How i lost weight!!

Hi everyone,

I’ll start with saying blogging really isn’t my thing so please do not judge me if my writing style is pants or not sexy enough but I’ve had so many questions about a certain thing that happened to me recently that I thought ‘sod it, bite the bullet and blog on it’. That certain thing is my recent weight loss (2 stones and 2lbs baby) and seriously the comments/questions/queries/compliments have been so overwhelming that I thought it would be selfish of me not to share the secret and maybe help someone else get their sexy back.

It’s really hard documenting this because it means sharing my before pics (revealed at the end), my now pics are not where I’d like to end my weight loss/fitness regime but those before pics hurt! Every time I look at them I hear this

BUT i am proud of myself in terms of where I am now so allow me to continue...

So you may ask what exactly did you do to shift the weight... *drumroll please***...... I...I...I exercised and watched what I ate!!!!!. Not sure what you were expecting to read but yes I lost weight the good old fashioned way, the way which involved me getting off my arse and working for it. Oh trust me I prayed to God that a free lipo session would be dropped through the letter box but what do you know life doesn’t work like that. SOOO yes I worked out, I followed an exercise DVD, bought some work out gear and annoyed the hell out of my neighbours by pounding the floors. The specific exercise I followed was a workout DVD called insanity by a company called beachbody. Check out a clip below

Exercise

As you can see from the short clip its intense and i can confirm that it’s called insanity for a reason. As I did it daily I often considered whether I was insane to continue, it was hard but you know what it’s do-able.

I sweat, cried, moaned but at the end of it I LOST WEIGHT. I followed the programme and did it daily with a few weeks gap in between doing month 2. It’s a 60 day programme split between two months and you do different 45-1 hour circuit type exercises. What i loved about insanity was you had the easy on the eye Shaun T coaching you through, it really did feel like i had a personal trainer cheering me on.

 For those who would like to lose weight I don’t know how you put on the weight but what i will say is for me, it crept up on me. One min I was slim, the next minute I was avoiding wearing short sleeved tops because I was ashamed of what I saw. I had always wanted to do something about it but honestly speaking I was lazy, I had all the lip service in the world but deep down I wasn’t ready to do something about it. Trying to lose weight isn’t easy but having that sheer determination for it is literally 50% of the work, if you get into that mindset you will power through no matter the circumstance.

I literally had to assure myself Nutty Professor style

YES I CAN

   Now I am not an insanity sponsor/advocate/employee but I will say this is what I used and it really worked for me, I’ve recommended it to some people and it’s not been their thing which is fine. There’s no magic formula to insanity, it’s not based on never seen before moves, it’s literally just about getting active, burning the fat so do what works for you, be it the gym, a jog round the park, a zumba class or a workout DVD. Just do something!

Diet

On top of working out I watched what went into my mouth, I didn’t go on a diet, I repeat I did not go on a diet. Diets are a bit dodgy to me because you do your best to avoid a certain type of food for a period of time and once that time is up you go back to that thing/the bad eating habits which just sees you putting the weight back on instead I tried to adopt a new frame of mind in regards to food. I started to care about what I put into my mouth, after all my body is a temple and I must treat it as such. I jumped on the World Wide Web and did some research. Through this I learnt to reduce my carb intake, started replacing simple carbohydrates for complex carbohydrates, started to drink water, cut down on food portions etcetera etcetera.

I fly the flag for #teamiphone and I’m grateful that it introduced to me an app called myfitnesspal. This app was also very instrumental in my weight loss as it helped me record my daily food intake. It makes such a big difference seeing what you eat written down as you quickly understand what you shouldn’t eat as its stares you in the face!  As well as recording what you eat the app works by you entering your current weight, desired weight and activity/ activity level then as you enter daily calories it tells you what you will weigh in a few weeks should you keep that up! For month 1 i was(tried to be) on 1200 calories then i went onto 1500 calories for month 2 as the intensity of the workout increased. Check out the app which is also available via the internet.

Few tips

•   In the beginning try and work out with someone, this will push you, motivate you, encourage you and heck sometimes make you jealous of their progress that you push harder.
• Take before pics! You will cringe and hate them but they are a great way of tracking progress. This also goes for weighing yourself before, either on the scales or with a tape measure or even both!
• Always always remember a bad workout is the one that didn’t happen!!

To conclude I can’t lie I feel great and from the compliments recieved I’ve gathered that I’m not looking too bad either lol. I will continue to exercise and watch what I eat as I move nearer to my ideal weight.  I hope this post has helped encourage/motivate you, im far from a fitness guru but any questions or comments please do ask and I’ll do my best to answer.

Lots of love

Nikky

My progress in pics