September 21st 1.4 down to 80.7 kilos

Well I'm pretty pleased with my results this week. I know I'm not going to get big results like this all the time as I don't have that much to go, and I am not being as strict as I was when I first started on Rapid Loss so if I can lose .5 to 1 kilo each week I'll be happy. Hell they'll be some weeks where I'm sure I'll be happy just not to gain! I had a sort of day off this week. It was planned and I was happy with it. I went to a friend's house and we had some yummy toast with dips and some healthy muffins and slice. Then I had pizza for dinner. We do enjoy our pizza and I figure if I can reign myself in on the other things at the other times then I can see how I go. Really I'm on stage 3 rather than back to stage 1 so as I said I'm ok if I don't lose as fast as I did. The rest of the week I've been good, eating healthy meals for my 'other' meals that aren't shakes and drinking lots of water. As it's school holidays I figured I'd rope the kids in to taking the dogs for walks around the neighbourhood with me, we can walk through the local schools with them which are very close. I still can't drive so our nice dog walking park is too hard at the moment. And I do still have to take it easy somewhat, I know if I have overdone it I am pretty stuffed at the end of the day!

The beauty of my gorgeous new bathers is that they have sucky in panels, they also come up quite high, so depending on where they are in the photo it may look different anyway, if it's covering (or not covering) bumpy bits! Even the closeness of the camera makes a difference, I know that.  Just looking at them as they've uploaded, I'm pretty sure I wasn't pushing my gut out in the first week or positioned that differently so I do think there's a difference. It just shows that you can make a difference just but cutting out all the crap you eat for a week! Still, it's more of a record for me to see the difference, after several weeks. I've got lots of use out of my bathers this week, we spent a fun afternoon in the spa yesterday afternoon and it's so nice not to wear men's boardshorts and a big baggy t shirt!

So the first is from this week and the second from last week. I should have done something different in the photo to differentiate I guess but never mind, too late now! And just have to say, how ace does my cleavage look?!

 

 

 

I'm baaaaack

Well after a rather long hiatus I've decided to finish what I started all those months ago. Rapid Loss has given us the opportunity to do more than one challenge in their competition time. While I don't think I need to enter as a full 16 week contestant (yay) I am doing so so that I can keep a record of where I am and how far I have to go.

For those who don't know it, I started at 105 kilos at the beginning of the year. I got down to approximately 80 kilos, give or take a kilo or 2. At about week 10 of my 16 week challenge it was discovered that I had a benign brain tumour. This was removed at the end of June. My challenge finished just before Mother's Day in May and I continued on until then, determined to be a good weight for my operation. For the most part I was good and when I had the operation I was around about 79 kilos. Since coming home I've done nothing! I've gotten back into my dreadful snacky eating habits and I've done no exercise. I had a good excuse for the exercise, my balance nerve was cut so I have had trouble in that department. I've also had (have) bad headaches from time to time. I still can't drive so food shopping has been a little out of my control so I decided not to stress, I would know when it was time to jump back on the wagon.

I have however rediscovered online shopping so am prepared for this week food wise. I have the added challenge of being on Warfarin, due to a clot after my operation, so I have had to tell my doctors about the Rapid Loss shakes as they have vitamin K in them which can muck around with the blood levels. I also can't eat green leafy veggies which have vitamin K in them so that puts a bit of a dampener on things as out of all the veggies, bok choy and baby spinach are my faves. Hopefully I wont be on it for much longer as it's nearly been 3 months now since the op and that was the approximate time.

I saw that The Biggest Loser was starting again and decided that it would be a good time to start. I watched it last night and I'll tell you what, it was so nice not to watch it feeling depressed because I was in a similar situation. Normally I start to watch it feeling almost smug because I'm not as big as them, then get depressed over the season because they get skinnier than me and I stay big! This time I watched, not feeling smug but feeling excited that as they reach their goals, I will reach mine!

It's hard not to be down on myself for putting weight on again but I think the thing to remember is that I haven't gone back to where I was. I weighed myself this morning and I am 82.1 kilos. So though I vowed that I wouldn't go back to above 80 and I have, I haven't gone back to 105 kilos, I haven't even gone back to the 90s. I have 7 kilos to go until I am at goal weight. I can do that easy peasy.

I have new bathers! I am so excited. I love Intimo, as my regular readers would know. I had a gorgeous set of underwear that I wore for my first lot of photos, for my first 16 week challenge. I was rapt, I love my boobs and, although they got smaller they didn't go that much smaller! So I wore the same underwear through the whole 25 kilo loss (as in the photos, not the whole time!) Intimo brought out new bathers this month though and I desperately wanted them so I had a demo last week and bought some. So I've decided that they will be my inspiration photos. They fit me now so I'm going into my second challenge with a different mindset. The last one I felt almost hopeless to start with, 30 kilos to lose was a big ask. I've nearly done that, 7 kilos will be fine and it's more about fitting into my bathers without as many lumps and bumps as there is now. I think they look good now, and the girls look great, but I did have a goal and I want to get there in style. And when I go to Fiji for the finalists trip for the Rapid Loss Challenge, I want to look smoking hot! So I am showing my week one /challenge two photos which are the aqua bathers, and this week I shall show my week one / challenge one photo next to it, if nothing else to show myself how far I've come. I'm very excited that the weather is nice and I am able to wear my summer clothes, they're just still a little snug. I even bought myself a strapless bra to really look nice in my strappy tops and dresses!

So here's this week's photos, and the very first week's too! I must say looking at them makes me feel positive and I just love my new bathers!