Weigh in Wednesday - Week 3

600grams down!!!! Wish it was over a kilo but am happy it was a loss :)
I must say though I am feeling so much better, I am feeling thinner and more toned. I can't wait to take photos at the end of the 12 weeks to compare. Although I don't think I've noticed too much with my clothes yet. It's more people are commenting that my stomach is shrinking, I'm looking less and less like I'm pregnant!!! I never did really get rid of that pregnant look after I had my son 4.5 years ago.

I'm a bridesmaid in a wedding in December and a couple weeks before that in November is the hens night. We are going to some really nice club place but apparently it's really quite formal. So I'm actually really looking forward to being able to dress up for a change. So I was going through my wardrobe last night to see if I had anything decent and I tried on a dress I actually haven't been able to wear yet coz I haven't had the opportunity. I put it on and I couldn't stop looking in the mirror lol!! My arms are starting to look not bad and less just fat lumps. There's actually some definition there now.

Anyway, thought I would quickly update my stats, now I'm off to ZUMBA!!!!!! :-D

⬇ this is the photo of the dress I'm thinking about wearing to the hens.

Thousand Steps

I have just finished the Kokoda Trail - The Thousand Steps in the Dandenong Ranges. I did it also just over a week ago but I didn't quite finish it because I ran out of time as I was catching up with a friend.

It feels so good to have completed it today. 1 hour and 20 minutes and 795 calories. Already I'm feeling I'm getting more fit. I still struggle a bit going up, I still had to stop a couple of times but I'm not stopping for long, mainly just to let the fast people go past me then I'm usually back into it. My aim is to be able to go up there without stopping at all and maybe even do it a couple or few times. I was happy though because on the way down when it gets to the flat bit again I pretty much ran the whole way, I was even passing everyone else and felt so good like I had so much energy.

I thought I'd quickly put up this post about it and to show a few photos I took. Let's see what I can achieve by the end of the 12 weeks!!!

2 weeks down 10 to go - for this round :)

Wow another week has finished and we are about to begin week 3!!!

I am feeling quite good and motivated tonight although I can't say that about the week I have had!  It definitely wasn't as good as week 1 but I am still happy with myself because instead of giving up completely and waiting until "Monday" to start again I just refocused that day and continued to try and make better choices.

My problem from the beginning of the week was my lack of planning.  I organised my week so well for week 1 but this last week I ran out of time to do it properly last weekend so it just didn't work out.  Plus i struggled from the beginning of the week (Monday and Tuesday) because I had my course in the city.  I started off well but then all my old excuses and worries came flooding back and I went off the rail.  My fear is when I am in situations like my course of working and I don't have the freedom to eat whenever I like I worry that I am going to not eat enough and start to feel sick and may even faint.  Silly I know because its not like I'm starving myself but a similar thing has happened to me in the past.  It was when I was doing a job as a camera operator.  I rocked up to the job early afternoon to set up and I was expecting we would get fed before the show started.  But this never happened.  So that evening while I was filming I was communicating to the director, who was side stage of the theater, and I started to feel very faint and I asked him to bring me a drink asap, well shortly after I said that I did in fact pass out in front of the whole audience, very embarrassing .  I was fine, but it was obviously dehydration.  So since then I have always made sure I can eat wherever I'm going or I have a big meal beforehand.

So I wasn't too bad during the day of my course, however I would have gone over my 1200 calories, but I was still relatively ok with my eating.  Until...  Tuesday night came along and I finished my course at 5 in the city and had to rush back, pick up kids and go to calisthenics until 10.30.  ( I think I mentioned this in my wednesday weigh in post)  So again the fear came over me and I didn't want to just have a salad for dinner because I was worried I wouldn't "last" on just something healthy like that, so I went for the only thing I knew (which is terribly bad),  fast food crap (Hungry Jacks to be exact).  And yes I do admit it was sooooo yummy, but at the same time I felt so very guilty and sick at the same time.

But the new me woke up Wednesday morning and started fresh again :) 
That is until Saturday!!!  I was working (filming calisthenics) all day from 8am to 11pm.  I started off well by eating porridge (instead of McDonalds like I normally do on my way to filming) and then for a snack I had sultanas and a banana (instead of chocolate and chips). But then in the afternoon once again I started to have this doubt of being hungry and sleep so I got some food from the bar there.  I felt like calamari and thought it just came with salad but it came with chips and I just couldn't resist.  Naughty me I know.  But I feel I am slowly changing, slowly making better choices and not giving up just because I had one bad meal.

