Memoirs of a Fat Chick

Bye bye baby bye bye

2008-03-06T18:52:00.002+09:00

So I'm closing off this blog. THis will be my last post. I want to thank everyone who has read this over the years and listened to my erratic random whinging and left comments! I'm starting a new phase of my weightloss adventure and will be starting a new blog. If you'd like to read it, send me an email and I"ll send you the link. I'm not putting it on here for 2 reasons: 1) I haven't created it yet! and 2) well there's just 1 reason actually.

Take care of yourselves and goodluck!

Blah

2008-01-22T17:15:00.000+09:00

Hey,

Thanks for your comments. Yes this blog is still active. Well I guess not active as such but it is my current blog. That whole rejoin WW thing lasted all of about a month. Weight up up and away. Unhappy but can't get that mojo back. The boy and I have talked about getting lapbanded together. Well not banded TOGETHER but at the same time... each with our own band.. you know what I mean! Got an appointment to see a specialist next month. Have done a lot of research and it seems fairly safe with good steady weightloss so hopefully that will stop the incline of my weight once and for all.

Anyhoo,
that's all for now,

Em :)

Week 1 - Why I hate men and WW

2007-10-24T19:08:00.000+08:00

Hi ho,

Well I've realised that my work does not like blogger. It seems anything I post there doesnt work, so posting from home is obviously the only thing I can do.

Just weighed in and lost 2.2kgs which I'm reasonably happy with I guess. The boy, however, after his 2 nights on the piss last weekend while I was studying hard lost 4.1kgs!!! What the??? Life just isn't fair sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of him but seriously how the hell did he lose more than me?

Anyhoo, moving on. Today we had the biggest high followed by the biggest low ever felt. I read on the web that the $30m oz lotto had been won by someone who had bought their ticket from the same place we did and not come forward yet! I called the boy who works across the road, and he raced over so we could check the ticket. and tits, it wasn't us! SO CLOSE!

The last two days I've started walking to/from work. It's just over 3kms and is taking me about 38mins. Its not a bad walk, a few hills but other than that pretty straight forward. I won't be able to do it everyday, as I'll need my car on some days. But hopefully I'll be able to do it 2 or 3 times a week.

The week ahead will be challenging. We're going out for dinner tomorrow night and Saturday night. Sat night is mexican so I guess if I stay away from the sour cream I should be ok.

In addition to the xmas goal, the boy and I are going to Europe at the end of next July which is in 40 weeks so I'd love to lose 30kgs by then. Big goals but goals none the less.

Anyhoo, here's to losing a couple of kgs and beating the boys arse next week!

:)

4th Try Post!

2007-10-18T14:05:00.000+08:00

Jeepers Creepers, blogger really has hated me today. I've tried to post this so many times! Luckily after I lost the first version I kept a backup of this one in word! Fingers crossed it'll work now!

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NO FARKING WAY. I just wrote out this massive blog and published it and it's all gone!!! ARRRRGGHHHHH!!!! POOOO...

Oh I can't be buggered writing it all out again sorry guys so here's the powerpoint version.

* Put on a shitload of weight and too embarrassed to say how much
* Rejoined WW last night, dragging the boy along with me and joining him up too - how many points in a corona?
* Went to Phuket for 8 days it was awesome (mmm pina coladas)
* Came back with the worst bug I've ever had - couldn't get out of bed for a week
* Photos of Phuket can be seen on my myspace site or on my facebook (to which I'm now addicted)
* Started a new job this week, across the road from the boy and 5 mins drive from home. Going to start walking to/from work.
* One unit left of uni. thank god!
* 10 weeks till xmas - is 10kgs possible by then?

Hope I still have some regular readers around and hope to catch up on your blogs soon!

grrr I'm so dirty on blogger right now!

Hi There

2007-08-17T18:48:00.000+08:00

Hello everybody!

Finally got into this place. Couldn't remember my username that's how long its been! hahaha. Anyhoo, to cut a long story short - I've fallen off the wagon. I've gone up at least 1 size at the moment. Not sure of numbers as I haven't weighed myself sinc about April - and too afraid to hop on the scales now! The good news is that I've rejoined the gym - and so has my other half - so fingers crossed it'll remotivate me. Went yesterday for an hour and felt great. Tonight I had a shocking headache so just took the dog for a walk/run instead. I hate that I've put on this weight and yet I can't stop myself from eating crap when I've had a shit day. Ugh. Just have to remind myself of all the hard work I've done I guess.

Anyhoo, what else... probably going to change jobs in a few weeks which will be good for a couple of reasons. 1. Will get me away from a job I'm starting to hate. 2. Will get me out of the city where there are too many easy temptations for junkfood. 3. Will get me out of the city where there are too many easy temptations for shopping! 4. No more bus to work! 5. Planning on buying bikes when the weather gets better and will be able to ride to work.

Doing the City to Surf on the 26th. Walking 12kms. I know the plan was to run it but it just ain't going to happen!!

Not long till our Phuket trip either. Of course I'll have to wear a full tracksuit swimming!! Shit I guess I should check if my togs and boardies still fit - eek!

Anyhoo, must get going. Hope everyone else is still on track!

:)

7 Random Facts about Me!

2007-07-11T21:44:00.000+08:00

Maria tagged me a while back so I figured I'd give it a go...

1. I'm allergic to pumpkin. That's cool with me coz I don't like it anyway.

2. I'm addicted to JB Hifi.

3. I hate my toes.

4. I'm a slob. Which has made it extra interesting having moved in with my OCD neat boyfriend. In fact, the boy left for Broome on a road trip with some mates last night and this place is already a mess!

5. I love photos. If it were even remotely practical, I'd take a camera with me everywhere I go and just take photos of everything I saw.

6. I have a new facebook account. Actually it's not so new. A friend made me sign up for it last year sometime but I completely forgot about it till my cousin added me and I got an email. Bye Bye Myspace. Hello Facebook!

7. The battery on my laptop is about to go flat.

These random facts appeared as a result of being 'tagged' by a lady named Maria! So now it's my job to tag others and get them to participate in this challenge. Here are the rules:
Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!
Consider yourself tagged: will do this part later...

In other news. I went to Sydney for my cousin's 30th party and had an awesome time. Climbed the harbour bridge which I recommend everyone should do! There's photos on my facebook - not of the climb though coz you can't take a camera up there!

Anyhoo, hope everyone in blogland is going well! Thanks for the messages!

busy, busy, busy

2007-06-06T18:54:00.000+08:00

Hey kids,

I'm still alive! So very very busy though. Got my uni exam next week and am moving with the boy to a new townhouse we've rented over the weekend, so I'm madly packing everything. I hate moving with every fibre of my being!

Work sucks.

My 30th birthday was bloody awesome last week. Had the best party ever! It was movie themed and had karaoke and frozen cocktails! You can see some pics over here. I went as Princess Leia and the boy went as Shrek. Managed to raise enough revenue to pay for 80% of my ticket to Phuket.

Did I mention we're going to Phuket? We are. For 1 week from Sept 29. I'm very excited - I've never been before! We're also going to Sydney for a 4 day weekend at the start of July for my cousin's 30th.

Weight? Ugh. Lets not mention it. My PT broke her foot!!! My gym is starting a 12 week weightloss challenge at the end of the july so the boy and I are going to do that and look fab for Phuket. Unfortunately part of it includes getting up for 6am bootcamp twice a week. YUCK!

Ok, sorry that's all I've got time for. I really should be packing! Hope everyone else is going great guns and hopefully I can catch up with your blogs after the crazy move and exam.

PS. It's Prison Break night! Wentworth Miller is hot.

PPS. Sorry this blog is so random. I'm sure it's difficult to read.

Quick visit

2007-04-19T21:08:00.000+08:00

Hi guys,

Yes I'm alive! Sorry its been so long but it turns out when you get a life, your internet time is significantly reduced!

Anyhoo, here's the powerpoint version of what you've missed:

Haven't been to WW since Feb
Don't want to tell you how much I've put on - it's embarrassing
Bacon & Eggs in bed + romantic decadent dinners = Fat Arse!
This week started with a personal trainer. She's great. I've got great hopes this weight will be back off in no time.
Been sick since before easter - head cold...chest infection... asthma
Visited my sister in Melbourne - awesome to see her!
Bought some size 14's in Melbourne - YAY!
For the first time since I was a kid I bought and have worn skirts!
Wore a DRESS to a friend's wedding at easter - first time since I had my first communion!!
Work has turned ridiculous again and it's doing my head in.
In planning mode for the bestest 30th birthday party this state.. nay this country!... has ever seen!
I was still running and last month got to 15mins IN A ROW but haven't run since coz been sick.

That about covers it!

Thanks for the emails and comments and I promise to get here a bit more regularly for an update - if not about weight, then about ... whatever!

Break on through to the other side!

2007-02-28T19:43:00.000+09:00

Well it's been a long time coming but I finally broke through the 85's! And I was surprised considering some of the crap I've eaten and drunk over the last couple of weeks and considering I was weighing in the 86's at home on Monday, it's an excellent feat! And as regular readers will suspect as per my normal pattern (good loss one week, big week of drinking and eating the next), I'm due to put it all back on this weekend because I'm going away again with the boy! But who cares, I've done it once, I'll do it again!

In other breakthrough news, as per Al's C2S schedule, I ran 10mins (on the road and we all know that's harder than the treadmill) IN A ROW on Sunday!! Granted the last few mins my feet were barely leaving the ground but I got through and I was completely rooted! I am wondering when all this running is supposed to get easier. I'm still about to cark it after the first 60 seconds and I cannot ever imagine running up to an hour.

I'd love to fill in my Week 9 stats on the LITS site but I changed my email address on there and now it wont let me log back in which means I can't even PM Megan about it. So if anyone is a LITS member can you please PM Megan for me and have her reactivate my account? Cheers.

Thanks to everyone who left fabulous comments after my 50kg goal was reached. It really meant a lot to me!

50000 grams...

2007-02-14T21:25:00.000+09:00

After about 8 months of pissing around roughly the same weight I finally reached that elusive 50kg lost mark tonight! It's an all time low so I'm pretty stoked. Only just made it too thanks to a week of eating & drinkng crap up until Monday and only exercising 5days but still, there it is. Would have romped it in being that I was due for the lovely Aunt Flo to visit but I messed with my pill to avoid them coz I'm going down to Dunsborough this weekend. (Wow - was that way too much information right there?!)

How was everyone's V-Day? Mine was the best ever coz I actually got a meaningful gift as opposed to friends feeling sorry for me and giving me a weed from the garden! I've been seeing a guy for about 2 weeks so I figured it was too soon for the whole Valentine's Day thing but when he got called to work away because of bushfires in Albany, he told me how it had ruined his V-day surprise romantic picnic dinner he had planned. He did express post me a card which was lovely and which I kept thinking about as I watched one of my temp's at work get 12 dozen red roses from a guy she'd be seeing for 5 days!!!!

Anyhoo... later alligators!

Camping, fires, hospitals, morons

2007-02-07T21:05:00.000+09:00

What do these four things have in common? Well they're the reason I neither weighed in nor blogged last week! The day after I got back from camping (having drunk copious amounts of alcohol and eaten crap for 4 days), my mum was taken into hospital with severe gastro, dehydration and stomach cramps. So last week's eating and exercising were shelved as I went to the hospital every night after work. Then I worked up in the hills all weekend and my saturday night plans were ruined when some asswipe decided to light up dwellingup and make it look like the fire from the weekend before reignited. The problem with working on fires is that every thing gets catered and low fat isn't on the menu. In comes the chocolates, the choc milks, soft drinks, HJ's, Chinese, KFC, cake ... all sorts. But I managed to be pretty good - sticking with my salad rolls that I'd brought in and only crumbling on a couple mars bars, a piece of cheesecake and a choc milk.

Got back into the exercising this Monday and started up the C2S training again (1 week behind schedule). Tonight I managed to get through the 5min test (albeit barely!), so yay for me! That's 5 mins IN A ROW!!

So after the couple of weeks I have had you can imagine my shock when I managed to weigh in at the same weight I was 2 weeks ago! YAY!!

I'm on a mission to lose 400g this week to finally hit that elusive 50kg mark (even if it will be shortlived as the following week I'm going down south again!).

Going to swing by everyone's blogs now and catch up.

later

Feeling hot hot hot

2007-01-28T19:47:00.000+09:00

And not 'hot' like "Damn that chick is HOT!" - like I'm literally melting I'm so farking hot. What is with this ridiculous weather and how stupid am I to be renting an apartment without airconditioning!

Just dropping by the blog today to let you all know that I survived my camping experience and had a ball. Sporting a bit of colour rather than being so white I was transluscent! I'm not even going to say all the shocking things I ate and the copious amounts of alcohol I drank since Thursday but screw it coz I had an awesome time. Tried a jetski for the first time too but coz it was windy and VERY choppy, I was basically shitting myself and only did one lap around the buoys by myself before coming in. Friday morning (after not getting to sleep till about 4am) I woke up about 7.30 and decided to go for a walk/run on the beach. It was sensational. But that was the last time I purposely did any exercise for the weekend unfortunately!

Got a phone call at 5am Saturday morning from work (the old job up in the hills) saying they had a major fire in Dwellingup and was there any chance I could come into work. I said unfortunately I was down south so couldn't help out. I didn't get any emails about being on call this weekend so screw 'em!!!

In the words of Ted "Theodore" Logan - "WOAH"

2007-01-24T19:46:00.000+09:00

Can you believe I lost 1.4kgs this week coz I sure as hell can't!! All I can think is that the extra weight I thought I'd lose last week, came off this week. And how funny is it that I missed the 86's AGAIN? Anyway I'm stoked!

