Train, Dont Complain :)

People who train together stay together ;) Training session with hubby! Intervals on the treadmill and even running on 12 (OMG!!). 30 minutes for a cal burn of 430. I am wondering now why I spent so long from exercise. Its our 17th wedding anniversary tomorrow and we have dinner planned at a little Indian Restaurant. I think we are going to have to do some boxing tomorrow to preburn those naughty calories otherwise weigh in will be very bad!

Happy with how the mind is melding into the right place. Maybe, just maybe, this might be THE TIME!

Cath xoxo

A good place? or a bad place? We all start somewhere!

So I missed posting on Sunday last week but I do have an excuse (always an excuse!). It was my daughters 18th birthday on Australia Day and yes I did live a little and indulge a bit too much.

My head is in a good place this week since my disaster of last week. Finally I realised that you cant have your cake and eat it too when you want to look good and feel good. By Friday, I had gained almost 300g OVER my start weight. For me, the week was more of a mindset test. I had to prove to myself that eating all that crap just wasn't going to work and something had to give. It did give! My weight was ballooning AND FAST!! This is why I haven't been able to get that part of my head right. Too many times I have convinced myself that it was ok to have that piece of chocolate (or indulge in the whole block) since I had lost a few hundred grams. I was wrong. I know many people who have read this far are probably thinking...omg is this chick serious!....how stupid is she! but this is my journey and these are part of my demons that I am fighting.

So I had 2 days to correct all that I had done wrong. I ate clean, I drank bucket loads of water and come Sunday, I was happy to see a number less than I had started with. It was only 300g but it still meant the numbers were going down. I have also never been so sick as I have been since choosing an unhealthy lifestyle. I began January with an upper respiratory infection and now I sit here typing this with a throat that feels like its on fire! So this week I have been thinking that being unhealthy, eating unhealthy and generally leading an unhealthy lifestyle can lead to illness. If thats the case, then why do we put ourselves through this week in week out just for that sugar or salt hit?

My amazing hubby got me a new toy and it was delivered this week! I made up my first single server smoothie this morning. A mix of banana, honey, mango, 1/2 cup low fat milk, 1 scoop protein powder and a cup of ice. I cant begin to explain how good it tastes and whats better is that its healthy! I will experiment more over the coming weeks and see what other interesting things I can come up with :)

Now onto the numbers stuff. My weight and measurements

SW: 79.9kg
CW: 79.9kg
WLTW: 300g
WIW1: 79.6 (26/01/2014)
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GW1 - 78.9kg
GW2 - 76.9kg
GW3 - 74.9kg
GW4 - 70kg
GW5 - 68kg
10%GW - 71.9kg
EGW - 65kg

Until next blog, try hard on keeping that mind in the right place :)

Cath xoxo

Why cant I just get it right the first time instead of yoyo dieting?

Hi all! My name is Cathy and I once again weigh 79.9kg. Story of my life it seems when only 6 months ago I was cheering when I saw 74kg on the scales. So what is it that clicks in our head that sends up straight back where we started from?

I often have asked myself this over the years as I would try to search out the balancing act that I see so many of my friends find. I mean they can fit in healthy eating AND exercise daily, so why cant I? Then it hit me......

I AM TOO BUSY COMPARING WHAT I CANT DO THEN JUST FOCUSING ON WHAT I CAN!

I am also too busy comparing myself with others overall that I just give up! Seems to be what happens each and every time. University assessments, parenting, being a wife....it all adds up and sometimes I just would love that extra hour in my day to #jfdi but where would I find it? Then I look at others and how they seem to get through each day seamlessly fitting in eating, exercise time and their family. So where am I going wrong?

I am planning to try and get my blog back up and going at least once a week (weigh in day Sunday). I hope to be able to share my challenges and successes with you all and I do also hope that I still have some people following.

If this is to be, its up to me!

Now onto the numbers stuff. My weight and measurements

SW: 79.9kg
CW: 79.9kg
WLTW: 
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GW1 - 78.9kg
GW2 - 76.9kg
GW3 - 74.9kg
GW4 - 70kg
GW5 - 68kg
10%GW - 71.9kg
EGW - 65kg

Chest: W1: 92cm Wk4: Week 8: NOW: 92cm
Waist: W1: 100cm Wk4: Week 8: NOW: 100cm
Hips: W1: 104.5cm Wk4: Week 8: NOW: 104.5cm
Thigh measurement distance from knee: 33cm
(L) Thigh: W1: 60cm Wk4:  Week 8:  NOW: 60cm

BMI is 28

Heres to change and making things right!

Until next time, remember you are worth it.

Cath xoxo

Body Image and the Affect on Us.....or is that just me?

So, watching big brother last night (yes I do watch the show....lol), and my 5 year old hands me a Lorna Jane catalogue. Now usually I love looking through them as I do love LJ but I just found myself getting angry and upset. Here I was watching on tele all these gorgeous girls with amazing bodies and in the LJ book the same thing.....then there is me. A frumpy 37 year old with 4 kids who has been mum since I was 17 and realising that I could never look like these girls do as they are all so young. I was close to tears......but then I thought some more.....if I am looking at the world that way, then how are my kids looking at it? Is this why we have problems with youngsters and eating disorders? Is this why our kids have problems with body image?

Now I know to some this might sound like I was in a stupid place that I shouldnt have been in but I was really hurt and really down. To be honest, I stuck to the challenge for almost 6 solid weeks. Did all the training, ate the food as I was told and then took that dreaded progress photo and you know what I saw....nothing. No changes. I still had the muffin top that disgusts me when I look in the mirror. Yes I was lighter on the scales by a couple of kilo but it also changed my mindset to a downhill run. I started thinking that I shouldnt have to go without cause hey, nothing is changing anyway.....

