A Happy post.....

:) lets start this post with a smile....

So the point is last few weeks were bad in terms of exercise and all and it's because life has been very busy from work and also I have been down with cough cold etc.

However from food point of view things were quite good...

But my point of happiness is the 2 trousers, I have mentioned in my earlier post, which were not fitting to me, I have been able to wear them properly now. So obviously its something to cheer for. :)

In comparison to last weekend and the whole week, this weekend was quite good.
yeah I have finished my household work etc, had rested nicely and above all had a good Sunday evening spent with dear husband along with a dinner outing.

Thankfully my maid was regular and it seems now she will continue the work (fingers crossed).

Saturday morning I woke up on my scheduled time itself, but dint went for any walk etc just had a cup of tea peacefully at my balcony and enjoyed my time with myself. Sunday I went for my Jog/walk and felt really nice after that. Today morning I have started C25K training program.

Hopefully I will be able to continue with it.
However whatever it is somehow I do manage to do some or other form of exercise every now and then as the time permits.

Complex....

For this whole week ending today my reaction is Ufffffff....'
yeah of course no maid and overall lots of issues related to maid, all claning and utensils work to be done on my own, using public transport to commute to work (as my Activa is gone for servicing) and lots of other timy miny things which I would better like to forget only.....

Felling happy to say that finally I have found a maid for cleaning and utensils. Hopefully she will continue to work. No plan to hire a cook as I always had very bad experiences with them so far. So I have decided am better to do this thing on my own.
So last week was like no exercise and eating part was also on toll. However I have tried to keep it under control like making little better choices.

On the other front I must admit that in this new work place there are so many examples to give me complex about my weight and shape as I have seen 3-4 examples of girls (yes of course GIRLS not women) whom I was thinking they won't be even married, but came to know that they are Mothers of grown up kids.....
My God how maintained they are, so pretty so beautiful....I am ashamed of myself. Planning to start my jog/run from tomorrow morning.

So that's all from my side....

Bad weekened as lots n lots of household work, no maid and above all lots of thinking and discussion on various topics.....
Whatever this is life all about isn't it?????

Last week only exercise was on the weekened and then on Monday which I have posted in my last post and after thata I had PMS and then my dates.

Thought to go on a walk on Sunday but as my maid din't turned up so was choked with all cleaning and household work.

Weighed myself on the weekened and weight was steady on 65kg.

However I wore a saree on Thursday and found that my blose was a li'l lose so hoping that I have lost timy miny fat :)

Had read a nice article today about weight loss vs fat loss and would like to share it here.

See ya soon....

Started week on good note..

yeah feeling happy as managed to go for 1/2 hr jogging on saturday-Sunday. Diet wise all home made normal food, nothing kind of Diet food and nothing very heavy kinda too.....

Today I have started with day 1 of JM 30 day shred. I assumed to have sore muscles etc but all seems ok may ba as my body has been used to it now.

I know that even after trying so much and doing so much I am not getting desired results however I am not going to stop as I believe today or tomorrow I my efforts will definitely get fruitful.

BTW here are some statistics as of today fro tracking purpose after my strat with JM.

Chest - 37
Waise 32
Lower Waist 34
Hips 42
Thighs - 24.5
Arms 12

All this Kolavery D....

This is going to be a wrong kinda day in terms of food etc. as today to reach office early I have not cooked anything not even breakfast. So in short breakfast was 2 pieces of bread with tea and I have to eat lunch at office. However I will try to some safe food as much as I can from the options available in cafeteria. But yes anyhow its nt at all home cooked planned food at all.

Now let me vent out few more things too here.

I have joined a new workplace last week Monday. This is The nearest office anyone can have from my home location. So I should be very happy isn't it????
I was...though now I have realised that things are not as bright as I thought it would be. Because on this route there is such a heavy traffic that it takes me more time than any of my previous offices which were capatively quite far away. From last many days I have tried various routes and means to reach here like 2 wheeler, 4 wheeler and 3 wheeler and various routes but finally I concluded this way or that way, it taken more more more than anicipated time. And reaching office late means leaving late and then agaqin facing very heavy traffice and then reaching home too late too tired then everything late late late.

So the best way would be to leave home very early in the morning to reach office early and then leave early. So today I left home early and reached early here....hopefully will leave early too...

