Signed up and raring to go!!!

Well, I took the leap! I signed up for the toughest but most rewarding 12 weeks of my life so far!
I plan on losing 15kg and am committed to following Michelle Bridges plan to the letter. No more excuses, no more procrastinating.

I want to get down a size 14 and get back into my wedding dress by the end of this round!

New ME here I come!

Anyway, will keep you posted, need my ENERGY sleep. After signing up for the 12wbt I went to the gym and burnt 940 calories (stepper and pump class) so I'm tired and sore.

Night 

Only 1 day to go!!!

Soooo excited! Only 1 day to go until I'm signed up and ready to start pre-season tasks in preparation for the 12 week body transformation!

I am so motivated  and will put in 150% over the next 12 weeks in order for me to achieve my goal of losing 15kg. If others can do it I CAN TOO!!

I know if I follow Michelle's plan to the letter and do EVERYTHING she tells me to, I'll lose the weight and before I know it, Round 2 will be over and I'll be ready to lose the rest of the weight (another 15-20kg ) in Round 3!!!

Over this Easter Long weekend I've been great in the exercise department but food hasnt gone too well.

I've decided over the next few weeks until the 12 weeks officially starts I want to lose 3kg between now and the 23 May (Round 2 kick off).

This is the year for me to succeed in something. I've tried and failed too many times and this time I'm READY! Ready to be consistent, ready to break through walls, ready to re-discover the new me.

Signing off for now,
Dani

THIS IS ME! I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!

The beginning of a new me!

Well, here goes!

I decided it was time for me to start journalling my weightloss journey over the next 8 months!

I'll start from the beginning of my journey 4 years ago when I started putting on weight.

It all started to happen when I met my wonderful husband James, at first, early on we would go for a lot of walks and were fairly active, I kept up my fitness regime of working out at the gym twice a day, 6 days a week and then it just all started going downhill. We became less active, I started going to the gym less and less and spending more time together. We started to develop a few bad habits like CHOCOLATE and SCI FI! We discovered a shared love for watching SCI FI and could sometimes spend hours watching it.

When we first met I was at my fittest, I was a fit size 8-10, 57-59kg, within 6 months I had gone up to a tight size 12, then a year later when we got married I was a size 14 and was up to about 75kg.

The FIT me!

We moved to Melbourne and I got a job as an Admin Assistant in an accounting firm and sat for 8 - 9 hours a day.

In Melbourne - Office jobs arent condusive to a healthy lifestyle

6 months of office work and virtually no exercise (minimal) I had gone from 80-90kg. We decided to move to Darwin and I made a pact I would lose the weight.

My first taste of HOT & HUMID Darwin weather - me at 90kg

 However, I got another full time role in admin and had much more responsibilty, 8-9 hours sitting again and I put on another 7 kilos.

I tried all sorts of eating plans, shakes, you name it, I tried it, what I lacked was consistency and determination.

9 months later we moved to Tasmania and I had reached my heaviest weight and size, 18 and now 97kg. 

Over the 2 years we had been married I had tried all sorts of things to lose weight, was consistent for a couple of weeks then dropped off. Then I'd try some stupid fad and then stop because it wasnt working.

Having been fit before I started putting on weight, I knew EXACTLY what I needed to do to achieve weightloss but I still kept trying all sorts of things to lose weight.I knew I needed to become SINGLE FOCUSSED.

I'd set goals, then not achieve them and started slipping into a bit of a pit of self pity and despair. I HATED the way I looked, couldnt stand going shopping, felt frumpy and old. I'm such a proactive person and getting to this point in my life was horrible, I'd always been the type of person who saw a problem and worked out a way to fix it, but couldnt seem to fix my OWN problem.

Last year sometime around August, James said to me "lets have a baby"! I had been waiting for him to say that to me and the day had come when he finally did say it, and I wasnt ready. I had decided I didnt want to fall pregnant until I had reached my fitness goals and wanted to go through pregnancy being fit and healthy!! I then felt like I had let myself down big time because if I had only lost the weight by now and achieved my goals I could be ready to start a family.

Still, I kept procrastinating, I started to change things and then fell back into old habits, I really wasnt serious.

It wasnt until I went away on holiday with James and the kids Christmas 2010 to QLD to be with my family for 2 weeks, looking back on the photos, I deliberately stayed "out of them", I was always the photographer and the photos I was in I looked fat and uncomfortable and didnt like what I saw.

It was then that I decided I didnt want to go back home the same as I was then. I wanted to be a new me by the time I went home again.

Me at my heaviest - 2010

Me at my heaviest - 2010

So, as soon as we got back home I started seriously exercisising, but still hadnt done a great deal about my diet. It wasnt bad, but I wasnt losing weight so something wasnt right.

I was doing all this exercise, burning massive amounts of calories and yet wasnt dropping ANY weight. Sure I wasnt putting any on, but it simply wasnt budging.

The last couple of weeks I've been working so hard at the gym and still hadnt been seeing the results.

So I decided it was time for something DRASTIC! I need structure and to have it all set out for me and all I need to do is simply follow instructions!

Thats when I decided I would sign up for Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation.

I am counting down the days now until Pre-Season starts and have decided to do this Round and the next Round.

I start on Wednesday 27th April 2011! Am so excited! 

My goals for the next 12 weeks are:

Lose 18kg = 1.5kg per week

Get down to a size 14 for our anniversary in July!

In the second round of 12 WBT I plan to:

Lose another 15kg

Get down to a size 10 by the end of the round!

I know I can achieve this, I have the determination, am putting in the hard work, I just need the structure!!

Anyway, thats it for now, many more updates to come!