Thought I might join in on this conversation as I don't really feel like I belong anywhere else on this forum just yet as my IVF journey hasn't quiet started yet.
To give a little background on 'me': I have always battled with my weight. Was always picked on at school for being the fat four-eyes. Never participated in any sports and I wasn't any good at anything I did try. After I finished my year 12, I was well into the 90kgs....and hated myself. At around this time I met my first serious boyfriend and because neither of us had a car, we used to train and walk it everywhere we went together...and I got down to 70Kg in quiet a short period of time.
After that relationship failed, a new relationship started not long after, only this boyfriend sat on his butt all day everyday and the weight started piling on. By the time we broke up I was well over 100Kg. I then was 'set-up' by a school friend with a guy who is now my husband. At my absolute heaviest (our wedding day, unfortunately) I was 134Kg. But for several years now I have hovered anywhere from 114 - 125Kg.
My cousin has recently had a lot of success with losing weight via the Michelle Bridges 12WBT program and she attempted back in January/February 2012 to convince me to sign up with her...but I convinced myself I didn't have the time to do it (We work over 100Km from home and are out of the house 13-14 hours each day. When we get home, I have a cattery to maintain, and by the time this is done, I'm stuffed and wind up in bed exhausted).
Back in about June 2012 I decided I needed to FIND the time to do something about my weight. So I decided to sign up for the Shannan Ponton 8 week challenge. On my very first weigh in I weighed in at 126.6Kg. I've now completed 2x 8 week challenges, and have been doing personal training sessions with a private trainer outside the challenge for approx. 2 months. At my last weigh in (last Sunday) I now weigh: 116.7Kg. Over the past 4 weeks I have finally been achieving constant weight loss each week of 0.4 - 0.5Kg a week. I'm hoping with my home gym now set up with a treadmill, exerciser bike, weights and Ab Glider, I should be able to increase my exercise levels and am aiming at a consistent weight loss of between 0.5 - 1.0Kg a week.
I have 36.7Kg to go to get to ultimate goal, but first 'mini' goal is to get under 100Kg. I'm hopeful that I might be able to step my training up a notch and get this done before end of March 2013.
Last edited by Mel_B1981; January 5th, 2013 at 08:39 AM.
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