tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86131124607084900172024-02-20T02:07:09.436-08:00Baggy to Buff - Biosignature StyleMy Fat to Fantastic TransformationSarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-89277204771342171942011-07-09T20:02:00.001-07:002012-03-13T02:01:41.742-07:00Fat to Fantastic - Oxygen Covergirl here I come!Well this will probably be the final post in my biosignature blog, its been a fascinating journey for me, not just to see the changes that I've made physically, but mentally and emotionally it has taught me a whole lot too. One particular aspect of my transformation that was completely unexpected and in some cases quite distressing was how other people have reacted to my physical change - I'm talking about people who've known me for a long time and even my family - it definitely hasn't all been positive, but it has taught me who is really there for me and who I can truly count on. It has taught me that I really am a very strong person and when I set my mind to achieving something I can do amazing things, it has taught me to only listen to those who know what they're talking about and to filter out noise from those who cannot deal with the mirror that I've held up to their own insecurities.<br />
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Most of all it has taught me that if you really want to achieve something, stay true to yourself and your vision and your goals, trust me, its worth it! :-)<br />
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so where to from here? Well I've got an amazing holiday to Ecuador lined up in Feb 2012 - I'll be ice climbing on some volcanoes! but before that, I've made the decision to go all the way and compete in a figure competition - the Victorian titles in September! <br />
Oh my god - now I know I'm completely mad - stepping on stage in a sparkly bikini and stripper heels! This is soooo far out of my comfort zone it might as well be on another planet! <br />
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the way I look at it, is why not? I've come so far physically that a whole new world has opened up for me - even 2 months ago I wouldn't even have contemplated it - I was just aiming to do a photoshoot on my birthday to reward myself for all the good work I've put in. Now the door has opened to other opportunities, I'm going to explore everything that comes my way - its so exciting imagining what could happen from here!<br />
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lets just do a quick comparison of where I have come from to where I am now:<br />
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After - June 18 2011 - Even I'm amazed - hard to believe its the same person!!!<br />
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And here's my <a href="http://www.movafoto.com">photoshoot pics</a> ...I'll be entering the Oxygen Magazine Covergirl competition for sure! :-)<br />
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What a transformation! <br />
If I can do it, anyone can - you just have to get started...<br />
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Wishing you all the best on your weight loss journeys!Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-30034611518764297012011-05-26T02:58:00.001-07:002012-03-13T02:06:59.719-07:00Diamonds are a girls best friend...When I started this whole journey with Biosignature, I had no idea what to expect, I guess it all sounded too good to be true - after all you can't spot reduce fat according to conventional medical wisdom, so if you've got a spare tyre that wont budge no matter how much weight you lose or saddle bags or those wobbly bat wings that us non teenagers are prone to...well sorry love just deal with it!<br />
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Well let me tell you it can be done and I'm walking proof - from 40, fat and frumpy to absolutely fabulous AND I HAVE ABS!! for the 1st time in my life...EVER! <br />
I've been skinnier (according to the bathroom scales) than I am now - but I didn't have abs back then, I still had that annoying spare tyre.<br />
I have biosignature to thank for getting rid of the spare tyre and the bat wings and the saddle bags - brilliant!<br />
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I'll be honest, its been hard work and at times the eating restrictions have been frustrating and there's lots of supplements, but that is exactly what it is that causes it to work, it is a systematic process targeting one issue at a time. <br />
You'll probably have to really change your whole relationship and beliefs about food, and it'll feel very strange to start with, and yes exercise is also a very important element, but once you've got to grips with the clean eating lifestyle you'll never want to go back. <br />
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Trust me on this - you'll feel so much healthier, you'll just feel leaner and lighter and have a ton more energy than you ever imagined was possible, you'll look younger brighter and just a whole lot more alive.<br />
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so whats that got to do with diamonds? <br />
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Over on page 1 in my intro, I compared myself to a diamond that had been shaped and was just awaiting its final polish to bring out its true brilliance. As you know I have a photo shoot in 4 weeks time so I've been busting my (now) cute little bubble butt in the gym 6 days a week. However, last week I was in a total stress that I wasn't going to lean down in time to have enough definition to come through in the photos - I was even pushing my trainer to push me harder!<br />
But yesterday that all changed. Now, I'm ready. <br />
How do I know? <br />
well I was just ex-foliating for my trial run fake tan (!I know, what a princess!) and I just happened to glance in the mirror...<br />
and all of a sudden, there it was - right in the middle of my back...<br />
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a perfect diamond of muscle. <br />
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I've done it.<br />
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Baggy to Buff<br />
Fat to Fabulous<br />
