May 2011

A numbers game

May 31, 2011

MUST. STOP. GETTING. ON. THE. BLOODY. SCALES. Although I knew it was coming I shuddered when I opened the final 12 Week Body Transformation Challenge pre-season task (and I wrote about it here). We were required to ‘measure up’. But I did it. Dutifully. Well, okay… a bit reservedly and a bit resentfully. The task involved getting [...]

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Week 1 – 12WBT style

May 30, 2011

One week down. Only 11 to go. Well, that’s assuming I drop the ball as soon as the 12 Week Body Transformation challenge is over; which I shouldn’t. And hope I don’t. Old habits die hard though.  My parents are in town and coming to my place today for a couple of days. My mother [...]

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The good the bad the finish line and the warrior

May 27, 2011

As part of Michelle Bridges’ 12 Week Body Transformation program, each week Michelle provides a recorded video message as well as a live webcast, during which she answers questions thrown at her from program participants. She calls the webcasts her Mindset lessons. Obviously it’s unlikely that all, or many of the questions will be of [...]

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You say potato, I say potato

May 26, 2011

I wrote a little while ago about my potato fetish. Yes, indeed it’s true. I am a lover of potatoes. Well, a lover of carbohydrates in general really, though if I am stuck on a desert island with one type of food to eat, I would want it to be potatoes. (Of course, I would [...]

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Deadly sins revisited – envy

May 25, 2011

Weigh-in day today for those of us doing Michelle Bridges’ 12 week challenge. I’d done my measurements and got weighed only on Saturday so wasn’t expecting to have lost much in 3-4 days. I’ve dieted enough to know that sometimes the weight drops off at the very last minute (just before weigh-in) so was thinking [...]

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Fizzy black goodness

May 24, 2011

Okay, can I just start by saying, “I WANT SOME DIET COKE!” OMFG. There I was smugly prancing about as if I could easily wean myself off the 1 – 1.5 litres of Vanilla Diet Coke that I have been consuming daily for a large number of years (before that Lemon Diet Coke and before [...]

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