Today I woke up feeling all refreshed and ready to start a new day and I had a great day.  Ate well and took my son on a bike ride and kicked the footy around with him, great bonding time with my son.

So that's another week gone and now I should get some sleep so I'm all refreshed once more and ready to go for another session doing the Thousand Steps in the morning!!!


*Below pictures are a copy of my meal plan and exercise plan.  I know they could be better but already I feel so much more organised than I have ever been thanks to Michelle Bridges :)

My Missing Introduction to the World of Kristy!!!

I realised I haven't really got a proper introduction to me, so I thought I would post one now so you can all get an insight into who I am :)

My name is Kristy. I am 29 years old and a mother of 2 young kids (a boy 4 and girl 2).

I have gone through some hard times the past few years with my messy separation and feeling like my whole world had been turned upside down.  But I feel I am now at the stage of my life where things are slowly looking up and I'm leaving all those hard times behind me and looking towards a happy positive future for not only me but my kids.

I used to be a camera operator and editor in the video production industry (and still do that now occasionally) but decided it wasn't for me anyone and too stressful and too hard always working on the weekends when I am a single mother.
This year I decided to go back to study, something that I have been interested in for many many years, massage.  So I am doing my Diploma in Remedial Massage therapy, am I am loving it (although also quite stressed at the moment as we are coming towards the end and I still have so much to do before our assessment in November).

For me to become a happier, positive person I feel for me I also have to change my lifestyle, to eat better and exercise more.  My heaviest weight was 94kg.  I really want to get back to the weight I was before having kids which was 60kg.  I was always a healthy weight as a child but then when I hit puberty I stacked it all on and discovered my love for bad food and lots of it.  I blew out to 85kg and stayed like that for all my teenage years and I was very unhappy and depressed. (Below - Me in 2000 age 16 and when I was a healthy child on the beach).

When I reached 18 (in 2001) I got out of my dark side and was changing my ways and started eating better and exercising.  I got down to about 65kg and was able to stay there until I got pregnant with my son in 2007.  Since then I have weighed between 85kg and 94kg!!!  (Below - My latest photo)

I have recently met a fantastic guy who is the best thing ever!!! He is being so supportive of my new lifestyle and is helping me in whatever way he can.  I feel very lucky to have met him :)

Doing this blog is going to help keep me on track and motivated, I can't hide and keep coming up with excuses anymore.  I have just started (in August) the Michelle Bridges program 12 Week Body Transformation, and I am loving it.  What I love the most is not only the help with food and exercise but more importantly for me is getting my mind right.  No other diet I have been on has been able to get into my mind and start making me think more clearly and smarter.

No More Excuses, My Time Starts Now!!!

Weigh in Wednesday - week 2

500grams!!! That's how much I lost! I guess I'm happy with that because it is a loss but annoyed it wasn't more. I've lost focus a bit over the weekend and Monday and Tuesday. The weekend wasn't too bad and I still kept within my calorie amount as much as I could. I even went for a bit of a walk/run and stair climb up at this waterfall/dam place near Healesville, Victoria. I've posted up some photos below because it was absolutely beautiful.

But my planning and organising turned sour when I ran out of time to cook my dinners Sunday night for at least the Monday and Tuesday. I had my massage course in the city Monday and Tuesday and the 2 days can be quite tiring. I woke up Monday all prepared to be good and mum even agreed to cook a healthy dinner that night. So i started with yummy porridge before i left. But once I arrived in the city over an hour early I started to feel really hungry and not knowing when the next time I'll be able to eat I got worried that I'll get faint and feel sick during the course. So I decided to buy a egg and bacon sandwich. Then for lunch my partner met me so we could eat together (and he is being so supportive about this journey of mine) but my stomach got the better of me and I ended up having a burger (no chips) plus a chocolate milk drink :( I was naughty.

Then come Tuesday and I was much better during the day but then I was stressing what to do for dinner coz I didn't have much time and I needed something quick, easy, filling and that i can eat in the car. My course finished at 5 then I had to drive an hour home pick up the kids go straight to their dads house to drop them off then try and be at calisthenics by 7!! So busy busy busy. I was really wanting to have something healthy but then once again my old habits kicked in and I got a meal from hungry jacks ;(

So I just need to re focus and know that this doesn't have to stop me and this journey. When normally I would tell myself I had a bad couple of days I'll just give up for the rest of the week and start next week!! No more thinking like that. I have gone straight back to eating well and exercising because I do want to change and would love to see a good number on the scales next week!!!! :)

Rain, Hail or Shine!

