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Xtreme Fat Loss, scientifically

Just a quick post today to let readers know about this cracking new 25 day fat loss diet that’s just been released.  I can’t wait to try this diet when I’ve had my baby, it consists of 5 different days, one of those is a cheat day (ok the others are hard work but you only have to go for 5 days before you can eat what you want).  The author is touting that you can lose up to 25lb in 25 days (they have done trials and those are real results – obviously a guy though).

You can get $30 off the retail price at this link:

http://www.idealbodiesonline.com/xtremefatloss

I will check in with my 16 week baby belly tomorrow – and let me tell you, it’s growing, along with everything else.

14 week scan

Hey everyone, well it’s been a little while between postings hasn’t it!  I’ve certainly been up and down still, but think I MAY just be feeling a bit better overall.  For instance, on Monday I felt so good I was able to train, and go for not one, but TWO walks!  Tuesday I didn’t feel as good but managed a short game of tennis, yesterday was ok but I woke at 3.30am and didn’t nap during the day so was quite tired most of the day, having appointments and no time to go to the gym.  Today I didn’t feel so good – I was asleep by 8.30pm last night, and up at 3.30am again.  I did go back to sleep at 6.30am until 8am however.  Still wasn’t feeling great but did go to the gym and did an ok workout.  Tired again by midday and slept for 2 hours!!  Woke up feeling crappy again and in bed again by 8.30pm!  So each day is different.  Certainly helps me feel better if I can sleep until a more normal hour though like I did last night.  Well, if you call 5am normal.  I guess when you go to bed at 8.30am that’s a nice sleep :)

I had my 14 week scan yesterday.  It’s just incredible to see that little baby on the monitor, and to think it’s just there, sitting in my tummy!  Bubba is getting bigger now, a little over 7cm.   I just have to hope I don’t get a call from the doc’s in the next week to say I need to come in and consider having an amnio because my scan results revealed I was high risk.

I bought some maternity jeans!  They are a little big at the moment but they will be great when I get a bit larger.  So here’s my little one, and here’s my 14 week belly – still not much of a belly, but plenty of hip, butt and thigh.

Have put on about 3.5kg already, eeek.  I told the midwife I was a bit concerned about it (because it’s all happened in the last couple of weeks) and she looked at me like I was an idiot :)   I’m having trouble concealing that I’m getting fat now.  I hate wearing anything tight fitting as it just feels uncomfortable.

She told me next time I came in she would book me into the hospital.  Wow, that all makes it sound very real!

Heading off to the Barossa Valley today, staying with friends tonight, then on to Adelaide tomorrow.  We’re taking 2 big esky’s and going to the Farmer’s market and Central market in Adelaide, to stock up on some good food.  I have a business meeting on Monday morning before we drive home.  I’m not sure if I’m going to go to the INBA Adelaide Classic (the one I competed at last year) or not – depends how I feel.  I might choose to go shopping for my pregnant body instead.  I would love to go and see Jan B (past client) compete in her first show though.  Good luck Jan, you were looking great in the pic I saw a while ago, so I’m sure you will do well!

My motto for the day (week..year..eternity) – if you want something done or done properly, do it yourself.  I have had a project on the go for awhile now and getting anywhere with it is like pulling hen’s teeth because I am relying on other people who obviously aren’t as organized, reliable, enthusiastic and ambitious as I am.  It sucks.  So moving on to my next project.  Something good has come out of it though, and that is that by the end of the month I will have a snazzy in house exercise database on my site.

Finally, if you haven’t claimed your free 27 fat loss report that I’ve emailed to my database, click here now as it comes down at 2pm Vic time today.

http://www.idealbodiesonline.com/xtremefatloss

Have a great weekend everyone.  I plan to, a nice long weekend in Adelaide.

Looking for a healthy, hearty breakfast?

