12WBT February 2013

I'll be signing up today after going back and forth the last couple of weeks! Cant wait! I'll be eating at the 1800cal level though as I dont want to lose weight, I want to get toned and fit (and I am still breastfeeding) And hopefully I'll have a bfp soon too ;) Hahaha. The deciding factor to signing up was this morning with DP. Since the start of the year we have been making healthy choices, we've not had junk/soft drink since. He has cut his beer intake down heaps, is actually eating breastfast and snacks (this is a guy who would only ever eat lunch & dinner because he would never feel hungry with his work hours), and we have been cooking a lot healthier meals with smaller portion sizes. He lost 1kilo the first week, but then this morning said he'd put it back on :( We cant really work out why, the only thing I can think of is the food we are cooking. Thinking back on the last week we have had rice, pasta or pastry EVERY night. Portion sizes are probably still a bit big. So we need help with the food side of things, I said this morning that I will start doing more meat/veg/salad type meals. But then I realised I have almost zero idea of how to make it interesting and nice LOL! DP is a chef, he can give me some ideas but really he cooks 12-15hours a day the last thing he feels like doing is thinking up menu plans for at home as well :lol:

Pretty excited! I've been working out 2-3 times a week already, I am still struggling to get in the mindframe that it is fun lol. I need to get out walking too, its one of things that I will "do tomorrow"!

Bring it on! Woot!

Signed up!

Little bit scared, really dont want this to be something I start and not finish. I done the $20 a week option but its still a lot of money in the end to waste if I dont stick with it. Eeek!

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Signed up!

Little bit scared, really dont want this to be something I start and not finish. I done the $20 a week option but its still a lot of money in the end to waste if I dont stick with it. Eeek!

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Yay!! Whether its something you start but not finish is entirely up to you. Its not a hard program. Its about eating right and being active. Taking accountability for your own actions and realising that you are the one in control. If you want to start to finish then you will. You will achieve if you want to. Any excuses will become null and void, because that the person you dont want to be anymore.

Okay, so I am really tossing up whether to take the plunge and sign up or not. I need some fair dinkum honest feed back from anyone who has done this before or knows someone who has.

My situation is that both DH & I work full time, as of 18 Feb I will also be starting back up part time studying and we are currently renovating our house.

How much time do I need to dedicate to the 12WBT?? Both for meal preparation and for exercise.

Our days start at 5:30am (we spend 1&1/2 hours getting dressed, getting lunches ready (DS eats more than either DH or I so his takes forever to prepare), having brekky, getting DS up & dressed and doing any little chores that need doing before we leave for the day that I didn't get a chance to do the night before) and we leave for work no later than 7am, I have 1 hour for lunch (of which about 2 of those per week are taken up with some form of shopping), we arrive home usually around 6pm (which is when the madness starts :o ). After arriving home in the space of 3 hours I prepare and dish out dinner, water the vegie garden (which is huge and takes about 1 hour), do loads of washing and/or washing dishes and/or packing/unpacking the dishwasher, all whilst trying to get DS to "help" so he is somewhat occupied, eat dinner (which is usually around 8pm), get DS bathed and in his pj's, have a shower myself, read DS some bed time stories and put him to bed (usually around 9pm). Once DS is in bed and finally asleep DH & I usually collapse in a heap on the lounge and play the "who's going to fall asleep on the lounge first" game. Unless we have arrived home late for some reason and then all the stuff I try to get done while dinner is cooking then needs to be done after DS has gone to bed.

So, after all that dribble... :rolleyes: what I'm trying to find out is, will committing to the 12WBT add to my already busy day, or do you think I will be able to make it work into our schedule?

Just to let you know, I am a secretary so spend most of my time at work sitting on my fat behind typing on a computer, which doesn't help :wall:

Your honest opinions and feedback would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to spend my money to find out the meals take ages to prepare or I need to spend a minimum 1 hour each day exercising.

Thank you :D

most meals take about 15-20mins to make, some people spend sundays making the weekly meals.
Exercise is about an hour a day.
sorry typing one handed whilst feeding bub, will be back

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most meals take about 15-20mins to make, some people spend sundays making the weekly meals.
Exercise is about an hour a day.
sorry typing one handed whilst feeding bub, will be back

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Yeh that, I try to get my exercise done first thing in the morning before my mind has a chance to wake up and realise I'm doing exercise :rofl:.

I do a cook up on the Sunday of all the freezable foods for the week & put things into containers. Easy to pull out and microwave. I also use some of the dinner options for lunches (again being able to take a container to work to heat up is quick and painless).

Also you have a few options for the exercise: indoors; outdoors; gym (both machines & classes).

Your Saturday exercise is usually the 2+ hour mark because it is the big day of exercise. I usually go for a run/walk (30mins-1hr depending on how I'm feeling) and then catch up with some girlfriends to do a 1 1/2 hour session. If I can't get the run/walk in I usually do a DVD at home for 45 mins.

The biggest question is are you and your DH prepared to change your routines around to make this a lifestyle choice? The healthy eating and the exercise. Because it isn't going to work unless you are prepared to make little changes.