No matter what I am sticking to the Thousand Steps (Victoria) at least once a week. I've done it a couple times before but this is the first time this year and I must say I was quite please with myself at how well I did. I still find it challenging but a bit easier than when I did it last year.

Today was supposed to be very cold and very wet and stormy but after i dropped my kids off at Childcare I decided no matter what I need to stick to doing this no matter what. And surprisingly the sun actually came out and it didn't rain at all the whole time I did it!!!

My goal by the end of the 12 weeks is to be able to complete the steps twice.


Here is another picture of my dinner from last night - Meat Pie with mushy peas. I used normal beef mince instead of kangaroo mince.

First Weigh In Wednesday!

Today we all had to weigh in for the official Week 1 Round 3 weigh in.
I must say I have stuffed up the scales situation. I can't seem to get scales that are decent. I bought some online a couple weeks ago and at first I thought they were fine and that's how I got my 92.2kg start weight but then 2 days later they had gone up 2kg!!! And I'm thinking surely I haven't put on that much weight when I have still been trying to eat healthy. So that day I also used my old ones (which I don't like coz they only go up or down by 0.5 not 0.1) and I also used my mums weight watchers scales. Both of those pretty much said the same number which was I think about 91.5 but my new ones said 94!!! So I've decided I don't want to use those ones.

But the other dilemma I have is I stay at my new partners house every Tuesday night so I can't use my mums scales at home obviously when I'm at his house. So I thought I'll buy more scales to keep at his house. Which ones to buy is the question though???

So I got home this morning at about 10:30 and weighed myself on mums scales. Obviously it wasn't first thing in the morning but I hadn't had a chance to have breakfast at this stage coz running about after my kids, picking them up and taking them to appointments, so I had nothing in my stomach. I weighed in at 91.0!!! So that's a loss which is good, but I'm still I guess not overly excited coz I really don't know how much I truly weighed in the first place. So we'll see what next week says.


Today I did really well with my eating and not even getting any cravings or feeling hungry. To the point where I didn't even eat my snacks and it got to dinner time and I just didn't feel hungry. So today I actually went well below the calories which I know isn't good. I was just too busy to stop and think about it and I think my body has already changed coz I'm not getting as hungry or eating as much in my servings.

I took a photo of my yummy dinner the Caramelised Pork on Sweet Potato Mash. I'm just so proud of myself that I'm trying new foods and cooking new recipes that I never thought I'd even bother trying, and I'm loving it and it's filling me up!!!

Week 1 Day 1 - 12WBT has begun

Wow what an awesome day I had. I felt so good eating all my healthy meals. I never thought that I would enjoy spinach leaves in my sandwich or choose to put celery in my casserole. I am slowly changing. YAY!!! And after I put all my food and exercise into the My Fitness Pal app and logged it, it said I would lose 7kg in 5 weeks!!!! How amazing is that??? It's never told me that before. Maybe that's coz I was always eating around 1500-1800 cals but then also eating back my exercise cals so I would be eating at least 2000!!! No wonder it wasn't working for me.

So after I dropped my kids off at Childcare this morning, (today is my study day at home coz I'm getting so far behind, I'm studying Remedial massage therapy), I got home and got ready to exercise. Went for my walk for 45min burning 400 cals then followed the rest of the 12WBT program for the day. So overall 595 cals burned today!!! Woohoo!

I must say by 4pm this arvo I was sooooo tired and now at 8:30 I can barely keep my eyes open. Wish I could go to sleep but my son is still awake so have to wait till he goes to sleep, which hopefully will be soon. I just hope this doesn't last for the next 12 weeks. Normally if I feel like this and I can't sleep coz of the kids or something then I always turn to food. But I can't, I have to be disciplined. And to be honest I don't think I'm actually hungry, I know it is coz I'm very tired. It probably doesn't help that I worked from 8am to 11pm filming calisthenics yesterday, that always gets me tired.

Time to get this son into bed :)

Pumped & Ready To Begin!

Tomorrow is officially my first round of Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation (round 3 2012).
I am so excited!! Who would have thought that I would actually be happy and this excited to start a diet?!?!? The difference is, I don't consider this a "diet". This is now my new life of exercise and most importantly eating right and no more binge eating. I really feel this is going to work for me and who wouldn't be excited about that! :)


I am super organised and have already done my meal plan for the entire week and also written out my exercise plan in my special diary. I am printing certain things off like my list of goals and excuses and putting them all in a special folder including all my meal plans as I go along. That is the key to success is being organised apparently and I believe this is why I have failed with making a change in the past.


