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!

New Scales, Bigger Weight, Bigger Challange

Ahhhh the digital era. I thought I’d join up yesterday, regretting my choices weight loss? More like what weight it didn’t go anywhere or was I really heavy to start with, I don’t even know how to handle life anymore. I tossed out my 1980 style scales and bought a bright red digital scales, I was so excited to see how well my progress has travelled and how amazing I will feel being able to actually see my weight in grams on this! But this left very little to the imagination and the weight that popped up on the evil little screen made we want to cry and hide in my closet with a big chocolate cake and never come out…. Old scales 61kg J new scales 64kg L What the fuck! All my ‘hard work’ was for nothing? Or was I actually much heavier than what I had first imagined? Thoughts pondering around all night that I couldn’t sleep and missed out on my early morning workout. Ehhhhhhhhhh.

Every much over come with disappointment and feeling very heavy and down and just blah!

Through all this I am taking it as a hit of motivation! I WILL reach my goal. I WILL do more. I WILL push harder. I WILL EAT HEALTHY!

This morning I woke up in a bustle of joy and raced and got ready for work, stepped well around the scales as if they were a nuclear bomb and banged out the ol smoothie blender, got out a bunch of yummy ingredients and began to feel what I would call a ‘healthy potion witch’ a handful of spinach, a handful or frozen berries, a banana, a dab of ginger, 2 tablespoons of black chia seeds and water and blend, blend my pretty. The outcome was defiantly a witches brew, some weird brown green red slosh that tasted pretty good and will actually be good for me! Banged that into a shaker and off to work for the day.

With my new found motivation and want to lose this weight be down to my goal I’ve drastically decided to change my diet..

Be gone with the chocolates! Even over easter

I will eat breakfast everyday

Dinner will be before 7:30 every night and will be tiny

Even though I love warm lunches, salads will make their way in to be part of my day  

Out with the soft drinks, those bubbles shall not dance on my tongue no longer

Be gone with buy fast food or being around it!

Back the fuck off with the theory, ‘oh I just did a mass workout so ill have some chocolate pie’ back the fuck off your nasty bitch!

And also. No more of the bored eating! Get yourself a glass of water and get the eff outside!

Seeing progress is what I want and I will do this. Today is starting a clean slate, it’s almost April and I will make this happen.

My new goal of 62kg… ill make that my bitch!

Halfway and Ziltch....

Today I have had a massive realisation about how much I have been slacking… it shows in my weight.. it has bombed from when I started 62.5kg down to 61.5 back to 62… This is no good. Very disappointed in myself. I started my 12 weeks with such motivation and spirit, I think it’s time that I rallied and found what I need, a big serve of motivation! This afternoon I’m heading out to buy a set of digital scales to replace my 1800^th century old school ones and going to buy a measuring tape, because I think some of the cause might be that I am losing fat and gaining muscle and muscle is denser than fat but still I think that a measuring tape is in need!!

I’m going to spend a good portion of my day doing some research and reading up on weight loss and clean eating and will report back to this bangin’ blog on what I find out, but I’m also going to be planning out the next 6 weeks. Day by day what I’m going to be doing and the goals and challenges im going to set myself!.

Half way there an no sign of improvement… how shit… I know that people say it takes 4 weeks to see a change but I see nooooothing just a blob of white girl in the mirror with her chubby face looking at me.

My motivation is to do this for me to be a healthy person and be an example for my friends and family but also to be fit and healthy and look amazing in a little black dress for my boyfriend’s 21^st birthday party where all his friends and family will be. Would be nice to rub some success in a certain bitches face! Not that I’m that kind of person but having that confidence to be proud of what I have achieved would be amazing! And a little bit of suck it bitch wold also feel good. Hahaha

Food Journal

Last week’s food journal left little to the imagination.. literally.. I missed two days! What the hell! Feeling so very guilty about my intake last week, so I have been thrashing myself at the gym all week to make up for bad eating.

But as they say one bad meal won’t make you fat and one good meal won’t make you fit.

That little sugar fiend showed its ugly head last week as a chocolate crave struck and the fridge had dads chocolate ice cream in it -.- This is why I need my own place so I can stock up the fridge with healthy good food not crap!

Mind Over Body

Not to be done when it hurts but be done when I’m finished, recently I’ve been pussy footing around a full workout, I always seem to give up… My new goal is to not give up when it hurts but be finished when I’ve done all I want to do for that work out.

I would much rather be sore than sorry.

I’ve been trying to increase my cardio fitness, slowly but surely, to be able to go faster, longer and harder to burn more calories and ramp up weight loss.. Doing this with weight training should to me some good. Reshape my body and training my mind to make working out a habit not a chore.