Determination

So after a boozy and foody weekend, I kicked off my week with a workout that where I burnt a personal best of 550 calories! Was amazing! Felt so good afterwards, very hungry but. Im teaching both my dogs to walk on the lead and that I crazy my big dog bella is fine, she loves being out of the yard and loves to run with me, the little one has never left the yard before and is scared of the lead, poor little fella, but swear he was trying to kill me. Cris crossing all over the place, trying to jog and he’d go under my feet! Frustrating!!

People with big dogs should always walk them with a lead on, because yesterday some fucktard didn’t have his great Danes on a lead and when his horse sized dogs tried to eat mine he didn’t give two fucks just kept walking like nothing was happening. Cheers dick…

Anyways its day 12 of my Skinnyme tea detox and I have only lost just 1khg only just though, I don’t know how these girls are losing 5 – 10kg in 2 weeks, I ate clean (maybe had a binge twice) I exercised every day and went hard but no just 1kg, not being ungrateful I love this 1kg lose but still I wanted to have amazing results like all the others, I guess it works different for everyone… WHYYY!!! But still I recommend this to anyone who is willing to follow the eating plan the provide strictly, I believe that knocking out all those foods (even on a normal diet) will induce weight loss, drastic weight loss. Give it a go I say its not going to hurt you it’s just tea

I still have 4kg until I reach my goal weight… it’s a long haul ahead but I’m ready to do it! I’m aiming to drop another in the next two weeks before my boyfriend’s 21^st birthday where all his family will be.. argh!! So I’m pumping up my workouts by walking the dogs for 30 – 40 mins then going to the gym for an hour or so. It’s so much easier to run out side then on a treadmill… so much more pleasant, especially when it’s the late afternoon and the sun is setting and the cold air is setting in and it’s all nice and crisp, and your super sweaty. I’m aiming with this new workout schedule to burn 400 – 500 calories a day which will hopefully leave me 0.5kg lighter each week J

I cannot wait until I reach my goal weight to be able to post those before and after photos J my first and hopefully last ever before and after J I’m not quite sure what my start weight was but by judging from when I got on the digital scales I had added 2kg from what I thought I was so I think my start weight was around 67 – 68kg and now I’m 64kg J only a few more to go. It’s not easy but when eating healthy and exercising is a habit you aren’t forced to go out and exercise it’s not a chore it’s a pleasure you want to do it.

I have changed so much, I used to hate getting sweaty and exercising now I love it, being hot and bothered is the best feeling, I can’t wait to get home and but my gym clothes on and get in the car and go! Makes my day it really does. I feel so lazy when I don’t go to the gym or go for a walk I feel like I’m letting myself down.

Instagram? Insta-motivation

I don’t know how many people use instagram the way I do, I use it for motivation and advice. The people I follow are my friends and heaps of fitspo’s they always have up great pics of bodies and their diets and workouts and it’s a great boost for when you’re feeling a bit ehhhh I jump on and skim through their posts and feel a new sense of motivation. Ive started doing it now, posting my own inspiration and motivation and what I eat and workouts.

If you want to follow me on ‘insty’ as some of my friends call it hahaha

yeahyeah93

pass it around

Dont go fooling yourself Hombre

So I have started my teatox and its working wonders, has a bit of a funky taste and the colon cleanse the smell is iffy but it’s still great, I’ve lost half a kilo with it and not following the plan….. but still doing my regular exercise.

Today I’ve started with the plan.

-          No white bread or grain

-          No meat (may have small serve of chicken though)

-          No alcohol or soft drinks, I don’t really drink either of these so this doesn’t faze me

-          No cow’s milk, this is hard but I’m going to buy soy milk this arv and give it a go.

-          Having green tea instead of coffee

-          + more I cannot remember the rest for the life of me but yeah this is the gist of it.

The colon cleanse isn’t as scary or dramatic as I thought it was going to, this is a bit gross, but its ‘cleaning me out’ but it’s not a constant OMG I HAVE TO GO it’s just the regular time once a day. Just helps to clear it all out. I’m actually thinking of opening the bag and ingesting the tea leaves (the instructions say you can drink them so why not).

Exercise over the weekend was hard…. I had no motivation to go out and do anything just felt down and sore and a bit unwell, and not to mention I fucked my knee running my dog the other day.. so everything hurts! But I have a goal this week to burn 650 calories a day. This girl I have on instagram is aiming to burn 1500 calories a day! That’s bloody insane but good on her I say. If she can do it that’s great. I’m aiming for something I know I can achieve if I push myself. I know that if I stay on the treadmill for 40 mins I will burn 300 calories and if I mix it up I will get them oooozing out of my fat cells! BURN BITCHES BURN!

TIP: be honest with yourself and set goals you can achieve in a timeframe that suits your abilities, make time for errors and slack days and most of all make sure you rest.

Shut the fuck up Bro!

