Update :)

Lo and behold a update! lol so much happening lately feels like there is a lot to say! After being disastrously off track (hello 102.2 kilos - eek!) I finally got my act together last saturday. I am back under 100 kilos (phew). When I realised it was time to knuckle down and i had the weekend with nothing planned i decided to do a mini detox and avoid all contact with the outside world LOL so basically stayed in my lil house watching tv shows i loved :) I was still eating around 2000 calories but it was much better choices and much lower in sodium which is why the scales have gone down.

This week i then went and saw my food coach (I am only seeing her every few weeks at the moment and not weighing...just having a chat). Anyway her recommendation was to treat this next few weeks as a detox. Work on getting my water in (I am working on it lol!) and she also recommended i drink a fruit/vegie drink each day. The one that she recommended was a handful spinach, 1 celery stick, one orange, juice of one lemon and water. I had it this morning..it was VERY green lol...but tasted okay...i think tomorrow i will add a lil ginger to it and blend it a bit more. It was kinda cool to think by 7.15am i had eaten some spinach, celery and a orange lol.

I have my calories set "loosely" to 1400. While a lot (especially on MFP) recommend 1800 calories....every time i eat that much i feel guilty...it just seems too much....1400-1600 feels like where i should sit. So i am trying to sit under 1400 calories but if i am specifically hungry i will eat up to maybe 1600 calories. At this stage I will leave it pretty stable at this...but come January 1 i will go back to calorie cycling.

My trainer (thru the gym) has been focusing more on my goals....which is to be able to do low pushups and also to work on defining my upper body. She told me this week....when i bend my arm up to 90 degrees i am quite strong but any further then that I am not which is why i struggle with my pushups...so im very happy she is focusing on this. I have started getting back into a exercise routine...it looks like this currently:

monday : 30 mins boxing + 60 mins body balance
tuesday : 45 mins cardio + 30 mins PT (weights)
wednesday : 45 mins RPM
thursday : ?????????????
friday : 60 mins body pump
saturday: at least a 6km run (we are building this up and aiming for 7.5kms tomorrow) and 60 mins body pump
sunday : rest day

So as you can see i need to figure out thursday. I think doing something that helps with building up my upper body is the way to go...something very specific for it. None of the classes at the gym on thursday night i wanna do...so need to figure out some lil program for me :) But i am feeling much more in the zone. Running is improving too...didnt run last weekend...but the weekend before i could really feel me getting into a good rhythm with it...there were some bits were we were running on flat ground where i could feel i was running faster then normal. This weekend we are planning to run 7.5km.

Not a lot else going on...will update again when I can :)

A fresh start

No secret I have struggled and struggled for a long time. Ive tried lots of things to get back on track but all those efforts have not gone well :( The honest truth is a i have gained weight. As of this morning i am sitting at 99 kilos - eek! But what goes up must come down right? I have given it a lot of thought and decided on the following:

1. My program....if I do food coaching it will be for weigh ins only
2.1800 cals a day till I stop losing then I'll lower by no more then 100 cals a day at a time
3. Eat predominantly clean but allow for some treats
4. Eat only foods I enjoy
5. Calorie cycling
6. Will be back yo counting calories
7. Weekly blog updates
8. Exercise 3 times a week

First thing i need to cancel food coaching. I know i will feel guilty for doing this but I dont think its overly beneficial to me. Im trying to get things back on track without being overly restrictive or having too high expectations at the gym. When i was this weight before i was eating 1800 cals and cal cycling. I was too tho working out more....so 1800 may be a lil too high....but i dont wanna go crazy yet.

I will weigh in on tuesday mornings...and my goal is too hit under 95 kilos by xmas...im sure I can do that - wish me luck!

Half Marathon?

Well quite a bit has happened this week and I havent updated this blog! lol

Thursday I had a appointment with my GP to ask him for a referral to get excess skin removed from my stomach and boobs thru the public health system. He wrote a awesome referral :) and now I just need to wait for RAH to get in contact with me for a appointment....but this could be months away. Its just the first step but VERY exciting.

