Slim Down Sunday

So it's been a few weeks since I joined in SDS... Life has been busy, but productive and so has my weight loss. I've started clean eating, 6 small meals a day, and have seen great results. I've managed to go down to 69.6kgs!!

And I've lost 10cms off my waist!!

But my weekends fail me. I manage to go up to 71kgs just by eating 'regular' food on the Saturday and Sundays!!!

I've often heard that successful weight loss is 30% exercise and 70% what you shove in your mouth!!! lol! This is very true for me!

I have discovered that I really really enjoy my exercise!! Its me time and sometimes I even use the treadie at 3.30am!! I'll give Braith a feed then throw the shoes on and do my HIIT for 30mins then do some weights (usually hand weights) and in the evenings I'll crank up the incline and fast walk at 5.5 or 6 for 30mins.

I feel healthier, happier and stronger and its been many many years since I've felt like this!

Its nearly September and of course I have new goals :)

1. Eat cleaner on the weekends, including not just myself but also the family!
2. Weigh in at 65kgs
3. Fit into all my favourite size 12 clothing - just in time for the warmer weather!!

How?

1. Maintaining my exercise and mix it up with riding with the kids and walking the bush trails with the dogs.
2. Eat clean more often then not!
3. Stay on track and motivated by surrounding myself with like minded pple.

A big shout out to the crew in blog land who also have fun with SDS!!

Slim Down Sunday

So perhaps its not Sunday, and perhaps I've been procrastinating over even posting my dismal effort this past week. But hiding my head in the sand will not gain me any favours when it comes to slimming down....

So what did I lose this week? only 300g!! :( and I did put alot of conscious effort into healthy eating and exercising 4 out of 7 days.
But I had a massive blow out on Sunday, (family bbq) where I ate nearly a weeks worth of food....I'm kidding you not!! Just think 3 bread rolls, sausages, steak, potato salad, mudcake and other mouthfuls of this and that......and that was just at lunch time!! I knew it was not a good thing to do at the time but sometimes I just get into these moments where thinking and being conscious just doesn't happen! And of course no workout that day either!!

I also had my Fitness Barbie friend come over for a epic workout on Saturday, she was able to give me a little push to get me out of my comfort zone.

I was doing lunges with 4.5kg weights, and doing lots of leg raises and I am now able to do interval running on the treadmill at 11kms per hr :) When I first started running I thought that 6kms per hr was fast!! lol!!

I thought I handled the exercise really well until the next day when I could barely walk and I couldn't use the stairs cause my legs hurt so bad!! I couldn't even sit on the loo properly and nearly tore the seat off cause I was flopping down on it!! SHAME that I'm so unfit!! lol!!

But this week is a new week and will a new treadmill I am more then ready to keep up the hard work.

SO goal this week - Exercise 5 out of 7 days (do better then last week)
and to prevent another food blowout!!

I'm off to check out other slim down sunday efforts here and here and here

Good luck with this week girls!

Slim Down Sunday

So I am in the process of loosing weight. You know all that baby fat I've collected over the years. Up and down, using pregnancy as my excuse to keep a little pudding around the middle. Excuses like, why bother getting fit if I'm just going to get pregnant and chunky again.

But I'm finding that I am a much more energised Mumma when I weigh closer to my healthy weight range. So to keep me on track I'm linking up with a bunch of other bloggers who wanna get fit too! I found this link up over at The Fruit of her Hands

Being accountable and being 'present' with my weight loss really helps me, especially when the days rush on by!! And with it being a new month, I'm starting fresh :)

Here are my stats :)


BMI 27.2

Height - 163cms
Weight - 72.4kgs
Waist 110cm
Bust 94cm (totally all back fat not rack lol)
Left Thigh 56cm
Right Thigh 58cm
Left Calf 37cm
Right Calf 37cm
Left Arm 31cm
Right Arm 29m

Goals?? To enter the healthy BMI weight range 23.7 which is about 63kgs, I can wear a size 12/10 comfortably, energy levels are high and I'm generally a Happy Mumma.

How?? To stay on track with my eating plan, provided by my ultra health and fitness friend, who we shall call Fitness Barbie :)

And to exercise everyday this month, allowing for 1 day of rest :) I guess as I get further into my challenge, I'll be able to get real with what is working and how I'll be achieving my goals and what is really preventing me from achieving them :)