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see, its never too late - you just have to get started.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzz6_dqQ3tsb4kU82vxGw-0QhMK6upLdK2TFWutfEDfBzsqmuaHEgTfP7KDvTGeU6ZonKfS88srJDWfv51q2aupf9jnk2w8Vw2NJg02v9F-d0Fqk400FRisk1zZSnYAcWr4PSObQhK9z49/s1600/rogiani+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="200" width="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzz6_dqQ3tsb4kU82vxGw-0QhMK6upLdK2TFWutfEDfBzsqmuaHEgTfP7KDvTGeU6ZonKfS88srJDWfv51q2aupf9jnk2w8Vw2NJg02v9F-d0Fqk400FRisk1zZSnYAcWr4PSObQhK9z49/s200/rogiani+2.jpg" /></a></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-70002647512552904092011-05-05T03:59:00.001-07:002012-03-13T02:13:37.593-07:00Assessment 11 - Tue 3rd May 2011: Totally Shredded!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Well its been a fantastic few weeks since my last assessment and I'm totally amazed at the results I've got this time round - I didn't think it was possible! we'll get to that in a sec.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">so what else is new? Well at the last minute I decided to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">pop up to Sydney for the Australian Fitness Expo on 17th April - I had several aims in mind, 1stly to meet the Jamie Eason one of the top fitness models for Oxygen Magazine - she's gorgeous! I also wanted to chat to the Oxygen models to get some tips for a photo shoot - yes I'm going to reward myself with a professional photo shoot for all my good work :-)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I also wanted to find out about what is involved with competing as a figure model, whether I've got the right type of physique and proportions - I've now had 8 personal trainers ask me what competition I'm working towards, so I must be doing something right, and finally I wanted to talk to Michelle and Shannon from The Biggest Loser and get their advice on how to deal with negative reactions from unexpected sources.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The whole trip panned out better than I could have imagined! It was excellent. On the plane up to Sydney on sat night, the guy who sat next to me was HUGE obviously a VERY serious body builder - so I got chatting to him, which is not normally something I do on a plane - usually I just bury my head in a book, but I figured I could probably get some tips re figure modelling - any way this guy only turns out to be the current victorian bodybuilding champ and runner up in Mr Australia last year! so I hung out with him, we went and got sushi and then I caught up with him for brekky the next day - very cool.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Next stop, Australian Institute of Fitness stand - Michelle Bridges - she's not there! bugger.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">back to AIF stand again - yay! finally Michelle is there, she's signing her book and there's a massive queue. I really want to find out what she tells her contestants about handling not just the physical change they go through but the mental and emotional aspects of their transformation - because getting the contestants head in the right space is what they have to get right so they can survive on the outside.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">So I join the queue and when I get to the front, I showed Michelle my fat photos and photo of me at the top of Kilimanjaro. She was very encouraging and then horror of horrors - I started asking her about negative people and I burst into tears!!! oh shit!! how embarrassing! Michelle bless her, took it in her stride and told me to surround myself with positive influences - cool.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Time to go - very quickly!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">So now I had about 1 1/2 hours before Michelle was doing a talk so I went round all the outfit stands and tried on stuff, but nothing really grabbed me. Time for a cup of tea and sit down at the stage where Michelle was doing her talk. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I grabbed a seat and got chatting to some people in the audience when all of a sudden to everyones amazement, there was Michelle Bridges squeezing along my row and she came to stand in front of me and said 'I felt that I just had to give you a hug' - well I was completely blown away and gave her a big hug - wow! what a very sweet thing for her to do - I could feel the envy emanating from everybody in the audience! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">you could have knocked me down with a feather....again :-)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">After that I was all a bit emotionally worn out so I headed off to the airport early so I could relax and process the whole day - and what a lot to process!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I had training the next day and I must have still been on a high - Aiden asked what I'd been up to because I was glowing!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">very very cool.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">ok so after all the positive feedback I got from Sydney, training has been a piece of cake - I can't wait to get to the gym every day. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Trouble is training is about the only thing that seems to be going well at the moment - I so totally hate my job its such a depressing place to be and I'm so bored I've not been doing so well on my diet - I've been emotionally eating - ok so I haven't been eating cakes and bread or stuff like that, but I'll just have a few almonds or a few grapes or I'll just have an apple or another cup of tea - anything to distract myself from my job.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Easter was also a bit of a blow out - I actually bought a loaf of bread and 2 packets of biscuits!!! I can't even remember the last time I bought a loaf of bread! and there was the chocolate bunny that my trainer gave me - Aiden are you trying to make me fat??!!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">So I my goal all along has been to get to 12.5% body fat and given the last few weeks of not such good eating I wasn't terribly confident that I would have made much progress since my last assessment - especially since for some reason the last few days my stomach has been puffed up like a football. I'm not sure if its the new oestrogen supplements I'm on combined with the training supplements Aiden has got me on, but something is not quite right. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Kat also wasn't impressed when she went through my food diary - waay too much fruit and apparently I'm the most all over the place client she's got!! and I thought I was actually very good...oh well. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">so to the measurements - fat pinches in the usual spots and....did I get to 12.5%??</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Kat asked me what I was hoping the result would be, so I said 12.5%. Then she told me that I didn't make 12.5%... (bugger. I was so disappointed) - I made 11% instead !!!! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><b>11%!!!</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">WOW!! thats 2.5% body fat lost in 5 weeks - thats absolutely amazing - I thought it was supposed to get harder as you get leaner! and I've still got 6 weeks before my photo shoot - I could get down to 10% or even 9% which is not far off competition levels - check out my back - I'm completely ripped up!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Next assessment is in 3 weeks - who knows what that could turn up as I'm about to double my training load - at the moment I'm only doing about 35 - 45mins weights/day 6 days a week, not much considering the results i've just got so if I up it to about 90mins /day I hoping that will really bring out the finishing touches - remember the picture of the polished diamond on the previous page? </span></span></span><br />
