12 Week Challenge Complete!

So its done and dusted! Another 12 weeks finished. Final Weigh in complete. I lost .6kg, and 14.9cm. So over the 12 weeks i lost 5.2kg, and 29.5cms! Pretty happy with that considering the ups and down i had over the 12 weeks. Has definatley been a hard challenge, and glad its over. This time before the next one i will have time to regain my spirit and committment to myself and my body. Its been one long year and am i need of some time out. Time out to just live life and not worry about it all. Dont stress my friends, i wont be hitting the bad food and not exercising, im continuing on, with eating right and exercising. Just not as hard ass as i have been over this year.
So this week is the FTC dinner!!!! I am soooo looking forward to dancing the night away with some AMAZING people who have inspired and supported me through my time so far. Arriving in style in a Super Stretch Hummer looking hot to trot!!
Below are my before and after pics from this challenge and the last one, some amazing changes i think.
Enjoy!

                                                                      

The final Week!!!!

So its the final week of the FTC!!!
Wow!! 12 weeks has gone so quick, But i have achieved some amazing goals.
My first goal i achieved was a few weeks ago, when i pushed my heaviest weight ive ever been (which was 151kg) on the sled. Well i did 151.25kg!! What a feeling that was, its was soooo hard to push. I cant believe i use to be that heavy. I will never ever be going back to that weight.
My second goal, well it was a goal i had from the very first FTC challenge, was to run on the treadmil at level 10 for at least 1 minute. This challenge we have been doing a lot of running, so over the past two weeks i have been working hard on my running, to allow myself to smash my Time trail as well. Then it rained on the Time Trial day, but we went to the gym, and still did running. Interval running at our best time! In the first 5 mins, i already wanted to attempt level 10! Which i did!!! I was sooooo pumped that i kept going and ended up running at 12.5!!! I was sooo proud of myself. Now i just have to keep it going and anything can happen now. Ill be running the lake without stoppping before i know it! That is a long term goal for me.
Although i find alot of things i am so proud of, they are the two things i have/had been working towards.
So this was by far the toughest 12 weeks out of the whole year. Was definatley a mental challenge this time. But now i know i can do anything.
Between now and the next challenge i am going to prove to myself, that i can stick at it. And that all this effort and lifestyle change is for good, and not just a temporary thing.
I have 3 weeks with elise then 3 weeks without her, then its back into it again in the new year.
Next year is the year i WILL get to my goal weight!
Its been 1 year and 5 months and i have lost 32+ kgs!!!!! so another 32-40 will have me at my goal for sure!! I can see how im going to get there and i just need to stick at it!!!
So final weigh in is on Friday morning!! I will post my update results then.
I have my outfit for the dinner which is in a few weeks. I cant wait to let my hair down with some awesome ppl. so looking forward to the whole night!! Its going to be very very fun i just know it!
So until friday! Stay Strong! Work hard! and Live Large!!!
xxxx

Your never alone!

So its been a few weeks since ive posted. Whats been happening?? Training is going fabulous! Smashing my weights and getting stronger and stronger. Eating has been on track! had a few nights out, but nothings going to stop me. Only lost .5kg in two weeks, but life goes on and so i continue on my way and see what the next one holds. Lifes to short to worry about that stuff. Yeah its not as much as i would have liked and i didnt reach my goal of being under 120kg, but on the flip side  I have lost 30kg exactly!!! Thats fricken amazing!!! I have come so far!
So in this blog, i want to dedicate it to my support system. Losing weight is an individual journey, but by all means i have not done this alone. Yes i have done the hard work and eaten the correct food, but it has been with Love, Encouragement, and Friendship from the very start that has helped me through. Weight Loss is so much more than just working out and eating right. The mental side is unbelieveable! It is nothing like i expected, it is so much more! Without beautiful people like Elise Trussler (my Trainer) and Lauren Brewer( my bestie, whom i met at the start of my journey) my life has changed so much. With them helping me in any and every way possible i am so ever greatful to have had these angels sent to me to help me through this journey.
I have been amazed with the changes in my life, with my friends, family and new inspirations. Life is so better, and i have grown and changed in so many ways. Physically, amazing the changes i feel and see, and the complements i recieve. I just dont believe it sometimes. My mental state to everything in my life is now so positive, im excited by what lies ahead for me, and im excited about the rest of my journey and the changes i will continue to make. Day by day life is one GIANT party! Im so happy to be alive and i plan to live my life with everything i have!! Nothing can stop me now!

