Champagne bubbles. vodka sodas fuzzy head and choices

After only loosing 1lb the week before and even tho i felt like i loosing inches,motherhood was getting the best of me. Ive not had a day apart from my son since he was born. I wake up, eat,do what mums do, look after my son, feed and clothe him. Workout,Bath or shower  then bed. So when one my friends invited me to go out for the night for her birthday i was thinking of all the reasons why i should say no. Then i thought, hang on a minute, i need this. I need to go out and know how it feels to let my hair down whilst on a clean eating lifestyle. Can i still go out and make the right choices. Drink was always one of my downfalls. I would never just stop at one. When i told Deborah that i was planning to go out for my friends birthday she was brilliant. Gave me advice on what was best to drink and also warned me how i would feel after just drinking one glass. I got to admit tho i didn't like the sound of vodka and soda water or that i would be blotto after just having one glass! I was determined tho to do this.
I worked extra hard at kettlebell class and even said to Deborah, "See you on Sunday for kettlebells." I think she already knew i properly wouldn't make it.

So i decided to try on my old black dress that i had worn few years back. I was expecting it to be tight but it actually hanged loose. Brought big smiles to my face :). My heels that wouldn't fit my big swollen wide feet actually fitted. Hair and make up done i actually felt good. Partner took a few pictures before i was heading off to my friends. I was so pleased when i saw what was looking back that i decided to compare the pic with one of me 5 weeks before.

When you look that good, you put the hard work in its safe to say you deserve a night out! I feel like I've been turned into the swan from the ugly duckling.When i got dropped off outside my friends and knocked on her door the response i received was awesome. Ive been wearing the same clothes baggy clothes in what seems like forever.I never felt so confident in such a long time. We started off our  night with a glass of champagne and after the first glass i was feeling tipsy. Would be a shame to waste the rest of the bottle so down went the second glass. I remember being picked up by taxi and slightly stumbling when i was dropped off into Bristol :)  First bar was vodka revolution, fancy flavour vodkas and cocktails but i was good. I stuck to having vodka and soda. The first one didn't taste so nice but my second wasn't so bad. Then i had the odd sips of my friends cocktails.I visited few other bars then a nightclub before calling it a night.I had so many compliments from people, was such a huge boost!The best bit about my night was bumping into a ex best friend who had done the dirty behind my back with my now ex boyfriend years ago. I actually thanked her, if it wasn't for her i wouldn't of met a really nice partner who treats me right and is loyal, nor would i have my son who i love and adore. I felt for the first time in years that i could actually walk tall. To even mention that i had a baby 8 months ago and knowing i looked fantastic next to her, felt like sweet revenge. Revenge were i didn't have to be spiteful or nasty. Holding my head up and walking tall did that for me.

I should of known that there was no way of making kettlebells on the Sunday. The clocks had gone forward a hour and i was in no fit state to drive anywhere. Even if i could of shared a lift with someone i properly would of hit myself in the face with the kettlebell! I did absolutely nothing on that Sunday.

I felt absolutely awful. I was so pleased when Monday came around, it was a hot but I was determined to get bk on track. I had a metabolic class to look forward to! First half hour was abs then the last hour was bootcamp type aerobics, use of resistance bands and also kettlebells. I really enjoyed it! Nothing like getting your sweat on.it was hard going at first, my body felt so sluggish. I had weigh in on the Tuesday morning, I stayed the same weight. Phewww! But now I'm left with a bloated belly instead. The good thing about this nutrition plan of Deborahs is that it combats retained water and bloatedness. Ive done something that i would never of done, i cancelled my gym membership. Even through my pregnancy i kept it open as i planned to use it lots but since meeting Deborah Welch i have no interest in what so ever to go back. She actually cares if we don't turn up to class, I've seen more results through Deborah then i have going to the gym for the last 3 years. More cost effective and im actually pushed out my comfort zone. Im really looking forward to my future now. I have 5 weeks left before i go back to work. My sons birthday 2 months after and i can now say im going to look fantastic for it! 

So if your like me and your on a transformation or just trying to loose a few pounds, its ok to let your hair down and live outside your plan. Im pleased i went out, its put things in perspective for me. Im not missing out, if anything im appreciating things more when i do go out! It makes you realise that if you do have a few to many how easy it can be to go back to old habits. Best thing to do is to make new habits.

