Huge week

Well an awful lot has happened since I last posted. Last Wednesday's weigh in result was a loss of 700g, which took me to 10.3kg in total. But the main thing that happened: my nanna passed away on Wednesday afternoon. I spent the whole day with nanna and the family and we were there when she went. It was really sad, but at least she is at peace now.

So as you can probably imagine, it's been a really hard week. I have still managed to get in at least half an hour of exercise each day though, except for yesterday. Yesterday was a complete blow out. We had Chicken Treat for lunch after the funeral, and Glenn and I had pizza and garlic bread for dinner last night. But you know what? I actually didn't care and it did make life easier coz I didn't have to cook or do anything.

BUT I jumped straight back on the wagon this morning and have been going strong all day. First thing I did when I got up was jump on the exercise bike for half an hour, which I really enjoyed. I've upped the water intake too, trying to flush out all the crap from yesterday. Then I was really excited about going to the gym this afternoon for my session with Rhys - I cancelled my session with Luke and rescheduled with Rhys instead - but that didn't turn out as planned.

As usual, I got to the gym 15 minutes before the session was meant to start (5pm), gave them my card as I walked in and jumped on the treadmill. Anyway, 5pm came, 5pm went. I was just thinking he was running late or something, and didn't stress too much. Then, at 5:15pm, I decided to go to reception and told them I was meant to have a session with Rhys at 5pm. The girl at reception (she's new) and a guy who turned out to be Rhys - turned around and told me that I should have let them know that I was there. Now, I've had over 30 PT sessions at that very gym with different trainers and have always been told to jump on the equipment and they'll come get me. It's called a warm up.

Anyway, they told me that they had been trying to call me on my phone. That's lovely, but why not look at the cards of the members that are actually IN THE GYM at that moment??? And once they work out I'm actually there, perhaps look in the gym for me?!?! So that pissed me off big time, I missed my session and to top it off was told it was my fault. That's a load of shit and I will be speaking to the manager of the tomorrow. Grrrrrrr.

I booked another session with Rhys on Thursday at 1:30 but I seriously don't want to go. Will plead my case to the manager tomorrow and hopefully it will result in a refund for my remaining 10 sessions. Then I will go train with Daniel again.

In other news, not looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in, but not expecting anything this week so I won't be too disappointed.

A change for the worse

Well my personal trainer Daniel started at his new club yesterday, so I had my last session with him last Friday. As usual it was a great session, and I felt great coming away from it.

Anyway, today I had my first session with the new guy, Luke. It was shit. Now, at first I was very skeptical of starting with Luke, but I decided to have an open mind and I went into today's session feeling optimistic. But it was not to be. He is the total opposite to Daniel. Normally that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, except that I have only ever trained with Daniel and therefore I have formed my opinions based on the experiences I have had with him. Daniel is laid back, and pushes you in a subtle way, whilst having a laugh here and there. Luke is rigidly structured - like 'we will do this for 15 seconds, then you may have a 20 second break'. Even if I don't WANT the break. It's crap. And the major piss-off - he doesn't seem to see males and females as equal. Like I mentioned that I have issues with my back, and so he gave me a stretch that he tells all his female clients. And went on about how all his female clients have problems with their hips. And that most of his female clients have stronger hammys than quads. And I have to lift this weight differently because I'm a female.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Anyway, I have one more session with him on Friday, then I am seriously going to consider swapping to a different trainer. And if that doesn't solve the problem - I try to get a refund for my remaining sessions and go train with Daniel at his new club. Even though it's more expensive.

I always used to come home feeling happy and energised, but today I'm just plain pissed off.

Oh well, I am going back to the gym tonight for a BodyShape class so hopefully that will cheer me up.

Nearly 10kg gone

Wow! Well as we know, Wednesdays are official TF weigh in day. So I got up this morning and jumped on the scales and what did they say... 78.2kg! So that's a big 1.8kg this week. Which takes the grand total to 9.6kg in six weeks. I'm so happy, this diet is seriously the best... it works and it's not stupidly hard.

I'm soooo glad I didn't crack on Saturday afternoon with all that naughty food around, it was so worth it :)

Yesterday I had my first session back with Daniel, my personal trainer. It was bloody hard as we're doing weights and toning exercises, but I enjoyed every second of it. Today I'm very sore though... should be interesting to see how I go at volleyball tonight, haha. The sucky thing though, I only just signed up for another 12 sessions with Daniel... then he found out he got a position as head of PT at another club.. so he's leaving as of 22nd Oct. Grrrrrrr. So I've got my last session with him on Friday morning, then I'll have this other guy, Luke, who doesn't seem brilliant. Oh well, time will tell... I am going to suss out whether I can get out of my other 10 sessions and go do them with Daniel at his new club. So fingers crossed.

Anyway my next mini-goal is to get down to 75kg by Glenn's birthday - 13th Nov - so I'm well on target for that!

Another temptation resisted

This afternoon we had my family over for afternoon tea to celebrate my dad's birthday. And so obviously with that comes naughty non-TF friendly food! There was cake, bikkies, fairy bread (for my little nieces of course), sandwiches, rice crackers and dips and I even bought some Cadbury Lite chocolate, which is allowed occasionally on TF but I didn't even have any of that. So I'm very proud of myself.

