12wbt Blog Challenges

Just because I love them, here is the first of my bloggy challenges from Nutritionally Yours


Tell us a little bit about yourself. What makes you, you?
 - My name is Kat, I am 29, married to my wonderful hubby of 5 years and trying for a baby. I am a capricorn and a capricorn in every sense of the word. I am ambitious, strong willed, stubborn and loyal. I love my hubby and family, and love to be secure financially and emotionally. I was once a little overweight but fairly fit, now I am very overweight and very unfit, this has made me lose a lot of confidence, determination and strength. I want to change this.

Why did you decide to do the 12WBT?
- I chose to do the 12WBT as hubby tried it a year ago and lost weight, my next option is gastric banding, I dont want that, but I need motivation and accountability. I gather I will give this a go. If I fail, then gastric banding is it. I want a change and I think that 12WBT can help.

What are you hoping to achieve through this program?
- I am going to achieve a few things. Firstly at 5kg loss. That is the first goal. Secondly get into the habit of exercise and get fitter. I want to be able to walk 5km without feeling like I am going to die...hey I cant walk 100m without feeling like I am going to die. And lastly to get into the habit of healthy eating. I am doing ok with this, but I can get better.

Why have you decided to blog the 12wbt, what will be the main focus?
- I have decided to blog it, as its part of everyday life. It will focus on everything.

How will you be exercising this round? Gym, home, outdoors or a mixture?
- well Im sort of hoping gym, but I'm not 100% on paying the gym fees. I am wanting to save some money, but if thats what we need that's what we will do. Generally though, it will be a mixture of all.

What is your greatest strength that will help you?
- My greatest strength is probably my biggest weakness. I am an organiser, if I can use this to my advantage, then I will be steaming ahead.

What are you afraid of?
- I am afraid of failing, of being embarrassed. I am afraid that I wont be able to do this, that I wont be able to do anything without hurting myself.

What am I most looking forward to?
- I am most looking forward to getting fitter. Being able to spend a day not having backaches from my weight. I am sure I can lose those pains in the next 12 weeks, I am also sure that I can fit into one of my suits.

What is your downfall? Food? Exercise? How will you overcome this?
- Everything is my downfall. I love food, I am scared of exercise, I am bad at actually getting food prepared, feeling like eating what I make. I dont know how to overcome all of this.

If you had to pick one word to motivate you what would it be?
- babies

moby xoxo

Another adventure?

So I did pretty well with the detox. It lasted a week and a half and I was feeling amazing. But then it stopped, and while I have put about 2kg back on, I am starting to feel better and am a bit more aware of what I am eating. So now to the next adventure, we have signed up to do the 12wbt again. I am really looking forward to it, and I think we will be successful.
Actually, I really don't want to fail. I need to get this weight down, I am in the best frame of mind in years, and I am really hoping that this will be it. I am going to follow the program, do all the preseason tasks, follow it all to the "T" and see how I go. I want to lose 15kg in the first round of 12 weeks, if I take into account the 4 weeks of preseason, hopefully I can lose 20kg. But honestly even 5kg would be great.

Warm Up tasks:
1 - make a small change - my small change this week will be to go for a small walk during my lunch break, and to take lunch everyday.

2 - make 50% of all fluid intake water. working out my water intake by weight, I should be drinking about 4L a day. I will aim for this, I have already cut out anything else during the day. I will generally have a coffee of a morning and then water for the rest of the day. I just now need to up it.

3 - this is going to be the hard one. 30km of exercise in a week. working on 6 days of exercise, that 5km a day. I am going to organise a free gym trial, so tomorrow this will start. I will try 2km on the bike, 2km rowing and 1km walking.

But it all starts soon..I'll keep you updated :)

Detox Day 2

This morning I have been fairly lazy. I laid in bed, read a book (more details later) and stayed there til 10. Hubby has worked this weekend so that's been a bonus. Dad cooked a BBQ breakfast so I have resisted that, he also had a chiko roll and chicken for lunch, but that too has been resisted. I have had some pumpkin soup for breakfast, a protein shake (not fantastic) and a bowl of sautéed veggies. They were great :) I have drunk a coffee, and am just about to devour a litre of water, my goal is 2.5 by bedtime. This arvo I will need to pick up a bottle of juice for work (most likely beetroot or grapefruit) and then I'm set for tomorrow.
I have all ready seen a reduction in size, my pants are no longer tight, and the buttons on my shirt aren't straining :) I don't know how long I'll do this for, but I'm going with it. I'm getting nutrients, so as long as I'm losing weight, then awesome. It's a lot more food than if I was to get the gastric banding, which is my next option. I don't want that option!

I have put a layby on today for two suits, my goal is to fit in them when I pick them up. That's 6 weeks. Fingers crossed I will b taking them back cos they're too big :)

So my plan atm.. At least 2l water per day, at least 1-2 juices, a soup, and salad or veg as required. Add in protein shake if needed, and a cup of coffee.

Now I'm off, I have a book/movie review coming up :)

Blessed be

Moby xoxo

Detox day 1

Stupidly (well not really) I have decided to join my pretty ma and do a detox and try to lose this weight and reduce some swelling. I have gotten through day 1 ok and am not on day 2, but here's a recap.

I started my day out with water and a coffee (im keeping my 1-2 day a day coffee habit at the moment), we then did a bit of shopping, errands then came home and made soup. I made two. One with tomatoes and everything else in the fridge, and the a carrot, pumpkin,leek and sweet potato one. I'm pretty happy with the fact I made it through the day. To end off the day I had some steamed potato. I went to bed at 8, super exhausted and that's when I had some issues. Every time I got to sleep I work up within 10-15 minutes and I ached ALL over. About 10 I got up, had 4 squares of chocolate and the sugar did the trick. I fell asleep. Perfect!! I did wake up 2-3 times to use the bathroom, but I think it went well :)
This morning I woke up down 2.2kg, so even better!