Shapewear Be Gone!!

So today I completed Pre Season Task 3 – Take Control Set your Goal .  One of my 3 month goals (which will take us through to the end of this 12week program) is:

“To feel comfortable in my clothes without ‘The Tard’”.

I have a confession to make – all my friends know it – it’ll be no surprise to any of them – I wear conforming shape wear under my clothes EVERYTIME I leave the house, EVERYDAY without exception. 

I have many variations – but they all do the same thing – they squish my flabby bits in tighter so I appear to be thinner than I actually am.  I wear them under EVERTHING!!  At work, under my scrubs, I wear a full leotard version which my work mates have dubbed “The Tard”. 

I HATE the feeling of how my flabby bits wobble when I walk, when I’m not wearing  my shapewear – so I simply always wear it.  I wear it to work under my scrubs, I wear it to school pick up, I wear it to the gym and to boot camp under my workout clothes – always, always, always.  So much so that when I was telling people last round that I wanted to lose 12kg – they were saying “From where?!” Nobody believed that I had 12kg to lose because no one knew what I really look like, no one EVER sees my actual body shape, no one would EVER catch a glimpse of the skin on my tummy. 

If I ever lift my arms and my top rides up – all you’ll see is black.  If I ever bend over and my pants ride down – you’ll NEVER see my butt crack – you’ll just see black.  At the gym I’ll usually have 2 or 3 layers on the top to prevent all the wobbling when I’m moving about and always 2 layers on the bottom.  I can’t wear tights because I hate the shape of my bum and thighs and I can’t wear just shorts because I hate how flabby my thighs are and I couldn’t stand to have anyone see them flopping about as I’m working out!! So I wear both – always tights or bike shorts with my shorts on over the top.

My best friend always says to me “Why are you still wearing those things!!??” she doesn’t think I need them – But I do, I would just be so ashamed if someone got a view of my flabby tummy or my chubby butt crack!! And not to mention the love handles over the top of every pair of pants I own – even though I have lost 10kg!!

So one of my goals for this round is to lose “The Tard” to lose the shapewear – to go to the gym with just my top on and not constantly be sweating it up in 2 or more layers!! To have reshaped my body enough that I will no longer feel the need to wear shapewear everyday, everywhere. 

I am looking forward to “Lean and Strong” re-shaping my body so I feel confident enough to go bare!!..... Or just wear one layer of clothing for a change!! (It’ll be a hell of a lot cooler in summer!!)

Here They Are: Soon the shapewear will be GONE!!

Just Another Manic Monday

Mobile Phone Alarm set for 530am – must get up early to get everyone and everything ready so we can head off early for the first day of Grade 1.....

A child laughing in the neighbourhood wakes me – I check my phone – DEAD BATTERY – I check my watch – Sh*t!!!  It’s 645am!!

The first day of school for the year is a BIG deal – we live 15-20mins from school and together with traffic, road works and the first day school car-parking nightmare –we must leave early or we’ll be parked 3km away from the front gate!!  (personally I think that’s a great calorie burning opportunity, but dragging 2 young children along for the ride is not my idea of fun!!)

Stay calm, rational, we can do this.  Come on kids let’s get moving!!

Ps we got there in plenty of time – no need to panic – and I didn’t – that’s a win for me!!

Body Attack class diarised for 915am

9am - Still at school – Sh*t!!  We’ll be pushing it!! Let’s get moving, we can make it!!......

Oh no we can’t – missed the start of the class.  So my mind immediately thinks “I’ll get my wee girl from the Crèche and get going home – I’ve missed my class so that’s game over”.  Then it was like a little someone tapped me on the shoulder (or slapped me across the face) and said “Ummm Kate... you’re in a GYM!! There is equipment everywhere!!  Go attack some machines and do your workout!!”

So off I set –last week in Body Attack I smashed 643cal in 1hour – let’s see how many I can smash on my own in the same time.  Funny thing is I didn’t really have a goal, I was disappointed that I missed my class so  I thought I’d just do an hour and see how far I got – 20min max on machines in peak periods,  so let’s go 20min Bike, 20min Treadmill, 20min Cross Trainer – I can do that. 

Well my 20min on the bike saw me ride 5kms – almost exactly.  So I thought – I could go 2.5km on the treadmill then 2.5 on the Cross Trainer and make 10km in one hour!! All of a sudden I had a goal.  So Treadmill was next, I managed 2.7km in the 20mins – Great – I’m ahead of target, let’s bring it home on the cross trainer..... I tried – I did my best but I only managed 1.3km in the 20min (should have seen me sprinting in the last 2 min to bring it up to that!!)  So 9km in 60min – Not too bad, but I’m not there yet.  A quick check of my Heart rate monitor saw me at around the 600cal mark.  Ok so now I had a new goal – to reach 10km for the morning and to smash the 643cal I would have burned if I made it to the class.  So back to the bike for my last km (a cop out I must admit because it was easier than the Cross Trainer).  So after another few minutes to ride my way up to a 10km total and a cool down and stretch I managed 10km and 666cal burned in 1hr12mins.

I was so proud of myself – I was willing to walk away but I turned things around and had a win. 

So on the back of this win I decided to set myself another goal – to burn 1000cal today.  I booked in for a boot camp session this afternoon – all I needed was 334cal and I’d reach my target.....

Just another session at the gym!!

It’d been raining on and off all day and I was worried that boot camp would be cancelled..... and what do you know...... it was!!

So what to do now???.....A fellow blogger and my 12WBT buddy Leah gave me some inspiration at school pick up this afternoon "just run up and down some hills" she said, with a laugh.... Oh but that gave me a great idea!!

So some hills it was - 4.5km run (well lets face it some of it was walking - hills are hard) up and down the hills of Tanah Merah and up and down my In-Law's driveway - Killer!! So I knocked off another 365cal!!

1031cal burned for today!! I never gave up - I was going to win this challenge!!

Life is not always going to let me have my way – I won’t always be able to make the class, Boot camp will get rained out – but I do have the ability to get a good workout in off my own back and set myself challenges and not stop until I reach my goals!!

There is nothing more empowering than setting a goal and achieving it!! So there couldn’t be a better time for me for Michelle to announce the 3^rd preseason Task: Take Control – Set your Goal” which I will complete on my “Pre season Tasks” Page.'

 

The drive way at my In-Law's house!!

The bottom of the street....  

Another Hill to conquer before getting home!

 Powering up the driveway

Heading back down for yet another lap

Today saw positive change coming from positive energy!! Bring on Tomorrow!!

Ps All photos featuring me on this blog have been (and probably will continue to be) taken by my Official Blog Photographer - pictured below.