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Life in the Heintze household

Published on February 26, 2012 in Baby Photos, cellulite, fat loss, photos, stubborn fat and weight loss. 0 Comments
I feel like somewhat of a stranger so I decided it was time to stop by and step up the blog posting again! So, a big HEY YOU to everyone in blog land.

Things are very busy in the Heintze household and at the Ideal Bodies Online desk as usual.

Kyah Savannah

I'm on a mission!

My not so little darling is 16 months old now. What a fun age! She likes to mimic everything we do or say. Her latest words are ‘yo-yo!’ (as in yoghurt, she loves it), apple and boobie (don’t ask) :) I also play peekaboo with her (as you do), and so she likes to use the word boo quite a bit. We were in the video store recently, walking around checking them out when a guy suddenly walked in the backdoor. A surprised Kyah looked up at him and shouts “BOO!” And when I walk in her bedroom to get up her from a sleep she says it too. LOL. I’ve never laughed or smiled so much before Kyah came along! I bet all you mums can relate to that. But how fast do they grow up?

Anyway I entered her in the Bonds B aby Search along with a bazillion other mummy’s :) How cool would it be to see your own little bubs on telly. Would you please vote for my little darling at the link below – I would so appreciate it :) If you vote, send me an email and let me know so I can thank you personally!

http://babysearch.bonds.com.au/entry/12458/kyah-h

Training

My own training is holding its own, JUST. Something always seems to crop up – be it illness (mine or Kyah’s, or Kyah’s carer’s kids), lack of sleep, travel or injury. I’m dealing with the injury section now. My hip/groin/hamstring/lower back is playing up again like it did a few years back. It’s all interrelated and I’m sitting down in the next few days to design a rehab program for it. My pelvis is constantly in anterior tilt because of short hip flexors and quads, and lengthened/stretched glutes and hammies. Sitting at a desk most of the day (ahem, with really bad posture I must admit) makes it much worse.

At present I’ve been instructed by my chiropractor not to train legs for another 10 days. Add that to the 3 weeks I already have had off leg training and I’m starting to feel a bit too soft in the nether region. But otherwise, my upper body training is going splendidly! I’ve been managing 3 x week and when my legs get their mojo back I’ll increase it back to 4.

Before injury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cellulite and Stubborn Fat

To change the subject somewhat, I am very excited to be launching my brand new program, the Female Fat Free Solution in March. Kristin and I have been working on this masterpiece for 18 months and there will be much celebration when the first launch emails go out on March 6. I have written a comprehensive report titled ‘5 BIG FAT Cellulite Lies – the naked truth about cellulite, stubborn female fat and why it IS possible to become firm and dimple-free at any age!’ I’m giving it away to those who are subscribed to my list on March 6-9.  Keep a lookout, its eye-opening stuff.

Available 6-9 March

*if you aren’t subscribed you can do so on the home page by requesting our f.ree fat loss smoothies ebook, “Shake the Fat!” 

Travel

I recently headed to the Gold Coast to catch up with Kristin as we had a big project to work on. The Ideal Bodies Online workout database is being revamped and significantly added to and we now have tons of additional photos AND videos (Super K(ristin) is currently working on this).

So that’s just a bit of a roundup of what’s happening in this part of the world. I’m a bit bummed that summer will end in a few days’ time. Though I admit it has been too hot to go out walking with Kyah, so a drop in temperature may be a pleasant change.

I hope all you peeps out there are well.

I have ‘arisen’!

Published on December 11, 2011 in Baby Photos, competition, inspiration, photos, Pregnancy and training routines. 2 Comments

I’ve been prompted by an email from someone saying they miss my blog – so I am finally updating!

Firstly to my trip to the Big Apple in early November…

Saying goodbye to my little darling (and my big darling), was rather sad and there were a few tears. I couldn’t help but go through things like, what sort of a mother leaves her 12 month old daughter to jet off to NYC with a friend, and so on and so forth. I was feeling quite sick about it all, prior to leaving.

We did have a fantastic time though  and Nadia brought home the goods (literally, nearly 10kg of trophy hardware in her luggage!) from the competition. We did a lot of shopping, but unfortunately (maybe fortunately for the bank balance) it was going into winter there so I didn’t really want to be buying much in the way of cool weather wear.

We visited the World’s Largest Chocolate Show – plenty of tastings and worth every minute. Poor Nadia wasn’t able to even sample anything!

We had an awesome picnic in Central Park a couple of days after the comp. Central Park is amazing, so clean, and pristine – much like the city of NY really.

