OMG ... WAS THAT A COMPLIMENT?

Last night we went out for tea for my sisters birthday (not the sister that got married ... my other sister). Anyway, one could say she hasn't been very supportive of my journey to find skinny me! Anyway to cut a long story short at dinner last night she said to my hubby ... 'You would feel like you are sleeping in a king sized bed now wouldn't you?' And he said 'Why?' (wondering what she was going on about ...) and she said 'well half your wife is missing!'

That is the closest I will ever get to a compliment from her, so I am going to take it (mind you my husband and I nearly fell off our chairs due to shock when she said it lol)

The NEW EXTRAORDINARY ME!!!!

The 12WBT has helped make my life EXTRAORDINARY!!!! I’m now 33kgs lighter and 97cm smaller than I was before I joined Round 3 2010!!!!! My clothes are too big (I have dropped from size 22 to 14!). I have a waistline and can see my feet when I look down! I feel more energetic, happier, fitter and healthier!

This round I needed to ‘increase’ my exercise and the intensity, if I wanted to continue to lose weight! I have completed an 8 week boot camp (which I was the overall winner!!!), joined my local gym (doing around 8-9 classes a week!), play basketball, do 3 P-T sessions a week, and on top of all that walking and running around after my 2 adorable girls!

My attitude is ‘No Pain, No Gain’ if you want results get off your butt and JFDI! Hence, to do this I am getting up at 5am in the morning to get to the gym so I am home by 7am so my hubby can go to work and I am there for the girls. I then leave after 6pm and go back to fit in another class or 2! I have to burn at least 500cals a day (more if I do it in one training session!).

My current exercise week consists of:

Monday - 10am PT session (1 hour), 6.30pm zumba and 7.30pm body combat

Tuesday - 6am circuit, night - basketball (or zumba if basketball isn't on) (music and movement with 3 year also)

Wednesday - 10am PT session, 6.30pm bodycombat (if really pumped - 6am boxercise)

Thursday - 6am circuit plus walk during day (and swimming lesson with 3 year old)

Friday - 6am spin and 10am PT session (plus kindergym with 3 year old)

Saturday - 8am bodycombat, 9am body pump

Sunday - a decent walk (16km twin towns with friends, walk with family, or at least an hour walk on tready with incline), yard/ farm work

I now go out for a meal and know what I can eat and what I shouldn’t! If I don’t like the choices I ask them to modify a dish to suit my needs! I can't believe how some places don't even have a salad you can order on the menu, the steaks are all 300g plus, and the only milk is full cream - don't these places realise that they are not doing anyone any favours here?!

I set challenging goals that are achievable, yet at the same time I have to work hard to achieve them ... hang on SMASH them lol! ‘NOTHING WILL GET IN MY WAY’!!!!

My actions have definitely inspired others. This round 6 friends joined the program because of my results last round. Friends often want to join me to exercise and ask me for different advice.

I am aboslutely loving my 'new' EXTRAORDINARY life!!!

12WBT rocks - Thanks Mish and the 12WBT team!!!

MY SISTER'S WEDDING!!!!

OMG! I am a terrible blogger - I can't believe I haven't updated you in ages - I do apologise but I have been busy - VERY busy!

You may recall that a few weeks ago I set myself a goal to lose 7kgs by my sisters wedding on the 16th (so I could say I lost 30kg!). Well ... I did it!! It was a milestone week - I reached the 10% plus the 10kg mark (aim was 8kg by week 8 - I had lost 11kg woohoo) for this round of the 12WBT plus I had lost a total of 30.4kg!!!! This means that I am no longer OBESE!!! I am finally into the overweight ... slowly getting healthy step by step!

I also SMASHED my time trial run by 1min and 16secs - I couldn't believe it (and I was VERY puffed and proud at then end hehe) and improved on all areas in the fitness test - yay I am getting fitter on paper too!

My sisters wedding day was absolutely FANTASTIC - I can't believe it went so fast. The the weather was beautiful, she looked stunning - the day was just perfect!!!

Not that the day was about me at all ... but .... there where people at the wedding who hadn't seen me since the engagement party last October (when I had only been doing 12WBT for 2 weeks!) and they couldn't believe it!!! They were amazed at how much weight I had lost - I think I may have even made my family proud lol!

I had the best day ever - and can't thank my sister and her husband enough for asking me to be part of it (and giving me the incentive to start my new healthier life!!!!).

I WON OPERATION: BOOTCAMP!!!!

