project health volume two: are we skinny yet?
July 21st, 2009
SUP babies!
I’m in charge of our healthy update this week. First of all I have to say, Sassy has coped with it alot better than me. Before we started this she was already doing small amounts of exercise (namely, walking three blocks to the park so the dog can run around while she plays on the swings walks and thinks about stuff) and didn’t suffer from a rampant Maccas addiction like myself, so she has definitely fared better in the past week. I have been all stomach pains and sugar withdrawls and generally Hating The World.
Lowlights of the week -
- Us taking Sassy’s greyhound, Dolly Parton, on a walk from Tamarama Beach to Clovelly and me having a literal asthma attack at Bronte. I had to stop and lie down on a rock for a good 15 minutes before I could move again.
- The rumbling of my own stomach literally WOKE ME UP on Wednesday night. I stumbled into the kitchen, eyes half closed and shovelled a piece of bread down my throat without even realising what I was doing.
- Using half time during State Of Origin to take our measurements and realising we are nowhere near Marilyn Monroe’s infamous 37-23-36. Our measurements of doom are now stuck on the fridge to haunt us at all times.
* Losing our damn minds on Free Day (We eat right and exercise 6 days a week, then have one day off. It’s scientifically proven!). After watching the Newtown Jets play we went to the Petersham RSL to interview them, with Errol bestie Suchy in tow. When Sassy was in the bathroom we waited for her at the bar, I stopped in my tracks, jumped up and down with glee and yelled OMG, I CAN SMELL GRAVY! IM SO HAVING CHIPS AND GRAVY YESSSSS!
Suchy rolled his eyes and muttered something like ‘and you wonder why you’re single’.
Moments later Sassy walked out and literally said ‘GUYS…I CAN SMELL GRAVY!!’ Suchy was rendered speechless. Yes kids, Project Health has made us lose our damn minds.
[I like to think of it as a positive. Like if our careers don't work out maybe we could work as ... gravy scenters. Do they have those? Like those people who find water underground using a stick. GRAVY DIVINERS. -S]
- In more Free Day craziness, I found myself actually begging Sassy for her left over pizza crusts coz I just wasn’t ready for the day to be over. Kill me.
[This amuses and shocks me greatly as whenever we have pizza together I always notice that Kiki leaves her crusts. For her to not only eat her own crusts but Sassy's as well...wow - L]
- Tonight we moved the lounge to do Winsor Pilates and found an old Dorito on the floor. We considered eating it for about 3 seconds. I wish I was kidding.
Highlights of the week -
- The crippling hunger pains have finally dissipated and I am actually starting to feel human again. I visited my parents last night and they both said my skin was glowy and that I looked alot healthier. I have also noticed my dark circles are fading big time. YAY!
- We triumphed over our overwhelmingly strong urge to go out and get drunk on Friday night and instead stayed home and did pilates. Well, Sassy did pilates and I watched. BUT STILL! NO DRUNKY TIMES! Go team!
- We cooked the most amaaaazing dinner from the Body for Life cookbook. We are both obsessed with Mexican food so it was pretty exciting to be able to make yummy chicken enchiladas and eat them guilt free. In a perfect world we would be drinking giant margaritas with them but hey, sacrifices need to be made right?
See? SO GOOD. We is amazing chefs!
- Apart from Free Day where eating naughty foods is allowed, neither of us have cracked and gone and bought junk food. I am especially proud I haven’t caved and driven to get cheeseburgers at 2am, which I totally used to do pre-health kick.
- And apart from Free Day pizza, we haven’t eaten takeaway of any description. Tonight for example, we hadn’t organised dinner and old us woulda just ordered something in. A very fatty but YUMMY takeaway. Like a huge bowl of creamy pasta with mushrooms….aaaahhhh drooooool…
Um..what was I saying? Oh yeh. That was old us. New healthy us was all, let’s look in the fridge and see what we can come up with. AND! WE MADE SOMETHING AWESOME! So we had potatoes stuffed with cottage cheese, onions, celery and red capiscum with super low fat cheese melted on top. Doesn’t look too great but it tasted pretty good and was heaps filling.
