Breakfasts from what I've seen are things like fruit and lowgi cereal (eg special k)
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Breakfasts from what I've seen are things like fruit and lowgi cereal (eg special k)
There is lots pf variety in the food...It's all v yummy. I found I repeated things to cut dOwn on prep time
Some fave breakfasts for me are oats w dates, crumpets w smoked salmon, couscous w apple and yoghurt. All v quick and filling
Who's checked out some of the before & after photos???!!! Some are amazing!
Ugh I think Im nuts but I joined today. Ive had several friends do it, some once some several times, and all have had amazing results. Considering I only want to lose 5-10kgs I really have no excuse. Its time I stopped complaining and started doing something about my weight.
Hopefully in 12wks time I will feel 100% better about myself.
I'm so going to have my very own before and after photo sooN!
Me too.
I'm testing out the cardo DVD and my polar HRM tonight :)
Pandora - aim for about a 400cal burn for the DVD :)
When I stop coughing up a lung each time I exert myself I'm going to go to the gym, might have to push myself for an easy workout tomorrow, to get back into it again.
Well no exercise for me last night. Got home at 7 put both kids to bed, which took til 9 then fell asleep til 1130 :(
Don't beat yourself up. Go for a walk at lunchtime today.
I'm going to get a body wrap in about an hour, then I need to go for a jog, so will take it easy and just amble around the neighbourhood.
Can someone add me to page you have for the 12 week challange, cant afford to sign up so need a little extra encouragement :)
Minny there are general weight loss threads on BB that would probably be more suitable for you, the girls on here give great support. We'll be discussing things specific to the program.:
Just going through it all, I'm opting for the outside workouts!!
I have my shopping list ready to go for tomorrow, bring on a skinny me!!!!!!!
YAY, I'm going shopping probably on Sunday as I have work tomorrow and uni all day saturday!
I'm going to do my shop either on Saturday or Sunday, get things cut up & put into my fridgesmart containers. Need to check what I've got in the fridge first from my shop during the week.
Some of the things I might get frozen (like the prawns). May or may not mix it up a bit and pull a few things from round 1 (same cal value) for dishes I'm not 100% happy with.
The menus are different for round 2, more "comfort" foods which is great :) I'm thinking the breakfasts I might just have them warm instead of just warming the berries to defrost (might warm the milk too).
I checked out the week 1 program and have a couple of questions-
Food, is it ok to pick a few of the dinners only and repeat them? Eg, I want to do a batch of the chicken noodle soup and have it 3 times, I want to do the pizzas twice and the steak once? Also, for lunches, I want to have the same thing for 4 days and then a soup for the other 3 (on the days I didn't have it for dinner!). In the past, two much variety has made it too hard for me to stick too!
Exercise- I want to do the home option, but all of the other options look like they are going to burn way more cals! Am I cheating by sticking to the DVDs, or are they roughly the same cals burnt as all the other programs?
As long as the calories as similar you can swap away.
Aim for 500cal/day exercise. If you don't have a hrm, calorie king website will give a good idea.
Mish wouldn't list the DVD on it's own as an option if it wasn't a real alternative
Hey all, I am feeling very overwhelmed about doing this now. At first I was very excited and have all my pre season tasks done etc.... but I have that dark cloud/anxiety that this is going to be another thing I won't see to the end. I don't know how to get past it. Should I revisit the pre-work stuff?
Thanks pandora, i got an ft7 for mothers day so if i find im not making 500 cals i can top it up with a run, or some of the outside excercise.
Richichi, I found going back and listening to the preseason stuff again helped. I am still feeling stressed and disorganized! Df has broken his arm and I am barely coping with day to day stuff whilst working full time (he is a sahd, so I am having to do practically everything!), I am not convinced I am going to be able to give it 100%, especially with excercise. I'm just going to focus on making it as simple as possible and JFDI!! Lol. Good luck!
yes you can just do the DVDs you just need to push yourself, don't just stick to the easy exercises.
I regularly go back to the preseason tasks. Mish does do videos each week.
400 to 500 cals burnt each session except Friday which is less coz Saturday is a huge day.
You will lose weight on the food alone.
Today i walked 4.5kms at a reasonable pace, enough to have a wet business shirt when i got home. Tomorrow I'm going to head to the gym for a big session tomorrow.
