Well I weighed myself this morning and I have lost a total of 9.9kgs (21.82lbs) so far, that's in 8 weeks.
So I'm really happy. I'm averaging about 1kg a week. They say the slower it comes off, the more likely it is to stay off.
I have to say that I am finding it hard to keep motivated to go to the gym at the moment! Something else always seems to come up or I'm sore from a previous workout. I have still been going about 4 times a week, but those times, I really have to force myself to go. I know that my blood pressure had come down and in order to keep it down I have to exercise so I will continue to go. I'm still sticking to the diet too, which I thought I would find hard, but maybe that I am actually eating more than I did before and that fact that I can still have my dark chocolate keeps me on track.
So for those still following my journey, Thank You!
Nov 10, 2011
Oct 25, 2011
New Bathroom Scales
I got new bathroom scales today!
Why? I don't know. I guess a now that I am seriously into this weight loss and turning my life around by getting healthy, I thought my old scales should be upgraded to some new... super dooper... all the bells and whistles scales. I don't like them!
These new scales measure body fat, water, weight, they are very high tech. But there is a problem! I am 2 kgs (4.4 lbs) heavier with these scales, LOL.
So now what to do? I am the same weight this morning as I am now, but according to my new scales I am heavier. So do I stick with the old scales or do I start using the old scales and all of my measurements will have to go up, when I haven't put on weight.
Oh well, I guess I may as well use the new ones.
Why? I don't know. I guess a now that I am seriously into this weight loss and turning my life around by getting healthy, I thought my old scales should be upgraded to some new... super dooper... all the bells and whistles scales. I don't like them!
These new scales measure body fat, water, weight, they are very high tech. But there is a problem! I am 2 kgs (4.4 lbs) heavier with these scales, LOL.
So now what to do? I am the same weight this morning as I am now, but according to my new scales I am heavier. So do I stick with the old scales or do I start using the old scales and all of my measurements will have to go up, when I haven't put on weight.
Oh well, I guess I may as well use the new ones.
Oct 21, 2011
Great News
I went to the Dr today. I have been on blood pressure medication for a year and a half now, since I tore the artery in my neck to keep my blood pressure low (it tends to be on the high side). Before my vertebral artery dissection I was borderline hypertensive. So I had borderline high blood pressure, not quite high enough to medicate. Then I tore the artery and they said it needs to be medicated.
I started on the lowest dose, 150mgs but it didn't help. My dose was then increased to 300mgs a day where it has been for over a year.
Anyway I went and saw my Dr today and as my blood pressure has been so good since I started this challenge and am exercising up to 5 to 6 times a week. My medication has reduced down to 150mgs a day from 300mg a day. I am to stay on that for a month and see that it is still stable, then move to 150mgs every second day!!!!!!
I am then hoping, that as my cardio vascular fitness improves over the next couple of months and if it continues to improve at the rate it has been over the last month and a half, then I may actually get off this medication altogether.
On that note... I am heading off to the gym.
Very Exciting!
I started on the lowest dose, 150mgs but it didn't help. My dose was then increased to 300mgs a day where it has been for over a year.
Anyway I went and saw my Dr today and as my blood pressure has been so good since I started this challenge and am exercising up to 5 to 6 times a week. My medication has reduced down to 150mgs a day from 300mg a day. I am to stay on that for a month and see that it is still stable, then move to 150mgs every second day!!!!!!
I am then hoping, that as my cardio vascular fitness improves over the next couple of months and if it continues to improve at the rate it has been over the last month and a half, then I may actually get off this medication altogether.
On that note... I am heading off to the gym.
Very Exciting!
Oct 9, 2011
Results from Week 4
I had my Week 4 measurements and weigh in on Friday. I hadn't lost as much weight as I had planned but my fat loss was quite big.
Skin Fold (pinch test/fat test) results
9/9/11 10/7/11
Tricep - 31 31
Umbilicus (stomach) - 48 33
S-iliac - (back I think) 33 26
Sub Scapular (?) 38 33
Axilla (under arm area) 27 16
Pectoral 23 20
Thigh 68 52
Total 268 211
Measurements (in cm's)
Shoulder 120 119
Chest 110 107
Navel 114 89
Right Bicep 35 33
Left Bicep 34 33
Hips 117 114
Right Thigh 66.5 62
Left Thigh 69.5 67
Total 666 624
Weight (in KG's) 87.7 82.5
Skin Fold (pinch test/fat test) results
9/9/11 10/7/11
Tricep - 31 31
Umbilicus (stomach) - 48 33
S-iliac - (back I think) 33 26
Sub Scapular (?) 38 33
Axilla (under arm area) 27 16
Pectoral 23 20
Thigh 68 52
Total 268 211
Measurements (in cm's)
Shoulder 120 119
Chest 110 107
Navel 114 89
Right Bicep 35 33
Left Bicep 34 33
Hips 117 114
Right Thigh 66.5 62
Left Thigh 69.5 67
Total 666 624
Weight (in KG's) 87.7 82.5
Oct 6, 2011
Results Tomorrow
I'm both excited and nervous about tomorrow. As part of the 12 week transformation challenge, we have to be weighed and measured each 4 weeks. Tomorrow is my 4 weekly weigh in and measurements... I have been doing this challenge now for 4 weeks.