I visited the 9/11 Memorial which was very moving. In fact visited the actual site about 3 times but to get tickets to the memorial we had to line up first thing in the morning as they don’t just let everyone through.

We visited Times Square (a lot), Soho, Greenwich Village, did a hop on hop off bus tour, had dinner with Roman (Final Phase Fat Loss), ate a massive piece of cheesecake, and a full plate of baby back ribs (not at the same meal). Good coffee as usual over there was hard to come by.

Nadia's competition (in middle)

Had a great trip, but after a week I was getting really homesick for my little girl and my boy.

The trip home could be described as nothing short of insane; starting in NYC and ending in Mildura about 30 hours later. With all of 2 hours sleep. Anyway, I don’t want to think about that anymore!

Kyah was rather standoffish when she greeted me at the airport. Like “hmmm, you left me for 12 days and so I don’t think I want to hug you or even smile at you just yet’. By the time we got back to our house she was all over me. She started walking while I was in New York :( Very bad timing on my behalf. Oh well, can’t do anything about that. Now she is a little trooper, walking everywhere! So funny. I’m loving this stage of her development. She’s such a happy, sociable little kid. Last night we took her out for dinner with us, dressed her up in a little white party dress with pink flowers on it. She sat in a booster chair and did not grizzle once – she was so interested in people walking past, the Christmas trees, and everything else going on. We were dining al fresco, so let her go for a walk and she just took off, mingling in with everyone, big grin on her face.

Here she is on her birthday, back in October. I love this photo.

And, just a few days ago she said her first word (other than bub, mum, dad). She said ‘pretty’. I always tell her ‘pretty’ when I brush her hair or when she looks at my jewellery or sparkly things. Then she said it again to my mum while pointing at balloons.

Really looking forward to Christmas this year. We have a beach holiday planned and I can’t wait to sit back and relax!

Training is going well, even though I didn’t train once while in NY I didn’t put on any weight – which I find hard to believe. We walked and walked though. Not enough to walk off a big cheesecake and ribs though!

I haven’t even had time to post any pictures from my photo shoot, so here are a few below. I didn’t diet for these photos – I haven’t been on a ‘diet’ since my 2009 competition. Pregnancy seems to have done something very positive for my metabolism. I’m back to training 4 x week (when things go according to plan A or plan B). To be honest I haven’t been very consistent as there is always something that comes up like sleep deprivation or sickness (be that myself or Kyah, or even the day carer’s son). I went through a 2 month patch of severe night waking and was averaging 4-5 hours a night for that time. Thankfully I am sleeping a lot better now.

So, my training regime is 2 x week with a split of back/chest and legs/shoulders, plus two Crossfit type sessions which I structure depending on how I pull up from the other sessions. I’m getting my strength back finally, for so long I felt like a weakling and quite unsteady in the weights room. Sometimes I will do Back/Shoulders which is what I did yesterday. My lats are so sore today. Here’s what I did – try it out!

Pull Up (I used a band, and had a spotter – you could use an assisted machine if you have one available)

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 reps (with about a minute rest in between, less as the reps get less)

So you do 10 reps and rest. 9 reps and rest. 8 reps and rest, and so on. Total of 55 reps.

Bulldog Row (that’s what I call them) – 3 sets of 10 each arm. One arm rows on a cable (or with a resistance band looped around a pole) while kneeling on all 4s. These are awesome for targeting the lower lats.

TRX Pull – 3 x 10. If you don’t have access to a TRX then you could do reverse pushups on a smith machine, or any other back exercise you like.

DB One Arm Row – 3 x 10

Shoulder stand – basically just standing on my hands against a wall to develop more shoulder strength. I tried to transfer the weight from one shoulder to the other. That’s hard. You might need a spotter for this.

Alternating KB (or DB) Press – 3 x 10

BB Push Press – 3 x 10

BB Upright Row – 3 x 10 

As for Kyah and her sleeping – she sleeps like a dream. She is like clockwork. Up between 6-6.30 (that’s cool with me because I am routinely up at 5am – no alarm needed), back to bed 9-9.30am, up at 11am. Back for a nap at 2pm and up around 4pm. Then ready for bed again at 7-7.30pm and sleeps right through. With her molars coming through she’s had a couple of off nights but it’s only rarely. I so swear by the sleep routines!

So, that’s a wrap from this end – I so love being a mum, but do still struggle to fit everything in (like all other mums!) but I’m managing fairly well.