I am oddly proud of this meal. Healthy choices babies!
- We decided to decorate the kitchen in a manner which would inspire us. What better way to do this than to rip out our favourite mans from the Gods of Football calendar and blu-tak them to the cupboards. Nothing says healthy living like making tea while you stare at Matt Ballin’s perfect ass. Aaaah yes.
left to right – Hot Bitch Cooper, GI Ballin, Intern John John, Davey W, Tom LL, Shillo.
So in conclusion for this week, we don’t think we have lost heaps of weight or anything. But we definitely feel better and our tummies are flatter. Today marks exactly 4 weeks until we go on our trip to visit the Jacksonville Axemen (more about that later) so we are stepping up the exercise and lowering the carbs big time. Tomorrow we are joining a gym and are gonna be little cardio junkies. Of course most of the motivation for this is health, but part of it is also … well, it’s straight out vanity. We wanna look cute in our bikinis while we lounge around Jacksonville Beach and drink oversized American cocktails.
How is everyone else doing on their own Project Health? And are you proud of us for even making it a week? Alot of people didn’t think we would make it this far. TOLD YOUSE WE WOULD! HAH!
kiki
sassy
lozzy
interns
well, i started off the healthy week by drinking for 72 hours straight this weekend! And you know how I told you I coughed up blood on saturday morning? Well the head of immunology at st vincents rang mum to tell her she had whooping cough, so im guessing thats whats wrong with me too considering we lie in bed together all day watching tv. What? No I don’t… damn this computer and its lack of enter button SO, Im pretty sure I’ve PUT ON weight this week, and am significantly less healthy than I was before.
God you girls make me feel guilty. I present a (partial) list of things I ate yesterday:
–Breakfast: two bowls of cereal with full-cream milk; toast
–Lunch: Tiger Pie from Harry’s Cafe de Wheels
–Pre-dinner snack: about a third of a jar of Nutella, mostly eaten straight from the jar with a spoon
–Dinner: a whole pizza (bought frozen from the supermarket)
–Post-dinner snack: two little carton things of banana and honey Up & Go
Yet despite this menu, in which the two key meals are a pie and a pizza, being not that uncommon in my current lifestyle, I’m still basically as thin as a stick. I don’t know how I do it.
nice work girls. keep the posts coming. as i said, i am joining you on the health kick. i have been eating healthy, exercising more, and bless my cotton socks, i said no to birthday cake at work today for one of the guy’s birthdays. now excuse me while i go and see how i measure up to miss monroe x
i am craving enchiladas like you would not believe
good first week bbs, am v proud!
well done ladies! those enchiladas look delicious and not at all like rabbit food. i’ve had a week of ‘Free Days’ … especially after living on a diet of sausage sizzles, chorizo sandwiches & beer while at a festival in suffolk with Mr Cheeky Chappy
i miss sydney for sporty times. my fave was the spit to manly cliff-top walk.
Miss you kittens xx
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that makes me hate you Hilius.
GO JESS! the hardest thing is saying no to yummy food. well done!
oh god your week sounds amazing. JEALOUS.
you girls have inspired me….I’ve decided to join you and as of today i’m going to start the healthy eating/exercising/dare i say it….no drinking. I have noticed that my clothes are a little tighter and as i have NO willpower I need to be accountable to someone so maybe if I have it in my head that Kiki & Sassy will kick my arse I can stick to it.
Now Mac cheese made with light cheese & milk isn’t that bad right? Maybe if I throw in a steak & some veges?????
I haven’t been quite as ‘stuck solid’ as you girls, but i’ve definatley been making an effort.
At the new pad, i have to walk 30minutes to station and 30 minutes home each day, so that at least an hour of low impact exercise per day!
Once i work out how to re-plug in my Wii Fit its ON like DONKEY KONG!!
