Week 7 comparison

So I'm not actually due to take photos until next week but I just wanted a boost and needed to see how far I have come. 

This is my week 7 comparison pics. 

Definitely big changes but still a long way to go. I would really love to see more tone but that will take a lot more time. Still a very high body fat percent. 

79.7kg. 7.1kg loss in 7 weeks. 5 weeks to go! 

Hello to the 70's!

Finally I weighed in at 79.9kg this morning. It's been such a long time since I have seen this number and I know technically it's still 80 but it's not it 79.9kg! That's a 500g loss already this week and still 2 more days till my official weigh in on Friday. 

Less than 5kg to my goal for this challenge. 

I've made some chances to my diet I will run through them when I get a chance :) 

Finally a good leg session

This morning I woke up and my legs and butt are sore! Yay. Not a lot but enough to know I pushed them yesterday. No matter what I was doing they just weren't hurting! It was frustrating! 

As I only had an hour I did 1 set of tri-set and then went into super sets. So I did a heavy weight followed by a non weighted exercise working the same muscle. So 20kg on the calf raise followed by jump ups on toes. Bar squat followed by squats. Should have done jump squats there but I am trying to perfect my squat technique. 9kg dumbbell walking lung with plyometic lunges. 

I was going to go for a run this morning but as my legs were sore i gave it a miss. Running at 6am in the freezing cold isn't very inviting as it is lol. 

So when Blake goes down for a nap I'm going to do a HIIT session. 

30secs on 15sec rest btwn exercises then a 1m30s rest between sets

Mountain climbers

Burpees

Jump squats

Plyometic lunges

V-sit ups

Spider mans

Push ups 

Then I'm going to do a good stretching session. 

So I do think finally the results are starting to come :) only 1 week since my last photos and again I can see a difference. Long time since I fitted into the yellow bikini. 

Still a long way to go to get the muscle definition that I want but I am getting there with the weightloss a least. I have lots of people always commenting in how good I'm looking :) 

Getting SO close

Weighed in at 80.5kg this morning!!! In getting so close to those 70's! 500g.

This puts me into a better frame if mind thinking I can get to 75 by completion. I have 5 weeks to go 5.4kg isn't that unrealistic. Even 4.5kg would take me down to 75.9! It's still 75! :) It's going to require even more focus and determination but I want it so I'm going to work my butt off to try and achieve it. 

I did a good session at the gym this morning. I did a slow steady session as I had been sick. I still managed to run 3km in 20mins and did all my arm weights but I only super set not tri set them followed by my low intensity cardio on the elliptical trainer. I burnt 950cal in 1hr40 so not bad. 

I only have 1 hour to smash it out tomorrow morning as it's Saturday and the gym doesn't open until 7 and B has to leave for work at about 8:15. I'm going to do a tri-set leg session but I just need to sort it out some more. The last one I did wasn't intense enough. Could have been because I was getting sick but still. I really want to do some glut work. I do heaps of thigh stuff but nothing much that really targets gluts. I know squats and lunges should but I just don't feel it as much there. Will try to do some research once the boys go down to bed tonight. 

Sick

Today is one of those make or break things. Yesterday afternoon I came down with some kind of stomach vomiting bug. I we throwing up until 2am after which I had to give Zach a bottle at 2:30 then Tyler woke up then Blake and Blake again. Eventually at 5:30 I got to bed fell asleep. Saving grace was the kids slept until 7:30. 

I'm still feeling queezy today and shocking headache probably from not eating much but all round just feel tired and crap. 

I'm sure I will be fine tomorrow if I manage a reasonably decent sleep tonight but the way I feel today I wonder how I ever felt good exercising or how I ever will again. 

I'm a shocking sick person I find it such an inconvenience. Give me healthy energetic at the gym kind of day any day! 

Being tired is also making my fatigued body harder to deal with. 

Anyway not much of a post mainly a whinge but it's going to test my resolve getting up early tomorrow and going to the gym. It's moments like this it would be easier to just give up. Have fatty takeout for dinner a few glasses of wine and sleep in tomorrow but I know in the long term I will feel so much better getting up and going to the gym! 

Slipped just slightly

So since my 1/2 way point weigh in I have slipped a little. Mainly in diet. Nothing major but it's the little things that could hurt come final weigh in. 

So on Sunday I had a friend come over. I made some sugar free, dairy free, gluten free things made with quinoa, coconut, rice malt syrup and egg whites. I ate far too many of them but that's all I ate between breakfast and dinner. We just sat and chatted and I picked. I stuck to breakfast and dinner so not too bad.

Then yesterday and today I had some ham and cheese on my lunch wrap and a couple of mini milky ways. It's not break the bank kind of stuff and no point beating myself up what's done is done.

Exercise has been great. I have started doing tri-sets for my weights. It's hard work and it burns lots more calories and it's supposed to burn all day. 

What's involved is u do 3 exercises targeting the same area. Eg leg extension, jump squats and hamstring curls. U do each exercise 12 times and u repeat the set 6 times no rest. The burn is bad by the end and some times I need to drop the weight to finish or for things like jump squats I just go to failure. U rest between tri-sets. 

After I do this I do 20mins low intensity cardio and in a session I burn around 900cal. 

I am still greatly struggling by what I am perceiving is my lack of progress. I hit a huge mile stone the other day I dragged out my skinny clothes bag and I was shocked that 99% of it fit. Ok i still need a couple more cm to be 100% comfortable wearing it in public but they were size 12 and they fit. I'm 10kg heavier than when I wore them last so I'm thinking I must have so much more muscle this time around. This being the case I am hating that 81kg on the scales, I'm hating the belly fat that I'm just not used to. Before I had kids I didn't have this my belly was the last place I put on fat. 

It's a mental hurdle I need to over come. It's all part of the process of me learning to love my new post baby body. I am losing weight and that is certainly helping but the reality is your body is different after having kids. Ur hips are different, ur boobs, ur belly. In time some of this may go back to what it was. I am only 17weeks post partum and my hormones are still returning to normal. It will take time for my body to respond to normal hormones again. 

I do need to pull my head in with my diet. Stay strong and stick to it. Diet is 80% of weight loss and for me to be putting so much effort into my exercise I need to bring it home with diet. 

This is a 12week challenge and once I reach my target weigh of 65kg which of course won't be during this challenge but once I do reach it I can return to a more balance maintenance type diet and lifestyle. I can't do the slow weightloss thing. I am a strong willed all in kind of person. Go hard or go home. It's the way I do everything in my life :) it's just me. I get bored and move on other wise. 

This is some pics of me in my skinny clothes 

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.