Then the bad habits slipped back in.....I started skipping training sessions. My diet is spot on and clean of a day but then night time hits and I sit back and see these gorgeous people on tele and think bah ill never get there so the hard days work is lost in a sea of popcorn and icecream! Everywhere I look there is people who are young fit and toned up. I remind myself that these ladies havent had kids but I know that is just an excuse. I say well if I had the time they did I wouldnt be where I am.....yep another excuse.

Taking the time to sit and reflect I think is important in this journey. We need to remember that we are not all the same and we are not all travelling the same direction. Life is different for everyone and whilst that person may have hours and hours to devote to the gym and food, another may not. Sometimes a reminder from our own children puts everything where it needs to be to know that you are loved and appreciated. This is what my 19 year old daughter wrote just the other day when things seemed like an uphill battle;

"You are an amazing woman, and you have done better than a majority of the uni students anywhere, raising four kids as well as a full time uni degree, and on top of that helping dad and myself with ours, when you can."

That one reminder that you are important to people and that there is a major reason you are getting healthy. So where am I going with this......

Sometimes we just have to go back to where we started. Beginning again does not mean you have quit, it just means you have hit a bump in the road. Thats life and we must pick ourselves up and get back on the wagon.

Ok I got off track.....so am I alone in feeling like this? I think this is going to be a tough hole to pull myself out of this time :( 

Until next blog, keep on trying and whatever you do.....DONT GIVE UP!!!

Cath xoxo

Im back and loving life!

18 August 2013, 8:52am

Hi gang!

Well it was the meltdown I needed to have. What seemed like an eternity of wollowing has turned into a force to be reckoned with! I mean this time last week I was sitting there thinking about everyone else and my lack of results, today I sit here thinking OMG my abs are on fire!! At least I know they are there today.....they are just hidden under a few layers of flubber that I am working on losing ;)

So what have I been doing? Well I have found that getting in and doing my workouts earlier is a good thing. It also means I get them done too! I have so much that I need to get done but I also know that the fitter and healthier I am, the longer I will be around so that is taking priority for my 1 hour every day (although I think I might rest today as I am in a little bit of pain. Good pain though!)

I keep forgetting that I need to put my story up here. I will have to get to that as well as all my measurements and weight I have tracked along the way. It will show that even though the progress is slow, it is there and they say slow and steady wins the race!

Oh almost forgot!! Yesterday I managed to up all my weights on the last set!! I was so excited! I dont think though that I could do the heavier weight for all 3 sets but one is a start! I might give it a go when hubby is doing my session with me (he is also a PT) but until then, ill work on getting more out of the heavier weights :)

Have an amazing Sunday challengers! Remember you are all amazing and you are all worth it and so much more.

Cath xx

Some days its just plain hard!!

15 August 2013, 9:15am

What started as a simple status on my facebook fitness page, ended up becoming a story and something I thought need to be shared here on my blog! 

So facebook asks me "what have you been up to?" and I think, yes, what have I been up to? Well, its been a week of mind games, highs and lows. I took a dreaded progress pic and really never should have gone there. Looking at it, I cant see any change but I feel the changes. Nope not good enough!! I am working my butt off in the home gym 4 days a week but where is my progress? Where is my definition that is starting to show? Nope, not happening!!

So it comes back to the question, what have you been up to? Well to answer honestly, I have done nothing! Yep thats right...NOTHING!! and why have I done nothing, cause my stupid mind has won this week. Things like, you are working as hard as everyone else, but where is your results? you are super clean with your diet but where are you lost kilos? Sound familiar to anyone?

Yep, I am lost somewhere on the highway of who cares and why bother. Trying so hard to get back onto hard'n up street though but its tough when you feel like you are getting left behind.

So what now? I sit here after not working out for over a week (other than a stint here and there on the treadie), feeling frumpy and lazy but kind of proud that food is at least not the major problem. Need to get the headspace back that I had in the first couple of weeks but it can be hard. I need to find a 'me' hour in my day. That one hour where I can just workout freely and not have the stress of 'but this hour could have been used on an assessment' or 'this hour could have been used to spend extra time with the kids'.

So today, I will find my 'me' time and if I have to, write it up on the whiteboard of things to do so that everyone knows when my me hour/time is!! The challenge is about to head into a new phase after next week and I am already a week behind :( I cant change what has happened in the past, but I can change what is going to happen in the future. I cant help but worry though, this week away will be detrimental to my success and I cant help but feel like its almost not worth it since I am now behind where before I was in front.

Have a great day everyone! For me, its assignment work first, then some me time and finally, its time to remember why we are worth it. We are important and most of all, we are loved. Keep on, keeping on and we will get there.

Cath xx

Just not into it today :(

12 August 2013, 5:58pm

Hey gang!

Not feeling it today. Got some bad news that our house is going on the market so means we might have to move the family AGAIN!! Seems we have to move every 12 months lately! (we have moved 5 times in the last 4 years. Not an easy task when you have 3 kids as well). To top that off my throat still isnt the best and all my muscles are aching yet. I could just curl up and sleep the day away.

Hope you are all fairing better than I am. Food however.....PERFECT!! Spot On and couldnt be better. Along with water of over 2.5L so far for the day. So thats a good thing.

I have decided though that hubby and I should do our strength on alternate days. This means that instead of finishing the evening in the pain chamber at around 7 (when it is totally freezing out there), we will finish around 5.30 each night. Much better option for us both! I am thinking though, would I need to change my diet to suit that change in workout though? Might have to do some research on that!

Take care!

Cath