Oh work how I hate thee

Hey!

So I finally survived Ed of Financial Year with minimal damage done to my waistline which is a plus :) But I didnt really make much of an improvement either!

Everyone in my local 12WBT group has been signing up for pole dancing lessons which is something I would love to do but I also have no upper body strength either and I finish work at 3pm so the times didnt really suit me either!

But then I realised I could change gyms - which I did today. I signed a 12 month contract (havent mentioned that to my fiance yet as he would be sceptical and annoyed at me) and I am committed to going to the gym atleast 3 times a week. The other 3 days im content to mix it up and work out doing non gym things as Im easily bored and distracted. They have body pole which is a pole based workout that builds the muscles you need. I think once ive done a few months then Ill sign up. I just dont want to waste $170 on something that I wont enjoy

Feeling super committed today - I hope it lasts

Shell

Months of Silence Broken

Hi Readers I most likely do not have!

So I have this habit of having great ideas - just no follow through. That is what I wanted to fix life wise over the next 12 weeks. Have more follow through! (I say this and theres a box of veggies in the kitchen that I started to unpack and then got bored and wandered online).

So Im still here trying to loose weight. My scales have not been co operating and are steadily creeping in the wrong direction. Its upsetting as Ill have a good loss and then proceed to have three weeks of gain. Yet today I ran 5kms and my clothes are looser. I think its actually possibly my floor (as I have good tanita scales) so I may need to change where I weigh myself.


I booked in our engagement photoshoot session so that is providing me with some motivation to step up my game exercise wise!

Im sad ill be missing out on my super workout as Ill be off Bridesmaid dress shopping on Saturday! But Ill just do a big work out Sunday - I need to pull out my finger though and work on cleaning my house tonight otherwise nothing will be done on Sunday but cleaning! I wold then have to squeeze in some Zumba and fitness DVD and I always slack off when im training in the lounge - too close to too many places to sit down!!!

So im hoping to do a bit of a cook up/ clean tonight. Hopefully the Broncoes arent playing tonight so my fiancee will stay out of the lounge/kitchen.....


Ive read some amazing books recently so I must do some reviews soon

I really should get back to the groceries!

My aim this week is to post three times so hopefully more soon

Love
Shell

xxxx

Back from holidays

Hey guys :)

So my fiancé and I headed to Tasmania and had a lovely holiday there for the last week. I met his friends and family as well as having a lovely time checking out the sites. Wine glass bay is amazing and well worth the awful hike.

We didn't do well in food and drink intake though so I'm disappointed in myself. I'm on holidays until Thursday though so I am super excited to really get on track. My plans for tomorrow is to clean our house and do a cook up while waiting for the mail. Happy days :)

Then I will head to the doctors about my suspected asthma and then to the gym :)

Should be a good day. I'm waiting on the mail so I can go exchange my phone for a new one as I need the box which is at mum and dads house.

Thunder storms here are awesome and insane. Shall write more soon as it's bed time


Love
Shell

Hrmm I see cobwebs

So.....long time no see. I had a horrific sinus infection so I spent the last week eating chocolate and sleeping. No gum, no real food just lots of junk and sleep. So today I was rewarded with gaining 1.3kgs. Ahhh that sucks.

I went to the gym Monday, tuesday and had today off as we needed someone home to get groceries. I did walk for half an hour so that's better than nothing on my rest day. Tomorrow I will either be walking all around taronga zoo or I will headed to the gym and then to shop for new gym shoes and a new dress.

While I gained weight back I have lost 2.5 kgs in 5 weeks which is pretty dismal so I'm hoping to step it up with the gym.I have a power plate class Friday, I'll do some interval machine work Saturday and Sunday and then zumba Monday and beginner pump Tuesday so we shall see how that reflects in next weeks weigh in.

