One more week to go! (till end of Rd 1 2013)

Haven't forgotten about my blog as such. Just haven't felt like I've had much to write about.
This weekend was a red flag weekend.. Oh glorious cake.. I love making them just as much as i love eating them :| To top it off I decided to try making cake pops with the left overs (it was an iggle piggle cake so I had offcuts I didn't want to go to waste.

What I found though, probably since I was so active during the cake making, I was still losing weight (while I was sampling bits of cake, icing etc...)
Though after the cake making, I did notice putting on weight - no cake making workout to offset it.

BUT... all the cake is gone thank god... It is my weakness. Just like chocolate and most sweets.

Some things I have noticed over these weeks of transformation.

I feel MSG, Aspartame and dairy might not agree with me. Whenever I consume these products I go through a stage of feeling like I cannot get a full breath and my right ear gets blocked. When I was younger I had my breathing checked whenever I felt like this, but the Dr said my breathing was fine. I was getting a full breath.. I just felt like it wasn't a full breath (hope that's understandable!). Dairy... I'm not sure if it is or not...I think when I have skim milk it's not as bad..

So weigh in for week 11... 78.7kg! Wahoo... 2.3kg to go to my 20kg gone... I was hoping to do it by the end of the round.. but I only have myself to blame! Going to get to 20kg gone by the start of wk1 round 2.

Speaking of which, I have signed up for Round 2 of 12wbt. I thought I might do it alone as I have all the tools to keep going with weight loss, but I thrive when I need to report to someone... Having the charts the ritual of wednesday weighins I feel is what drives me to do better... I guess what works eh?

What I have learnt is, everything in moderation. I know it's not advised, but I have been throughout weighing myself everyday. It kind of shows me what I do during my day affects my weight. I am not worried about whether I have a big or little loss or gain, but I can see what affect of my food especially has on my each day.

Last week I was able to run 15 mins non stop for the first time on a treadmill. Now though I can't be eff'd. I'd rather do 30 mins on the cross trainer with 10 mins of 30 sec on 30 sec off sprints afterwards.

Still my upper body strength concerns me, but I am still plugging away at it. I feel the muscles in my arms now which is nice :)

I have started buying size 14 clothes. It feels so good to be able to try on clothes that fit now :) I used to feel so depressed at the thought of needing to look for clothes, because I just knew it wouldn't sit properly on me.

Anyway... time to rest up and hit the gym tomorrow!