Kept up the exercise this week including 'formally psycho now just slightly nutty' Al's C2S running plan. Had to do tomorrow's running tonight after RPM because I'm off down south tomorrow for the long weekend. Let me tell you - running after RPM = not smart. I got through it but barely. And slowly.

This week after reading Trisca's blog about Tankini's (and after she explained what a tankini was) I toddled off to Target to try one on seeing as they're supposed to be very flattering - and none of us want to look like beached whales in a swimsuit. Turns out I can add tankini's to the list of things I'll never wear even when I'm a size 8 because of what I like to call 'visiblescarsfromthenorkreductionihadwheniwassixteen-itis". Yep - too low cut for me.

I also learned this week that the watch I use for exercising (so as not to wreck the leather on my gorgeous DKNY watch from sweat) is not waterproof. I picked it up the other day and found it had stopped so I dropped it in to the battery dude near my building to get a new battery and picked it up this morning. This was our convo:

Battery Dude: Here's your watch
Me: Thanks
BD: I noticed some frosting on the battery when I opened up the watch.
Me: Really? What would cause that?
BD: You probably got it wet - you should take it off before you shower.
Me: Yeah it probably happened when I wore it swimming the other day.
BD: Oh. Yeah it's not waterproof.
Me: Good to know.

So you learn something new every day!

Anyhoo, as I mentioned, I'm going down to Busselton for the long weekend - my very first camping trip! Obviously the booze will be flowing so the plan is to stay under 87 for next week's weigh in. I'm going to try and swim heaps and walk/jog on the beach every day so at least I keep the pretense of exercise happening!

Hope you're all having terrific weeks!

Another week gone...

2007-01-17T20:28:00.000+09:00

So on one hand losing 1.1kgs this week is a smashing result. On the other hand it's TTOM and regular readers will know that I always lose big even if I stuff my face like a big fat pig all week. But I didn't do that and I was really thinking that closer to 2kgs would be a reasonable goal this week. I guess I should be happy, and I am.

Exercised 6 days out of 7 this week and kept up with psycho Al's (hereforth referred to as PA) City to Surf running schedule doing a couple of intervals of 2.5mins running.

Whilst I was grocery shopping on Saturday I saw ipod Alarm Clocks on sale at Coles. Talk about an impuls buy - I totally bought it! But since then only once out of 3 days has the damn thing worked properly. Monday morning the alarm went off as it was supposed to (playing my lovely ipod music!) and I hit the snooze button and went dozing, then suddenly I woke up and 45mins had passed and the stupid thing hadn't gone off after 9mins like it was supposed to! Tuesday it all worked a treat. This morning though, it didn't go off at all!!! What The???? It was lucky I woke up at all! Stupid me has already thrown the box out so I can't even take it back to Coles. I'll give it another go (setting my mobile phone alarm as backup!).

Anyhoo, that's me this week. Hope everyone's new year focus is still in tact!

Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall

2007-01-13T14:39:00.000+09:00

I just wanted to share this song with you all as I find it pretty inspiring actually. It's one of those tunes that when it comes onto my ipod, it makes me want to spin and dance (which is quite a sight, walking home from the busstop!). Anyway, it kind of sums up where I am at the moment. You can listen to it on her myspace here: http://www.myspace.com/kttunstall

Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world

You can see she’s a beautiful girl, she’s a beautiful girl

And everything around her is a silver pool of light

People who surround her feel the benefit of it

It makes you calm

She’ll hold you captivated in her palm

Suddenly I see this is what I want to be

Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to me

This is what I want to be

Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to me

I feel like walking the world like, like walking the world

You can hear she’s a beautiful girl, she’s a beautiful girl

She fills up every corner like she’s born in black and white

Makes you feel warmer when you’re trying to remember what you heard

She likes to leave you hanging on her word

Suddenly I see this is what I want to be

Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to me

This is what I want to be

Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to me

And she’s taller than most, and she’s looking at me

I can see her eyes looking from the page in the magazine

She makes me feel like I could be a tower, big strong tower yeah

The power to be

The power to give

The power to see, yeah, yeah

She got the power to be

The power to give

The power to see, yeah, yeah

Suddenly I see this is what I want to be

Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to me

This is what I want to be

Suddenly I see why the hell it means so much to

PS - How hot is Andy Roddick? Makes tennis watchable!

Back on the chain gang

2007-01-10T20:32:00.000+09:00

Well I'm a little bit proud of myself. Apart from a subway cookie or two, a small chocolate and a couple of pub nibblies & drinks I was pretty focussed since Jan 1. When I weighed in on Jan 1 I was a horrifying 91.3kgs. When I weighed on Jan 3 (for the start of the LITS 12 week challenge) I was at 90.7kgs and today after my triumphant return to Weight Watchers I was back in the 80's, weighing it at a (not too shabby considering) 88.3kgs! So that's 2.4kgs in 1 week; 3kgs in 10 days! Phew!

Exercise wise, I'm back with a vengeance. I did Pump (could barely moved for about 3 days later), Combat, Step (hated every single second of it) and RPM this week. Plus I started my psycho fitness freak friend Al's running schedule for the City to Surf on Tuesday.

Work's still a flipping nightmare (did I mention I'm doing mine and my manager's job at the moment? Difficult at the best of times, but going through a merge increases the drama 100 fold) - I'm juggling about 10000 balls in the air and most of them are falling on the floor! Luckily it means I'm so bloody busy that I don't have time to eat, other than grabbing a quick ham & salad roll!

Anyhoo, hope everyone else had a terrific week.

2006 - The Year that was...

2007-01-02T21:02:00.000+09:00

Here's some things I learned in the past year...

I learned that:

Being funny and relatively smart is apparently not what guys are looking for.
What they're looking for is big knockers.
When you lose weight the first thing you lose is your big knockers.
If you stop exercising and start eating crap you will put on some of that weight you lost.
But it won't go to your knockers, it'll go to your arse.
I have awesome friends.
There's NOTHING scarier than Lasik eye surgery.
Daylight savings is the best thing since Lasik eye surgery.
Matthew Mcconoughey is still a dreamboat.
It's absolute bullshit that chocolate gives you bad skin. What it does give you is a fat arse.
Take advantage of the opportunities life presents.
The clairvoyant I went to was a big fat fake.

Anyone else learned anything in 2006?

It begins... again!

2006-12-29T21:07:00.000+09:00

1st of January 2007 will be the re-start of the weight loss. I've gone a bit psycho lately, my routine is shite and although I haven't weighed myself I reckon I'd be close to (if not, in) the 90's. So the exercise in ON and the good food eating is ON and the chocolate diet is OVER. I haven't been to WW since November but I'll go back on Jan 10 (want to give myself a chance to lose part of what I've put on since then!). I've decided to join in on the LITS 12 week New Year New Me Challenge too as a bit of extra incentive.

My crazy friend Alison wants me to train for the City to Surf which is in September so I've agreed to try it out and if I can run 15mins without needing cardiac bypass surgery by the end of February I will continue the training towards the ridiculous 12km.

I'm also thinking about getting a personal trainer to help with the exercise stuff - going to email my gym and find out what the rates/packages are. Last summer after my holidays I had a kickstart and managed to lose 10kgs in 12 weeks. I'm not expecting to be able to do that again but something similar would be kewl. The only exercise I really did last summer was swimming and walking. Definately the water intake must have been a factor too.

One more week to go and I can swim so yay! Had the eye surgery last week and you're not allowed to swim for 2 weeks following it. It was the scariest thing I've ever been through but it's all good now! I'm loving being able to perv on the hot suit guys in the city and them not realising I am coz I'm wearing sunglasses! OH YEAH!

Anyway as 2006 disappears into the fodder, I thought I'd take a look back at my accomplishments this year. Not what I wanted (I wanted to be in the 70's) but I'm sure there'll be something to be proud of.

Weight:
4/1/06 - 106.3kgs
22/11/06 - 86.1kgs (last official WW weigh in)
Approx weight today - 90kgs? (will check tomorrow morning!)

Total loss this year - approx 16kgs. (about half of what I lost the previous year)

Clothes Size: Jan 06 = 20
Dec 06 = 16

Exercise: Jan 06: 2 aerobics classes/week, a bit of walking and swimming 3 days a week
Dec 06: (before the wagon fall) - weights training 3 times/week, RPM & Combat
once a week each, general cardio once a week.

Coming up in February 2007 is my 2 year anniversery of WW and I always said that whatever weight I was after 2 years would be the weight I'd stay at. Well nuts to that - I'm not happy. I want to be in the 70's dammit!!! So new year - new goals!

2007 Weight Goals:
70's by 1st June (my 30th birthday)
Final Goal weight 71kgs by December 30.

2007 Exercise Goals:
Run the majority of the City to Surf in September.
If I can do that the 7km Walk for Diabetes should be a cinch to run!
Include swimming into the weekly exercise plan during summer.

Ok so that's the broad plan!

So I hope everyone had a great christmas and all the best for the new year!

What's new pussycat?

2006-12-13T21:25:00.000+09:00

So yeah I'm still alive. The whole weight watchers thing has been on the back burner for the better part of a month and I won't be going back until the new year. The week of my nanna's funeral I put on a couple of kilos due to the alcohol and food consumption and I've been sitting around the 88's since then. I'm not terribly concerned to be honest as I barely exercised. My care factor is zero and I really need to get re-motivated to lose the next 18kgs. Hopefully the new year will serve as a giant kick up my arse.

Been getting back on the exercise bandwagon this week although I have let the gym sessions go a bit to increase the cardio. I tried out Body Pump (killer - could barely walk the next day) and Body Step (also a killer) and am still doing Body Combat (LOVE the new release!). Unfortunately they've changed the group fitness timetable and moved the RPM class I used to go to on Wednesday nights before WW to 5.30pm which makes it basically impossible to get to after work (work is ridiculous at the moment), so I haven't done that for a few weeks. The gym is trialling Body Jam at the moment so I gave that a go last night and let me tell you - IT SUCKED DONKEYS BALLS. Or should I say, I sucked donkeys balls (not literally). Picture Baby before Johnny taught her the meringue, Ronald Miller doing the African Ant Eater Ritual, Douglas Dorsey missing the toe pick and Link's prom dance, times it by 1,000 and you'll have some idea of how ridiculous I looked and felt. I didn't even raise a sweat, it was such a pathetic workout. So anyhoo, I'm never going back. BTW - Kudos to you if you understood all my movie references!

I did the pump class again tonight with heavier weights so it will be interesting to see how I pull up tomorrow (although the triceps are already aching). Those lunges and squats are farking harsh! I'll probably try to keep up one step class a week too.

In other news, I'm getting my eyes "lasered" (sorry, every time I say the word "laser", I feel the need to use air quotes like Dr Evil) next Wednesday. Not sure how this will effect the exercising - I know I can't do any for the first couple of days (plus - no make up for a month YAY!) and no swimming for a couple of weeks - not that I would be as I need some new togs anyway. I'm completely petrified and will be stoked when it's all over and I have 20/20 vision for the first time in about 20 years.

Hope you all have an awesome Christmas and New Years!

Em :)

Found them!

2006-11-22T20:48:00.000+08:00

The 86's I mean. To reccap for new readers.. I missed the 86's when for 10 seconds I weighed in the 85's and then I put on a bit and missed them again on the way back up. Well now I'm at 86.1kg. Very impressed with the 1.2kg loss this week (thank to my special monthly visitor) particularly as I've only exercised 3 times because I worked the weekend, and I'm fairly sure I only ate well 1 day this week (calories from big macs don't count when its for charity doncha know!)..... oh yeah and my nanna died. The funeral is on Friday so I suspect a big day of eating and drinking ahead of me.

This post is going to be short and sweet just like my nanna. ... well she was short.

Can't think of a witty title

2006-11-15T22:30:00.000+08:00

Hidy ho!
I lost 600g this week and I'm pretty stoked about it. Considering I've had nearly a week off work to study for the exam and when I'm home and bored - I eat. And there was no exception this time around (luckily I hadn't bought any junk) but I saw I had some muffin mix in my pantry, so in a bid to avoid study I baked one batch (orange & poppyseed) and then another batch (chocolate). And then I ate them. All of them. I know - insert shocked emoticon smiley face here! I guess it was lucky they were 97% fat free and I ate them over about 4 days but still - that is way too much muffin to eat. You can check out the extensive list of other things I did instead of studying for the exam at my myspace blog. I also managed to get through 3 lunch/dinners celebrating my sister's birthday and her move to Melbourne. All in all - very happy to score a loss this week.

I've not done much "running" this week, mainly due to one of my knees feeling a tad dodgy. I also twinged it at Combat on Monday - so much so that I struggled with the kicking for the majority of the class unfortunately. It held up ok at RPM tonight though so that's a relief. I have a history of dodgy knees and this is actually my good knee so I want to be pretty careful. Also, for some reason last night and tonight my back is really aching - it actually kept me up late last night ... I don't know what the prob is. . . It's times like these though that being single sucks - I totally could have used a massage!! Anyway... /whining.

Nothing much to add ... working all weekend which will limit my uncontrollable snacking, so that's good! I'm looking forward to the loss trifecta!

Hope everyone else is cruising along...

Still Plodding Along...

2006-11-10T17:34:00.000+08:00

Hello readers (all 2 of you!),
I'm still around. Been ridiculously busy with the new job and now study for my uni exam. When I say I'm studying what I actually mean is that I've been watching Season 5 of Alias all day. I'm sure it's going to be very helpful for my accounting theory exam. Also, my sister is leaving on saturday to live in Melbourne (shout out to Kel), plus it was her birthday yesterday, so this week has been a week of festivities.