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</span></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-81339469832815129062011-04-19T03:33:00.000-07:002011-04-19T03:34:11.668-07:00beer wenches, baggy trousers and a brilliant back!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it seems like ages since I last wrote anything and it also seems like lots has been happening!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">where to start? lets go to Adelaide 1st - the rugby 7's was a great fun weekend, a group of 8 of us went and the 6 girls were all dressed as german beer wenches! the idea was to try and win the best dressed group prize of $1000 - we lost out to a chess set, but what a laugh the whole weekend was - everyone wanted their photo taken with the beer wenches :-)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so that was about 3 weeks ago, then the following weekend I was having another (!!!) wardrobe clear out of stuff that doesn't fit and I came across a pair of work pants that I bought only 9 months ago, probably about July last year. So I was well into my mountain training and had probably lost about 14kg at that point - out of curiosity I tried them on....</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's been plenty happening physically as well, i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">n total, since Sept 2009 I have now lost 23 kg and weigh in at 53.6kg - I'm really looking forward to my next assessment in 2 weeks, as I'm hoping to crack the 12.5% body fat - that is my ultimate goal. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why 12.5%? I don't know, it just seemed like a good number to get to! :-)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At my last assessment the readings indicated that we really need to focus on the oestrogen issue which has been holding back fat loss on my triceps, hamstrings and to an extent my calves, trouble is my supplements haven't come through so I don't know if I'll get the result I want.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having said that, what I will be able to get is a really clear idea of how much progress I've made purely from training. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You see, back last year it took me 5 months to get from 14.8% body fat to 13.6% and 57.7kg to 54.2kg just before Christmas. Then Christmas caused havoc, I piled on 3kg and 2%BF virtually overnight!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once I started training with Aiden and working smarter rather than harder (although what he puts me through is definitely not a walk in the park!) we achieved a better result - 15.5% BF to 13.5%BF in just 8 weeks - I'm so stoked about the progress I've made. Every week something changes, some new muscles emerge or a extra level of definition comes through, its really exciting to see where this could end up. </span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm certainly putting in the hard yards - training 6 days a week with weights (hard and heavy), 1 session which is with my trainer (Ouch! usually takes 2 days for the pain to go away!) and I try and throw in a pilates or yoga session and maybe a run once a week as well.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That might sound like a lot of training, but Aiden has made it so easy and so much fun (having to be picked up off the floor cos my legs don't work...fun??? suck it up princess!!) that even getting up at 5:30 in the morning to get to the gym has become a no brainer! </span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-59244002722976042712011-03-22T02:09:00.000-07:002011-03-23T22:47:42.756-07:00Assessment 10 - Tue 22nd March 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Woohoo!!! Finally back to where I was before Christmas!! I can't believe its taken nearly 3 MONTHS to shift that bizarre fat gain from going home to England for 10 days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3 MONTHS of busting my butt in the gym...or having it being busted for me (thanks Aiden!) and being (mostly) very strict with my diet</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I'm now sitting at a very tidy 54.2kg and 13.5% body fat - I lost the 1% I said I wanted to lose 4 weeks ago. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm getting some really great definition through my back and abs (ABS!!! ) but I definitely don't look scrawny or brawny which is really cool and best of all its finally shifting from my hammies - 28mm down to 22mm - bring on Adelaide - my legs are going to look fantastic in the white stockings that go with my bavarian beer wench outfit for the rugby 7's trip :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">next stop - cover girl for oxygen magazine!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well, why the hell not? I need a big goal to keep me motivated and my next mountain climb is at least 2 years away....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm going to have a beer</span><br />
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</div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-23738956490853418592011-02-16T01:28:00.000-08:002011-02-16T01:28:40.503-08:00Assessment 9 - Tue 15th Feb 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Good result - have lost 1.1% BF so back down to 14.5% and best of all its come off my stomach, very happy with that and also very handy as I'm going to be pouring myself into a very tight (even for me!) frock tomorrow for the Weary Dunlop lunch - breathing may be optional tomorrow! <br />
I haven't lost any weight on the scales so it looks like I'm building up lean muscle which is pretty cool, I'm getting my definition back and not really surprising after the 'smashing' Aiden gave me last week!<br />
Smashing is a technical term, Aiden my new personal trainer likes using it to describe just how hard he's going to make me work and boy did he! Oh my god, we did legs last week and 2 days later I couldn't walk...wonder if 3 sets of squatting with 40kg on the bar would have anything to do with it? hmm...<br />
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So far I've only had 2 sessions with Aiden, and I'm really enjoying it - its good to be pushed. Thats the trouble I find when I don't have particular goal to work towards, its so easy to slip into 'lazy' training doing the sane routine day in day out - well Aiden is the man to shake things up a bit.<br />
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Ok so 4 weeks before my next assessment, would be really cool if I can lose another 1% BF. I'm really focusing on getting some results on my legs as this is the one area that hasn't been responding very well to the diet, so will keep it really clean for the next few weeks.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">its a fish curry that has battered deep fried chunks of fish in a wonderfully tangy yoghurt sauce - yum! could have eaten vats of it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">am posting it onto my recipe page - I modified it a bit from the actual book as I didn't have ingredients like chickpea flour and catfish - its supposed to be made with catfish but I substituted a nice basso fillet instead.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">am making it again this week! yum!</span></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-76302870671236261532011-01-29T19:19:00.000-08:002011-03-23T22:44:46.712-07:00Flying makes you fat....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well who knew?