It’s Official!

I’ve lost exactly 15kg since keeping this spreadsheet and a little more than that since training with Nat at New Outlook Fitness.  The road has been long and exhausting but I couldn’t be happier!  And you may be pleased (who am I kidding, you will be ECSTATIC) to know that I am now 68.5kg! “I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, singin’ a-yo, I’m 68 kilossss!” 🙂

I’ve had some great loses over the last couple of weeks and I put it all down to nutrition.  You see, it’s all well and good to be training hard and to be eating a certain amount of calories but how important is it to make sure those calories come from the right places?  I’m talking about macro-nutrients people.

There is some debate about how important the distribution of calories is to lose weight.  Some say it’s not important, just as long as you are expending more calories than you consume, whilst others argue that it’s very important.  All I know is since I have paid more mind to the distribution of calories I have seen a huge difference.  That might not be the same for other people but it’s all about finding what works for you.  If you are interested, here’s a great tool to use when calculating macro-nutrients.

Now, don’t think I’m one of those crazy ladies that spends all day calculating everything I put in my mouth.  All I do is plan out my meals for the week and then do a quick check in CalorieKing to make sure I’m on the right track.  Then that’s it – I don’t need to look at it again because I know what I have planned is right.  And I do treat myself weekly so I don’t completely lose my mind!  I’m a food lover!  I’d surely die if I didn’t have some kind of treat!  😉

Here’s my measurements graph for the month:

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I’m getting closer to that size ten goal!  I’ll probably keel over in the change rooms and have a heart attack when I slide on a pair of size ten jeans.  Check the obituaries if you don’t hear from me again!

Speaking of Taio Cruz (at the beginning of this post), I’m going to Supafest tomorrow!  I’m extremely excited – all my favourite artists in one place!  I’m going to marvel and gasp at Ciara’s booty, swoon to the smooth vocals of the Big Snoop Dogg, take my shirt off to T-Pain, break my neck to Busta, shimmy shimmy to Nelly and scream at the top of my lungs to Timbaland!  I don’t think I’ll sleep tonight, I’m so excited!

Okay, on a serious note, who pays attention to their macro-nutrients?  I’d love to hear your breakdown and what works for you.

Work It!

I haven’t done a workout post for a while!  The last one was in October and I’ve come a long way, baby!

So, for your viewing pleasure (and my embarrassment), here’s me getting all hot, sweaty, rained-on and dirty!  I seriously can pull some horrendous faces when working out… I really need to concentrate on controlling my troll face.  And these were the “good” photos.  Shudder.

 

This is MY gym

Today’s session involved a lot of running with an assortment of weighted and non-weighted exercises in between each run.

But first, a quick stretch.

Alright, enough standing around!  We’re not here to have a cup of tea you know, as my trainer would say!

We started off with squats and shoulder presses with 5kg dumbells and 20kg sandbag squats, as demonstrated by my lovely training partner, Beth (hai Beth! :)).

Now run!

 

I think we ran the length of this park 50 times today...

We repeated that four times and then swapped over.  My turn with the dreaded frankfurt.

After we completed that four times, it was onto the next set of exercises – squat and twist with 5kg barbells and burpees.

 

Dislike. These. Immensely.

Don’t forget the runs in between each round of reps! (gah) Then hit the ground – it’s push up time!

 

DAYUM – This is thirsty work!

Time for a new set of exercies!  20kg sandbag deadlifts.  My favourite weight-assisted exercise.  Heyyyy, power up that bootay!

Are you looking at my glorious glutes?

Another four rounds of that with runs in between then we are on to three rounds of push-ups, dips and jump squats.

Must learn to relax neck! The strain! The STRAIN!

 

I’d like to just keep jump squatting away from this session…

I’m glad to see you’re having a wonderful time, Miss Carter!

“Is it over yet???”

No, it’s not.  Just a couple of planks to go…

 

One foot stacked on top of the other to make it harder...

And there it is!  Finally, the torture is over.  Until tomorrow anyway!

This is the standard of session that I complete about 4 – 5 times a week.  Are you game? 🙂

Measurement Results & New Goals

Right.  I’m not going to bore you with a standard introduction and welcome to this post.  I’m going to get straight to the nitty-gritty.  Here are my measurement results for the last month:

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I had really great results on the hips and thighs (thank you cycling!) but no loss from the middle which is a bit sad.  I usually have my measurements done in the morning though, on an empty stomach, so that might make a difference.

I also only lost 1kg this month which is a bit of a pain in the old ass seeing that I wanted to get to my weight goal of 68kg by April.  I’m working really hard, harder than ever actually, so it’s quite frustrating that I am having so much trouble shifting these last few kilos.

The good thing about goals though is you can reassess them when you need to.  Which is what I have done.

I’m now going for a dress size goal.  I want to be a size 10 by the end of June 2011.

Here’s what the Australian dress size chart looks like:

Looking over the last 4 months I have lost 5cm from my hips, 2.5cm from my waist and 2cm from my bust.  If I lose those amounts again (or more) then I will definitely be a comfortable size 10 or be on the higher end of the size 10 spectrum.

To be honest, I already fit in to most size 10 tops so I don’t think the waist and the bust will be an issue.  It’s those damn thighs that are the issue.    So I’m going to continue to hammer them over the next few months in an effort to get them smaller.  Reduce in size, damn you!  REDUCE! *shakes fist* (Maybe I can threaten them into slimming down?  Anyone ever tried that?  I’ll be the first person to literally scare their thighs into getting smaller.  That would be awesome).

Now, whilst I do have the new goal that doesn’t mean that I am completely writing off the old goal.  There are still 2 weeks until April and by the name of sweet baby cheeses I am going to do everything within my power to lose that pesky 2.7kg.

Watch this space.  Waaaaatch it.  *shakes fist*

(This blog post seemed to get really aggressive towards the end.  It’s my burning passion.  It gets me all fired up.  Sorry about that.)