I had been thinking lately I need a goal. I do much better when I have a goal to work towards. So I have decided to train for a HALF MARATHON omg!! thats insane!! lol But with a lot of work it is do-able. One of the trainers at my gym won the adelaide marathon so i have got some guidance from her and a 9 week program. So that aim is...to at this stage run 3 times a week and by the end of november to be running 5km comfortably (that is no drama) and by the end of january to run 10km comfortably (that again will be no drama) then at the start of february the runs will increase to 5 times a week and will be split up between interval work...medium pace runs...and slow, long runs. So for now until the end of November my training schedule will be this: monday : 10 mins low intensity cardio + 30 minutes PT ((heavy weights)
tuesday : 5km run
wednesday : 10 mins low intensity cardio + 45 mins PT (heavy weights)
thursday : 5km run
friday : 60 mins body pump
saturday : 6km run and 60 mins body pump
sunday : rest day

When I see my food coach on tuesday I will be showing her all this....and she is going to make some recommendations nutritionally. I suspect I need to eat about 1600 calories...prolly a lil more on saturdays. But will take her recommendations and see how they pan out (I have told her at this stage I dont think there is a need to only eat 1300 calories)

I am hoping these things will help focus me and get me on track again...Ive really been getting nowhere fast...but I know completely I can do this. And the reality is I would love to lose another 10-20 kilos before the surgery (which prolly wont be till early 2015). I also believe the fitter and healthier I am the better I will cope with the surgery when it comes around. Wish me luck!

So after my DEPRESSING post yesterday lol I decided to implement some changes :) Firstly...i have a very bad habit on a sunday of spending the day in my bedroom...watching tv...playing on the computer etc. So first things the computer is now banned from my bedroom. I can use it when in the lounge room watching tv...but i need to get out of my bedroom! I normally go to sleep about 10.30pm...im also thinking i will try to read for 30 mins or so each night before bed (get the brain going) I am also going to make a more concerted effort with pink sofa to meet some people...try to organise catch up for coffees etc. I think I need to put in as much effort to getting a social life as I do to weight loss.

I think I will also start to post back on this journal more regularly...just to kind of have a mental check in :)

Food and exercise wise....food is going okay. Exercise wise this is my plan this week:

monday : walk/run 60 minutes
tuesday : walk/run 60 minutes
wednesday : 30 minutes low intensity cardio + 30 minutes PT session
thursday : rest day
friday : 60 minutes body pump
saturday : 60 minutes running plus 60 minutes body pump
sunday : rest day
So i need to come up with plans to keep myself preoccupied on sunday...maybe ill go to the movies...anything not to just hang around the house.

Not much else going on...sure I will be back over the next few days :)

Big think :)

One day you wake up and say "thats it I am going to lose weight"....in my story...i decided to lose weight and at the time I had several goals....I wanted to meet someone to have a relationship, I wanted to get a rocking body, I wanted to not become confined to my home, and not to have a heart attack. Ive done pretty good. I still have 10-15 kilos to go...but in some ways the fire has gone out.

My first goal was to meet someone and to have a "life". When you have been big for a long time and you shut a lot of people out of your life and you no longer have close friends in your life its hard to get a life back. Im single...in all my adult years I have only had one serious relationship and that lasted for all of 7 months and for most of that time was a long distance relationship so I dont think it counts. Being 45 and not with any real friends who are lesbians its hard to go to places where i MIGHT meet someone. Yes I have some friends who are lesbians...but we are more mates then friends...we dont socialise...they are not big socialisers. I have been a member of pink sofa for years...in a attempt to meet people....that doesnt work so great either. Last time i met someone on there was over 2 years ago...to say that didnt work out is the understatement of the year. My life consists of work...the gym...sleep...watching tv shows....facebook...sleep. Ive lost all this weight and still dont have the life I want. And its hard...im not a group person....my exercise did become a passion of mine...a lot of my interests (cross stitch...reading...movies) got lost somewhere along the line. I rarely go to concerts as I have no one to go to them with (lets face it its more enjoyable to share those things with someone)...I dont even have anyone to say....lets meet up for a walk. And yanno that sucks...its not just that I dont have a partner....its that I dont really have a social network, and at 45 I am kinda stuck how to get one....which of course a lot of the time (think saturday nights, sunday arvos etc) i am bored and ill admit it LONELY And I cannot help and think those dreams i had...for nothing out of the ordinary what lots of people have (in fact most)...people they socialise with and if lucky enough someone they care for and share their time with...i dont have that...and yanno the honest truth....the thing i have had the best relationship with thruout my life has been food...and im sick of it...i dont want food to be my friend....i want it to be fuel and nothing more. I know when i do overeat i dont overeat cos i am "hungry" its a boredom thing....its that small thing in my boring, monotonous life that gives me pleasure...I need to somehow work out how to get a life cos this isnt what i want.