After my week off I weighed myself unofficially and had hit the 90's again. That shocked my fat arse into gear and when I weighed in officially last week I weighed in at 88.1kgs - so a gain of 1kg between official visits but really it was over a 2 kg loss that week, so I was stoked. This past week I thought I'd done fairly well but I only lost 200g - stupid Melbourne Cup lunch the day before! Still it means I'm back in the 87's with plans to stay there (until I hit those elusive 86's!).

I'm on my 3rd week of the 1st week program for the Couch to 5k! What can I say - I'm not a natural runner! I try my very best though!! Last week I almost had a spectacular stack off the treadmill. I was running and I hit my earphone cord with my hand and my ipod went flying off onto the running surface, so I had to sort of jump/skip over it so I wouldn't stand on it and then it went flying off the end! I had to keep running and it took me a while to figure out where the stop button was. Then the treadmill didn't stop straight away as I suspected but I did - so I start travelling backwards quite fast and then do a spectacular star jump off the end - just managing to miss where the ipod had landed!!! Luckily for me it was fairly late at night and not many people were there to witness it.

Anyhoo I'm overdue for another appraisal at the gym so I might get that done next week and then attempt week 2 of the running program. BTW here is the link to the podcast I use - it's completely free: http://www.ullreys.com/robert/Podcasts/page4/files/rss.xml

Well I'd better get back to the "studying".

Em :)

PS - thanks for all the comments!!

And I ran... I ran so far awwwaaaayyyyy

2006-10-27T19:56:00.000+08:00

Holy crap, I did it. I did the Week 1 Couch to 5km running program tonight at the gym. I downloaded some dude's podcast for it and his voice totally made me crack up but he tells you went to walk and when to run and I totally did it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not breaking any land speed records - only had the treadmill set to 8.7km/hr but who cares. The week 1 plan is: Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes. You're supposed to do this 3 times a week. I had to crack up when about half way thru the guy says "You should be feeling it but you shouldn't be out of breathe or puffing" - meanwhile my reflection in the mirror shows me looking like I'm about to have a heart attack!!! Anyway I'm totally proud of myself!

Week Off

2006-10-25T20:57:00.000+08:00

Just letting you all know that I've taken the past week off from exercise and "dieting" and won't be weighing in this week. I've been stressed with uni (stupid oral presentation), starting a new job this week and dealing with dramas from the old job. Add this to the fact I've had a few niggling aches and pains in my body from working out between 60-120mins a day, 6 days a week for the past 3 months, and I just felt that I needed to take a complete break to allow my weary body to recover a bit. Although my restful week sans exercise came to an end a bit early today because I decided to walk home from my meeting instead of waiting for a ride with a friend. It's about 4kms so totally doable... except that instead of being in tracky's and a tshirt I was wearing slacks, blouse, jacket AND HEELS. So yeah it took 45mins and my feet were complete cactus by the time I got home.

It's all back on tomorrow, and back on with GREAT VENGEANCE! No more excuses, I'm knuckling down.

On a positive note, I bought some target 3/4 jeans in a size 14 and they fit. So Yay!

I went to Telethon with my sister and some friends Saturday night (from about midnight till 3am) and then again on Sunday afternoon to watch my goddaughter dance twice. I've never been before but we had a great time in spite of feral kids annoying us trying to get autographs (not our autographs mind you!). I'm also completely in love with Tim Campbell (Dan from Home & Away) - he sang Time After Time and was sensational. Plus he's funny and cute. It's even made me watch some Home and Away this week!!! I also heckled Basil Zempilas because he's the biggest tool on the face of the earth. He kept harrassing Kate Ritchie about her breakup with some AFL guy and she obviously didn't want to talk about it, the panel was uncomfortable, the audience was uncomfortable and he just kept on going on and on and on about it. In the end I shouted out "MOVE ON BASIL!" - getting a big laugh from the panel (and my future husband Tim), but it didn't stop Baz. He's an embarrassment to the state of WA.

Anyhoo, here's a few Telethon photos to tie you over till next week when my blog will be back to making excuses as to why I didn't lose weight despite being back on track with great vengeance!

Why I love exercise and want to have it's babies

2006-10-18T20:37:00.000+08:00

Firstly, yes I am still alive. It has been a long time between updates. My life has been so hectic in the last few weeks it's not even funny. To give you the powerpoint version - I got a new job and had 2 weeks to tie up loose ends at the old job; my mum decided to move out of my aunty and uncle's place and into an assisted living unit; and my sister decided to move to Melbourne with her boyfriend. And that's on top of the usual stuff with balancing work and uni. (You can read some more detailed blogging about this stuff at my myspace.)

So why do I luurve the exercise? Well if it wasn't for that, my weight would be ballooning out of control. I swear I didn't have a healthy meal (aside from a few salad sandwiches for lunches) all week this week. Here's just a taste of the things I ate: Maccas, fish and chips and dimsims and potato scallops and squid rings, cold rock icecream, connoiseur icecream, darrell lea jaffas, and many biscuits. And seriously that's just the stuff I can remember!

But I still managed a paltry 200g loss this week, only slightly offsetting the 1.6kg gain from the week before. Even though my eating habits have been appalling, I've still been slogging my heart out at the gym, rpm and combat 6 days a week.

On Sunday I did the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes which was 7kms from Burswood and around a part of the river. I did the same walk last year in 1hr and 20mins (approx) and my legs and back were so cramped afterwards I could barely move for days afterwards. What a difference 25kgs make. We did the walk in 1hr 11mins and I was fine after. We went into Freo and walked around, I went to the movies and I was perfectly fine - not a cramp in sight! YAY!

Although I'm sore today and have been since combat Monday night. My upper back and shoulders are cactus. I've been stretching like a mad woman ever since but it doesn't seem to be helping. What I need is a hot guy to give me a massage!! On the topic of combat - we've had a new instructor the last few weeks, a guy named Dean. The dude goes nuts! Part of me just watches him to see if one day he'll jump so high that he'll knock his head off on the light above him - I swear he was close this week!! That's his "Level 7"... It's fun to watch. Anyway he put in this move that I've never done before which was like holding someone's head down with one hand and then punching the living daylights out of them. I got right into it! But I think the twisting and punching may have screwed my muscles.

(Sidenote: I'm watching House and some guy's eye just popped out of his head! GROSS!!)

Last week at the gym I also flared up the shoulder injury problem (from 'Nam) I had when I first started this gym program. I've managed to work through the pain though - yes I'm that much of a trooper!

So all this exercise is starting to take it's toll on my body but I will conquer! Even though my weight is fluctuating all over the place I'm starting to see/feel definition in my shoulders and legs. Don't get me wrong - I won't be modelling any bikini's anytime soon (or anything without sleeves for that matter) but I am starting to see changes from the weight training. And I'm up to 3 sets of 5 knee lifts! hahaha

That'll do for now I guess. I'm hoping that starting the new job next Monday will kickstart a new routine and back to the losing of the flab.

I've finally caught up with all the blogs too - although I didn't post comments on many of them - but I promise I'm reading!!!

Peace out G's

Em

PS Ironically I skipped the 86's on the way back up too!!

Did anyone see the 86's?

2006-09-27T20:39:00.000+08:00

Because I totally 86'd them! Yep skipped them completely if you can believe that! I had the biggest loss since Week 4 in March 2005 with 2kgs this week. Even more amazing is that my eating was completely deplorable. In the first half of the week I overate like a trooper and then in the last half of the week, when I could barely get out of bed, I ate a lovely range of cereal and/or toast for every meal. So odds are I'll put on next week as I go back to eating normally.

Last week's throat infection has developed into a pretty nasty chest infection. From Sunday afternoon I could barely move. I went to work on Monday but haven't been back since. My doctor has given me some pretty strong antibiotics (A search on the web told me that they're used to treat anthrax!) and my asthma has flared up meaning I'm back on the steroid puffer. I've been keeping up my exercise regime but tonight's effort tells me I should probably back off until I'm completely well again. I went to RPM tonight as usual and aside from the visit to the doctor yesterday I hadn't been out of bed in the last 48hrs. So I wasn't feeling that terrific and struggled pretty much from the warmup song. I managed to get through to the last song (mountain climb) before the cooldown songs when I started to feel woozy. Half way through it I had to get off the bike before I fell off. The clammy hands, sweating, blurred vision started meaning my blood sugar had dropped and I sat on the floor. I searched through my handbag and found my soothers - of course they're sugar free! Anyway while everyone went through their stretches I started to feel a bit better and got up and walked out to the toilets. I looked in the mirror and instead of the beetroot red face that normally greets me after RPM, a ghostly white one had replaced it. Not good.

I drove to WW and walked in to find the queue to pay was about 30 peope long. I swear every overweight person in WA was there. I went to the loo and when I came back the line was even longer. Still being pretty unsteady and feeling dodgy on my feet, I decided to go back to my car. I tossed up whether I should just go home. But I really wanted to weigh in because being TTOM I knew I'd lose a bit and the sneak peak on my scales at home this morning showed me I should lose about 1kg. So I laid down in my car for about 15mins. I went back and the line was only slightly shorter. By this time the meeting had started. I stood in line for another 10mins but after that I had to sit down again. So I sat and waited till everyone else went through. The girl weighing people saw that I was sitting down and let me weigh in before I paid. The 2kg loss shocked my socks off (well would have if I were wearing socks!). I finally got up to pay and decided to pay for 4 weeks because "I'm not standing in this f$#king line again". Yes I actually said that to the chick! I'm cranky when I'm sick and fainty and missing McLeod's Daughters!!

So anyway, as much as I'd love to lose 300g next week and reach that 50kg lost mark, I don't hold out too much hope. On the plus side this month I lost more weight than the previous preceding months put together! Also, I now have less than 15kgs to lose to reach goal!

So that's it from me this week!

Signs

2006-09-20T20:37:00.000+08:00

So yay - I lost 900g this week which was a tad surprising seeing as I didn't eat very well at all. Last week, eat reasonably well - put on 500g. This week ate badly - lost 900g! It's just too weird. Anyhoo, went to the footy on Friday night (go you mighty dockers!) so I swapped my rest day from Sunday to Friday. Started feeling a bit dodgy on Sunday afternoon at the gym and by about 6pm sunday night I was feeling like I was swallowing razorblades. Monday I had no voice and although I went to work, by lunchtime I was on my way home. Slept for a couple of hours before going to the docs where I got some antibiotics for my throat infection. I decided that I'd go to Body Combat and try to sweat the bug out. Got to the gym and was told the class had been cancelled (freaking unreliable instructor!) so I went to the gym instead. After 20mins on the exercise bike I was cactus and headed home.

I was having Tuesday off anyway so I could study for my mid-semester exam which went out the window and I slept for most of the morning till it was time to go to uni. The odds I passed the exam are slim to none. Also, my throat infection had travelled to my chest so I was the annoying coughing chick at uni. Tuesday night I dragged my arse to the gym and did all my weight training (those knees to chest things are farking ridiculous) and was just doing another 20mins on the treadmill when I looked up from my magazine and noticed everyone standing around looking mildly retarded. Then I realised over the blaring of my ipod that there was a rather excruitatingly loud siren sounding. We got evacuated and after about 5mins milling around outside were allowed back in. Unfortunately hot guy (Mcmuscles) that I was perving on decided to call it a night. I finished off my walking and as I was leaving the Fire Brigade was there! I think there was just a malfunction with the alarm.

Tonight I went to my RPM class and probably only worked at about 70% (I skimped on the tension increases and speed) and thought the most I could hope for was about 500g loss and I almost doubled that estimation.

Soooo many signs!!! I don't know what they mean.

Anyway, I don't know if it's just that the glands under my arms are swollen but my left armpit bit - where the pit meets my chest - more the chest than the pit actually... where was I? Oh yeah that bit bloody kills. My weight training has a shitload of arm weights this time (trying to get my weirdly bulky upper arms to look half decent in time for singlet weather) and by the end of Tuesdays session, the pain was so bad I was close to tears. I put on some voltaren cream when I got home and it did seem to help a little bit. I don't know why it hurts so much when I do that knee to chest thing, but it does - isn't that supposed to be an abdominal exercise? Then add that to the supported tricep dips, the chest press, the shoulder press, the barbell bicep curls and I can barely lift my arm at all! I'm sure it will get easier.

Well that's enough of my bitching for another week!

Em :)

PS - I bought some bananas for $7/kg the other day coz they were a "bargain". I miss bananas, they are awesome.

Crap.

2006-09-13T20:51:00.000+08:00

This morning I weighed 87.8kgs and tonight at WW I weighed 88.6kgs. Damn evening weighins! Also I usually don't drink much on wednesdays but I had a meeting this morning and forgot what I was doing and drank 600mls of water. Anyway it's gotta be about the food intake because I simply couldn't do any more exercise than I am. I did 4 hrs cardio plus 3 hrs weights training this week. Unfortunately, my friend invited me out for dinner Saturday night at The Atrium in Burswood - a mega buffet. And I ate and ate and ate and it was glorious!