Tankfully its friday so in this weekend I will try my best to hire a maid for household chores....
Fingers crossed......

Karar(A sabji made of Moong dal)

Ingredients -
1 cup green/yellow moong dal, soaked night before
haldi - 1 pinch
garam masala - 1 teaspoon
red chilly - 1/4 teaspoon
jeera - 1/2 teaspoon
ginger-chilly paste - 1 teaspoon
Salt-as per taste
Oil

Procedure-

wash the soaked dal thoroughly in water.
(If you have soaked green dal the skin will come out but you can keep that to make some paratha or pakodas of it as they come up very crunchy and helathy too.)
Grind the dal coarsely without using water as it should be thick paste.
(Should not be very smooth paste)
In a pan pour some oil and drop small small balls of the dal paste and fry them lightly.
keep 2-3 spoon of paste for the gravy and make pakoras of all the paste.
Now in 2 spoon of oil put jeera, ginger-chilly paste and all the masalas.
Now add water and the remaining dal paste (only 2-3 spoon), add salt and cover it and let it cook for sometime.
Later add the dal pakoras

Serve hot with rice/roti.

As today I know there are no (or you can say limited) vegetables in my fridge so I need to think about what to cook.
I have only potato, tomato and onion avaialable. And I have already made Aloo-Tamatar sabji today morning itself.
So I need to look upon the receipes which I can make. This  has given my an idea to summarize the things which we can make
when we run out of vegetabled. I am syre many of us do face this situation some or other time so hopefully this collection can help us.

Here are few things I cook when I don't have any vegetable available-
1. kadhi
2. Karar (A sabji made of Moong dal)
3. besan sabji
4. Chole
5. rajma
6. Nutrela (Soya chunks) sabji
7. Dal Kofte
8. Gatte ki sabji

I will come up with the receipes soon one by one.

Yun hi....

Started doing half and hour yoga + pranayam every morning from yesterday.
On Sunday morning also went for a morning walk for around 40 mins.

felt sad as on weekend I have tried few clothes and they dint fit me al all now however I was wearing them 5-6 months back.
No problem rather than curing me for all this I know the reasons etc for it.
Though I was not absolutely far away from exercise as I was doing something or other thing like gym, jogging, walk etc but all together it was like as and when I felt to do so.
On food front no conscious effort.

BTW now I have started having one glass of lukewarm lemon water in the morning and taking care of food too. lets hope it all goes good and I get my goals.

just an update....

Life has been on rocks from past few months. Faced many ups and downs however seems things are getting settled down now. At least to some extent and that is why I was away from my blog since long. In last few months I did exercise in some or other form like walking/jogging and gym etc.
As exercise has become a part of me now but due to now being very focused on diet etc weight loss has actually not happened.

As I have already shared my weight loss process is very very very slow but still am trying and trying....as I know some or other day I will succeed.

 

One Week No Junk Challenge.....

I have joined this One Week No Junk Challenge on IWB -
http://www.fitnessvsweightloss.com/1-week-no-junk-challenge-join-and-lose-weight/
starting from today. Will keep updating now about the progress.

JM 30 Day Shred level 1

Yesterday only I have completed my JM 30 Day Shred level 1.
I felt so good and happy about it.
I really loved doing her workout and felt so good after doing it.

Today morning I have started the level 2. It is difficult the level 1 but yes that is expected.
Good thing is now I know what difference it makes to me when I do exercise. Considering this today I have also order a set of 2 dumbbells for me of 1 kgs.

JM 30 Days shred level 1 Day 7

Today I completed JM 30 Days shred level 1 Day 7.
Feeling very good and happy about my progress till now.

Initially it was so tough for me and I was thinking as when this will end. But now ll looks so good to me and I enjoy it so much that I hardly realize when my session gets over. :)

I really looks forward for my next session.

Also I have become so used to about the changes in my diet too. On Saturday I took a day off to diet and exercise. And I must say I felt so heavy after eating my normal food and without my exercise.I felt heavy and bloated.

Again yesterday I had my regular food like daliya, dal , 1 roti etc. Dinner was papaya and cucumber.
I felt good and happy.

So overall here are some of the benefits I have realized with this new routine:

1. I have been able to manage my constipation problem too. Without even taking any churna etc my system is working much better.

2. I am feeling light, more energetic.

3. My back ache and stiff shoulder issue is gone all together.

Addicted....

