Twas the Night before Start Time ...

Twas the night before start time, and all through the house
Was planning and preping with the click of a mouse
The diaries were planned with the workouts in mind
With it all written down, so nothing is left behind

The children were nestled all snug in their beds
and this mummy thought she too had best rest her head
While visions of sugar-plums will not dance in my head
because I see them smashing and falling in a game best left unsaid!

 HERE WE GO ..... it's the night before DAY 1 of the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation.

Although I know I followed this for 3 Rounds last year and was very successful I am not ashamed to admit that I too struggled on the outside on my own even though I had a massive facebook support as always.  What do they say the best laid plan of mice and men....???

So I figure I have nothing to loose except the left over bit of weight that I want to loose and a whole lot to gain.  

I've worked out my workouts for the week which was very important to me because last time I started this journey I found I couldn't juggle everything and I ended up leaving one of my jobs so I could focus on this full time now I am only working part time and with my son settled back at school (fingers crossed) we should have more of a balanced lifestyle to plan and develop.

So here we go - wish me determination, strength, courage and the ability to just keep going ..... JFDI!

ps I hope you enjoyed the little picture I found it cute x

Cheers 

Kelly xoxo

A solution...??? Thursday 6th September

Sorry I haven't posted for a while..... as you see from my last post things have been up and down and round and round and round and then all sorts of zig zag!!!! LOL

I had a meeting with the school today about 'how are we going to deal with this and although we asked Autism SA to attend they didn't get there until 2.30pm for a 1pm meeting!

I had only allowed an hour for this meeting as I am trying to get everything ready to go away to Perth for FINALE!!!! However the meeting took 2 hours and could have gone longer if I had not needed to go and do the school pick up.  Also after this meeting I was emotionally drained and not functioning very well at all.

It is good that we got some good 'rules and guidelines on the table'.  My son will now go to school from 9.30am - 12noon and even if he decides to do no work and sit and stare at a wall then he still will stay at school until 12 so it gives me some time to get out and about.  However if he is violent then it means that I still have to go and get him so it could mean that I still get a 10am phone call however we are hoping that won't happen as we have juggled around his learning timetable too.

Trying to pack for finale is a night mare.  I only need to take minimum stuff but there is a lot of 'what if's'.  There is going to be warm weather and so I don't actually have any clothes for a warmer climate which is an issue in itself.  Oh well I guess that's a good reason to go shopping!!!

I realise this is short and sweet but I have tooo much to do and not enough time to do it!!!

Held Hostage ... - Tues 28 August

They say everything in your life is related to your jouney with weight loss especially all the roadblocks.

Well I seem to be driving down a VERY bumpy road right now!!!

My son is having major behavioural issues at school and it's close to driving me up the wall!!!! He is becoming violent at school and the phone calls to come and collect him anywhere from 10am - 11am means I don't get much out of my day!  However it also means that I have to get organised!  If I drop him off at 9am I know that it means straight to the gym to get in a workout however due to procrastination and just general stuffing around it means I never get there on time and it's affecting me.

The quick and simple answer to this would be to get up at the crack of dawn which is about 6am (hang on there's a 6am in the morning now)??? Do a workout as Mish said 'before life begin's'.  But in all reality I won't do it so I just need to perhaps JFDI or wait until the evening and then plan my workout more effectively then.

I am home today with my son because I was getting my car serviced and mentioned to the school that if they called it would take a while to come and get him which they weren't too happy about so it was agreeded by all he stay with me however it means I am grounded for most of the day.

This is becoming like my life a bit right now but you know what I just wake up every day and deal with it.  Control the controllables and the rest will fall into place, eat clean and train dirty when you can!

Leading Up Lofty - Sunday 26 August

Sunday was exciting.  I meet up for coffee with some new people starting on their 12wbt journey and then some friends who we keep in contact with on facebook.  After coffee I took 3 Lofty Virgin's up to conquer the mountain!!!

I still remember the very first time that I did it and had someone by my side step by step although we had only just met at the bottom of the mountain it was great to have someone there.  The same was true when my friend Cheryl took me up last week she walked at my pace so my time was my time and didn't push me and let me set the pace so I promised myself that if i ever got the chance to walk with someone else and it was their first time then I would pay it forward and show them that respect.

