my journey to health

This week has been our week off, as usual I was slightly concerned about what I would do without him, but our gym added a new boxing gym so thought we would try it out, went along to the combat chick class. OMG it sucked, it was the shittest class I have ever attended, it was so easy we went and worked out at the gym afterwards!! So I was pretty put off and wasn’t really keen to go back again, I was also a bit concerned about being the unfittest in a class full of strangers as well.

But I wasn’t!! I had no problem keeping up in fact I did better than a couple of them thank god, So we decided to go again today and try the combat combo class, a mix of boxing and kick boxing. Vannessa and I were the only 2 who turned up so we had the trainer to ourselves, and he was awesome, taught us heaps did some practise then put us in the ring together one on pads, one on gloves and we had to move, that was hard, the punching was fine, the moving was tricky!! Then we did 2 rounds in the ring with him – freakin loved it so think I might just sign up.

Eating has been a bit crap lately but meah, that happens, oh and the diet, yea the reason I don’t do them is cause they suck, I lasted a week, back to just doing it the healthy way!!!

I don’t think I have yet introduced you to our new family member, his name is optimus tyrone prime and no I had no say in the naming of him, and he is pretty damn awesome, unfortunately my daughter thinks he is a doll and dresses him in dolls clothing!!!

Had my night class last night which was awesome!! There was heaps of running, so mike kept me behind and I did a wicked workout with him, bit of boxing which of course is my fav, then today we started our first PT session, which again was awesome, except the fact I had to do chest presses on top of already sore chest press muscles!! Love working with Sandi, and of course with mike!
Sometimes it is nice to step out of the zone of the class and deal with the nitty gritty, I think these extra sessions will be well worth it.
So Mike weighed me at the beginning of this 7 week block and he weighed me again today for our PT sessions, 6.6 kilos down!! I am more than a little stoked and just goes to show my hard work is paying off!!

I have to say I am very, very happy with my life right now, work is amazing, I love the work and the people, home is awesome, kids are growing into amazing human beings, hubby is fantastic and I have done nothing but socialise in the last few months with some beautiful people – old friends I had lost touch with, new friends who I adore, and friends that have been there for what seems like forever. My health is good, my weight is getting there, all is well in my little world.!!

I have to add, I have lost a few friends over the last couple of years, some due to mindless gossip, some due to life changes, and you know what that is okay, because everyone comes into your life for a reason, and they are not always there for a long time, but they are always there to teach you something. I think it is really important though to remember the fun and fantastic times you had with those people, the parts of those friendships you really treasure, it is easy to make someone the worst person on earth when you are no longer friends or in relationships, it is much, much harder to look on the bright side and remember the good times, I am glad I have the ability to do just this!!

Onwards and upwards from here there is no stopping me now, I weighed in tonight at 130, so close to being in those 20’s, so close

Yes I am going to cheat!! I am very anti any type of diet, the only way to live healthily is to eat properly, good wholesome food and of course good exercise. I swore to myself I would never do another diet, but here I am my first day on optifast. Why?? Because I am struggling with my exercise, because I am just to big to do a lot of it, because I am hurting standing all day at work, then doing class my feet hurt, my back hurts, my leg hurts, sometimes so badly I cannot even stand on my left leg. The only thing that is going to help this is losing weight.
Now I have been happy to lose it slowly, I am good with that. I don’t expect miracles, I don’t expect a bikini by christmas, I am stoked with my weight loss, I am stoked with my fitness, I am stoked with my muscles. I am not stoked that this body is holding me back.
So yes I am doing a diet, one recommended by the doctor, to hopefully drop a bit quickly so I can do these things a lot easier and avoid injury, yes I feel like a sellout, yes I feel like I have taken the easy road, but I am okay with it, it took a long time to decide and I am comfortable with my decision!!
This last week we have been doing the meanest leg workouts, wed night was crazy I’ll see if I can post what we did

This was hard we had to do it 3x and in between each exercise we had to run down to the playground, I managed it twice through and got one exercise into the 3rd round, some of the girls did it 3x they are legends!! I was expecting a reasonable ammount of pain the next day but weirdly I was fine, my knees were a bit achy but my legs were sweet!!! Saturday was a little easier cardio wise but harder leg wise, I did not escape that without pain, I was pretty sore on sunday.
Then turned up late to class today, oops he changed it 9 not 9.30 lol. So I only got a half workout but it was still good, I love that I am finding tricep dips a little easier now, I am doing 8 kilos comfortably, not struggling and bicep curls I am pissing through at 10 kilos now. My friend did say to me the other day you are going to have the meanest body when that fat goes, and I think she is right there are a fair few muscles hiding under that fat layer now!!!

I am going to start an extra personal training session with mike and sandi this week, just step it up a little. Sandi is awesome, I started class and didn’t recognise her, but she did me, we went to high school together and I love having her in my class, she struggles just as much as I do some days with weight etc and it is nice having someone who gets it. she is a lot smaller and fitter than me but she fully understands the struggle.

My achievements this week, have been easily upping my weights on my arms, and being able to pull my knee into my chest when we stretch! When we started this one of the stretches is to put your hands behind your knee and pull it into your chest. I couldn’t do this, I could put one hand on top of my knee and attempt to pull it, but on saturday I got both hands behind my knee, as I was doing it I clicked and thought shit, this is the first time I have ever been able to do this stretch properly!!!
My husband this week told me everytime he cuddles me I feel skinnier – love that man!