Summary of last week

Made big changes. Felt amazing and am so proud of my efforts as they paid off....

On the scales! YAY!

I am down to 92kg so that is a loss of 3kg!!!!!!!!

Very proud!

I pushed out 20Km total on the treadmill last week spread over 4 x 40minutes sessions  (5km each session)!

I ate well. Healthy. Clean. I said no to bad things and replaced them with healthy and yummy alternatives.

And tonight when I didnt want to exercise as I was hot ans tired, I did it anyway and beat my PB time and completed 5km interval training in 38min and 12sec!

Cant wait to see more success!

Measuring up!

So today was a great day.

I did lots of great things.

1. Ate a healthy breakfast
2. Drank lots of water
3. Did 5Km on the treadmill and then 10minutes on the spin bike (my legs were dead)!
4. Wrote out a good list of things to do to kep me busy when I feel hungry
5. Didn't eat fastfood
6. Said no to chocolate cake and icecream!

I also took all my measurements today:

Chest- 110cm
Waist (smallest part)- 99.5cm
BellyButton Measurement -115cm
Hips- 116cm
Thigh (widest point) - 73.5cm
Calf (widest part) - 45.5cm
Upper Arm (widest part) - 38.5

Will measure at the begginning of each month and weigh in every Sunday (weekly).

Wanting my SPARKLE back!

It's been a while.

I lost my sparkle....

But I want to find it again!

Life has gotten in the way of me blogging.
Not always in a bad way, but a way that has made me time poor.

So it's been almost a year...I have worked full time the last year, planned a wedding, GOT MARRIED! YAY and put on weight (no point hiding anymore).

New Year's Resolution for me last night was to spend more time on myself. That means look after myself and spend time doing what I love doing and that is writing.... it keeps my hands busy and away from putting food in my mouth! So expect to see more of me from me (I want you to actually see less of me as I shed some weight)!

So before I show you some wedding photos, I must tell you that I am the Queen of weight gain and have managed to put on record amount of weight in the last year. I yo-yo'd my way through the year and ended up getting back up to 95kg (just weighed myself). That comes from getting a coffee and 2 hashbrowns from Maccas every morning before work, eating a cheeseburger in the car on the way home from work, constantly eating all the lollies from my lolly jar at work and drinking wine almost every night! Awful habits really but I am here, being honest and wanting to change them.

Here is a picture of me taken a week a go at Sea World on the Gold Coast, Australia

I feel pretty disgusted with myself.
My life with my husband is suffering as I have no self-confidence and hate him being near me as I hate my body (sad face) so that all needs to change. We both deserve more and so does my daughter.

So tomorrow I will:
1. Get up, eat a nutritional breakfast and drink water
2. Put on my joggers (look like exercise, feel like exercise)
3. Take my daughter to the parkand run around withher and burn some calories
4. Eat small portions of low calmeals - no bread, no butter.
5. Not stop at any fast food restaurant
6. Drink no alcohol
7. Make a shopping list of the good stuff!
8.Finish the day with a 30 minute walk on the treamill.

Sounds like a plan!

But on another note....to finish off this blog post.....here are some pictures of me on my wedding day (below).

I was 84kg that day. I have put on 11kg since the 1st September (exactly 4 months). That is terrible!!!

But I loved my wedding day and I want to add that Sparkle back into our lives that I had on the day.

Looking forward to the year I get it back and sharing my journey with you all!

Juggling

Can anyone do it?

I am having troubles.

Monday & Tuesday....

I start my week well.

I have energy.

I go for evening walks.

I eat well.

Then the other days come.....\

I have no energy.

I can barely juggle and keep all the balls in the air.

Healthy eating is the first ball to drop.

Exercise is the next.

Then sleep.

How do people do it?

How do I put me first?

I need to work something out quicksmart!

Sunday Weigh In

YES! I lost weight! Granted it was only 1kg, I am still very appy about it.

I have only made a few small changes this week bt they worked. I cut out TimTams (do they have them in America? If not then consider yourselves lucky that TimTams is one less temptation for you to not worry about), Increased my water intake and always made sure I had a bottle with me. This really helped keep hunger away.I started eating breakfast again to get my metabolism going in the morning and stop the high sugar cravings mid-morning.

So today I weigh 83kg. YAY!

It gives me super powers!

I get an extra burst of power when it comes on and I all of a sudden want to run faster or start jumping around the house dancing.

I am talking about this song...



If you haven't seen the video clip make sure you watch it. The girl who feels self-conscious about jumping in the pool at the party, well I can relate to her, maybe we all can at some stage of our lives.

Thanks for all your support and encouragement already girls I have a great few dayseating well and trying to do as much incidental exercise as possible to build up my activity levels.

Please yell at me.. I have been bad!

I disappeared for a while because...I felt like a failure :(

I stopped blogging because I stopped being healthy.
I stopped exercising.
I stopped weighing myself.

I gave myself a free pass until New Years Day thinking I had 2 months then to hit it hard for my wedding dress fitting and be in fabulour shape so I could order the size I wanted.

Well it hasn't turned out that way and here is why...

My dress wasnt supposed to be ordered until end of February but the week before Xmas I got a phonecall saying I had to come in straight away for a fitting as my dress was being discontinued.

I had not begun working on my weightloss as my wedding isnt until September and I thought I would go for broke in Jan and Feb to order a dress that is closer to the size I want to be by September. Anyway this threw a massive spanner in the works as being Xmas and party season I had put on weight.
So I went in and got measured and the lady was adament that I should order the size I am now or bigger as with my dress there are no side seams to take it out. It is a slimline dress.

She said I should order a size 14 and it can always be taken in up to 2 sizes without the bust line and stuff starting to look strange. I said that I was definitely going to lose weight and that I have actually lost 20kg over the last year and that was just for a friends wedding. I still have another 15kg-20kg I want to lose.

She said so many brides come in and say they will lose weight but most dont so we would STRONGLY advise you to order the size 14.

WAY TO MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A FAILURE STRAIGHT AWAY....

My dress wont come in until July so I have until then to kick my fat goodbye. Between going back to work full time, raising an almost 2 year old and planning an overseas wedding, I am sure I can get a routine going and lose it. and I will show that bridal shop lady that she was WRONG!

I need your help guys...I need you to help keepme on track. I will be reading your blogs and making sure I update mine. I am getting back to regular weigh ins.

Today I weigh 84kg. (Sad)......but next week I will weigh less because of the hard work I will put in from now.