Had my reappraisal at the gym (again with Cleo bachelor dude). Just as I was sure the last measurements were wrong, I'm sure these ones are too. Here's the differences:

Weight: -2.2kgs
Arm: same
Chest: -2cm
Waist: -12cm (WTF?)
Hip: +1cm
Thigh: same

Skinfolds
Tricep: -3mm
Bicep: +3mm
Subscapular: -7mm
Suprailliac: -9.5mm

Bodyfat %: 25.94% (-2.15%)

So yeah - all over the bloody place! Instructor dude put a new program together for me and it is bloody intense. I only did a couple of reps of each machine while he showed me last night and I can barely move my arms today. Stupid dips, barbell bicep curls, and those things where you lift your knees to your chest! Mr Cleo and I have a bet going too - he reckons if I stick to the program, within 3 weeks I'll be doing 10 of those knee to chest lifts in a row. I can't ever see it happening, so I guess I'll be winning a chocolate! YAY! Anyhoo, the program is definately going to test me - I'm going through it properly tomorrow so if I can move my fingers I'll type up a post about it.

As is typical luck for me, I bought a new pair of trackydacks from Target last week (and they're a little bit big - had to keep pulling them up at combat - woo hooo size 16's too big!) and I just saw an ad for Target advertising 20% off women's clothing. Bastages.

Anyhoo, that's all I've got this week. To sum up:
- Night weighins suck
- Dips suck
- Target sucks

New All Time Low!

2006-09-06T20:04:00.000+08:00

Wowzer. I finally strung two losses together, something I haven't managed to do since July if you can believe that. I went back to basics foodwise and tracked points for the majority of the week. I haven't done that since Week 1, 18months ago! So I still snacked a bit too much and I'm sure my sugar points were over 14 but I stayed within my max points every day except 1. Add that to still exercising 6 days a week for between 60-90 mins each day and I've lossed a very decent kilo this week. Also, I weighed in the 87's this morning (damn lunch boosting me back into the 88's!) so I've got high hopes of being in the 87's next week and stringing together a third loss in a row.

New releases for Combat and RPM started this week. I liked the combat one - especially that backwards kick - awesome! RPM was ok.. not a fan of most of the music, especially the stretching song - bloody James Blunt. He sucks!!

Just a quick note about the demise of Steve Irwin. I thought his show and theatrics were crap but I think we'd all live happier and fuller lives if we were as passionate about our jobs as he was for his. RIP.

Oh so close!

2006-08-30T21:52:00.000+08:00

Well I managed to lose 1.8kg this week, just 100g shy of the 1.9kg I'd put on over the previous few weeks. Exercised according to the plan this week (plus a couple extra cardio sessions) -

Thursday - 60mins Gym weights session
Friday - 60mins cardio (bike & treadmill)
Saturday - 60 mins Gym weights session + 30mins cardio (bike & treadmill)
Sunday - Rest
Monday - 60mins Body Combat
Tuesday - 60mins Gym weights session + 30mins cardio (bike & treadmill)
Wednesday - 60mins RPM

I'm walking on the treadmill at level 3 incline and 6.3kms/hr. I don't know how this rates, but I'm pretty buggered afterwards.

The 12 week Challenge at LITS finished this week. It's been the worst 12 weeks of my whole weightloss campaign, only losing 2.3kgs all up. I did lose a bunch of centimetres though, so I guess the gym is working. Here's my ending stats:

Neck: 30.5cm (-1.5cm)
Shoulders: 110cm (-5cm)
Upper Arm: 31cm (-1.5cm)
Chest: 94cm (-4cm)
Waist: 92cm (-3cm)
Hips: 109cm (-3.5cm)
Thigh: 56cm (-2cm)
Calf: 40cm (same)

Total - 20.5cm lost

I have no idea how I lost 1.5cm off my neck - I checked the measurement 3 times. And 4cm off my boobs - poop. I wish those cms were off my arms/thighs/hips instead.

Overall, a very disappointing challenge for me. However, I truly believe I've turned a corner this week. I'm going to try my damndest to get back on that weightloss train. I've even started tracking my points - something I haven't done since my first week at WW. Also, I'm increasing the protein in my diet - it's eggs galore at my place. I'm working on the perfect omellete!! It's going to be a tough week, as I already have 3 dinners/lunchs out, which is my downfall, but hopefully next week I'll be able to tell you that I'm at an all time low and in the 88's.

Hope everyone else in blogland is going well!

Em :)

Pardon me, but have you seen the wagon I seem to have fallen from?

2006-08-23T21:46:00.000+08:00

Note: I don't know why Blogger has caused the formatting to go all bung. Sorry if it makes it hard to read...

So I think I turned left instead of right at Albuquerque. I've been on holidays for the last couple of weeks which has also culminated with me being as sick as a dog for the week before I left. So it had kind of already headed south a few days before I left for Melbourne, as I had to pass on the exercise. But up till then I was following the AJ exercise plan I promise! Anyhoo, then I went to Melbourne for close to a week, where I proceeded to eat and drink my body weight. Yes to the left is a picture of me eating a pie at the MCG. I haven't had a four n twenty pie in years. And it was gooooood!! If you're interested in reading what I got up to over there, feel free to venture to my other blog here.

I will say though that I was uber-excited to find I fitted into some Charlie Brown clothes! And yes I mean the designer, not the friend of Snoopy. I bought one top that I need to get my sister to adjust the straps and I could probably stand to lose a couple more kgs but it does fit. It was a bargain too, down from $170 to $55.

So when I got back last week I weighed myself, and almost threw up when I realised I'd put on very close to 4kgs in the 2 weeks since I'd last weighed in officially. How scary it was that it was that easy. So I took advantage of the fact that I was still on leave from work and hopped back onto the AJ exercise plan and then some. Here's the exercise I did in the last week:

Wednesday:
60mins on bike (level 8) & treadmill (6 - 6.3kmh)
60min weights
60min RPM

Thursday:
60mins on bike (level 8) & treadmill (6 - 6.3kmh)
60min weights

Friday:
60mins on bike (level 8) & treadmill (6 - 6.3kmh)

Saturday:
30mins on bike (level 8) & treadmill (6 - 6.3kmh)
60mins weights

Sunday:
Rest

Monday:
60min Body Combat

Tuesday:
40mins on bike (level 8) & treadmill (6 - 6.3kmh)
60mins weights

Wednesday:
60mins RPM

I should add that I did buy one of those gel seats to use in RPM, and whilst I do feel like a right tosser using it, it's fricken worth it. It's like sitting on heaven! I’ve been able to work harder in the class because I'm no longer thinking how sore my arse is. Body Combat this week was harsh. I didn't go the week before I left for Melbourne because I was so sick. This week it felt like I was a newbie, couldn't get the combos and felt like I was flailing all over the place. Managed to keep away from the mirror though!

Food wise, I was fairly average. Still snacking on chocolate WAY too much. It was all looking good till I went to a quiz night at a pub last night. I did the right thing and ate before I went so I wouldn’t be tempted to order wedges. I thought I'd let myself have one glass of wine and that's it. Well I did only have one glass of wine (drank water the rest of the night) and I didn’t order wedges. Unfortunately one of the girls at our table hadn't eaten dinner and ordered a massive mixed appetiser tray full of deep fried lovelies to share with all of us. I couldn't help myself. Big fat potato wedges, spring rolls, samosas, sausage, chicken wings…arrrrgggghhhhhhh (Btw we came 4th!)

Anyway I weighed in at WW tonight and have put on 1.9kgs since 2nd of August. Which really means I lost 2kgs this week. Which I know is the glass half full vision of it, but whatever. I'm also happy to start using the excuse that with all the weight training (4 weeks minus 10days) I'm building muscle which we all know weighs more than fat!!

So I obviously can't keep up that level of exercise now that I'm back at work, but I'm still keen to get back into the 80's this week. So I'm going to try my absolute hardest to eat better.

Thanks to everyone who's been commenting (and hi to the people new to my blog). I've been super slack, but I hope to catch up and comment on everyone's blogs over the weekend (or at work if I'm feeling lazy).

I couldn't be more horrified

2006-08-22T17:21:00.000+08:00

I will write a more detailed post in the next few days about what I've been up to over the past few weeks but I just had to share this. I was sitting on my couch a few mins ago after coming home from the gym and started flicking through the new Cleo checking out the 50 most eligble bachelors. I bought it coz I love Lucas Neill (a socceroo) who is nominated. So I'm checking out the guys and holy crap guess who is in there? The hot guy at the gym who measured my fat!!! NO JOKE. Apparently he's a commonwealth gold medal winner!!! It has just added another level of embarrassment to that whole shebang!

Just needed to share. I need to go and comfort eat now, bye!

Project AJ...

2006-08-02T21:05:00.000+08:00

Hey Kids,

Lost 1 kg this week - thanks to TTOM, but I think I was better foodwise (still shite with the snacking dammit), and I have started the "Project AJ Exercise Regime". You're probably thinking AJ refers to AJ Rochester host of the Australian Biggest Loser program... well you'd be wrong. The goal of the new exercise program is to end up with a body like Angelina Jolie! Yeah I know it's a longshot, but I gotsta get rid of my Oprah arms!!! So this is the plan. 3 cardio days, 3 weights training, 1 rest day.

Monday: Body Combat
Tuesday: Gym
Wednesday: RPM
Thursday: Gym
Friday: Cardio (bike/treadmill/crosstrainer)
Saturday: Gym
Sunday: Recovery!!

This past week I tried a Body Balance class on Saturday morning. I'm never going back. EVER. I felt and (as I could see myself in the mirror) looked like a complete 'tard!!! My body just doesn't do that sort of stuff. I think all you guys that do it, deserve a freakin medal.

Also, for the first time I accidently positioned myself in front of the mirror for combat. Now having done it for about a month now, in my head I thought I looked like a total boxer! Something in the realm of tomb raider (oh gee another Angelina Jolie reference!). Having now seen my reflection I can see that I infact look like a nob. Sincerely. It was really distracting. Note to self - position self infront of wall next week. On a plus note, I also checked out some other people and they also looked a little bit nob-like!

Anyway, the quest continues...

"Fitness" Profile

2006-07-27T19:26:00.000+08:00

Ugh. So my worst nightmare came true for the gym appraisal. Hottest guy on the planet measured my fat. He obviously used a foreign tape measure and scales because the measurements were quite a bit different (ie more) to my last measurements - so his are obviously wrong! Anyway true to my word, here they are:

Measurements

Arm Girth: 35cm
Chest Girth: 103.5cm
Waist Girth: 101cm
Hip Girth: 121cm
Thigh mid: 66cm

Skinfolds
Rt Tricep: 28mm
Rt Bicep: 16mm
Subscapular: 34mm
Suprailliac: 27mm
Sum of skinfolds: 105mm

Bodyfat: 28.09%

Flexibility (Hamstring): 35

So there you go. We'll see how much they change when I get re-appraised in 6 weeks.

Anyone know what the skinfolds are supposed to be? They look pretty bloody horrific. And 28% body fat??? Holy farking moly!

What's wrong with me?

2006-07-26T22:41:00.000+08:00

I think I'm getting back on track, but it's all bullshit. I can't stop snacking on chocolates, biscuits, potato chips, you name it - I want it. I should be thankful I've only put on 400g - at one stage this week I was in the mid 92's. It's especially frustrating since my scales say I've only put on 100g :(

Anyway, it's another week, and another chance to begin again. I joined the health club near where I live. It's actually split into 2 centres both exactly 1km from where I live! I did an RPM class last night and made a major error in judgement in doing another RPM class tonight. My knees are totally cactus. Anyhoo, I have my gym appraisal tomorrow night. They do them every 6 weeks which is a good motivator. I will post the results here - I'm completely freaked out by the whole fat pinch thing - what if they can't get those clipper things around my fat rolls? Ewwwwww!!! I really hope it's a girl appraisalist (or whatever they're called).

When I joined on Tuesday, I saw a sign saying that all the fees had been increased on July 5. Not Happy Jan. The 12 month all inclusive cost was just under $700. The membership chick suggested if I wasn't going to use the pool till summer, then to not include it in the membership to start with and they could add it later on a pro rata basis. This brought it down to about $625. Then when she went to put it through the computer, the new prices weren't in yet so she gave it to me for just under $600 (the old price). So that was sweet.

My friend Al, took me for lunch at the C Restaurant (a very posh revolving restaurant in the city) for my celebratory meal even though I didn't even come close to reaching the goal she set. I felt really guilty but she insisted and we had a great time even doing a bit of an amazing race through the city of NO FARKING PARKING!!! The meal was absolutely delicious. I had grilled red emporer on a potato salad thing which was possibly the most beautiful tasting fish I've ever had. We also had 2 oysters kilpatrick each - just to be fancy!!! Anyway I had a great time and thanks to Alison for being a major support of the past year - I'm gonna miss you bud - Have fun in NZ!!

Anyway, that'll do for me. Sorry my posts have been sparse of late - I was too embarrassed to admit my declining efforts in the weight loss stakes. I'm going to get back in my routine, I'm back at uni too, and back on track.

Onwards and downwards
Em

Introducing - an 80's gal

2006-07-12T21:32:00.000+08:00

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

And I thought I would be stuck on that plateau forever! So let's countdown the milestones this week:

45kg star from WW (got to this goal last week but didn't get my star till tonight.
Another decent sized loss this week with 700g
Hit those elusive 80's
Have less than 20kgs to go till Goal Weight.
Converted to poundage, I have lost 101pounds. That's like an Olsen twin!

Tonight I tried RPM for the first time ever. And I didn't enjoy it one little bit. Here's where everyone needs to post comments with tips on how to get through the class without my arse killing me. I know the bike wasn't set up properly - but now that I know, I can adjust that next time.... Ha look at that - "next time"... There quite possibly won't be a next time!!

I did Body Combat on Monday night for the second time. It's tough, but enjoyable. Straight after that class I had to fill in at indoor beach volleyball (where we kicked arse), so when I got home, I was totally buggered. Last time after combat my back was sore, this time it was my triceps and butt muscles that killed for a couple of days... Of course it could have been the volleyball... and the moving.

