Tuesday 2 October 2012

Back At It Again

Well, we are now officially at the one week mark for Biggest Loser Ottawa 3!  I have now suffered through 4 workouts and I am still alive.  It has been a difficult week but I have to admit it hasn't been nearly as bad as the first week of the last Biggest Loser.

This past Saturday I had my dance class and I was a little afraid seeing as I had so much trouble during the first class.  I have a lot of work to do in order to get to the level that the other women are at, but I am just so excited that I at least made it through the WHOLE class this time!  We get a great workout but I was able to keep up with the choreography and cannot wait to learn more.  It feels amazing to be doing something I love again.  I finally feel like I'm starting to really live my life again which gives me such inner peace.

Don't worry, that inner peace is disturbed again every Tuesday,Thusday and Sunday when I have Biggest Loser bootcamp!

We are doing a two-week liver detox so our diet is a little more restrictive than usual.  So far I am enjoying it!  The only thing I did not enjoy was choking back 2 cups of steamed broccoli on my first night of the plan.  I have never in my life managed to eat that much of any cooked vegetable. Just to clarify, I hate cooked vegetables!  This weekend I went over to my parents place where I was able to cook up the recipes for one of the other meal options.  No more broccoli for me now, just yummy soup and squash.

This weekend I also went out shopping.  I had to get a new outfit for my nephew's Christening which was on Sunday (my husband and I are his proud Godparents)!  I was so excited to buy 1X for my top and to wear a pair of size 20 pants!  So yes, this means I have gone down another pant size.  While I was at my parents' place I also went shopping...through my old clothes!  It was like winning the jackpot because I came home with about a dozen "new" old tops that I used to wear.  I even found some old pants that have hardly been worn.  Sure beats spending money to buy stuff that won't fit me in another 3 months!

Tonight was our first weigh-in after one week on our new meal plan.  I was really hoping for massive numbers like my first week during the last Biggest Loser.  Unfortunately that was a little bit unfair to myself to expect that.  I've already been doing this for months which is the opposite of the last time where I had been doing nothing for years.  I'm very plased wih my results because I lost 5.4 lbs in one week!  That is a whole 2% of my starting weight from this new session.  I am still waitng for the results to be posted so that I can see where I stand next to the others.  Adrian has decided that he will only be posting the top 10 out of the 20 of us so I just pray that I've lost enough to be near the top.  I have no idea how the others have done but as of right nowI am proud of my results.

So far this journey is turning out to be as awesome as the first and I cannot wait for it to get even better.  I can feel that my medication is already beginning to work together with the exercise to reduce my swelling and pain.  Because of tha I a leap years ahead of what I was during the last session.  My goal was to lose 40lbs this time around (I only managed 38.2 during the last one).  I've decided that my goal is now 45lbs, so let's see if I can either hit or surpass my goal,why don't we?!

Goodnight, sweet dreams and God bless!