since completing the body blitz
paula lost another 3.6kg & 14cm
total weight loss 17.2kg & 65cm
18% body weight loss
6 week POST BODY BLITZ
So it has been around 6 weeks since I completed the Body Blitz challenge that I won at Christmas time, and I am still loving going to the gym and exercising!!!
I have managed to get the time three times a week most weeks and am still going to spin classes on a Thursday, and I am willingly I cannot believe this doing tabata on my own at the gym!! I tried just running on the treadmill but I got bored!!! Running really is my happy place now.
I have also completed a duathlon in 1hour 14 minutes something that I would never have contemplated prior to this! My entire lifestyle has changed, I try and run or go to the gym whenever I can and miss it when I can't!
I have had lots of people ask me what happens to your eating when you finish the programme - however you don’t finish the programme you just carry on your journey and engrain it more into your everyday life.
But yes not having to write everything down does let a few naughty treats slip into your mouth, and yes I have had takeaways and wines and I tried chips again but to my immense surprise I didn't like them WHAT THE!!! The only thing I haven't tried again is chocolate! So I think the key for me is to remember that its life, you are going to go out, going to have treats and good days and bad days, hungry days and not so hungry days but the big thing for me is to have that one day and then get back on track not to let it become the norm again and undo all this hard work I have done!
I have still been losing weight afterwards too and am so stoked with this (I can't even begin to tell you how much), that was another of my big fears, that when I didn't have Carolyn watching me would I push myself would I try hard and would I still carry on? But you know what it has become such a part of me I try that little bit harder and have even on one occasion pushed myself so hard I was sick after my run!! But the emotion I felt at beating my own personal goal was huge, and that’s the key for me setting myself my own goals and working towards them.
I am my own worst critic and have had some really bad days of self-doubt and self-loathing, and some days I have lost sight of what I have achieved, and still when I buy clothes gravitate towards the big clothes I used to buy and still think of myself as the fat friend ( I know it’s not true but changing these thoughts will take a while) - but having Carolyn and Lizelle there every step of the way is amazing, you can ask them anything and they always have practical workable ideas, and can perk you up no end!!
I would really really encourage anyone at all who is thinking about starting the programme to do it!! Look if someone like me can do it we all can and I not going to lie its hard work and sometimes very frustrating the rewards are immense, and please if talking to someone who has done it would help please just ask.
So it has been around 6 weeks since I completed the Body Blitz challenge that I won at Christmas time, and I am still loving going to the gym and exercising!!!
I have managed to get the time three times a week most weeks and am still going to spin classes on a Thursday, and I am willingly I cannot believe this doing tabata on my own at the gym!! I tried just running on the treadmill but I got bored!!! Running really is my happy place now.
I have also completed a duathlon in 1hour 14 minutes something that I would never have contemplated prior to this! My entire lifestyle has changed, I try and run or go to the gym whenever I can and miss it when I can't!
I have had lots of people ask me what happens to your eating when you finish the programme - however you don’t finish the programme you just carry on your journey and engrain it more into your everyday life.
But yes not having to write everything down does let a few naughty treats slip into your mouth, and yes I have had takeaways and wines and I tried chips again but to my immense surprise I didn't like them WHAT THE!!! The only thing I haven't tried again is chocolate! So I think the key for me is to remember that its life, you are going to go out, going to have treats and good days and bad days, hungry days and not so hungry days but the big thing for me is to have that one day and then get back on track not to let it become the norm again and undo all this hard work I have done!
I have still been losing weight afterwards too and am so stoked with this (I can't even begin to tell you how much), that was another of my big fears, that when I didn't have Carolyn watching me would I push myself would I try hard and would I still carry on? But you know what it has become such a part of me I try that little bit harder and have even on one occasion pushed myself so hard I was sick after my run!! But the emotion I felt at beating my own personal goal was huge, and that’s the key for me setting myself my own goals and working towards them.
I am my own worst critic and have had some really bad days of self-doubt and self-loathing, and some days I have lost sight of what I have achieved, and still when I buy clothes gravitate towards the big clothes I used to buy and still think of myself as the fat friend ( I know it’s not true but changing these thoughts will take a while) - but having Carolyn and Lizelle there every step of the way is amazing, you can ask them anything and they always have practical workable ideas, and can perk you up no end!!
I would really really encourage anyone at all who is thinking about starting the programme to do it!! Look if someone like me can do it we all can and I not going to lie its hard work and sometimes very frustrating the rewards are immense, and please if talking to someone who has done it would help please just ask.
paula barron
lost 13.6kg & 51cm
14% body weight loss
WEEK 12
So final weigh in day arrived and I really couldn't believe that it was here.