I’d love to hear from you guys – either leave me a comment, or email me via sue@ idealbodiesonline.com (remove space). Hope you are all traveling well and thanks for being patient with me!
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Going insane

Published on August 28, 2011 in Baby Photos and photos. 0 Comments

With web techie stuff. I’m not a techie, so how do I know what I need for my sites? Why isn’t there something or someone out there that can help a regular non geek like me, understand what I need to get instead of finding out a year later that it wasn’t right, and I’ve spent thousands of dollars on something I shouldn’t have. Or getting different opinions everywhere you go but nobody explaining WHY. So frustrating. If anyone knows stuff about WordPress templates and CSS templates and sh*t like that and can help me, please please PLEASE contact me :)

Phew. Now where was I. Well I’ve been on a holiday to the Goldy – and the weather as per usual when I visit, was rubbish. It rained every day except for the day and day after we arrived. So, there were no visits to the beach. And, it was beautiful 22 degrees and sunny back in Mildy the entire time we were away. And, I got sick. Now I’m better, Damien has it – but about 3 x as bad as I did. Kyah hasn’t had her turn yet. Hoping for a miracle there. Kyah was great when we went away. We had a couple of babysitters who both said how awesome she was. Very easy to look after :) She had one bad night, that’s all, only because of her teeth. Poor darlin’ has 4 coming through all at once. She was great flying, slept on both flights on the way over, not quite as good on the way home but it was a long day! Leaving at 7.30am and getting home at 5.30pm. It was great to catch up with Kristin, Di and Hilary though :)

Here is the little miss when we were leaving for the Goldy – all rugged up:

So, I haven’t trained for 2 weeks :( I had neck issues before we left and chiro instructed me not to train. I’ll be back into it tomorrow though. I am half considering doing a comp in April – am I insane? I feel like I want to try and be superwoman again. I have no grand illusions about being that competitive as I’ve dropped a fair bit of muscle, but, it would be nice to come back and compete after having a baby.

If I do I want to blog my experience and preparation. My goal would be to not do any cardio until I absolutely had to. I haven’t been doing any now, so I’d like to just train, and use the diet to drop the fat. In the past I’ve done copious amounts of cardio to reach the stage – I simply do not have the time (and definitely not the inclination) to do that again. I will talk to my trainer tomorrow. I want to incorporate some crossfit into my training.

Oh and I MIGHT be going to New York with Nadia for a competition! Stay tuned on that one.

Damien now is not traveling for work, phew. We can all be one big happy family at home.

So, there you have it – only a quick update today. Kyah is having a good old arvo nap, I might have to wake her up shortly. We went out for coffee with Nadia and Pete earlier, it must have made her tired!

I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend and is raring to go for the coming week.

Phew! Bubba pics and lots of stuff

Published on August 13, 2011 in Baby Photos, fat loss, food, photos and Recipes. 0 Comments

My little angel is 9 1/2 months old now! She is crawling, well, her version of crawling – we call it the “Kyah Shuffle”.  She’s pulling herself up on toys and furniture, and, is starting to get into everything! She has 6 teeth fully through and another couple on the way. She sleeps like  – I can’t say a baby can I? We put her to bed at 7pm and within 5 mins she’s out like a light. She’s sleeping through most nights until at least 6am now. Every now and then she will have a bit of a cry, probably because of her teeth but we just hold her for 5 minutes and put some Bonjela on and put her back to bed. Last night we went to see some friends and took Kyah with us, and her sleeping bag and gear. She went to sleep on the floor, no problem. She did wake up crying a couple of hours later but 5 mins of holding her hand and stroking her head and she was back to sleep. It’s almost like she has a bad dream or something. Then we left at 10pm, had to wake the little darling, and she just has a tiny whinge when we wake her then sits in the car on the drive home, and straight back to sleep when we put her in bed! We have a couple of baby sitters and they both say she’s so good. She’s a happy, contented little thing.

Tonight I am home alone! Hubby took her for an overnight trip and I am using the opportunity to cook lots of food up for her, and do some things around the house in readiness for our holiday next week! We are off to the Gold Coast for a week. Our first family holiday. 

So, hopefully I can sleep in tomorrow! What a novelty that would be. I had a good night’s sleep last night, but the 2 nights prior, I was up at 3am. Like, up for the day. Could blame Kyah only one of those times.