I set my goals this week and the plan is to loose 5kgs a month while doing 12wbt. Let's see how I go. By 12 months I want to fit into my wedding dress :)

Weddings

So while I am sick exciting things have happened wedding wise

*we picked our stationary. As we dont have a theme (just a colour scheme) we picked these really pretty garden themed ones that really suit our venue.
* My flower girls baskets arrived and they are so amazingly pretty
*We paid off my wedding ring
*My tiara arrived and its so unbelievably amazing
*Mum picked up my dress
*I found a decorator
*Booked my appointment with the venue to make some final decisions on the room and secure the booking
*I put a deposit down on the cake
*I bought my bridesmaids jewlery.

So seeming I am not getting married until September 14th its a little overly organised but meh.

Sickness IS Terrible

Hey Everyone

I feel bad that I havent been on here in awhile. My fiance and I went house hunting on the weekend which took all day; so I didnt make it to the gym but I did walk 6km from house to house so we decieded that counts as exercise (often had to jog to the next inspection too) and then on Sunday I went to the gym for an hour and a half and burned 967 calories.

Then on Monday my sniffles had turned into pain. Tuesday I didnt go to work and saw a doctor who told me I have a severe sinus infection. I went to work yesterday but was dead on my feet by 3pm and Im back home in bed today.

Pre season Task 2 came out for 12wbt and I was really honest with myself about what is an excuse. I mean I cant help being sick and I need to recover from it - but I can also give myself the time to do it quickly. I shouldnt compromise my health for my job so today I am resting in bed. Normally I would go to work and instead be sick for weeks rather than days; then use the fact I feel unwell not to train. In the long run one full day of rest is better then several half days of pushing myself to just stand upright and meaning I dont move my arse for 8 or 9 days.

Do I feel guilty being at home? yeah I do because I know how busy work is and I feel somewhat like I should be there. I am a bit of a control freak so I like being in the thick of it. I have to learn to take a step back and rely on my team (I am acting Team Leader at work currently)

Ive booked in holidays for the next few months as sometimes I'm sick because I am burning out. I need to make sure I take some time off and relax

I might post up my excuses shortly

Hope everyone is well

House cleaning ahoy

So while I may not have worked out this morning I did manage to clean my house from top to bottom and do three loads of washing. I am pretty pleased with myself as the plan is to meet my fiancee for a house inspection and then head off to the gym.

This means I can actually do SSS which is usually derailed by the fact that washing needs to be done and my house needs to be cleaned!

I got the latest womens health and it has some really fun work out plans that I am going to try in the weeks leading up to kick off when Michelle doesnt give us any workouts. I find myself a bit aimless at the gym sometimes and unsure of what to do in the slightest.

Wish I had worn my heart rate monitor and could have seen how many calories cleaning a house burns!!!

My best friend and god daughter are coming over very shortly to look at and discuss wedding plans so I shall head off and bask in the enjoyment that is a clean house :):)

Not the Best Week

So I havent been good this week. My partner and I are househunting, he is on call and I am on my period. There is a large issue of motivation and JFDI but at the same time I was so exhausted and sick today I dropped a plate and then sliced my finger trying to pick it up today........im going to see a doctor if I get this sick again next period. I dont usually get this sick and without a Gall Bladder anymore I try and make sure I see my doctor when something strange is happening as I just want to noever ignore symptoms until its too late again.

In other news I have lost 800 grams this week which is yay :) I also managed one morning Yoga class - I know Mish says to exercise in the morning but it was horrible for me - I stressed the whole time about getting to work on time, had  to line up for a shower at the gym etc. So Im just going to stick to afternoons when I can go with my finacee.

I have tomorrow off work and my best mate and god daughter are coming to visit and talk about the wedding. Its so exciting :)

Pretty much I can now relax on wedding stuffs until April. Im super organised because I am not getting married until September 2013 and I have already gotten various things ready. Lets hope my organisation skills stay this good!

I have been really good with food this week which is exciting. My Fiancee and I have stuck to meals where it was 2/3rds of the plate is salad and a very small portion of meat.

