End Day 8

Well - cheats are bad! My new found fascination with weighing myself has found that over the course of my weekend I put 2kg back on - due to the Thai and fish & chips!  Assuming most of that will be carb/sodium water retention so keen to watch it go away over the next few days.... so in short - cheats slow your progress down and make you feel like crap - bad idea :P  Oh well - we live and learn!

Today I did a session with Eliza (Legs) as well as instructed Combat this arvo.  Not as knackered as usual which is nice - may be getting fitter and stronger! Hooray!!! ('bout bloomin time!).  My struggle once again this week will be to fit in all the extra cardio my MBS trainer wants me to do - I did it last week so it is possible to do it again!  Need to work out a schedule - similar to the ones I give my clients to keep me to plan.

Nutrition today was spot on - feeling leaner and definitely cleaner than this morning after last night’s nightmare dinner :P  Looking forward to tomorrow and training hard at MBS - bring it on!

End Day 7, and Week 1!

Well - 1 week is done and dusted! Been a great week and I'm excited for another 11 to come :D  Food this weekend has been fine - I had two planned cheats - both of them dinners Sat and Sun night... and they both made my guts feel like CRAP! I find it so funny that when you've eaten cleanly for just a few days, your body then tells you when you've eaten something that is not great to digest :P  So sitting here with the biggest, bloated guts that want to spew out the fish and chips I ate earlier I am thinking cheat meals may not make much of an appearance in the coming weeks!  My plan was to have 2 cheat meals each week for the first 2 weeks, then only 1 cheat meal per week in weeks 2 & 4, and then only 1 cheat meal per fortnight from weeks 5-8 and then have none in the last 4 weeks.

I'm pleased to say that I have eaten no Peanut Butter, nor have I had any alcohol this week - for me, that means I have not consumed 9,000 calories that I normally would have!  That's huge!  Such a positive change for my health and for that I am very pleased that I have stayed strong and decided to take this path I have chosen.

For my two clients that have posted lovely comments in this blog (Lauren and Sandie)... girls, you inspire me on a daily basis!  Thank you both for your ongoing support and wishing nothing but the best for me - you've both touched my heart and I'm so proud to be your PT and friend!  Your journeys have inspired so many people already and I'm excited to see where the next 11 weeks takes you both!!!  BRING IT ON!!!

P.S. - Down to 64.7kg - back to FTC #5 weight so feeling like I'm now ready for a new transformation!!!!

Day 5 - over rover!

Is it bed time yet?  I'm exhausted!  Instructed Pump this morning (medium weights), did a quads and triceps PT (with a trainer who didn't know how to push me unfortunately), followed up by my own triceps and chin-up workout, followed by Body Combat in 30 degree heat!  Yup - too much!  Tried to go easy in Pump so I could go hard in my PT, but then had a new PT at that club over spot me, so even if the weight went up he took most of the load - very frustrating!  So felt like I should make up for it with my own triceps workout, plus see if I can still do unassisted chin-ups (and I can proudly say I bashed out 14.5 of them over 3 sets!), and then had to get my cardio in at the very end!  Eating has been spot on - not hungry but still thinking about peanut butter :P  I would have consumed 1.5kg of peanut butter this week if I hadn't of been stopping myself - yep I'm an addict in recovery right now!  Great news from Mr Scales again today - I'm down to 65.2kg!  Woop Woop!  Only 400gms away from when I finished last FTC - can I rid myself of these 400gms by the end of week 1???

Inspiration :)

DAY 4 - Done and dusted!

Another day draws to a close - this week has flown and I'm stuffed!  New goal - get more sleep (she says at 11pm on a school night! :P).  Nutrition today has been perfection (clean and lean that is) - still working on getting breakfast in earlier though.  Scales were nice to me today - 65.95kg, so down another kg!  I'm just 1kg away from where I finished off last challenge, so thinking this week has been good for shedding Christmas / New Years / lazy January antics.  Makes me excited for where I can take myself this challenge, as last FTC saw me loose only 2kg in the first 6 weeks (having a massive plateau at 69kg) as I got my nutrition back on track and stopped drinking like a fish on the weekends :P  Hopefully last challenge has placed me in a better position for this one!  Trained in Richmond today - Shoulders and Hammies (and I hate training legs so suffered greatly), then instructed Sh'Bam this arvo and died of cardio exhaustion as usual!  BRING ON DAY 5 - I'm feeling motivated and excited, and will do my measurements again on the weekend to see what's going on composition wise :D