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ok whatever leads me to this bizarre statement? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Christmas? No instead of catching up with family I went on my own little holiday for 3 days up to Hamilton Island - that also meant I could totally stick to my eating plan - sure I had a few beers with a few people but nothing like I would have done had I been with family - so by the time I flew out to England on 27th I was still looking fab in my slinky white figure hugging Karen Millen lace tunic dress.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So in England, I stuck as much as possible to the eating plan - a couple of days I had organic natural yoghurt with blueberries and boiled eggs for brekky instead of chicken, and I think I ate potatoes twice and rice twice - my mother always like to stock up on gluten free stuff for me - cakes, biscuits, bread, cheese crackers that sort of thing, but I'd told her not to get anything so there was no issues there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">New Year was a big night but then isn't it always? My parents thought I was a bit odd eating chicken for brekky and not eating potatoes but they're fairly traditional like that :-)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I got a temporary gym membership to the local gym and did a couple of 5 km runs - so I didn't entirely stop exercising, even though I decided I'd give my body a rest.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So on the whole not much changed over Christmas and New Year except my location....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So why did I feel completely bloated? By the time I got back to Australia, the slinky Karen Millen had a definate pot belly and my beautiful size 6 jeans that I'd needed a belt on before I went to England were now exhibiting evidence of a muffin top!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Imagine my horror when I had my Bio Sig assessment on Jan 17 to find I'd piled on 3kg and 2% body fat!! And that was after 2 weeks being really strict with my eating, back in the gym and not having the horrible bloated feeling anymore</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How is it possible that just 10 days in England has obliterated 5 months of blood, sweat and tears - and I do mean blood, sweat and tears - I'm completely devastated, not to mention very demoralized by the whole thing - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and whats worse is that even another 2 weeks later after going to the gym every day and sticking entirely to my eating plan I still haven't lost the fat - unbelievable! after all the effort I've gone to its incredibly demotivating, I'm almost at the point of wondering why I bothered. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It also doesn't help that my shoulders are so messed up that I can't train my upper body properly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in a pretty bad space right now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so what was it?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Flying! I think most people notice that when they fly their feet and ankles swell up - me too, and my calves and I have been noticing for the last few years that my abdomen also swells - quite uncomfortable really. So after flying up and back to Hamilton Island (6 hours) followed by 48 hours of flying for just 6 days on the ground messes up the body a treat so it goes into survival mode and stores as much fat as it can...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so what am I going to do about it? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well I've always been very good at motivating myself and having always exercised my whole life I know a fair bit about getting and staying fit, and when I have something to aim for like climbing a mountain I get so focussed that I push myself to do whatever it takes - training 2,3 even 5 hours a day, but right now I have no major goal and I'm feeling a bit lost as to how to get back to where I was just 5 weeks ago, how to get back the beautiful definition and shape I had...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so for the 1st time in my life I've hired myself a personal trainer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I met Aiden on Friday, he works at Fitness 1st in Richmond and comes highly recommended by a friend of mine who owns her own sports company.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We sat down and chatted about what I've been doing up till now, where I want to get to, long term goals etc, and then he checked out my technique (very good), my posture (excellent) - then he got me to a selection of upper body exercises so he could get a gauge on the extent of the shoulder issue, he asked lots of questions, made suggestions and just observed - he came across as very calm, competent and knowledgeable - I'm really looking forward to working with him, this could be very good...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, Aiden is going to put together a program for me do to every day and I'll catch up with him for a 1 on 1, once a week starting next Tuesday - can't wait! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who knows I might just be entering comps soon...</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well the Weary lunch was excellent and despite Melbournes weather doing its best to ruin things, I have to say I that I did look really good - the snow white form fitting Karen Millen was awesome - and very attention grabbing :-) Even got compliments from some of the rugby players themselves saying how fit I looked and what was my routine!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How cool is that - being asked by elite sports people what I was doing to be so fit...can't wait for the next lunch in Feb...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Amer, the guy who is fixing my shoulders even suggested I should try entering a body sculpting competition...interesting, not sure about that though - I'd have to be even more strict about my diet and exercise to lose another 5% body fat and its fairly dull as it is! Besides not only would I disappear, I don't like the body builder look - and fake tan orange is just sooo not my colour.. :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I also haven't been going so well on the exercise bit recently, having only managed 2 weight sessions and 1 cardio session a week for the last 3 weeks - not really sure why, a couple of times I've been out on a night and not felt like training the next day, 1 day my gym didn't even open (!) but I'm waking up really tired.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sleep isn't the problem anymore - in fact, I can't get enough of it! but the last week or so I've been really lethargic and not recovering after a training session, which is a bit odd. I never normally have that issue - even when doing the ridiculous amount of training for Kilimanjaro I wasn't getting as tired as I am now.