Gee whizz,,,,,,,when does it get easier!!!

I am just so exhausted today....I just wish I had a chef and a maid to do all the housework for me....I have heaps of washing to do (some of which are needed tomorrow), the house resembles a bomb site and do I have the enegry to do it....no way!!! At least dinner has been had tonight but I am counting down til I can go to bed.....5:50pm is really too early for bed.......but I should be cleaning or at least bathing the little monster before I collapse in a heap on the couch.

All week I have been reasonably good food wise, exercise wise not to shabby either (had 2 rest days but have smashed out 1403 calories today, 1438 on tuesday and 980 yesterday so I hope that evens it up) but I am not overly confident that the scales will show my effort. Doesnt help that I have gone back to work after my annual leave either....just need a good sleep in!!!

Tomorrow Is The Start Of My New Life

So the day has finally come, tomorrow is the first day of Round 1 of 12WBT....I can't wait but I am also a little nervous!! I havent blogged in a bit so quick update....I have been smashing the training out in the gym, loving body combat, pump, zumba, gonna give step a shot tomorrow backed up with pump straight after! Eating wise I suck....but tomorrow that is going to change!! It all went down hill last week when I went on a girls weekend away but cant change what has happened only learn from my own mistakes.

So today I have sat here at my computer and printed out all the 12WBT plans for the next week, along with the exercise program. I also have gone and done my shopping....I was impressed that I had a few of the things already which took the cost down a bit but it was still $120 for the week and that is nothing for my son (I have enough in the cupboards to get him by). I have also taken my before photos....very daunting and also done my measurements, I did my first lot on the 18th of January, and most of them have gone down 1-2cm but I am most proud that on each thigh I have lost 7cm.....I was very impressed with that and think it has spurred me on after my terrible week.

I still have to do my fitness test, I had organised to do it with a friend cause she would push me but as I was typing this she has cancelled.....again.....grrr.....I guess I will just go and do it by myself at the local school. I will take my son so at least he will be there to support me....even if it is 'mummy come and play with me.....stop running'....he likes all the attention!!

Well that is me all caught up now......butterflies for tomorrow but also very very excited!!! Goodluck to everyone else on the same journey!!!!

Well the beginning is here.....well it was yesterday....

Yesterday was the first day of preseason....very exciting...i had my meal plan all set out etc and i stuck to it apart from night when i didnt have a little person pestering me....and somehow that allowed some dark chocolate to creep into my mouth....now i know day 1 how could i failed already but my thinking is it is preseason for a reason, its a massive jump to change how i have lived for 30 odd years but in saying that there is no chocolate in the house now apart from my jarrah hot chocolate which i will reward myself with at the end of the day if i have calories left.....and no last night i did not allowed myself to have one.

Today seems to be doing well so far....i had my chive cottage cheese on burgen toast with tomato and rocket, morning tea, a pink lady apple, lunch a herb ricotta and tomato wrap, which is delicious but i have only had half of it and feel full, heaps of water, i have done my 500 calories of exercises......but tonight i have to go out for my brothers birthday which i dreading as its at a pub and looking at the menu i cant see any good choices!! If worse comes to worse i will go home tonight and do another workout just to help me on my way.....i have so much more to write but on my tablet at work and its not prime blogging time so will be back tonight or tomorrow.

WTF is with waking up at 3.30am

I am seriously a bit over waking up at ungodly hours like 3:30 this morning......i still feel tired, my eyes are burning but here i lie awake!! Same thing happened yesterday and i ended up having to have a nanna nap cause i couldnt keep my eyes open in the arvo!!! I have laid here for an hour trying to sleep but no!!! So i am considering getting up and smashing out one of Mish's dvds and maybe sometime on the treadmill or exercise bike....only downside is i know i will be shattered for the rest of the day due to lack of sleep!

