Weigh in Wednesday

Wednesday. And the rain keeps on coming. Kinda hard to be jubilant with a weigh in when your world seems a bit like mush - but that is what we do to keep accountable - so here I am doing it!

Today I lost .9kg. Which makes my total weight loss to be 16kg since the start of round 1! HUGE!

So I've now lost 3.9 kg in 3 weeks - well on track to lose 5kg as my bet with Mish before the start of round 1!

Stay safe guys. Stay dry. And stay on track.

Much love xx

Progress Pics ...

this is me now ...

You can see pics of my whole journey if you click the "progress pic" tab at the top of the page here!

And comparison pics from throughout my journey are here ... (click on pic to make it larger if you need to!)

I think I am just distracting myself from the flooding ...

A big fat hairy goal achieved!

I don't know why - but I have always thought it would be great to go for a run by the beach. Always wanted to. Never been fit enough.
Saturday morning I woke up and knew I was going to do it.
The day before I had a shocker of a workout. Felt defeated and tired. I knew it was going to be a challenge.

So I decided to be a grown up and just do it. I aimed for 3km ...

And I did 5!!!

This is me - hot and sweaty ... and feeling like a rockstar! Once I got going there was no way my stubborness was going to let me give in!


Big fat hairy goal achieved. Not only because I did it. I went for that run by the sea.

But more because I beat those mental demons and did not let my mind hold me back!!

Rockstar!

The family that plays together ...

I love love love that through the changes I am making my daughter is seeing a healthy lifestyle as NORMAL! Makes me smile when I see her wanting to be like mummy!

Moments like these make me happy!

Doing stair runs by the beach ...

Then making daddy do them too ....

Standing push ups like mummy!



Mums, getting healthy changes more than just your lives! She is my number 1 reason for doing this. Truly.

Nothing makes me smile more

Eating out - 12wbt style!

How things have changed. In the past we would have eaten out on holidays and I would have constantly been on the lookout for a treat.

Something rich and decadent maybe? Cause it was holidays ... and I deserved it!

Well, this time we did have a treat. Lots of them.

But this time my treats looked like this ...



(Don't worry - I shared some of that delicious avocado around!)

They were fresh. They were delicious! They nutured my body and my soul. And this time - again - it was because I deserved it! But this time I KNEW it was great food I deserved!

My daughter's favourite food was this! A berry smoothie. Filled with real healthy food. Not processed colouring. Just real whole food.


Both of these incredible meals came from Raw Energy at Mooloolaba. Their gluten free options for my man were incredible. My daughter declared her sandwich "the best meal ever" Actually, she made us go back again. And called me "Raw energy lady" when I gave her a salad tonight for dinner.

THESE are the meals I deserve. These are the memories my family needs to create. My girl is going to remember this I promise! She will remember that healthy food can be fun and delicious! Starting my own 12wbt family food legacy!

YES I CAN !!!!

We've just come back from a few delicious, active days away at the coast ... and it has been wonderful! Expect a few posts in quick succession on our time away. There were also moments that were sad, and feelings I am struggling with. I am so grateful for the lessons I have learned in 12wbt. They helped me cope with these emotions in a new way. More about that later when I can get my thoughts together.

When we were away I was SO BLESSED to have several dreams that I thought I would never be capable of achieved. Made me feel SO STRONG and made me realise how much I am changing on this journey. I felt on top of the world!

The first of these dreams was met on Thursday when my mum in law kindly watched miss e so Paul and I could go out for a little bit.

The weather however was not conducive to dream making. It kept varying between being fine(ish) and pelting down rain!

I have been married to this man for 10 years. And for all of those years he has been wonderful and fit and active. And I haven't. For years I have wished I would be *just* fit enough to go for a run with him.

Well, this week I did.

We headed down to Sandgate and decided to run across the new bridge they have built. It seemed like a fair enough goal to me.

The stinking bridge was very long.

3km long in fact. And I was tired. But I ran all the way across it!

And this is us - at the end of our FIRST EVER RUN TOGETHER!!!!




On the way back I walked (and danced - I was listening to the Hairspray soundtrack) - and let my husband run home.




And then when we got to the end, I ran a few sets of stairs. You see I hadn't QUITE burned 500 cal, and I wasn't going home till I did!





We got in the car just in time for the rain to pour down. And I was flying high on the victory of this FIRST all day!

More holiday posts to come ... (when I catch up on the holiday laundry!)

And now ... 12wbt makes marriages stronger and more fun!

10 years ago (wait - almost 11!) I married this man.

And 10 (almost 11!) years later we are still having so much fun!

But today, thanks to 12wbt I did something I have never done before. I worked out wtih my husband. And I pretty much held my own too.

You see that man of mine is super fit. Give him a bike and he will ride for days. Hills? Hills are not a problem. He LIKES hills. They are his speciality. Same for running - it seems easy for him. And he VOLUNTEERS for the hill legs. He is crazy. But today was different.

Today we went to the boxing class at the gym. It's a class that for some reason I've always been nervous about attending. I guess I always thought I wasn't fit enough for it. So I never went. But this year I am doing things that make me nervous - just to prove I can.

Boxing was hard. Boy it was hard. I was wishing someone would come and condemn those stupid stairs. We ran up and down them more than 20 times. And I sweated SO MUCH. No wonder - I burned 500 calories in that class.

But it was fun. And it was SO much fun to work out with my man! Now all I have to do is convince him to come with me again!