Training wise I’m going well, only doing 2 x week, but those sessions are long and tough. My strength is improving with each workout. I’m still weighing under 50kg, but have definitely a lot more shape back now. I keep getting asked if I am going to do another comp. Honestly, the idea is nice, but the reality isn’t so nice! Just don’t think I want to bad enough for a start. Plus, I have a really big project happening as well as completely revamping my www.idealbodyblueprint.com site. It’s going to be awesome when done.

The other project is www.FemaleFatFreeSolution.com – Kristin and I have been working on this for some time, but finally I now have a partner ready to lauch with me and we are doing that in February.

The other thing to throw in the mix is that I’m going to pretty much be a single mum for the next 8 months or so. :( However, it is hopefully for the best. Damo has a job traveling, and will be away for 5 weeks straight almost as soon as we return from Qld. He’s having trouble already with the thought of leaving Kyah for so long. It will be tough for me too because Damien shares a lot of the child rearing responsibilities and so I will really feel it being on my own! Even though Kyah is in care 4 x week, when you throw in laundry, dishes, groceries, cooking (I cook all bub’s food), looking after Big Pud, other appointments and domestic jobs, you really have little time left for much at all. Add exercise to that mix, and sleep if I need to catch up after a bad night…but, for some strange reason I’m looking forward to the challenge. I think I can do it!

I just cooked up a few different things for Kyah. Broccoli, spinach and apple. Apple, ricotta, sultanas and rice, with a little cinnamon. Broccoli, ricotta, parmesan. Sweet potato – which tomorrow I will cook up some pumpkin and pasta, and add a little ricotta with that. I’ve done the egg test and the peanut butter test and all appears ok there. No allergies detected so far.

For me tonight I cooked up Lemon Mustard Herb Chicken courtesy of www.idealbodiesonline.com/fitcooking – Dave Ruel has an amazing fat loss cookbook and the recipes are so tasty, but easy as pie! A couple of nights ago I did Deviled Chicken – even Damo said it was ‘awesome’. Here is a pic of it – I sent the recipe around to my subscribers, if you didn’t get it, send me an email. 

So, that’s a quick run down of what has been happening here. I’m really looking forward to some warm weather – that hot snap of 4 straight days of 27 degrees has me hanging for summer!

Hope everyone is well, it has been so long since I’ve updated!

Sue x

Still alive and kicking…

Published on February 21, 2011 in Baby Photos, photos and Pregnancy. 2 Comments

Wow. What happened to the last few months?? Our gorgeous Kyah is almost 4 months old now and she has grown up quickly! She’s babbling away and cackling, and learning to roll over and even hold her bottle! I had a computer meltdown about a month ago, and, because I had not backed up since early October before Kyah was born, I lost 3 months of work :( Hey who thinks about backups when you have a newborn! Anyway, it took me 2 weeks to get a new computer, and another week to get all set up and whatnot. So, I have a brand spanking new one now and I didn’t lose a whole lot of stuff – but I did lose the photos I had resized of Kyah (lucky all are still on my camera), and everyone’s email addresses.

So I haven’t got around to resizing all my photos again but I do have these ones taken a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow she is having some professional ones taken by Kidzshots (sp?), here at home so I look forward to that!

 She is a good little girl, very content and happy now. She sleeps well, but not yet right through the night. We put her to bed at 7 and give her a dream feed at about 10.30pm, and then she will usually wake anytime between 3 and 5 for another feed. I have real trouble getting back to sleep after this feed because she tends to stay awake for a while and babble away to herself! Damien and I are both getting enough sleep most nights as he does the night feeds and I do the morning one while he sleeps in.

We have found a great carer for her, and she goes there 3 days a week now which allows me to get some work done. Now that I have this computer under control I should be able to get ahead!

I am back at the gym, albeit inconsistently. I have just started to get some strength back and now that I am not getting lightheaded all the time, I am enjoying it a bit more. I have lost all my 16kg of baby weight, and am pretty much fitting back into all my pre baby clothes.

So, all in all, it’s wonderful. The first probably 8 weeks are a bit of a whirlwind and sometimes you wonder if and how you will cope, but you do, and when they get older and start to interact, it’s just awesome.

Kyah is such a ‘hot’ baby. Even when it’s cooler she just does not feel the cold and ends up in a sweat just laying on her play mat tapping away at her toys! Our carer said she has never seen such a hot little bub. We didn’t need to buy clothes for her – she lives in a singlet and nappy!

Anyway it has taken me 3 days to write this blog, and before that 3 months :) I hope to be back a lot sooner for the next installment.

Hope everyone is wonderful – now I will get back to my inbox :)

Sue

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