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It could be a combination of things, but Kat says its probably my body is still on adrenaline overload from pre climb - think it would be a really good idea to do absolutely nothing over Christmas...except eat of course! :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">just as well I'm taking myself off for a relaxing mini break on christmas eve to 27th, then watching the ahses on 27th dec then will have 2 days enforced inactivity while flying home to England for New Year. That should give my weary body a nice little break. So just one more week of training to go - I can do that!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so whats my assessment telling me since last time 4 weeks ago - am doing extremely well! Body fat down to 13.6%!!! crikey thats 1.4% in 4 weeks and am weighing in at 54kg nearly another kg. Really good results - and to me thats surprising given how little I've been training. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My back is so lean now I'm getting really good definition, and my tummy has virtually no fat on it at all - unfortunately I don't have the 6 pack abs showing cos I've got a lot of loose skin, but we're working on that - come on Gotu Kola.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My legs are still not losing fat in the same proportion as the rest of me, which is odd - I'm eating spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts or cauliflower or all 4 every day and lots of the stuff too - apparently this shows I still have an oestrogen imbalance, so we're really going to work on that after Christmas. Good - lets have nice thin hammies and calves in 2011! :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The food bit is all good news - my brother is soo going to hate me when I tell him that not only do I get to eat meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, but I can now cook using BUTTER!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">yep thats right - got to eat fat to lose fat... so can also eat more avocados (about 4/5 a week - yum!!) and can start adding in CARBS...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">good carbs of course - brown or wild rice, sweet potato, pumpkin, quinoa or gluten free pancakes - PANCAKES!! haven't had pancakes for MONTHS - and my pancakes are always gluten free cos I'm coeliac, so no worries there</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oh did I mention the FULL FAT CREAM?? mmmm...strawberries and cream....</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">right I'm off to fry up some turkey breast in butter, lemon juice, garlic and thyme with spinach, peas, cauliflower and sweet potato, followed by blueberries and strawberries with cream and cinnamon - yum!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">:-)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Assessment - photos! back, shoulders and arms really looking good...and my butt! very happy about that :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Biggest area of improvement since the last assessment (at last!) is my calves - probably because the last 2 weeks or so I've been sleeping like a baby, and after 3 weeks of no fruit I can have berries again - woohoo! love my fruit</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Its very cool when you bump into someone you haven't seen for literally years and they compliment on how fantastic you're looking - even better have got the Weary Dunlop lunch next week at Crown - not many people can carry off a skin tight white dress - watch out boys! :-p</span>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-53998992514810835502010-10-28T02:42:00.000-07:002010-10-28T02:42:29.339-07:00Assessment 5 - Tue 26th Oct<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not such a good result this time, although my weight is down to 55.6kg a loss of about 1kg, my BF % has gone up by 0.5% so that puts me at 15.3% BF. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I guess its not too surprising really as I've been off the diet for 4 weeks whilst climbing Kili and then being sick and I've only been back in the gym for 2 weeks. I also haven't managed to get into a good sleeping routine like I thought I would - been stressing about getting a new job! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So now I've got a new job its time to focus properly on sticking to the correct diet and getting into a maintenance training routine - having got this lean I want to stay lean.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've got to cut out fruit, I've been eating too much, generally about 4 pieces a day and I need to go heavy on the dark green veggies mind you I'm not really sure how I can increase how much I eat, I'm pretty good with the greens and have a big green salad for lunch most days as well as a combination of broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts for tea. Trying to think what I could have to snack on thats green. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The maintenance training routine is going to focus on doing weights and I need to do 3 days on 2 days off. Each session needs to be about 1 hour - 45 - 50 mins of weights split into legs 1 day, back, biceps,abs 1 day and chest, shoulders, triceps 1 day + 4 mins tabatas on the rower (that means go very very hard for 20s, rest for 10s) - I tried it and 4 mins is plenty long enough!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've got 3 weeks before my next assessment, so I'm aiming to be back to where I was pre - climb</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Haven't got any photos from my assessment so I thought I'd just throw this one in cos I reckon I look pretty good! Lets go Racing!</span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZaXhP9h001npr7PnwjKaFkLYms4yvSkJdaM5DzHmJK03OAZQHXkY6J1hEb1ba61sbQ0xNcfBpTAAcAqvJBDKMv8fnsD9O2lFUKZC94PZDvIlJ0fTgU9JooyoNVwNwRu317ooZozRGrYl/s1600/meattop3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZaXhP9h001npr7PnwjKaFkLYms4yvSkJdaM5DzHmJK03OAZQHXkY6J1hEb1ba61sbQ0xNcfBpTAAcAqvJBDKMv8fnsD9O2lFUKZC94PZDvIlJ0fTgU9JooyoNVwNwRu317ooZozRGrYl/s320/meattop3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-37425817890677101072010-10-12T14:48:00.000-07:002010-10-12T14:48:39.844-07:00I'm back!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">well its been 6 weeks since I last posted anything - seems like longer than that - so much has happened!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">ok so lets do a quick catch up </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I CLIMBED MT KILIMANJARO!!!! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Woohoo!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">its was the hardest thing I've EVER done - mentally and physically - not for the faint hearted thats for sure! trouble was I got sick with a severe chest cough, fever and flu the day I left for Africa....could hardly get out of bed to drag myself to the airport...and it didn't get better the whole time I was away. I climbed the mountain stopping every 2nd or 3rd step to cough up my lungs and green goo - twice I broke down in tears cos it was so bloody hard - I nearly quit...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> but I didn't....and I made it...and its was amazing once I got to the top, check out the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=283544&id=769948412&l=1316681f57">photos</a>!