I have no idea why I am nervous. I have been weighing and measuring myself along the way, I can't help it. My trainer said I shouldn't be doing that. I should just wait for when she does it but i just can't help myself. I actually find it more motivating by seeing my progress. Not that I need to. I can tell from my clothes that I have lost weight and a lot from around my waist.
More and more people are noticing too. Almost daily I am having people comment on my weight loss. "are you losing weight". "Ah yes, I sure am... thanks for noticing" is always my reply.
Tomorrow I will post my results for all of you to see.
Stay tuned.....
I have no idea why I am nervous. I have been weighing and measuring myself along the way, I can't help it. My trainer said I shouldn't be doing that. I should just wait for when she does it but i just can't help myself. I actually find it more motivating by seeing my progress. Not that I need to. I can tell from my clothes that I have lost weight and a lot from around my waist.
More and more people are noticing too. Almost daily I am having people comment on my weight loss. "are you losing weight". "Ah yes, I sure am... thanks for noticing" is always my reply.
Tomorrow I will post my results for all of you to see.
Stay tuned.....
Sep 28, 2011
Nightmare Neighbours
Today has been a very stressful and drama filled.
The day started with me waking up a little later than usual. My son was still asleep. Being school holidays I do let him sleep in as he is growing and needs his sleep.
I was downstairs in my bra and underpants (yes a bit too much information, LOL. And yes, a really scary sight!) and I looked outside into my backyard and there was a man. Wandering around in my yard, wearing some sort of yellow jacket that trades people seem to wear in Australia. I was mortified. I wasn't scared... as I do live in a gated community, which is very safe and we have security people at the gates who have to let everybody in, so I know he was a tradesman (by the yellow jacket) and therefore had been let in by security for some reason. He seemed to be doing something in my garden.
I ran upstairs to finish getting dressed and then proceeded out in front of my house where he as in his truck, which was parked over my drive way. I said good morning and asked him what he had been doing in my yard. He said my neighbours had called him to come and alter my sprinkler system. He said the sprinkler system was going off every day and they weren't happy so they had called him in to reprogram my sprinkler system and so that it goes off just two days a week and at a different time. WHAT!!! I was furious!
I said to the man that I hadn't authorised him to touch anything on my property and that he was trespassing and had no right to touch anything to do with my sprinkler system or to come onto my property without my approval. He said well my neighbours had asked him to so he has assumed that I had asked them to get him to do it. He then left.
I was so angry, just so angry. My neighbours are a nightmare. They are like the street police. They think they own everybody elses property, they seem to think they have a right to do and say whatever they wish.
I went to my neighbour who was out pottering in her garden and told her that I know she probably did that with good intentions but she had no right to send somebody onto my property and if she had a problem then she should have rang my doorbell and I would have fixed the problem. She then started screaming "Your f...ing sprinklers have been going off at midnight and waking me up....." she went on and on and on with foul language. I ended up walking off and telling her she was very rude and needed to get a life. She then came and rang my doorbell and I was inside on the phone. I asked my son to go out and tell whoever it was that I was on the phone and would be there soon. When I got out there, she as having a go at my son, going on and on and I told him to go inside. She then said she came to apologise as it was not appropriate for her to do that. She continued to go on and on then about other things and I again ended up asking her to leave my property and get a life and went back inside. I ended up calling security and lodging a complaint about them.
These women constantly come into my house and use my hose, my son will be outside climbing a tree, our tree, on our property and she tells him to get out and not ruin the garden! OUR GARDEN! If she doesn't like the plants in my garden, she will come and plant new ones! They are a pair of sisters, in their late 60's maybe. They are both never married, have no other family, no children and are just nasty miserable old women.
To get rid of my frustration I went to the gym and boy did I have a big workout, LOL. Maybe I need to have an altercation with them every day, LOL.
Thanks for listening and letting me vent.
The day started with me waking up a little later than usual. My son was still asleep. Being school holidays I do let him sleep in as he is growing and needs his sleep.
I was downstairs in my bra and underpants (yes a bit too much information, LOL. And yes, a really scary sight!) and I looked outside into my backyard and there was a man. Wandering around in my yard, wearing some sort of yellow jacket that trades people seem to wear in Australia. I was mortified. I wasn't scared... as I do live in a gated community, which is very safe and we have security people at the gates who have to let everybody in, so I know he was a tradesman (by the yellow jacket) and therefore had been let in by security for some reason. He seemed to be doing something in my garden.
I ran upstairs to finish getting dressed and then proceeded out in front of my house where he as in his truck, which was parked over my drive way. I said good morning and asked him what he had been doing in my yard. He said my neighbours had called him to come and alter my sprinkler system. He said the sprinkler system was going off every day and they weren't happy so they had called him in to reprogram my sprinkler system and so that it goes off just two days a week and at a different time. WHAT!!! I was furious!