Today is my Day 4- of Jillian Mitchel 30 Days Shred level 1.
I must say I have become addicted to it.
Yes I am.

My God she is tough but she is damn good.
I feel the pain but after ding it I feel so good that I look forward to do it again next day.
Yesterday I don't get time to do it in the morning but I was feeling so tempted to do it that I managed to take time out in the evening and did it.
Today morning I woke up to make sure that I finish my day 4 as I knew if not in the morning today I can not make it for evening.

I feel so good after ding it and very hopeful too.
Yes hope that will definitely get my desired results soon.

Apart from that on my diet front I must say am doing really good.
I made Alloo paratha yesterday night but not for myself. I had Green moong dal khichadi.


My breakfast from last one week is Black Chana, Sprouts, Chaach, Sattu etc.
Lunch is 1 roti, one bowl dal, curd. Dinner is one bowl dal, salad, papaya and milk etc.

So overall I was feeling good that I am in control of myself.

I am feeling light and energetic. I wish I keep continuing it all and get my results soon.

Thoughts....

I have started my Jillian Mitchel 30 days Shred on 29th March 2015.
Though I have tried to do it few times earlier too but never completed it. However this time I am determined to finish it properly.

I have done it 2-3 times few days back and got muscle pains and then 2-3 days gap to get recovered. So this Sunday when I did its level 1 completely ,y body was not aching that much. Rather I felt good. Then today morning did my Day-2 and again today I am feeling very good.
I hope this "feeling good" will keep me motivated.

Last Sunday my son told me Mumma aap moti ho and that brought tears in my eyes. I decided then that I will change myself and this tag of "Moti".

I also went for walk today morning as after my exercise session I found that the morning was so beautiful and as my husband and son was sleeping and my maid was coming a little late today so had kind of 1/2 hour time to go for a walk. So did it.
I have decided to do my exercise in some or other form definitely.

My motivation...

As I told in my y'day post that I do lost some kgs in my last effort to loos weight and got some compliments.
Today when I have seen some of my pics taken during Diwali and compared them with current pics the difference was visible.

Though I felt sad that I have gained weight after that during winters due to many reasons but I know I could have avoid that.

No worried I have learnt a lesson now.


This is me during Diwali....where its clearly visible that I have lost some weight was looking much better...the puffiness from my face was quite controlled....

 This is my current pic and it is clearly visible that I have gained all the weight back..... :(

But now let me confess my mistakes so I do not repeat them again now:

Points to continue:

1. I was taking time out for any kind of physical activity like Yoga, Jogging/Walk etc.
2. I was conscious for my eating habits and avoiding bad foods.....
3. I was challenging my body everyday in terms of exercises like running for some time pushing for some more little distance and like that.

Things which I did wrong:

1. During winters I stopped exercising due to my laziness. Though at that time I could have continue the indoor exercises etc. But dint paid attention to it.
I accept that at that time there were few thing which went wrong with me and my whole concentration was at some other point still I should make exercise as part of my routine always.
2. I was not eating bad food but was not managing the portion size at all. This also became a culprit.
3. I was not regularly checking my weight which was very very wrong. As checking weight on some intervals keep me informed.
4. Biggest mistake - rather than being motivated to lose more or at least maintain the weight I became so happy and relaxed that I actually ended up gaining all what I lost earlier.

So as I know what wrong I did so now onward am not going to repeat the same things again.

Am Back.....

Yes, am back to my weight loss effort...
Though I know I have not yet succeeded to be what I actually want to be but still I know that my continuous efforts only made me to keep myself in shape along with the steroid medicines else thing would be worse.

During Diwali i.e Oct 2014 I have got some complements that am looking slim and lost weight. Also few old dresses came to be fit now.  :)

So overall I know things have worked for me and I have been able to lose some unwanted fat.

Thats why am not going to stop my efforts here.

Here when the chilling winters are saying bye I am all geared up to start my weight loss efforts once again.

I know and believe that one day I will achieve what I actually want and that is to come down to 55-56 kgs goal.

Currently as of now my weight is somewhere 64-65. So the target is to lose 10 kgs.

First target is to loose 5 kgs fast and reach 60 kgs first.

Here this time I am starting a new effort with online dance exercise videos with good music as I think this will make the exercising exciting and fun.

Will share the results and experience soon.