substituted “High Fructose Corn Syrup” as a sweetener.

Perhaps most reminiscent among the commercial food industry’s change was Coca-Cola’s change of their nearly century old, top-secret recipe from using cane sugar to High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Corn, which was earlier called Maize, is an essentially New World food, having been “discovered” by Spanish conquistadors in Mexico, and thought to have been in use by the Aztec, Mayas and Incas as many as 6,000 years ago. In European nations corn is largely considered an animal food.

Comparatively, according to the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, for 2008/9 the United States consumed 259,053 thousand metric tons of corn, while for the same period EU-27 (the European Union) consumed only 62,000 thousand tons.