So this is totally un-related to my blog but need to vent or I will probably go postal on my department. I don’t know about anyone else but I hate the sound of people eating drinking etc.. this one fucking person who sits in front of me is terrible they sit there every day and eat god damn soup and slurp the fucking thing and after every mouth full exhale like a grizzly bear… seriously our office is dead silent and you’re going to sit there and slurp so loudly it’s like a fucking tsunami… have some respect for your co-workers and shut the fuck up and go eat in the lunch area you dick! Fuck you!

Finally! Its Here - Skinnyme Tea Come At ME!!

Finally! Yesterday I finally received my 14 day teatox! It was within the 7 – 10 day wait but all the public holidays made it longer L but it’s here! Ad my first morning cup today, it’s not that bad actually, not the most wonderful thing in the world but its tea… haha! It says you need a tea infuser but I could not find one anywhere so I left the leaves in for the 5 mins then strained it out into a bowl then put it back into a cup, worked the same I think.  So this is what it looks like >>> not too bad, looks like green tea with floaties

 Tonight is going to be the first time for the colon cleanse tea, a little scared but it should be good and worth it, tomorrow will definitely be a learning curb, seeing as the colon cleanse tea is meant to have a laxative effect. Argh!

Yesterday I was pumped to go to the gym after my rest day and burn out this excess energy I had, go to the gym and did my run and got on the cross trainer, next minute, get a phone call, my boyfriend has done his back in and needed to go to the hospital.. so had to drag my sweat ass out of the gym and take him to the hospital. Only burned 160 calories L and all he needed was some pain killers -.-

At least today it’s a rainy day and I can make the most of the gym and go hard as fuck!

Wowzers - Time Flies!

Another week bites the dust, wow how the weeks are flying by! Had a great weekend even though it was rainy and miserable in town still made the most of it (exercise wise) walked/jogged my fat dog for 3.5km around town, did some at working out, squats lunges squat jumps J Sunday morning gym short session, then walked Bella again then off to the gym after the walk. Was a great weekend burnt heaps of calories and I am SORE today!!

I downloaded the Lorna Jane app for iPhone and it is brilliant! I pick walk and hit start and the clever little things tracks where you go, the distance, how fast on average you went, calories and more, best app ever!

This week I was so close to burning my goal of 3500 calories, I made it to 3070… bit sad but makes me want to push myself harder, and seeing that it is only 4 weeks until Kirt’s 21^st makes me want to be even better!! Want to look fit and healthy for his party! So very excited!

Still waiting on my Skinnyme Tea to arrive taking its sweet time to get here! But can’t wait for it to get here, I think I’m going to struggle a bit with the strict clean eating diet plan that they advise to see maximum results, no meat, little or no grains. These two pretty much make up my diet as is, I work out of town and working long hours during the day and then gym every day after work leaves very little time for food prep. But I guess I’m going to have to ditch the good ol sandwich and opt for something different. Praise the lord I will not be eating a salad every day! I would kill someone at work if I had to have cold boring lunches each day.

But other than that, I’m seeing great changes in my body, I can see more definition in my stomach that I never had before, slimmer looking arms (had to tighten my watch!) a slightly smaller waist, but still have more to go! I’ve been trying to find a measuring tape to take down my measurements and see the improvements, apparently they are really hard to find these days…. Rather relying on the scales, because muscle is denser than fat. But was quite thrilled to jump on and see that they had gone from 65kg down to 64.6, I know it’s not much of a difference but to me it’s exciting!

I would like to announce that I have been soft drink free for a whole month now! I used to live off that shit! I would find nothing more refreshing than a big sip of cold coke, but now I reach for my icy bottle of water and add some lemon, hits the spot for sure. I don’t know how I used to guzzle down so much of the stuff, and seeing how much sugar is in a can made me realise what I’ve been doing to my body. Crazy monkey balls!

My poor teeth, now I know why the dentist hates me, they have been through battle. But now with my new healthy lifestyle they can rest and revitalise. The more sugar that I have cut out of my diet the more that I don’t have those cravings for coke or want for a cookie, but a girl cannot resist the chocolate binge when it’s that time of the month, one piece of dark chocolate and I’m cured! Dark chocolate does the trick and is a lot tastier, not quite as creamy or delectable as milk chocolate or white chocolate but its great J even better when you dip fruit into it! Mmmm yummy. But everyone has their own opinion.

Weighting for no results...

Have to admit that yesterday and today were terrible diet days, binging on the chocolate Easter eggs I brought in for my engineering guys, and well handfuls were eating by this chocolate loving fat kid… broke one of my April goals already… fail at life.. oh well this just means that I will have to push myself harder and go longer and faster! Pump up the cardio and get all my calories burning away!

I’ve been working so hard on building my fitness and each day I’m improving. I can run at intervals for so much longer (still usually 1 min on 2 mins walk) but getting better. But it is hard to do all this work and see no weight loss at all.. my weight is still 65kg. I know that everyone says that the scales don’t mean you’re not changing but I haven’t seen any changes. Except for the fact my boobs have jumped shipped… that sucks.. but still I would like to see some change in my weight. I’m aiming for 60kg by the end of June. This is hard. Thinking I’ve done so well with all my eating and exercising, then the scales are all just kidding your still heavy… not impressed at all.