So yep, I moved. Although I didn't do much exercise as such, for 3 days I went up and down flights of stairs and lugged boxes and furniture so I figure that's helped achieve the good result this week considering yet again my food intake left a lot to be desired.

Hey! Look over to the right - it's a cool little chatbox thingo that I stole from Tina! (Also, Tina, thanks for the 80's gal blinkie!) You should all leave me a message!!!

I guess that'll do for tonight. Hope everyone is having a good week. I have been reading your blogs but haven't had time to make comments. Will try to do that this week.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Break on through to the other side...

2006-07-06T11:43:00.000+08:00

Yes I am still alive. (Just very badly burned!). As you can see from my pathetic June effort, I've had not alot to report on. Here's my excuses: Stress from work, Stress from uni exams, Stress from wanky rental agents, Stress from deciding to move. Basically it came down to my inability to say No. Hot chips? Yes please. Chocolate? Hell yeah. Lollies? Bring em over. And as soon as a food popped into my head I had to have it. Big Macs, KFC, Pies, cakes, biscuits. I ate it all. If there was ever question as to whether I was an emotional eater, it has certainly been answered.

On a plus side, and even though my eating habits still held a lot to be desired , I finally lost a half decent amount this week (thank you TTOM) which FINALLY got me over the 45kg lost mark and out of those bloody 91's!!! I'm completely determined to get into the 80's this week. Hopefully the stress of actually moving this weekend won't tip me over the edge (as well as the 3 birthday dinners I've got!).

Alison and I are starting the week of pain next week - while we have a 7 day pass for the gym and can do all the classes for free! So that's going to be a complete nightmare I'm sure!!!

Anyway, shoutouts to Alison and Lisa who celebrate their 29th and 26th birthday's respectively this week. Love you guys.

Body Combat

2006-06-19T20:54:00.000+08:00

OK so I just got home from my first ever Body Combat class. I decided I wanted a change from my normal aerobics class so my friend Al and I went to a different sports club to try out this class. If you don't know what a body combat class is, here's a description:

Punch! Kick! Jab! Blast the fat away. Body Combat is moves and stances developed from a range of Self Defence disciplines like Karate, Boxing and Tai Chi. BODY COMBAT, PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND START DEFENDING YOURSELF.

And now I am completely buggered. Every muscle in my body is aching. I figured having done aerobics twice a week for over 6 months that I'd be able to keep up with the pace even if I'm completely unco with the moves. I was flailing around like the biggest freak!! And now I'm in pain. And I know tomorrow is going to be worse.

So this is basically what I look like right now...

The Great Escape!

2006-06-08T10:09:00.000+08:00

Well I neither lossed or gained any weight this week and that in itself is a minor miracle! I kid you not when I say this is what I ate/drank this past week:

Thursday:
Nandos grilled chicken wrap AND chips (lunch)
Veal Parmagiana AND chips AND cheesecake (dinner)

Friday:
Grilled Fish AND chips AND a buttload of wedges AND my bodyweight in alcohol (dinner)

Saturday:
Large Big Mac Meal & chocolate sundae (to combat massive hangover)

Monday:
Cheesecake for lunch dessert!

Tuesday:
Morning Tea/Lunch: Some mini quiches, some sausage rolls, some muffins, some scones with jam & cream

And my exercise this week?

Monday: 30 mins on elliptical trainer (but over 2 hrs!)
Tuesday: 45 mins on elliptical trainer (but over 2 hrs!)
Wednesday: HiLo Aerobics 60 mins

Yep. So it was my birthday week and I decided that it'll definately be an OFF Program week after that effort! Anyway I'm stoked with coming out of all that without a gain (thank you TTOM!).

And so begins the LITS 12 week Winter Warm-up Challenge! My goals for the challenge are:

Average 500g per week loss (6kg total)
Exercise 6/7 days per week
Weigh 85kgs or less
Tone up
Lose a bunch of Centimetres
Limit snacking on biscuits and chocolate
Keep up water intake even though you'd prefer a milo
Own at least one size 14 piece of clothing.

It's time to go.... 92's!

2006-05-31T20:29:00.000+08:00

Finally, after weeks of posting pathetic smidgens of losses, all my exercise has kicked in and I lost 1.1kgs this week. Huzzah! Unfortunately my 3kgs per month streak has come to an end but that's cool.

Tonight I went to aerobics and just as we were getting into it, about 15mins in, the power goes out.. right amid a grapevine!! Last night my power at home was out till 10pm too but luckily its ok tonight. So anyway that 1.1kg is without my usual hour of aerobics which is usually good for 3-400g. I did do the aerobics workout on the WW dvd but it only went for 15mins.

So a bit of a massive couple of days ahead. It's my 5th annual 25th birthday tomorrow so I'm doing dinner out with my mum and sisters then a big bash at the pub on Friday night where much alcohol will be consumed. Fingers crossed I don't put on next week!!

Well that's all she wrote this week...

PS - Target had 25% off denim so I bought the size 16 jeans - yay!

Another week in the 92's

2006-05-26T14:58:00.000+08:00

Lost 100g. I'm both disappointed and relieved. Disappointed because, let's face it, we all want to lose more than 100g a week. Relieved because I've done little but eat and drink junk for the last 2 months and on Monday morning I was weighing 93.7kgs so to lose even a little bit is a miracle. Of course I've been working my buns off exercise wise for the last few days. I'm hoping this next week I'll have a decent loss, with the extra exercise benefits kicking in.

In the last few weeks I've had 3 different people at aerobics come up and mention my weightloss. It started with Satan (Wednesday night instructor) on that public holiday where only 3 of us turned up calling out to me right in the middle of a figure 8 curl with "Emma you've lost a heap of weight haven't you?!" And 2 other ladies in the class have come up to me in the past two weeks too. It's nice that it's noticeable I guess, but I get really uncomfortable talking about it. Example. Today at the local general store where twice a week I buy my salad rolls for lunch, the lady who served me says, "You've lost a lot of weight, how much have you lost now?". How do I respond to that? I don't want to tell every tom, dick and harry how much I've lost, frankly it's embarrassing coz it shows exactly how overweight I was. I just mumbled something like "oh I don't know I haven't weighed myself in a while". Complete lie, I know, but what else can I say?

Anyhoo, that's it for now.
Adios

Another 200g bites the dust....

2006-05-18T12:25:00.000+08:00

G'day,

Not much to report this week. Lost a measly 200g - I thought it would be around 500g but oh well. Finished off the LITS No excuses Challenge with 3.5kgs lost in 6 weeks.

Target had 20% off women's clothing last week so I went in search of a white top to wear to my cousin's 40th black & white themed party on June 10. There wasn't much in a size 18, so I grabbed a couple of size 16's for shits and giggles and headed off to the fitting rooms. I could barely contain my excitement when they actually fitted! And not like "fitted but the buttons are popping and you can't breathe" but actually fitted with a bit of room to move! Holy cow! So I texted my mum and sisters to share the good news! I ended up picking 2 scrunchy blouses, a jacket, and then headed to the activewear and grabbed a size 16 trackpants. I also bought 2 new bras. I hadn't tried on the trackpants before buying them, figuring my top half is always first to reach the new size but I figured it might only be a month away so I might as well take advantage of the 20% off while I could. So I tried them on when I got home, and THEY FIT TOO!!! Anyhoo spent $175 on clothes (ouch!) but at least I've got a couple of things to wear now. I'm thinking I might even try some size 16 jeans coz mine are starting to get a bit floppy and I'm in desperate need for a belt but am finding it majorly hard to find one.

Anyhoo, that's my story this week.

Weddings, Parties, Anything

2006-05-10T21:10:00.000+08:00

Howdy all,

Just a quick reccap on last week. I didn't weigh in officially as I couldn't face the gain on the scales. It's been a tough month with at least 2 'things' every week - like dinners out, weddings, parties. I've got another dinner out this Saturday, plus Mother's Day lunch out. Then I should have a week off, and after that it's my birthday and the week after is my cousin's 40th. Parties parties parties!!!

Anyway, luck for me this week, even though I had dinner out last Thursday and a wedding (with copious alcohol) on Saturday, it was TTOM, which meant I managed a 1.3kg loss. I also have exercised 6 days this week - only taking off Sunday because I mysteriously hurt my knee at the wedding. It also brought up my goal of losing 3kgs in the 6 week "No Excuses" Challenge at LITS - so YAY!

Here's a couple of new photos...

The first is me at my friend's wedding last weekend. The other is my mate Alison and I at my friend Mel's 30th birthday the weekend before.

So anyway, that's about it really. I'm super busy with work and uni so have fallen behind on reading everyone's blogs but I will eventually!!

Just a quick word to say a bonza effort to my bud Al and her lesbian life partner Chad (private joke) who completed a half iron man down at Busselton last weekend and raised over $1,000 for the Cancer Council of WA. I'm super proud of you both!

Hope everyone is having a super week.

Em :)

Strange Days Indeed!

2006-04-27T18:26:00.000+08:00

Hey Hey! The body weight madness continues...

It was all happy happy joy joy when I weighed last night 700g lighter. A minor miracle when you consider wednesday morning I weighed more than I did when I weighed myself before aerobics last night (after brekkie & lunch!). Aerobics knocked of another few hundred grams and all together it made up a nifty sized loss.

I definately think the lack of exercise lately is starting to catch up with me. I've been really struggling weight wise for a couple of weeks now. The problem is that it's now dark when I get home from work so I won't walk. I have dragged the exercise bike out again but although I've got no problem walking for an hour, 30mins is my max on the bike (and I'm counting the minutes from the 15min mark!).

Had dramas last Friday night when my sisters were involved in a car accident (read about it on my myspace blog). They're ok, although in new developments, one of them had a call from the hospital on Monday to inform her that she in fact had a broken wrist. 3 days after the crash!!! Exactly what else did they miss???

I think I've hurt my achilles tendon. Last night in bed it was achy and today I've been hobbling around. It hurts to flex my foot up and down, making stairs and accerating/braking in the car a painful nightmare. I'm hoping I'll wake up tomorrow and it'll be AOK.

I keep forgetting to mention it, but I'm officially the lightest I've been since high school. (We're talking Year 10!) So that's an interesting little factoid. I also bought a size 16 bra (with moulding to push up what's left of my diminishing chest line) so I'm gonna put that down to officially being a size 16 now!! Hahaha - if only the rest of the clothes that size fit!

Anyhoo, gotta go set myself up for The Biggest Loser finale. Go Kristie!

Last week update

2006-04-22T11:15:00.000+08:00

Hey all

Sorry for the delay in blog posting but I've been really busy. So I lost 100g last week. Happy because I ate a SHITLOAD of chocolate and only exercised Monday & Wednesday, but disappointed because had I weighed in wednesday morning (instead of night) I would have lost 500g and had I weighed in tuesday morning I would have lost 700g!!! Oh well.

Only 3 of us showed up for aerobics on Monday night public holiday. Our usual Wednesday night instructor took the class and made us work out massively. The class actually went for about 75mins instead of 60, with a full hour of cardio. Intense! I decided that night that seeing as I had time I would walk to aerobics instead of drive. I questioned this decision when at 7.30pm I walked outside the gym to go home and realised just how bloody dark it was! Chucked the ipod earphones in and trundled off trying to think about the fact that anyone could attack me from behind coz I couldn't hear anything over the blaring of my music. My paranoia was confounded by the fact that it was a council pickup week so everyone had chucked their junk out on the verges and random freaks were cruising the streets for junk to steal. Anyhoo made it home unscathed. Was even more freaked when I heard on the radio the next day that South Perth Blockbuster (located very close to where I had been walking) had been held up by two losers with knives at 8.30pm (luckily I was home by then, but still!! - HOLY CRAP!)

Anyhoo it's all good.

I love my Aunty Flo!

2006-04-12T21:01:00.000+08:00

I had a shocking week food wise, I don't mind telling you. Thursday night, I had a kebab (yep with egg & cheese), Friday night had fish and chips (and dimsim and potato scallop), and Sunday lunch we went to Sizzler, and I had the Shrimp Fry platter (Lucky for me there's some kind of potato famine going on and they didn't have any potato skins!).

So aside from all these atrocities, I managed to lose 1.2kgs! What the! Indeed! In my own defence, I also made sure I exercised (cardio) 5 times this week for at least 60 mins each time. But I owe it all to my Aunty Flo, my monthly visitor, TTOTM or what we used to call it in Year 9 - "ballerinas".

This loss also bought up another couple of milestones this week - I've lost 40kgs forever and it also brings up the 30% loss. In addition to my gold star, my WW leader gave me the "Pantry Pull-together" cookbook, which was super nice of her.

No kids at aerobics tonight :)... Our regular instructor was back (I can't believe I'm actually happy about that) but she was running late and had lost all her music, and then found it so we only did cardio for barely 30mins before hitting the mat for ab work.

Ugh. Easter this weekend... Family gatherings... LOTS of alcohol to get through family gatherings... LOTS of food at family gatherings... and CHOCOLATE. I just want to somehow make it through the week without gaining.

Anyhoo, I'm dedicating these milestones to my Aunty Flo! Here's to you babe!

P.S.

2006-04-06T11:19:00.000+08:00

I forgot to bring this up in my post last night, so I thought I'd add a PS. Hopefully blogger will be kind to me and let me post this from work.