Recently my manager at work said to me "what makes you get out of bed each day?" and yanno my answer? My weight loss. wtf is that about????? It should have been a answer like...to spend time with my friends...to experience new things...to laugh....to challenge myself and feel awesome for doing new things....it shouldnt be...too look at a freaking scale and see if it has moved or not!

The crazy thing is...before anyone says it...i know im not ugly....i know i have a good personality.... a few years ago i did have a couple of friends i saw on a semi regular basis...but one got pissed off cos i cancelled going out for dinner on MY birthday lol and another....well she just didnt seem to want to spend time with me once i lost the weight. And thats fine...they are only 2 people i am not pining after them lol....but just wish i had a social network with like minded people. And even outside of other people i wish i had a passion for something...i remember back when i didcross stitch...its a lazy sedentry hobby but i loved it...i wish i had that passion for something again.

The other thing is fitness. You know you see a lot of people lose weight and they find their "thing" fitness wise. They get into triathlons, or marathons or power lifting or figure modelling...even if i wanted to i couldnt truly get into any of those things. Id never wear a bathing suit with my excess skin or ride a bike (i fear them) so triathlons would be out....im a incredibly slow runner...and while yes with training i could run the distance of a marathon or half marathon there are time limits to do them in....im way to slow too meet any of them....power lifters wear these lil short outfits that show off their thighs...im not exagerating when i say my thighs are awful and the same for figure modeling. I need a goal....more then just weight loss...i need a vision and something to zone in fitness wise....and sure I can still focus on calorie burn...and doing my heavy weights....but i need some goals...short term, medium term, and long term.

Update :)

Well ive been super slack with my journal lately! But weight loss is going awesome :) When I got home from Sydney on 11/9/13 i was 94.3 kilos....this morning i was 90.9 kilos woooooooo hoooooooooo! yes i am awesome!! lol I set the goal to be under 90 kilos by september 30 so its definitely do-able. And my 3 month goal at the moment is to be down to 83 kilos by xmas (fingers crossed) Anyway just a short quick update....altho i have posted a progress pic below :)

Well a bit has happened this week :)

I got back from Sydney tuesday night and was back at work on wednesday morning (no rest for the wicked!) Wednesday night i had PT...we had a trainee observing the session he was quite stunned at how hard my session was! When we were boxing he said..."you have a mean right hook, you could have a side career as a boxer" lol

Friday I woke up and it just occurred to me im sick of not doing group fitness classes and im over not feeling comfortable doing them at Goodlife (the new gym)....so i went and rang my old gym and rejoined! So i am going to have a membership at both :) So monday and wednesday nights i will be at goodlife for PT and the rest of the week I will train at fernwood. I went back today to fernwood for my first session back and it was just like going home! So glad i rejoined. So this week my workouts will look like this:

monday : cardio + 30 mins PT
tuesday : 45 mins RPM + 60 mins Body pump
wednesday : cardio + 45 mins PT
thursday : cardio + 45 mins RPM
friday : 60 mins Body pump
saturday : 20 mins cardio + 60 mins Body pump
sunday : rest day

Foodwise things are going good...I am eating 1600 calories and calorie cycling and focusing more on clean foods...now im not drinking diet coke my thinking is much clearer and easier to stay on track :)

