2011 new year new goals.

2 more nights of 2010 left.. so new goals needed for 2011.

I plan to finish my weight loss goal but more focused on Fun and fitness than weight. I will be eating clean, as per 12wbt plan and things I know I need to do like I uses to.

I have made a goal list of a new adventure each month that I have never done before that I want to do,
but to do these I will need to be fit to be able to safely do them.

Jan - Paintball
Feb - Catamaran on the Swan River
March - Kite Surfing
April - Horse Riding
May - Hiking part Bibbulmun Track
June - Rock Climbing
July - Scooter riding around Fremantle
Aug - hang Gliding
Sept - Mountain Biking
October - Abseiling and Caving
Nov - Parasailing
Dec - Surfing

Hows is that for a year of Fun.!!!!

Now for the fit -
On top of all that I will be getting back into my running again
with a
5km run in Feb
8km run in March
12km run in April
15km run in May
18 Run in July
Half Marathon in Aug

So with all that I think I will meet my goals of fun and fit..LOL and on the plus side all with the training to get to do these things the weight will come off as a side bonus.

Another month gone bye bye - bit of a long post sorry.

Well as same as before, great start and then stop.

Been running around in my head, why I keep doing this
Came up with some great reasons, (EXCUSSES)!!!! As to why.

1. - No point nothing will change anyway
2. - I am afraid that is I lose the weight I will not know how to dress right
3. - I will look worse as the excess skin gets worse if I keep losing any more
4. - I am happy this way now that I am healthy
5. - I am sick of giving up my time to train
6. - I want to enjoy my life now that I can
7. - I can’t find a balance of normal to obsessive so don’t worry about doing anything
8. - My hip hurts and will get worse
9. - There are people around me at home so I don’t want to put them out with my training and eating.
10. - Don’t like the fashion the plus size clothes look good this season.

I am sure I could keep going.

OK now one of the 12WBT pre season tasks was to find your EXCUESSES and smash them so here are my positive head replies.

1. - Things have changed and will continue to change and I just got to work around them and though the problems and enjoy the good things fully.
2. - OK well that is what I have friends for to tell me if I look silly, but I went shopping yesterday and I know that what I want to wear will look great when I have lost the weight, it looks good now and how much more fun will it be when I can just buy them. I had my colour chart done and it was great fun, and there are
services if I get really lost that can help me find what suits my new shape.
3. - ok yes this one has a tiny bit of truth in it, I have found that the skin is getting worse as I get closer to my goal, but it looks so much worse when I am not working out as I don’t have the toning to shape my body and it looks undefined, but when I am training there is shape and the skin is not as bad. It will look better when there are not extra layers of fat under it pushing it out as well. I will be getting some plastic work done in a year or so after I finish, and it’s pulled up as much as it will.
4. - Well now this is just funny, if I am happier why as I so damn down when I am not working out, and sitting around, yes it’s not all the time but I have found if I am not enjoying life now and that includes training and being able to push myself to do things I could never do before, after a few weeks I am so damn low, and I get on here and write great big long posts like this one..LOL
5. - Well yes it can get a bit repetitive, but this is my new life and I need to find ways to enjoy it, sometimes it’s just JFDI and other times if doing something new and exciting so that it does not feel like training but just having a blast. Need to look into to these ideas more, any hints leave a comment, and I will give it a go.
6. - Yes I do that is why I need to keep living my life, we have booked in to do a 3 hours sail on a tall ship and I want to climb the 33m main sail, well that was the goal when I booked it, now that I have stopped working out, I was saying to hubby last night, I don’t know if I could do it now!!!!!! WHAT where is the enjoying my life part if I can’t do the things I want to enjoy because I have been sitting on my butt for the last 3 weeks. I want to do extreme things (for me anyway) so I need to have the strength and stamina to do them, that is enjoying life.
7. - Well this is me in a nutshell, it’s all or nothing, if I can’t do something I just want do anything and that will make it ok, even typing that I realise how dumb that sounds so why does it make sense in my head when I do it. ? I was talking with hubby about this just last night, and his reply was, when you were doing it you where hanging around like minded people, who were talking about it as much as you where and you where all drawing energy off each other and fuelling each other on, and you where all happy doing that, then I stopped and now its obsessive, but it’s not its normal and it made you happy and its infectious as its gets other people around you wanting to enjoy life like they see you are. (Side note my hubby has now lost over 20kg and is running 6km every other day now)((And looking very sexy)).
8.- Yes my HIP this was a big stopper for me, but like I said above all or nothing, my hip falls into this group, if I can’t run, what’s the point of doing anything, Yes I know I should work around it, sports people do it all the time with worse damage that I got. But have I got off my butt and found out how to fix this properly NO, it was just the doctor said rest it and stop running so I did, is she a specialist in any area of training NO, so I am going to go to the running centre in Perth and talk to them, see their doc, I am going to try some Chinese natural methods and see if that helps as well as the anit inflames the doc gave me.
9. - Yes there are others living in the house, and not once have they tried to stop me, it’s me that stops me thinking about them and what they might I repeat might be thinking, and I been doing this for almost 2 years now so they are just happy to see a happy me enjoying my life.
10. - OMG really, I was so shocked when I said that to myself, yes the plus size fashions are a lot better now than before, but I don’t want to go back there.

