My exercise buddy!

Michelle Bridges and 12WBT is helping our entire family get healthy! Today I am joined by my little exercise buddy!

Is your family getting in on the 12WBT action?

My mindset lesson

The Weekly Surprise for week 6 is all about designing our own mindset lesson, based on what we have learnt since starting 12WBT.

The biggest change I've made over the last 6 weeks is how I think about food. I no longer associate my feelings with food. I've broken the cycle and I no longer think the way I did.

My mindset lesson is titled...

{Changing your thoughts towards food}

How do you think about food...is it your friend, your enemy or simply fuel?

Weigh-in-Wednesday: Week 6

I was extremely sick last week and I really didn't know how I was going to go on the scales. My food was relatively good...but not as good as it had been. I also wasn't able to train at all last week and was only well enough to start again on Monday...six days without training and I was worried.

So, I stepped on the scales this morning and this is what I saw...

A loss of 1.6kg! I was extremely pleased with my results especially because it brings my total to 5.4kg in six weeks!

My Stats - Week 6
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Finding the workouts more tiring since I've been sick, so I'm soldiering on and hopefully I'll start feeling stronger soon. Am amazed with my weight loss percentage...6.7%! My 8 week goal is to have shed 8%...so close!

What's your weight loss percentage this week? 

My dream outfit

One of my favourite episodes on The Biggest Loser, is when the contestants show us their dream outfits and their makeovers.

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My dream outfit, is very sentimental to me. It's my first designer dress and happens to be an Alannah Hill design (she's my favourite Australian designer). My husband bought this dress for me for my birthday and I remember thinking that there would be no way it would fit me...but when I put it on, it fit and I felt like a princess. I've only worn this dress maybe two or three times (about 5 - 6 years ago) and I long to wear it again.

So here it is...my DREAM OUTFIT...

What is your dream outfit?

12WBT Blogger Challenge: Week 5

This weeks challenge is all about food, glorious food!

What were you like before embarking on this journey to become a healthier version of yourself? 

What were your old food habits like? How did you feel?

What has changed since starting 12WBT?  What are your new eating habits like? 

How do you feel now? What is the difference? How it is changing your life? 

It can be hard at times! But tell us why it has been and continues to be worth it?

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I've battled with food pretty much my entire life. My biggest problems were self control, serving sizes and emotional eating. I can remember as a teenager, somehow always being on a "diet". I was always bigger than my friends and I felt extremely self conscious. At university I was on Weight Watchers and ate pretty clean. As an adult, my food was mostly good.

My big problem was...

I was a closet eater...I would binge...and eat and eat until I felt sick. I would eat when no one was around and it would mainly be on sweets, biscuits and pastries. I would punish myself with food. It was a vicious cycle and I hated what I was doing to myself. I knew that...

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...but I couldn't stop. I would get emotional, upset, angry and punish myself with food...PUNISH, not SOOTHE. This would also happen when I'd be close to reaching my goal weight. The negative voices would tell me that I wouldn't achieve them and I'd sabotage my efforts.

So, what has changed this round? Well, the biggest change that I can see is my mindset. I am strong and I'm not letting the negative voices be heard. I feel in control and I believe in the program and in myself. The difference has been incredible! I haven't binged in 6 weeks - and that's a huge achievement in itself. I'm not punishing myself with food, I am treating my body like a machine and am fuelling my body with the right stuff...fresh, healthy food. If I have a treat, it's simply that...a treat. I don't give myself permission to overeat and the fact is, I DON'T WANT TO! Im satisfied with the serving sizes and I'm not linking my emotions with food. Food is FUEL, food is NOT my friend.

The biggest difference I have made is the way I think about food. I'm not allowing it to rule me...food is what it is...

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What is your relationship like with food?