Body Challenge Week 2

Well it's 9 days into the Body Challenge, and I have only missed going to the gym twice, and I am not going to feel too bad about that, because in the last 9 days I have worked 6, 3 of them 12 hour night duty shifts. On Saturday we had our first group fitness test, and yep, it's official, I am terribly unfit, but hey, that's partly the reason for doing the challenge. I probably don't do enough cardio, primarily sticking to my programme, so intend to add more cardio and do a few more classes. I did do a body pump class on Friday, wow, what a workout you get from that, I discovered I had muscles in places I didn't think possible, and boy did they let me know that they had been awakened. The other area of this, is the lite'n'easy, and I am pleased to say that I have stuck to this 100%, I have not had one other morsal of food aside from the plan .... woohoo ........ and as part of it I find myself eating a lot more fruit than I usually do. I am not sure if I have actually lost any weight to date, but I must say I am feeling better, and definitely seem to have more energy :)

Total Body Challenge - Week 1

On Saturday I started a Total Body Challenge at Satori Gym, and have decided to blog about it, firstly as I am hoping that it will keep me honest and committed to what I am doing, and also, anyone who might read my blog may inspire me, or viceversa. This is my before photo, I must admit it has been a dilemma on whether to post it or not, because it is definitely not flattering, but have decided to, for me, to shock me into the reality of this is what I look like, and hopefully to motivate and inspire me into making the changes I need to, and hopefully I will at the end be able to post a after photo that looks awesome:)

I must admit, this is going to be a challenge for me, as I am not the most physically active person, always finding excuses, even tho my weight hasn't changed a great deal in the last ten years, my fat distribution ...........

It all started a couple of weeks ago, I went into the city to buy a new dress and when trying some on, let's say the mirrors showed me much more of me than I had ever wanted to see, yep I had back fat ........ ewwww. That same day in the mail came a flyer from Satori about the body challenge. I decided that someone out there was telling me that the time had come that I needed to do something about it, so I signed up for the challenge, and have gone on to Lite n'easy to help me along, so I don't have to think about the food side of things for the duration of the challenge.

Anyway on Saturday, I got measured, weighed, scanned, and met with my personal trainer who designed a programme that would help me on my way to achieve the result I want. The other thing that I discovered on Saturday, is the challenge is also a competition between all the girls that have taken up the challenge ..... so now this is not just about me getting fitter, looking better, it's about winning (lol lol it's a thought). Well 3 days in, I have been to the gym every day for about 1 1/2 and have stuck totally to the Lite n'easy plan. Tonight I start night duty, and usually I just graze my way through it with comfort food, this aint gonna happen if I am gonna stick to my plan. My other intention is to go to the gym each morning on the way home from work, if only just to go on the treadmill for 1/2 hour. I have 3 night duties, so will be interesting to see how I go. During this period I have also decided to cut out alcohol, and give up smoking (the giving up smoking is for good I hope.)

Day 100: April 10 2010

Trev's friend Paul came over with his gorgeous baby boy Tyler. The boys mosied on down to the Pub as I has some stuff to do, then I went to join them :)

Day 99: April 9 2010

Friday night, staying in, relaxing in the spa, this is the life :)

Day 93: April 3 2010

The Spa has finally arrived, is installed and here we are turning it on .... woohoo :)

Day 90: March 31 2010

First time in over 3 months I have come home to an empty house and am spending the night on my own ..... Trev is hanging out with a mate for the night .... feels very very weird ....... funny how you can get used to things in a relative short period of time :-?

Day 89: March 30 2010

The spa was delivered today, but couldn't be installed as it wouldn't fit in through the arch, the width was ok, but I totally forgot about the height .... grrrrr .... lucky I have fantastic neighbours that by pulling down some of the fence can get it in through their place ..... so now have to wait till Sat :(

Day 88: March 29 2010

Tonight my friend Phil popped in, good timing as he helped Trev put up the bamboo fencing .... it's looking good :)

Day 87: March 28 2010

Had a lovely lunch with Trev and his mum at The Lakes Hotel (forgot to take my daily photo there), and my turn to cook tonight ..... Lasagne :)

Day 86: March 27 2010

Fairly quiet day at home, haven't seen much of each other during the week due to work, so veg out movie day. Paul came round in the morning to install our power point for the spa, which should arrive this week. I shopped. Trev cooked and this is the end result .... Moroccan Harira Soup ... and it was yum :)