Well I am still in Sydney for a few more hours...I managed to snag a computer with internet access and decided to make the most of it. This has been a great trip. Its been a mixture of relaxation, reflection, fun, and eating some great food ! ;)

I have done all the normal things you do in sydney, took photos, went down to circular quay, went to darling harbour, walked lots, enjoyed the atmosphere. Yesterday was a big day...of relection and thinking. I went out to my dads gravesite, this is at a cementry out of the city...anyone who is on my facebook knows it was a battle to get out there (NSW's bus system sucks!) But I made it there. Dad passed away 31 years ago last friday...and his funeral was 31 years ago today. And I was surprised at how emotional I felt. I can always think of the good things with dad currently so I was suprised how it affected me. I took some flowers...sat at his lil spot, ate a cupcake...talked to him a lil...I couldnt stop touching the headstone. It was hard to see but I feel better. Ive always worried about how the site was cared for and its kept beautifully...I will definitely go out there again on more future sydney trips.

In line with that today is the 1 year anniversary of mums passing. Anyone who has read my journal(s) over this past year. Its been a year of firsts...the first xmas without mum, her first birthday, first mothers day without etc. And there was definitely a element of me feeling robbed of my mum and thinking this should never have happened to her yet...she was a healthy, active 67 year old she should still be ringing me up driving me nuts ;) And i am one who struggles emotionally and didnt really have a outlet (well except food and eating!) Giving up the diet coke has given me a much clearer thought process (this is day 9 of no diet coke). I have a much better clarity of what I want and what I need to do. I arrive home tonight...tomorrow i will weigh in, back to the gym tomorrow night and PT. I am going back to 1200 calories tomorrow for 2 weeks and then reassess. I want to see how my body copes performance wise as well as satiety wise. I know I can lose on eating as much as 1800 calories but I do feel 1800 calories is too much for me. I think 1200-1500 calories is a nice balance. If i could mnage 1200 cals for a while then that would be great as it will really give it all a kick start. I know I can do this...I just have to put my plans into action.

There is also a 5km walk/jog/run thru north adelaide for women only on 29/9 which I think I might give a whirl as welll! Heres to getting back on track!

Much better day today and yesterday! My cravings really seem to have subsided. I told my trainer last night about my diet coke addiction LOL...her face dropped so far and fast LOL Anyway next wednesday she is bringing a apple drink in for me...(she is training for a fitness competition) and its something she drinks when training so she can have something sweet...its something she gets online from where she gets her supplements, protein powder etc. She was like...the only criteria is you drink it while working out and no other time...i think its just something you mix with water so will give that a whirl. I am easily drinking 3 litres of water a day and at this stage am not missing the diet coke. And im just ecstatic that i feel more in control. Last night i did 90 minutes of cardio then 45 minutes of PT. Must admit I love those PT sessions...every session she gets me to do different stuff :)

The plus side as well has been the scales. I will tell the world what i was monday morning (yuck) was 94.9 kilos...this morning is was 92.4 kilos....and i attribute most of that too the no diet coke but lots of water :) This afternoon i have a work "party" to go to for 30 minutes....im figuring there will be some finger food there...and tomorrow work is apparantly putting on a bbq for lunch. While im "allowing" myself to eat as high as 1800 calories..im mostly trying to stay under 1500 cals. Once i am back from sydney i think i will revert back to calorie cycling...prolly 1600 calories....see how that goes and then make any needed adjustments...i certainly feel more in the zone right now.

Tonight no gym, Home to get all the washing done and give the house a bit of a clean...then tomorrow night pack and saturday morning off to Sydney bright and early!!

