1/2 way

So By my dates I'm 1/2 way through my challenge today. The magazine took a week to process so for them it's next week but I have to say im a bit disappointed which is silly.

My measurements are great 

 5.7kg loss. 

Arms -3.5cm off each

Chest -6cm

Waist -10cm

Gluts -7cm

Thighs -4cm off each

Calf -2.5cm off each 

Hips -9cm

Perhaps it's that I weighed in at 81.1kg? Getting back into the 70's would have been nice :( 

These are my photos :( top ones are the start obviously. 

They aren't pretty :( still a long way to go but it is what it is and I can only improve from here so posting these photos is for a reminder of why I am doing this because yes it is embarrassing posting a photo of what I look like but to never feel this embarrassment again will keep me going! 

I've had to have a rest day today as I have a niggle in my lower back. It was sore yesterday after my work out and I put a heat pack and anti inflam on it and it feels ok today but still tender. I was up and could have gone to the gym this morning but I was worried with it being tender if I pushed it I could really do an injury. I hadn't had a rest day in over a week so I was due for one anyway. 

In 6 weeks i did pick at a few chocolates here and there nothing major and I had 2 bad eating days but I still made sure I came in under my calories. I started out lighter with my exercise to ensure I didn't injure myself. 3 years of not much exercise I've had to build myself into it. I now run 3km in 20mins 5-6days a week i do weights 6 days a week and I also do 20mins low intensity exercise after my weights every day. I have a PT sessions on Monday. 

I did some reading yesterday and I am learning a lot. The guy knows his stuff. Now I have decided I definitely don.'to want to figure compete. They get so low in body fat their period stops and every thing. No thanks. For me this is a change in lifestyle. I want to really tone up and really drop body fat but not to that extent.  I am following their off season diet and over the next 6 weeks will increase my workout intensity even more. 

So my diet that I had worked out myself was what he recommended which I was really happy about. :) 

With the exercise I need to up the intensity by keeping my heart rate up and in the uncomfortable zone for longer. 

To do this it's similar to what I did in my PT session on Monday. 

So during a weight session if I do squats i follow it up by jump squats, lunges followed by plyometic lung jumps. 

For other exercises do ones that incorporate the whole body moving. So shoulder work incorporate squats into it etc. it's going to be hard work but it's what I need to do. 

I want to be at least 75kg at the end of this challenge. I know I will be disappointed if I'm not. 

Another challenging day

I  slowly learning my triggers for eating and a really big one is tiredness. Last night was a shocker. So B and I haven't been the closest lately 3 kids under 3 u get so busy u just pass each other. Because I am out the door early I am usually in bed by 9 and do 1-2 wake ups over night with Zach and out the door to the gym 5:30ish.

Well last night Ben had a movie for us to watch so I thought I would stay up and watch it with him and it was nice to snuggle and watch a movie together. It's been a long time. Anyway that finished at 10:30 and just as we were heading to bed Zach woke for a feed. He never wakes that early. Agh so I fed him put him down went to bed. Blake woke crying at 11:30, and 12:30, Zach woke for another bottle at 1:30 and then Tyler woke crying at 2:30. Finally after this I got to sleep only to be woke at 5:45 by Zach for another bottle. After this bottle I put him down and went to the gym eyes bulging out of my head! 

So because of this tiredness im searching for energy. I had my smoothy for breakfast but since then I have had 3 Freddo frogs and for lunch I had 2 rye wraps with avocado, ham, processed cheese slice and tomato. I know it's not that bad and normally it would be ok but I'm on this challenge I'm almost 1/2 way though and I know I will be disappointed it I don't get to my goal. 

But I've pulled my head in. I entered it into myfitnesspal so it just need to make sure I don't tip over my calories for the day. 

As for my day at the gym well I am finding my legs aren't sore after a workout. So I thought perhaps it's from bad form as in not getting deep enough in the squats and using the full range of muscle motion. So today I dropped my weights to start and am going to work on techniques. Feels like I've done nothing though so we will see. It was a bit of a rushed session though as I was running so late. 

Hopefully the boys have a better night so I can get some good sleep and get to the gym early. 

Milestone

Well those scales finally shifted! 81.6kg! The 70's are so close I can taste them! I haven't been in the 70's since my 2nd miscarriage in 2009. 

But the milestone is I am now over half way. I have lost 17.1kg since the day Zach was born on the 17th March and I have 16.6kg to go to get to my goal of 65kg! 

Yay! :) next Friday marks the midway point of this challange and I would really like to be in the 70's. Even 79.9kg would do :) 

I had another pt session this morning. Was really good we did weights followed by a plyometic set. So for example I did squats using the smith machine heaviest weight reaching muscle fatigue in 12 squats and then straight into jump squats. Omfg talk about hard work! Lol it's great though I love being pushed. My trainer loves anything jumping- jump squats, jump lunges, frog jumps. I suck at jumping. Lol hopefully over time I improve! Haha 

I have to up my ab routine. I'm not doing much and what I am doing is gettig easy so I am going to look into that tomorrow. Find some good exercises. 

And I have to add this one simply because I found it absolutely hilarious! 

Motivation

I found this last night and I love it! This is going on my fridge! 

