OCTOBER CHALLENGE STARTS TODAY

Hi guys, I hope your weekends went well and you were more behaved than me!!

So much for driving!! Saturday day and night was huge, on a par with the one before to be honest!! Yes I had a ball, but yes im ready to slow down for a bit too. and the fact that I have to! my body and bank account wont have it any other way! the weekend started off terrible, friday i had a massive pasta serve for lunch, the garlic did wonders for my cold - which was why i woke up saturday right to go (drink that is) friday night ate nibblies after work, fried stuff at the pub. smack. then went home and made and ate so many soft tacos it was absurd. i think i almost popped. they are a bit of a over eating nemisis for me ive realised. they need to go on elmos 'sometimes foods' list I think!!

Saturday was worse. chicken and champagne breakfast, then nibbles all day, roast rolls for lunch which werent too bad, but then more nibblies all afternoon, i think im close to transforming into a salami sundried tomatoe and cheese nibble dipped in tatziki dip - im sure I didnt stop eating it!! then saturday night we had more nibbles at the hens night, rolls for tea from what i can remember and more and more alcohol, polished off a bottle of vodka during the day then more udls and sugary cocktails at the hens night, went out after that, got home at 3.30 or some ridiculous hour. ended up out on my own which was dangerous and silly, but to my own fault, the guys werent out at all and the girls were at the same pub all night but i got bored and walked up the road to the night club we were at last week.. Jenna.. come on.

Sunday we got dropped home around 9, tried to get back to sleep but couldnt then had a toastie for breaky, roll for lunch, so doing okay for hangover food. then.. maccas for tea, not just maccas for one though, try for two or three. big chips, big mac, big fanta and cheeseburger, the stylings of the old Jenna not the new one... so felt pretty shit again last night but didnt let it turn into anything worse than it was - a slip up. (the whole weekend was a big slip up again) but do you know what i had a blast, i learnt a few things and thats all that matters.

So october starts today and so does the new me. back to tracking, back to sticking to my plans, and plenty of exercise and nutritious and healthy foods. detox starts today! our step challenge at work starts today too which even got me up to walk to work this morning so the incentive is already kicking in. I weighed in this morning too, a bit cautious after eating the maccas shop last night... i was actually 300grams less than my weigh in last week which was interesting... making the most of it though, still under goal 74.5, and only 2.5 off my wedding goal of 72. I can ace this. and do you know what - im planning on acing it!

I have organised walking buddies, perfect for my october challenge and my works walking challenge! mon and wed chappy, tuesdays sarah and thursdays kelly, so definitely mixing it up, works well because chappy has cricket training tuesdays and thursdays so im still doing something and not staying home and raiding the fridge!! im also getting the crosstrainer delivered on wednesday so looking forward to mixing it up a bit. no over points in october is my new little challenge, and that includes alcohol as well, if its not earned, dont drink it. the only exception for the month will be the hens party in a couple of weeks but hey we only have one of them!! ill make it up the rest of the days anyway.

Todays plan
hunny on toast 4
fish portion salad roll 6
pesto sundried and chicken spaghettini 7
fruit 1, saltanas 0, muffin with jam 1.5
19.5
exercise - 50 minute walk, 20 minute run, 20 minutes weights and exercises

Im keen for a kilo loss this week after an awesome week set out, and with controlled drinks at my sisters 21st on saturday night. we have some gardening planned for sunday and ive definitely got enough incentives to do it this time!! wedding in a month! it doesnt get much more exciting than that, and do you know what, the thing is i don't want to do any of this for the extra weight loss, i want to do it because i want to get those feel good endorphins back and have the energy and adrenaline that ive had when i am eating properly and exercising in the past! Anyway soooo much rambling today, talk about thinking out loud! have a great day, great start to the week and a smashing start to october!! xx