So sunday night I decided to give up the diet coke (again). I have suspected for a long time my struggling with my eating has been related to my diet coke consumption (i have noticed in the past carb cravings seem worse when drinking the diet coke)So i decided enuff mucking around and havent had any diet coke since sunday night. Yesterday i had a lil mini melt down LOL. I am finding mid afternoon with no diet coke i get soooooooooo exhausted. And i was getting very much "screw this" attitude. But I feel much better this evening. I feel like...holy hell of course I can do this weight loss. I am tired again today but dont feel as out of control as i did yesterday. That said yesterday i still stayed on top of things. I was under 1500 calories....i did 30 minutes of cardio and then a 30 minute PT session of boxing (omg that was awesome)

I head off to sydney on saturday...so between now and then...90 minutes cardio tomorrow and a 45 minute PT session....thursday 90 minutes cardio plus body pump class and then friday night the cardio circuit program candice wrote me and a 1.5km run. Whilst in sydney there will be no gym visits but am planning to be active...so lots of walking. So until next wednesday i will stick with 1800 calories...If the scales are moving in the right direction i will keep at that....till the losses slow down/halt....then ill slowly cut down 100 calories at a time.

After getting on to the water yesterday...i did drop 1 kilo over the night...so a good start!

Ive still been struggling.....but once again tomorrow is a new day. Im tired of "restarting" all the time tho. Ive taken my meal plan from a few years ago and going to try and kick this in the ass. I am sure i can get back on track...sooner or later it will click again. Part of me is a bit annoyed...off to Sydney next weekend but I kinda wish I wasnt going as I want to get on track and STAY on track, its a bit harder when you are living in a hotel for 3 nights! But im thinking if i can find some where to have just some eggs, tomato, spinach etc for breakfast...no bread and no bacon....subway for lunch....then dinner of my choice...it should keep things okay....and ill aim for the only snacks to be fruit. I think once I run out of the muesli bars i have in the house...think i only have a couple left...im going to stop eating the "processed snacks"...back to fruit only....at least for a while.

I think its time to set some short term goals...so they are:

under 90 kilos : 2 lorna jane tops
under 85 kilos : Book a trip to melbourne
under 80 kilos : Tattoo
under 75 kilos : Hair makeover and Professional photo session

Tomorrow I will weigh in and get serious. PT tomorrow night plus some cardio...have a good week all! :)

I have been doing a lot of thinking and need to come to some conclusions....firstly about my goals. You know back in 2006 i just wanted to lose weight and get my life back. Ive lost over 80 kilos....so tick i have done that. During that time I got down to 79 kilos...i was frustrated I didnt get lower. I still felt HUGE but i was in size 10 tops and size 14 jeans. I then preceeded to gain 12 kilos. I look back now and think....if I could get back there I would be happy. But its not about the number I want to get back too....its the clothing size. I want to be a size 10 on top....and at least down to size 14. When I got down to 79 kilos previously i ate 1400 calories, calorie cycled, i did LOTS of cardio and some very basic lifting....things like body weight training, viper, some machines, and pushing and pulling boxing bags around the place. Central to my training now is my PT sessions...these are unlike any PT sessions i have ever done before. They are different every session....they are heavy lifting (with olympic bars, dead lifts, bench press, chin up machine, every type of leg press machine in existence lol, kettle bells (i have used up to 32 kilos kettlebells!), the sessions also include some ab work and often things like walking lunges (holding 8-10 kilos dumbells),burpees, mountain climbers, pushups, planks etc etc. The last 2 weeks I have eaten 1400 calories a day calorie cycling like previously. I have noticed a few things...when I exercise (ie PT sessions) my weight fluctuates/increases...I realise this is due to my body retaining fluid to help with muscle repair. I have spoken to some people and researched it and due to the fact my PT sessions are never the same (and i like the fact they are never the same!) In the last two weeks....when im exercising and doing my PT sessions i am actually fluctuating/gaining weight....when I dont exercise....the weight just drops off me....its crazy. But what its making me think is that I really need to focus on what my goals are. I guess in my mind I have two goals at this stage. The first is aesthetically what I want my body to look like....I dont want to be skinny, I want to be fit, toned, healthy. I want to be that person that people look at and think "wow she works out"...I have excess skin....now theres two options with that...surgery...or "filling the skin" So while I want my body to get smaller....i also want to fill the skin with muscle....im kinda wanting two different things at once. And i think this is where my confusion has come from for a long time. So in my brain in relation to this i have two thoughts...i keep my PT sessions as they are regardless but if i decide to focus on getting smaller without focusing on muscle....i need to do cardio, cardio,cardio. The aim would really need to be to do an hours cardio 5-6 days a week. Or if its to focus on muscle which should also get me having fat loss...but the focus wouldnt be on the scales....i should theoretically get more compact....but not necessarily lower on the scales....if i decide to go down that path i would need to do at least one more weight session per week. And prolly no other cardio apart from maybe just trying to hit 10,000 steps per day so my "NEAT" increases. My other goal is to run...entering fun runs has always been a goal....theres so many fun ones....and there is also the goal of one day running a half marathon. And as I wrote that I think I have realised what I may want/need to do. I think on monday I will speak to my trainer...I think a huge focus on cardio plus my PT sessions is the direction to go in. I think if i do my workouts something like this, this week: saturday : bootcamp + 5km run sunday : monday : 30 mins PT tuesday : 60 mins running wednesday : 45 mins PT thursday : 60 mins running friday : Candices cardio circuit saturday : Bootcamp + 5km run sunday : I know a lot of people say....cardio and low calories will canibalise your muscle and will make your weight lifting a waste of time but I just dont believe that. I did a lot of cardio before and maintained a high level of lean mass. I want to give this a good go for 2 weeks. Not increase my calories leave them as is and see if this gets the scales moving....if it doesnt i might need to look at increasing my calories slightly to support the workouts. The reason I want to wait 2 weeks is my cycle is due over the next day or two....so this week I prolly will fluctuate but if i give it a full two weeks i can then see where i am at :) I am going to mention this to Candice monday night she may suggest some changes...and if still no good in 2 weeks time me and candice will have another chat lol ;)

