Triathlon blog

I've set myself a goal to complete a full ironman triathlon in 23 months time and I've created a new blog to document the highs, lows, the achievements and the tears... Feel free to come and join me by supporting me through this huge journey at:-

http://journeytoironman2013.blogspot.com/

Its amazing what you can do when pushed!!!!

OMG my trainer is mean but awesome at the same time..... he decided that I wasn't training hard enough and that I drank way too much red wine on Saturday night, so today's session after the usual warm up, a few squat rows, squats, lunges etc.... that I could do 500 kettlebell swings using a 16 kilo kettlebell... I guess I should be greatful that it was with the 20 or 24 kilo kettlebell... After the first 100 of them, I so didn't think I was going to make it as my forearms were burning but they settled down and I did it....

I have have triathlon swim training at lunchtime which is going to be interesting is all I'm saying...

This is Monday's (yesterday's) post that I forgot to publish.

I've got lots of christmas functions with week so I hate to think of what my other 2 PT sessions are going to be like, let alone next Monday's after I've survived this week.... I did have to pull out the jfdi card a few times this morning but I did it.... I'm so excited!!!!!

I'm feeling pretty tired right now so the rest of the day will be interesting including the 12 days to christmas challenge that I'm starting today...

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS FITNESS CHALLENGE!

These are to be done as fast as possible, with perfect form (of course)

DAY 1 - 1 SET OF 100 JUMPING JACKS...
DAY 2 - 2 X 1 MIN PLANKS
DAY 3 - 3 SETS OF LUNGES (10 STEPS EACH LEG)
DAY 4 - 4 SETS OF 30 SECOND JUMP ROPE
DAY 5 - 5 BURPEES
DAY 6 - 6 TOE TOUCHERS (ABS)
DAY 7 - 7 PERFECT PUSHUPS
DAY 8 - 8 CALF RAISES
DAY 9 - 9 ATG SQUATS (ASS TO GRASS)
DAY 10 - 10 BICEP CURLS (EACH ARM
DAY 11 - 11 TRICEP DIPS
DAY 12 - 12 MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS

So the first day you only do the 1st day, but the second day you do day 1 AND day 2, and on the third day you do day 1, 2 and 3.... and so on...

OMG how long has it been....

I so can't believe its been nearly 18 months since I've posted here....

So much has happened in my life, I've changed jobs within the Finance industry, I've lost 50 kilos and got to my goal weight, Brad and I split up for good, I have started training to be a personal trainer and I'm now competing in triathlons...

Its all pretty unreal right now and unbelieveable.... Life is just so different...

Realisations

I had this realisation at work the other day whilst shopping with a work colleague, that I’m now only about 10 kilos heavier than the average female in my office…. I consider most females in my office as slim or only slightly overweight and now I’m becoming one of them (not that it’s like a disease or anything).

I still have to remind myself that I can shop in the normal section of the store, even if it is towards the bigger sizes, its still a normal size… I’ve been very over weight for a long time, and it’s a big deal for me to be able to shop in the normal size. I can also buy stuff from normal stores and not have to buy from the larger stores anymore…Mind you it will be a sad day when I don’t fit into anything in Autograph as its my favourite store… I'm now wearing size 14/16 pants or skirts and tops are either 14/16 or 18 depending on shape and design.

I’m pretty excited about where this is all going… Less than 20 kilos to lose to get to my WW goal and I’m going to get there..

GWEJ (Goal Weigh Ending June)

Now this is normally something done on weight watchers forum and occassionally on our ww facebook group does and I'm going to post this hear as well.

To coincide with the challenge we have at weight watchers which ends the end of July my goal is to weigh 84.9 kilos so that is a loss of 3.4 kilos this month. June ends in the middle of the week and as I weigh in on Saturday's my weight at the end of the month will be as at 26 June 2010... So I have 4 weeks to lose 3.4 kilos or 850 grams per week... Let the challenge begin...

I did mention this at the end of my previous post but I think its time to give it a post all of its on. This goal is going to be a bit of a challenge but nothing that some focus and effort want hurt.

I'm sure the more I post this and the more accountable I am the more focused and motivated I will become in achieving this goal.

Week 119 of my weight loss journey

Yes I can't believe I have been losing weight for this long.... A friend of mine on a weight loss group we have on facebook got me thinking about my overall journey and the time its taken to get this far.

I've been on this journey for over 2 years, well 119 weeks to be exact (just worked it out) and during this time I've lost just over 29 kilos and whilst I'm happy with that its by no means fast but its my journey and I have to be happy with that. WW tell you that you should try and average your weight loss at 500 grams per week, well mine is a little below that at 250 grams per week... I still have another about 21 kilos to lose to get to my goal weight and I'm hoping that I can spead things up just a little to get there in the next year.. If I can increase my average to 400 grams per week then I will lose the 21 kilos in 52 weeks...

My point is that it doesn't matter how long it takes you as long as you don't give up and that the whole process fits into your life style. I still go out, I still eat chocolate and I still drink wine and bourbon and I still go away interstate and overseas ... I really wouldn't change much as I'm living my life at the same time as losing weight. It will just take longer the way I'm doing it that's all...

The above picture was taken last Mondy at the Lindt Cafe in Melbourne... This was my breakfast... It was very yummy but also very rich.... I also weighed in on the saturday at 88.4 kilos, so I'm using it as my 88.4 kilo picture....

Today was WI and I lost 100 grams... I'm pretty happy with that. During the past week I have been to melbourne, where I ate and drank more than normal, its been TTOM, and I now have the flu... Very little exercise has been done this week and I still lost... I now weigh 88.3 kilos and am very much an 80's girl... Bring on the 70's is all I can say...

Our leader today challenged us to lose a kilo this week, so I'm going to focus on that. A few weeks ago she challenged us to a 6 week weight loss challenge and I wanted to be 84.9 kilos at the end of it.... I think we have 4 weeks left and I have 3.4 kilos to lose... Time to get focused again I think... I can do this if I really want it.... I'd love to be a 70's girl for spring this year (September)... which would then see me needing losing 5 kilos in 2 months....

WI Day

I'm so happy right now, the scales rewarded me well after my effort this week... I smashed getting under 90 with a 1.4 kilos loss getting me to 88.8 kilos.... I haven't been this low for about 20 years....

I also decided to go shopping today with the aim of trying on some new jean and maybe buying some new jeans as my current ones are a bit big.... I decided to try on a pair of size 14 jeans, and whils i didn't think they would fit and still didn't as I was trying to pull them up, they did so I bought a size 14 ...jeans!!!! they are a little snug but the 16's are just too big... This will give me some focus for the coming week to make sure they fit nicely when I go to melbourne next saturday.... The jeans were only cheap ones because I still have about 22 kilos to lose and I don't want to spend the money on expensive jeans only for them not to fit me for long... I will buy decent jeans when I get to my goal weight...

I also bought a pair of boots as my reward for weighing in under 90 kilso... Last week I got a new pair of runners so it was the boots turn this week.

Now bring on my next goal of being under 85 kilos... At weight watchers today our leader gave us a challenge of what weight we wanted to be or how much we wanted to lose in the next 6 weeks. Well originally mine was to lose 3.6 kilos or 600 grams per week and I just realised that would make me 85.2 kilos so I'm going to go for 3.9 kilos which will see me at 84.9 kilos...

When I started this journey I weighted in at 115.9 kilos and today at 88.8 kilos see my total loss of 27.1 kilos loss all together...