 “Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~George Bernard Shaw

 “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~Wayne Dye

 
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Are the scales broken??

Ive been on such a high from the last weigh in and then mother nature decided to turn up and turn this week upside down for me. Ive been feeling like a crazed animal "looking for food" Or better still like the Pac-man from one of those computer games from the 80s. Emotions been up and down. It seemed no matter what i ate i was craving one thing, something really sweet.I tried the usual fruit and yoghurt but that didn't work so i gave up and went to bed. The one thing that i hadn't been doing was writing down my food diary, i just stopped when i was ill  few weeks before. I believed that i was a miss know it all and didn't need to jott anything down when actually it would of helped me to stay focused and i was prob not eating enough. So i decided to actually do what works best and since Monday I've been writing everything down. Its been great so far as i could see straight away I've not been drinking enough fluid. We've just had mothers day and it was my first mothers day so to celebrate i actually had my first bit of cake which seems like forever since I've last ate some. This wasn't just any cake, this was one of my old favourites, carrot cake from Costco. Whenever we have party's this cake would be there. I could eat so much of it.

The first bite was "ooo lovely, bit sweet tho" I decided i would still eat what was on my plate but within 20mins-1hr i felt so ill. I had same side affects as if i was hungover from being on the booze all night! I knew then that there is no way i want to feel like that all the time. That must of been how i use to feel but i would carry on eating processed foods not realising how much harm they can do to your body. I felt so guilty after, let myself down but to be honest with you i actually needed to know how to choose responsibly. Once my time is over with Deborah Welch doing this body transformation i honestly think because I've been following her nutrition plan for a while now its actually becoming habit rather then just a plan. Its now a way of life. I can safely say I've now developed a taste of goody nutritious wholesome foods and that "Eating clean and training dirty" is what works for me, its my fuel my body needs. So if you've been like me and had your blip, don't kick yourself about it. Draw a line after that blip, don't go reaching for other temptations and remember that  by eating temptations only lasts for a few moments but the damage can last a life time if you continue down that path.

Ive worked so hard at kettlebells this week, i absolutely love kettlebells, and bootcamp is actually becoming one my faves.Its working, I've never ever in all the years of going to the gym have i ever achieved what i have achieved now. I think when you have a instructor/trainer with a great personality in front of you that can push you but in the most inspiring motivational way it works. "Don't give up, think about smaller bums" or "Think about summer in you bikini" and one my faves are, "Just do this bit and you can have a drink" That one makes me laugh, its like you push yourself to finish , your covered in sweat and having a sip from your water bottle seems like a huge reward. It really works :)

Ive been working out once a week with my partner, he loves lifting weights. So sharing something he loves keeps him happy. Last week he was amazed with how much ive lifted. I was deadlifting 84kilos with reps. The most one off lift was 90 kilos. Then he had me doing front squats and squats of 60kilos. I cant tell you now I'm not clued up with numbers but apparently I've lifted 14.5 stone! that's my body weight I've lifted. Cant believe it. I was taught to just pick up the weights and stand. I'm very chuffed with this. Just proves that you don't have to be huge to lift weights. Its mind over matter :)  I thought that i would do my blog abit differently today, i really want to talk to you all about the importance in inch loss rather then numbers on the scales, so sorry if i ramble on but will try show you in pics too. I got weighed with Deborah Welch and i had only lost 1 pound. 1 crappy pound i thought after all that lifting weights ect. I felt disheartened but i did already know that the scales would slow down.  Now 1 lb is actually still qite alot. Its equivalent to a large mug filled with fat.

 

Now heres what 5lb of fat and 5lb of muscle looks like.Muscle doesnt weigh anymore then fat, its just shaped differently, making our bodys look more streamlined rather then bulky/chunky. If you had two people that weighed the same and was the same height yet one person looked more streamlined ,toned then the other thats because they both have different compostion of fat. 

 Now i know it may take me awhile now to loose  some more weight however i am noticing I'm still shrinking. The week i lost my 5 lbs i still couldn't get into my size 16 jeans. However the week after i only lost 1lb and they now fit me.They are also baggy in places. This can mean only one thing- INCH LOSS!  Inch loss= smaller sizes!! So the next time you think your scales are broken, go and try some clothes on that never use to fit. You will be surprised! i know, because i was!  Before i go i just want to leave some Motivation for you to take away ;)

"Remind yourself that your body is a living machine that needs to be pushed past its normal physical limits, you will start to feel so much better in yourself, and you will see change! It doesn't happen over night but it does happen if you work hard at it.You may not see the difference at first but you will feel the difference! People will start to notice and trust me that's a good feeling to have"


"The best taste you can ever have, is success."