Cheesy Omelet with salsa

1 whole egg, 2 egg whites, beaten

1 slice grain or wholemeal toast or ½ English muffin

30g avocado

15g tasty cheese

Moroccan Salsa (or anything similar that you fancy)

Small amount of olive oil

Salt, pepper to taste

  1. Heat olive oil over a low to medium heat.
  2. Add beaten eggs and cook as an omelet. 
  3. Cook toast, spread with avocado
  4. When omelet is cooked, fold over twice, and sit on top of toast
  5. Add cheese, then top with salsa
  6. Season with salt and pepper to taste

This is just one of the new recipes coming in our revamped recipe book – Lean Body Gourmet Cookbook.  Watch out for it in the coming weeks!

I don’t get it.

 How can people ‘not know they are pregnant’ for like 12 weeks?

I had the best sleep ever since being pregnant the night before last.  8 hours, straight through.  I felt awesome all day.  I did have another nap as well though!   However, the elation wore off very quickly when last night I had the WORST night so far.  3 hours sleep – I was awake at 1am and up at 1.30am.  I worked for a couple of hours, had a bite to eat, and then tried to go back to sleep – nothing doing.  Got up again, worked some more, although by now I’m really feeling it and struggling big time.  Went back to bed about 6am.  Up again at 8am.  Had to drop Damo off out at my mum’s and do some jobs in town, and was just a zombie.  I made a sandwich when I got home, had half of that and went back to bed around 11am, getting up again at 1pm.  Nausea starting to kick in with the sleep deprivation now. 

I ate the other half of my sanga and waited for it to digest and then made myself go to the gym.  I felt quite ill the whole time, I’m sure people thought I was about to faint or something, I was laying on the machines with my eyes closed in between sets :)

So I’ve barely done any work, so if you are waiting for an email reply, I will get to it over Easter don’t worry.  I’ve no plans, looking forward to being a vegetable.  After taking the bins out and cleaning Big Pud’s dunny (Damo’s job but he forgot to do it before he left) I ran a spa and relaxed for awhile.  Now its 6pm and I’m in my nighty flaked on the couch.  I just had a small home made pasta, ham, tomato, pesto, cheese and avocado salad.

Now, as for this pregnancy weight gain business, Jo, I reckon you are one of a kind though, training like you did right through your pregnancy.  I guess being able to sleep well and not having the nausea to go with the vomiting would have helped you to stick to your usual training and nutrition regime.  Not that I’m any expert (haha, by a long shot) but from what I’ve read it doesn’t sound like you put on enough weight especially if you were having twins.  But, obviously you had a healthy pregnancy so it’s all good.  I’m going to disagree with you about the weight gain thing though because I can really understand now how you just cannot control what you need to eat sometimes.  I’m not condoning eating junk food all the time, no way, but as far as the baby only needing an extra 100 calories in the first trimester – hmph!  So why do you get so frigging hungry every 2 hours then?  And why can you not stomach some healthy foods but can eat things like toast and cheese?  (I’m not directing these questions to you Jo, just asking them to myself really!).   I’ve put on nearly 4lb so far, and I attribute that to a number of factors – I am a lightweight to start with and apparently we put on the most weight, I was dieting and training for a comp before I got pregnant, I then stopped training because I physically was unable to for (so far) 7 weeks, I started eating a lot more than my diet consisted of because I was hungry and sick and I had to eat to stop the nausea, I am eating a lot more carbs and some foods I would not normally eat because that is what my body is telling me to do.  Buggered if I’m gonna fight it just to save a few pounds of weight gain hey.  Anyway, I’m still not weighing as much as I was at the start of my last comp prep. 

I don’t know, what are everyone else’s thoughts? 

I suppose I do feel a bit of pressure to stay trim while pregnant but you know what, I don’t really care – my body is not my own at the moment, it’s doing it’s thing and so be it.  My focus is on eating mostly (I’d say >85% of the time) healthy food, eating when I need to and resting when I can.  If I can’t train, I can’t train.  Having said that, I’m definitely aiming to get there 3 x week to lift, and on the other days I’m walking.  Doing what I can without pushing the limits.