Last night at aerobics, one of the lady's in the class brought her two young kids to the class. She sat them up the back with colouring books and pens. Now we have a fairly large class and I like to stand at the back so I had to contend with the yelling at their mum, the banging of the hand weights on the floor and the coming up to their mum (who was standing next to me) to talk to her in the middle of a farking grapevine. I almost tripped over them half a dozen times.

Aside for my genuine dislike for all kids, here's my problem with it:

It's a damn safety issue for me AND the kids! - Aside from them running around and through the back row of the class, their pencils etc were all over the place.
An aerobics class is not a creche!
I'm sure a lot of the women in the class use aerobics as a time to get AWAY from their kids and don't want to have to deal with someone elses.

So mums, leave the kids at home or in the car (crack open a window).

This has been a Public Service Announcement.

Thank You.

[Insert Witty Post Title here]

2006-04-05T22:09:00.000+08:00

Hi all,

I'm pleased to report I lost 1.1kgs this week, inspite of the fact I only exercised 3 times this week! So, this means, it's gonna be a massively hard week coming up. This week marks the beginning of the 6 week "No Excuses" Challenge at LITS. My goals are pretty simple:

Get into the low 90's
Lose 3 kgs
Drink 1.5L water per day
Limit snacking
Exercise 30mins per day/ 6 days per week.

This is going to be quite the feat being that in the next 6 weeks I have to deal with Easter (chocolates and chocolates and chocolates, OH MY!), my friend Mel's 30th birthday river cruise and my friend Scott's wedding. Challenge indeed!

A quick thanks to everyone who's been leaving me comments, I really appreciate it!

That's it for tonight. Sorry no words of wisdom or intriguing thoughts to entertain with this week! (Hang on, do I ever post words of wisdom or intriguing thoughts? Hmmm intriguing! Is that even how you spell "intriguing"?) I'm very tired.

Em :)

100g BAH!

2006-03-29T20:18:00.000+08:00

Well I put on 100g. Not bad considering the weekend I had. But dammit 100g!!! I'm disappointed that I ended the 12 week challenge on a shitty note and that I didn't crack the losing 4kg in a month (a feat not achieved since my very first week at WW), but it is my first official gain since last year.

I'm hopeful for a sizable loss next week.

Anyhoo, meet my exercise guru and one of my best buddies, Al. I blame the 100g gain on her of course, as it was she who made all the margaritas! Mwah ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

You know what? It was totally worth it!

Onwards & upwards this week kids!

Em :)

Will a fun weekend = a gain?

2006-03-26T21:07:00.000+08:00

Well that's the million dollar question hey!!! I've been absolutely hopeless with food so far this week, including steak sandwich with chips and wedges on Friday night (more on that later) and a large Big Mac meal for lunch yesterday.

My friends and I have been planning a girls night out for about 2 months and we finally pulled it off this past friday. I haven't had a big night out for at least 4 months, so I decided to just go for it. And go for it we did! My friend Alison and I started with margaritas at my place first. I think we drank a bucket load (although for some reason I had trouble keeping the drinks in my glass - spilled them 3 times!), then we went to CS cowboys and then onto an Al concoction named CS Ruskies and then onto something else which I can't even tell you what it contained. By the time we got to the pub to meet up with the others, we were already fairly off this planet. Once we got there, I had some dinner (see above steak sanger) and starting alternating the alcoholic drinks with water. We danced for a couple of hours too. We ended up having a relatively early night. I think I got home around 1am... but we went hard so that's to be expected. Had an absolutely brilliant time... Al took some photos too so when I get them I'll post one if there's any decent ones. So I just wanted to post a shout-out to my pal Al, who made Friday night a fantastic night.

Yesterday afternoon I took a walk in the opposite direction to my normal trek, and walked all the way down to the Narrows Bridge. Part of the distance (according to a sign on the foreshore) is 3.3kms one way. So from that point there and back, I did it in 62mins... So I guess I walk about 6.5kms/hr... From my front door to my front door, I walked for 75mins. Pretty happy with that time and I probably walked about 7.5-8kms. When I got home, I had another heel blister from my new sneakers (which I'm not completely impressed with - I shouldn't be still getting blisters)... and I'd bled through... Grrrrr.. Oh well - No pain, no gain!

Anyway, I weighed myself this morning, and was pleasantly surprised that I had only put on 600g since Wednesday. So I'm hoping I can at least bring this down, to break even on my official Wednesday weigh in.

I'm at work today, so at least I can't snack away my day!!!

Em :)

PS. I hate that I can't post from work for some unknown reason.

PPS. I had a choc bomb at the movies tonight..Grrrrrr

Neverending headache...

2006-03-22T20:28:00.000+08:00

Hiya folks.

Just a short post tonight as I only have 3 mins till Prison Break is on. I lost 700g this week which I was pretty happy about as I was shocking with the food. Also, I've had a persistant headache since last Thursday and I have a very bad feeling I might be coming down with the flu (it's going around the office at the moment), which meant I really had to force myself to exercise. I walked on Thursday and Sunday and did my usual aerobics on Monday & Wednesday but that's it. Actually I think I did some hand weight action (thanks to Tiff for the animated man help here http://www.bodyforlife.com/exercise/animations.asp )... Whoopedeedoo

Only 1 week left of the LITS 12 week challenge. My original goal was 8kgs which I've already reached. I revised the goal to 9.5kgs and at the moment I'm at 9.2kgs. I'd love to hit 10kgs but I'm having a massive night on the town this week (haven't been out in so long, I wonder what the kids are wearing these days!), which I totally deserve, but I doubt a 800g loss is likely. I'll give it a go though :)

I've been looking into Step Into Life group personal training. My sister is keen to do it with me. Has anyone done it before? I'll hopefully have time next week to give it a go.

Thanks to everyone who's posted comments lately, they really keep me going. I vaguely recall there was some questions which, if I have time tomorrow, I'll answer.

Anyway, I'm stuffed.

Have a great week everyone,

Em :)

New Layout

2006-03-17T23:24:00.000+08:00

Well I got bored just sitting at the computer uploading songs onto my ipod, so I thought I'd setup a new design for my blog. What does everyone think?

My head looks a bit munted in the profile pic, but not sure if I can work out how to fix it.

Em :)

Before & After

2006-03-15T20:55:00.000+08:00

Hi All

I lost 1.1kgs this week. I'm pretty pleased with this, it is TTOM so I expected at least a kilo loss plus, my mum took me, my sisters, my friend Al and her boyfriend Chad out to dinner at the Witch's Cauldron (a pretty bloody expensive restaurant) to celebrate my achieving half way to goal. I pretty much pigged out and I wasn't the slightest bit guilty about it. I ate 3 pieces of the garliciest garlic bread, a prawn cocktail, grilled snapper & prawns (with creamy sauce on the side), and a glass of coke and 2 glasses of wine. Then we went to Cold Rock and I had a cup of vanilla icecream with 2 strawberry freddos and chocolate fudge through it. YUMMO! And yep I felt completely bloated. And yep, a lot of it went straight through me (I bet you really wanted to know that!). But dammit, it was totally worth it!!!

So it occurs to me I've never put up any before & after photos. Not that I'm "after" but I am getting there. Unfortunately, or fortunately I didn't take any for this particular purpose so we'll have to make do with holiday and other occasion photos. Also, it should be pointed out that I HATE photos. With a firey passion.

So the "before" pic was taken in August 2005 about 6 months before I started with WW. Stupid me surrounds herself with ridiculously goodlooking friends too so I've smudged their pretty faces out (also, not sure they'd appreciate being put on the internet!). The after photo was taken in February 06, after winning a car rally, some 32kgs lighter (I've lost another 5kgs since then). I'm not kidding when I say, I can't really tell much difference between the pics. God I hate my arms.

I know I've lost weight. I can see it in my spreadsheet, and the fact that I wear smaller sized clothes, but I have to say, when I look in the mirror, I see the same fat girl looking back. I wonder if this will ever change.

Gotta go do some uni work.

Hope everyone else had a great week.

Em :)

Introducing The "Yeah I'm under 100kg" Ipod...

2006-03-14T19:55:00.000+08:00

So here it is! I picked it up from the post office today. My excitement has dropped a bit since I've realised how long it'll take me to upload all my CD's onto the damn thing. Surely with technology today they could figure a way that I could just put the ipod onto a pile of cds and it magically and simultaneously uploads the songs.

Damn my extensive cd collection. :(

90's Girl Right Here!

2006-03-08T22:54:00.000+08:00

Holy moly, I finally did it! And with style! I lost 1.4kgs this week. I again put it down to aerobics this week. It was like working out in a sauna... goddamn heatwave!

I bought my ipod reward yesterday on ebay (I know - I hadn't officially weighed in, but I was weighing in the 90's since Sunday so I was fairly confident). I should get it on Friday. My mum is taking me, my sisters and my pal Al out to dinner to the Witch's Cauldron (very expensive seafood/steak restaurant) to celebrate on Friday night so I'm likely to have a bit of a blowout this week food wise. But I will not be going back into triple figures I can tell you that much.

My leader gave me a Fridge Tracker as a gift for losing 35kgs too which was nice.

So today was a really good day.

Em :)

PS - Thanks Tina for the winky sparkly 90's gal pic [I don't know the technical name for it!]

Aerobics to the rescue!

2006-03-01T21:18:00.000+08:00

Well. I'll be buggered. I had already written this blog in my head this morning. Crying about all the work I'd put in this week and somehow I'd managed to put ON weight. I even whinged on LITS... "oh poor me.. I weighed 101.1kg this morning... and I exercised my butt off... wah wah wah..." (Somebody call the waaambulance!) ... This afternoon when I got home from work I still weighed 101.1!! Suddenly I had hope that maybe I'd at least lose a couple hundred grams for my official weigh in. I went to Hilo Aerobics as normal on a Wednesday night and worked my patootie off. Hell I even did the "Hi" versions of some of the steps!!! Went straight to WW and weighed in, just hoping that I'd be under 101kg. And I lost 700g!! WOOOO HOOOOO!!!! I broke through the 35kg mark, and even though I'm still a bit disappointed I didn't crack the double figures, I'm just relieved that I lost this week. And as I've previously attested to, my increased exercise seems to be on a week delay so I have no doubt I'll be all about the 90's next week.

I didn't exercise every day as I had planned. I took Sunday off as I had a bit of gastro. And for some reason I just didn't feel like swimming (very strange for me) so except for the days where I did aerobics (Mon & Wed) I walked at least 60mins every day. So 6 out of 7 days ain't bad.

I did my measurements tonight and was sort of surprised they hadn't changed much since the last time (1st Feb). Only losses were the Neck (-1cm), Chest (-1cm), Waist (-1cm), Hips (-3cm) and Thigh (-1cm).

I bought a new pair of jeans, top and denim jacket on Saturday. All size 18! So I think I can officially say I'm a size 18. Yippee!

Anyhoo, I'm missing Prison Break ....

Em :)

Week 52

2006-02-24T17:52:00.000+08:00

Hi Gang

Sorry I've been so slack with the blogging lately. So this week marks the 1 year anniversary of me walking into that Weight Watchers meeting for the very first time. I've got to admit, I never thought I'd make it this far. On Feb 23, 2005 I finally accepted that the magic pill that would allow me to lose weight whilst eating whoppers with cheese every day was likely never to eventuate. I looked up on the WW website where my nearest meeting was, pigged out like never before in the next 2 days, then walked into the meeting and joined up. I was completely horrified and depressed when I weighed in at 135.4kg. I made a decision to myself that I'd give myself 2 years to get to goal, but whatever I weighed in Feb 23 2007, that would be it.

Having never have made this extent of a commitment to myself ever before, I didn't mention it to anyone (not family, friends, workmates) for weeks. After about a month, I told a couple of workmates and my friend Tina who lives in England. Told everyone else, I was just trying to watch what I ate, rather than saying I had started WW, I think mainly as I was fearful of failing. Everyone eventually found out, as the weight loss became more noticeable.

So in the past 365 days I have lost 34.4kgs, averaging a loss of 662g per week. Not particularly fast, but a rate that I can hopefully sustain in the next year. I did want to hit the 90's in a year, but 1kg out isn't too far off. Here is my measurement changes:

...................Start.........Now..............Diff
Neck..........36.5cm...........33cm................-3.5cm
Arm L.......44cm...............36cm...............-8cm
Arm R.......41cm...............35cm...............-6cm
Chest.........122cm............103cm.............-19cm
Waist.........124.5cm..........97cm...............-27.5cm
Abdomen....113.5cm..........92cm...............-21.5cm
Hips...........157cm............123cm..............-34cm
Thigh L.....76cm..............64cm................-12cm
Thigh R.....72cm..............64cm................-8cm
Calf L.........48cm..............42cm...............-6cm
Calf R.........47.5cm...........42cm...............-5.5cm

Total cms lost = 152cm

(Actually, the "now" measurements were from 3 weeks ago. I have to measure again next week for LITS 12 week challenge, so I'll update it then.)

Basically I've gone from a tight size 24/26 to a fairly comfy size 18. I'm approaching the weight I was when I lost 10kgs in 2 months (the last time I tried to focus on dieting) when I was 18 (1995 - yep 10 years ago!). It's the lowest weight I can actually remember me weighing which was 96kgs.

Just to update you all, this week I lost 800g - which I'm fairly happy with. I was pretty good on the food, but didn't exercise as much (walked 45mins Fri & Mon; aerobics Wed). The week before I lost 1kg. TTOM saved me as I didn't eat well.

