Week 17 – 10% done and dusted….

I have finally made my 10% goal today - I needed to lose a total of 14.2kg to make my goal and last week I was 300g short. This week I was determined to get there and lost 2.4kg - totally smashing my goal bring my total to 16.3kg.

Feeling really great and pretty dam impressed with myself!!

I have been working really hard this week (see my exercise posts) and stayed well clear of the majority of the Christmas treats this year…I have to say there is not a fruit mince pie on this earth that could taste as good as the feeling of losing 2.4kg especially on Christmas week.

I had another small achievement this week – on Christmas day I was able to get on the floor with my baby to open present and then I was able to get back up without needing any assistance or needed to hold onto anything. I have always been able to get on the ground but getting up was quite a mission…so I just stopped doing it. It is still difficult but I now have the confidence to know that I can get myself up!!

Exercise Update 1

We are progressing very nicely with our exercise plan.
For the stretching we are doing the following: 20 ab crunches, 20 oblique crunches, 20 side crunches, 10 bridges, 20 outer thigh lifts, 20 inner thigh lifts (each side) and what ever else we decide as we go along. We will continue this routine until Sunday (Monday I am back at work!) 

I am very pleased to report that through my hard work I have lost 2.4kg this week....well worth the effort!

The diagnoses on my treadmill is not good – basically it is dead – the repair men come out today and it looks like it needs to be replaced – it is only 6months old!! It cost me a bloody fortune – not happy Jan!! Anyway hopefully it will be sorted out soon - in the meantime we will continue to hit the pavement…which is ok at the moment as I am not working but will be a real pain when I am back next week

What we have done so far:

Saturday (26th Dec) –
7:30am: 30mins treadmill & 30min weights;
7:30pm: 15mins rowing, 15mins treadmill & stretching.
Sunday (27th Dec) –
7:45am: 17mins treadmill, 10mins rowing & 30min weights;
7:00pm: 15mins rowing, 30mins walk & stretching.
Monday (28th Dec) –
7:30am: 15mins rowing, 15min weights & 55mins walking;
7:00pm: 30min walk & stretching.
Tuesday (29th Dec) -
7:30am: 15mins rowing, 15min weights & 55mins walking;
7:00pm: 30min walk & stretch.
Wednesday (30th Dec) -
7:30am: 55mins walking;
7:00pm: 30min walk & stretch .

Exercise Exercise Exercise

Whilst I have some time off over Christmas my neighbour and I decided that we would workout together twice a day (all of her programmes have finished for the time being as well). We are getting together at 7:30am and then again at 7:30pm.
The plan: 7:30am – 30mins treadmill & 30min weights; 7:30pm 15mins rowing, 15mins treadmill then stretching focusing on the ads.

We have hit a small problem in that my treadmill is playing up – it has been on a slope and making a lot of loud banging noises for a few weeks now but on Sunday it felt like the matt was slipping – it is being repaired on Wednesday (30th) - so we decided to stop using it and hit the pavement instead.

What we have done so far:
Saturday (26th Dec) -
7:30am: 30mins treadmill & 30min weights;
7:30pm 15mins rowing, 15mins treadmill & stretching
Sunday (27th Dec) -
7:45am: 17mins treadmill, 10mins rowing & 30min weights;
7:00pm 15mins rowing, 30mins walk & stretching
Monday (28th Dec) –
7:30am 15mins rowing, 15min weights & 55mins walking
….day is not over.

Feeling really good but becoming very sore!!!
I will post again later in the week with our progress…..

Christmas Day….fooood

Had a great Christmas with my family, Christmas can be a real disaster food wise – my mum is a really good cook and spends most of December baking Christmas treats ie: fruit mince pies, shortbread, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, Turkish delight tarts the list goes on…. I tend to be at my mothers a couple of times a week and I end up “sampling” a few treats….This year I decided that there would be NO “sampling” and I would wait for Christmas eve and Christmas day. 