Proud as Punch!!

Well what a week it has been!!
Smashing my sessions with Elise, going up on all my weights! Even surprising myself. Smashed a 4kg medicine ball so it would bounce to my height was pretty awesome. Even elise was impresssed, and i made her highlights for the week!
What else happened this week, hrmmmmm so i had an extra session with Elise to make up for some i have missed, and she surprised me with a WOW session. Now a WOW is a catoegorie in the Challenge called Fitter, Faster, Stronger. Where they give u a workout every week, pushing u beyond your limits, and the aim is to do it as fast as u can, but correctly.
I was so nervous! these are things i only dream i can do. So what was involved, 10 x 15kg Dumbell Ground to Overhead lifts, followed by 10 Crucifix burpies, done 3 times through. then 10 calories on the rower, then 10 x 15kg Dumbell Front squats repeated 3 times. Was a killer!!! The hardest point for me was the first round of the DB ground to overhead and the crucifix burpies. Once i realised i could do these i was off and running. I completed the whole thing in 11.17. Was absolutley floored with myself! But oh so proud! We then went on to do some leg press work, where i upped my weight to 250kg! was an amazing night!
Then on Saturday morning was time for Trusslers Transformers Lake Run. So the last two times i had done this run, i had beaten my past time, but with someones help beside me helping me along. This time i was on my own. Only myself to push, only myself to fight with. So off i started, working hard only stopping to walk to catch my breath, then off running again i go! No giving up as giving up is not an option. I completed the Lake in 19.30!!! 39secs less than last time, and i did it on my own!! Once again i was sooo proud of myself! My goal is to get that down into the 15min range, in 6 more weeks! I can do it if i train hard and work on it. so these next few weeks im going to give up some of my cardio stuff and do some running stuff, mix it up with treadmill, runnning the lake and the leg machine at gym. Building my legs up and working on my breathing will help me get this goal.
So by the weekend i was pretty impressed with myself, and feeling pretty amazing! I am back on track, eating right, training to the max!! Loving it all. And the positive comments have started to come back in. Which does help staying focused and encourages you to push it hard.
So tonight was a mid month weigh in as my last weigh in was a disaster. Once again i surprised myself!!! I lost 3.75kg in just two weeks. Not even being spot on perfect. Elise and i were both shocked and estatic at my result! So my new goal for next weigh in, is 5kgs in two weeks! This can be done!! If im extra careful, i will be able to achieve this. And i will then feel like this challenge hasn't been a huge waste of time.
Im so pumped now!! Back on track!! Ready to go for gold! Nothing can stop me now!!
Watch this space!!!

Another Week Down

So another week down, heading into week 6 half way through the 12 week challenge.
This challenge has been so much harder than the last one. So much going on, but since my melt down i have been back on track! Training hard and eating right! this next 7 weeks is going to make the most difference! I want to make a huge difference again. I want to see the differences happening. But i have to work hard to do this.
I am being positive about whete i am heading, and surrounding myself with people and things that will support me through this time. I have worke to hard and come so far to back away now.
Anything is achieveable and if everything was easy, we would never do it. It is hard, but it is well worth it in the end.
Here is the latest pic of me! Feel Fab and on track!

So feeling pretty great. Moving forward and staying positive! Goals and Dreams are there for me to take! I just have to reach out and i will be able to touch them.

Dark Week

So this blog is a lil late, which im sorry about, but i have had alot on my mind.
This week was weigh in week! Week 4 of the 12 week challenge! The week that dreams come true and you see your hard work really paying off. Well for most people that is!
I weighed in and found i had put on 1.2kgs!! I am embarassed, disappointed, angry, frustrated and feel like i have failed. Worried that i cant move forward. The 12 or so weeks before the challenge, i never ever put on, i did follow the eating plan, but still enjoyed life. All i wanted in those weeks was for this challenge to start. Now its started and i get results like this. I know my eating has not been perfect, but i thought at least what i was eating wont out way my exercise. I just dont know. I am gutted! and have no one to blame but myself.
Elise has given me 2 weeks to pick myself up and do another assessment. If i dont get good results! Im gonna quit!! I cant do this, so much stress, pressure and worry. Ive been doing it so well for the past 9ish months and i know that i have so much more to do. Which makes me worry that i will never ever get through this. I will never ever get to anywhere close to where i want to be. The Hardest thing im finding is that no one understands me, and why i feel this way. I feel like no one gets it. Its nothing, people say, you can lose that in a week. But its so much more than just a number for me.
Although i will give credit to my beautiful PT Elise, who has been so so so supportive and understanding and has been giving me alot of things to think about to help move through this hard time. I dont know what i would have done if Elise wasnt such an amazing person.
Where to from here?? I have two options, stay in this negetive head space and wollow in self pity, or pick myself up prove to myself i am worth it! Get rid of this negetive sabbotage talk and move the F forward!!!
Well im sure you will all be happy to know that since the weigh in i am back on track, eating right, exercising as Elise says(no extra, or less) and proving to myself i am worth this. I am worth the effort and heart ach! I just need some time to find this belief again.
I just hope that my weigh in, in two weeks has some good out of it! Otherwise, as i said earlier i dont know what i would do!
So positive thinking through this hard time, and trying to find my belief in myself again, is my mission this week. Day by day is how im going. Jumping all the obstacles as they come.
I just pray that i am strong enough to sustain this. Because right now, i feel like i cant do this!

