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Week four will be a quick update, I was really only at home from Thurs - Sat (today) and earlier in the week I was down in NSW visiting family - and eating what I want.

Workouts
Once again, I could only make three sessions but at least this week I had a valid reason - I wasn't here for the other days. The workouts were really good, fast paced, great music and I felt amazing afterwards. They were still hard, but I notice myself doing more reps to begin with or starting with a heavier weight to begin with for the extra push.

Update on the chest pain, it was there but then after my workouts it actually feels better. I have no idea what any of this means, who knew at 26 I'd have so many issues...


Food
Well obviously while I was away visiting family I ate what I wanted, no one wants to be on a diet when on holiday and my instructor agreed. On Thursday and Friday I was back on track and although people at work nearly persuaded me a couple of times to eat out or eat some treats I was strong and didn't.


I knew I'd gain this week and I did, 400g to be exact. Not as bad as I thought it would be considering I didn't exercise while away and ate what I wanted. But I've grabbed my food for next week and I'll spend Sunday meal prepping for the week ahead, let's go week five!


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Week three was a bad week.

Workouts
I only did a lousy three sessions, even though I could've done four I was just being lazy. I had no motivation to exercise and all I wanted to do was sleep or sit at home and watch TV. The weekend prior to week three I did Relay for Life. I got no sleep over the weekend and walked over 40,000 steps in 18 hours, so that was the reason I had Monday off. But since Relay I just couldn't be bothered to exercise - I also knew I was going away to Sydney by the end of the week so all I cared about was that.

Unfortunately my random chest pain that I've been suffering with since October last year decided to come back in spectacular painful fashion, and sadly I couldn't get in to see my doctor for two weeks so I guess we'll wait and see what she says.

Food
It was a bad week. Sure, I sort of stuck to the meal plan and I ate most the meals but I snacked a lot and reverted to drinking a can of soft drink almost everyday. It was just a week where I couldn't resist the yummy snacks in the house and I made bad choices, but at least I owned up to it and didn't hide it.


So week three was my first bad week. Lost motivation, wanted to eat anything and everything and to be honest just didn't care. By some miracle I still lost 500g and I don't know how. I'd like to say I hope week four will be better, but I'm away in Sydney until Wednesday so I don't really get back into it until Thursday and I doubt I'll lose any weight but I guess we will see.




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Week two = completed! So let's recap:

P.S Sorry this post is so late!

Workouts
Four sessions completed this week, Monday - Friday skipping Wednesday due to a meeting at night and not waking up on time to make the morning session. I could've worked out on Saturday but I was doing Relay for Life for 18 hours Saturday Night/Sunday Morning so I didn't want to work out earlier in the day and be sore for the afternoon.

The workouts didn't get easier, I was still dying, but I could notice in just a short week my fitness had vastly improved. The worst exercise we did was boxing, I'm not a fan of boxing. It can often hurt my shoulder which is quite weak due to having three surgeries on it, but I survived - just.

Food
So after my weigh in on week one I was able to keep up the diet until my cheat meal on Saturday night, and then Sunday morning I didn't eat the best, but by dinner I was back on track. I could feel myself getting bored with eating the same meal almost three times a day but I was determined to lose weight again this week.


Overall week two went pretty well. I was still motivated, but not motivated enough to do many morning sessions - I'm not a morning person. I stuck to the diet and thankfully still lost weight.

You can check out my weight tracker below - let's move onto week three!




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August 2018 I ventured off to Papua New Guinea on P&O Australia's Pacific Eden. A short 7 night cruise with four stops - Alotau, Kiriwina Island, Kitava and the Conflict Islands. Unfortunately due to wind we didn't get to stop at Kiriwina Island however we got to explore the three other beautiful locations.

I didn't expect Papua New Guinea to have much but a beach, but I was shocked. It wasn't only a beach, it was beautiful beaches with some of the bluest waters. It was the perfect escape for a week off to relax and do nothing.

I plan to do a more in depth blog of the actual ship and the cruise as a whole, but this is a quick post to put together some of my favourite shots from the week.

Also, if you're interested, I did vlog the trip and a video will be going up on my YouTube channel soon - so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out!

