STARTING AGAIN....

My last post that was my first post of this blog was almost a year ago.  At that point I thought I was at my heaviest.  I was wrong....

I now weight...

140.7kg


Well I'm not kicking myself about it.  Never in my life did I think I would even get to this point.  I'm slowly getting my ducks in a row to start again.

So I've signed up for a 8 week personal training session which told me my new current weight! That was slightly embarrassing with my personal training being a young healthy lad.  But again I'm not going to beat myself up about it.  I'm going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

I've also signed up for a 12 week challenge that starts in 3 weeks.  So I'm trying to break out of habits leading up to that.

I'm also going to try the Paleo Challenge:



Paleo Challenge: What to eat


YES to meat, seafood, vegetables, some fruit, eggs, nuts, and seeds.  Beef, pork, chicken, lamb, seafood, tuna, salmon, shrimp.  Avocado, asparagus, arugula, spinach, broccoli, celery, sweet potatoes, yams, any type of leafy green, red cabbage, artichoke.  Berries, melon, pomegranate.  Chicken eggs, ostrich eggs. (no Do Do eggs).   Almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts.
No to processed foods.  Pretty much anything in the middle of the grocery store.  Can't recognize it growing or running around in the wild?  Don't eat it.
No to sugar.  I don't care whether it's super natural 100% organic fair trade sugar from the honey of communitarian bees, ITS STILL SUGAR.  No sweeteners, no agave nectar, honey or maple syrup.
No grains. This includes bread, rice, pasta, cereal, oatmeal, corn and all of those gluten-free pseudo-grains like quinoa and sprouted grains.
No to legumes. Peanuts, peanut-butter, beans, peas, lentils.
No to dairy.  Milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.
Less alcohol.  No sugary mixers, no beer or alcohols containing gluten.  
Fewer sweet fruits and starchy vegetables.  Bananas, eating a bunch of apples, dried fruit, or white potatoes.  (If you have serious inflammation issues like arthritis, you may want to consider avoiding all nightshades for 30 days.)
Cook with real fats.  If you're cooking, then cook with lard or animal fat.  If you don't have that, then cook with coconut oil, olive oil, or butter.
Still got questions?  I'll be posting more on all the great things you can eat, how to shop, snacks, and more.  In a nutshell, eat eggs and bacon for breakfast.  A salad with meat on it for lunch.  And meat and veggies for dinner.  Easy!


Note: The initial rules I had up here I had grabbed from Joe Petrusky at CrossFit Love, who had grabbed them from Whole9Life.  I attributed them to Petrusky, not Whole9Life.  Rules are changed, now my own.  Apologies!


Paleo Challenge: How to move


Do some form of high-intensity training (HIT) two or three times a week.  At the simplest, that could mean intervals on a stationary bike for 15 minutes, or sprinting (don't if it's icy), or CrossFit, or anything that gets your heart rate up for 20 minutes or so.  That's about an hour or so of actual working out a week -- very doable.


Paleo Challenge: How to sleep
Get more sleep.  Duh.


Okay, that's it for now.  A whole lot more to come.  But you have to decide to make the commitment -- you gotta want it.


So...You in?


Though my ultimate goal is to make a CrossFit Games in NEW ZEALAND!!!!!

Will post a picture soon .....Here we go!!!

A NEW BEGINNING....

So this is it...I decided to create a blog to keep me honest...to sticking to what I need to, to change my life for the better.  I will regularly post my progress, some inspiration images to keep me motivated and share my experience.


REASONS
My best friend always says to me, why are you doing this? why do you want to lose weight?  There needs to be a specific "real" reason why you want to do it.  
So my reasons are:
1) To serve God longer
2) To improve my health, my immune system
3) To feel like a wife, a mother that meets the needs of my family on all levels


WEIGHT AND MEASUREMENTS
I will post my measurements up later tonight and some pictures.  For now, as at 1 August 2011, I weigh:  135.9kg
This is now my heaviest I have ever weighed.  On my wedding day I was in the early 90kgs.  At 17, I weighed 85kg.  Time to bring that number down!!!
My aim is to lose 50 - 60 kilos!

TIMEFRAME
My first deadline is the start of October, that is 8 weeks away.
My 2nd deadline is start of December.
My 3rd deadline is end of February.
My GOAL is GRADUATION!!!!


GOALS
I am going to post goals each week to focus on.  
Here are my goals this week:
Eating
1) No breads, rice at night
2) Drink water
Physical
3) Go to bed by 10.30pm
4) Exercise 3 times this week
Mentality
5) Stay focussed

Scripture to help me is:
1 Corinthians 10:31
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God"


HERE WE GO....