The plan was to have a small piece of Christmas pudding with custard on Christmas Eve, a fruit mince pie and Turkish delight tart on Christmas day.
I am happy to report that I almost stuck to the plan – I have a small piece of pudding with custard (which was just delicious), 1 x Turkish delight tart and 3 x fruit mince pies (mouth watering) – I ate them slowly and enjoyed every mouthful – there was no guilty attached – there was no “well I have blown it now”….crap going on - just savoured the moment and moved on.

The rest of the food we had was all managed as well – Christmas eve dinner was mainly seafood and salad, breakfast was bacon, eggs, sausages & croissants – I stayed clear of the sausages and instead of a croissant had cape seed bread and fresh cherries…then had more prawns and salad for lunch and dinner.

Got up today being Boxing Day and did 30mins treadmill and 30mins weights and then another small session this evening (15mins treadmill, 15mins rowing and 15min stretching) and ate well…unheard of for me on Boxing Day. 

I must say I am very impressed with myself – I maintained total control but did not feel like I was missing out or being ripped off by not being able to have anything nice…It has been a very successful Christmas all round. This year the focus was on my kids and not the food…..my mind set is truly changing for the better at long last.

10kg by Christmas challenge completed

10kg by Christmas



SW - 139.6
CW - 127.9
Goal - 129.6

TOTAL: 11.7

13 weeks = -1.0 (23/09)
12 weeks = -1.4 (30/09)
11 weeks = -0.2 (7/10)
10 weeks = -1.0 (14/10)
09 weeks = -1.3 (21/10)
08 weeks = 0 (27/10)
07 weeks = -0.7 (4/11)
06 weeks = -1.2 (11/11)
05 weeks = -0.4 (16/11)
04 weeks = -2.0 (25/11)
03 weeks = +0.4 (02/12)
02 weeks = -1.6 (09/12)
01 week = -0.4 (16/12)
Final = -0.9 (23/12)

Week 16 WI Christmas Eve

I am very happy to report that I had another very successful week on the weight loss front. I lost a further 900g this week bring my total to 13.8 – feeling really good about my progress. I am now only 300g off my 10% - hopefully next week we can crack this goal. As Christmas is approaching I am feeling very confident about not going overboard on the food front – I definitely plan on having my few treats (my mother is great cook especially at this time of the year) like Christmas pudding, fruit mince pies and Turkish delight tarts……I know they are not point friendly at all so I plan on just having one of each, enjoying every bite and leaving it at that…..I am sure I will feeling very relaxed about the whole food thing.

I had another small achievement this week - physical I have really really struggled over the last 2 years, even to the point that I could not get on a chair to chain a light globe!! My bedroom has been without a main light now for probably 12 months – simply because I just could not reach the roof to take the light fitting off and change the light globes!! Anyway this week the globe went in my daughter’s bathroom – I grad a chair jumped on it (well not literally but you know what I mean) and change the light globe. Then it dawn it on me that though the weight loss and exercise I made another small step in regaining my physical self back – even my daughter said Mum you are getting fitter….

Week 15 WI down we go....

With the end of the year approaching (just in case you had not released that 2009 was almost done!!) we have been really busy at work, hence why I am late posting this week results – I know that you all have been waiting with bated breath so I won’t keep you in suspense any longer…..I lost a further 400g last week bring my total to 13kg…I am etching closer to my 10% with only another 1.2kg to go – will I make it by Christmas…as we only have one week left it is a tall order…see how we go.

My week has progress well, even though I have been busy at work I have still maintain my exercise routine and kept the Christmas food at bay – I have been enjoying the fresh cherries instead…they are goood this year.

 At this time of the year I am generally under quite a bit of stress at work (I work with school so this is the end of the school year and their financial year!!) My way of coping with stress is to eat (no surprises there…) over the last few months I have been learning some new strategies for handling stress like deep breathing, exercise and just expressing how I am feeling. I have to say that I have been doing a combination of these things and it has really really helped me this year. I am not going straight for food…when I do find myself falling back to the old habits I am able to stop myself before any damage is done…feeling very in control of the food situation at the moment….