Well, Christmas has come and gone, nothing special for me at all as Tim is on night shift and slept for Christmas and i am on call... and both our families live 250km from us, so no need to worry about anything festive, we didnt even worry about pressies for each other - much more concerned about the wedding in 12 and a half weeks... (the count down has begun)
Not much has been happening really i have been busy at work and busy packing and organising a new house for me to move into in Mildura, so it has taken my focus off my training a bit these past few weeks, and so the end of my 12 week challenge slipped by and that was that.... I achieved some great results and i am happy with a 31cm loss all over, write some statistics
Before
Shoulders : i mucked these figures up so i cant really say but the other figgure i got a few weeks down the track was 96.5cm
Chest: 91.5cm
Bicep: 30.5
Waist: 83cm
Hips: 107cm
Thigh: 63cm
Calves: 37cm
After
Shoulders: 100cm (this figgure surprises me really dont know if it is accurate)
Chest: 87cm
Bicep: 29cm
Waist: 69cm (my biggest loss - WOOOHHOOO)
Hips: 101.5cm
Thigh: 59cm
Calf: 36cm
As i have decided to take on another challenge which will land me right on my wedding i have not fussed so much about this one and didnt really put all my effort into it, Just imagine what i could have achieved!!! oh well no use fussing about that now i still have 12 weeks to get to where i want to go.
Sue's new program is awesome and i cant wait to get into it, i was meant to start this week but i have just been flat out and so i will start next week and get there eventually... I am looking forward to this one much more and have started a challenge with my family and Tim's family to see who can loose the most CM for the wedding, bit of friendly competition does not hurt anyone i think - $20 entry fee and winner takes all... not that hard i would say.
So i really need to change the title to my blog and call it "12 weeks to Mrs Hawson" oh well i will just keep plodding along and see what happens next....
Have a good new years and i will post again soon
Bec
xx
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Monday, December 18, 2006
Tim & Bec
Thought i should add a few more pictures to the page to make it a bit more interesting and colourful.This is Tim, my fiance who i will be marrying in March 2007. We met in high school 11 years ago, and then went our separate ways, him to the army and police force and me to university. Eventually our jobs landed us back in the same town and spending time together.
This photo was taken by the photographer that we have chosen as our wedding photographer Evan Meades. He offered us a fantastic package where it includes having an "engagement session" where he gets to know us and we get to know him and we can work out some photo's for the wedding. And the best part is we had 250 photo's taken free of charge!!!! This was one of them, and perhaps my favorite, we got some similar to give to our parents for Christmas, so that will be good and they will love it.
I am into my 12th week of my challenge and am feeling really good, would have liked to achieve some better results but i am using it as a stepping stone to my next challenge, as i have signed up to start my next 12 weeks straight away, which will finish the Monday before my wedding which will be 19th of March. Am looking forward to my new challenge, as it will be harder, but also something i can really stick my teeth into so to speak.
I will be moving back to Mildura around the 15th of January, so i am looking forward to a new gym and new work mates and outlook on life.... it has fitted into my plan well. I will only have to train at my current gym for 2 weeks and then be at Beach house in Mildura. My other advantage of this i think will be that i am more likely to run into Sue at this gym and i wont slack off as much.
All in all things are looking pretty good for me....
Sunday, December 10, 2006
my 10th week and weekend
I cant keep up... things are just spinning out of control at the moment. I am still keeping up at what i can... I am not feeling miserable about not accomplishing every little task each week at the moment. As Christmas comes closer i am finding it increasingly difficult to keep up tasks each day... But i had a great week last week on the whole i think....
Monday training with Sue - i hurt for days, didnt start feeling better until about Thursday, it was awsome, and managed to continue that passion throughout the week and fit in a cardio session during my lunch break on Wednesday (eliptical trainer, varied resistance) and then doubled up for another cardio after work.... Thursday i trained legs and pushed myself as hard as i could.... I dont really like the things at the gym that train legs, anyway again i hurt for a couple of days afterwards... Have not taken measurements for a few weeks so am not sure on where i am at... but my clothes are still changing, slightly but still just... I think i have sort of hit a bit of a platau as my weight has not moved for about 4 weeks now... am sitting solid on 64kg.... I am comfy with this but would have liked to have seen a slightly bigger result on the scales... i know i know... not what it is about, however i find it strange to read so many other people's write up's after their 12 weeks and they have lost up to 10kg in some cases.... I dont know what the difference is.... I would love to know what my body fat % is... i got sue to use the callipers on me and i got readings from all over my body but they are just figures and i dont know what to do with working out percentage....
I am wanting to do another 12 weeks which will start xmas day/boxing day.... I will probably start xmas day as i am on call and my partner is working and my family all live 250km away so i wont be doing anything for xmas so no festive drinking/eating for me... but i will need to talk to sue i guess about my next program.... I am wanting to get really stuck into dropping my body fat % and putting on some lean muscle.... I have used this 12 weeks as a bit of a warm up to this.... I have started to look at a few different exercise programs myself, and am feeling a bit more confident in my ability to change one piece of equipment to another and still get the same workout.
