And the 6 weeks begins....

So I had my appt with my personal trainer this morning (it was early, but i managed!). It all went well. First we did a fitness test (run for as long as you can on the treadmill). I probably could have gone for longer but I started getting really sore legs (shin splint style pain). I usually get it when i run on a treadmill (would prefer to be outside) and also think it may be due to sore legs from new netball shoes, as I also got the pain at netball training last night.

Next up we went through my program for the week. It's a circuit style program using kettlebells, medicine balls and some jumping up onto benches (the worst thing ever!!). I have to go through the circuit 3 times non stop, and time myself. Each session I have to aim to get faster and I have to do it twice more before I see her next wednesday.

I've done all the exercises before so getting them were no problem. Doing all of them in a row non-stop 3x was hard work but I got there in a time of 19.49. watch this space for an improvement!!

While I was there she also gave me my eating plan which looks pretty good :) For each meal I'm given 3 or 4 options as to what I can have and am allowed 2 cheat meals a week (where she said I can have WHATEVER i want!). theres a few things that we dont have in our cupboards so Im about to do some online shopping to stock up, then theres no excuses!!

The last thing she gave me was some homework for the week, and im going to challenge all my readers out there to do it with me! Week 1's homework is 1000 star jumps and 200 backward lunges, done at any stage during the week. so standing waiting for dinner to cook, do 20 star jumps. during the ad breaks on tv, 50 star jumps. add them up and let me know how you are going! ill be keeping a tally on my fb page, so make sure you post yours their as well, lets motivate each other!

i came across this pic and thought it appropriate for day 1 :)

i hope everyone is having a good week so far xx

a little scared....

hey guys,

so the sickness fairy has FINALLY left our house! all that is left is a little sniffle in baby patch's nose, but otherwise we are definitely nearing the top of the hill.

because it has been over 6 weeks since any kind of movement on the scales, i have decided that my arse needs a real good kicking. and the boot i have chosen comes in the form of a fabulous personal trainer. Sheta, at Evolve Personal Training, is a no-nonsense trainer that works hard, and expects the same from her clients. She's competed in 'figure' competitions and theres not much she doesnt know about the world of fitness. Anyone in NZ (or anywhere really!) can check out her webpage here. She does online training too, so you dont have to be in Hamilton to take advantage of her services. i used to train with sheta about 7 years ago, before i got slack and lazy haha. she knows me well, and (im not sure if this is a good thing) knows what im capable of. im kinda scared!

Anyway the next 6 weeks (starting Wednesday; its monday now) will contain the following (info taken from shetas website):
Forget wasting time with moving around the gym from machine to machine and learn functional training workouts - that are designed to be completed in 30 minutes or less! You will be taken through a new exciting routine each week.... and you will be timed! Your goal is to equal or better your time each week. Nutrition is also taken care of with this programme.

Week 1: Fitness test, 'before photos', full body measure (includes body fat with caliper measures), go through first week programme + cardio/goal set for next week.

Week 2: Overview of last week. Weigh in. Go through programme + cardio/goal set for next week

Week 3: Overview of last week, full body measure (includes body fat with caliper measures), go through programme programme + cardio/goal set for next week.

Week 4: Overview of last week. Weigh in. Go through programme + cardio/goal set for next week

Week 5: Overview of last week, full body measure (includes body fat with caliper measures), go through programme programme + cardio/goal set for next week.

Week 6: Overview of last week. Weigh in. Go through programme + cardio/goal set for next week

End Week 6: Repeat fitness test, 'after photos', full body measure (includes body fat with caliper measures), overview of programme.

its going to be a full on 6 weeks. the part that im most worried about is the eating. I just love food. I wish i could think of it as a fuel thing, but i just LOVE the taste of it.

so.....i have come up with a plan. Papa patch will be doing it with me too (hehe). this way there will be NO bad food in the house, and we can drag each other out the door to do the exercise. AND we have put a wager on it. for who can lose the most body fat %. if he wins, then i have to give him a hour long massage (pfft, who can be bothered doing that!), and if i win then he has to go and get a full wax. just coz i want him to feel the pain that us females feel often. mean? probably. but guys just dont get the lengths we go to for them!!

so the countdown is on. AF is due tomorrow, so hopefully she gets here, does her thing and goes away really quick and it doesnt get in the way of a fabulous start on wednesday!

watch this space people!! there is about to be much more space, and much less ME!

ooh and i found this pic, which i love and thought i would share :)

BLAH!!

sometimes life is so unfair. id finally worked up to getting back into this game, and i get sick!! freaking typical. kinda reminds me of that song by alanix morrisette, ironic. "its like meeting the man of your dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife" or the man who was afraid to fly:

 after finally recovering from my broken (well they felt that way!) muscles from my workout on monday, i hauled myself back into the gym on thursday to a pump class. just took it easy with lighter weights, just to get my blood pumping again and to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING! then 9pm on thursday, bam!! i start throwing up. hence the start of a lovely tummy bug that had me up every hour throughout the night wrapped around the toilet bowl. ARE YOU SERIOUS!