Hope you are all well xx

Weekend Check In

Hey Guys

So this weekend showed me that best intentions arent going to get me very far. Firstly My "bit of a cold" turned into "a cold" so I couldnt train because I couldnt breathe most of the weekend. Saturday started out well calories wise but then we had some friends over and I have two glasses of wine, a coke with vodka and a midori splice. I shudder to even consider the calories consumed in a few hours. At first this morning I was mad at myself - I worked hard all week and then threw it all away. Then I realised sometimes (and btw this is the first time ive had more than 1 glass of something in a year) its okay to act like a 25 year old and drink with friends. So long as its only VERY occasionally. Bright side I wasnt hung over this morning - turns out the obsessive drinking of water encouraged by this program assists with hangovers as well.

Today I was nazi about my calories so thats a good thing and I only ate 900. Tomorrow begins my first week of alone time at the gym. So due to how bad I was this weekend Panda (the Fiancee) and I have decieded to take on SSS and do a V-Punch class at the gym, followed by cycling and swimming. Then I am heading off to a sydney dance company lesson. It should be a good work out :)

Spent most of the day doing wedding planning stuff. So many emails in such a short amount of time *sigh*

Planning for success

So I finally sat down and planned out my week :) the only way to get to classes is too plan for them so on that note;

Saturday - rest day
Sunday - 10:30 kinesis beginner
Monday - body pump
Tuesday - aqua
Wednesday - hot yoga
Thursday - body attack
Friday - swimming

There's a lot of classes I haven't ever done before so I'll be interested to see if I like them :)

New loves...new challenges ....new headache

Hey guys

Well my pre season for pre season is going well diet wise mostly because everything bad for me is banished from the house.

I'll make it to 5 days this week at the gym were I have found a new class I loved which was aqua and a new clas to avoid which was cycle which I hated. Live and learn hey?

But tonight I'm running an insane fever and my body aches but I did do half an hour at the gym:)

I'll update more later.... Right now I need sleeps so badly

hrmm its been a long time

*blows off the dust*

So its been a long time since I have written in this blog and some amazing things happened (travelled overseas, met my finace and got engaged)

But I also gined weight and so here I am again blogging and working out.

The simple reason is I want to enjoy my wedding. On one hand its because I am little vain like most people and I want those pictures that I will paying a fortune for to look good. But it is also because I do not want to be this version of myself for my husband. I want to be the best version.

Additionally I dont want to get diabetes or die of a heart attack when I am 30.

The real changing point was when I had to run for a plane and ended up with an asthma attack

So heres to 18months to loose 30kgs and be the best version of me that I can be :)

Good morning all!

A look out my window has let me know that there is brilliant sunshine waiting to greet me :)

It was weigh in day today so I stumbled out into the bathroom and weighed myself. Now for the moment of truth I LOST 1.5KGS!!!! woo :)

The thing I noticed this week was despite the rain and my sore muscles and everything that made me want to just lie in bed instead of doing anything I have worked out and dragged myself to do a minimum of working off 150 calories in a day.

So thats defiantly progress. Though I am still a bit confused on how people are burning so many calories. Unless I work out for hours I just can't burn those kind of numbers. But I'm shedding weight and meeting my goals so oh well!

Dinner will be easy tonight! I'm having the lasagna which I made last night so it's just a case of reheating :)

Plus GLEE is on!

Now to make this a great day I just need to get my finance approved for my new phone and computer which is taking ages

Shell xo


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Location:Weigh in day #3

Sorry! I'm not ignoring you

Hey guys,

You may have noticed that I have been very quiet this week. Didn't mean to be though, disaster struck and my computer no longer has a screen. So that has complicated things for me; it's very hard to live my life minus my computer - to begin with I study online!!!

Pretty much I had a bad week and nothing much seemed to
Go right so here is to this week improving!

I just got a stationary exercise bike (and today picked up a converter plug because the power cord wasn't to Australian standards) and used it and once I got over being uncomfortable I rode for half an hour and did 13.5kms and burned 150 calories.

