Happy Happy Festive Season

Hey there.

Just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a wonderful 2012.
My plans are to indulge over the the next week or 2, but within reason, and still maintain some form of exercise. Kickboxing is only twice a week over the next couple of weeks. I tried to do my own form of KB at home today and I did manage to burn 400 calories. But it was much harder without the structure of someone telling me exactly what to do. Not that I want to put on weight, but I would be happy to not exceed a kilo. Then come the new Year I will be keen to try to get to 60 kg. Somehow I have still been losing weight (small amounts).  So Lets see. I really need to start tracking again. So easy to just let things slip by those lips.

Stats for the last 14 months are in -
(as at the 6th December)
Total loss - 30.7 kg (this is 31 now) which is 33.1% total body loss. Fark a third of me.

For the 12 week body transformation I lost 7.4kg (10.6%).

Overall I feel amazing, and look pretty good I guess. Still demons in my head that don't quite see the real me. and can't quite take all the compliments easily. I sometimes feel guilty and like a fraud, cause I know the flabby bits under the clothes, and I know I can still pop down the shops for a packet of Twisties or polish off more Chardonnay than I need!! But overall I know I am making healthy choices and my activity levels are 110% on what they were.

I should add that I went to Sydney for the finale party with my darling BFF and what an amazing weekend. You really feel like a part of something amazing. There were 1200 people at the workout which was a rocking super aerobics workout. In total the 12wbt family have lost 40,000 kg. Yes you read that right! That was in 12 weeks. Annie and I cemented our friendship with tattoos, hehe. And I can't post a pic because all the options are not showing above. So I will try that next time.

Stay safe and have fun!
Love Kaz

The Shrinking Story..

Morning.

Well I have been trying to get clever with some photos for my next blog post, and I have a Mac now, and I just cannot get Mac savvy. To be honest it is not my favourite device in the house! I love its battery life and the sleekness of it. But for photos I find it shithouse...Grrr. Alas I went back to the old desk top and Paint to whip up some pics. Why do I need pics you ask. Well I have to tell you about my little journey that  I started at the very beginning of October last year.

Yes thats right back in October 2010, I decided I needed to make some some serious changes in my life. I needed to lose weight. I had turned into a fat blimp! Over the years (about 5 I guess) i had ballooned to 93 kilos. FARK!!! I am only 159 cms. How could that little body possibly be that large. But it was. And it seemed to happen gradually, and I lived in denial. For awhile I told myself I wasn't that big, or I'd find clothes that I told myself looked ok, I didn't look that bad.. Who was I kidding? Myself actually! At some point I actually realised it was effecting me. I was getting short of breath when I went upstairs to our bedroom at home. It was uncomfortable doing up my shoes laces. I also had horrid indegestion most days and my cholesterol was on the upper limits of normal, I think it was high for one of the standards. For awhile I told myself I just needed to get "in the zone" to start losing weight. Well clearly the zone was no where in sight. And here I was looking like this!

Uuuugh, disgusting!! The left pic was from a scrap booking retreat in March 2010, and the one on the right is me at my 40th birthday party in October 2009 (where I thought I looked hot, I guess I looked okay for a boombah!)..LOL.

So here I was lumping around all of this weight, waiting for some miracle motivation and inspiration to bestow itself on me. Well girlfriends one morning I realised it ain't gunna happen, and I just had to do it. So I signed up for Weight Watchers at Southland, one of the Lifestyle centres. After a couple of weigh ins I ended up with Claudia, a different consultant. She was lovely, and very supportive. So I had begun the journey. I started Zumba and Kickboxing, and sort of tracking points. I was never 100% good at that. I probably did it written down for a couple of months, then in my head, then not at all. But the food choices were so far different from what I was doing that it didn't matter...I was still losing weight.  

I love Zumba and Kickboxing, and also getting out for a walk with our new Border Collie. So here I am 10 months later (not much different in the last month), and I happy to report I am 20 + kilos lighter. I haven't weighed in on the WW scales for ages, but they were close to my scales at home. I feel so much better, and people tell me I look so much better too. Although at times it is hard to accept that in my head, more on that later.

These pics are all in the last 2 weeks. I have definition in my shoulders, my legs are slender, I have little muscles in  my arms (I need to work on picture angles, because they are not always looking their best, hehe), my tractor tyre is more like a bike tyre now and I have only 1 chin now! I am still on a journey, and that is Part 2 of my story....

For anyone who has lost weight, you will know it is a bloody battle every day, some days easier than others, but I am here to show it can be done...take each day as it comes, chin up, onward we go!

Back soon to share my next stage of my journey, which is to fine tune my mind and body.

Cheers Kaz

Weekend Ramblings!!

Ok, so what is happening, let me see.
Harry, Emmy and I went to Southland yesterday, as I took some meat back that I bought on the 31, and when i looked at it thursday night, (the 2nd) to see if we would eat it, or the mince, i realised it expired on the 1st, dodgy. Anyway, we ended up somehow bringing home a new "pet". Yes i got harry a Siamese fighting fish. He was only $12 so i thought bargain, but by the time i got some foliage, water conditioner, food and rocks I had spent $50. They certainly saw me coming, LOL. harry has named him Nemo, and he so does not look like Nemo, he is vwery blue,and only blue. In even more exciting news, I popped into my fave jewellers , Trewarne at Southland, and to my delight, they have the Pandora line. Woo Hoo. Because I don't want no dodgy fakes from ebay etc. I want authentic Pandora of course.


In other news, (which i was going to keep to myself), as i am so ashamed of myself turning into a fatty boombah, that telling everyone, is like admitting that I am overweight, and if i fail then i would be even more embarrased. But in an effort to have my friends support, and in order to make me accountable I am telling you my secret....
Today I started Light and Easy, and I plan to do it for maybe 6 weeks. My short arse (aka petite LOL) 158 cm frame weighs in at 74.2 kg., Massive I know. God pre harry when I lost weight before I remember saying to myself "right I will never be over 60 kg ever again. yea, well 2 kids later and i need to join overeaters anon. In a homage to my impending weight loss i even threw out half a packet of salt and vinegar chips last night. Now that was hard, LMAO. So here I am day 1, so far so good, hehe. God help, that's all i can say.

Last night i enjoyed 2 DVD's - Miss Potter and Razzle Dazzle. Both good. I also really enjoyed some yummy Thai takeaway Pad Thai gai, delish. Bye takeaway!!We have been to swimming this morning (most pleasant sight, NOT!), bye the way mark is in Geelong, did I mention that. Having some him time at the footy. He is loud and proud Cats supporter at the moment. And I am going to go scrapping tomorrow, 12 - 4pm. So that will be nice. Right must go make a coffee, and work out how many cals extra I can have with breastfeeding.(yougurt, not chips or biscuits, damn).

Oh and I have been tagged as a rockin blogger chick, and I am meant to tag 5 more. Don't know 5 people who read my blog, that have blogs. So I tag Annie and Leia.. And I pretty much think it just means we are cool, hehe.

cheers from the cool chick! :)