I was thinking of getting some milo to try and help me relax again after I wake in the middle of the night.

Well I’ve watched the Biggest Loser and now I’m ready to crash in bed at 8.30pm.

Sick and sorry

Feeling very sorry for myself at the moment.  Today I feel really sick and exhausted.  Yeah yeah all for a good cause I know, I’m just sick of being sick, it’s so boring!  I just hope it’s not getting worse instead of better!  So, I am very unproductive, it’s really hard to get much done.  I’ve been up at 2am for the last 2 days, jeez how I would love to see 6am on the clock when I wake up.  So, I get up, I make coffee and I go to work.  Then about an hour later my stomach feels like it’s being sucked into my spine and I have to eat.  I actually don’t feel that hungry anymore, just this knawing empty sick feeling.  I am eating every 2 hours.  But I can’t eat a lot at once so I am probably not eating a huge amount more than usual now that I have settled into a routine after holidays.  I am however, eating carbs at every meal.  I even had a craving for a banana smoothie at 5am this morning.  Yet I haven’t been able to stomach anything like that before.  Today went like so.

Up at 2am, coffee (1/2 regular, 1/2 decaf)

Meal 1 3am- slice of grain toast spread with cottage cheese and topped with turkey breast

Meal 2 – 5am Banana smoothie

Back to bed until 7.45am

8.30am Slice of toast with cottage cheese, ham and tomato

10.30am 2 Vita Wheat with peanut butter and cheese

12.30pm Slice of bread with avocado, bbq chook and grated cheese

1.30pm Sleep until 3pm

3.30pm 1/2 orange

4.30 pm curry pasta, ham, tomato

7pm lamb rogan josh and rice

Holy cr*p that sounds like a lot of food.  As I said, small serves though.  In 10 weeks as of yesterday I had put on 1.8lb.  However, the scale shot up a couple of lb overnight (we did go out for dinner last night though).  Considering I am barely doing any exercise I wouldn’t be surprised to have put on a lot more, but, let me tell you even though the scale doesn’t register a lot, the change in body composition is very real.

I’m looking forward to the day I wake up and have a baby bump instead of just feeling chunky :)

So, I’m getting fat and my hubby is losing weight :)   I don’t think this has ever happened before!  He’s lost 8.5kg in just under 8 weeks so far.  You can certainly see the change.  Now when we go for a walk he is ahead of me and I’m the one struggling to keep up.

So I’m crashed on the couch tonight.  That’s about all I can manage.  I imagine I will be in bed soon though if I go too early I will wake way too early. 

I made an effort and went out for dinner last night – it really is an effort most days, but I have to do something sometimes I guess.  We went to our local Thai, first time I have been there and it was sensational.  I am in love with Tom Yum soup – I’ve never had it before but it’s just something that really agreed with me when I was feeling sick.  I wanted some tonight too!

I’ve managed to get a few things finished despite feeling ill.  Slowly slowly it goes though. 

Thanks again everyone for the well wishes.  Oh yeah we had the 10 week scan a couple of days ago and all still good.  Damien saw an arm but I could still only see a smudge.  Smudge has grown from 1cm to 2.5cm in 2 weeks.  Next scan is not until 14 weeks and that will be the big one where I am screened for Downs Syndrome.  Scary.  The odds increase like crazy every year older you get.

I hope you all enjoyed our newsletter today.

How much fruit can one eat in a day?

Yesterday we had our spa treatment which was heavenly. Though afterwards I really felt quite ill – I think all that massaging and stuff really stirred things up and made me feel very off. Oh I got sucked in big time too, after my treatment they applied a light make up using Jane Iredale mineral makeup. I decided to buy the pressed powder and a brush to go with it as I’ve never used mineral make up and it looked nice and natural. I just said yep I will have one of those and a brush thanks. Ah hem – $168 thank you very much! The damn brush was $83! WTF?? I know I could have gotten it for at least half that on the net. Next time.

