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Super models without photo shop. The hilarious thing is the middle one is considered a plus sized model. I don't know about you but I think the skinniest one looks the worst. Too big is not good for your health but you have to wonder what you are doing to your body when you are that thin.

Brooklyn has a lovely shape but it just goes to show how deceiving photo shopping can be.

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SO basically anything that tastes good is BAD!!

Otago University just compiled a list of nutritionally deficient food that is causing us to be fat.


Here it is be prepared to be depressed there are a couple of surprises on there!

The NEEDNT, or non-essential, energy dense, nutritionally deficient, list:

1.Alcoholic drinks
2.Biscuits
3.Butter, lard, dripping or similar fat (used as a spread or in baking/cooking etc.)
4.Cakes
5.Chocolate
6.Coconut cream
7.Condensed milk
8.Cordial
9.Corn chips
10.Cream (including creme fraiche)
11.Crisps (including vegetable crisps)
12.Desserts/puddings
13.Doughnuts
14.Drinking Chocolate, Milo etc.
15.Energy drinks
16.Flavoured milk/milkshakes
17.Fruit tinned in syrup
18.Fried food
19.Frozen yoghurt
20.Fruit juice (except tomato juice and unsweetened blackcurrant juice)
21.Glucose
22.High fat crackers
23.Honey
24.Hot chips
25.Ice cream
26.Jam
27.Marmalade
28.Mayonnaise
29.Muesli bars
30 Muffins
31.Nuts roasted in fat or oil
32.Pastries
33.Pies
34.Popcorn with butter or oil
35.Quiches
36.Reduced cream
37.Regular luncheon sausage
38.Regular powdered drinks
39.Regular salami
40.Regular sausages
41.Regular soft drinks
42.Fruit rollups
43.Sour cream
44.Sugar (added to anything including drinks, baking, cooking etc.)
45.Sweets/lollies
46.Syrups such as golden syrup, treacle, maple syrup
47.Toasted muesli and any other breakfast cereal with more than 15g sugar per 100g cereal
48.Whole milk
49.Yoghurt type products with more than 10g sugar per 100g yoghurt

NZN

x J

Tricks and Tips ( That actually work)

During the last week after having my new scales I have picked up a few tricks so here they are:

1. If you can avoid it don't have your biggest meal at dinner. I have swapped my lunch and dinner around and it is really, really helping. For my treat meals I like to add pumpkin and kumara to my meal but I find at dinner it is too heavy. I also get really hungry in between 3 and 5 and I tend to eat too much at dinner which was affecting my loss. Now with having a bigger meal at lunch I have time to burn it off also I don't get very hungry between  3 and 5 and can easily deal with having a lighter meal.

2. If you need to snack and it is late brush your teeth. Nothing kills your tastebuds more than toothpaste!!! This has been working wonders for me!!!! Also if you brush your teeth instead of snacking not only do you lose weight you have insanely shiny teeth.

3. Don't deprive yourself make sure that if you are a chocolate addict you have some chocolate just make sure it is a small amount and no more than a couple of times a week. Also if you make your treat earlier in the day you can burn it off.

My eating today will be:

Breakfast:
vogals and ww hot chocolate


Morning tea


Banana


Lunch
 Pork Chop with vege added pumpkin and kumara for my treat.

Afternoon tea


Plum


Dinner


something light I will either have a salad or some eggs either poached or boiled with some spinach. 


Hope this helps


xx J

Divine Intervention !!!

Today was baking HOT!!!! I did my morning exercise but all day I kept thinking about the chocolate trumpet I had yesterday for my birthday. I could literally taste the cool chocolate ice cream sliding down my throat, thinking how wonderful it would be to have another one.

After picking Angel up from school and Willow up from preschool I decided F@#k it I am getting I trumpet and I will get my girls an ice cream too. Then by good fortune half way there I realized I hadn't brought my wallet along.

We went home and had ice and fruit. At the end of the day it was still sweet and did the same thing.

At the end of the day it is the pleasure principal that is hard to resist. If our taste buds were numb we wouldn't care what we ate and there would be no obesity.

In  Freud terms you need to repress your Id and use your Ego and Super Ego to control your urges. When you wants something go zen.

There is more pleasure in being healthy and happy with your body then having a quick fix!

Yes, Yes YES!!!!

AS an early birthday present ( my birthday is tomorrow!) Ray brought me some digital scales.

I have lost 5 kilos in the past 4 weeks. After weeks of nothing happening I am beyond excited. It is coming off slowly, but it is coming off.

Hurrah, hurrah !!!!!!

Now I am off to enjoy my birthday pizza :S

xx J

Guilt

As a mother being guilty is nothing new. Did I not breastfeed long enough? did I put my baby in daycare to soon? OMG I can't believe I accidentally caught my baby's foot in the car door :S

As a mother being hard on ones self seems to be second nature. This is doubly so when it comes to our weight. I really think this surmounts by the celebrated and dreaded first birthday. When Angel (6) turned one I was 5 kilos off my pre baby weight no easy feat since I had gained around 29 kilos, I felt proud. When Willow (2) turned one I was 8 months pregnant with Lincoln so no one expected me to be the image of svelteness. Then Lincoln turned one and some how I weighed the same as I did in my final trimester with him......

So you feel guilty about your weight then you punish yourself with negative thoughts. This also happens when we veer off our diet. I can remember the first week when I seemed to gain instead of loose, this made me want to eat everything insight. But really why would I punish myself for something that wasn't my fault. Also by falling of the bandwagon and then punishing myself even more what is achieved by that?

If you child has an accident you reassure them that everything is ok and accidents happen. When your child makes mistakes you tell them off but you don't go on and on and berate them down to nothing. When a friend in need calls you, you make them feel better. Yet when we do something we seem to react. There is the saying you are your own worst enemy. How about trying to be your own biggest fan. Focus on your achievements and not your shortcomings.

Look at your children and think well you gained weight from giving life and you are doing your best to get it off. It takes time and there are always bad days just remember tomorrow is a day free of mistakes xxxxx





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