Feeling Fab!

Well another week has past! Week 4 of the Challenge has begun.
So what happened this week. This week my eating was spot on, so i was feeling absolultey amazing! Smashed all my sessions with Elise. I am getting stronger and stonger as this journey continues.
We did our Time Trial at the Lake saturday morning, i was estatic with my results, last time i ran/walked the lake i did it in 27mins this time i did it in 22mins. I was sooo happy when i crossed the line. Smashed it by 5 mins. My girlfriend Chloe came for a run too, so she helped me along the way. Elise wasnt there but Kylie from our team came looking for me, to help me over the finish line. Trussler Transformers is our team name and Elise has organised more sessions of running the lake. I am sooo excited about it. I am having a plan every week i go and run the lake. One of my goals for the challenge is to run the whole lake without stopping by the end of the challenge, and get my time down to 15mins. This time i probably ran 50-60% of the lake, next time my aim is to run a quarter, catch my breath and go again. So only three stops around the whole lake. Setting goals like this will help me to achieve this goal.
After the lake run, i went to Fenix did Attack for the first time ages. This was a killer! my legs were already tierd, but i got through it all. Cant wait to do it again, when im fresh.
Sunday morning i wanted to have a relaxing bit of exercise to do. Was time to give back to my body and relax. So i attended a yoga and relaxation class at gym. This was very interesting. Im not sure if i like yoga, but i did love the relaxing part of it all. Really allows you time to give your boy time to relax, de stress and stretch a little bit more than normal.
So as i said feeling pretty amazing this week. So im sure only great things to come in the next few weeks. Weigh in, is in 1 and a half weeks. So need to stay on track and achieve the best results i can!
Goals are made to be Achieved so dream big people!!!

Unplanned life spanners

Well another week is over, and this week im not going to talk about weight loss, or what ive done training wise. This week has been one of the hardest weeks of my life.
Monday morning my Nana died in her sleep. So this threw up life upside down. Time to think about my family and forget everything else. Bad timing for sure, but you have to learn to use these hard times to push through/
What a shock it was to find out she had died. So a day with my family, planning, grieving. I even saw her body when we got to there house. Was a very very strange feeling being there with her body and seeing it, then watching her be taken away. I dont think these images will ever go away.
So then it was the longest week ever. Friday was the funeral! Crazy day! I was asked to say a prayer during the service, so i did i cried when i got up there. Its just such a sad time and seeing the coffin while standing up there is heart breaking. I also was a pallbrearer. This was the most difficult thing i have had to do EVER!! We didnt have to carry her out but just push her out. I was a mess, could not control my emotions.
However now it is all over and life can return to normal.
Exercise carried on as normal during this hard time and my eating was up and down. But its a new week. Time to get moving and stuck into this. Ive wasted two weeks with excuses and challenges i had no control over. But eating and my training i could control if i wanted to. So head is back in the game, training harder than before. and eating to the letter!!

Oh on the weekend we had a FTC training session, at the 1000 steps. I am sooo proud of myself. Last time i did the steps it toke me 2hrs to do it. 30kgs lighter i did it in 39mins. I was sooooo excited!!! I ran back down the stairs and all the way to the car park! So Very Very Proud!!

