Ok guys some of you may have read my random posts here and there and I think I need to start writing a journal along with a hand written one I keep at home. So here goes:

Current Excercise
50 Minutes of Boxing/Kickboxing 5 mornings per week.
This includes medicine ball work, bar work, skipping, heavy bag work, many variations of sit ups and push ups, sprint work.

Sat/Sun - jogging on the beach and long walks with my friends dog.

Diet
Pre-workout: (1 hour before) 1/6 of a low carb high protein bar (tastes AWFUL!) (I cant eat a whole bar - its too much for 6.00am and too many cals)

Post workout/brekfast: One egg on wholemeal bread, oats with NPB.

Snack: handful of almonds.

Lunch: Tuna Salad, Grilled Chicken Salad or Grilled salmon with salad.

Snack: Corn Thin & NPB

Dinner: roast chicken with salad and vegies or lean beef steak with vegies or tuna on corn thin(2) with avacado & hummos and fetta cheese.

Drinks: PLENTY of water, green tea or rooibos tea, Diet coke (i know this is bad, i am trying to cut it out slowly). Coffee occasionaly on weekends. I dont drink alcohol.

Guilty pleasure: 1 serving of low carb dark chocolate a few times per week (only 3.4 grams of carbs)

Cheat meals(1 per week): dinner at friends house, usually still healthy but higher in carbs than usual.

1 Mulitvitamin per day.

Stats
26 y/o Female
163cms (5ft4)

Starting weight 22 January 2008: 98 Kilos

Weight 22 February 2008: 88 Kilos (WOOHOO!)

OK so I only weigh myself once per month as girls can get funny with the scales but am thinking maybe i should do it every week to see how my weight fluctuates with tweaks?.....

I just bought that widely recomended lifting book for women from Amazon: The Rules of Lifting: Lift like a man, look like a goddess.... and am eagerly waiting on it to arrive so I can get stuck into lifting. I am thinking I should be lifting 3 x week and maybe throw some HIIT in about 3 x week too.... Not sure how that will work with my boxing though as I LOVE IT... but really want to be MORE effective..... maybe I should replace a few of my boxing classess with Weights Session/ HIIT?.... as I know I shouldnt train 7 days per week...


Start:98 Kilos: 22 January 2008
Now: 88 Kilos: 22 February 2008
Goal: 60 Kilos by 1 August 2008

GO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um also - now sure why my smiley in the forum is an unhappy one?? I changed it to mega happy cuz I am!... not sure how to fix......?

congratulations on the weight loss


good luck with the journal and welcome

Congrats so far, keep going kat

If you continue to work on your courage, you will find that difficult situations will be easier to handle. They might not be any less painful, but you will be more able to overcome the hurdles with courage.

The power is within you, and it will always be there. Recognize it. Bring it out, and use it to your goal advantage.

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Learn to master yourself, and you master the task at hand.

If you win the majority of battles within your head, you will win more than you lose, and your goal will reveal itself in all its finest glory.

I am glad to see you started a journal. Be proud of yourself. You have in you to do anything you wish. You have the strength, the charactor, and persistence to see this through.


I wish you the best in life and within fitness,


Chillen

Keep up the hard work. The workout looks good, and the diet seems on point. Are you tracking your daily calorie intake and BMR?

Hi again all!

Thank you all for your very encouraging replies!!

Chillen: your post was beautiful and great for me to see first thing in the morning. Your right, I beleive it is all in the mind, our bodies are amazing instruments, we just have to get up off our buts and use them!!

Jokerswild: I signed up with Fitday yesterday and need to go back to the stickies to properly work out my BMR as well as my maintenance calories/deficet calorie intake. I will post updates on that as soon as I can.

Cant wait to hit the gym tonight (couldnt go boxing this morning as had to come to work early this morning for a meeting)... I will do full body workout using freeweights (I will try and remember what I used to do about 3 years ago as my book hasnt arrived yet) and then will do HIIT on the stepper (I used to LOVE the stepper, its a killer! Love it!)

Have an AWSOME DAY all!

i think this will fix the wsad face thingy!

oh well.... looks liek you will just have to be sad.

SWEAT ANYWAY!!!

sheeeesh! I feel rambunxious!! dont mind me.

glad you are here, you seem serious, and if your not have fun! and if you are have fun!

just don't let that lil face make you sad.



Sweat Daily!
FF

Flyinfree: YEAH MAN I am really serious but am also having fun!!........

Actually I think the training is changing more than just my looks and health, its changing my attitude!.... I am more determined and motiavated in other areas of my life too!

And its weird but I LOVE TO SWEAT - if i dont walk away from training with my clothes being drenched right through I know I havent given it 100%. Nothing better than to have sweat pouring off you... sounds gross!

You are very, very welcome, young lady.

Just remember you always have something special inside to draw from to make things work.


Best wishes in all that you set out to do,


Chillen

Hahah - I feel the same way too - love that word - RAMBUNXIOUS!!!

You can train as many days per week as you want. Enjoy your boxing and hit the weights if you want. I cant wait to see your progress with the NROL.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Tony.. I am busting to get NROL!!.... I used to enjoy lifting a few years back and cant wait to get stronger!

woooahhhhh muma - just calculated my BMR which is HUGE!.... i should be eating 3064.64 (according to formula on sticky note in this forum) to maintain so about 2564.64 (say 2500) to lose?.... sounds like way too many cals to me... went to a bodgy online calculator which said my BMR is 3292.56....

We will see how Fitday entries look compared with 2500....