I went to my high school reunion on the weekend, was an interesting experience to say the least some people i remembered and others i had no idea that i even went to school with them....I got lots of compliments on how good i was still looking after 10 years, was nice to be able to tell them that it was just hard work that got me there, some couldnt understand why or what i was exactly doing, but i am used to that now. I was sensible and ate before i went and drank only mid strength rum, it was so bloody hot here 40 + degrees... it was still 35 degrees at 11.30 at night i think i sweated out most of the alcohol, but i know i didnt drink much at all i kept a very close eye on this..... and as a result i still blew under the legal limit of .05 and could drive home at the end of the night.... all in all a sensible day i think... :D am very proud of myself.... I am still practicing flexing my muscles, i am having so much fun with them LOL.... My favorite is my tri's and my stomach.... My top abs are looking pretty good - not really showing but i certainly have the ridge down the centre and you call feel them all when i flex them!!!! I still have my "spare tyre" and the back fat that i am not liking much at all.... but i am kinda over it.... Went shopping and i am still very comfortable in a size 10, i think that is a US size 6 or something similar.... cant complain really.
Monday training with Sue - i hurt for days, didnt start feeling better until about Thursday, it was awsome, and managed to continue that passion throughout the week and fit in a cardio session during my lunch break on Wednesday (eliptical trainer, varied resistance) and then doubled up for another cardio after work.... Thursday i trained legs and pushed myself as hard as i could.... I dont really like the things at the gym that train legs, anyway again i hurt for a couple of days afterwards... Have not taken measurements for a few weeks so am not sure on where i am at... but my clothes are still changing, slightly but still just... I think i have sort of hit a bit of a platau as my weight has not moved for about 4 weeks now... am sitting solid on 64kg.... I am comfy with this but would have liked to have seen a slightly bigger result on the scales... i know i know... not what it is about, however i find it strange to read so many other people's write up's after their 12 weeks and they have lost up to 10kg in some cases.... I dont know what the difference is.... I would love to know what my body fat % is... i got sue to use the callipers on me and i got readings from all over my body but they are just figures and i dont know what to do with working out percentage....
I am wanting to do another 12 weeks which will start xmas day/boxing day.... I will probably start xmas day as i am on call and my partner is working and my family all live 250km away so i wont be doing anything for xmas so no festive drinking/eating for me... but i will need to talk to sue i guess about my next program.... I am wanting to get really stuck into dropping my body fat % and putting on some lean muscle.... I have used this 12 weeks as a bit of a warm up to this.... I have started to look at a few different exercise programs myself, and am feeling a bit more confident in my ability to change one piece of equipment to another and still get the same workout.
I went to my high school reunion on the weekend, was an interesting experience to say the least some people i remembered and others i had no idea that i even went to school with them....I got lots of compliments on how good i was still looking after 10 years, was nice to be able to tell them that it was just hard work that got me there, some couldnt understand why or what i was exactly doing, but i am used to that now. I was sensible and ate before i went and drank only mid strength rum, it was so bloody hot here 40 + degrees... it was still 35 degrees at 11.30 at night i think i sweated out most of the alcohol, but i know i didnt drink much at all i kept a very close eye on this..... and as a result i still blew under the legal limit of .05 and could drive home at the end of the night.... all in all a sensible day i think... :D am very proud of myself.... I am still practicing flexing my muscles, i am having so much fun with them LOL.... My favorite is my tri's and my stomach.... My top abs are looking pretty good - not really showing but i certainly have the ridge down the centre and you call feel them all when i flex them!!!! I still have my "spare tyre" and the back fat that i am not liking much at all.... but i am kinda over it.... Went shopping and i am still very comfortable in a size 10, i think that is a US size 6 or something similar.... cant complain really.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
spike the psycho cat
What can i say? My cat (spike) is a psycho, she drives me mad, i am at my whits end and i dont know what to do about her..... She just runs around the house like a mad thing and then runs up the curtains (not happy about this) and then jumps up the door frames trying to get at nothing.....
We not long had her spade thinking this would settle her down, but it has not, even with stitches in her belly she still ran around like an idiot... causing there to be fluid buildup which has meant 2 trips back to the vet to get that drained.... They tell us that we need to keep her contained and not let her run around, not really possible!!! We have taken to locking her up in the hall/laundry/bathroom area (all tiled) unfortunatly these all have slidding doors and we have to have this elaborate system of using our dumbell set to weigh the door shut as she has worked out how to open them. Not the use i was hoping for with the dumbells. However this does not restrict her... she then at 2.30 in the morning starts banging on the door and crying, hence waking Tim and I up.... I really dont know what to do.
I love her dearly and she is just a beautiful cat but i cant have her ruining my house and furniture and keeping me up at night, it is all just too much.
