Mini Milestone week (a week early)

Week 4 is our mini milestone week in 12wbt but as we have a public holiday tomorrow a few of us thought 'hey let's do it a week early so we get a day recovery'

So we did the blue arrow nature walk. This is almost 2.5 hours of hills, stairs, ups, downs, long grass (eeeww shudder), turkeys, wallabies, spiders and snakes (which I didn't see so don't exist), thrills and a few spills. I fell on the way down, but my awesome friend caught me!

At the very top we are about 400m above sea level, the view is just stunning and so worth the walk.


Now even though not all of us made it right to the top, each one of us that climbed out of bed early on a Sunday, put on our shoes and made the drive there deserves a huge pat in the back.

We re-grouped as we came down while we waited for the very last member to catch up. Little did we know, she powered on while we were chatting and almost beat us back down to the bottom.

Excuse the blur in the photo, hard to find good photographers these days :-)


It was very sunny, but tried to get a shot to show how high we are. This here is the look out we walk to most weekends at the top of the red arrow.



We had a fantastic morning and everyone was in the highest spirits when we finished. I'm so glad I got to experience it with these awesome people!

Now I do have a few other wee milestones up my sleeve for the week, 1 being a run. I want to see how far I can run, 4klm would be nice. So I'll give it a go and report back soon.

Oh and fitness testing and measurements coming up this week! YAY

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Mixing it up

That was heaps of fun!

Because I couldn't get to the gym for my strength training today I decided to mix it up a bit at home.

I really wanted to do the gym exercises Mish had set, and as it turned out it was all free weights with a fitball instead if a bench! So I borrowed some weight and put air in the fit ball (workout in itself!).

So for my workout this minting I used the 5 min warm up from Mish's cardio kicker DVD, then did my weights program, and can I say chest press laying on a fitball....whoa! Then to finish I did the abdominal workout and cool down from cardio kicker.

I really enjoyed it! It's a strength session so not a huge calorie burn but 339 none the less!

Oh and weigh in Wednesday, lost 600g this week, so 600g closer to healthy weight range 4.3kgs to go!

Happy Wednesday :-)



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Trying very hard to get organised

It appears I'm getting sick, had to bail out half way through my second round of rolling intervals on the treadmill as I could not breath and my chest felt like it might cave in. I still did my full hour just at about 70%.

So I'm glad now that I'd taken the time over the last few days to try get in front a little. I've made Thai pumpkin soup (apparently a little spicier than normal according to tough concrete_man), minestrone soup, chicken stock and some lasagna. I've also made the kids sandwiches for the week and frozen them.

I've also planned ahead for my workouts as concrete_man will be leaving early in the mornings to go play in the concrete. I'm borrowing some free weights for tomorrow because there are no machines in tomorrows workout and I can do it at home. I'll use the cardio kicker warm up for my warm up. See I'm set!

I'll report back after my weight session tomorrow and see how I went. Added bonus of being at home, no travel time I can probably fit in 1.5 hours ah bliss...who'd have thought things like this would excite me.


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Torture in the Tropics

I'm testing out a new blogging app on my iPhone.

And thought I'd show off team FNQ's new Torture in the Tropics shirts






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My laptop is MIA

And so am I!!!

As soon as it returns from it's 'make over' - read rebuild - I will be back to blogging.

I can blog via my iPhone but I am yet to find an app that I like, so far it's just painful.

So I promise I will be back soon....

So much to update
- Fitness testing
- New 12wbt family members
- My official round 2 starting stats and photo
- A blogging challenge that I am now 2 weeks behind in
- My goals for round 2
- Probably a gazillion other things

Who lit the fire in my hamstrings

OH MY GOD!

I lost count of how many times I told my training I hated him yesterday, I stopped counting after 6!

I am loving that with all this new training I'm doing, all these new exercises and changing it up every couple weeks that I'm back to feeling that burn in my muscles after a work out.  Today it wasn't just a burn it was a bloody bonfire and it's still roaring.  I'm thinking it was the dead lifts, or was it the squat press, or was it the stupid in and bloody jumping things or no wait, was it my 400m runs between each circuit.  And don't even get me started on how my abs and shoulders feel after neg push ups and sit up.

I'm starting to think PT stands for Personal Torturer.

But hey on a positive in 30mins I burnt over 400 cals!  I did another small run on the treadmill some abs and some stretches, 40min in total and 550 calories!! Not a bad days work at all.

Ok I'm off to find my cooling peppermint spray for my legs, I wonder if it would work better if I drink!

Fitness testing tomorrow, meeting my new 12WBT family...super excited.

Excuses I use or have used in the past

One of our preseason tasks is to identify some of the excuses we have been using that have been holding us back.  It now amazes me how many times I hear people use the same excuses and I realise how lame some are.

Internal Excuses: The self talk that goes on between the Jekyll and Hyde in your head

I will lose my friends is I exercise, eat well and lose weight.

I don't have time I'm too busy
I'm comfy/happy at the weight I am now
I have no one to do it with me and I'm not motivated to do it on my own
I'll cheat on my partner if I lose weight, that is what skinny people do (there is a long story behind this one)
I have no energy and I'm just always tired
I'm not organised enough and I'm lazy

Some of my solutions

Tell my friends what I am doing and ask for their support, those that can't support me are not worth having around.

I am busy, but I have tried very hard to find an extra hour in my day and that hour is at 530am.
Remind myself if I feel good now, that I will feel awesome when i get to where I am, and keep looking at my before photo to realise I really am not yet happy with myself.
Just do it, doing it on your own is better, no one can cmplain or whinge or bail on you!
Know and trust in myself that I have never cheated and never will, I make my decisions with my head and heart not my weight!
Exercising and eat right will fix the energy levels
Keep things simple, choose meals that are simple, freeze meals and diarise everything.

External Excuses within your control: These are excuses prompted by external factors but which you still have some control over

I'm too busy with kids and business and life

It costs to much to eat healthy and to exercise and lose weight
My partner works away and often gets stuck at work and doesn't always get home in time for me to train for to help with kids while I prepare a healthy dinner
The gym doesn't have any classes I like at a time that suits

Some of my solutions

Keep training and meals simple, make lists and diarise everything and stick to it

Stick to shopping lists, subsitute for cheaper ingreadient, make a proper attempt at a herb or vegie garden, buy multiple of staple items when on special
I have purchased Crunchtime DVDs along with some weights, a step and a medicine ball, plus I have a skipping rope and some boxing gear and I will use the dvds or do an outdoor circuit at home when he is away. Plus I have shifted my regular training to 530am so that him finishing late does not interupt my training.
Group fitness are not the be all and end all, made a decision to give up on group classes and follow Michelle's work outs on my own and it's HEAPS OF FUN!!!

External excuses outside of your control: These are external factors that you have absolutely no control over

sick children

Work drama
Family crisis
Injury or illness

Some of my solutions

I have back up training etc for at home when I need to and fronzen healthy meals for days when things don't go to plan.

But learning to accept that these things happen and just move on and get started again asap is the best way to deal with these thing.