Wow!
How time and life passes us by so quickly!
My journey of health has not been what I would have hoped for myself the past 12 months. I have been on a slowly declining slope back into old habits and weight gain. My weight post Christmas was 66.6kg. Definitely not the best version of me that I could be.
Another year, another go at starting afresh.
There will be no way out resolutions coming from me. My goal for this year is to start leading a healthier life- consider what I am fuelling my body with and how I am keeping that body healthy in terms of movement.
I need to be a better example for my children. I need to be a better example for myself and of myself.
I know that my body can be a much better version than it currently is.
Another goal for me is to also nurture better my emotional and spiritual side. I have a lot of conflict and craziness going through my head a lot of the time! I need to slow down and smell the roses. I need to be the best Mum I can be for my 3 precious peas.
watch this space...

Round 4!!

I'm at it again! Signed up for Round 4 12WBT but this time I have completed all of the pre-season tasks and am off to somewhat of a flier in terms of nutrition! Still a little more work required to organise and prioritise the exercise!
I have crept back up to 65.9kg- near where I was when I first commenced this journey over 12 months ago. I feel down about that but also positive as I know that I can do it!
Watch this space!

Well I have started all over again. I reached a post- weight loss high of 64.2kg and decided it was time to put my health back on the agenda! How crazy to have let my mission to be the best version of me slip!!!
I am eating squeaky clean and have managed to train twice in 2 days!
On a side note I have taken a plunge and bought myself a thermomix! It will take a big flex of the willpower muscle to keep my healthy eating on track!!

Round 3 for me!

I have done it and signed on again for the 12wbt! I am meant to be 2 weeks in but the kick up the pants I was looking for hasn't been harsh enough! To recap- I managed to lose my original goal weight  (Almost!) and get myself down to a really healthy 56kg. I have now let myself go and have slowly found myself creep back up to 63kg- my skinny clothes are getting that all familiar too tight feeling and I am getting down on myself for not being able to get back on that treadmill of a healthier life! My inner labrador thinks she knows better than Michelle obviously and keeps demanding to be fed. Enough is enough I say! Who am I cheating anyway? Definately myself for 1 and also my 3 precious peas whom I so desperately wanted to be so healthy for those 12 months ago when I started on this journey. Has that changed? Definately not! So here I am recommitting myself and giving myself that much needed kick up the proverbial that I need. I need to want to do this. No one else can want it for me. So off I go to get into my gym gear and walk to school to pick up my beautiful first baby!

Cmon get back on that wagon!

58.9kg!! It is creeping up, I feel out of control, I haven't done 1 of my set training programs!!! I am eating crap and falling back into old bad habits!!
Time to pull myself together! Looking forward to Kitchen Clean out task tomorrow!
Reset now girl!

Start of Half Marathon training!!

I've succumbed and asked my fitness freak sports scientist husband to write me a training program to run the half marathon at the City to Surf in August. My first 3.5km run completed! Not only completed but whilst pushing the 2 littlest peas in the Phil and Ted's and trying to keep the biggest pea safe on his bike!
Amazing how much easier it is to run at 58kg than it was at 69kg!
Eating is still off track- I seem to be on a never ending binge at the moment!
I have completed Pre-season task 2 today- getting real.
My excuses are the same as last round- mostly internal excuses as well as the usual- I'm too busy, I'm too tired. Some of the new ones are things like- I know what to do now so cheating doesn't matter, it was easy for me last time so it doesn't matter if I slip up!- NOT!!!! It was not easy to lose those 12.8kg!!!! On what planet am I living, I think I need to get started early during preseason, tighten up my nutrition and remember this is about new habits and lifestyle. I want to be the best version of myself that I can be, the only person I am cheating is me!

2nd round 12WBT Here we go!!!

After surprising myself with my results in my 1st round of 12WBT I, a sucker for punishment, has signed up for my 2nd round. Pre-season task 1 done!
Although my goal in terms of weight loss is not as much as last round, those last few kilos are going to be hardest to lose- I am under no false sense of security when it comes to that. 
More importantly, I need to further ingrain the 12WBT habits into my lifestyle, with my major focus being the exercise. I pretty much nailed my nutrition last time, with the occasional slip ups, but the exercise needs a lot of improvement.
Today I have taken ownership of my brand new Polar FT4 PINK HRM- if that doesn't help motivate me.....