I'm looking forward to trying for 18kms tomorrow :)

Okay I'd best get to bed -5am wake up beckons and let's hope this week is looking up!

So fingers crossed tomorrow I get my extension for my assignments that I can't submit as I have no computer, vodaphone approve my application for a phone (2 days till answer my arse), Dell approves finance to replace my computer and work is less of a bitch than it has been.

To much to ask for? Lets hope not xo

Hope you all had an amazing week last week and that this one is better


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Location:In bed

Weigh In Day #2

5 is a great number. Just not when it is followed by "am".  In order to get everything done I got up at 5am, which because I slept through my alarm at first turned it 5:08am but Mish's advice saved me and I just rolled out of bed and got changed. Thankfully everything I need for work today is already packed so I can happily bum around in bed before leaving for work (and another half hour walk)

Okay today all 2 hours of it I have been awake for has not been a bad day at all :) I have done my fitness test and did 1km in 8:20 meaning I finished my fitness test is 3 beginner (2 very borderline) and 2 advanced. I think I might try the Intermediate program and see how that pans out :)

In other good news it was WEIGH IN DAY! today. Now I havent done all my measurements again ( I have collapsed in bed after work out and shower) but I did hop on my shiny shiny new scales and I am 2kgs lighter *fanfare*

Hope everyone else's weigh in day goes just as well :) And it turns out there are an awful lot of people awake at 5am! Lots of people said goodmorning to me. So I combined my time trial with my half an hour power walk but I will also do another half an hour walking when I walk to work today so :D

Love

Shell

Live feeds are insane

OMG!!!!

Tonight was the first live feed and it was crazy. People were talking so fast it was so hard to keep up. But I did feel inspired, so I did parts of my fitness test just now so the stats so far are;

Push ups (1 min)
Wall sit (mm:ss)
Ab stage	012345
Sit and reach (+/- cm)

So I have 2 advanced and 2 beginner. I am such a random person. I will let the time trial define the normal regime for fitness but I think I may have to mix the program up a bit. I was a dancer for years so my flexability (aided by the fact I stretch alot) has always been very good. I was surprised by how bad my abs are and how good my push ups are. I would have expected them to have been the other way around honestly.

So I am thinking I may have to do the advanced program for my flexability or just keep working on it through Yoga which will work me at my own benchmark for different levels of flexability.

Hope you all had a lovely night. Weigh in plus time test tomorrow. Alarm is set for 5am so see you on the other side

Love
Shell

Thankfully "tomorrow" came today

Good Morning (for the next twenty minutes) All,

I have a weakness. Its a pretty common weakness in that everything I dont like doing gets put off to "tomorrow". You know that "tomorrow" that never comes until a) I have to do something by a deadline and so I am up to all hours of the day/night to get it done or b) I just write it off because I havent done it in so long it doenst seem necessary.

This is the worst habit I have because it leads to alot of unnecessary stress! But the good news is that it stopped today! I dragged myself out of bed at 7am (laugh all you want I dont usually get up until 8am at the earliest) and got myself dressed. Then I waited around for mum and dad to leave (while trying to not look like I was trying to push them out the front door) and then set up and did half an hour of the carmen electra fit to strip dvd. Now this dvd is about an hour but I dont have an hour of free time for the loungeroom so I did half an hour of this and then I walked for half an hour.

Now food wise I dont really eat anything that's on Mish's menu for both health reasons ( I cant have eggs and avacado with no gall bladder it makes me ill) and because I am fussy. So I have just been using My Fitness Pal to keep a track of my calories and keep them under 1200 and I am doing quite well with that.

Now I just have to go home and catch up on all my uni work. But things are definatly looking up.

The plan is to get to bed early and then get up at 5am tomorrow and do my fitness test. I even used google maps this morning to work out how far i need to go to get to 1km.

Hopefully I will see you all tonight at 7pm (unless that co-incides with dinner in which case I wont be seeing you then!)