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I did say I probably wouldn't go to the gym for 3 weeks after Kilimanjaro because I was sick of exercise - well I haven't, not because I didn't want to, but because I have just been sick - mind you the upside of this has been - lots of sleep!! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I did say that once I got back I'd be getting a lot more sleep, well I think I've finally caught up on the last 3 months! :-)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">so where am I at?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">well I'm sooo glad to be back on my low/no carbs diet </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">CARBS ARE EVIL!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> I've been eating anything and everything the last few weeks to try and get better, but I've felt like a total fat blob - now that is certainly not true (pick up my new size 6 tailored suit today....very excited! and the spray tan lady complimented me on my beautifully toned legs....bring on short shorts this summer!), but my body just doesn't like carbs anymore - and I'm talking about multigrain bread and brown rice here - so not even crappy carbs like white rice, white bread, sugar or pasta.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">lean is the way to go - curry for breakfast again - yay!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I've also got back to the gym this week for the 1st time in 4 weeks - phew! how nice is it to be back training again - albeit not to the same extent as before - definately no more office block stairs for me!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">well....until the next mountain... :-)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">so now I've got at least another 2 weeks before my next assessment which I'm looking forward to - it will be very interesting to see whats changed.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I'm going to really focus on eating lots of broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts and getting lots of sleep - lets see if I can make some progress on my calves and hammies!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-87113096209082188452010-09-03T05:30:00.000-07:002010-09-03T05:30:39.470-07:00Assessment 4<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wed 25th Aug</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Its been 3 weeks since my last assessment - seems like even longer! Its been a very busy few weeks work wise, training wise and social wise!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Writing my food diary has been like pointing an accusing finger at myself - it seems like every other night I've been out drinking and even though in most cases I've limited myself to 1 or 2 glasses of wine, and my eating has been exceptionally good in applying all the rules, it really feels like I've totally undone all my good work. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The trouble is, being so tiny now, even 1 glass of wine a night is enough to completely upset my sleep, so I'm usually tired when I get up and as a result probably haven't been training as effectively as I should be, so of course I've been stressing about that a bit.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Work is also pretty busy right now in the lead up to Spring racing carnival, and I feel that my training time is starting to impinge upon work time so I'm not getting stuff done as well as I usually do - and I'm a bit stressed about that! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">hmm...I've got a nice little -ve feedback loop going on with myself at the moment.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In 2 weeks it will change - when I head off to <a href="http://www.climbingmtkilimanjaro.net/">climb Mt Kilimanjaro</a> - once I've done that I will have way more down time - and I'm going to be using it..all of it...I probably won't even venture to the gym for about 3 weeks afterwards! :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ok so whats the result of all this craziness? well I have lost more weight - down to 57kg on the scales at fitness 1st and amazingly enough I've lost nearly 1% more body fat! I'm down to 14.8 % - wow! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even though when I started the modulation I was already at a low BF of 17.5%, in the last 7 weeks I've managed to lose nearly another 3%. This is really cool.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> As can be expected there are some areas not doing so well in light of the last few weeks - I have put a bit of weight of my stomach (due to stress!) and I'm not losing fat on my calves (due to sleep issues) and hammies (oestrogen) - so no surprises about that at all really.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So here's me now:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHxAEkBgul6_Bm8RVRsU5UYCQg6cQEeOgCGQwfChhvvyEdPd3BZ18Pdr45NTlcExZ5KqWg0Xl75CwKT030n6o4aUxJFIosW36HGL4UAZQI2hGfZLrjjYQYvTr37iRDK5l663Upk_8klqK/s1600/4+sarah+back.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHxAEkBgul6_Bm8RVRsU5UYCQg6cQEeOgCGQwfChhvvyEdPd3BZ18Pdr45NTlcExZ5KqWg0Xl75CwKT030n6o4aUxJFIosW36HGL4UAZQI2hGfZLrjjYQYvTr37iRDK5l663Upk_8klqK/s320/4+sarah+back.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAkHL93JEYjRZ1Fpfr4xKjxyBH5qyHGFFwSTwJcIovaU2ZV7pej-Zm3KQAARE2y4hp_p3090_uUcIEFCJ1JpsGDTnnfeDevOBkxO5NoecoQ_7xYn7n-jR2BKDTB6vnnUdsEzjl2krYIR8/s1600/4+sarah+side.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAkHL93JEYjRZ1Fpfr4xKjxyBH5qyHGFFwSTwJcIovaU2ZV7pej-Zm3KQAARE2y4hp_p3090_uUcIEFCJ1JpsGDTnnfeDevOBkxO5NoecoQ_7xYn7n-jR2BKDTB6vnnUdsEzjl2krYIR8/s320/4+sarah+side.JPG" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfczKYHZNiJl4toWPbOKlJg3VzmGBPVGYU3nDFKwsBmFzMWXXFhbtJzzpIXvpgl1epWwvJEEviQPmDrO847-kK219kb7pGuARLP52AHJGYqs9_JPQVzWB-rgeVUSfII71z8NbSQXOIS8G/s1600/4+sarah+front.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfczKYHZNiJl4toWPbOKlJg3VzmGBPVGYU3nDFKwsBmFzMWXXFhbtJzzpIXvpgl1epWwvJEEviQPmDrO847-kK219kb7pGuARLP52AHJGYqs9_JPQVzWB-rgeVUSfII71z8NbSQXOIS8G/s320/4+sarah+front.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Again I think, once I get back from my holiday, I'll be able to totally scale back the training to a maintenance level which will be much more relaxing and I think the sleep will fix itself as I won't be worrying about whether if I've done enough training to get up the mountain!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'll switch to bikram yoga instead of dragging half a beach up and down an office building!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Other changes I've noticed - I am getting much better definition in my arms (yay!) and my shoulders are so lean that after training I notice theres a little wriggly vein visible on my left shoulder (I think thats quite cool) </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I bought a pair of pants for work just 3 weeks ago - size 6 (!!! I've NEVER been size 6!!) and they fitted 'snugly' shall we say.... and now? not quite falling off me, but definitely too big - I'm even contemplating getting them re-tailored to fit!