My challenge this week is to exercise an hour EVERY day this week. Something that I've never done. Here's my plan:

Thursday: Walk 60mins Done!
Friday: Walk 60mins Done! (Actually it was more like 70mins)
Saturday: Swim (if I get home in time) or walk 60mins
Sunday: Swim 60 mins
Monday: HiLo Aerobics 60 mins
Tuesday: Walk 60 mins
Wednesday: HiLo Aerobics 60mins

Yesterday during my walk along the South Perth foreshore I had a go on the gym equipment they installed last year. My fave was the cross trainer. Most of them work using your body weight against you. The arm pull downs were ok but I couldn't for the life of me do the opposite ones where you push out with your arms! It was a bit of fun for 5 mins breaking up my walk.

My friend Alison is coming walking with me tonight. She's scarily fit, in fact she's training for a triathlon at the moment. I'm very worried that I won't be able to keep up with her! But it'll be good to have someone to chat too along the way. Last night my discman batteries ran out half way around so I didn't even have music to listen to. Had to listen to my own puffing and panting instead!!! Can't wait till I hit the 90's so I've got my excuse to buy an ipod. (I look like such a 'tard out there with my cd player!) I'm going to put in extra effort this week in an attempt to lose the 1.1kgs to get there.

So I guess that's it.... til next week!

PS... For some reason I can't post blogs on this site at work. Very weird.

And I'm back in the game!!!

2006-02-12T19:49:00.001+08:00

EDIT: Sorry about the delay in posting this blog this week. I actually wrote it last Friday but Blogspot was being a wank and wouldn't post it and I didn't get a chance to try again till now.

Managed to lose 1.2kgs this week and it wasn't even TTOM. Also, although I was fairly good with food I did have a Magnum icecream on sunday (Oh Pure Joy!!!) and Chinese food for dinner Tuesday night. So the only conclusion I can come to is that the effects of the extra exercise last week were deferred to this week. Anyway who cares!! I'm not one to look a gift horse in the face. (Isn't that the stupidest saying ever!)

Anyway, as per usual after a big loss I went a bit nutty by having a chocoloate milkshake and a chicken burger with chips for lunch yesterday. It was yum!

I'm going through a major chocolate craving phase at the moment. Have been for nearly 2 weeks. I don't know what's going on but I really have to stop myself (and honestly, sometimes I haven't) from eating a cherry ripe or some other chocolate bar.

Also, someone (I can’t remember who) left me a message last week asking what Hilo Aerobics was. Unfortunately for some reason the message has gone MIA but anyway Hilo Aerobics is a pre-choreographed routine broken down into blocks which we go thru and the instructor gives us the option of doing it Low impact or High impact. We also do about 10 mins of ab work at the end and lately have been doing lunges or squats for 5 mins too. Hope that clears it up.

So that's all really for this week. Not much I know, so I'll post a survey I was sent on Myspace so you can all learn things about me that you really didn't want to!!! :)

1. How tall are you barefoot? 169cm
2. Have you ever smoked heroin? Nope
3. Do you own a gun? Nope, guns are for farmers, rednecks and psychos
4. Rehab? Nope
5. Do you get nervous before "meeting the parents"? Yes
6. What do you think of hot dogs? Yuck
7. What's your favorite Christmas song? Oh Holy Night
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Nothing really
9. Do you do push-ups? Not if I can help it
10. Have you ever done ecstacy? Nope
11. Are you vegan? Nope
12. Do you like painkillers? I don't not like them! I use them if I have to.
13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex? Mind control
14. Do you own a knife? yes
15. Do you have A.D.D. Sometimes I honestly believe I do.
16.Date Of Birth ? 1 June 1977
17. Top 3 thoughts at this exact moment:
1. 2 hours and 50 mins till the weekend
2. Shit I've only drunk about 600mls of water
3. I have done zero work all day.
18. Name the last 3 things you have bought.
1. Ham & Salad roll for lunch
2. Nail polish remover
3. Beconase nasal spray (damn hayfever)
19. Name five drinks you regularly drink: Water, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max, Diet Lemon, Lime & Bitters and that's about it!
20. What time did you wake up today? 7:30 AM
21. Current hair? Shoulder length blondey brown
22. Current worry? I don't really have one.
23. Current hate? Hates a strong word but I intensely dislike Liberal party and their ultra conservative 1920's views!
24. Favorite places to be? On holidays!
25. Least favorite place to be? at the Dentist
26. Where would you like to go? Vegas again!
27. Do you own slippers? yep but I rarely wear them.
28. Where do you think you'll be in 10 yrs? Hopefully married to Matthew Mcconoughey... but probably exactly where I am now unfortunately.
29. Do you burn or tan? Both
30. Last thing you ate? Ham & Salad Roll
31. Would you be a pirate? No I'd be a wench!
32. Last time you had an alcoholic drink? A couple of weeks ago.
33. What songs do you sing in the shower? Whatever is on the radio
34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child? the boogeyman
35. What's in your pockets right now? nothing
36. Last thing that made you laugh? Watching a guy clap enthusiastically in his car at the lights the other day.
37. Best bed sheets you had as a child? Didn't have any special sheets.
38. Worst injury you've ever had? Damaging my anterior cruciut ligament in my knee whilst rollerskating when I was 15. Caused years of pain, minor surgery and I still have issues with it.
40. How many TVs do you have in your house? 2
41. Who is your loudest friend? Melanie
42. Who is your most silent friend? Natalie
43. Does someone have a crush on you? I doubt it
45. What is your favorite book? Looking for Andrew Mccarthy by Jenny Colgan
46. What is your favorite candy? Cherry Ripes
47. What song do/did you want played at your wedding? Haven't given it any thought since I was ten and I wanted it to be "Tonight I celebrate my love for you" by Glen Maderios!
48. What song do you want played at your funeral? Sleep when I'm Dead by Bon Jovi, and Into My Arms by Nick Cave
49. What were you doing 12AM last night? Sleeping
50. Do you love the pain a tattoo brings? Nope that pain kills like nothing I've ever felt before.

Plateau is a dirty word...

2006-02-03T22:19:00.000+08:00

Ugh. Double Ugh. I lost 200g this week. :( Really in the last 2 weeks. I know I had a wank of a week last week but I exercised my (soon to be) little buns off this week! To detail:

Friday: Walked to pool - 30mins
Swam 1.5kms - 60mins
Walked home - 30 mins
Sunday: Swam 1.5kms - 60mins
Monday: HiLo Aerobics - 60mins
Tuesday: Swam 1km - 40mins
Wednesday: HiLo Aerobics - 60mins

And if one of you say, "I'm sure you toning or building muscle" I will absolutely SCREAM! I don't want to tone I want to lose all this FAT!!!

How can I be struggling at this stage? It's not as though I only have 5-10kgs to go till goal weight. I'm not even half way!!! I'm eating pretty much what I have been the whole time on WW. I had one doozy day on Sunday night where I had pasta at my nonna's. Not that the pasta was bad - but the 6 meatballs probably were. But it's hard to deal when I know I've had slack weeks with no exercise and not eaten as well and still lost more than 200 freaking grams!

Calming down now. I did my measurements for the first time in 4 weeks and I have lost 25cm all up in that time. Including 6cm off both my waist and hips. Pity there wasn't much off my flabby Oprah arms. Note to self: Don't just look at hand weights. Mental bicep/tricep curls not working.

Have been finding that my boardies will not stay up in the water anymore whilst doing laps. Had to go sans on one of my swimming trips [insert horrified smiley face here]! They're a size 20, so maybe my arse is down to an 18 now? Anyway this week I've pinned them at the sides so that my thunder thighs remain hidden.

So I went to the pub two weeks ago to farewell one of my work friends from my old job. I see most of those people every now and then but normally in uniform and without my hair and makeup done. So I got all the shocked faces and the "Oh my god you're looking awesome" comments which I don't mind to a certain extent. But what I hate is why people think I want to discuss my weight now, anymore than I did when I was fatter? They want details, how, how much, you must feel so much better, blah blah blah. I just have no idea how to get out of these conversations. I don't mind discussing it with my close friends and my sisters and of course you guys who are going through the same thing, but these people are basically randoms! I wish they'd just leave it at "Em, you look nice tonight". Is that too much to ask for?

Anyhoo, I hope all your weeks have gone better than mine.

Au revior
Em

No weigh in this week.

2006-01-26T18:42:00.000+08:00

Hi All

This week turned into a schamozzle when some little arson retard lit a fire just out of Dwellingup. As it quickly spread into CALM land on sunday, my week was officially wrecked. I've now worked 11 days (and some nights) in a row. Worked from 9am to 10pm Sunday, up at 4.30am on Monday & Tuesday to get to Mundaring by 6am. Had to go to Collie (where the Incident Control Centre was set up) to work the night shift Tuesday night and Wednesday night (missing weigh in)... finally got home this afternoon. Happy Australia day indeed!!!

Apart from the fact I've eaten, Chinese food, pizza twice, and a load of unhealthy snacks, I've done no exercise since Monday. Monday night I did do aerobics and then went for another 30 min swim afterwards. The swim felt good as I did the same distance as last time, in half the time. If I can get some decent sleep I'll go swimming again tomorrow.

Anyway, not much of an update, but I hope everyone else's week has been great. Happy Australia Day!

Happy Dance!

2006-01-19T10:59:00.000+08:00

I had a bloody brilliant week this week. Lost 1.8kgs! The most I've lost in one week since June last year! As usual with my bigger losses, it is TTOM and I did do Hi-Lo aerobics twice this week (even managed to go by myself when Al piked) as well as starting a swimming program on Sunday. I am thinking about keeping up the Hi-Lo and dropping the water aerobics as I see more benefits on the scales.

One of the posters on the WW site emailed me a copy of a swimming program her sister had developed for her. I looked at it and decided to go for half of the laps recommended, as I hadn't swum laps in about 10 years. The program was a good mix of normal laps and laps using flippers, buoys and kickboards. I have to say I did struggle though. Ended up doing 800m in around an hour. The pool is a 50m one though so I reckon thats definately harder... right???!!!! I remember when I was 12 -15, doing laps was a piece of piss... well no longer my friends!!! I thought I was going to drown! Anyway, my friend's boyfriend assured me that it gets easier and even he struggled for 50m when he first started (Not that I believe that for a second!). I do like swimming though and especially if I pass on the water aerobics, I'd like to keep going at this program.

Went out for dinner and saw Producers at La Premiere on Tuesday night. I ordered the grilled fish which came with one of the best salads I've ever eaten. It was lettuce, watermelon, orange, pear, tomato, sauteed onions, and possible something else... Yummo!

Anyhoo, I'm not expecting that great a loss next week as I'm working all weekend, so that's going to hamper my exercise regime quite substantially (no swimming). Have to make an extra effort to get on the exercise bike at nights to make up for it.

Hope everyone else is going well :)

I'm a weight loss MACHINE!!!

2006-01-11T21:54:00.000+08:00

I lost 300g. Do you people understand the magnitude of that??? I went away for over 3 weeks and ate and boozed it up to excess and managed to get back on track the minute we touched back down in Perth last Thursday night. That night I weighed myself and I was up 3.5kgs... by Friday morning it was +2.2kgs... now - I'm down 300g my friends!!! I lost a shit load of weight this week!

Seriously though, I think it was probably the equivalent of another week one for me though - shocked my body into not getting all the yummy fatty food it had been getting! Also, we did land aerobics (as opposed to water) tonight before the weigh in and I swear the instructor is Satan incarnate. My god - I couldn't have been hurting more. And the bitch made us do a quadrillion squats too. I don't know if its the fact that I haven't done any specific exercise for a month (although we did walk just about everywhere - a fact that had to aid in the not putting on 10kgs) or just whether the woman is a specialist in torture. Whatever it is, I'm not even sure I have the energy to roll myself into bed!

Anyway... here's a picture of better times last week (with my cousin and sister)... when fulltime work and weight watchers was only a distant memory....

Look at that Toblerone cocktail in my hand... I'm betting that milk wasn't skim!!!

Rocking on to those double figures.... plus the halfway mark is only 2.8kgs away...

Em :)

I'm baaaaaccckkk!

2006-01-06T10:35:00.000+08:00

Got home from the eastern states last night. Had an absolutely brilliant time. Completely pigged out on food and alcohol - but I don't care!!! Weighed myself this morning, have put on 2.2kgs in the 3 weeks. I thought it was going to be WAY worse than that so I'm quite pleased. I think all the walking we did and the litres of water we drank (it was 46C one day in Sydney!) had to have helped. Plus I messed around with my pill so I could avoid that time of the month while I was away and I always loose more weight at that time so all in all I'm pretty happy. If I can get it down to a 1kg gain before I weigh in next Wednesday, I'll be stoked.

Hope everyone's chrissy and new year was as fab as mine.

Em :)

The importance of exercise...

2005-12-14T21:36:00.000+08:00

Hey folks.

So this week I had decided if I only put on up to 500g I'd be stoked. The reasons being that I was going out for dinner Friday night, Tuesday night and lunch Wednesday (today). Hey this time of year is hard to be good! As it happened if I'd officially weighed in on Tuesday morning (yesterday) I would only have been 200g off my 30kg goal! (I was 105.6) But that was before the dinner and lunch. So this morning when I weighed myself I was at 106.3kgs which was to be expected after two glasses of wine, quite a large piece of grilled barramundi (got the sauce on the side though ;) ) and the dreaded chips I can never walk away from. At our christmas lunch today I thought I behaved quite well. I had a prawn cocktail with a very light aolie (?sp) and the main was turkey and ham with veges. I stayed away from the veges as they were smothered in a white sauce. Then I said No to dessert. Did have a glass of wine though. But that was pretty good right???