So now that they are out of the way, what am I going to do.

THE PLAN

Back to basics.

Clean out house of food that I should not be eating.
Meal plan
Shop as per plan and no extra treats just in case of company etc.
No more treats at work, no more just a tiny bit will be fine.
15 weeks is the plan, I have 12 KG to go but this will allow for xmas, and a plato in there as well.
Be as "obsessive" as I need to be to achieve my goals, and enjoy life.

Training - 4 days a week will be running Yes running building up slowly and working with specialist for my hip. 1 day will be hill training.
The other training will be weights work 1 day a week, and body weight training 2 days a week. Including Swimming, cycling and endurance work.
1 weekend day a month will be a fun outdoor event, with hubby to enjoy what we are doing and still be working out.
MONDAY is my day off. I will do Super Sunday run training.

Goals / rewards - apart from weight loss

End week 5 - Run 7km - Sail boarding
End week 10 - Run 14km - Horse Riding
end week 15 - BE AT GOAL WEIGHT AND RUN A HALF MARATHON with hubby The Darlington half 19th March 11

I have found a 1/2 morathon training program so I will be following that for my weekly training, so I am not just doing it as guess work I have got the good information, I will so that a bit later on for all to see.

I found a great quote online while looking into the marathon stuff that I want to finish my blog today with.

"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Going good, with hick ups..LOL

Well here is my update, still marching along,
weight not really moving, but shaping is happening,
missed my class on Friday Sunday and Monday. But did double class today as was ment to.

Friday was because they dont run classes late at night that day and I was to slack to go to the earlier one, it was pump and I really dont like pump class so it was all me being bad.

Sunday was doing a market and could not make it at the times it was runing. But did not do anything else either again me being bad.

Monday was a crap day and very busy at work, so got home got into PJ and just veg out, again pump class day.

Weight in day was only a 600g loss, as was bad on saturday night out with friends, and eat more sugar than I should of and few drinks as well. was not good for me.

so still sitting at the 83.5 mark seem to bounce between the 85.5 and the 83 mark all the time at the moment. Up and down everyday.LOL but like I said shaping changing so happy with that and just keep going and smashing the classes, the new summer class list came out today and no extra combat or kimax on there , was not happy with that, they added spin and more pump :( in the mornings.

Well after 1st nov be doing morning classes more so that will make life after work a bit easier at the start of the week, except for my double class days of tues and thurs as I will still keep them.

I went to target on thursday and layby 2 new dress in size 12 so that I can have them as a goal to be in them before I collected them in the 8 weeks time when layby finishes. I am in a lot of size 12 already but these are a bit on the small 12 size.

Anyway thats my update for now.

Goal this week is to try and stop or at least cut down at lot on my snacking, they are healty low fat snacks but to many of them, after work and later at night.

Will keep working on that one and let you know how I go over next week oh and make sure do all my class workout plans.

Keep smiling and live you dreams what ever they are.

oh almost forgot new photos taken last weekend after new hair do.

I did not give up.

Yesterday was a test day for me, I got up and got on the scales as I do every morning, and I was 85.3kg, I was like what the hell, I have been eating so clean and working my ass off all week, so I had the whats the point voices start in my head, but I stopped them, (yaay me) I looked at my body, my arms where more toned my legs and tummy looked better, ok brain this is what you got to think about, not the scales, do I stop and give up only to regret it in a few days and feel sorry for myself, or do I look at the positives and think about how I feel at the moment (apart from the hurting muscles). So I got dressed and went off the boxing. I WON THAT MIND FIGHT...!!!!