Why u should take photos.

So I'm still sick! Agh and the scales have stalled on 82kg agh! I know u go through ups and downs of weight loss etc but it doesn't help. I know u shouldn't watch the scales but when I have 17-20kg still to lose I expect to see those numbers drop. Sure when I get to the last 5-10kg it will be different but until then damit. 

Anyway it's been one month since I took some photos of me in my dream clothes. The ones I want to look good in again.

The dress u can't see much difference but the jeans. Well I was so NOT even expecting to get them over my butt yet! 

Still a long way to go but it just shows I'm clearly losing the cm. losing fat and gaining muscle! I can start to see the muscle definition coming through the plentiful layers of fat I still have but see that hint of muscle is nice. 

This morning at the gym it was super quiet and I was the only one in the weights room. So I thought I would try those few weights I really want to so but was too embarrassed if anyone was around incase I did something stupid. 

Anyway I can now dead lift and also free bar squat and lung! Yay. No more smith machine. While the smith machine is great this forces me to 100% use all the right muscles especially core as I need to hold the bar steady as flat where as the smith machine will do that for u. 

So after my wavering motivation thinking nothing was happening after seeing those photos I can see something definitely is.

So glad I took them now makes getting up in the freezing cold dark worth it! 

Sumer bodies are made in winter! 

Week 5

So this week has been both really good and really bad.

So the week started off great I had my first PT session. Tabatta HIIT session. It's Thursday and I'm still sore! Which is awesome. After I still managed a 2.77km jog In 20mins. Tuesday and Wednesday was mainly cardio as i was sore mixed with some weights. Tuesday I finally cracked 3km in 20mins! Yay! 

Anyway the cold I have had for what 2 weeks now just keep amping up. It was bad yesterday but last night I could not stop coughing. Heavy chesty flem both on chest and in nose. Dark thuck green yellow stuff. So gross. :( I made the decision over night i needed a  rest day to let my body fight this cold a little. Then when I got up this morning my first lot of monthlys arrived. First proper one after the birth of zach. It's amazing how they just make u EAT! 

This morning was bad. I had a few bites of the boys iced finger buns :( then I had a ham, cheese and avocado rice mountain bread wrap, and to top it off I had 2 mini milky ways! Agh! All before lunch. 

I weighed in at 82kg 2 days ago so I could have dropped down to 81.5kg at tomorrow's weigh in but now I will be lucky if I make the 82. 

After that slip up I decided to refresh my motivation and go through online weight loss transformation pics and blogs. Was a good idea as I feel motivated again. Only 1/2 a day blown. 

Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better and can smash it at the gym. Pull my head in and stick strong to my diet! Might be time to print out some of my motivational pics I have on my iPhone and iPad. Stick them on the fridge. Help bring home the back half of this challenge! 

One more week until half way. I can do this! 

Two motivational pics for the day 

Rest day

This week's rest day is really needed. I've had a cold for a week but it picked up again over night. Really dark yellow/green mucus both in the nose and on the chest. Yuk! 

I even managed to have a well ended nap whilst Blake and Zach were sleeping. 

I've woken up feeling a little better but still not good. Hopefully by tomorrow I will have picked up a bit. It's only a cold not the flu so fine to keep training.

I have my first PT session at 8:30 tomorrow morning which I'm really excited about. I really hope they push me hard. I will assess what type if session it is and if I will do more after. It's only a 30min session so I might either do weights or cardio after depending on what the bulk of the session was. 

I've also been doing a bit more reading on training programs of fitness models/competitors. I doubt I would ever get to competing or anything but I'm looking to be toned to that degree. 

Training wise i am going to change to a 20min HIIT warm up of 1min sprint 1min walk 

Then I will do my weights 

Then do 30mins of low intensity cardio. 

They say to to the cardio am and weights PM but my life doesn't allow for that so I'm just modifying it and I will see how it goes. 

I'm going to start driving to the gym and doing the cardio there so I can increase my intensity. The jog I was doing to the gym just isn't pushing my body hard enough or for long enough. My running fitness has improved so much it was only taking about 7mins to jog there. 

Weights wise I'm going to change the weight and reps. We are always taught that it's 12reps etc but after my reading to really build muscle week 1-4 u should do heavy enough weights to do 8-12reps repeat 3 times. If u can do more than 12 the weight is too light if u can't do 8 then it's too heavy. Week 5-8 should be 6-8reps 3times and weeks 9-12 should be 4-6 reaps 3 times. I was doing weights heavy enough to reach muscle failure at 12reps and doing that 3 times so that was good but now I'm in week 5 I need to increase the weight to lower those reps. 

Diet wise I am going to drop to 1400cal. I'm not losing the weight I would like to. I want to push it to a definitely 1 kg a week. 

The other good thing was I went for a run on the Treadmil at the gym yesterday the big Treadmil at the gym felt like it was running for me a bit lol but after my 2min warm up I ran for 18mins 8-10km/hr.  Normally after a 10km/hr sprint i have to walk for a bit but not Saturday. It felt really good. I did 2.77km in 20mins. Getting so close to that 3km mark. 

I know rest days are so important but in definitely looking forward to gettig stuck into the week.