I haven't posted for a few days...all going good tho :) I am sitting around 88.8 kilos on the scales. What I am noticing is the around the days I do my PT sessions my weight really fluctuates/stalls then if i dont exercise for 3-4 days i have a dramatic drop. I know this is most likely caused by fluid retention as my muscles repair...and ultimately I want this to happen....but since I have never done such heavy lifting before i am not sure if every session i do with the heavy weights will i fluctuate up to 500 grams or so...and if i do will i see the scales moving downwards....or will it eventually subside. I got told by someone who is very knowledgable since my PT sessions the workouts are different everytime i am getting stimulus to different muscle groups all the time so its quite likely i will constant have this fluid retention. Its not related to nutrition....so cutting back on sodium or increasing water wont make a difference I don't believe. The problem also is that it makes me not want to exercise...ive never lifted or done as intense PT sessions as I do now so it is all very new to me.

Tonight and tomorrow night no gym, but saturday i will be doing bootcamp. As of today I am looking like a 1.4 kilos lost this week - cannot complain about that. And a total of 2.7 kilos since I started the challenge nearly 2 weeks ago.

I have also decided my goal weight is 76-79 kilos ... so just 9-12 kilos i need to lose.

Gotta scoot - have a good day all!

Its all coming together

I am so good today it is not funny! :) The scales did a crazy drop of 1.2 kilos overnight...im like...OMG !! So while its not a official weigh in...in 8 days i have lost 2.5 kilos...cannot complain about that eh?

Yesterday I was suppose to do a bootcamp session at the gym...but i bailed. I have always had a issue with this group sessions at the gym (apart from classes) i just wanna exercise at my pace. I knew it was going to be a fitness test...and would be a beep test and then how many burpees, pushups etc you can do. The truth is...after being 173.1 kilos (380 pounds) i dont have the same mobility as someone else of my current weight. I cant even do the jump in that you do with burpees...so i do the "kazz version". After so many years of being bigger....i do compare myself....and i just dont want to do group things like that...my trainer asked me if i went....i told her no and why....hopefully she gets it and just drops it but i know she may still try and encourage me to attend these sessions. Truthfully this is one big reason why i do PT....cos there is no one to compare myself too....its one reason why i dont like being in the weights area....i just feel people will look at me thinking...she doesnt belong here and she is doing it all wrong....but despite all that...i feel good....i feel like its clicking what works for me.

