What an awesome two weeks......

I am amazed of what I have achieved in the last two weeks. I have run a 5km and a 4km fun run without stopping. I have gone from running a pace just faster than walking to my 1km pace all the way through the 4km.

It is such an awesome feeling when you finish a fun run. Knowing that you have done it, and given it your all is such a wonderful feeling.

The best thing about the Margaret River fun run was having Lance and the Perth Crew watching me finish my 4km race last weekend, as they had just finished their 10km. They cheered me on for the last minutes before I finished. I really don't know where I get my energy from after running for so long, but for the last 500m as soon as I see the finish line, I go nuts and run like I am being chased!

So I weighed in today and I am down to 64.1. This is an awesome weight for me to be at - I weighed 71.3 at the start of the 12 week body transformation, 71.5 2 weeks before then, and I weighed around 75./76 just after Sophie was born.

I am focused on reaching 63kg within the next two weeks - I want to be at the weight I was before I had Kieran, 9 years ago. To do this I am going to try eating more nutritious snacks and be mindful about not snacking all day, even though I have the calories available. I will continue to push myself when training and will continue to work out 6 days a week.

If someone is out there wondering if they can do this program, and want to have the same results I am having, I urge you to try out this program - it will work!

Til next time,

Julia

Week 4 Blogging Challenge - Reflection

1. Describe in 25 words or less (why is it always 25 words) the you that you were before 12wbt


Someone who sat down everyday at home using the computer, playing with the kids, studying....no exercise at all!

2. Now - who are you now??


I am someone who gets up and trains 6 days per week - a lot of times doing double sessions at the gym.

3. What has the hardest been the hardest thing to make habit THIS ROUND?


To go to the gym and put that before my social life :) 

4. What has been easier to make habit than you thought it would be?


To not have chocolate every single day!

5. How has your body changed THIS ROUND?


I have lost weight in my face and around my waist the most. I can see abdominal muscles getting more defined - once I lose the baby flab!

6. How has your mindset changed this round?


This is my first round - but I am enjoying eating healthy and training - and I love it :)

7. Finish this sentence "I now know I am strong because ..."


My mind is strong, when I put my mind to something I do it.

8. Finish this sentence "I am proudest of ...."


My ability to put my mind to something and do it. When I did the 5kms running non stop - I told myself to go to the 2.5km mark without stopping, then told myself to go to the end as I didn't have that far to go! 

9. Finish this sentence "In 8 more weeks you will see me ...."


A skinny minny :) 

10. What word applies to you now - that you never would have used before 12wbt?



Fit

Week 3 Blogging Challenge

This is very late, but have been doing my assignments - anyway - will get to the question at hand!

Its funny....you ask...what brings me joy beside food?

Before I started this challenge, I loved food.....I loved sitting down at the end of the day and having a coffee and eating a bag of smarties - the taste of them was so yummy. I used to love roasts and eating crackling. However these foods always made me feel yucky in my stomach - and I used to get pain all the time.

However you know what my new joy is? Going to a gym class!

I love the feeling I get when I go through the gym, the friendly team and instructors and creche team when I go to the gym and have an adult talk! Then I get to have 2 hours of "me" time and it makes me feel great.

What happens when I don't get this?

I missed my pump class the other day that I had been looking forward to - and I was in a shitty mood all morning and couldn't cope as well as I usually do with the 4 kids - and I took them out to Kings Park and couldn't stop stressing! 

Anyway my husband ended up getting home from work early - and I asked him if I could go for a run - so there I went and did my second lot of running in 2 days! It was awesome - I sang and ran and just enjoyed being me!

I then finished off with a weight session in our home gym at the end of the day and I went to bed feeling awesome!

So there you go - thats my new joy :) 

I also get joy out of -

My lovely children - just a special smile, or a laugh or a hug or when my kids tell me they love me.

My husband - doing this exercise together - we have something else to talk about at night

Eating healthy - It is so good to enjoy nice, tasty food now and then just have a small treat every now and then

My family - Especially spending time with my sister and niece - its lovely to have something more in common now. I also like spending time with my mum and dad too. 

Til next time,

Julia