Contemplations
I’ve had a little time to contemplate my life, the universe and the meaning of live over the last couple of days. Okay so I might not have done much contemplating of the universe or working out what the meaning of life is, but I did get to thinking about my life and 12WBT and weight loss in general. I was talking to one of my dearest friends on the phone the other day (who I haven’t seen for six whole long months now since we moved) and she asked how I was going with 12WBT and...
Read MoreUneventful isn’t a bad thing
Today’s daily food intake… Had quite the uneventful day today. Nothing exciting, nothing earth shattering, nothing at all really. Which isn’t to say that’s a bad thing. Sometimes uneventful, plain days are a good thing. No stress, no crap, just a good old fashioned take it easy kind of day. so that was today. Went to work, sat at my desk, fought with getting our company website (which I’m currently re-developing) to work with IE6 (not all that successfully actually), went...
Read MoreStarted with a loss, ended with an aha moment
Today’s daily food intake… Weigh in day Previous weight: 111.1kg. Today’s weight: 109.1kg. 2.0kg loss I’ve learned a few of things today. The first is that even though you might be hungry at breakfast time, don’t go overboard. Perhaps the cheese and Vegemite and butter was overdoing it. A little. The second is that I need to learn to eat slower. I noticed while I was eating my lunch that I was eating as if there were a hundred hungry people behind me just waiting for me...
Read MoreYesterday bad – today better
Yesterday wasn’t one of my best days. To an outsider it would have been like any normal day – I looked the same, I acted the same, hell I even smelt the same. But on the inside I was just a jumble. I’ve been working on rebuilding one of our websites at work and it’s been going good, but yesterday it seemed like it was one hurdle after another with this stupid site. In particular yesterday, I was working on the menu structure and a search function and for the life of me, I couldn’t get...
Read MoreAnother round of 12WBT
Last year I flirted with the 12WBT challenge (12 Week Body Transformation Program), joining up for Round 1. I made it through pre-season and I made it into the first week or two and then I let everything slide. I can’t really explain why I let it slide, except to say that I was in a very bad headspace for a lot of last year, with everything starting right around the time of my birthday and the official beginning of Round 1. Yes, these are excuses I know this, but I also think it’s a...
Read MoreResolutions and To Do list
So today I finally sat down and wrote up my list of resolutions for this year. I had 10 resolutions and then I thought of one more, so I thought why not – it’s 2011, let’s have 11 resolutions and see if I can actually keep them up. Every year I vaguely think of things that I am resolved to do, but I never really write them down or even try to stick to them, but this year I thought why not. Then I thought of the things I would like to do – craft-wise, so I made a list of...
Read MoreMy 12WBT extraordinary story
Well our weekly surprise challenge this week was to do either a video blog or a post explaining why we are extraordinary. I’ve never really thought of myself as extraordinary before, quite the opposite in fact, but I tried to put some coherent thoughts together and wrote it all down, when I thought hmmm why not try a video blog, I mean I write on here all the time, let’s do something new. So voila – here we have it, my first ever video post, explaining why I am extraordinary....
Read More12WBT days twenty five to twenty eight – Feeling like a failure
I have so many mixed emotions going on in my head right now I don’t know if I’m coming or going. I haven’t blogged for the last few days, because there wasn’t any point. I wasn’t going to be able to write how I had gotten in some great exercise, or how I had eaten fantastically. All I would have been able to say was that I was eating – crap food – but eating. Thrown in among it would be a bit of good food, and of course the thought that I should be...
Read MoreA bit disillusioned
When I joined the 12WBT challenge I was full of excitement and joy. Excitement that I was finally doing something about my weight issues, and doing it correctly for once and joy, because I knew that if I followed the program I could see a light peeking out behind all the fat. Please don’t get me wrong, that excitement and joy is still there. But it is now tainted with just a little disillusionment. The forums were a huge part of why I joined. I loved that there were so many other people out...
Read More12WBT day thirteen – crap day, very unhappy with myself
Today we had a family day. When I say family day, I mean Mick, myself and Brodie go out and do something. We only get Brodie to stay with us every six months and only for a couple of weeks during school holidays, so the time that we have together is always very special. When I started the 12 Week Body Transformation challenge I didn’t take into account that Brodie would be here only a couple of weeks into the challenge and that it was going to take some serious organising (which I think...
Read More12WBT day seven – Feeling great
Woohoo I am officially into Week 2 of the 12WBT challenge and I feel absolutely great today. I had so much more energy and the hunger thing is starting to wane a little and I’m just feeling all round positive. A new and exciting feeling for me being all positive, it’s just great, I could get used to it. Had lunch with a great friend today, who is also taking part in the 12WBT and it was great to sit down, and have a chat with her, face to face, rather than just over forums. I love...
Read More12WBT day four – Feeling flat
Well I think there have been plusses and minuses for today. The plus being that I didn’t feel quite as hungry today. In fact I actually coped quite well with the amount of food, so hopefully my stomach is starting to get used to the smaller sizes. The minus of today would be that I did no exercise. I went to bed early last night (finally) and got a great nights sleep, but I just felt blah and run down all day. I would like to say that I’m following all of the rules and reading my...
Read MoreI really am my own worst enemy
So the second task that we have to do for the 12 week challenge is to sit down and really think about the excuses we make to not exercise, to not eat right. This is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. I thought physio was hard, but this, no this was harder. I have really stuck with the exercising excuses. I am going to do my list of excuses about eating too, but I think that could be an even longer list. The thing that I have realised though is that I don’t let others...
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