Mrs Evil's 12wbt

I’ve changed my PT sessions from Friday morning to Tuesday evenings in preparation of uni starting back up and also school runs. Also, if I’m being completely honest with you I really am not a morning person. Really. Truly. I don’t know what I was thinking when I scheduled 9.30am Friday mornings, well I do, but you know what I’m getting at hopefully…

ANYWAY Tuesday evenings for half an hour from 6.30pm I am at the mercy of my trainer, Carl. He’s a keeper this Carl. Super nice and encouraging and always challenging me too. I have a love/hate relationship with my trainer and consequently, my body. Tonight’s session started on the stepper. I detest the stepper. Carl knows this and yet still 8mins on the stepper was scheduled. Joy. Up until then I felt bad that I hadn’t gotten him a Christmas anything, not even a card. I soon forgot. Well it wasn’t THAT bad but I don’t like the stepper ok?

We moved on to a mini boxing circuit after that with some squats and lunges thrown in for shits and giggles. I’m sure that they had some other purpose but as far as I was concerned they didn’t. We then finished up on the stationary bike with some intervals until the time was up for the session. Fun. I felt much better upon seeing that my HRM calculated that I had burned 366cals.

I decided to hop into the pool afterwards to see how my HRM (Polar FT60) would manage in the water (yes it’s water resistant… I did my research… today). I booked in my spot for the Aqua class as I figured that I would more than likely do more if I’m being told what to do as opposed to doing it myself (hence why I signed up for this in the first place). 464cals later I think we hit a winner. A total of 800cals burned tonight and I’m happy with that. Ask me how I’m feeling in the morning and I don’t know if ‘happy’ will  be at the top of my vocab…

Always, Mrs E :) 

Pre-Season Task 1 - Introduce Yourself

Here’s my post from the forum for task 1

Gah! Forgot my HRM again yesterday!! I put my stats into the machines and it’s calculated 822 cals for the session so I’ll have to go with that for the time being. Wish I’d remember to remember my HRM. On a happier note I believe I’m getting the mindset I need. Saturday had PT session first thing, 5th birthday party (with a little party food but nothing exceptional in the amounts or cals), followed by shopping. Kids and husband had dinner from the golden arches and I passed :) the boys didn’t eat all their chips/nuggets and normally I would eat them just to ‘get the money’s worth’. In the bin as of yesterday! Yesterday we went to a 6th birthday party where I had a small piece of the sponge cake and again turned down chips and other junk (dimsims smelled yum but I just didn’t want them either). Got home and went to the gym (see above whinge re: HRM). 

Hopefully all are a sign of things to come! Bring it!

Pre-season for the 12WBT started today too! It’s all starting and becoming real. Our first pre-season task was to introduce ourselves to our 12WBT team mates. Easy enough. Somehow I think that it’s going to get a little more full-on as we progress… I’m not a doctor or anything but I just have this inkling lol

Always, Mrs E  :) 

Splasharama’s been there, done that. Here are her top 5 tips for the 12wbt!  She lost 48kg in 2011 and gained things beyond her imagination all thanks to 12wbt! There are so many inspiring people who have taken part in this program. I appreciate them telling their stories as it makes me want to achieve more.

Always, Mrs E  :) 

ok, so some of you (I’m being quite presumptuous in assuming more than just myself reads this. Hi, how are you?) anyway, some of you might think that I’m a sook and you’d be right. I had a 9am PT session this morning (Hi Carl, me legs hate you right now!) and it was SO hard getting up out of bed this morning. I even had 3 little alarm clocks, in the form of my 3 boys, poking, prodding and kicking me (inadvertently however it still hurt. Never underestimate the power of a nearly 4yo!). Even with all that pandemonium I still begrudgingly got out of bed. My main motivator was not my  PT session but the library as I had a fair few items that were due back yesterday (oops!) so I got up to head to the gym via the library so I could pop them in the after hours chute so they’d be checked as received yesterday. I admit it. I’m a last minute Larry. Anyway at least I got up right? 

Memorial Walk!

Altogether my entire session this morning from start to finish I burnt 1073cal (total time 1:09)  

I’m all signed up and raring to go! Preseason starts Monday 16 January 2012 and Round 1 of the Michelle Bridge’s 12 Week Body Transformation kicks off Monday 13 February 2012!

I’m sick of being overweight and unfit and unmotivated and lots of other ‘un’ words. I don’t want to be a fat mum who can’t keep up with her kids (for those who are curious, I have 3 boys (1, almost 4 and 5) and I’m sick of looking in the mirror and not being happy with how I look.

I have always been overweight. I grew accustomed to attributing it to having ‘big bones’ (pfft. If only that were the case) and then after the boys were born I just kept blaming them (I lost 30kgs before falling pregnant with my first-born and have somehow found it all as well as a little bit more /sigh). I ultimately want (and need) to lose (and never re-find) between 50-60kgs to be at a healthy weight for my height. Yikes. There’s a whole other person in here somewhere (and not in the kinky sense either!). I am determined on finding myself through all the flubber and learning to not only like myself, but love me too.

Always, Mrs E x