For me it also gave me some confidence that I wasn't even looking for.  Me the person who is always the last to get picked for team sports. Me the person who managed to get out of every sports day at high school by being in 'other place's', and Me the person who would drive their car to the letterbox if I could.  Me the person 'fit' enough to lead 3 people up a mountain.  I was only a step or two at most ahead of them but they set their own pace. 

I'm really proud of myself that I had the confidence to take them up there and was actually really looking forward to sharing their adventure.  On the way back down they waved me to go ahead so I did it at quite a quick pace with another girl and I managed a PB of 46 mins so I was sooo happy with that!!!!!  Smashed nearly 10 minutes of the first time that I did! 

Now I'm really excited to go back and do Lofty again in week 4, week 8 and week 12 to increase my time, my fitness, my strength, my mind set and my confidence.

Zumba Masterclass & Master 'BANG' - Fri 24 Aug

THURSDAY

Another Zumba Master Class!!! OMG sooo good!!!! Michael Thomas is amazing!!!!! Apparently he use to be a back up dance for Kylie and maybe Madonna but either way he was fantastic and he's going to be my Zumba trainer - woo hoo!

I burnt through 732 calories which I was happy with as it's really hard following a lot of the moves if you are new and even though he did do some songs which I knew he changed bits of it not that it matters but to show respect you like to copy them while they do what they do!

Thursday for me was a long day - took my son to swimming therapy, he is so good at swimming and floating I'm so proud of him and all he has achieved some weeks have a few screams I sit outside so he can't look at me and cry 'help me' he knows I am just outside and some weeks I hear it and just want to turn the music on to block it out but he's over it as soon as he's out the pool and then next week is all brand new again.

He had a fantastic lesson which was brilliant as the last two weeks have been horrible with him saying I don't want to come here anymore and he was so upset he wouldn't settle into his school day and had to come home.  So I was looking forward to a great day at school... that was until I got a phone call at 11.55 ... come and get him ... sigh ... he got upset again over some work.  He's now got a holiday from school for Friday too.

I tell you there's 'Plan B' and then there's plan C,D,E.... good thing there is 26 letters in the alphabet!!!  I'm learning to have back up plans it's going to be my new rule for Round 3.

FRIDAY

Today it has been raining, raining, raining, if it wasn't so cold I'd go outside for free swimming lessons.... LOL.  I'm glad I don't do group fitness outside I can imagine mud wrestling....

Off to the usual Zumba this morning and did 610 calories which I was really happy with I was sweating sooo much! So a little surprised that I didn't burn as many as usual but I guess getting fitter does that to you.  The second to last song I saw a girl go over on her ankle and my heart sunk.  She is brand new to the gym and a bigger girl and she just started crying I felt for her so much.  I had a chat to her at the end as she was really embarrased - I said hey I'm up the front of the class and 8 weeks ago that was me!  Trust me EVERYONE saw and even to this day people say 'how's your ankle' ....

This afternoon I got a little pampering treatment.  A very good friend who I have met here in Adelaide works at a Salon which has 'Formostar' it's a warm body wrap to help with tired, sore muscles (yeah we all have a few of those from 12wbt I tell you) and also meant to help with calorie burn.  I just wanted it for the infrared work on the muscles.  It was so nice!!! I'm the kind of girl who puts her electric blanket on full blast for nearly 2 hours before I even get into bed so it's hot hot hot when I get in there so this wasn't much hotter than that so it was good but the last 10 minutes was hot hot hot and I was sweating up a storm!  I drank nearly 750mls of water while I was in there and then the same within the next hour walking around at the shops!

Then I decided to go to the gym after dropping my daughter at her youth group I didn't realise that they closed at 8pm and I got there at 7.30pm so I did as much as I could in the time I could it was for toning so although I only managed to get out 27 minutes and only burn 198 - to that I think this quote is appropriate .....

Probably the only thing I regret is not having enough 'omph' to do the fence jumps and am VERY happy that they aren't barbed wire cause my shin hit the side half way through and now I have a lovely 'egg' which will bruise tomorrow - but it's all good!!! (hence the title of this being the master BANG)!!!!

Busy Busy Busy weekend ahead but no rest for the wicked....

Ding Ding - Round Over ~ Wed 22nd Aug

Ding Ding, Ring the bell, round up the cattle, we are done and dusted. 

Today marks the finish of 12 weeks - Round 2 of the 12wbt.  What a rollercoaster it has been!

