Fitstorm

So today I started Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred.

Because I have some sort of muscle death wish.

Actually, I did level 1 and it was fine. I managed the whole thing except for one point when I thought my hamstring may indeed snap.

I didn't even have to battle for space on the floor because I attempted to clean up yesterday.

My plan is to do Level 1 for a week, Level 2 for 2 and Level 3 the remainder of the 30 days.

I like that it's only 20 minutes, that it's intense and that she breaks it down into short intense bursts. I bore easily.

Then I finished it, thinking, that was OK. And then I wanted to hurl. For about three hours. It is a serious workout which took me by surprise. Let's see what the month brings.

OH, and I weighed myself this morning. 88.3kg.

So I've lost 1.5kgs in six weeks. I'm pretty pissed off at that effort, considering the fact that I'm not eating any crap and exercising my arse off. I know I know, the slower the better, I'm doing it the right way, but I would have liked to have been closer to 80 than 90kgs.

Oh, and watching The Biggest Loser doesn't help - some of those boombalardies are now in the 80s and the fact they're going to pass me is really giving me the shits.

Weigh In

So I lost half a kilo this week.

Current weight: 89.3kgs.

I am a little disappointed it wasn't more than 500g but then I also ate like a normal person and did exercise so am pleased. No really, I am.

me vs scales, part 675

I worked hard on the food control leading up to at the end of last year - from 103.3kg on 15 October 2008 to 97.3 kg at the end of November. But then came the festive season and I lost the plot a bit, then a bit more in the new year, including being laid up with a bad back for a few days and feeling craaaap! So this morning I was 101.3kg. Not completely undone, but just about.
So today what did I do - ate! But I did take the kids for a quick ride up the road this arvo (about 2km return) and then after dinner (roast lamb, vegies roasted in the pan, peas, fresh corn, gravy and including dessert - sensational combo of fresh apricots and a peach drizzled with lime curd and wrapped in a piece of shortcrust pastry, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and baked, served warm with a small scoop of icecream) I went for another ride on my own of about 6km return (I could hardly reach the handle bars over my monstrous gut). Slightly redeemed, and enough to help me feel I am not a completely lost cause.
And so it begins...... again

Weigh In

Last week: 89.8kgs
This week: 89.0kgs
Loss: 0.8kgs

A bit of a surprise really, there was still a LOT of eating going on.
BUT
Things I did start on:
- being more conscious of when I'm full
- eating a proper breakfast (something I am always a stickler for but have become slack on during the festive season)
- a lot less junk food


My goals this week are:
- to start moving - maybe doing one of the exercise videos I have at home OR get up to that alarm I've set for 5am to go for a walk OR go to the gym I am paying to be a member of but never go to.
- stick to the food diary

cave mysteries

At the caves we visited there were little squiggly stalactite formations called helictites. Before they received this scientific name they wer known as cave mysteries, because noone was (or indeed is now) really sure how they form - against the forces of gravity, in a bizarre range of shapes, defying logic. This must also apply to my loss this week of 0.2kg - a loss I tell you!! It must be very closely correlated to the number of steps and hills I climbed, because it CERTAINLY was not related to my food intake. But I shall take and run. It brings my total loss so far to a round 6.0kg (over 7 weeks).

Weigh In - Week 6

So no change this week.
Which was good I think. I'm still below 87kgs. YIPPEE!

This week I'm coming back to writing everything down and so far I've been tracking pretty well.
I'm hoping for a decent loss by next Wednesday.

Weigh In - Week 5

Well, look at that - I get my very own pep talk from Kill, start keeping a food diary and actually try and look what happens...

Last week: 87.5
This week: 86.6

Yey!

Weigh In - Week 4

87.5

Eugh.

Weigh In - Week 3

WHOOT!

I cracked the 87.

Last week I weighed: 87.7
This week I weigh: 86.9
Loss: 0.8

I'm not sure about you but I have certain weights which when I hit them it becomes very hard to keep moving.

87kgs is one of them - I have spent a large amount of my life at this weight and I think my body is very used to it. Another point is 74 kgs - I spent a large amount of my life at that weight too. Ofcourse thinking I was massively obese when if I'd lost as little as three kilos I would have been within the weight range for my height.

Anyway. The reason for this week's progress?
Not listening to the voice in my head telling me that I was already so fat and there was no way I had lost any weight so I might as well eat that chocolate.
Asking myself if I had to write down everything I was eating here - on this blog, for the world to see - would I eat it?
And no chips.

I am just stoked to be below 87, even if it is only just.

Weigh In - Week 2

So I gained 700g this week.
Crap.

It has however made me pull my head in - of sorts.

Yesterday was the first day in the two weeks that I think I ate within an 18 point limit.
I had an apple and a date scone for snacks, porridge for brekkie, a salad sandwich for lunch at Ikea (when I could have had meatballs) and spag bol at the inlaws.

When I weighed myself this morning I'd lost 600g from Wednesday. Here's hoping I can sustain it for a whole week and see where it gets me for next Wednesday's weigh-in

Weigh In - Week 1

This week was half arsed.

I ate chocolate.
I ate chips.
I drank A LOT of sparkling shiraz at Jasper's 3rd birthday.
I did no exercise whatsoever - except cleaning and rearranging the back room.

BUT

I did eat a proper breakfast and lunch each day - dinners were a bit hit and miss, as was mid-morning, which is my weak spot.

