Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 97 - Life after the Official Challenge comes to an end.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 97

Well the official 90 day challenge is now done and life goes on. I have a much longer journey to meet my goal but I am definitely up for it.  I am now down 37.8 lbs and have 75.5 lbs to go to reach my goal.  I am getting stronger, I am finding exercising really enjoyable almost to addiction.  I love how I feel when I have finished the boot camp and 20 minutes of cardio.  

I can hardly wait to get to Team Fitness so I can earn that feeling once again.  I guess like any other addiction I need more and more, harder and harder workouts to achieve the same feeling.  I love the group of people I workout with on the TF+ nights but they are not always the most challenging.  I find the Sunday boot camp just a little more challenging.  I have signed up for another 3 months, this is the first thing that has worked for me in years and I am not quitting.  I will reach my goal this time! 

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 90. Wow Day 90 I can't believe the Official Challenge it over....

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 90

 

 

It is so hard to believe that I have been doing the Team Fitness Challenge for 90 days.  The whole experience has be fantastic.  I wake up everyday feeling fitter and stronger, I look forward to working out, when I don't have a Team Fitness workout scheduled I am looking for something else to do.  Part of my success is my connection with the trainers the other part is my connection with the other participants.  Nothing like working out and receiving encouragement from your friends.

 

Last night I was getting ready to go to my husband's work Christmas party get together.  The one thing I always dread about getting ready to go out is getting dressed.  My clothes don't look nice on my, they just cover my body.  The other issue is my nice clothes don't typically fit.  Well this year I am 35lbs lighter than last year.  I put on my green shinny blouse that I only wear on Christmas and it was way too big, so I put on another shirt I hadn't worn in a while and hubby said that one is too big too, what do you have that is smaller?  I pulled out a red blouse I had not worn in a very long time and put it on.  It fit great!!

The Christmas party was at Browne's.  We had the upstairs to ourselves.  The food was an endless stream of appetizers including 3 different types of chicken wings, sushi rolls, quesadillas, pizza, etc. and so on.  I ordered grilled chicken, grilled seasonal veggies and leafy green salad with oil and vinegar on the side.  It was very good.  I for real was not even tempted by the other stuff. That stuff made me fat, I don't want it anymore. :-)

 

I have only just began my weight loss fitness journey with 78 more pounds to lose.  The first 90 days is done and I look forward to the next 90 days and all the adventures that lay a head of me.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 86 - And thoughts on getting out of my fat suit...

 

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 86

 

 

Well I have not written a blog for a few days. My laptop died :-(  making it much more difficult to blog while watching TV.  Oh well, now I have the password to my son's laptop so until I buy a new one I am back on track.  Weighed in on Saturday with a 2.5lb loss this week.  I am very happy with that.  This gives me a total of over 28 lbs. in 12 weeks and 34 lbs. from my top weight.

 

Saturday's workout was good, really did feel like I worked out.  We did "super sets" with Sarah.  My shoulders are still sore from the chest press exercise.  That is one set of muscles I have that need a lot of work.  I received my new nutrition plan from Leanne after my Saturday morning check in.  High breakfast, Low lunch and an almond milk and protein powder shake for dinner.  Hmmmm... not sure how well it's going to go.  A shake for dinner just does not feel like dinner.  Just might be a recipe for falling off the wagon.

 

Sunday I had every intention of going to the boot camp at 10 am but I woke up with a headache and I was tired so I didn't go.  I kind of felt guilty.  Just goes to show, left to my own devices I don't push myself as hard as I get pushed by my trainers.  I need your guys to kick my ass every time!

 

Today is day 3 of the milkshake for dinner routine.  I came home from my Monday night TF+ workout.  Eric worked us out hard.  Maybe me a little more.  I always set myself up to get my ass kicked, and I am always thankful when I do.  I had to do so many stairs!!  Followed by my extra 20 minutes on the treadmill as prescribed by Leanne.  I seem to always be the one on the treadmill after our workouts on my own.  Maybe the others are more disciplined than me but I believe if I don't do it right after the workout I might not get it in later and I don't want to take that chance.  No matter how tired I am I ask myself how bad do I want to shed this fat suit? The answer is always the same "really badly" and I get on the treadmill at 6 or 7 incline 3.5 speed and I do 20 minutes and when I am done I feel good!  I got home, had my almond milk shake with protein powder, watched TV for a bit and went to bed hungry.

 

Tonight is not so bad.  I saved my snack and ate it with my liquid dinner.  I just needed to crunch something.  I then when to the Rec Center and did 30 minutes on the treadmill and 15 minutes on the elliptical.  I didn't do weights, since my department Christmas Party has been delayed until after the New Year I will be doing weights with the trainer at Harry Jerome tomorrow night and my Team workout at TF on Thursday.  Now off to my son's hockey game. 

 



Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 82 and Thoughs on People feeling bad...

 

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 82

 

 

I took today off work to help my good friend Ariel pack.  Not sure how much we accomplished but we did seem to get a few things packed away.  We had a healthy tasty lunch and chatted about our different fitness and food plan challenges.  The one thing we both have in common is not eating what everybody else is eating.  Why do people feel bad when you can't eat what they are having?