Oh phew! Glad to know I am not the only one! I spoke briefly to DH tonight about it but he just gotten home from work after a busy day, so he wasn't up for planning plus my IL's are here atm, so we haven't been able to chat properly about it yet:
Sopdet - good to know I can still lose weight just by doing the food part. I am committed to seeing a personal trainer twice a week as well as yoga but my biggets hurdle will be towards the end of the week & weekend with exercise
Richichi I still haven't even told df I am doing it... V bad I know!
Good luck planning, It really is 80% about the food and 20% about the exercise. In the past I have had it round the wrong way, concentrated so hard in the exercise and not been great with the food, and while it still had results I am looking forward to seeing a bigger pay off this time around!
I need to sit down with DH & go through some of the meal plans b/c some of the meals I don't think DD will eat & we want to all eat together like we do now.
I spoke to a friend last night & he has done bodytrim and lost about 20 kgs & looks awesome. He only walks & said the change in his food habits has been the main factor for the weight loss, so appletree you are right, it is 80% food!
And it's on!! I has an awesome start, spent yesterday in bed with gastro ... X(
On the plus side I am already 300gs down, but I also couldn't face the breakfast this morning! Stuck to my normal vegemite wholemeal toast. I also didn't get around to doing my batch of the soup or the fitness test, but I'm sure I will get them done soon enough!
Hope you guys have a great first day, would love to hear how it goes!
Oh no appletree! When you are feeling better, just start then.
I will be doing my fitness test on Tuesday night - only time I can fit it in. DH will take my photo tonight.
I haven't been able to shop for the week, so will do that tonight/tomorrow night.
Didn't follow her breakfast but alternated for 2 organic weet-bix w/ skim milk & a mandarin - has a similar calorie count. Will be needing the snacks of 300 cals otherwise I think I will pass out! Looking forward to lunch today - sounds yummy!
Hi girls,
I've signed up for Round 2 as well! :)
I did Round 1 properly for the first 6 weeks, lost 6.5kg, then we had family stuff happen and the rest of it went out the window. The great thing is because of the amount I learnt in the first half I manged to maintain my loss up to the beginning of this round! Feeling pretty proud of myself for that one seeing as I was eating on the run, not home much and almost no time to exercise.
My Round 2 goal is to lose 10kg! First mini goal is 3.5kg by week 4. I'm also going to do 'Jacobs Ladder' on the weekend and use that as my measurement for fitness, do it again week 4, 8 and 12. (For those not in Perth this is a KILLER set of stairs at Kings Park)
Shopping list all ready to go for this morning.
Re: food, I mix the dinners up all the time, depending on what we have on during the week. And breaky, I pretty much stick to the same thing each day. Special K and yoghurt. Easy to eat as I'm running around the house with a pre-primary kid and a 1yr old trying to get the day started.
Calories: I'm aiming for between 300 and 500 cal per day, I know this is slightly lower then recommended but some days with time constraints that's all I can manage. Consistency is the key!
Good luck girls! Bring on the next 12 weeks! :)
Doodlebug, that is awesome that you managed to keep off the weight you lost and well done on coming back for more!!
Well, I was feeling up for it so went the distance tonight. I am doing DVDs, I couldn't get the 3 set so picked up another BL 3 disc one for the meantime so i would have no excuses and it is so corny/cheesy! I cringed through most of it! But I kept going which I think is more important. My heart rate monitor was playing up for the first 20 mins, but I think I burnt around 400 cals, plus I had 2 20 min walks to the station and back which puts me at a total of 600 cals burned. For food, I bought a salad for lunch ( I'm planning in doing this rather than the ones in the plan) and had Thursday's rump steak because df defrosted it last night thinking it was for making baby food with! Very tasty, I couldn't believe how small a portion the steak was, I def have been over doing it in the past! The salad was very delicious too, it's one of my normal ones anyway, so no big change yet!
All up, I am feeling thinner already, hahaha, I will have to do my photo asap! I've been putting it off as I have no nice underwear to wear in it...
yah appletree for the cals!!!!!
I did my run component of the test this morning, not as bad as I though it would be since I've been bad and was smoking during the first round, aren't smoking now but body getting used to the fact that I'm pushing it again, having a cold probably doesn't help!
Going to the gym tongiht with my new polar heart rate monitor! I can't wait to see exactly what it says I achieve.
I'm aiming for 600 cals
But I think I would be happy with 400. I'm a big girl, so I've got a lot to move!