I said to the man that I hadn't authorised him to touch anything on my property and that he was trespassing and had no right to touch anything to do with my sprinkler system or to come onto my property without my approval. He said well my neighbours had asked him to so he has assumed that I had asked them to get him to do it. He then left.
I was so angry, just so angry. My neighbours are a nightmare. They are like the street police. They think they own everybody elses property, they seem to think they have a right to do and say whatever they wish.
I went to my neighbour who was out pottering in her garden and told her that I know she probably did that with good intentions but she had no right to send somebody onto my property and if she had a problem then she should have rang my doorbell and I would have fixed the problem. She then started screaming "Your f...ing sprinklers have been going off at midnight and waking me up....." she went on and on and on with foul language. I ended up walking off and telling her she was very rude and needed to get a life. She then came and rang my doorbell and I was inside on the phone. I asked my son to go out and tell whoever it was that I was on the phone and would be there soon. When I got out there, she as having a go at my son, going on and on and I told him to go inside. She then said she came to apologise as it was not appropriate for her to do that. She continued to go on and on then about other things and I again ended up asking her to leave my property and get a life and went back inside. I ended up calling security and lodging a complaint about them.
These women constantly come into my house and use my hose, my son will be outside climbing a tree, our tree, on our property and she tells him to get out and not ruin the garden! OUR GARDEN! If she doesn't like the plants in my garden, she will come and plant new ones! They are a pair of sisters, in their late 60's maybe. They are both never married, have no other family, no children and are just nasty miserable old women.
To get rid of my frustration I went to the gym and boy did I have a big workout, LOL. Maybe I need to have an altercation with them every day, LOL.
Thanks for listening and letting me vent.
Sep 25, 2011
Chia Seeds
I am thrilled that I found these tiny little seeds. I have been adding Chia seeds to my protein shakes and sprinkle them on my salad every day.
Chia seeds (also called Salvia) are fantastic for weight loss apparently as well as many other health benefits, including being very high in Omega 3. They are known as natures complete super food.
Chia Seeds have...
8 times more omega-3s than salmon
5 times more calcium than whole milk
15 times more magnesium than broccoli
3 times more antioxidants than blueberries
3 times more iron than spinach
7 times more vitamin C than an orange
2 times more potassium than bananas
more fibre than flax seed
more protein than soy
good source of B vitamins and the bone building mineral combination of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, boron, and copper rich source of the antioxidants chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, and flavonol glycosides.
They are a complete source of protein, providing all the essential amino acids in an easily digestible form. They are also a fabulous source of soluble fibre. Like flax, chia is highly 'hydrophilic' - the seeds absorb water and create a type of gel. They can hold 9 to 12 times their weight in water and they absorb it very rapidly, in less than 10 minutes. They are a fantastic thickening agent, so can be added to soups or sauces to thicken, they can also be sprinkled over salads. They can be added to smoothies or any drinks or liquids.
I add some chia seeds to my son's cereal in the morning so he gets all of the health benefits and doesn't even know they're there. Chia seed's don't have any taste, so they can easily be added to things, particularly for children and they won't even know they are there. I don't know if any particular brand is better than another. We have an organic brand of Chia Seeds, but there are many out there.
There are so many health benefits of these seeds, just to many to list. So I have included a couple of videos below that have great information and many of the health benefits of Chia seeds. You can also read more about them here.
Chia seeds (also called Salvia) are fantastic for weight loss apparently as well as many other health benefits, including being very high in Omega 3. They are known as natures complete super food.
Chia Seeds have...
8 times more omega-3s than salmon
5 times more calcium than whole milk
15 times more magnesium than broccoli
3 times more antioxidants than blueberries
3 times more iron than spinach
7 times more vitamin C than an orange
2 times more potassium than bananas
more fibre than flax seed
more protein than soy
good source of B vitamins and the bone building mineral combination of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, boron, and copper rich source of the antioxidants chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, and flavonol glycosides.
They are a complete source of protein, providing all the essential amino acids in an easily digestible form. They are also a fabulous source of soluble fibre. Like flax, chia is highly 'hydrophilic' - the seeds absorb water and create a type of gel. They can hold 9 to 12 times their weight in water and they absorb it very rapidly, in less than 10 minutes. They are a fantastic thickening agent, so can be added to soups or sauces to thicken, they can also be sprinkled over salads. They can be added to smoothies or any drinks or liquids.
I add some chia seeds to my son's cereal in the morning so he gets all of the health benefits and doesn't even know they're there. Chia seed's don't have any taste, so they can easily be added to things, particularly for children and they won't even know they are there. I don't know if any particular brand is better than another. We have an organic brand of Chia Seeds, but there are many out there.
There are so many health benefits of these seeds, just to many to list. So I have included a couple of videos below that have great information and many of the health benefits of Chia seeds. You can also read more about them here.
Sep 23, 2011
Bloggers Choice Awards
I would love to get my votes up in the Bloggers Choice Awards. Can all of my followers please please vote for me.
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Thank you so much in advance
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