Getting through sickness

Well first week of the challenge and i am so sick i cant do any training! Not exactly the start to the challenge that i was hoping for, but was well enough by the end of the week to do the first group session with our gym! It was hard work, and i am still paying for it, as my legs hurt alot.
This week has been all about my nutrition, which was awesome in a way. It allowed me to focus and get on track and continue on with the weeks to follow. Although i had something to focus on. Not being able to train really played with my head. Working through this was hard at the start, but realising i can only control what i can do, made it easier as the week went on to just do what i needed to do, to still be able to get the results i want.
This week i have felt like weight has dropped off me, and with lots of comments from different people in my life. It gave me confidence and encouragement that it still can happen no matter what i can or cant do.
So i am so excited about the weeks ahead!!! Watch out!!! this is going to be a Transformation you are going to want to see!!!

Week one of 12 weeks of Transformation!

Well this week is week one of the 12 week Transformation challenge! and guess what! im SICK!! I can not believe it. I am so sick that i have to have the whole week of training. Resting my body, will give me the best chance to stay well in weeks to come. Going back into training to early will allow the virus to not fully leave my body.
Its a stuggle, when gym is such a huge part of your life and u go every single day without fail. It very hard to just be at home and dont nothing. This is my biggest struggle this week.
However im not going to let it get me down. If i cant exercise then Nutrition has to be spot on! No room for error.
So will be an interesting week.
Let me know how your week is going!

A week of Binge Eating

Well i am glad this week is over, it has been a long hard road! I have had a lot of trouble this week, fighting my erges to eat bad food ALL the time and lots of it. Once i start i find it difficult to stop. Even to the point where i feel sick, and throw up! I am ashamed of this. However its how i come out the otherside that makes me the person i am!
Days and days of take aways, chocolate, chips, soft drink! My body crashed down, forcing me to have days off work, days off exercising! It gets me thinking, during this low time. why am i doing this? what am i hiding from? or replacing? These are the questions i have been fighting with. But no answers have been found. This is so frustrating! however i have had to look at myself. My goals, my dreams! do i want them? how bad do i want them? are they achieveable dreams? These questions i can answer, and i can act on!
Binge eating is not a good thing, and something i have NEVER EVER done, even at my heaviest weight i would never eat as much as i had during these binges. This is scary, and worrying for me. Although stressing over what i have already done is not going to get me anywhere!
With awesome support, and amazing ppl around me. I have found the strength, the determination to carry on, to strive for what i know i can achieve!
So its the start of a new week! One week until the next FTC challenge begins and i have to get my act together! I have the tools, and skill to stick this out. I now have to work through these challenging times and strive for those huge goals i WILL achieve by 31st Dec 2011.

Have u ever binged? How did u cope? How did u overcome this?? Post a comment/advice. Help me deal with this and help others who might be in the same situation.

Have a great week all! Stay Strong and Follow your dreams!
Lotsa Love Sandie

And so it begins!

Welcome to my first ever blog!
Life is great at the moment. Training hard with Elise, but struggling to keep my eating in tact. Things in life seem to get on top of me, then my eating goes straight back to where i was 7mths ago. This make me depressed and it continues on. Its like a viscous circle! I feel out of control, and not sure how to get out of it!
I have been reading alot about Binge Eating and how to conquer it! this is my new mission.

On a lighter note, the next Transformation Challenge starts in two weeks!!! i am so excited and can not wait! i dont know what it is about the challenge, but it brings this fire from inside, wanting to do better and better. This challenge i am setting the bar high! Elise always says Dream Big! So 20kgs is what i WILL lose by December 31st! You are my witness!!

So watch this space, for my journey as i continue to shed my fat!

I hope that u are able to find some motivation and inspiration from my journey and put it into your own experiences.

Dream big! Dream! Believe! Achieve!!

History

Weighing in at a Huge 151kg, it was time to take a stand and do something. I was only 27 yrs old, with my life in front of me. What kind of life would i be living if i continued the way i was?
I would love to say something made me change, but nothing did. Years of yo-yo diets and wanting to lose weight but the putting it back on. I was just Mentally & Physically ready to start my weight loss journey.
I joined a Fenix gym in 2009, but no weight had moved. It just went back and forth as my eating did not change. So i desided to help with my eating i would join a weight watchers. I lost 10kgs in 6 months. I was stoked.
One day a challenge was advertised at gym. Transformation Challenge! It sounded interesting. I knew a group fitness trainer Elise, who was starting to become a personal trainer. So i asked her what was involved in the challenge and personal training. I then went to the information evening for the challenge. My first step was to except the help and step outside my comfort zone.  See my 12 week Challenge Post to see how i went.
             

Final Photos - Transformation Challenge 1

Total of 12kgs lost & 76.8cm

Starting Photos - Transformation Challenge 1