One of the hugely scary pre-season tasks is to take your bin into your kitchen and empty out everything that isn't healthy out of your fridge, freezer & pantry into the bin. No eating of said food, into the bin it goes. This was scary the first time I did it in my first round (my next door neighbours loved me since they got all the foodstuffs). It has been dead easy each subsequent round because I just don't keep foods like that at home any more.

I do the opposite to Sopdet, in that I exercise at night. Im home alone five nights a week. Once the kids go to bed I would eat because I was bored. So I put the girls to bed, give them 20mins to get into a deep sleep, then its me and a dvd, also this round and for future rounds theres two videos available on the website to use too. Also rest day is normally sunday, but I normally have my rest day on tues or wed, thats because dh is home those days. I normally do my super sat session on sundays or mondays, but just because of how my week falls.

I honestly love the program, but its not a magical cure. It works if you are prepared to and want to make changes. I was desperate to get healthy to lose weight and become the best version of me. So I have dont everything in my power to follow the program, to change my lifestyle to make sure that my health comes first. Yes I have fallen off the wagon, but Ive always got straight back on, and Ive learnt from where I went wrong. I dont know how Im going to go on my own, but IM willing to give it a try. Now sugar intake gives me a headache, eating fatty, oily foods makes me sick.

Like Sopdet said the kitchen makeover is scary, but it was nice to throw out all the bad stuff. The mindset pre-season task is the biggest for me, because it makes me think about myself, what my needs, wants, goals are.

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One of the hugely scary pre-season tasks is to take your bin into your kitchen and empty out everything that isn't healthy out of your fridge, freezer & pantry into the bin. No eating of said food, into the bin it goes. This was scary the first time I did it in my first round (my next door neighbours loved me since they got all the foodstuffs). It has been dead easy each subsequent round because I just don't keep foods like that at home any more.

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I agree, it is a big step to clear it out. I am guilty of keeping some snacks for the kids but most of the stuff I take into work.

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Yay!! Whether its something you start but not finish is entirely up to you. Its not a hard program. Its about eating right and being active. Taking accountability for your own actions and realising that you are the one in control. If you want to start to finish then you will. You will achieve if you want to. Any excuses will become null and void, because that the person you dont want to be anymore.

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Thanks Beans! Its definitely something I will make work, I've been trying for a good 6 months now to get healthier but always fall off the wagon. Luckily this time DP is on board with me, the other times I have tried to eat healthier he has never been into it with me so would go get KFC or something if he didnt want to eat what I cooked. Which when its right under your nose is hard to resist lol. So I am thrilled he has agreed to try everything on the menu with me! He can be a bit annoying sometimes though, as lately I have been craving sweet things and he says things like "you're skinny anyway you can have it, one wont hurt!". Annoys me as if I give in once I fall off the wagon badly, I am addicted to sugar.

And others have said the same when I have made comments on wanting to start being healthier. Its like people dont realise that being skinny does NOT mean I am healthy! I am so unfit I am puffed within 10mins of running around with DS!!! Until our recent changes I binged on bad carbs and ate too much take out. I would eat a whole block of chocolate in one sitting. But because I am skinny already thats alright?! People can be so silly lol

I just went to join the facebook group, and remembered I have changed my password so I cant get on it LOLOL! I spend way too much time on there, so I am forcing myself to step away from it for a month (if I can even last that long lol). Bad timing lol

I exercise at night too. I'm normally at the station by 6.30am!!

I've been dieting / eating healthy / making positive lifestyle choices for 4 days. Have I lost 5kg yet?

I really need to buy a set of scales! LOL

I've just been using the wii. DH has one of those thingies you stand on, and so I made a profile, and just do the body test ... so it weighs me, and then you do two little balance test things and then it tells you your physical age. It's a bit daft - it'll say 19 one day and 37 the next ... but at least the weight is pretty consistent!

Can weigh the kidlets on it too (holding them).

i bought my scales yesterday!

i had a gp appt on tues just to check me over and wow weight was not good :o i'm still in double digits but only just :o

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I really need to buy a set of scales! LOL

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mine are $20 ones from kmart :)

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mine are $20 ones from kmart :)

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Mine too, but I have been considering a set of Tanita's when I get to a weight where body fat percentage will interaest me more.

Good point. I can use the ones at the gym again, now that I'm not pregnant!

I've dropped 2kg!!

And done my goal stuff :)

Huzzah!!

Now is it just me, or is there not anywhere yet to put in your weight, in your profile ??

peanutter - go to my account -> edit my settings -> progress tracker
in the top right - allows you to set up your details including your ticker :)

Firstly, WAY TO GO NUTTER!!!! :dance: :happydance:

Thank you all for your replies. I had a sick DS at home yesterday so I sat down while he was sleeping and put together a plan of what DH & I have to do together to make this work. I then had a good chat with DH last night and we came to the conclusion that starting this round will in all honesty probably not work. However, we came up with a solution that we are both going to do. This is my last year of uni and my final exams are in September, we are nearly finished the house renos and aim to have them completed by the end of the year, as a 'reward' for passing :pray: uni we have booked ourselves a two week holiday in October, which means we will have the spare time needed to rearrange our schedule to allow me to exercise after work come October.

