Cruise Diet 101 Intro

Good day and welcome to the diary blog of my cruise diet, exercise and general daily rantings to do with food, flavour and life balance....

I recently arrived back from a very indulgent 3 1/2 weeks in Europe, needless to say the excessive pizza, wine and food each day has led me to put on 5.4kg over the time away. On a general week when I'm maintaining my weight at home I might drink alcohol, indulge on the odd occassion but generally I am healthy, don't eat dodgy takeaway where you can get burger, chips and drinks for $5.00 and I also exercise on average three times per week.

So I'm back in Australia, back to preparing my own meals and back to the mundane task of losing this 5.4kg, toning up and looking swimsuit ready before I board a cruise ship in 7 weeks time with 19 other girlfriends.

Here is my story...
Since arriving back 2 weeks ago I have lost half the weight I have put on just by eating healthy, smaller portions and cutting out most sugar (expect for fruit) and ALL alcohol. I start a heavier exercise schedule this week with the inclusion of my newly hired Personal Trainer Gab.

Daily Meal Intake example...
Protein for Breakfast
Fruit for morning tea
Protein and Salad mountain bread wrap for lunch (cut out all bread products except for this)
Sugar Free Jelly or fruit or protein for afternoon tea
Protein for before gym
Meat / salad or Veg for dinner

NO ALCOHOL, NO BREAD, NO PASTA etc etc etc

This is enough to lead to seriously heavy cravings, I'm on second week and sugar cravings are slowly dissipating...yay can start to get back into the swing of things.

Today however, I caved, I was taking inventory on some biscuits and slices (I run two hotels) and decided to eat a biscuit, not a huge thing I know but will power and stopping these moments of 'just one' is a massive key to success, I know people think that harmless coffee, 1 biscuit, 1 french fry doesn't hurt but when you add these up over a week these 'harmless' treats have actually just cost you your entire week of gym. Now I'm a huge fan of coffee, I love it milky and sweet so exchanging my daily Skinny Cap for an espresso is a difficult switch, however, when I think about the extra time required to burn off that 'harmless coffee' and the sweat dripping from my arms and burning through my legs as I take just one more lower squat is enough to turn me away, I need results and I need them before 7 weeks is up.

Keep an eye out for coming blogs regarding diet, exercise and the never ending battle between a healthy social life, when to say no and how to keep sane!

xx

Cate