Go for it girls. I signed up last year just before christmas (to start round 1 in Feb) and I lost about 8kg before the program following her books, then another 9 during the program. Have mostly kept it off this year. Signed up again for round 4 but haven't been so good this time around (because I haven't been following it) due to excuses. It is absolutely worth while though- if you follow it- you WILL lose weight and WILL tone up and look and feel awesome inside and out! I learned so so much on it. It isn't just nutrition and exercise, she teaches you so much about your own thought processes etc.
I am going to revisit the program now from the information I kept last time I did it. I really need to sit down and do the goal setting now as I keep 'failing' / falling off the wagon with my good intentions. I need to set out what I want to do and stick to it - this in turn will set me up for when I start in Feb.
I am thinking about doing it, not to lose weight but to get more fit and toned and to help with getting in the habit of making healthy choices. For those who have done it before, how time consuming is the menu? I have tried to follow meal plans from weigh it up dot com before, but found them soooo tedious and time consuming :/ And I'm worried about it bumping up my food budget, which is already too high and we've been working on bringing it down.
I did find it more expensive with food, but that is because I am so used to buying cheap easy crap! I was happy to pay a bit more to buy fresh healthy food, as I knew it was better for me and my boys. I found the recipes were SO simple. I am not a cook at all, and mostly I found them really easy and really tasty!
Menus are really simple. I didn't find it that much more expensive at all anyway, TBH. You aren't buying rubbish, and you are only eating what is on the plan and your snacks, so cheaper all round for our family. (It saved me about $100 a fortnight actually).
I'm just re-doing my goal-setting. Since I've got an easy day at work, I'm working my way through things, making realistic goals. I've just gotten the program for classes at the gym, so am starting to schedule in classes for after work, since there are no classes suitable for me pre-work I'm going to be doing normal workouts in the mornings (on the mornings I've not killed myself with classes the night before).
The classes were all mucked around for the public holiday, and so they were starting 35 minutes after I got there, so I just got cracking, and did 90 minutes on my own.
Off to the park with the kids now.
Huzzah!
Have to catch up on task 4 and do 5 today too ... will wait til kids are down for their nap....
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