Soooo, I have written on our calendar in big red writing in October when we return from holidays 12WBT. I am looking forward starting it.

I'm the same as you shan, this is the first time that DH has agreed to work with me to achieve my weight loss goal. I've yoyoed with my weight for as long as I can remember and DH has always supported me but never actually worked with me. It will be nice to do this 'together' as such and not be drooling over his fatty, but oh so tempting take away.

I wish all of you the very best for this round and hope you achieve what you set out to achieve. I'll be cheering you all on from the sidelines :cheer: :bluecheer:

Great job PN!!

quick question! i had a Gp appt on Tues just to get the once over before the 12wbt starts in earnest and all was well. my query is i weighed in at 98.2kg :o and today i weighed myself and weighed 96.2kg - i thought the scales might have been wrong so reset them and got on again and same result. So my question is, it really possible to lose 2kg in 3 days?? i'm guessing most of that would be fluid retention?

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Great job PN!!

quick question! i had a Gp appt on Tues just to get the once over before the 12wbt starts in earnest and all was well. my query is i weighed in at 98.2kg :o and today i weighed myself and weighed 96.2kg - i thought the scales might have been wrong so reset them and got on again and same result. So my question is, it really possible to lose 2kg in 3 days?? i'm guessing most of that would be fluid retention?

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Depends on a heap of things, but there are always differences when you weigh in. Different clothes, different scales, different times of day, even differences on what you have eaten and drank. Trust your scales at home, because they are the ones you will be using weekly though. Weigh yourself before you go to the drs next, then see what the difference is perhaps?

Woo Hoo Go PN!!!

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Depends on a heap of things, but there are always differences when you weigh in. Different clothes, different scales, different times of day, even differences on what you have eaten and drank. Trust your scales at home, because they are the ones you will be using weekly though. Weigh yourself before you go to the drs next, then see what the difference is perhaps?

Woo Hoo Go PN!!!

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thanks beans :) i've decided to weigh myself once a week (Fridays) after doing my workout (i've started recording "all star workouts" on foxtel) just before my shower with zippo clothes on. figure that'll give me the clearest indicator!

It also depend greatly on where you are in your menstrual cycle.

Best and clearest result is first thing in the morning, naked, after your morning wee. But literally roll out of bed and weigh yourself. Weigh in days are usually Wednesday.

yeh weigh in days are Wednesdays on the program

I suppose I better get my scales out again.

cool thanks Sop and LS. wasn't sure when weigh in was so chose Friday. will change to Wed now :) i'm literally just finishing AF so will be interesting to see what i weigh next week...

I went to the gym today.

Huzzah.

yah PN

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).

Well I've just put my 12wbt ticker on my sig here. I will be revising the goal weight within the next few weeks as I would ideally like to be 85kgs.

I went to the gym AGAIN.

I am truly awesome, and must have lost at least 12 kilos.

great work PN. 12kgs? surely it's closer to 15??':D

afm doing ok - have had a few personal issues going on so havw been highly stressed atm. weighed in on Wednesday at 95 so have only lost 3kg. better than nothing i guess :)

hope everyone else is doing ok. :)

Probably.

But I was uber naughty today.

Accidentally skipped brekky, and then had tabouleh and falafel with rocket for lunch with one solitary BBQ sausage, no sauce.

Then had some celery for snacks, with some champagne. Not too bad.

Then instead of having my steamed veggies for dinner, I had two sausages. And six choc chip cookies, and some scotch and diet coke. about 500 calories all up, when I only has 210 left to eat :(

Having some black decaf now (yummy and only 2 calories) and need to BEHAVE!!

Maybe I should just farewell my guests and go to bed, so there's no other option ...

I hope I am not intruding here being a new member but I too am doing the 12wbt I have done a few rounds so far and love it

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I hope I am not intruding here being a new member but I too am doing the 12wbt I have done a few rounds so far and love it

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Not intruding at all! welcome :)

Thank you

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Maybe I should just farewell my guests and go to bed, so there's no other option ...

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:lol: sounds fair!?

jokes aside though, good on you for owning your 'naughtiness' :thumbup:

I had two chocolate bikkies and now I feel like hurling. I shouldn't let hot men feed me.

Jillian Michaels Kick Box Cardio, I just kicked your ARSE! Woot!

GW- took a look at the All Star Workouts too! Bosu Ball man creeped me out little! :rofl:

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Jillian Michaels Kick Box Cardio, I just kicked your ARSE! Woot!

GW- took a look at the All Star Workouts too! Bosu Ball man creeped me out little! :rofl:

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ooooh, I want to get cardio kick, is it good? I assume yes, but yanno.

It is fabulous!

I am totally unco, so lots of these aerobics things I can't do because I can't coordinate the arms up and down and little skippy bits and foot taps... BLAH! LOL Love the circuit things, nice and cyclical and fluid, definite movements.

Really love the kick box, got it in a 3dvd pack with Frontside and Backside too.

awesome thanks :)

Where did you get the three pack from? I like the multi packs :)