Anyway, tonight when I got home from work, I weighed myself and I was at 106.9kgs. Oh well I thought, putting on 100g isn't too bad considering. Then I raced off to aerobics. Normally on a wednesday Al and I do water aerobics, but today the weather was looking very dodgy (where the hell is summer WA??) so we decided to do the hilo aerobics instead. Different chick to the Monday class. I found the routine easier to catch onto but definately felt it was more intense. When I weigh in after water aerobics, I am the same weight I was before the aerobics. Tonight though, I was so surprised and excited to find I weighed in at 106.3kgs. That's a 600g loss in an hour!!! (I'm pretty sure it was all sweat too!). So overall I lost 500g this week.

I know what your thinking... "that chick weighs herself a lot!" Well I don't like surprises. When I go to WW I like to know what I'm about to weigh in to. I also finds it keeps me motivated to not eat that dessert!!! Damn the chips! When will I be motivated to stay clear of those???

They introduced the new WW eating plan at the meeting today. It sounds interesting. But I doubt I'll do it. You have the option to stay on the points anyway. Considering I never track and rarely look at the point values of foods, I don't know why I should start following a plan at this stage!!! I do like the idea of new menu plans, so may give that a go after my holiday, when I'm sure I'll need to refocus.

So yep, I leave for Melbourne on Saturday and after travelling to Sydney and the Gold coast get back to Perth on Jan 5. Hopefully won't put on too much during that time. I'm really going to try to go walking in the very least while I'm away. Anyhoo it means I won't be posting for a while.

Hope everyone has a safe and fantastic christmas and new year.

Em :)

Due to popular demand...

2005-12-09T10:01:00.000+08:00

An Update! Sorry folks but I've been super busy, having had to work last weekend (as well as this weekend coming up) and haven't had time to post.

This week I lost 500g, which normally I'd be pleased about but dammit if I weighed in in the morning I would have lost 1kg... stupid lunch. :( Either way, there's not a chance in hell of me reaching my Dec 17 goal... but at least I'm close-ish. I was pretty good with food this week, only once succumbing to take away - got me some fish (grilled) and chips on saturday night after work. I think my exercise was lacking though. I didn't do aqua aerobics last wednesday or sunday, but I did do the HiLo aerobics on Monday and aqua on this Wednesday just before weighin. I also tried out the WW exercise dvd with the fit strip. It was ok but I know it'll bore me senseless pretty soon. Did a couple of nights on the exercise bike too. So it was probably only 2 days without exercise.

I measured myself last night and even though I didn't lose that much weight over the past month, I have lost some cms, particularly in the chest, abdomen, hips and waist areas. Must be all those bloody crunches I've been doing!!!

Anyway, this week is going to be a write-off. I'm going out for dinner tonight with a friend (Note to self: order the fish! order the fish!), then have a family xmas dinner on Tuesday and a work xmas lunch on wednesday. I will be glad if I escape without putting anything on.

I'm on the countdown to my hols now too! 8 days to go till I'm leaving on a jet plane...

Update

2005-11-30T21:22:00.000+08:00

Have been really busy with work and pretty much crashing when I get home so haven't posted much lately. Let's go back to last week... Had a brilliant time in Dumb at my sister's and drank way to many CC & dry's, not to mention eating crap but got on track on the monday and even did my first aerobics on dry land in about 15 years. Turns out I'm completely unco-ordinated -Al will attest to that, but it was something different and I even did it again this Monday! I don't know if it was the moves that were easier but I didn't struggle as much the second time around. Still keeping up with the water aerobics, doing it on Sunday as well this week.

So after the big weekend I'd only put on 500g that week which I was really happy with. This week I redeemed myself by losing 1.5kgs and that was with a saturday of eating KFC and Chicken Treat. I re-reached the 20% weight loss and my leader at WW gave me the book of inspiration quotes as a reward, which was a nice surprise. I usually laugh at how corny the quotes are but hey, a present is a present.

The next couple of weeks are going to be mighty challenging for me as I have to work the next two weekends in a row (in addition to the 40hours normal work week), which leads straight into my holiday to the eastern states. Somewhere in there I have to finish my Christmas shopping too. Aaaarrrgghhhh!!!!

Anyhoo, there's not much chance of me reaching my 30kgs goal in 2 weeks but I'm still happy with my progress, which has been fairly constant. Off to bed now!

Catch ya later

Buggered

2005-11-18T19:21:00.000+08:00

Been a while. I've been totally busy finishing my assignments and studying (and taking) my uni exams over the past 2 weeks. Thank God that's all over with for another year! Needless to say my eating habits were absolutely shite during that period. Didn't eat junk food, just didn't eat period really. My metabolism I think died, and apart from Water Aerobics I did zero exercise. So I didn't weigh in last week at all and this week only lost 300g. Oh well - at least I finally reached the 20% weight lost mark.

I've done water aerobics three times now. Even dragged my tired arse out of bed at 9am on sunday and did it (sans my friend Alison). Its a really good workout particularly for the arms (those dumbells are a bloody killer!) so I'll definately keep doing it on a Wednesday night. Was completely drained after my last exam on wednesday, so slacked off completely in the water!

This weekend I'm headed 3 hrs south east to Dumbleyung to visit my sister. A big bloody challenge not to drink too much booze or eat too much fatty food - those roadhouse chips are to die for though!! Fingers crossed I make it without putting on anything!

Joined the 7 week challenge over at the Living in the Suburbs forum. Only 4 weeks till I go on hols though, so the last 3 weeks of the challenge will be to not put on all the weight I've lost!! My goal is the same as my 17th December goal - that is to get to 30kgs lost by the 17th of December. Fingers crossed!

Finally bought the bullet and bought some new clothes today. Spent $165!! Hope the family and friends weren't expecting Christmas pressies this year!! Myer at Garden City had 25% of women's clothing, so I had to take advantage of that. Bought a new pair of jeans, some 3/4 length jeans, and 3 t-shirts. Should keep me going for another few months at least.

Catch yas!

LOST: 1.5kgs

2005-11-02T20:48:00.000+08:00

Yippee! I lost 1.5kgs this week. Seeing as my water intake and exercise was borderline pathetic I'm putting it down to eating my main meal for lunch and eating lite at dinner.

Don't have much to say this week, other than pointing out how bloody clever I am to change my template from that god awful pink colour!!!!

Water Aerobics starts next week, had to go out and buy some new swimming togs. $90!!! As Alf would say, "Flammin hell Ailse!!!" And I still want to buy some boardies - gotsta cover up those thunder thighs! Add that to the $80 pair of black pants I had to buy for a uni presentation today.... it's expensive losing weight! Going to have to buy a new pair of jeans soonish too... Argh!

Anyhoo kids, thats all for today.

"The Plan"

2005-10-27T14:12:00.000+08:00

I was telling my sister the other night about how after watching The Biggest Loser and Celebrity Overhaul I'd put together a little exercise circuit (in the loosest sense of the term) that I could do in my lounge room every night. Anyway, today she wanted to know if she could download it from my site (tongue in cheek I'm sure) and seeing as I had nothing else to write about this week I thought I would type it out!!

So here is my exercise "plan".

30mins on exercise bike with 30 second sprints every 3 mins
3x10 tummy crunches
1x10 girly pushups
1x10 squats
3x10 arm curls holding a can of soup (hey I don't have any weights - stop judging me!)

Anyway thats it so far, I'll be upping the repetitions when I can do them without feeling half dead afterwards. Now that it's starting to stay light outside later, I'll probably start walking again after work seeing as it won't be dark. Also, my friend Al and I are going to start water aerobics next month (Note to self - find some new togs!). So hopefully I'll be getting my arse into gear with this whole exercise thingo :)

So I lost another 600g this week. A bit disappointed because I was way better food wise than I was the week before and I started "the plan" - well for 3 nights out of the week anyway - and still lost the same amount as I did last time. Oh well. I'm going to blame it on woman stuff. You know what I mean!

Peace Out G's!

Another week goes by...

2005-10-20T14:17:00.000+08:00

Howdy friends!

So I haven't been up to much this week besides the usual work and uni crappola. I did go to the doctor's about my elbow - turns out it was tennis elbow! How weird is that! Anyhoo it's all better now.

On sunday I dragged my friend Kylie and her boyfriend and dog to do the Juvenile Diabetes walk around the river. I was skeptical if I'd actually be able to do it. 7kms walking might not sound like much to the average joe but to me it may as well have been a marathon! But I felt surprisingly good. Don't get me wrong - I didn't break any land speed records! But I didn't have to call a cab half way around either!! Anyway made the mistake of taking a nap at home afterwards, and woke up barely able to move. I think I somehow strained all the muscles in my lower back. So I hobbled around with a heatpack strapped to my back till wednesday. Got mum to give me a massage and now feeling fine and dandy again!

I saw this lady on Oprah the other day who'd lost something in the vicinity of 150kgs by having a gastro bypass. By losing the weight so quickly she had all this excess skin and needed 10 operations to fix it all. Bloody horrifying. So I'm quite happy to lose the weight 100g at a time if it means I won't have to have all that surgery! I'm pretty sure I can avoid the face lift in the very least!

I heard that they're doing "The Biggest Loser" in Australia with Bob & Jillian the trainers. If it wasn't going to be on TV I'd do it!!! God, I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying that wearing the tank top and cycle pants and showing the whole of Australia what I weigh. Good luck to anyone else who has the guts though.

Anyway, the weigh in was last night and lost another 600g. I might actually sneak into my pre-xmas goal, if I can avoid having a blowout between now and then. I'm guessing the family over east will be pretty surprised to see me 30kgs lighter!

I hate pink!

2005-10-14T21:10:00.000+08:00

So does anyone know how I can change the colour of my blog background without wiping out everything on it? I have no idea what I was thinking when I chose this colour template! It gives me a headache just looking at it!

My elbow hurts

2005-10-13T15:42:00.000+08:00

I don't know what the hell I've done to my elbow but it's freaking killing me. I'm in so much pain that it hurts to write, type, life, turn or touch my right arm from the elbow to the finger tips. My mum thinks it might be tennis elbow or tendonitis. I have no idea how its happened either, I just woke up in pain.

On a happier note, I lost another 800g last week. So I'm on track to reach the next of my mini-goals (as have been listed on the side bar now - how technological am I!). Did no exercise at all either and wasn't especially good with the food (mmmm sizzler potato skins) so there's obviously room for improvement!

Have been trying to drink at least 1.5L of water a day. Finding that I can do it at work but I struggle on weekends. Oh well... I'll keep plugging away.

Must go now because, seriously, I'm in agony here.

Cheerio!

PS - a note just for my friend Tina - the only person who reads this I'm sure... You know how you know I'm gay? Coz I have a sore elbow! :)

PPS - in case anyone else reads this, I'm not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Breathing a sigh of relief

2005-10-05T21:09:00.000+08:00

Howdy

I have been absent for a couple of weeks, mostly coz I've been busy with uni and work but also coz I didn't want to admit that I fell off the wagon for a weekend, the week before last. Visited my sister who lives 3hrs from Perth and proceeded to eat crap all weekend. Mmmmm hot chips.... Suffice to say I put on over a kg. So last week I didn't weigh in. Since the Monday after the weekend, so the last 10 days, I got back on track and made sure I did 30 mins on the exercise bike every night (about 14.5kms) and tried to drink 1.5L every day. Well I drank 1.5L about 6 out of the 10 days, but its a start! I felt like I was drowning!!! Anyhoo, it must have worked as when I weighed in tonight I'd lost 800g from the weigh in 2 weeks before. Which, if you add to what I put on, equates to about 2kgs. YAY!

Anyway, back to the crappy uni assignment...

Later

Welcome!

2005-09-16T12:05:00.000+08:00

So I've been steadily (mostly) working on losing weight since Feb 25, 2005 and I'm getting sick of telling the same stories over and over and over again. So I've decided to open this blog, so that in the future I can just direct people here. Yes I am that lazy!

What's my story? I hear you ask.. well here's the powerpoint version:

I've obviously not been happy with the way I look - anyone as overweight as me who says that is a liar, but I did believe that if people took issue with it - it was their problem not mine. In fact I still believe that.

So what happened to get me motivated enough to do something? Well I was plucking my eyebrows one night and I realised that even my eyelids were fat. Seriously! And that was the last straw. Funnily enough, they don't look any different now. But that was the catalyst.

I looked up weight watchers on the net, found my closest meeting (about 5 mins away!) and joined up. Is the point plan working for me? I would say that I follow it about 15% of the time. I occassionally find out what the point value of something is but honestly, it's the threat of the weekly weigh-ins that keep me eating healthily. So what have I done? I've stopped eating takeway every day. I allow myself to have one "junk" meal - so as I have something to look forward to - but only if I lose weight that week.

I'm not one to cook meals still, but I buy the lean cuisines, weight watchers blah blah frozen meals and they do it for me. I try to have a salad roll or toasted turkish bread for lunch most days and eat weetbix or a yoghurt for breakfast. I rarely drink cool drink now, but if I do, pepsi light is usually my choice. I still allow myself a chocolate every now and then, but it's usually one of those snack sized ones.

When I go out for dinner, maybe I will have chips with it, maybe not. If I do, I cut back on lunch that day or the next. If I want to go out and have a few alcoholic beverages, I will. I'm not going without here. I figured if I did, I would give up in no time. So, nearly seven months later, I'm still going, slowly but surely.

And that's it. From time to time I'll add my thoughts on whatever topic strikes my fancy. I'll update my stats regularly, so if you want to keep track, do it here. Because I am not all about the fat. I have other things I'd rather talk about!

Enjoy!