</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even better, is that with the butt exercises that Nicola (at </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001076565541&ref=ts"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Teamfit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> gym) has shown me, my bum is not so flat and is beginning to round out a wee bit - watch out Kylie!</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bring on summer....I'm going to be looking amazing!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">so whats new on the diet front? This is where it gets even better - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I can eat bananas again!!! yay - I love bananas, and have really missed not eating them, and I can have a glass of red wine every day - have probably been averaging that the last few weeks anyway - (oops!) but now its official :-)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The things, now I'm officially supposed to be drinking red wine, I'm not really sure I want to anymore - because it upsets my sleep so much! I'll have to find a happy medium.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">otherwise, not much change - keep up the protein intake, keep up the cruciferous veggies</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I won't be having another assessment for about 7 weeks - Kat is on holiday, so it will give me time to get settled into a post mountain routine, where hopefully sleep is a much more prominent feature! :-)</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-11427911757221813112010-08-08T04:23:00.000-07:002010-08-08T04:23:55.653-07:00Assessment 3<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wed 4th Aug was my 3rd assessment and its been 2 weeks since the previous assessment.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I wasn't too sure how I would go - my diet for the most part has been really good - I'm definately getting the hang of the animal protein for brekky and I've increased the amount of protein at lunch and I think I managed to eat broccoli, cauliflower, or brussells sprouts nearly every day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've found that if I plan my whole weeks meals on Sunday and cook 2 curries and a spag bol then that pretty much sees me through the week. Its all about being organised mainly.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However there have been some hiccoughs - last Thursday I was at the Weary Dunlop lunch which turned into an all day/nighter on the beer followed by hang over cure food on Friday. Saturday was another big beer session at the Turf bar watching the Bledisloe and I was out again last night with the very cool guy I met at the Weary lunch, so all that combined with 4 days off training probably undid all of the previous good work!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">so what were the results?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">well I did lose 0.3kg, down to 57.7kg and body fat down a tiny 0.1% - lost a bit on my tummy (1.4mm) and calves, didn't lose anything on my thighs and bizarrely I put weight ON, on my knees! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Apparently that is to do with poor sleep - and that doesn't really surprise me as I seem to have lost that ability recently - 4.5 - 5 hours is turning into a good nights sleep at the moment, which is making getting up in the morning to do training a real struggle.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hopefully the new magnesium supplements will fix this.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So new stuff to implement, instead of yoghurt for 2nd brekky I need to either have more animal protein or maybe a boiled egg, then the yoghurt I can have with my afternoon cup of tea to stop my body going into survival mode - at the moment I'm finding that after lunch at about 1:30 I'm just not hungry so I tend not to eat anything else until 6:30 - 7 which is quite a long time given how much exercise I'm doing. So just to keep things ticking over, I can have my yoghurt and berries at about 3pm.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sweet potato, need to add this in to stop getting sugar cravings - not sure where thats coming from as I don't have a sweet tooth at all.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Lastly I need to make sure I'm eating a minimum of 4 cups of veggies a day - I probably am, by the time I have green + raw veg mixed salad at lunch and steamed veggies for tea, but I just need to really load up on veggies.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Again not much change, more of a tweaking really.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This weeks favourite curry - West Sumatran Kangaroo curry with coconut milk and cashew nuts (bet you didn't know they had kangaroos in Sumatra!) - damn I cook a good curry!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">so heres me at week 3:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am becoming seriously tiny! Theres a tiny bit of definition beginning to appear in my upper arms which is one area I really want to change, the other major area I wanted to change was the spre tyre round the belly - well as you can see, thats gone completely! (so has my bum....hmmm..need to work on getting that back!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">so there is progress. I am really going to keep my diet as clean as possible for the next few weeks - the last week has seen too many big nights on the beer, my body just can't handle it anymore and I then have a terrible nights sleep and wake up feeling totally drained and lacking in energy the next day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm going into serious hibernation for the next 5 weeks - until I have climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, no more big nights out - quality over quantity from now on! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">N.B Sun 8th Aug</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">not going so well on the clean thing - this weekend up in Sydney - disaster! another all dayer watching the rugby, hung over this morning and had crap food at the airport. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At least I had a good curry tonight! my favourite - Saffron chicken - damn I cook a good curry! :-)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">best behaviour from now on...</span></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-72110486773684444662010-07-24T20:39:00.000-07:002010-07-24T20:52:55.013-07:00Assessment 2<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tue 20 July</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Since the last assessment I have completely cut out the plastic bottles only drink water out of glass - luckily we have proper filtered water at work. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I now tip my food onto a plate before I reheat it and before I put left overs into tupperware for freezing I let it cool down completely or alternatively I just put the whole saucepan into the fridge. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The salty water was a bit weird for the 1st few days, but I think I've got used to it now and I definately like having 2nd breakfast at about 10:30! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hobbits are on to something...