getting fit for your trip - a place to share & ramble

[australiankaren]

on another note, both carlo and i are home today with a stomach bug. hoping it's just a 24 hour thing and not the dreadful flu version that's been going around for the last week or so...

so inspiring to see so many of you working out and losing those cms. i had a moment when i was visiting my parents on the weekend.. i was sitting on my parent's bed talking to my dad (read: being interrogated about my life and where it's heading and my future plans) and my parents have one of those mirrors that show you from 3 angles.. front on, and then 2 attached side mirrors that are angled to show your side and side/back view...

ugh!!!! not a good angle for me and i have never felt so frumpy or unattractive. it was worse than a dressing room mirror in a dodgy store with overhead fluorescent lighting...

i have already done 5kms on my bike today, and plan to do at least another 10kms this afternoon... those pounds and lumps and bumps are coming off!!!

good work....

and I hate to say but I do enjoy the pineapples..ok call me weird, special or just plane daft..but i do, i really do...

 

[becpee]

Well done Alicia just keep it up.
I know all about those mirrors Every time I see one I want to book in for a nose job

Karen, I have an Allens lolly jar (which I can't keep full) so I have to keep buying the lolly's and there are so many damn pineapples

 

[australiankaren]

Well done Alicia just keep it up.
I know all about those mirrors Every time I see one I want to book in for a nose job

Karen, I have an Allens lolly jar (which I can't keep full) so I have to keep buying the lolly's and there are so many damn pineapples

drop them off at wdw for me.......bay lake....they will go to a good home

i like the strawberry and cream ones as well.....but my all time favs are Clinkers....made by angels in heaven they are

when i die i want to be buried in a clinker casket....

 

[becpee]

clinkers definately Heavenly

I am also loving milk bottles

and strawberry and creams



and killer pythons



and teeth! I love the teeth!

 

[alicia1506]

milk bottles and strawberries and cream, and raspberries.

and chicos. i love chico babies. i know they're kinda dodgy, but i love them. give me a bag of those and i'm in heaven...

oh my. if it wasn't for this stomach flu, i'd be running out to buy some right now

 

[Marlea98]

Dear Allen's,

Please refrain from putting pineapples in your party mix.

NOBODY LIKES THEM!

Yours sincerely,
The World
X

I like them. But I'd like more bananas and green snakes in them

And I love the chicos.

Both of my nanas worked in the Allen's factory so I'd love it when they came to visit

 

[australiankaren]

so did gym last night and all i wanted was clinkers.....craving hard core...but resisted and just got a wagon wheel instead

16 more days off this nightmare....

 

[becpee]

I feel like *hit.

Walked DS to school, will walk to pick him up, which means I am able to chug bourbon from the bottle if I feel the need

I need something to kill the bleugh

 

[australiankaren]

I feel like *hit.

Walked DS to school, will walk to pick him up, which means I am able to chug bourbon from the bottle if I feel the need

I need something to kill the bleugh

clinkers

here to help

i have a library full of loud yr 10's, the yr 12's are trying to study, the yr 7's are doing robotics and the staff are getting into full moon mode......

roll on holidays

 

[Marlea98]

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i have a library full of loud yr 10's, the yr 12's are trying to study, the yr 7's are doing robotics and the staff are getting into full moon mode......

roll on holidays

Karen, I've got prep so I won't swap for all the pineapples in the party mix

Yep, roll on the holidays - where I get to referee my own two kids

 

[KiwiMouseGirl]

Woo! In the next few week’s i’ll be shifting into the master bedroom at my parents house. We’ve been doing house renovations for a while now and they have added on their brand new bedroom to the back of the house, so I get their old one  It’s got a walk in wardrobe and an ensuite (which is pretty MEAN) I get to play interior decorator for the next few weeks! So will be taking a little break from the gym! I’ve found these really awesome pilates videos that look like an intense workout, so once im all shifted into my new room i’ll start slogging my guts out doing those. I think i’ll put my gym membership on hold for a month or so and see if just doing these pilates videos on their on are enough of a workout. Im planning on doing a mixture of videos including some cardio, a high intensity workout and the rest will be pilates. Pretty sure i’ll be sweating like a pig at the end of it HAHA! You guys should check them out on YouTube. Just search for “pop pilates” I’m planning on doing her bikini blaster series.

 

[australiankaren]

gym.....
pump on monday
soft start tuesday
ate my body weight in carbs last night, so I think I may have cancelled any good I have done so far....

