So, what now?

So now that you have my truly extended weight loss history, let's see where I am now.

Yes, I am in the health and fitness industry.

No, that does not mean I follow all the rules.


So where we last left, I had tried a plethora of things to lose weight. Most were good, some were quite bad for me. I am a firm believer in that if you want to do something about your weight, there is no quick fix or short term solution, it is a lifestyle change. If you want lifetime results.

What I am about to say is a little controversial, but it's also honest, which is what this blog is all about.

At the moment I am on a magnitude of quick fixes.

BUT YOU SAID-

Yeah yeah, I know, I was there. Let's just get back to where I am now and then I'll explain my hypocrisy.


In approximately 5 weeks, I have a huge competition. Obviously not a fitness competition (wow is that a damn long way off!), nor a competition in which my body is directly judged but it is a dance competition. Miss Burlesque Australia in fact! (P.S. it's going to be an awesome show, you should watch). So naturally, I want to look and feel my best for the big event.

As you will have read previously, a protein and greens only diet whilst smashing it at the gym gets me nowhere in terms of the results it theoretically should show. Generally speaking, this should shed at least 4cm off the waist and 3-6kg minimum as an estimate. Not to mention overall better looking tone and skin (if you're on vitamin supplements as well). For me, I'd be lucky to see 1cm change or 2kg. Admitedly, if there has been an absence of exercise for some time and you go and smash it, results happen very quickly for a short period of time as your metabolism and body are woken up and kickstarted, but for whatever reason my results don't really reflect this like a typical person would.

So what am I doing?


Everything I shouldn't, basically. I have reverted to old habits and guess who is back on the diet shakes? Yours truly. And what's this, a script for Duromine, again?! Surely you gest!

Here is my stupid, body destroying plan:

In theory, each method shaves off approximately 2-5kg in the first week and 1kg every week after that (not including plateaus, more on that later). By combining the two, hopefully I can speed up the process. It has been 12 months since taking Duromine, so that is in a safe situation it has been about 20 months since I last tried the diet shakes, so I'm hoping my body has forgotten about them and maybe it'll start working again. The only exercise I am doing is dance rehearsal and my usual pole class. I am trying to get as much incidental exercise as possible though.


In theory.

So I have been doing this for nearly 3 weeks, how is progress?

I started with these measurements:
Waist = 92 cm
Hips = 109.2 cm
Height = 159cm (something tells me I won't lose any here)
Weight = 78.8kg
Approximate clothing size = 14 (just!)

Eww.

I would like to point out that because of pole, I do have a bit more muscle mass than the average bear, I'm not 78kg of pure lard.

Anyway, after 2 weeks the usual initial shake up began! My favourite part. It's usually nothing but disappointment from there on in. One thing I do like about these diet shakes is that it's a good place to go in and get measured and have it all written down on a card, great for reference and seeing progress/set backs.

15/1/11 shows:

Waist = 86cm
Weight = 76.6kg

Overall, pretty damn good. Given the huge loss on my waist, it seems that I was carrying quite a bit of water weight (the 2L of water a day flushes a lot of this out).

Measuring hips is quite tricky, which is a shame as that is where all my weight seems to go. How do I know this? Besides my obvious pear shape, it's all in my history.

Looking back through my measurement/progress card, in February, 2010 I got back down to 66.7kg with whaaat?! An 84cm waist. That is only 2cm difference than what I am now despite the fact that I am 10kg heavier. So evidently, that's where that's going. Losing weight off the hips is also a pain as it has limited bloodflow, but that's a whole other story we will get to later.

Most of my meals have been salads or a blob of chicken with broccoli or spinnich, yum! Also get's a bit old, but there's ways to jazz it up (that's right, I can make broccoli interesting).

Obviously, this is just my short term plan.

My long term/progress plan isn't quite ready, but I don't have to start integrating it for another 2-3 weeks yet. More on that when it comes to hand!

-MM