Down's

I didn't achieve my weight los goals however wondering if they were unreasonable

Up's

I did loose 9.4kgs 

I did loose 10% of my body weight

I can fit into my zumba pants

I have hip bones

I can see a nice curve and starting to develop that 'hour glass' figure

People are telling me that I look really good

The friendships I have made

The workouts I have survived (thank god)

The cms's lost 39cms smaller  

I did not record a gain EVER this round

So I can definately say that it doesn't look like a traditional roller coaster and I'm really proud of everything I have achieved!  When I look at my two lists I see that it's not worth focusing on the numbers on the scales when I have surpassed all of my other goals.  As they say 'the numbers on the scales don't tell the full story'  I choose to believe that I have lean muscle mass developing and so of course that's going to be included in my weight!

Today I am SUPER sore.  Yesterday I did a toning workout which comprised of squats and lunges and today the legs are telling me they are there.  I just told some girlfriends I might wake up without my legs tomorrow as I'm sure in my sleep my body will decide to leave them LOL.  It's all good what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger that's hopefully if you can 'physically' move....

I think the things I have learnt from this round is to be organised - I mostly did that but in the last few weeks as you know I've had quite a few issues with my son and his behaviour at school.  He has special needs and it's very hard when he's in a mainstream school with little funding to support him in a learning capacity that he needs.  

So I haven't always had Plan B because I haven't felt that I have needed it so now I'm going to work that into my plan!  It's hard to come up with a Plan B 'on the spot' so to speak.  Although there are 26 letter's in the alphabet I hope I don't need to use them all!

Also I've struggled a little with the meals this round just with being so busy with life and also with my son so next round I will be doing the big cook ups and so I can always have something to grab and go.

I am going to be continuting on and doing another round of 12wbt.  Round 3 for my final weight loss and toning up.  I have some specific goals which I have set to help improve my fitness and some personal goals too.  I'm really excited for what this round will bring!

I'm so looking forward to the FINALE in Perth especially the workout and the party but also as I'm going to be catching up with two very special friends that I haven't seen for a long time.  I've never been to Perth so it's very exciting!!!

Mt Lofty - Round 2 ~ Monday 20th Aug

Yesterday I did something which I haven't done in a VERY long time and that was to go back to climb Mt Lofty!  I actually had a slight giggle re-reading the post I did it last time.  So full of determination to do it and yet completely dead by the end of it!

I did decide about 2 weeks ago that I would like to do it again as a bit of an end of round finale and at some stupid late night facebook chat publically in the adelaide 12wbt group I said I would go with 1 girl.  Then of course I panicked and spent a week thinking how I could get out of it because I honestly didn't feel that I could go through with it.

Then hubby and I were going to do it on the weekend but we weren't able to organise baby sitter's and I figured it was nearly now or never so I contacted my friend and off we went.  Luckily it wasn't until 11.30am on a Sunday because I'm really not too much of a morning person.

The trip up was actually a lot easier than I expected and we only stopped twice quickly so I could take off my jacket and grab my water from my bag.  There were quite a lot of people there too the weather was fairly cold and luckily the rain held off.

We made it up to the top 1 hour 6 mins and 58 seconds woo hoo!  Completely better than my 2 hours 19 mins and whatever seconds!  When I was getting nearly the top I suddenly went 'oh I can hear something' as I could hear some little kids I looked up and saw the corner of the cafe building and so I started running the last little bit to get to the top.  Did a total WOO HOO Rocky moment with both hands up in the air and jumping up and down! I made it!!!!

We stopped for a hot chocolate in the cafe as a little reward - well I did come all that way!  It was packed in there!  Then headed back down.  That took about 56 mins and it was quite cold at the beginning.  Coming down I found it quite hard with the angles that it is and I had to learn how to 'walk' down and not bounce as it was starting to hurt my legs.  When we were up the top there's a great look out - It was so foggy up the top too and it was so great to be able to look out over the city or at least try between the fog.

I smashed out 1214 calories for the whole trip which was exciting!  I'm going to be going back again next weekend with a friend taking her up as I always promised that I would want to take someone else up one day - they supported me the whole time and I want to be there for something else!

I'm surprised that I'm not too sore either which actually I'm SUPER happy about! 

I also found this picture that I wanted to post - the first lofty and the second!