Hey Jelly Belly, where you at?

Today is . . . Weigh in Wednesday!?!

I am a little nervous to see the results today! I caught up with friends last night and there was some food that looked really good to my empty stomach - big mistake, I know, but unfortunately I had a meeting that didn't finish until 7pm and thought it would finish in time to have dinner first.

There was sweet potato chips, these pretzels dipped in chocolate, dipped in almonds, some sweet waffle like biscuits. . . the list goes on. And I may have indulged. May have? Lets be honest here, I was hungry and there was food. Enter food reaper!

This is the reason I was nervous stepping on to the scales. I sabotaged myself.

Before getting onto those scales, I thought I should question my actions, after all, there was no gun held to my head forcing my to eat.

What have I learnt from this experience? I must have dinner or make sure that I have a healthy snack that will sustain me. Also, it was a one off. As long as I don't do that every day, I should be okay. So, getting back on the band wagon, let's start with this whole weekly weigh-in thing.

I have surprised myself! It's not like my clothes are tight - they're definitely getting bigger, but I didn't expect a 0.9kg loss this week! Imagine what it would have been if I didn't get carried away last night? That's a total of 2.2kg lost so far this round.

That's a little bit of motivation to keep me going this week!

Week One Overview

It's Monday and I am off to a fabulous start this week, not!

I was up early (5.30am) and it was cold. So I thought, I have time. Just a few minutes of Candy Crush and I'll be on my way. And I was, at 6am. Grabbing breakfast and lunch out of the fridge. Checking on my laundry that was hanging in the lounge room (I live in a unit, can't hang anything outside and don't like useing the dryer, for a few reasons but mainly cost) and racing out the door to the gym.

Normally at 6am there is no traffic, but today . . . everyone was on their way with me and I took just over an hour to get to the gym where normally at that time of the morning it would take 45 minutes max. 

Oh well, I'll get what I can done this morning and will do the Pump class tonight to make up the calories that I don't burn this morning. No problem. Crisis averted. Almost halfway through the workout, I'm 279 calories lighter and I have to head for the showers if I want to make it to work on time. 

At work, I grab my bag, jacket and lunch . . . hmmm . . . my lunch is missing. I don't have a big car, in fact I have a tiny car. I look through the boot. Maybe my lunch (and breakfast) is under my gym bag? That's the only place it could be in my boot. Nope. Then I remember, I checked my laundry. Who knows why I checked my laundry - it's not like I was going to take it down this morning. Nevertheless, I put my packed breakfast and lunch down to check my laundry. And that's where it still is. On my kitchen bench :( At least I will have dinner there ready to heat up!

Oh well, this is just another challenge that I have to get past.

On that note, my summary for the first week of the 12wbt are below:

Yes, Sunday Calories are empty. That would be because, as I turned up for dinner at my folks place, mum was pulling a freshly baked loaf of bread out of the bread machine. OMG!?! How do you resist that smell on an empty stomach? So yes - I sabotaged myself. And it was a very yummy sabotage.

I have to push myself so hard at Pump tonight if I want to see you shrinking Jelly Belly!

Friday Fun

As the working week comes to a conclusion, I felt like reflecting on the last five days.

It has been an interesting five days, challenging and believe it or not, fun.

With all the weight loss programs that I have tried over the years, I have not 'learnt' anything new, rather I have learnt how to put that knowledge into practice. After five days of following the 12wbt, and it is only early days yet - I LOVE it!

Every day this week I have been organised (as much as I could be - stupid alarm!) and even when stuff cropped up, I still managed to fit in every workout and record every morsel of food that entered my mouth.

Today my shoulders are a little stiff, probably from all the plank like exercises in this morning's work out, yesterday I new I had worked some muscles as well, but this is more a feeling that gives me satisfaction rather than annoyance! Those muscles are sore because I have used them, worked them and hopefully made them hotter to burn through more of Jelly Belly!

This week has, so far, been a very big week, a full time job, a casual job and studying for uni has made juggling everything interesting and challenging and there are a few even bigger weeks immediately ahead, but I am feeling confident that I can sustain the levels required for this week.

Without being able to look forward on the exercise plans, I can only assume that the intensity will slowly increase, hopefully with the increase in intensity I have also increased in the required fitness to continue at the expected pace.

But hey! I am saying this before I have even attempted my first SSS!

Another exciting and motivating side effect to following the nutrition plan and exercise plan is that I am already starting to see results! When I wriggle my fingers I can see all the tendons and bones (I'm not a health professional, not sure on correct terminology) becoming more prominent, also there are muscles in my thighs becoming more prominent as well. And the unofficial weigh-in I did this morning shows a loss of 2kg so far! Finally results!!

See you later Jelly Belly!!