People always tell me that muscle is heavier and denser than fat.. I know this but if I had even lost the slightest bit of fat it should show….. come on!!

This next week I’m stepping up my diet and exercise regimen! Exercising more each day. Some days I’ll go to the gym before work (its super hard to get the motivation to get out of bed when its warm and outside is cold and dark and dull. Every day I will go to the gym and work harder and train longer, I usually do 45 – 1 hour, next week I’ll do more longer sessions and push myself, I kind slack off and I know it, I say that I will run\walk 2km but I get to 1.3 and my brain goes yep your done… but I know I could still do more. Fail…

I’m happy that I have changed my lifestyle being healthier has made a big impact on myself and the people around me. My parents are on board and are willing to try anything I cook up J my boyfriend is also starting to eat good nutritious food, not all the time but it’s a start for him J

My work team are behind me and they have even changed what they bring for lunch! It’s so good to see that what I’m doing is helping other people.

Pump That Iron

I thought I should post my workout regime, I don’t always stick to it otherwise I get bored so I change it up and mix it around to keep my mind on the goal.

Cardio:

Treadmill	20 – 15 Mins	Walking and Running Intervals
Elliptical	20 – 15 Mins	Change the intensity every few mins
Bike	10 Mins
Rowing	8 Mins	I suck at this so its 4x 2mins

Weight Training: Toning – Light weights only!

Arms and Abs		Legs and Back
3 Different Arm Machines	3x10	Squats	About 30 weighted and 80 non weighted
Planks	3x30 sec	Deadlifts		3x10
Wide push ups	3x10	Lunges		100!
Russian twists	3x10	Pilates Leg Pull		50 each leg
Oblique bends	3x10	Leg Press		5x10
Windscreen wipers	3x10	Inner Thigh Machine		3x10
Plank row	3x10	Reverse lunges		100
Crunches	About 50	Sumo squats		30
Side Planks	3x 20 sec

I’m a bit of a bigot when I create my plans but I don’t always stick them and it annoys the f@#k out of me, some days I get there and I’m all pumped for an hour and half session but once I’ve knocked down the treadmill and elliptical I can’t see myself pushing out any rowing or bike riding… and other days ill pump it all out and go hard on the weight training. Depends on the mood I guess.

This is what suites me, having a list and knowing what I need to do, I take a photo and keep as my iPhone lock screen. But find what works for you, and what your body needs, I know that I want to lose more weight so I ramp up the cardio to burn heaps of calories and then do some weights then back for more cardio then weights again, everyone’s different

Its Not Easy To Say No To A Creme Egg...

Had a great Easter weekend in town, had a few drinks with friends and had some amazing workouts, did some of my personal bests this weekend, burning over 400 calories in my gym session, usually mine are 250 – 300, so I was over the moon when I seen I had cracked the 400 calorie volt! I even had a pretty decent diet for the weekend, the only bad choices were my Easter Sunday lunch (pub chicken parma and chips [WORTH IT]) and a couple too many drinks Saturday night but other than that, my belly was being packed with yummy fruits, veggies, chia seeds and creative little concoctions.

This morning I was dreading jumping on the scales to see the damage of my few bad choices on my weight but no, nothing I had lost a few hundred grams, was excited, seeing these little things make me want to work harder and work longer!

Now, I am not looking for a quick fix or miracle cure to fat, but I have heard of Skinnyme Tea, a detoxing system that comes in either 14 or 28 days and helps to remove the toxins from your body and also cleanse your colon. So I bought the 14 day detox $33.00 pretty cheap, so I’m going to give it a whirl and see how good I feel afterwards. It also comes with an eating plan, pretty much just cutting out food that is full of the toxins you are trying to flush out, so meats, white grains you get the image. The plan looks every easy to follow, it’s pretty much just incorporating the tea into your day first thing in the morning and one every second night, seems pretty easy, and following the plan shouldn’t be hard, but I think I’ll find myself munching on some grilled chicken, because I’m no vegetarian.  

I am beginning to see change in my body especially the shape, it’s not thinner, but more lean, my stomach… still not flat belly when I sit down but there is less bulge and less feeling like a pregnant lady (sorry to anyone who is pregnant), and my shoulders I seen this yesterday while getting ready for squats in the squat rack the seemed leaner and had more shape to them not just chubbiness all over the place!! Starting to feel really good and so much more energy rather weird but I have more energy after the gym than before, thank you endorphins.

I feel like I’m getting closer to skinny jean ready, but not willing to try them on until I get rid of this muffin top. Last time I tried on 2 pairs of skinny jeans, the first ones I could barely get over my cave man thighs, and the next pair I looked like a muffin a 5 year old had cooked.. a very small muffin case with too much filling… so until I’m happy with my progress this winter will be a colourful leggings…

But hey its only week 5 and I have another 7 to go, lets pray that my detoxing and clean eating and workouts turn this plump muffin into a lean mean butt kicking machine!