I then went out for the day with my daughter, and had a great day with a nice lunch, and then all I wanted was sweet stuff, again the Neg voices started, and again I had the self talk that I had in the morning again. I did have 3 small squares of choc in the afternoon to fix that craving before I just eat really bad I think it was hormonal craving, but I only had the 3 was controlled and I knew what I was doing, I wanted to eat more but, thought nope. Not this time I am going to get pass this sticking point and get under the 80kg mark.

So after craving the choc cake I seen at the shop I went home and got changed to go for my 2nd workout for the day, before I could give in to the voices in my head, of just relax, it will not hurt. But yes it will hurt if I do not stick to my plan, I will crumble again, and next time I want to slack of or eat bad it will be easier cause I have already done it once. So I stayed focused and went and to combat and punched away..LOL left stuffed but feeling very good, and when I got home I did not want to eat bad as I had worked so hard, was very pleased with myself.

Today I got up and got on the scales as I do and I was 83kg, so I was just water retention, and I did not give in and wreck all the work I have done this week and I have in the last few months. So I am on a real positive note today, I WON MY MIND BATTLE THIS TIME!!!!

I am sure there will be plenty more but I can call back on this one now and remember how good I felt after not giving in, happy and focused instead for regret and why me voices in my head.

So today's plan is to get some jewellery work done, going into rockingham to layby some new goal dress that I seen yesterday, so that I will fit into them for summer.
Then body pump in the afternoon.

Ok off to have some food.

A +++ I am so proud of me!!!

Just quick update.

Well perfect day, as planed for me today.
Morning boxing at 6am tick,
All meals as planed tick,
After work combat class done tick,

and big big bonus tick because the boss brought in yummy looking
Cookies and cream cheese cake for afternoon tea, and I said NO thanks.
But they did look very yummy, but I have a bigger goal in mind than the 10mins of enjoying that food.

I am hurting all over from the workouts but that is only because I stopped working my body as I should of been doing. It will be better in a few days I am sure.

Well I am feeling very focused and on track at the moment, but not going to let that make me get complacent as it has in the pass, eyes on the price or in this case the scales...LOL

OK I have very tired so going to head off to bed early tonight I think.

Night all see you all again soon.

Still working hard.

Well 3rd day in row been training and eating good, I am so sick of being in the 80's for this long, I have it set in my mind that I want to see the 79 number or less on my scales.

I signed up at the gym again tonight for 4 weeks, so I need to use that and just keep going, I have been so hung up on wanting to run and not being able to do it with my hip that it has brought me down and I lost my drive or why I want to do this, what I want in my life, ok so yes I can't run, FOR NOW, I will give it the time to heal and just workout like I was doing before.

Tomorrow I have a double workout day, boxing at 6am and then combat at 6pm, it feels good to be focused again.

I had my check in today and I had only lost 200G from last monday but at least it was not going up more, still not back where I was a few weeks ago, but I will get there.

My food has been good, even checked the ebook from 12wbt to make sure my food is as it should be.

Time to smash it up, if I want to get anywhere near my goal for xmas.

Night for now have a great night till I update next, keep your mind in the right place and remember why you are doing this.

Ouch Ouch Ouch LOL

Well after boxing yesterday and Combat class today , I am hurting just a bit..LOL

Been good on my food as well.

Re-watched the end of round 2 12wbt video this morning, and cried, I am strong and have achieved so much, but it is not over and I want no I need to complete this for me.
Set backs and down times seem to be happening a lot but I guess there is a lesson in here somewhere for me to learn from this and then I can keep moving forward.

I am getting caught up in the crap and not doing what I need to do and just get off my butt and do it.

I am also having a very hard time at the moment with my new body and all the excess skin I have after loosing so much weight, I was watching myself today in class when doing combat and can see all the skin bouncing around, it looks so bad and is also getting painful, when I am jumping around. I have an appointment next month to see a plastic surgeon just to get some information and see how it can help me.
My amazing hubby, has told me if I want it done to complete the work I have done, we will get a loan and do it, as I have worked so hard and achieved things I have only ever talked about doing or dreamed about.
I have a hard time, thinking of the $$$$ spent on myself to do this, so will see what the doc saids first.

Anyway I am off to get some housework done, and then maybe some shopping could be fun. LOL
Will update again soon, have a great weekend.