End Day 3

Day 3 done - success! This morning did a Back PT session and was slaughtered... secretly love that feeling but shhhh... don't tell anyone :P  Nutrition spot on (clean and lean) and even managed brekkie at 8.30am! Woohoo! That's as early as it's been all year - big high fives :)

This arvo I got a new tattoo - sooooo painful!  This one is on my right shoulder blade and below (and they are correct - getting tattoos near your ribs SUCK!).  All my other ones were nowhere near as painful!  As soon as it started I wanted it to stop - OMG it was horrible!  I think I must be getting old - can no longer go on show rides without feeling nauseous and now I can bare the pain of the tattoo needles.  Anyway, after 4 hours and 3 breaks during, it is complete and now I'm exhausted both physically and mentally... the most painful 4 hours of my life!

New perspective though - If I can withstand that pain I can definitely withstand a craving for crap food :D

Scales exactly the same today which is awesome!  The crap is staying off!!!

xx

End day 2!

Another successful day of eating clean and lean! Even brushed my teeth and chewed gum to get away from several sugar cravings (that was tough) but so glad I did not cave :) High five me! Snap ;P

Day 2 so far...

Instructed a Sh'Bam class this morning, then followed it up by a Chest and Bicep workout - I'm exhausted!  Need to still work on my food - I'm eating clean and lean but not managing to get breakfast in (hard when you start work at 5.30-6am!) - But no excuses - will try my best!

Went to supermarket to get more protein (chicken) - picked up a roast chook - my tastebuds said "go on, get it, it'll taste awesome and you wont eat any of the delicious skin or fatty bits - and you'll only have 100gms at a time with veg, I promise" - Then I decided I was lying to myself - I love roast chickens and am known to eat 1/2 a chook at a time, without veg - so I put it back :)  Stupid tastebuds - they don't want the body shape that I do :P

Weight today - 66.85kg - 2kg down already! Woop Woop!  The power of clean eating amazes me!

End Day 1

Eaten lean and clean all day - high five me! Bring on day two :D Can't wait to see where I can take this body of mine!

DAY 1

Measurements are done: starting weight: 68.9kg, body fat percentage (approx) 22.74% (53.24kg lean mass, 15.66kg fat). Total of Measurements - 800.5cm

Shoulders: 109.5
Chest: 90
Waist: 75
Navel: 85
R & L Biceps Relaxed: 31
Hips: 102
Right Thigh - widest point: 65.5
Left Thigh - widest point: 67
R & L Calfs: 40

Now for the exciting part - My goals for the 12 weeks:
Weight - 60kg or below
Body Fat Percentage - 15% or below
Thigh Measurements at their widest points - 60cm or below

This morning I had a PT with Eliza - Legs session, and this afternoon I am instructing Body Combat which will be my cardio for the day.

Feeling good :)  Looking forward to seeing some changes in my body!

Inspiration!

It all starts tomorrow - I am excited as it feels like the start of something new :)  Had fish and chips for dinner tonight followed by 3 x calipos!  Not the best way to start my lean and clean diet I know.  And being a PT I know that you can't always say "I'll start tomorrow" but I did anyway :P  Now I just need to live up to my goals!

As on Monday 20th February I am going to focus on a goal for my physique, and I'm excited to see what my body can do!  I am participating (once again) in my gyms 12 week challenge (to begin my transformation). These challenges in the past have seen me lose a bit of weight here and there (from when I've fluctuated up and down on the scales and in cm's), but I have never had a goal as big as this time!  I want to see if I have the mental and physical power to compete in a ANB Victoria Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Model Championships come September 30th this year.  This challenge will be part of my early preparation, and I think the result will have a lot of weight as to if I will be competing in September or not.

I will be training with a personal trainer 4 times per week, a 4 day split, in order to sculpt my muscles that lie beneath my adipose tissue :)  My real challenge will be my nutrition - the area in my life I am yet to master!  Another challenge for me will be fitting more cardio/walks into my daily routine.

Let the challenge commence!

My 'Before' Photos - Taken 18/02/2012