 

I tell them that what I am eating is a choice.  I can certainly choose to eat whatever I want to whenever I want to.  I eat what I do to propel my body to good health and it feels so good.  Don't feel bad for me, be proud of me!  Especially since I have about 9 more months before I reach my final goal.  I must then always exercise and pick my meals and snacks wisely.

 

Speaking of that I keep wondering how I am going to make it through the Christmas season and still lose at least 1 pound per week.  I'm not so worried about Christmas day, more challenging is all of the lunches and dinner's I am attending before the big day.  I can do it!!

 

Tomorrow morning is check in day followed by the TF+ workout.  I am looking forward to it.  See you in the AM Team Fitness!

Welcome To My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 81

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 81

Worked out tonight with the TF+ team tonight.  Parts of it were challenging and other parts were fun. Lauren and I always push each other and tonight we ended up laughing through several of the stations.  At the end I went to do my 20 minutes on the treadmill and urged Tristan to join me.  Much to my surprise he did.  It always goes by quicker when you can chat with someone.

It has been a pretty good week, Tuesday I did Zumba with Glenda. The instructor is always fun and brought Santa hats and reindeer antlers etc.  I did my whole Zumba workout wearing the Santa hat.  I didn't work as hard as I normally do. I just felt so tired.  I woke up 1.5 lbs down from Monday morning.  Adding none days to my routine really seems to have had an effect.

Wednesday I took my Dad out to visit my sister.  This means I did not go to the circuit workout at Harry Jerome.  It was worth it though, my sister and her partner Sylvie seemed really pleased to see us.  My body probably needed the break too.  I woke up this morning and the little metal box in my bathroom rewarded me.  I lost another pound bringing me past my next milestone.  The middle number dropped so I am rewarding myself with a haircut and either a color or highlights.  Time for something fun for me.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 78 and Thoughts on The 12 Week Check in and having your ass kicked.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 78

Today was the start of my "none" days.  It is a little harder but I really want to "shock" my body and kick start my weight loss a bit so it is very worth it. 

I have worked out at Team Fitness Saturday, Sunday and now Monday.  I was looking forward to tonight for a couple of weeks.  We did 12 week photos, weigh in, measurements and composition.  During the assessment I mentioned to Leanne and Wesley that some of the workouts were milder than others and I really need to be pushed.  I know I can always work harder but if I am pushed I always do more than I would ever do on my own.  I got my wish.....

The workout started as it normally does, little warm up on the treadmill, followed by some stretching then the workout began challenging and stayed that way until the end.  I felt like I was working out and pushing myself the whole time! At times it was hard and I was sweating and I loved it the whole time.  An hour after the workout my muscle are already talking to me.  Tomorrow at Zumba I am really going to feel it.

The other great thing about tonight is the team.  We have gotten to know each other and we know what buttons to push to encourage each other to work just a bit harder. Even though it was difficult and we were breathing hard, sometimes to the point of reaching an anaerobic state we were still laughing and poking.  I really hope we can keep our little group together after the challenge ends.  Most of us have a ways to go and the support is what is going to propel us to success; both from Team Fitness and from the crew of friends working out.

So start of week 12 I am down 25.8 lbs and 33 inches, and a total of 31.3 lbs from my top weight a few weeks before the challenge started.  I am so happy about how I feel and how I am starting to look.  I can't wait to see how I feel and look in the next 12 weeks.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 75, 76 & 77

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 75, 76, & 77

Another 3 days have gone by, day 77 already.  I was off work on Friday.  I had to do a side job down by Science World.  It is teaching worker rights and responsibilities around occupational safety at the Immigrant Services Society.  I really enjoy doing that.  It is amazing when you teach someone something the didn't know and you see the light come on.  This group was excellent and really asked a lot of questions.

Afterwards I planned to go to the gym.  I kept putting it off and then early afternoon I got a bad headache.  The gym did not happen on this day.  Before this program for over 2 years every month around my cycle I would get a bad headache for 3 days.  Almost a migraine, not bad enough to stay home from work but close.  Good News, my Friday headache was gone on Saturday morning and did not return all weekend.

Saturday morning was our TF+ workout.  I always look forward to that one with just the 3 of us.  Well even though this is week 11 we had 2 extra people in our workout.  I was a little disappointed.  I know the promotional time is coming to an end and more people will be joining us but change is hard.  I love our little group.  The biggest downside is that when new people join the workout intensity is much less.  I know I can always work harder but I need to have my ass kicked or I just don't the same burn.  Leanne, I have an idea.  If you get a large in flux of people into your TF+ group than perhaps you could add a TF+ intermediate or advanced group so the beginners can start at a lower level and those who have been doing it a while can keep working at a more advanced level.

On that note; I attended the beginner/intermediate boot camp on Sunday morning.  I was pleasantly surprised when Katherine showed up.  There were a couple other less fit people there too so we fit right in.  It was not so hard that we couldn't do it but it was that much more challenging that I really felt like I got a great workout.  Going forward I might attend that boot camp a couple times a week.

Only lost 1 lb this week.  Going to mix it up a bit this week and go back to a few "none" days.  I am actually looking forward to that.  I am hoping for a bigger loss by next Saturday.   I will be out of the 220's with any luck.  Once that happens I am going to get my hair done and I really need that!  I any event I am now lighter than I have been in more than 5 years and it feels good.  I love now when I buy clothes I have to ask for a "smaller" size.  Such a great feeling.  Thanks Team Fitness.