Anyway today I felt good, really good. I swear the morning sickness pills are working. However, now Damien appears to be getting the flu! We can’t win! And the weather is still shit. I only had one sleep today, about half hour.

I never realised how good fruit really tastes. I found some big juicy white peaches in the IGA here and I have been eating 3 a day! And today at Eumundi I bought a pineapple, which happens to be the best pineapple I have ever tasted. And 3 mangoes. I figure surely it can’t hurt if I eat lots of fruit. However, I am also eating lots of cheese. I have a thing for sandwiches at the moment. Ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce on wholemeal multigrain. I also bought some home made butter at the market, oops, and some big muffins – ginger and banana, and feta and pumpkin. Oh and some coffee and walnut greek yoghurt, yum. Tomorrow we are going to the Farmer’s Market – probably much of the same stuff but I will get some more muffins and perhaps another pineapple!

Pic is from the photo shoot I did a week and a half ago.  7 1/2 weeks and I thought I should wear a bit of a loose fitting top :)   We are sitting here deciding what to have for dinner.  Neither of us are particularly hungry, me because I eat all day long and only have room for little bits at a time, and Damo coz he’s sick.  I feel like a couple of steamed dimmies hehe.

My first spew

Thank you so much for all the well wishes, congratulations and comments – I’m truly overwhelmed!  I’ve been trying to thank everyone individually but I am having a hard time getting my internet to work here.  It works for about 5 mins then shuts down.  Very frustrating. 

So, I had my first spew last night as the headline indicates.  Nice, not.  We had dinner out, seafood platter, and before anyone has a go at me for eating seafood, my OB has no problems with it so I figure he should know.  I think it was the mix of foods, there was hot and cold and various bits and pieces.   Come 11pm (I’d been asleep for 2 hours already) I was up and driving the porcelain bus.  Twice.  I felt a lot better after that.

I am really shocked at how much food I am putting away.  I’m starting to feel it too.  And I still don’t believe the fatigue – it’s really incredible.  I got up at 6am (sleep in), and it’s now 10am and I need another sleep.  I have no inclination to work, to exercise or do anything really.  Not that you can do much in this god awful weather.  I might have to change my favourite holiday spot to somewhere else.  Have has shit luck when it comes to weather up this way.

Tomorrow we will go to the Eumundi markets, and then the Farmer’s Market on Sunday.  This arvo we have our spa treatments.  Kerry thanks for the tip, I have sussed all that out, they know their pregnancy stuff.  No hot tubs, I’m having a body scrub and wrap (not a heating one so ok for pregnancy) followed by a mini facial and a 60 min pregnancy massage.  Cannot wait.

Ok well I simply wanted to say thank you to everyone who has wished us all the best.  You all rock.

x

Going public…

So, I have avoided making it public because as you might understand, I feel a bit paranoid and scared about it because of my previous miscarriage.  I thought I would at least wait until my first scan, of which I had today.  I’ve been so excited to just make the scan, to see what is going on inside!  My baby has a heartbeat!  So that’s a good sign.  I’m at 8 weeks.  It just looks like a little smudge on the ultrasound.

My weight is staying stable, yet I’m eating like a horse.  Lots of carbs – fruit, fruit and veg juice, wraps, sandwiches, rice cakes, pasta, you name it. 

I ate a pie the other night for dinner!  Had this thing for pastry.  Chile con carne pie with cheese – was pretty good too.  I NEVER drink juice, but I have had this thing for fruit juice as water doesn’t seem to quench my thirst.  When I went out for lunch with my mum and sis the other day I had a carrot, apple and ginger juice.  Yummo.  I think the ginger helped ease my nausea – so now I have a thing for that too.