At my final work out I was quite emotional knowing that it was the last time before that weigh in, I was worked and worked really hard. This was when it really hit me, this was it, D day was just around the corner all this work over the past 12 weeks, had it been worth it? Had I done enough? All these questions keep running thru my mind.
So finally it was here and I could go to the gym to be weighed, the number of times that I went to the toilet that morning was unreal! I was so nervous!
So on the scales I stood the right way round this time normally I have to face the wall, but Carolyn the meanie still had it covered it seemed like forever and then it was revealed, I could not believe the number on the scale it was unreal then it hit me wow I really really did this!
I was so excited. 13.6 kgs shed and 51 cms oh my how proud was I couldn’t stop beaming!!!!
I rang my husband he was suitably excited for me and I text my two friends I was just so excited and wanted to share it!!!
Then it was time for the photos and this time I was loving it, not like at the beginning first day photos I wanted them over as fast as I could and I cringe every time I see them now ewwww!!!!!
I felt amazing and it was so much fun posing and doing the photos with Lizelle it was really awesome experience I was beaming from ear to ear on such a high but feeling really really emotional tears really weren't far away!
It was as I was putting on the same dress I wore to a family wedding the Saturday before I started at Go Girl Physique, that it really hit me I had to bite back a few tears and deep breaths were taken, this dress 12 weeks ago was so tight on me it sat way shorter and just didn't feel right, but today it was massive it really was like a tent on me and the room around my arms wow I just can't explain that feeling!!! I also put on the same shoes I wore that day to a my immense surprise buckling them up was so much easier than 12 weeks ago again the realization hit look at what I had achieved even my feet were smaller LOL
I can’t believe that this 12 weeks has finished it has just flown by but as I have said this is just the beginning and I can't wait to see what I can achieve next!
Just want to end by saying a massive thank you to Lizelle for believing in me and giving me this opportunity it has been so amazing I am so very grateful. And finally the biggest thanks has to go to Carolyn how on earth you ever put up with me and my moaning and my I can't do this I will never know your support has been immeasurable!!! I guess you will still hear my moaning but you can smile now because you know now I will moan but I will still do it!!
Thanks again to everyone your support and kind words of encouragement have meant so much!
So final weigh in day arrived and I really couldn't believe that it was here.
At my final work out I was quite emotional knowing that it was the last time before that weigh in, I was worked and worked really hard. This was when it really hit me, this was it, D day was just around the corner all this work over the past 12 weeks, had it been worth it? Had I done enough? All these questions keep running thru my mind.
So finally it was here and I could go to the gym to be weighed, the number of times that I went to the toilet that morning was unreal! I was so nervous!
So on the scales I stood the right way round this time normally I have to face the wall, but Carolyn the meanie still had it covered it seemed like forever and then it was revealed, I could not believe the number on the scale it was unreal then it hit me wow I really really did this!
I was so excited. 13.6 kgs shed and 51 cms oh my how proud was I couldn’t stop beaming!!!!
I rang my husband he was suitably excited for me and I text my two friends I was just so excited and wanted to share it!!!
Then it was time for the photos and this time I was loving it, not like at the beginning first day photos I wanted them over as fast as I could and I cringe every time I see them now ewwww!!!!!
I felt amazing and it was so much fun posing and doing the photos with Lizelle it was really awesome experience I was beaming from ear to ear on such a high but feeling really really emotional tears really weren't far away!
It was as I was putting on the same dress I wore to a family wedding the Saturday before I started at Go Girl Physique, that it really hit me I had to bite back a few tears and deep breaths were taken, this dress 12 weeks ago was so tight on me it sat way shorter and just didn't feel right, but today it was massive it really was like a tent on me and the room around my arms wow I just can't explain that feeling!!! I also put on the same shoes I wore that day to a my immense surprise buckling them up was so much easier than 12 weeks ago again the realization hit look at what I had achieved even my feet were smaller LOL
I can’t believe that this 12 weeks has finished it has just flown by but as I have said this is just the beginning and I can't wait to see what I can achieve next!
Just want to end by saying a massive thank you to Lizelle for believing in me and giving me this opportunity it has been so amazing I am so very grateful. And finally the biggest thanks has to go to Carolyn how on earth you ever put up with me and my moaning and my I can't do this I will never know your support has been immeasurable!!! I guess you will still hear my moaning but you can smile now because you know now I will moan but I will still do it!!
Thanks again to everyone your support and kind words of encouragement have meant so much!