Even as I sat feeding my nieces cake and other things, I didn't feel tempted. Definitely a big achievement. It was good though that I didn't really have a chance to eat in between all the playing with the girls :)

This will be the first weekend since I started TF that I haven't deviated from the program at all, so hopefully my weigh in on Wednesday will reflect this. And I haven't been as hungry lately either, and I am assuming that is because my body is now properly in ketosis.

This program is fantastic :)

Oh and yesterday I bought my reward for getting myself out of the 80's - some new yellow shoes! I love them and they're very comfy!

I'm living in the 70's

Well it's official - albeit not an OFFICIAL weigh in day - but this morning I weighed 79.6kg :)

I'm so happy to be out of the 80's forever! Here's to another great week of weight loss!

So typical!

Today is officially the start of Week 6 and this past week I have lost another 800g. So that's 7.8kg gone in total, and I'm really happy with the way it's going.

My first mini goal was to say goodbye to the 80's by today, 10th October... but I get on the scales this morning and what do they tell me? 80.0 of course! Haha so there's my giggle for the day, it's so typical! So I've extended the mini goal for another week so that next Wednesday when I weigh in I will be living in the 70's!! *starts singing* This will be damn exciting as I haven't been below 80 for at least a year, probably even closer to a year and a half. So this week I shall kiss the 80's goodbye and good riddance, never to be seen again!

I'm stoked with how this journey is going. The Tony Ferguson program is fantastic, and so flexible... and so HEALTHY. I love that I wake up in the morning feeling healthy and 'thin', instead of the ever familiar feeling of bloatedness, dry mouth and just 'fat'.

Also, the support I am getting from everyone around me is awesome. All the ladies (and the occasional boy) on the TF forums are a pillar of strength and always ready to lend a hand, not to mention I have the best husband in the world, the most awesome work crew - and everyone I know seems genuinely interested and willing me to succeed.

Which I will :D

Anyway I'm stuffed after playing a massive indoor beach volleyball game when we were short 2 players... but we won so I'm chuffed! Will no doubt report back the SECOND I arrive in the 70's, lol.

Another weekend: success

Another weekend is gone and I've survived without a huge amount of deviation from the TF program.

I'm still trying to get out of the habit of 'yummy' easy Friday night dinners but I'm doing it and we had a nice healthy dinner instead.

Yesterday evening Glenn and I participated in the Purple Twilight Walk for breast cancer with a couple of friends. It was a 4 kilometre walk around King's Park and it was really nice. Then after that we went to dinner at one of our favourite restaurants, Mille Cafe. I had a Chicken Caesar Salad, so the only thing I'm really worried about with that is the dressing and perhaps a bit too much protein. And for entree I had a few pieces of the cacciatorre sausage and a few olives. So hopefully I didn't mess it up too bad, and totally knock myself out of ketosis.

Today I visited my nanna and while she sat there and enjoyed her chips, chocolate, wafers and cheese, I wasn't even tempted. So that's an acheivement for me :) And then I came home and rode my exercise bike for 30 minutes and travelled 16.3km. This 'At home' exercise challenge that the girls have started on the forum has really been good for me! I am now into the habit of exercising every day and enjoying it.

Also, my gym called me yesterday and questioned why I hadn't been for a while. Truthful answer: I've been slack. So I'm getting back into a session with my personal trainer once a fortnight. And since I've pretty much got the cardio covered with my riding and walking, I might get him to let me focus on toning exercises. So that's exciting!

Tonight has been pretty tough, I am still quite hungry after dinner, but I've had some strawberries and a Double D lolly so I'll get there. Might have to chomp on some more veggies before bed.

Looking forward to my Week 5 weigh in on Wednesday :D

Big day

Today it has officially been 4 weeks since I started TF and I'm still loving it! I weighed in today at 80.8kg - which is 7 less than when I started, so I'm stoked :D

This morning Glenn and I woke up around 9am, despite having a late night and wanting a sleep in. But we got up and about 10:35am set out for a big walk to his parents' house. It took us about 45 minutes to get there so it was a decent walk! We stopped at the in-laws for 15 minutes and then by the time we had walked home it was 12pm. So we were proud of ourselves and we had fun. And tonight I'm playing volleyball so it's a big day exercise wise.

And I'm having a hungry day. I'm guessing that is because of all the exercise coz I would have burned a fair bit of energy. But I'm filling up on water and veggies and so far 1 of my pieces of fruit.

Ooooh and I made chocolate biscuits for lunch out of the choccie shake! They were yummy and they felt so naughty :P

Anyway I made up some 4 week comparison photos to see how far I've come so far... I can definitely see and feel the difference :D

Baby shower

Well today hubby and I went to a baby shower. Now it started at 11:30am and so I was guessing it would be lunch, so I had my breakfast shake semi-late so I wouldn't get hungry! Anyway it was a full on barbecue, so I happily crunched away at my purple plastic plate full of allowed salad :) Meanwhile hubby enjoyed his sausage in a bun and so did everyone around me and I didn't even feel like it. So that's a big milestone for me!

Then we played Pass the Parcel and the prize inside each layer was a king size chocolate bar, haha, so typical. But my friend who was doing the stopping of the music was great and didn't stop on me! I would have just given it to my hubby anyway!

Then the cake came out. Soooo lucky I'm not a cake person, because I think for anyone who IS a cake person would have been stuffed because it was a sight. But passed on that too.

The only thing I felt slightly tempted to have was some Doritos, and that was only because Glenn breathed on me with Dorito breath haha. But I got home and had a Chromium tablet and filled up my second 1.5L bottle of water and now I'm all good.

So I'm proud :D