Little bragging moment!!!! Today was breakup night for the Operation: Bootcamp I have just spent the past 8 weeks completing. And I was the overall winner - woo hoo! I am very excited! It was based on weightloss, measurements and fitness test imporvments. I lost 6.2kgs over the 8 weeks, lost 34cm overall, and improved on everything in the fitness test;
Beep Test: from level 2.4 to level 3.3
Plank: from 1min 44 sec to 2min 19sec
Sit Ups: from 25 to 41 (in one min)
Push Ups (on toes): from 6 to 40
Squats: from 57 to 80
Balance test: from 2.39mins to 5.03mins.
(Not sure how close I could get to these results again - I was on fire on Friday Night - NOTHING was getting in my way lol)
My prize was $250!!!! Now to decide what to spend it on!!!!

BIG WEEK OF GOOD RESULTS!!!!!

Ok the past week has been massive for me (hence, my lack of blog entries which I do apologize!!!!). Last weeks weigh in as predicted was terrible! Absoultely terrible - I gained 1.3kg. I was shatttered. But nevertheless put it behind me, and worked my butt off as I new this weeks weigh in had the potential to be bad too given I had my sisters Hen's Party Saturday Night (which was a lot of fun - but more about that later!!!).

Friday Night was the last night of the Bootcamp that I had been doing for the previous 8 weeks, so we had weigh in and a fitness test!!!! I came through with the goods - woo hoo - lost 2.2kgs (according to Bek's scales!) so a total loss of 6.2kgs for the 8 weeks! And had good losses on all body part measurements (from memory about 10cm off waist, 10cm of chest, 3cm off arms, 7cm off thighs ... thats all I can remember). Then came the fitness test and man I was determnined to beat my own score! And I did in everything!!! Now I am hoping I beat my results the best and that I was the winner - hehe. Fingers, Toes and everything crossed!

Then we had Satruday Night - the Fairy Cowgirls Hen's Night! I went to the gym and did Body Combat in the monring and then stayed clean with my eating for the entire day (and night) - but may have had quite a few to drink (ok ... so I lost count!). I stopped though at about 11.30pm and stayed up until 2.30am - surely that burnt some of the drinks off!

And to even make sure I burnt those unwanted extra cals - I helped my parents stack about 4yrs worth of wood into their shed (it took around 7hrs) on Sunday!!!!

Monday - my new 'Bootcamp' started in Warragul - a 6 week challenge. This week consists of 3 x 1hr personal training sessions. My trainer is Tyson - he is awesome! I have only had 2 sessions this week with him so far but he has pushed me!!! I also have to wear a certain tshirt when at the gym so that way I am pushed when ever I am there if it looks like I am slacking off!.

So, anyway, this week I lost ... drum roll .... 3.3kgs!!! I weighed myself like 10 times I was that shocked and excited!!!. This has put me back on track to achieve one of my mini/ major goals. To reach 30kg loss by 16th April!!!!!! I want this soooo bad!

I also went shopping this week and got to buy a size 12 bra OMG!!!!!! I was a size 18 in October last year and now I am getting a size 12!!!!! How exciting! And I also shouted myself a couple of nice items!!!!

I would love to have an awesome loss again next week - I so desperately want to reach those 70's!!!! Will keep you all posted!!!!

Disheartened and Confused ...

I don’t compare my weekly weigh ins to others as I know everyone is very different to each other. However ....

I exercise religiously ... probably over do it. I weigh and record ALL of my food. Work out the Total Calories I have consumed, the Total Calories I have burnt during exercise and then work out my deficit for the day ...

I had one bad day this weekend ... I didn’t think it was that bad until the next day ... I weighed and extra 1.3kgs!!!! OMG! I did not eat that much food ... Went for a 16km walk that day to try and make up for it ... obviously didn’t help! I gained 800grams!!!

Maybe I have a really crap metabolism!!! And this is the bit where I am confused. How can others report of a ‘bad’ weekend with food and/or a week of no exercise and lose well over a kilo? Or have they really lost the weight? It does my head in trying to work it out!!! 

I don’t want to sound like I am not supportive – I think every loss is an awesome effort! I just don’t know how other people do it!

Wednesday Weigh Ins!!!

This week I gained 800grams. My first gain on the Michelle Bridges Program (and this is my second round) and I am so annoyed with myself! I have exercised and exercised but had massive red flag weekend and obviously failed :( Shattered! Anyway, gotta get over it and back into it!

BRING ON THE NEXT WEEK (and a massive loss!)