I’ve been sick – not physically, but just feeling nauseas 90% of the time, often with a constant headache, and unbelievable exhaustion.  I yawn all day.  By 5pm I’m absolutely stuffed and can’t do anymore than sit on the couch.  Insomnia is pretty bad – waking at 3-4am most days again, though I did have a good 2 weeks where I slept well and thought that was over.   So the sleep deprivation hasn’t helped me in being able to keep active because I just feel wrecked.

I eat often as it eases the nausea.  Some days even though I eat regularly I get so hungry very quickly.  It must be in times of a growth spurt or something, because other days this doesn’t happen.

So all in all I feel like a washed out rag for the majority of the day and night.  I hope it goes away as soon as possible!

I am off to Noosa on Thursday morning for a week – I am SO needing a week laying around the beach and pool.  Have booked in for a 2.5 hour spa treatment at Ikatan Spa on the Friday – heaven!

Ok well I think I might go for a drive to try and find some of these ginger lollies that are supposed to help ease the queasiness.

Update on happenings

Well over the next few months there will be a few big changes happening.  Unfortunately I can’t say too much because you never know who’s reading – or should I say, I’m always surprised to find out who IS reading.

I have some work to do between now and Friday where I have a deadline for providing programs for the big project that is still in the pipeline.   I have a few other projects to get underway in the next 3 months.

You should see my house – I really have a little shop happening here now.  Empty boxes everywhere, and my cupboards are just full of stock.  It’s a little bit of a trap to have the yummy new Chef Jay’s Gourmet Brownies in the cupboard I pass before I go to bed :)   I have so far tried the White Chocolate Mousse, the Ultimate Chocolate Walnut, Lucious Peanut Butter and the Caramel Butterscotch Torte.  I am not sure if I will try the Double Chocolate Decadence or not – single choc is just fine for me, don’t want to go overboard!  So, yes you guessed it, I’m not dieting for a comp anymore.  It didn’t last too long, I’ve had a few things come up so for now there will be no comp.

We are planning to have a trip up north soon, just not sure when exactly.  Probably Noosa.  I’d love to go back to Palm Cove actually, the Sea Temple was awesome.

Nadia and I went to a seminar preview last night, for Alpha Dynamic.  It was really, really interesting.  As always I am a bit skeptical of this stuff, but when they demonstrated the memory thing, I was blown away.  This lady sat out the front while the presenter asked 20 people in the room to suggest a  ‘thing’ – for example, Women’s Health magazine, hydraulic oil, Blackberry Mobile phone, V1X 3 golf ball, a red apple, and so on.  He wrote them all down on a whiteboard.  When asked, this woman systematically went through the 20 items, 1 by 1, in perfect order.  I was amazed!  I want to send my husband to the seminar just to improve his memory!  Anyone else had any experience with this sort of brainwave stuff – Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta?

My Big Pud has been told by the vet he needs to go on a diet :)   Poor Pud.  He’s 7.3kg up .5kg since last year.  I think he looks very healthy!

Have a nice weekend everyone.

New You Challenge Winners and more stuff

NEW YOU CHALLENGE WINNERS – 2009
 
What another wonderful year it’s been for spectacular body transformations at Ideal Bodies Online.  Again we have had some extraordinary entries, and as always to choose just one winner and one runner up is always a difficult task from so much talent.

But, we managed and we’ve chosen two very well deserved winners from numerous entries. 

Click here to see who the lucky winners are:

New You Grand Champion 2009

New You Runner Up 2009

The lucky ladies have won some fabulous prizes including cash, supplements, products, magazines and ebooks. 

Congratulations to everyone who entered and who made outstanding positive physical and mental changes throughout their journey with Ideal Bodies Online.

Enter our current New You Challenge here:
 
 

FINAL PHASE FAT LOSS
 
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you are probably aware I’ve been promoting a new stubborn fat loss training program called Final Phase Fat Loss, a program specifically designed to help you annihilate any fat loss plateau and/or lose those last 5-15 lbs of stubborn fat.  One thing I may not have mentioned is that you do not have to have a gym membership to utilize this great program.

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