On another note....the other day I sat down and work out my meal plans for the week, who would have thought that would be so exciting, i sat there for ages tossing up what meals to have, they all look sooooo delicious! I ventured to the shops yesterday, childless i might add, and did my food shopping for the week. It was so nice to not hear "mum can i have this, can i have that" every 5 steps. And I actually stood there and read labels so i knew i was getting
the item with the lowest calories. I skipped getting a few things, like strawberries they looked so wrong....if they were in my fridge i would not have eaten them, so got a couple of things to collect today. I got a few things not on the list too.....but not chocolate or anything like that.....i got this super cool soup container so i can take my soup to work and these awesome snack containers with a lid that you keep in the freezer so your snack stay cold, and i got a heap of storage containers so i can do a cook up on the weekend and have food ready to go during the week.

I am actually going to cook up a few of the dishes today for during the week. I love cooking and i am going to miss making all the yummy foods etc, my son is a big cake eater but he is so skinny its not funny, he will so disappointed about the lack of cakes and treats but he will get over it!

Starting at the gym....

So today I was meant to go and have induction at the gym so that i am using all the machines correctly...anyway my appointment was at 9.30 and told to get there 10 mins before.....by 9.45 still hadnt started.....wtf.....so go and ask and they signed me into the previous day.....before i had ever been there.....grrr.....but was a blessing in disguise cause i manage to sneak into the zumba class, i have done zumba before and loved it and this time was no different and the instructor is actually the same instructor from the other class i did at a community centre so i felt ever more relaxed.

When i left i felt sooo good.....i am bummed that i didnt take my HRM cause i wasnt meant to be doing a workout!! But i am well above the 500 calories i need seeing i did a Mish dvd before i went. Feeling great now though after a yummy lunch of avocado and tuna on crispbread and a banana.

Well I have a heap of house work to do so best be off and do that!!!

HRM

Well my HRM arrived today and it certainly was a nice surprise after a boring day at work!! Of course once i got home i had to set it up and give it a shot so i decided to start the C25K which i enjoyed doing cause i could see my cals being burnt, definately is a big motivator!! I burnt 262 cals in 30 mins....who would have thought!

I could have kept going but I thought i should feed the little monster....so off to cook i go.....the little monster's half brother came around to have a sleep over, so while they were playing what did i do....jump on the exercise bike for about 30 mins and burnt another 260cals....seriously i am loving it!!!! So 522 cals for an hours work....yippee....

And of course i am keeping track of the kms i have done for my Facebook status, at the moment i am sitting at 48kms which i think is quiet reasonable....i reckon it will go up alot quicker now that I have the HRM. Well just a short one today...gotta clean up the bombsite thanks to two monsters!!!

OK.....Time to get in the right head space......

How many years do you say this year my new years resolution is to lose weight....I think I have said it every year for the past 10 years....and each year I never do it.....the first week I am normally good and then I go down hill from then....and quickly too.....

This year again I have decided to lose weight.....but I am actually really amped about the whole thing...on a whim I signed up for Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation (12WBT). I did not even think about it....well I did for maybe a day but then I thought nah this is it I am only one that can make me happy so time to pull my finger out and do it.....so step one....weight loss.....

So I have signed up....pre season doesnt start until the 16th of January and the season starts on the 13th of February but I am excited.....Today I ordered a Polar HRM (apparently a must have) and I bought Michelle Bridges Crunchtime book, and here Crunchtime DVD's. I am also making my own herb garden, so herbs all bought today and to be planted this arvo, who doesnt love fresh herbs!!

To help I also posted a FB status where for each like it received I would walk/run/cycle/swim a km....my FB page got 75 likes I think, I also had it posted on 2 12WBT support pages and got about another 35 odd from them, totalling 110km....so I am now on a mission to get it done by the end of the month. Yesterday I pumped out 12 kms on the treadmill and the exercise bike and I actually felt good.

I must say though I find the treadmill boring, there is nothing to look at and nothing to do bar walking or jogging....I think while the weather is good I will get out and walk the roads, save the tready for a rainy day I think. 

So apparently I need to make goals to reach through the program.....I suck at goals......so at the moment I have none but maybe that just means I will think about it more and make awesome goals....thats what I will tell myself. Isnt losing weight the goal!!! That is all I can think of!!!

I am solely using this blog to record myself, to keep myself honest I guess you would say....If I just do this in my head I will lose focus here in the public domain I am accountable...even if it is just to myself....

So on that note I am off to plant my herb garden and think of some goals......hmmmm.....hoping I have at least one for my next entry.....

Cheers!!