I did my time trial run last night. 7.05min and I had to stop and walk a lot.
Tonight I'm hoping to stay awake long enough to do a DVD but I'd there's lots of jumping it's likely to wake up the kids. Plus my pelvic floor isn't gonna like it, running is bad enough.
Blah to your cold sopdet, have you done the whole fitness test? Which program are you doing??at least you will smash your time when you redo it at 4 weeks :)
Awesome time pandora!! I am hoping for anything under 8 mins, but still haven't booked in time to do the test. I did a toning DVD tonight, it was so much better than the cardio one I did last night! I think tomorrow I will just go out for a run so I dont have to relive the crappiness of the cardio workout again, lol. All of the jumping in tonights dvd def tested my pelvic floor muscles...
Kimmie- how did you go with the gym tonight? What did you do? The toning DVD only got me to just over 300 cals, but it worked me sooo hard! I can feel cals still burning now! I added an extra 50 cals with jumping rope as I am conscious of weigh in tomorrow!
How did everyone go foodwise today? I cooked up a batch if the chicken soup, it's ok, nothing brilliant I guess! I had to take a day off work today as the whole family had my gastro from the weekend so I improvised for lunch as was not prepared for eating at home. We had a pack of corn thins and I topped 4 of them with avocado tuna and corn. Super super yummy and very filling :)
Hope everyone has a great weigh in tomorrow morning! Usually on days I weigh in I spurge on something high calorie, but not this time!!!
I'm doing the beginners again this time around, certain things I'm not a beginner but I know my fitness is horrible.
Didn't get to walk home tonight, just as I left the office it started to rain, I love walking in the rain but it was icy cold rain tonight, ended up catching a different tram home and got off it early so I had a 1km walk home, which was done at a fast pace because it was lightly raining. I love the 4.5km walk home but alas it wasn't happening today.
I feel so much better when I exercise first thing in the morning, I might do a DVD before work. Might take my gym gear to work with me and go on the way home.
Doodlebug - welcome! Great to know that all that work has continued (your prior weight loss from round 1), GL with your goal this time around!
Sopdet - Take it easy, you don't want to push yourself too much whilst sick.
Appletree - bah to the soup, having that for dinner tonight, might have to add something else to make it more tasty.
Anyone weighed in yet? I haven't yet. I weighed in last week at night at my personal trainers, so I want to do the same again for consistency.
Did the rest of the fitness test last night and got intermediate on all but the wall sit which was an appalling 20 seconds before I could not take it anymore.
Off to fill my water bottle.
Has everyone seen the bb water drinking challenge thread? I'd link it but I'm on iPhone
I'm doing the water challenge too - failed today so going to get stuck into the water now :)
What's the BB water drinking challenge?
I'm so stoked I went to the gym tonight, did pump and 30mins on the bike. I can't wait to actually notice a difference in my body!
How did you all go with weigh in? I was so happy to be down 1.6kgs since Saturday but I am putting most of that down to the gastro! I am a bit shocked by some of the numbers people are talking about, it's only been 2-3 days? I was completely blown away!
My legs are aching, I just did the cardio shredder DVD and it's a killer!
Appletree - I know what you mean about the numbers! I was down 400grams and pretty happy with that!
I did 1180 calories today! :) That's the most I've ever done in a single day. Riding my eldest to school with the little one in the new bikeseat on my bike, then I did a Step class tonight! I'm totally wrecked now though! Don't know if I can manage much more than riding James to school and back tomorrow.
I just did the toned and terffific dvd. was a bit dissapointed that it was only 350calories (for me) but then I cant do any of the jumping, and wont be able to any time soon, so I guess its going to be less calories burned becuase its lower impact. So will have to find something else to add in on the days I do this one.
Pandora, that's about all I get out of it as well, but I'm not too worried as I know it's going to keep burning afterwards! I walk to and from the station so I know I've always got an extra 200 cals anyway. The cardio workouts I'm only getting around 400-420 so I am probably going to add a 40 min walk at lunch if I'm not losing a reasonable amount.
Doodlebug, I am loving your bike ride, what a fantastic idea! How far is it to school for you? Great work on the step class, I am far far far to unco for step classes!
As of today if my scales are correct Im actually down 800g. Which is not bad considering I havent been doing all the exercise I could be.
What dvd's do you guys recommend doing? Im trying to organise my schedule so I can do a few classes and I have a treadmill on layby so for now Im sort of stagnating.