Day 85: March 26 2010

Friday night shennanigans ..... wonder if Trev is looking for a change of career ... lol :)

Day 84: March 25 2010

Still on nights ...... this is one of the 12 Bays we have in ICU, lots of equipment, a more technical side of nursing what I had previously worked in, but I like it :)

Day 83: March 24 2010

Night duty, at least I got to work with Lochie, who is loads of fun and makes the night just that much better. Today is also my eldest son Sam's birthday, he turned 30 .... how did this happen... I don't feel old enough to for him to be that old ... lol :)

Day 82: March 23 2020

Mia was de-sexed yesterday, and like most things, she was totally unfazed by it. The funniest thing, infact it seemed weird, was that she didn't meow after it, until this morning .... Mia is normally very vocal ... lol.

Day 81: March 22 2010

Busy day, dropped Mia to the vet, off to Bunnings, them some shopping, some domestics, all before heading off to work for the afternoon :)

Day 80: March 21 2010

Our first concert together ..... Massive Attack ..... and it was absolutely awesome. Was held in the new venue at the Entertainment Centre .... very impressed

First we headed off to the Gov for preconcert tea and drinks with Bec and Dave, an absolutely awesome couple :)

And at the concert we ran into, and so sat with Adrienne and Anton ..... life is good :)

Day 79: March 20 2010

Busy, busy day, up early, voted, finished pulling up the carpet, knocked down the outside garden bed and cleaned up all the left over cement, off to Kazzy for some bargins and out to tea with my gorgeous son Sam and his beautiful wife Amelia. It's Sam's birthday this week (yep my boy's birthday's are a week apart). Sam and Amelia are off overseas for 5 weeks at the end of the month :)

Day 78: March 19 2010

We have just about done as much as we can to the yard, still needs a pergola but that has to wait till my son comes back from overseas, so time to start inside, first job, rip up the carpet everywhere except the bedrooms :)

Day 77: March 18 2010

Our new BOSE portable sound system ..... awesome noise :)

Day 76: March 17 2010

I was supposed to work a night duty, but work is quiet and overstaffed, so the offer of the night off was gladly accepted. I have had a lovely relaxing day, a princess day, Trev worked all day, but also when he came home he watered the lawn, put our new solar lights together and cooked tea .... how spoilt am I :)It is also my youngest son Simon's birthday today, so whilst I couldn't spent it with him (he's in Esperance) I did get to have a lovely chat with him on the phone :)

Day 75: March 16 2010

We both like hats and have quite a few of them, but never enough .... so I bought a new one :)

Day 74: March 15 2010

Tired :)

Day 73: March 14 2010

As I have written previously, we have only recently caught up with our Dad after many years of separation, so it was off to Mannum for a family picnic, awesome, got to meet my Dad's wife's daughter Bec and her family as well .... confused??? me too ..... lol :)

Day 72: March 13 2010

Lawn is in .... woohoo, what a difference it makes to this area, I feel like being out here now :)

Day 71: March 12 2010

The majority of the clean up has been done, lawn is ordered to be picked up in the morning, soil will be delivered early arvo, so time to veg out wit Trev and play golf on the Wii ..... I won btw ..... hehehehe :)

Day 70: March 12 2010

As I worked a 12 hour shift yesterday I didn't do my daily photo, so am taking two for today. This is my little weekend project, I am hopeful I will have lawn in this area by Sat night ..... lots of clearing, organising, ordering ... so better hop to it :)

Day 69: March 10 2010

I was supposed to go back to work today after 5 days off, but work was quiet, and in actual fact I wasn't well. so had another day off, and now poor Trev has what I had, the joys off co-habitation ... sad faces ..... lol :)

Day 68: March 9 2010

I had lunch with Quinny and Kazzy today, had been a while since we had caught up ... I just love these girls so much. I forgot to take a picture at lunch so took one as I was driving home, well not so much driving but waiting in traffic. Currently we have road closures due to the Clipsal 500 happening, so what would be normally a 15 minute trip took me over an hour. It took 25 minutes to cover 500 meters at one point. Oh well, it only happens for a week once a year:)

Day 67: March 8 2010

Today I spent a lovely afternoon with Andrena, Lou, Emily, her daughter Kasey, Donna and Tim (Emily and Kasey left before I took the piccy). I have known Andrena for about 15 years but only recently reconnected with her, and through her met the others. These are quality people, fabulous and so much fun, and it is a priveledge to call them friends :)