I have watched a few episodes of extreme makeover weightloss edition this weekend. And there was one specifically where this girl did a marathon...so inspiring and it has reminded me how running has always been my goal. So i really wanna work on doing a few runs each week....two to three 5km runs to start off with would work....and hopefully i can work up to doing 10km runs on the weekend like i use too. I am also going to Sydney in a few weeks time...I was thinking....oh that will be a kinda lazy relaxing weekend....but u know...im not lazy so NO. I am staying in Pitt st....so in walking distance to the botanical gardens....so i think my mornings may revolve around a run and then a hot breakfast...might as well take advantage of the environment. Im going to do my utmost to not gain whilst i am away :)

Weigh in results

Well week one of the 12 week challenge is over and i lost 1.3 kilos :) Its not as much as I hoped....but looking at it now...im losing consistently so i am happy with that. That puts me by my scales at home at 90.2 kilos...I have a few fairly soon-ish goals...the first is to hit my 50% original body weight loss...i have 3.7 kilos to lose to get to that...I am hoping by the 6 week mark of the challenge to have accomplished that....the next challenge is..by the 6 week mark as well...i want to hit a 6 kilo loss for the challenge...that would have me at 85.5 kilos...they are both do-able the most challenging part will be when I go to sydney. I am going there for 3 nights on september 7...and sydney always involves lots of yummy food! But i feel very focused so hopefully it wont be too big a drama

Really not much else to say...all is good...its a cold, wet day here so i am spending it with my nose in you tube watching series 2 and 3 of extreme make over weight loss edition. Tomorrow i am planning to go to the gym for 45 minutes on the treadmill...have a good weekend all :)

Things are going good still :) Yesterday i weighed in at 90.6 kilos (was 91.5 kilos on saturday) and I wasn't convinced the 90.6 kilos was accurate....i then trained last night (you often have fluid retention after weight work) and was very happy to see I was 90.7 kilos this morning. I also then thought I would check some measurements...has only been a few days since last done...but the scale isnt reflect as much as I expected...it looks like my waist has dropped a couple of centimetres and my hips about 1 centimetres and my hips one centimetre and no movement on the bust lol. While i am not putting a lot of stock into it...its encouraging...even tho the scales are not moving heaps (lets face it i am eating only 1350 cals a day so significant movement is expected...and dont post...stop weighing...or you know fluctuations are expected...i know all that .... after 7 years i know better then anyone what to expect and not to expect of my body) the measurements seem to be so YAY :) My eating has been spot on...im just more accurate and more on track when i stick to a lower calorie range. Last night i was talking to candice at PT about it all...telling her what i may or may not do if theres not much movement over the next week....and she turned around and said "its crazy how much you know about nutrition - you should write a book" hahahahah ;) So yes I trained last night...was a tough workout....but i can really feel im much stronger...i dont have to stop mid exercise as much as i did previously....doing some exercises (like step ups onto a bench) holding a 20 kilo weight to my chest...so pretty damn impressed! I have also been swapping a few messages with someone on pink sofa. She is a runner....so never know...maybe we will make a date to meet up at some point in the future...so far she seems nice....but never know. Enjoy your day all :)

So the scales finally moved lol. After 3 days of being 91.2 kilos EVERY day they finally dropped to 90.6 kilos this morning. YAY. Ive been averaging 1350 cals a day so the weight should be dropping....and apparantly it is! YAY

Im surprised how easy i have settled into eating 1350 calories. It has been well over a year since i have eaten under 1500 calories. I had tried several times over the last year or so but never even lasted a day...id be peckish then read on MFP it wasnt enough food and so eat more. But today is day 4 and all going very good :)

Tonight I have PT for 45 minutes and ill do some running intervals for a warm up.