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Mirror, mirror on the wall... its all about reflection

Ive spent this week being proberly a little hard on myself when all i needed to do was to reflect. So this blog update will be mainly on that. I spent so much time this week trying to get back into my workouts that i didn't realise who that girl was staring back at me in the mirror. It wasn't until i took a picture of myself that left me feeling "amazed". Who's that firm,leaner looking body without that double chin. Well i guess that's me.Yes its really me. Hang on a minute lets actually see how far I've come. Well i went from lifting a remote control for the tv to lifting 70kilos with repetitions in space of 5 weeks!  Ive worked hard and because I've believed I've actually had changes happen to me. When i met my partner Simon five/six years back i was slimmer but then fell in love and with that comes wine, food, take aways and more wine. But I've never felt as sexy as I'm feeling right now. To be told by the one you love that they can see the sparkle back in my eyes is brilliant. I'm feeling it and that's all down to this picture...

    This has spurred me on and to top it off I've had a week of green eyed monsters lurking in the corners and no doubt il have some more spiteful comments.Ive had a few people that think they can just re-enter my life that didn't want to know me when i needed them the most. They wernt there when i was pregnant and on crutches and they didnt bother when my son was born but now I've dropped 63lbs they think I'm good enough to know again. While I've been doing my body transformation with Deborah I've also been dealing with my mum having cancer again, the exercise has been helping me through this time. Its become my best friend. I can vent my anger, frustrations thoughts and feelings and Exercise listens. It listens,it hears and knows how your feeling and turns it into something good and positive. So the next time I'm asked "who's your best friend?" my reply will be "Exercise". Exercise treats me how i treat them, If i work hard then i get hard results back. If i don't put much effort with them then it wont show me much back. So haters are gonna hate, well keep hating as your the fuel to my fire.Your now my new motivation to complete this body transformation. Its like you damned if you do and damned if you don't. If i was sat around all day and pile it on you'd moan, and now I'm trying to do better for myself and have a new healthy lifestyle that's wrong also!
Enough moaning! here's the positives of this week. I had some proper hardcore classes with Deborah! Kettlebells, and Mondays metabolic class was proper tough but oh so enjoyable. I was so pumped full of endorphins i couldn't rest, i was on such a good vibe i was telling myself hurry up and go to sleep. Then it hit me, i had bootcamp in the morning and getting up was bit hard for that. Once i was up tho i was ready. Got weighed and its a shocker, 5lb. Where did that come from? I'm well chuffed. Thats 1 stone 9lb I've lost in 5 weeks with Deborah Welch and a total of 63 lb in 7months since birth of my son. Ive not been this weight since i met my fiance 5 years ago.I wasn't even this weight before i fell pregnant. :)
Usually by Tuesday after weighing in i find bootcamp qite hard because I'm tired from all the training but this week i flew through it. Even managed to hold my plank. I'm thinking maybe I'm starting to find things easier to do because I've got some that weight off. Who knows how I'm gonna look by the end of my transformation with Deborah Welch but one thing i defently know, I'm keeping the nutrition plan :)  Ive added a picture of what sums up how I've been feeling since I've started.

The inner me cant wait to be unleashed, I've got alot of  years to make up for. I was the one that would sit and mope about my weight yet not doing anything to make a change. Trapped in a circle thinking that someone would do it for me. This time the only reason why I've stuck to plan, is determination. To actually want people to see me shine and see me for me instead of looking me up and down first before they've even said hello. So for those of you who can relate this update, what on earth are you doing about it? Don't leave it till Monday or tomorrow or next month, or after xmas. Make a change now and think you could be lighter by next week. If you make a mistake or have a blip, draw a line and start again. Plan and prepare. Out with the old and in with the new. Re-train your brain. If theres something you really don't like but don't hate it, eat it, tell yourself its good for you. Use herbs, spices and invent your own sauces. Get creative. You don't have to go without your favourite meals, just adapt your recipes and make it as healthy as you can. I find that weeks where I've eaten fish at least twice i have good losses but everyone is different. Like my fiance says, if you put petrol in a diesel car it just wont work. And that's exactly that, your body has the wrong fuel so now is the time to pump it full of goodness. 