Horse on the other hand is beautiful, he is a pure bread maine coon (will try and get a pic of them) (this pic is a pic similar to horse, it has the same markings and colour) he is a red/ginger and has LOTS of fur, and cost $950 a rather expensive cat i think... but he does not do anything near as bad as spike... they play but he will only run around the house not rip anything up. Although i think Horse sits there every night and pulls great chunks of fur out and leaves it lying around the house.... Pets!!! Who needs them.... Maybe i will just get a ferrett.
We not long had her spade thinking this would settle her down, but it has not, even with stitches in her belly she still ran around like an idiot... causing there to be fluid buildup which has meant 2 trips back to the vet to get that drained.... They tell us that we need to keep her contained and not let her run around, not really possible!!! We have taken to locking her up in the hall/laundry/bathroom area (all tiled) unfortunatly these all have slidding doors and we have to have this elaborate system of using our dumbell set to weigh the door shut as she has worked out how to open them. Not the use i was hoping for with the dumbells. However this does not restrict her... she then at 2.30 in the morning starts banging on the door and crying, hence waking Tim and I up.... I really dont know what to do.
I love her dearly and she is just a beautiful cat but i cant have her ruining my house and furniture and keeping me up at night, it is all just too much.
Horse on the other hand is beautiful, he is a pure bread maine coon (will try and get a pic of them) (this pic is a pic similar to horse, it has the same markings and colour) he is a red/ginger and has LOTS of fur, and cost $950 a rather expensive cat i think... but he does not do anything near as bad as spike... they play but he will only run around the house not rip anything up. Although i think Horse sits there every night and pulls great chunks of fur out and leaves it lying around the house.... Pets!!! Who needs them.... Maybe i will just get a ferrett.
Got up early today (first time in a couple of weeks) and went off the the gym and done moderate cardio, loved it and still had some time and so fit in 10 min on the stepper just to change it up a bit. And then done some Abs.... was a bit puffed in the end.
After going to the gym at lunch yesterday for an eliptical session, i discovered that this is a great time of the day to go and will do this more often when work permits.... there is no one there and you can relax and get into your workout and not have to fight anyone for the equipment. I went back after work and done my incline treadmill and then went home and done some abs whilst watching TV... perfect distraction and i dont really know how many i got done i just kept going till i got sore. As a result my legs are very achy today and my abs hurt if i cough or sneeze, all in all i think that it is pretty positive.
Am off to Mildura this weekend again, for my high school reunion, we are meant to be having a BBQ and drinks and then go off to the pub later. I am going to have to have this as my free night i think as it will be the only way i can get around this sort of function. I am not so sure about how much i will be drinking or what i will drink yet, i might just stick to keeping it simple and eating light and drinking little with plenty of water in between.
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend....
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
what a workout
WOW is all i can say..... I had a session with Sue on Monday whilst i was home in Mildura, she really pushed me hard, it was great. I got to the point where i was so fatigued that i went numb, good but interesting feeling as i had not finished my workout yet so i had to keep going. I done some supersets between the reverse lat pull down and the seated row.... great for my back. I think my favorite was the tricep exercises though, i loved the tricep dip.... will keep that in my program i think just to mix things up a little.
What surprised me the most was the amount of weight that my calves could actually push, i think my last set was 75kg, unless my eyes were playing games with me. This goes without saying that i was struggling to walk for the next 3 days due to my calves being so tight.... What a feeling.
By the end of the session i was shaking, this didnt stop for about 2 hours afterwards and i could still feel the efects of the session for some time afterwards. It was a great experience as i have realised that i dont push myself hard enough in my sessions and i can obviously do more than i thought i could.
Other than that the wedding plans are coming along nicely, i have paid the photographer and organised the menu and arranged the flowers and the shoes for the girls and myself, booked the cars and the hairdresser, this reminds me i need to find a person to do the make up. The boys have their suits organised and will be getting those this weekend when we go back to Mildura.
This weekend i have my high school reunion - will be an interesting event i think and i am not sure how i am feeling about it really, but one thing i am excited about is that i reckon i would be one of few people who could still fit into my formal dress that i wore for the graduation LOL (thanks to Sue and Michelle).... Will be nice to see everyone again, but i honestly dont know who will be there.
What surprised me the most was the amount of weight that my calves could actually push, i think my last set was 75kg, unless my eyes were playing games with me. This goes without saying that i was struggling to walk for the next 3 days due to my calves being so tight.... What a feeling.
By the end of the session i was shaking, this didnt stop for about 2 hours afterwards and i could still feel the efects of the session for some time afterwards. It was a great experience as i have realised that i dont push myself hard enough in my sessions and i can obviously do more than i thought i could.
Other than that the wedding plans are coming along nicely, i have paid the photographer and organised the menu and arranged the flowers and the shoes for the girls and myself, booked the cars and the hairdresser, this reminds me i need to find a person to do the make up. The boys have their suits organised and will be getting those this weekend when we go back to Mildura.
This weekend i have my high school reunion - will be an interesting event i think and i am not sure how i am feeling about it really, but one thing i am excited about is that i reckon i would be one of few people who could still fit into my formal dress that i wore for the graduation LOL (thanks to Sue and Michelle).... Will be nice to see everyone again, but i honestly dont know who will be there.
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