Day 66: March 7 2010

Overall we live a pretty quiet life, am pretty happy to stay at home, watch movies, listen to music, and generally just hang out together which I think is pretty awesome, I spose it means we actually like each other and enjoy each others company. Today we have had a pretty chilled day, recovering from such a busy, productive day yesterday :)

Day 65: March 6 2010

The concrete is poured, the boys did an absolutely awesome job, it was a big job and they excelled. Trev is teaching me that doing jobs around the house and having fun go together (I can be a bit of a stress head at times .... go figure .. lol lol). We still need to do the finishing touches, put a bit of lawn in at the back, clean up, (build the pergola, although that's still a couple of months away as my son the carpenter is off overseas for a couple of months) but at least we are ready for the arrival of the spa, should be here in less than two weeks..... yee hah :)

Day 64: March 5 2010

Making sure we are all ready for the concrete pour tomorrow, even Mia is lending a hand ... lol :)

Day 63: March 4 2010

Again I didn't take a daily photo, so thought I would share this. Above is a photo of me and my sisters and brother. However, I also have a half sister and brother from my dad's second marriage (pictured below) they both live in Qld now. I remember meeting them many years ago when we were all so young, but have recently reconnected because of facebook. My baby sister is pregnant with her first child, what an awesome time for her, and I am aiming, hopefully with my other sisters, to visit her and get to know her and my brother, and of course meet my new nephew sometime in the very near future :)

Day 62: March 3 2010

I didn't take my daily photo today as when I am on nights basically all I do is work and sleep, however my photo of the day is this one, which is the first time that Trevor and I met. I so fancied him, couldn't stop checking him out, anyway took us nearly a year before we finally got together. I actually think, that having the time just being friends and getting to know each other certainly has made a difference ..... personally I have always believed that you couldn't make a relationship from friendship, because you needed that inital lust, well in this case the initial lust was there, just circumstances dictated that we were friends initally ... glad that has changed :)

Day 61: March 2 2010

Back on night duty again, the first of three .... arghhhh :(

Day 60: March 1 2010

Nearly forgot my photo again ... oops. My youngest son Simon came to visit today, he is off to Port Headland to work from next week .... it's a long way. We went out for lunch to celebrate his birthday as he will be away on it :( I am having an incredibly happy day, perhaps it's because over the weekend I have seen all my favourite people, my sons Sam and Simon,and daughter in law Amelia, my sister Chrissy and her husband Kev, Trev's mum, and of course I am sharing my life with the one I love, the man of my dreams :)

Day 59: Feb 28 2010

My son Sam came over today so Sam could help Trev (or was it the other way around lol lol) with the final setting out (laying of plastic and mesh and setting levels) so we are all ready to pour the concrete for our slab. I got to hang out with my gorgeous daughter in law Amelia ... woohoo. Trev's mum came over later, her first visit at our place. She and I went to see Austen's Women, it was such an awesome show, highly recommend it :)

Day 58: Feb 27 2010

Since we are in the process of establishing our entertainment area we decided that we should get a new bbq. The old one is just a basic flat top one, has served us well, but the time has come to upgrade. It came in flat packs, but we managed to put it together with relative ease, and everything worked first time. Cooked an awesome roast in it ..... yummo :)

Day 57: Feb 26 2010

I actually forgot to take my daily photo today, oh well. It was an interesting day, won't go into it, but it was also both Trevor's dad Brian, and my exhusband Peter's birthday (they're both deceased) so a bit of an emotional day, but also a celebration of two wonderful men's lives :)

Day 56: Feb 25 2010

Had lunch with the lovely Kay today, always good to catch up with friends you don't see too often :)

Day 55: Feb 24 2010

Trev moving in has made me so unbelievably happy .... he is the most amazing guy, he is kind, smart, funny (very very funny), creative, sexy, supportive of me, but best of all he loves me, just the way I are ..... oh and he says that I am a leg sometimes and I am pretty sure he is not refering to me as a small rocky protrusion ..... lol .... I think I am incredibly lucky, I love him so much :)

Day 54: Feb 23 2010

Our Womadelaide and Massive Attack tickets came in the mail today .... I'm excited :)

Day 53: Feb 22 2010

I went relieving at Memorial Hospital today, and had a really good shift, ran into a girl I used to go to uni with and worked with at the RAH ... awesome, but I am tired so an early night for me :)