Love
Shell

xoxo

All I can say is best laid plans

So, today has been a bit of a disaster. I had my plan (which was a pretty good plan) and I woke up at 6am to realise that it had been raining since 3am and therefore I couldnt do my exercise. Hrmm. I was super tired though and feeling unwell so I went back to sleep and decided that I would exercise this afternoon when I got home from work.

So I get home and get changed into my work out gear and then realise that the only room in the house I have to work out in isnt at all big enough to use. Epic fail #2.

So in the end I have caved in and decided today will now be my rest day and Ill trade what I should have been doing today and do it on Sunday when I can get use of the local field or at a pinch my backyard.

ATLEAST I managed to make my calorie goal. baby steps right?

Measure Up and Planning Task

Hey Guys


I know I have been very awol this week. Had the worst weekend diet wise (argh!) but it is the last time - my work had a retreat at a spa this weekend so there was alot of alcohol ( I didnt realise at first that I was drinking alcohol because no one told me and it just tasted like raspberry cordial)


Now I'm paying for it in the measurements because of two reasons. You cant get away from awful food habits and the way Michelle was measuring is different to mine. But in a way it was good. Firstly because it teaches me far more strongly the importance of nutrition and secondly because it I wasnt going to put the changes up and then I was like NO BAD. Put them up again and work on removing them. The guys in the program deserve to know how bad/unable to correctly measure you are!!!


Now I also had to do the planning week this week because I was waiting to hear back about some commitments I had but I will deal with that shortly.


So


MEASUREMENTS

Weight (kg)
Chest (cm)
Waist (cm)
Widest (cm)
Distance from knee (cm)
Right thigh (cm)
Left thigh (cm)

Okay so they are my measurement straight from the site. Aided by the fact I got new digital scales I am now 3 kgs heavier than my old ones thought I was *sad* but oh well.

Now I also had to plan my weeks today (Bad me) but I guess the bright side is I didnt just not do it because "oh its too late". My plan is to admit to the errors I make in this program but also not be too hard on myself about them or I will just give up.


Monday - Fitness

6am -  Do Michelle's outdoor program that in the "My Program"

Tuesday - Toning

8am - Walk to work (half an hour)

After Work - Carmen Electras Fit to Strip DVD or a toning workout from one of my WII games

Wednesday - Fitness

6am - Surpise challange when ever possible

8am - walk to work (half an hour)

After Work -  Cardo work out from WII Games

Thursday - Toning

6am - Outdoor program of Michelle's

8am - Walk to work

Friday - Core/ Stretch

After Work - Yoga through my ipod instructional program

Saturday - Fitness

Morning - 45 minute walk/ swimming (once it gets warmer)

1pm - circus trampolining class at the PCYC/Gym

Sunday (A LOVELY DAY OFF)

 Now depending on the week the day may need  to be reshuffled a little but that is the basic plan.

With that all finished I am now going to have another nap and continue recovering from my weekend. Happy 12WBT kick off guys :D

Pre Season Progress - Weigh in day!

Hey Guys

So its WEDNESDAY WEIGH IN DAY!!! How (un)exciting. I was actually kind of dreading this because I havent been good with my diet as much since Saturday for various reasons so I was like...hrmm Wonder how this will go.

But here are the measurements below. The one in brackets is last week and the one in front is this weeks measurements. I was so shocked by the results I have checked them 3 times including just now while I am at work!

Weight: 91 kgs (92kgs) - so 1kg lost
BMI: 33.8 (33.8) same
Neck: 36cm (36cm) same
Waist: 96.5 cm (106cm) massive 9.5 cm removed
Hips: 126 cm (134cm) 8cm removed
Under Bust: 96 cm(98cm) 2cm removed
Upper Bust: 107 cm with bra on(120 cm with bra on) 13 cms removed!!!
Bicep: 34cm (34.5 cm) 0.5cm removed
Thigh: 56cm (65.5 cm) 9.5cm removed
Bum: 127cm (127cm) same (damn it)

So it seems that overall my fitness is improving! Can't wait to see what its like under Michelle. Bring on 12wbt!

Shell xo