I did have two days at hospital with children which involved a lot of nervous energy and not much food.

I need to lose 19.6kg.
This week I lost 0.6kg.

Any loss is a good loss.

10%! Bring on week 2

Wow
It just shows me how slack I have been. And how being healthy is not that difficult.

I need to lose 28.3kg.
This week I lost 2.8kg.
10% of what I need to lose.
Yey!

Keep that up and it will all be gone by Christmas. No, I'm not that unrealistic. But great to have an encouraging start. Good on me.

Kill 100.5

Back v.2.545

So how many times have we been here? Unhappy in appearance but still shovelling food in and not moving my sorry arse?

For the last few months Chef and I have been losing weight together. This has involved him losing 12.5kgs and me gaining 3. Nice. The upside has been a return to the gym, although that has fallen by the wayside in the last month due to everyone being sick, the end of term and school holidays.

So here I stand. Fat and sick of it.

So we're going to try something different - not in terms of weightloss because I know exactly what is required - eat less, move more - but here, in the land of Boombalardy.

I'm going to be joined by Kill - my best friend through thick and thin. We're both at a place with our bodies we would rather not be. We've both been 'thin' in terms of within the weight range for our height - but have slipped away from it back to the land of multiple stomachs, chins and back boobs.

Sometimes it's because life has dealt us a hand of cards too stressful and upsetting to stomach without a gutful of salt and vinegar chips or a family block of chocolate or a bowlful of icecream. Sometimes because a situation seems to have no solution let alone an end in sight of any sort.

So we're going to do this together - the good days and bad - the losses and the gains.

Wednesdays are weigh-in day.

A new start.
Again.

Kim: 87.6kgs.

Back

This week's loss: 0.6kg


So, Chef has a pretty monumental weightloss road ahead of him.
He seems to finally get it.
That if he doesn't lose at least a significant portion of it he's going to develop diabetes, have a heart attack or continue down a path of major health issues.

We're doing it together.

Wednesday is weigh in day.
He's made up a chart that we record our weekly weight on - and a column that indicates percentage of body mass lost. And measurements.

We're our own Biggest Loser show over here.

Game on.

Weigh In - Week 20

-0.9

That, people, is just plain luck.
I have no idea how I did that.

Well, maybe an inkling.
You see, about 11 years ago I lost about 27kgs following a program by this French guy, Michel Montignac that he called 'Dine Out and Lose Weight'.
In a nutshell it is food combining.
I guess it must be like Atkins but more balanced - for you still eat carbs but you try to eat only good carbs and not with protein.
It means 11 years ago I was working off gylcemic index principles that became all the rage recently.
And well dudes, it works.
Clearly.
I've been doing it since Week 12 and every week since (almost) I've lost.

But I haven't been ruthless with it because this time round what I'm doing/eating has to be sustainable.
I mean, only ever eating a pasta dish with virtually no fat and no meat?
Get real.
I mean, Thai/Japanese/Chinese/other Asian cuisine without rice?
Get real.
A poached egg on its own? Without a slice of toast?
Get real.

But if I do have pasta that's rich or has a meat based sauce, I'm only eating a small bowl with a lot more salad.
If we're having Thai takeaway I'm only having a small portion of rice.

And you know what happens when I do this?
My sugar intake and my fat intake go down dramatically.
My cravings become a lot clearer (ie - it's not I need chips it's I really need something salty etc)

So there you go, that's where I'm at.

Exercise has been non-existent as it's just been in the too hard basket and I'm also conscious of when I get into the 70s that is when I need to pull out the exercise folder as the 70s is where I've resided most of my adult life and this body hates letting go of those layers.

Weigh In - Week 19

OK, so I didn't go to WW from 21 December until last Thursday.
But get this.
My goal for last week was to be 87.5kgs.

So sure, I hadn't been in four weeks.
But I LOST 0.1kg.
100grams.
It might as well have been 1kg.

But that 100 grams meant I was at my mini-goal.

Of course the week of eating this past week will probably ruin it, but there you go.

Weigh-in tomorrow.

Weigh In - Week 15`

OK - much to say, much to updated, but yesterday:

10 KILOS!

I've lost 10 kilos.

Un-effing-believable.

Am stoked.

Have kicked the 90kgs land to the curb.

At this rate - by February - so of my work clothes may even fit!

How have I done it?
1. stress
2. anxiety
3. busy

really.

Weigh In - Week 13

- 1.5kg

What the!?!

It is a mystery. A mystery.
I mean, I have weeks when I am so very very good and I lose 100g and then weeks like the one past when I don't eat well and indeed eat four brownies in one day and I lose 1.5kgs.
Who knows...

Weigh In - Week 12

- 1.6kg

Nothing like an anxiety-attack-laden depressive episode to kick the weight-loss back into gear.
Actually I think I've had a gastro bug of some sort as I really haven't eaten much since early this week.
My head is not in a good place and it's largely due to being back here battling my weight and facing the issues and reality around why I eat what I eat and so on.

Weigh In - Week 11

No change.
Which, considering the porkfest is quite a remarkable thing.
That said, I did a LOT more exercise this week - a massive walk one day, half an hour with ball and band another, an hour aerobic workout on one day and the purchase and moving of 250kg of sandpit sand.
And with that, I feel lighter. Stiff but lighter.


I know I'm not putting my whole heart into this at the moment.
And then bitching about it.
So I'm just going to suck it up and try harder this week.