 "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."


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28 day results!! 1/3rd way through

Last few days I've been thinking of things I want to write for my blog. Must start jotting them down because by the time I sit and write this I've forgotten. It's been a strange week for me. Haven't had much of Deborahs classes as she has been away. I've had some lingering cold that just got the better of me and to top it off a real sore hip from when I slipped. All the training I was going to do just didn't happen. So you can imagine how happy I was when Deborah came back from her hols! :)

I've had a week no money and practically a empty fridge and a freezer that I can actually see the bottom! Still not long till I'm back at work earning some money. As soon as I had been paid I was stood outside the supermarket for opening time! So glad I've actually got some fruit for breakfasts now. I was worried that I would start slipping back to old habits. Just glad that I can now concentrate on my exercise and can eat without worrying if Il have enough for the next day. I'm receiving so many compliments it really has had me thinking. I deserve the compliments I receive as I've worked so hard for this. I just needed a push in the right direction. Knowing that Deborah could see how much I wanted this I'm really grateful for. I was going to buy some new clothes but I've told myself not yet, I don't want to get comfortable where I am at the mo.this is not where I'm stopping. Years ago I received the compliments "you look good" "have you lost weight" "wow look at you" but nothing compares to how I feel right now. This time round I haven't cut corners, I haven't been on a shake diet or popping diet pills like they were my next meal. Next it will be exercise In a pill! People would still be fooled and buy it. Buy one get one free lol .

When i became so obsessed with the way i look, i turnt to diet pills.I somehow thought that i could take the pills and still eat what i ate. Reading magazines of celebrity's that have lost few pounds by diet pills had me searching for them on the net. If it was good enough for them it was good enough for me right? I must of rattled, always constantly searching for that new pill. The best bit about it all was, i wasn't even fat. I was just caught up with society of celebs and famous people racing to be the next Mrs/Mr Slim. So hell yeah i deserve the compliments this time round. The next thing i will have to battle are the green eyed monsters waiting to put me down because ive actually improved my life whilst they still haven't figured out what to do with theirs so they come meddling in mine. It will be comments like, "your disappear if you aint careful" or " are you missing few meals" Of course i know that you have to actually eat lots to loose weight consistently.

Next few weeks im not going to worry about the number on the scales, im going to be working on making lean muscle. This will actually sculpt my body and make it nicer. I want to show you all out there just what you can do if you actually work hard and push yourself. im so chuffed with my results so far. As most of you know my first 28 days is now up and this is what ive achieved so far......i went round to Deborahs house to be weighed, measured and my BPM (beats per minute) taken. well im gobsmacked,
my heat is beating 8 bpm less which shows that my diet and exercise has actually conditioned my heart. Thats fantastic, will be putting on extra years to my life if i keep this lifestyle up. Like the other half just informed me, "Its no good cycling 15 miles a day and then eating pork pies" I take it he means its all down to a balanced lifestyle.

24.5 INCHES lost (6.5 from my waist!) 1stone 4.5lb down but best of all 6.5% bodyfat reduction -

i cant stress enough of how happy i am right now. Im so glad im feeling better because im so ready for this next month! All the people bootcampers and kettlebellers from Deborah Welch fat and fitness have been such a great support. They tell me each week how well im doing, so positive and such lovely bunch of people, so a big thank you! And Deborah for believing in me,for giving me that push i needed. im looking foward to working with her for these next two months. :)

Heres a few pics,

My stomach is slightly smaller, ive lost few centimetres off my arms, my bottom has shrank massively and my face has also become more pronounced. For my first month with Deborah and 6months after giving birth im very happy with these results :) 

Ive just finished a session of weight training, back and legs we worked on. Tomorrow night is kettlebells, im so looking forward to it. Really wonder how im going to look at the end of this next part. The changes have happened so quick, people have noticed before i did. Now i really feel like im changing. Im not going to lie to you, it feels good where i am right now but im not stopping here. I have a wardrobe of clothes waiting for me to fit into them again!  So for those of you on your transformations or just starting , when you feel like giving up... Dont!  that feeling will pass, its just a feeling.... but when you actually can pull up your favourite jeans youve not worn for years and you get that feeling of hard work paying off, that lasts as long as you want it to :)   

'Be the change that you want to see' - Ghandi.

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