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!