Thread: Update on Me- just so you know I am not dead. :)

Doing well Definitely looking a bit healthier and happier in the second pics.

well done Toni keep at it

Good for you Toni, keep up the good work. Try and keep us updated on how you are going. It can get a bit quiet in here without you.

What a transformation Toni! You will be an inspiration to the rest of us , well I mean me. I'll look out for updates, and more WIP shots. What sort of finish do you think you'll use?

You go girl.

Watch out for those desperates from 'Reality TV' with a rubber cheque book! Good work - and I know its work.

Wow Toni, what a journey you have embarked on and already with such great results.

Keep it up, you and yours will be forever thankful for it.

Brilliant stuff Toni.

I did meet someone once who was as much as 150kg. She had got herself down to about 80 when I met her. Her strategy was to do one thing every week. Just something that was going to improve her health. Didn't have to be anything heroic, it might be going from 4 pieces of toast to 3 pieces of toast for breakfast, or dropping the toast and having cereal and fruit.

Anyway good for you. I do have something that you might find helpful. It is going to sound boots and all but it is really pretty doable. The Army has a fitness regime on the defence recruiting website. It starts slow and builds up. It gives you days off and isn't anything monstrous. They did have a part of it where you do pushups and situps. 10 of each then 8 then 6 and that is that sessions work done. You can do the numbers to suit your level of fitness though. Try 6,4 and 2 if you like to start there. Aim to add on two each week. The idea isn't to kill yourself it is to improve your health.

The old story was to go hard or go home. They have found that to be wrong now. It just caused too much injury. For you that method isn't useful. Anyway enough preaching from me, I just wanted to encourage you and say you are a champ and stick with it.

Studley

Thank you for the support.
Prozac: What finish will I use? I think I might just go raw material. Might be a bit sticky other wise

STUDLEY: just found that website. WOW that a workout allright. The pushup and the situp probably could do that now but the run for 1.5km morning then bike in the afternoon not yet. That running can't do very far yet but i am working on it. I am only up to run for 1 minute and wallk for 1 minute. Stuffed knee from carrying the weight. Waiting on see a specialist for it now. My GP thinks I done the tendon in it. But it happen. My goal is to get up to running a 5km run

again thanks for your support
Toni

There's a lot of stuff there Toni.

Check out the bit that is getting fit for the Army in one month, or something like that.

If you want a workout try the SAS version. They give you a pack and a compass and you have to navigate up a mountain and back down again in the set time. About 20 km. They they ramp this up and up, include torture that makes waterboarding seem no big deal. Finally when you have passed every test, they go great you are good enough all you have to do to pass selection is put this 55kg pack on and march 60km. See you when you get there.

Then just when you feel great about getting past selection they let you into the barracks give you a beret with the winged dagger and say OK now you are on cycle. It lasts 18 months and if you make it past that you will be a proper member of the SAS!

Back on civvy street where people like us live, you don't have to kill yourself but if you are doing enough to get your pulse up and do a little bit more each week then you are getting somewhere aren't you? Try doing a good walk for 45 minutes 4 or 5 times a week. When you get to it I think bikes are good if you have knee troubles but I don't know for sure. Don't worry about the running, you are trying to be healthy which is different from being superwoman or making the Army.

Studley

Yes I am definitely healthier. When I started my Personal trainer could only work me for 3 minutes and we had to stop for 5 minutes. I was so unfit. Now I can do most things he asks me. I have conquered walking up castle hill. I have conquered doing body attack. I have conquered doing 100 situp and push up consecutively. I make these goals for myself that I want to acheive and that it I go for it. My next acheivement I want to get to is double digits which is another 7kg away but I know I can get there.
But next year in July my goal is to walk from Corfeild to Winton it is 83km, it a walk over 3 days. But to me that would be fun especially as the last time they saw me I was a huge heifer. LOL
Toni
bye Toni

now I am embarrassed and I think I had better go buy some weights get the runners out and do something positive for me!

Studley

I must be slacking

Hi Toni, I'm glad that you're aware of the danger of overweight. Well as I can see you're on the right track. Keep up Toni.
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Excellent work Toni. I am sure you get lots of support from the family as well and they would all love to see a healthier mum.

It would also give them inspration for their own future,