I was so happy on Friday when I did the fitness test for the first time. Most things I got in the intermediate category and a couple even advanced (push ups and flexibility). The wall sit however was really bad, I couldn't even get 30sec coz my knees were hurting and I don't want to cause them more pain and do damage. (I really need to see the doctor about that). My 1km running test I just got into intermediate with 7min48sec, but I am happy with that as I am just starting out.
I need work on my sit ups as I only got to 2 out of 5.

Here are my results -
1km - 7min 48sec
Push Ups - (toes) 5 (knees) 29
Sit Ups - round 2
Wall Sit - 30sec
Flexibility - 7cm


One thing I was a bit disappointed with was I didn't really lose that much during the pre season. But again I wasn't trying the hardest. One thing I find very frustrating is I've been weighing myself the same time in the morning with no clothes and after I've been to the toilet, and I know there will be changes in your weight day by day but by 2-3 kilos??? On thursday morning I weighed myself and I was 92.2 (I'm taking that as my official start weight), then Friday morning it was 91.0 then yesterday morning (Saturday) it was up to 93!!!! Now the last 3 days I had been doing all the same things and eating relatively the same so how can there be that much of a difference??

It's a good thing that I have also measure myself so I can see the difference there and not just in the scales.

Here are my starting measurements:
Weight - 92.2kg
Chest - 111cm
Waist - 107cm
Widest part (hips) - 120cm
Right Thigh - 72cm
Left Thigh - 71.5cm
Right Arm - 35cm
Left Arm - 34cm

My starting pictures. Kinda embarrassed about posting this but I think I really need to as a motivation and I know that I found the biggest motivation for me was seeing everyone's transformation photos :)

My Commitment!

I have just finish the 4th preseason task of the 12WBT, "Say It Out Loud".
I have made a commitment to myself that I will change my eating habits and cut out junk and that I will exercise 6 days a week. I am determined to lose at least 10-15kg by 1st of December.

I was tidying up today and found some old photos of around the time I got married to my ex husband in 2006! (see photos below). I weighed about 60kg. I was being really strict with my diet and going to the gym everyday. Obviously I had no kids at this stage so I found it a little easier.
By this time next year for my 30th in August 2013 I want to be 60kgs!!!!

Today is the first day of the rest of my healthy lifestyle and I am feeling great. I've done my exercise first thing this morning (Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred) and I have been eating healthily.
I just can't wait for the end of the month so I can start my first round of Michelle Bridges 12WBT!!!!

New Diet, New Lifestyle

There are many addictions out there. Alcohol, gambling, smoking etc. My addiction is Food! I can't get enough of it, and mostly bad food too. To the point where if I am hungry and there isn't food nearby I then start getting frustrated and irritated. I also then start stressing that if I don't get food now I'm going to start getting really hungry where I start to feel sick and light headed. I never want to reach that point so I always make sure I always have food available to me, even if it's the wrong foods.

I don't know if this whole stress with food has come from different experiences in my life. One being, when I was early 20s I did this filming job as a camera operator. That particular day I didn't eat or drink very much. During the filming I felt not right and fainted. I was the only camera operator!! So at one stage they got the shot of the camera tilting upwards, obviously at the time I had fallen to the ground. It was highly embarrassing. I was just dehydrated. But I always think if only I had eaten something or had been drinking more water then that wouldn't have happened.

Also another reason for my bad eating lifestyle is all throughout my teenage years I was withdrawn and depressed. I turned to food to fill that happiness I was lacking in life. So now I turn to food for all emotional reasons whether I'm stressed, sad, happy, excited! I always come up with a reason why I deserve to "treat" myself.

I desperately need to kick that habit.
Last time I spoke about lite n easy. That is a great program and the food was yummy but I just felt like 1. It wasn't that flexible and 2. It didn't really suit if you had a young family to feed also.

So I have now just joined up with the program of Michelle Bridges 12WBT!
I've only just started the preseason tasks as the round 3 program begins end of August. But so far it is really good. There seems to be a lot of support, from what exactly to do with food and exercise but also emotionally and getting your mind right and changing the way you think and the way you have been doing things for so long.

So starting end August for 12 weeks I'll be really putting everything I have into this program. I've already paid so I really don't want to waste my money and I am really ready to get fit and healthy. I am going to write here most days to keep myself on track.

In the next week or so I'll start posting up my stats and maybe even a picture so I can compare from now and then at the end of the 12 weeks!!

Can't wait to start the program and start getting results and changing my body and mind!!!
:)