Proud of you and Sass for the healthy eats. Are you going to time a free day with your trip to Canberra on the weekend??
yes, how good do they look? I must admit I was skeptical when they said they made healthy enchiladas, but they looks pretty damn fine.
Just wondering how you are planning to attain the 37-23-36 goal, especially the 37 part…
haha I love that you included a pic of your diet coke kiki. she keeps getting them from the fridge and announcing I NEED ONE VICE, OK?
meanwhile I’m getting really used to having the boyz in the kitchen. I like getting up and made my green tea and bein all SUP! MORNIN BOYZ! seeing really buff people is v. inspiring.
sunday is free day! if you lose me at the footy I’ll probably be at the pie stand.
the no drinking is HARD. I just decided for this first week to have a really quiet weekend so I wouldn’t be tempted by all the people drinking sweet sweet vodka around me.
cause staying home instead doing pilates and watching the ashes is just as much fun, right? … god I am so lame.
I don’t get the mac and cheese love to be honest. but maybe you and kiki can have a support group for mac n cheese addicts?
hahah Jason well i actually already have a 37 inch bust!
yes Sunday is definitely free day. THIS MEANS DRINKS. YESSSSS.
YAY go sarah go!
as for mac and cheese, i would just wait until free day then u can enjoy the full fat version. low fat versions of your fave food is never fulfilling and half the time u end up eating the naughty version as well.
they are so good! Body for Life is the most amazing cookbook evs
For an entertaining work-out, I recommend getting your hands on some Richard Simmons dvds. My Mum swears by them; as it’s easier than aerobics and a hell of a lot funnier, you feel much better about your own level of fitness when you’re watching the fatties struggling with the dance moves… It’s like a 1980s Dance Your Ass Off. Give it a go, I promise you won’t be disappointed!
*hangs up GOF calender pages in his own kitchen*
GRATE IDEA GIRLS!!!!!!
AND i just realised i have 37 inch hips so i am only one inch off Marilyn now!
sadly tho i don’t have a 23 inch waist. maybe by the end of project health?
sausage sizzle.. how i love thee
Fridge motivations are the best way to go though!
On my Fridge there is a sign that says
PRESENTATION NIGHT – OCTOBER 2ND
and i’ve made little notes next to it, like ‘Only 11 weeks to go!’ and ‘New Dress!’
bahaha aww. is this Wenty or Parra??
We are talking about homemade mac & cheese right? Cause I would literally kill for that shit. The box one is just wrong – weird orangey colour kinda like Lilo. Not drinking this week is hard as I’m in very rural NSW and drinking is like a way of life here. Hopefully can go see a game this weekend
Country.
I am usually the hostess with the mostess – and trophy bitch up on stage! For once i want to not almost pass out in front of everyone cos im holding my stomach in and forgetting to breath!
after our trip to orange … I TOTALLY understand.
OHMYGOD and you should have seen some of the boys we had in Forster. Hello Country cuties!! hahaha
Girls I am v proud of you and the enchiladas looked yummy – well done. I have managed 3 miles on the treadmill twice this week (although as a result I can’t walk properly as my bloody muscles have seized up)I have been v good diet wise all day until 10pm when I steal the biscuits I buy for my children – I know, I am a bad mother – am thinking of burying them in the garden to avoid temptation – what do you think?
3 MILES? ok I am exhausted thinking about it. I am nowhere near able to run that far. I’m impressed I haven’t had a stroke in the gym yet, to be honest.
I am all for the burying … I am seriously lazy so I reckon that would work on me. alternatively, hook it up to some kind of massive bell so everytime you open the bikkie cupboard the rest of the fam knows. BISCUIT ALERT.
Will the current health project have any bearing on the “date” proposed to the winners of the tipping comp ie. must the “date” be taken on a Sunday?
hahah no, free day can be whenever we want.
thanks Sassy you should see me when I get off that thing – it’s not pretty – will be rigging up massive bell shortly think hunchback of Notre Dame – you’ll probably be able to hear it in Australia!