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've not eaten any tuna at all and have had broccoli, cauliflower virtually every day for tea.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have had meat for breakfast every day for the last 2 weeks - this is the bit that I'm finding hardest. The whole concept of kangaroo or turkey is a bit alien - must be a British thing, but I have stuck to it. The main thing about the meat is that I'm finding I'm doing so much more cooking - its really eating into my limited time in the evenings which I'm not enjoying at all, I'm just not getting any mental down time as I find I'm trying to think up imaginitive things to do with chicken</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The rest of the 2 weeks I probably haven't been as clean as I should have been - at least 3 days i had take away curry for lunch (in a plastic tub..oops!)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've had to keep a food diary again and I think there were only 5 days that I really did everything correctly...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The assessment went really well, according to the scales I lost 3kg in the interveining 2 weeks (my other gym scales have registered about 1kg) and after doing all the pinch tests, Kat calculated I'd lost 1.5% body fat! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thats pretty impressive. The biggest area of change was the hammies, but hardly any change on the cavles</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Heres me at week 2:</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Changes to make to my diet for next time include more protein at lunch, and more fibre - an apple or stonefruit with lunch. Add Chia or flax seeds onto soups, into curries. More fat in the form of avocado or coconut oil and milk.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I think I've hit on the solution to the brekky issue - curry! I love curry and the way I cook it, it is completely healthy - I do everything from scratch - roast and grind the spices, I use olive oil instead of ghee, yoghurt instead of cream, lots of garlic, ginger, cumin and tumeric, tomatoes, onions and if its not a brekky curry I add extra veg even if the recipe doesnt call for it - brilliant! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Last week I had Kerala Kangaroo, Saffron Chicken with cashew nuts and a spag bol (just the bol).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm eating so much curry now even the Indian guys at work think I'm weird! I'll add the recipes I use on another page.</span></div></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-50589532881640645312010-07-24T05:30:00.000-07:002010-07-24T20:51:22.538-07:00Assessment 1<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tue 6th July</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I met Kat at 5:00 at fitness first and the 1st thing we did was to weigh me - 61kg (3kg heavier than the scales at my gym - odd!), then we went to Kats office to start the measurements on the 12 'fat' sites. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Overall Kat calculated I had a body fat % of 17.5 which is pretty good, and apparently a lot better than virtually all of her clients starting %.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">here's me at assessment 1 (abs! I have abs! how cool is that!):</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My problem areas are my quads and hammies - which mean an oestrogen imbalance, and my calves - a sleep issue (no surprises there really have always had sleep issues!)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After examining my food diary that I had kept prior to this meeting, Kat explained the changes I needed to make in my diet - increase intake of Broccoli, Cauliflower, Sprouts (yuk!) and Kale. I need to eat animal protein for breaktfast, I can have good quality yoghurt mid morning with berries, but not the banana and honey I was having, my lunches were generally good - but no more tuna - EVER! its chock full of mercury, salmon is good and there are other fish - must look them up </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I could have nuts and seeds but not mixed so its all almonds or all walnuts for a day or two then change</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cooking needs to be done with organic coconut oil and coconut milk is ok for making sauces.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I also had to stop drinking out of plastic bottles or heating food in plastic containers because they contain xeno-oestrogens (bad oestrogen - gives men 'moobs').</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Every morning I also had to drink a glass of salted water to stimulate the digesive system.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ok thats quite a lot of information to take in, I think I was quite brain fried by the end of the session!</span></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613112460708490017.post-27082774565262524772010-07-24T05:23:00.000-07:002010-07-24T20:50:44.131-07:00Pre Assessment<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before meeting up with Kat for my 1st assessment I had to keep a food diary. A typical days food for me would be:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">8:00am Breakfast: Full fat greek yoghurt with berries and honey or banana and honey, cup of tea</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">9:15am: cup of peppermint tea</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">10:30am: fruit, cup of green tea</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">11:45am: another bit of fruit</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1:00pm: lunch - generally salad of rocket and spinach leaves, raw white and red cabbage, grated carrot, red and yellow capsicum, tomatoes (sometimes), avocado, mixed beans, tuna/chicken/beef/cheese and lemon/olive oil vinaigrette</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">kiwi fruit</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">3:00pm: cup of tea</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">7:00pm: dinner - stir fry (no oil) chicken/lamb/beef/tuna mixed green veg and tomato sauce</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">8:30pm: cup of camomile tea</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and at least 1.5 - 2l of water.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">sometimes lunch would be reheated spag bol (no pasta) and then salad for dinner or at least once a week I'd get curry from a takeway place for lunch. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Weekends would be green eggs and ham on gluten free toast + red orange juice for brekky, then whatever I felt like or more likely whatever was in the house</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is really easy food to throw together - doesn't involve lots of preparation or cooking time which is important given that with all my training, by the time I get home from work I only really have about 2 hours before I go to bed - sad but true I'm often in bed by 9:30!</span></div>Sarah Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177870907547969746noreply@blogger.com0