So... I'm a 25 year old, fit, healthy Melbournian girl... and I just thought I'd give myself a challenge; I've decided to go 77 days carb free! Well, 'carb' free is impossible, so I'm going 'refined-carb' free (processed carbs)....

Details of what I can & can't have are listed here... Also, I will allow myself the odd 'treat' if I'm out to dinner etc. But will NOT treat myself with maccas just coz I'm hung-over!!

Feel free to pass on some low-carb recipes for me... I'll be posting some good ones that I discover :)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

One Month: Check!

Forgive me readers; it's been 2 weeks since my last confession. My bad.

And what an eventful 2 weeks it's been!! And yes... I have carb-y sins to confess....
But first I should tell ya'll that I'VE TOTES LOST 3KG'S!! I'm not really one to weigh myself often (I don't even own scales) but I need to be weighed before every time I donate blood. I donated the week before I started this (I weighed 67kg; this number shocked me and was the driving force behind me starting this whole thing) And when I was weighed last week, I weighed 64kg. Woot!!

Last Monday was my birthday, hazzahhhh, and I said I'd give myself days off for "special events". However, my mum cooked a lovely carb-free dinner/dessert on my birthday eve, and my housemate cooked an excellent carb-free dinner/dessert on my birthday! So I felt no need to load up... however, the weekend that followed was a different story all together!! Said weekend (full of birthday celebrations) ended up being a carb-fest!!

I'll go back to the start of that weekend, the friday night. We had people over at The Manor (our house) for drinks. As I recieved an excellent set of cosmopolitan glasses for my birthday, we drank cosmos all night. Sugar galore!

But, Saturday morning I redeemed myself with a GLORIOUS carb-free breakfast (yes, I should be on masterchef)
This breaky consisted of panfried onion and potato slices, 2 Fried eggs, 1/2 of a small Avocado (raw), 2 small quartered tomatoes (raw), and homemade hollandaise (told you, masterchef AS!)
It was oooouuuuuuuuutstanding :)

Anyway, all of that creative hard work went down the gurgler on Saturday night. A bunch of us went out to ChinaTown for birthday fun, and it all went down hill (and by down hill, of course i mean up hill!!) very quickly. The place we went was BYO, and so we stopped first to purchase many bottles of wine (very high carb content). We then proceeded to order mountains and mountains of dumplings (see picture), rice, and crispy chicken. In other words, carbs, carbs, carbs!
But oooooh were they gloriously good!
We then continued on to a karaoke bar where we continued the debauchery, and carb-laden drinks, then went to Fed Square, continued, then went to Lord of the Fries (AKA Lord of the Carbs), then went to the Crown Casino, kept drinking, made a classic 4am run to Maccas, then caught the night rider home and crawled into bed at around 7:30am....

The following morning I felt like I was in a carb infested HELL!! My body felt heavy and foul as it tried to digest all of the hideousness I had drunkenly forced into it....
Luckily though, I have been a good girl since. After being violently reminded of how it feels after I've loaded up, I am quite comfortable not going back there anytime soon.

So that's about it for now, told you I had sins to confess... What's my punishment? 10 Hail Marys?? Nah, I'm pretty sure the state I was in on Sunday was punishment enough.
I'm closing in on the 1/2 way point, yay me!! Till next time, be good! (and by good, i mean bad) Over n Out.