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Literal non-scale victory- I managed to stay off the scales for the entire week between official weigh ins. I have this habit of stepping on mid-week to check my progress. Last week I set myself a goal of not stepping on the scales until this morning. Also- I have stopped biting my nails. I have been a life long nail…

I didn’t get much sleep last night so when my alarm went off this morning I moved it forward an hour and decided to postpone my ride until this afternoon. When the alarm went off again, I decided that I would do my jog tonight after my ride. I laid there for a while and convinced myself to just get up and go for my jog,…

I shaved 46 seconds off my 5k PB this morning!!! I was panting hard the whole way, but I didn’t feel like I was going to die! I’m just a little (like a lot) proud of myself today 😁

I’ve gotten back into my jogging and riding. I have jogged and ridden my horse every day for the past 4 days (today is day 5, I have just finished my 5km jog, just having some breakfast then off to ride.) Also yesterday my boss bought everyone a soft serve from Maccas. I contemplated eating it right then and there but told…

This morning I woke up for my jog, then talked myself out of it and made a conscious decision to go back to bed and snuggle with my partner. Then as I was laying there enjoying cuddling him I realised that I was self sabotaging and got myself back up and went for my 5Km jog. While on my jog I almost dropped back to a walk…

This may be a weird one. But I am terrible at “being present” whilst eating. I usually have the TV on or pick my phone up multiple times and scroll Facebook (yeah I know it’s hardly hygienic) tonight I made a conscious decision to be present and savour my meal. I made sure I slowed down (I usually scoff!) and made myself…

] Happy to say I can tick this one off. 79.4Kg this morning 😁

This morning I hit a new personal best 5K. 34.56, broke under 35 minutes!!!

Completed C25K for the second time last Thursday. I’m pretty sure it was a new PB at 35:30. My partner and I had a big night last night. I woke up at 9:40 and thought it was too late to go jogging, then told myself it’s winter so that excuse is invalid. So completed my 5k jog even after a huge night on the drinks- the…

To get under 80kg. I weighed in this morning at 81.5 so it’s not too far away now! 😊

I comfortably fit into a pair of jeans I bought 2 years ago when I was losing weight (before I fell off the bandwagon for almost 2 years!) they were a size too small when I bought them, but they were good cowgirl up jeans on sale for like $20 and I was confident I would fit into them in the future, well it took me longer…

I reached my Apple watch’s April challenge of going 356.1km a day early. I remember looking at the challenge when it first popped up and being hesitant in my ability to reach it. 11.3km per day seemed like a lot. I’m lucky I have an active job where I do anywhere up to 18,000 steps (10 hour days) Also- I hummed and hahhed…

I’m on a day off today. My plan was to wake up early to see if I could manage a ride on my young horse and a half hour workout in before getting ready for work (like a trial) my partner is a train driver so his shifts are all over the place. He started at 430 this morning. So his call came in at 3:30, I woke up with him…

Today I caught myself mid self-sabotage and pulled myself out of it. Twice. The last couple of days I have been horrendous with my food. This morning when I was thinking about morning tea I had the thought of “well you’ve pretty much blown today already you may as well grab something from the bakery and start back fresh…

I’ve recently started C25K again and am on to week 2. Yesterday I was in a funk all day and didn’t feel like doing anything. After I’d put my partner to bed for night shift I went out to feed my horses then decided to just go for my C25K even if it was slow. I felt so much better for it. Then this morning for the first…

My mini goal is to get under 80kg by my birthday in March. I have 13 weeks and roughly 9Kg so it’s not unachievable by any means!

I had a burger for lunch today. The nsv being that when I rang to place my order they asked if I wanted chips with it and I decided I didn’t want them. Also I had logged to have a Powerade with lunch (I have an active job, it’s summer in Australia (it’s currently 38°C/100.4F) and I’m already on to my 3rd 1 Litre bottle of…

I couldn’t sleep after sending my partner off to work last night. I tried for almost 2 hours before deciding to get up and do some housework (3am cleaning is a real thing right???) then went out and had a ride on my young horse. I work 10 hours today (my roster is 14 x 10 hour days then 7 off) and I know by the end of it…

So I fell off the wagon a bit. Gained 5kg in a week! Though the 3 weeks leading up to that gain I was steady weight wise, but making all the wrong food choices, I kept getting a surprise when the scale didn't go up. It was almost as if I was tempting fate. I got away with it for a bit and then bam it smacked me in the…

Level 5.5 on the beep test at bootcamp today! My previous pb was 2.7 in February last year, the intstructor DID say last week that my cardio fitness has improved out of sight in the last 8 months or so, I guess he was right! 😁😁😁 Also, 5 minutes 33 seconds on the kilometre warm up jog- another pb! 😁

This! So much this! I actually wore a dress to the races on Saturday. I felt way out of my comfort zone, especially when it came time to dance, I'm a jeans and shirt girl, but my sister and mother convinced me to wear a dress. I had to borrow one off Mum coz my couple that I own are too big now. I actually got a lot of…

First ever sub 6 minute kilometre on the bootcamp warm up jog. 5 minutes 56 seconds both days this week. I've been trying for a few weeks to get it done in under 6 minutes. The last pb was 6 minutes 10 seconds. I knocked 14 seconds off! Proud is an understatement. My jeans that I bought not so long ago are now quite baggy…

I picked my new baby up on the weekend (Yeah, I'm slow with the updates) I out photos up on my Facebook and received a lot of "Looking good" "where have you gone?" Type comments. Just another reaffirmation that what I'm doing *IS* working and others can actually see it now 😁

This! I remember this excitement well! Week 4 was probably the scariest for me! Congratulations on the incredible effort, I'm keeping my eye out for your name in this thread for your next running victory (have completed c25k myself this year after countless attempts over the years and love seeing others succeed with it)

Last weekend I went back to my hombre town for their show. A friend of mine had called me Thursday night to say she was going over for the barrel race and had a spare spot on her float if I wanted to chuck a horse on. Hells yeah I did! So I took Shakaya over not expecting great things since we haven't looked at a set of…

Yesterday I grabbed 2 freddo frogs out of the packet at work. Ate the first 1, opened the 2nd 1 then went "Sam what the hell are you doing?!?!" and put it back in the packet (I bought the packet for a workmate who was here for a short stint and she left them here for me so I don't feel guilty about putting an open one back…

Set a new pb on my 5k jog this morning 😁 36 minutes, 35 seconds 😁 I had set a new pb last week, not sure if I posted here or just on Facebook, it was 36 minutes 52 seconds, almost a full minute faster than my previous best. This morning I'm over a minute faster than my original best 😁😁😁

My brother had his 25th birthday party Saturday night. I haven't had a good party for the longest time. I don't even drink alcohol very often, I get a natural high off a good atmosphere. Saturday night was like that. I danced the night away stone cold sober, slept for a few hours then got up and went for my jog that…

So I've got my first mini goal. My next mini goal is to get under 90. I'm at 92 as of Monday. Have been stuck in the 92kg range for a couplenof weeks, but I know that I will get there if I keep persevering. I'm expecting a whoosh soon as I gained almost 2kg a couple of weeks back (had gotten down to 90.5, but that was a…

This morning was hard! There was no way I was going to go close to hitting my pb on the 5k jog (remains the almost 38 minutes, my very first 5k.) I had the go slows getting out the door. I could have easily went back to bed and skipped it this morning, but I knew I couldn't make up for it tonight as I have firies training…