ofcourse, i also had baby patch to deal with at the same time as he was still getting over the end of his tummy bug plus some teething thrown in there for good measure (you will be pleased to know that tooth has FINALLY cut through).

so due to serious lack of sleep and still being sick, papa patch stays home from work to look after us both. and around lunch time HE starts feeling ill. ooh what a household!! so Friday lunchtime, we are all wrapped up on the couch in front of the TV, good way to get fit huh! well atleast we werent eating crap at the same time, infact we werent eating anything! which is not much better really.

so here i am. feeling reasonably good again, not totally recovered but almost there. i have my first game of netball tomorrow so working out tomorrow is compulsory. fingers crossed i last! and eating will be back on track.

also uni starts again tomorrow, yahoo!! not really, but its the beginning of the end so gotta be happy about that :)

I'M BACK!!

Not that I REALLY left. Well, no actually I did. I first started this blog just after new years and all was good. Motivation was high. But I have found that since Papa Patch went back to work (23rd Jan), I just dont seem to have the time to sit down on my computer for long enough to be able to read through everyones blog, as well as write my own. PLUS do everything else I need to do in the day with Baby Patch, and work, and exercise. And somewhere in there some social time for myself and for my relationship with Papa Patch.

Also Ive had some issues at home I've been dealing with lately. I feel like I'm so emotionally exhausted that I dont have space for anything else at the moment. Also, when I get stressed all I want to do is eat, which makes it all extra hard! Damn emotional eating!! But I'm hoping that things are slowly getting sorted and I can get back into a headspace where I'm focused again.

As if thats not all hard enough, my body is still trying to work out the whole hypothyroidism thing and adjust to the meds Ive been put on. My levels are starting to balance out, and hopefuly we will have them totally worked out. AND blood tests have just shown low iron levels. I'm booked in with a dr next week to get an iron & B12 infusion (gotta love a quick fix!!).

Now i know all of the above are just excuses. Give me one of them and I will overcome it, but when you chuck them all in together, along with some broken sleep due to Baby Patch teething and waking in the night, and it all seems to hard! Thankfully Ive managed to keep it together enough so that I haven't put on any weight, but I haven't lost any recently either.

So what am I going to do about it all??  Well uni starts back next week, which will mean I am going to have to be super organised. BUT it also means that I will actually have routine back in my life!! I'm looking forward to having a routine, and sticking to it! Baby patch is enrolled in day care 4 days a week which will free up a little space for me to be able to think about myself again.

PLUS i have another great motivation :) My gorgeous photographer friend has just told me this morning that when I reach my goal weight (67kgs) she will do a glamour shoot for me, for free!! how cool is she !?! shes a great photographer, so anyone in hamilton new zealand should check out here work here. This glamour shoot is going to stay at the forefront of my mind. I AM GOING TO DO IT!!

To start getting back into it i went to the gym on Monday, total fail!! well no actually it wasnt a fail, it was a damn good workout. but i havent been able to walk for the 2 days since coz my muscles are SO SORE!!! i had my first netball training last night and my goodness i struggled to move haha. luckily we didnt do a whole lot, more just introducing the team etc and sorting out uniforms. to try and help get my blood pumping i booked myself into going to an RPM class this morning at the gym. But ofcourse Baby patch chooses last night (i know he really didnt CHOOSE it) as a good night to be sick :( so i was up every 1/2 to him between 12 and 4 as he was throwing up. numerous bedding changes, pajama changes and lots of cuddles later and I was finally back to bed. and my alarm was due to go off in an hour. NO FREAKN WAY was i getting up!!

so right now i feel like a zombie. i cant walk properly coz my muscles are so tender and my eyes are hanging out of my head. and Baby Patch is super tired too. ooh the fun!! hoping to go for a walk later to get some fresh air into both of us. and some blood pumping to move some salt from my muscles. thats the plan anyway.

talk again soon, i promise!! x

Ashes & Smoke

That's what my motivation has turned into. I could say that I've been too busy (and believe me I've tried to tell myself that several times lately) or I could say its been because Baby Patch has been sick (a cold & teething could be ALOT worse!) , but they are all just excuses.Really, I just seem to have lost my fire. That burning in your belly that makes you want more. I mean, ofcourse i want more, but its the feeling that DRIVES you to get up at 5am to do your exercise, that gives you the motivation to make a healthy lunch when it would just be so much EASIER to have crap. And I seem to have lost it. Or rather its just seems to have died down.

I did finally get around to putting together my one month photos. They actual pics were taken on the 1st, but I have only just gotten around to comparing them to when I started. Seeing them has helped pick up that motivation a little, as has doing my measurements and finding I have lost 10 cms since I have started. But theres still no real PASSION behind it.

Any suggestions??

I thought I would put up the comparision photos for you all to see. I can see a bit of an improvement, but still no where near what I would like.