Mini-milestone week

Week 4 is mini-milestone week in the 12WBT. A 400g loss in todays weigh-in has taken me to 3kg total to date and I am feeling great. The main thing Mish is trying to get to us in mini milestones is to focus on the non weight related wins. Like redoing the fitness tests and measurements. I will do my fitness test this weekend but every Wednesday I run 5km on the treadmill to try and beat my time from the week before so I know my fitness is improving. Today i did 5km in 35min and 36 sec shaving 6 seconds off last weeks time. 

I have lost cm also and my clothes are starting to get lose on me which is fantastic. I can not wait till I drop a dress size from a 14 to a 12, but that is still a little way off.

The other great thing that has happened this week is I think I am finally starting to inspire my hubby to get fit, lose weight and exercise.  It's been 3 years but better late than never. He is starting to watch his portions eat better and run on the treadmill. 

Working full time I always struggle with taking the easy way out and getting take away on the way home but these last few weeks I have completely stayed away from take out, cooking quick easy meals is not that difficult and I'll just stop at the butcher and supermarket on the way home. As long as you write a list and stick to it you are in and out in no time. 

I know the time will come soon that I will have take out so here is where we make our choices.

2 Vietnamese Rice paper rolls for approx 300cals for 2

VS

McDonald's Chicken Caesar Wrap for 493cals

 

What will you choose??

 

330 cals for a traditional chicken souvlaki from Souvlaki Hut

VS

 

459 cals for 1 KFC chicken breast original recipe.

Really is food for thought.

 

Goodbye week 2, Hello week 3

It's weigh in day and I am 700g lighter than last week. Although it was under my personal target set of 1kg I am still happy with the loss. This week I did 6 days of training burning at least 400cal per session and ate pretty much to the plan and always within my 1200cal.

I often find myself struggling with my inner fat chick as I like to say. I eat when i'm bored, emotional or hungry... that is basically every minute I'm not sleeping. Not anymore. I still snake but I track. Make sure not to lose focus. This is all a mind game with yourself. Keep it top of mind and your priority list and we are bound to succeed. Here's to this week being another good one. I have a trip to Port Douglas booked in late August which is only 10 weeks away so lets focus.

xoxo Stef

Inspiration

My Inspiration board

the beginning of the end... of my "journey" (12WBT)

My name is Stefanie and I am 27 years old. I have been on a weight loss "journey" with my sister Kathy for 2 years now. When we first decided to take control of our lives and lose weight I was 103.1kg and a size 18-20 at only 25 years of age.

I have however struggled with my weight my whole life, a size 14 through all of high school. I was hopeless at sports and was called "thunder thighs" by some of the boys. I always worried I would never find a boyfriend; however I found a man I loved at age 17, Alan, who saw my inner beauty. We married in 2008 and although I wanted to lose weight for my wedding, I was only able to drop from 101kg to 92kg doing Lite & Easy.

After my wedding I left my parent's place and started to cook for myself.... WOW that was bad; I used to live of instant noodles and chocolate. So bad, I Know. And I put on all the weight I lost plus some in 8 months getting up to my heaviest 103.1kg.

I sold my house and moved back in with my parent with my hubby, and got a call from my sister at work telling me she was going to join Weight Watchers. This is the call that changed my life. I asked if I could go with her and she was wrapped. We took the WW journey together and both lost a stack of weight. In April to celebrate 12 month of weight loss we took a hike in the Grampians.

I ended up losing 24.6kg getting down to 78.5kg and feeling good. We did personal training every Saturday with Russell at MaxNRG who we had a ball with and kicks our but. But i hit a wall, my weight loss was at a stand still and was losing motivation.
I went to Europe at this point for 6 weeks and well i thought that was the end of it but managed to come back only 100grams heavier.

So i got complacent, not bad, but not good either. Sweets, takeout not really working out and the kilos started to creep up.I got up to 82kg over 1 year and now I have taken control again.


I have just joined the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation to try and get to my goal of 69kg. 

In my first week I have lost 1.9kg and am feeling so very motivated so I have decided to keep this blog to keep me on track, help inspire others to do the same and get me to goal once and for all.


Wish me luck.


Stef