Photos were all taken with my Canon G7X Mark II - enjoy!



















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Week one is done and dusted. So I thought I'd write a quick recap of the week that was.

Workouts
I made five sessions this week! So for week one I've smashed my goal of attending at least four sessions in the week. I trained Monday - Friday, giving myself the weekend off to rest.

On our first day we did fitness testing, and my fitness is absolutely appalling now. Below is what I achieved:

Plank - Held for 50 seconds.
Crunches in 1 min - 33
Push Ups in 1 min - 15

I didn't even attempt burpees as I hate them, I'm completely unfit and going up & down so much can give me head spins. So for week one I didn't attempt them. Fingers crossed by week 12 I can look back on these numbers and hopefully there will be a noticeable difference. 

Food
For the first time ever I stuck to the diet and surprisingly it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure it was a lot of lean meat and salad but I didn't want to kill people at work like I thought I would. 

It was so difficult when others at work had the nicest looking lunches or my family had yummy dinners and here I was stuck eating lean meat and salad, but hopefully in 12 weeks time I see a physical difference.

Did I crave chocolate etc? Sort of. Not as much as I thought I would but definitely when I saw my family members eating it, all I wanted was a piece. I was also surprised that all week I didn't have full strength Coke or Pepsi. I'm terrible and would normally have a can a day, sometimes two, and I know soft drink (or soda) is one of the worst things to be putting into your body. I had 2 cups of Pepsi Max throughout the week, so the low calorie soft drink, and I sort of feel bad for it but oh well I did it.


Overall week one I felt sore, I hated waking up early for morning sessions but then by the time I got there I loved it, I didn't like not eating anything I wanted but didn't hate what I was eating and I lost weight - thank god!

I've put together a weight tracker below and every week I'll update it so you can see how much I've lost. Now, onto Week 2!


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2018 hasn't been a great year for me fitness wise. I started off the year 'injured', I put it in inverted commas like that because my doctor couldn't actually find anything wrong. After months of X-Rays, CT Scans, Ultrasounds, trying different drugs and physiotherapy the only thing they found was a benign enlarged lymph-node in my breast that eventually went down and nothing else. It was terrifying being a female and having chest pain and obviously like anyone else I thought the worst, but thankfully all seems to be great in my body, I just had random pain in my chest.

So for 6 months I got told no physical exercise, but walking, while they tried to figure this out. Cut to September 2018, now - I've barely worked out all year and I got in the wrong frame of mind. I thought well screw it, can't exercise might as well eat what I want. This is NOT the right way to think people! I've now gained so much weight and it's all entirely my own fault.

What have I done about it? Well I joined a 12 week bootcamp. Back to a group that helped me years ago lose weight and get fit. I enjoyed the sessions, I loved working with the trainers and everyone there was so lovely. 

My goals for the next 12 weeks:
  • STICK TO THE MEAL PLAN! I put this in capitols as I'm mainly yelling at myself. So many times before I wouldn't stick to it and then I'd get upset when I wasn't losing the weight I wanted and people around me lost 10kgs by week 6. Something that isn't in the meal plan but I know it will motivate me is a cheat meal. I've told myself if I lose weight at weigh in, on Saturday night I'll allow myself to have a cheat meal as a treat.
  • Attend at least 4 sessions a week. I know only attending 3 will barely move any weight, so I'm aiming for at least 4 but most weeks I intend to do 5 sessions.
  • Lose weight. This might seem obvious but I have some numbers in mind. By 6 weeks I want to have lost 5kg and by week 12 I want to have lost 10kg. I didn't want to give myself a big number, I knew if I did and I didn't get there I'd just quit. So I'm starting small and if I lose more weight than that's excellent.
  • Improve my fitness. I want to walk upstairs without feeling out of breath, be able to run a lap around the court without dying and be able to not take breaks during a session. 
Every week I'm going to write quick updates on here about how I feel, how much weight I lost (or gained...I hope not), what food I've been eating and the workouts. People might not event read this but it's here to help me and hopefully keep me on track.

So here we go, I'm ready to start my weight-loss journey.

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