15 more days of this ..........

when i get to LAX, the first thing i'm doing is getting a burger and chips...with diet coke of course

 

[mindy32]

Ugh so frustrated! Weighed in this morning, no loss (100g gain actually). I've never exercised so much! 6 days a week. Yesterday I walked the dog for 30 mins, then did another 8pm walk on the treadmill plus 15 mins hand weights. I swear I better loose weight next week lol

 

[australiankaren]

Ugh so frustrated! Weighed in this morning, no loss (100g gain actually). I've never exercised so much! 6 days a week. Yesterday I walked the dog for 30 mins, then did another 8pm walk on the treadmill plus 15 mins hand weights. I swear I better loose weight next week lol

i hear you

I have dropped a whole..1.2kg.....just kill me now.....

at least i havent put it on I guess

 

[alicia1506]

the last few days, i have managed to get most of our plans for our 2013 trip into place.. i was trying to make things fit one way, and then another, going backwards and forwards with the calendar to try and avoid work commitments, social commitments, birthdays, father's day, you name it, it was causing some kind of issue with my trip planning, and no matter what, i couldn't get the right number of days in the right places to work and for the right price.. and then 2 days ago, i looked at things again, realised there was a perfect window of opportunity, looked online at prices, looked at dates, and realised... it fit PERFECTLY.

i have now dispatched itineraries and pricelists off to the others who will be coming on the trip so that i can get started locking in those dates/times/plans asap.

this long winded lead up is to say that we are locked into a trip in september 2013 now and i have to get cracking.

i have made a commitment that i will be riding Forbidden Journey at Universal Orlando in September next year which means that i have some weight to burn off. That ride is terrible, because not only do you have to sit in a pre-moulded seat (and by seat, i mean coffin, as it is a vertical box like contraption) that is only so wide with no wiggle room whatsoever, but there is an over the shoulder harness that comes down and needs to click into place 3 times before they will "clear" you to ride... currently i have no hope of riding it with the size of my tummy/chest/butt so i am adamant that i will be dropping this weight over the next year.

watch this space.

 

[australiankaren]

the last few days, i have managed to get most of our plans for our 2013 trip into place.. i was trying to make things fit one way, and then another, going backwards and forwards with the calendar to try and avoid work commitments, social commitments, birthdays, father's day, you name it, it was causing some kind of issue with my trip planning, and no matter what, i couldn't get the right number of days in the right places to work and for the right price.. and then 2 days ago, i looked at things again, realised there was a perfect window of opportunity, looked online at prices, looked at dates, and realised... it fit PERFECTLY.

i have now dispatched itineraries and pricelists off to the others who will be coming on the trip so that i can get started locking in those dates/times/plans asap.

this long winded lead up is to say that we are locked into a trip in september 2013 now and i have to get cracking.

i have made a commitment that i will be riding Forbidden Journey at Universal Orlando in September next year which means that i have some weight to burn off. That ride is terrible, because not only do you have to sit in a pre-moulded seat (and by seat, i mean coffin, as it is a vertical box like contraption) that is only so wide with no wiggle room whatsoever, but there is an over the shoulder harness that comes down and needs to click into place 3 times before they will "clear" you to ride... currently i have no hope of riding it with the size of my tummy/chest/butt so i am adamant that i will be dropping this weight over the next year.

watch this space.

great motivation.......we all have our goals..mine is to try and not look too chunky in my bikini....as I hate one peace suits, i have a long torso and the suits cut me in half.....

i guess a tan may make me look slimmer, as i sure as hell wont be at my goal weight of 69.9kg in 2 weeks

b00bs bugger bum...

oh well, back to ponies

 

[mindy32]

Sucks doesn't it Karen! Yay on a loss for you though.

Sounds exciting Alicia, looking forward to hearing all your plans! Great motivation there. Mine is to not look as crap in our US photos as I did in our Europe ones!

 

[australiankaren]

http://allears.net/din/rev_lowcarb.htm

printing it off now

 

[becpee]

Day 2 of feeling like crap

Came home from work early, having my legal sick day tomorrow...

Such is life

Won't be walking tonight, feeling extremely unattractive with my Rudolph honker...

 

[australiankaren]

Day 2 of feeling like crap

Came home from work early, having my legal sick day tomorrow...

Such is life

Won't be walking tonight, feeling extremely unattractive with my Rudolph honker...

man , you cant be sick..only 13 sleeps for you

I just glen 20'd the entire library much to everyone's disgust/ heckling...but they know I'm going on hols so my health comes before anything...and hey, it only kills 1 in 100