A few months ago when The Biggest Loser was starting on TV we had a biggest loser weight loss challenge on All for Women. The challenge ran for 12 weeks, and the winner was to receive $100 as well as the satisfaction of hopefully losing some weight. It started off well with lots of people interested in joining in, but in the end there was only Kay and I left. I was crowned the winner after losing 6kg and got to keep my money..score!

After a discussion on Plurk with Rah who is also trying to lose weight at the moment we decided to challenge each other to a Bloggest loser challenge. It seems I can only lose weight when competing against others LOL.

So tomorrow the challenge starts, everyone is welcome to join in!

Rules are easy, weigh in will be on Sundays, so the first week is a bit of a warm up, so you can jump in when you can. The challenge will run for 12 weeks, starting tomorrow, the 7th July.

To join in, just make a post about the challenge and leave a comment and I will link to you from the challenge page (work in progress) In your post let us know your goals for the challenge and how you hope to achieve them. You don’t have to reveal how much you weigh if you don’t want to…just how much you wish to lose and your loss each week

My goal for the 12 week challenge is to lose 8kg. My plan will me similar to my previous gym program. It will be a little modified for the next few weeks as we are currently on 2 weeks school holidays, so it makes it hard to get there everyday. Also packing and the stress of moving will hopefully help to lose some kg too.

So come on..don’t be shy. Join Rah and I. Patric has desinagted herself cheer squad

This is the torture chamber cycle room at the gym. Pretty, no? Looks much spiffier in the pic than in person actually..tho I do love the vinyl they use, it’s so cool and looks just like floorboards. Would love to have me some of that, be great for cleaning cat vomit off I’m sure.

Anyway..

The lights on the walls change all purtty colours too,a lovely pink, purple and blue. Not sure if it helps you ride any better, but I always love having them on LOL

Gots me one of those spiffy padded seat covers. The seats mose well be a bare pole that you sit on for the pain it inflicts on your nether regions.

Padded seat is very noice!

Have really been enjoying the classes, especially Fridays..she is the best instructor and she gave me a gold star yesterday

So it has been 3 weeks on the new program. Annoyingly have yet to do a full week, with appointments and a bloody cold have only done 4 days. I was getting super pissed off with no change on the scales since the holidays. I was starting to feel a little different in my pants, but thought that could have just been a figment of my imagination.

Was super pleased to discover I’d dropped 1.5kg this week, so I hope this means it’s back on track for a regular kg a week..would be very happy with that.

It’s been a few weeks since the gym reopened and it has been fun playing around on all the new toys and trying out the classes. Some new, and some I had done years ago (it’s funny how you never remember just how much they make you hurt, bit like childbirth I think LOL)

So have settled on a new program starting from Monday. They better not go and change the timetable!

Mondays

• Cycle class
• Pilates

estimated calories burnt = 810

Tuesdays

• 30mins Treadmill (with treadmill trainer more on that later)
• 20mins Bike
• 30mins weights

estimated calories burnt = 700

Wednesdays

• Pump
• maybe pilates..or not

estimated calories burnt = 500

Thursday

• 30mins Treadmill (with treadmill trainer more on that later)
• 20mins Bike
• 30mins weights

estimated calories burnt = 700

Fridays

• Cycle class
• Body Balance

estimated calories burnt = 1050

Sounds good on paper at least!

Weekends off, tho there is a Sunday morning cycle class that could be tempting. Still trying to talk the man pet into trying it. I think he is scared after the week of crying and complaining I did after the first class, but it didn’t hurt after the first one…bloody wuss.

I mentioned before about using treadmill trainer for my treadmill work outs. I found it a few months ago when I first started at the gym and it is FANTASTIC! I honestly never thought I could actually RUN, but this really helped get me going, and I think it was the main factor in the first 6kgs I lost ( I was the weiner of the Biggest Loser challenge we had at AFW, and no it wasn’t cause all but 1 other person gave up!)

Ignore the spammy looking sales pages, if you are anything like me and usually close the tab as soon as you see one..it is worth the read. And no, I’m not getting anything for posting about it..it really is just great!

It is an mp3 that you put on your mp3 player (or phone if yours has had an unfortunate accident such as mine *cry*) you can run outside, or on a treadmill. Basically you get this trainer guy (who to me sounds just like Yaro Starak) telling you when to run. Level one is made up of a 4min warm up, and then some interval training which is the key to getting you running, without you really knowing it. I went from not being able to run at all to a full 10mins. Really looking forward to getting back into it and seeing how much I can increase (probably have to start back from scratch now)