Post Shred Apocolypse!!

Ok, so the titles a wee bit irrelevant, but i like the sound of it so it stays!!

This post is a wee bit late, but better late than never!!  I have FINISHED THE SHRED!!!  Yup, Done, Complete, All gone!!!  And i'm feeling amazing!!! I don't feel like my body shape changed much in the last half, but i feel stronger, and my endurance is hugely improved! (Towards the end i was only sweating buckets instead of pools!!)

So here are my stats from day 1 of the shred, to day 30!

Beginning Shred                          End Shred
Weight:       84.85kg (187lb)          Weight:     75.5kg (166lb)

Measurements
Bust:      100cm                             Bust:      96cm
Waist:     102cm                            Waist:    92cm
 Hips:     116cm                              Hips:     109cm
*waist measure is lower abdo

So i have lost:  Weight: 9.35kg (20.61lb)   Bust: 4cm,   Waist:  10cm,    Hips:  7cm

PROUD MUCH!!

So these are my final Shred photos!!

 

And since September....

            Weight loss    -13.1kg (28lb)

Bust                 -8cm

Waist               -14cm

Hips                -12cm

 And just cause i love doing the before and after pics.....

Id like very much to express how i feel about being given back my health/strength/enthusiasm and motivation but i just don't know that there are words that fit the job description!!  

Lal, you have changed my life!!  Sure you've helped me lose weight but that was just the bottom of the list. Even better than that, you've taught me whats more important, a healthy body, healthy mind, and healthy soul!!  You've taught me the importance of positive changes for myself as a whole, you've taught me to explore new things ('Broadbeaned' my horizons as it were....hehe, bean pun!!).  You've given me confidence in myself, and in what my body can handle, and you've shown me that even when i reach my limits, i can still push it a little further!!

You and Sally have both motivated me, kept me enthusiastic, and kept me trying hard (i can be a wee bit competitive too!)  Exercising alongside ya's has kept me strong, and i'm so thankful for your friendships!!(....is this starting to sound a bit like an Grammy's speech?? "so as i accept my award.....")

Lal, Your just one truly gifted woman of God!!  I still have no words to express how i actually feel, but i want to say that God has blessed you with some amazing talents and you use them Awesomely!!  It has been a privilege being your 'Jilli-Lal' guinea-pig and i am sooo looking forward to your boot camp (*Cough, be nice, *cough)

Right, id like to add down the bottom here that i haven't yet reached my goal, and will still be trailing after my 'Jilli-Lal' soaking up more little bits of wisdom on my fitness journey, and gearing up for runs, and (shameless and totally worth it advertising) i'l be following the workouts and recipe's and articles on your website as often as i can!!

So.....Bring on 'Ripped in 30'!!!

Toodles!! :)

Mid-point Shred!!!

I'm Back!!!! I feel like iv been away for so long, and i really missed my daily blog reading (I have so many posts to write too)!! I thought the end of October was tough, turned out the start of November was worse, but we got there in the end!!!

Another thing i made it through was the first 15 days of 'The Shred' (said in a deep horror film voice with 'dum, dum, duuuum' after it)!! Yup, i'm half way through level 2 and i am feeling the burn!!  So who remembers my pics from 15 days ago???

 

Well, the 2nd pic is from 15 days ago anyway!  For the last 2 weeks i'v been pushed and challenged to work harder than i ever have before, and to rethink my eating habits even more by my 'Jilli-Lal' and inspired by my 'Sal-bell'!  I'v had slip ups (as in the chocolate biscuits have slipped up into my mouth), but i still haven't added any sugar to anything, haven't had any 'bad' take-out (Maccas and such, i have had Pita pit and home made pizza), or king size choc bars, and haven't had any milos since September when that first pic was taken and 'Jilli-Lal' started challenging me!!  Proud much??? Yup!!

And so the following pics show the results of 15 days of hard core working out (hard core to me anyway!), and long walks (Build up to the 12km walk i signed up for on Sunday....Gulp) and wiser eating!!

Even I can see the difference now!!! (especially the diffrence in my expression!) My clothes feel bigger, my waist is returning, but the thing i love the most is that i'v stopped thinking of losing weight!!  My focus now is making my body stronger and challenging it as much as i can!!  Don't get me wrong, i still want to lose weight, but i'd rather spend this exercise time realizing how flippen amazing my body is and seeing it do so much more than i thought it could (I'v been running!)!!

So Lal, i know your reading this...You are so freaking Amazing, and Inspirational, and Positive, and Real!!!  You Challenge and Encourage and Support and Guide and you make me feel like i can do absolutely anything!!  Your just a Total Legend and i just Love the person you are!!

So stay tuned, cause for the next 15 days i'm going to be going even harder to finish this Shred in style!!!  Il be posting more pics of the finished product and some details of how its changed my bod!!  

Any who, id better go so i can sort the rest of my posts that shud'v been posted already!!

Toodles!! :)

Shredding my weighty issues!!

This was me back in August, before i started to change my wicked food ways!!  The thing i hate most about these pics is not the weight (although i'm not a fan of it)  Its the defeated look on my face and the slump of my shoulders!!  Being unhealthy SUCKS!!!   The constant tiredness, the icky feeling after a big meal of Macca's, that general feeling of Meh!! 

 Today im feeling the burn!!  For the past 2 weeks (approx')  My very own Jillian Michaels (aka Loral) has taken my fitness to a whole other level!  The Biggest Loser workout dvd was introduced first, which resulted in 3 of us in sweaty fits of laughter and chatter, lying prone on the floor pretending that we were doing press ups!

Then she busted out the big guns!! Introducing Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred!! OMG!! It burns!!  It also works!lol!  Somewhere in the last couple of weeks, several cm's have disappeared from my hips!!  My HIPS people!!  The place i'v always had issues moving weight from!!  What's even better, is that my Jilli-Loral is also watching my intake, making sure im getting all the right stuff going in, in the right amounts for a breastfeeding mama!!  I feel very blessed to have someone constantly pushing me, and through the pain i feel very coddled!! Its fantastic!!

So today im posting BEFORE pics, and in 30 days (unless my muscles freeze over and i cant type) il be posting some AFTER (hopefully fitter looking) pics!!  If im feeling amazing il also post some half way pics!!

And just because i like seeing before and after photos side by side im going to do that too!  Then when i add some more i can line them all up and marvel at how different my body looks!!  So off i go to Shred some more!! Stay tuned as i update on my progress!!

So the first lesson here, is stop wearing stripes!!lol!

The 2nd lesson is that healthy eating and exercise is working!! (And get a haircut!!)

Im looking forward to updating this status soon!!

Toodles!! :)