I do my first bootcamp session on saturday (not looking forward to that!) first session is apparantly a fitness test....beep test with max number of pushups, burpees etc you can do....dreading that! So friday will definitely be a rest day LOL

Not much else going on. Busy with work (as always)...enjoy your day all :)

So today I woke at 7am all wanting to go to the gym! Maybe the old me is coming back ;) So after breakfast and a lil bit of laziness I headed off to the gym...did 30 minutes of intervals on the treadmill..60 minutes body pump and then 60 minutes body balance....total of 812 calories burnt :) I then came home and after relaxing for all of 10 minutes for lunch LOL i started to prepare food for this week. I poached up three chicken breasts....so that is now all diced up in the fridge ready to be weighed out when needed. I then made soup...its their recipe for "trim soup"...its a soup with celery, onion, brocolini, chinese cabbage, cauliflower, garlic, lentils, cannelini beans and some herbs. Ive tasted it..tastes pretty good altho LOTS of chinese cabbage! LOL. Its suppose to do me for 4 meals...but I reckon I will get at least 6 meals out of it. So I prolly will have it for dinner most nights this week...no point wasting it! LOL

Tomorrow night i have PT...so depending what time i get to the gym 45-60mins of intervals...then 30 minute PT session.

So far today (and i am about to go to bed so no reason for this change) my eating has been perfect..and have eaten 1292 calories :) The scales were done 200 grams this morning...so hopefully a lil more tomorrow...I am aiming for a 3 kilo loss this week...not expecting to get it...but if I dont try I will never know!

Start of the challenge

So day 1 of my 12 week challenge :) Went to the gym this morning for all my weigh in etc. So my blood pressure was 121/85. Via the scales i weighed 93.3 kilos. My measurements were:

Chest 97.2cm
Mid arm (right) 33.6cm
waist 88.7cm
hip 132.7cm
mid thigh(right) 69.8cm

Pretty big numbers :( Not so long ago my waist was down to 79cms. I also had my measurements with the calipers for my body fat done...I THINK i may have dropped 1.9% in my body fat in the last month...but ill know more for certain this week. Also photo was taken of me in tight shorts and a crop top hahah omg!! But its all done. The next official weigh in will be at the 6 week mark...my goal is to lose 87.3 kilos by then so i got a crap load of work to do!

The other good news is i RAN on the treadmill today woooooooooooooooo :) I can start doing that again...cos those calorie burns always kick my ass. Tomorrow i have every intention of doing body pump and body balance. Then planning to jump on the treadmill for a bit...fingers crossed i drag my ass out of bed in time for that! LOL

So I weighed in yesterday and i lost 1.9 kilos :) so yay for that! My gym challenge starts on saturday...so saturday i have to go to the gym...get all my base scores...blood pressure, body fat %, scale weight, measurements and before photo done. The gym sent out the first weeks menu yesterday. For females its a 1300 calorie diet. I have been eating 1800 calories...i decided to start eating 1300 from today. I definitely think on 1300 cals a day i could hit 10-12 kilos lost over the 12 weeks. I will prolly try and follow there menu pplan for some of the lunch and dinners but not every meal. Their breakfasts are too time consuming and some dont look appealing at all (sardines on toast eck!) but there lunches and dinners look good...and there is 2 options each meal...vegetarian and non vegetarian. Officially the eating starts on monday and the first two days their "trim soup" (which i am figuring you make at home is just a vegetable soup) is what you eat more then anything...they do say that is to just get things moving...hopefully i dont mind it. Regardless ill stick to the 1300 cals a day. Possible i will calorie cycle down the track if i find i need a lil more food the days i train with candice (her sessions are very intense) - if that happens ill do 4 days @ 1200 cals, 2 days @ 1500 cals and 1 day @ 1300 cals and considering how well my body responds to different cals on different days thats a distinct possibility. I finally bought my weight lifting gloves...i got ones with wraps for my wrists. While my wrist recovered really well from the break i dont think its still quite 100% but its definitely improving so i didnt think that extra support would hurt. Not much else going on...some changes at work and my roster over the next few weeks is about to dramatically change but its all for the better! Enjoy all :)