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“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”- Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger

FIGURING OUT THE FIFTIES.... SO THIS IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT.......

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Wednesday... Hump Day..... Oh look I have one!

Yes Wednesday is Hump day, middle of the week, once you are over Wednesday its all down hill to to the weekend...

My Wednesdays are also back to being my weigh and measure day... So that makes it a half day (well I finish at 1pm) at work, home for meal number 3 then jump in the car and head up the coast to see the fabulous Kelli...

She is so positive and inspiring and my results for this week were a bit bizarrely awesome...

After 5 days of detox dieting I had lost 3.1kg of what I assume is the buckets of water my body had decided to carry around with it in case I suddenly found myself lost in a desert in the wilds of Bribie.... I wouldn't have needed to find a camel.. I could have BEEN the camel, I even have the hump.. more on that soon...

After Day One of no carb pre-contest diet I had gained back 400gms of that loss, which made perfect sense to me... more meals, lots of green vegetables and an extra litre of water to drink...

So without the excessive buckets of water hanging off me the calipers were a lot kinder to me this week showing.....

A loss of 14mils and a drop down to 14.93% bodyfat.. YAY!

My lean muscle did drop as well but only by 300gms :o)

Now I always find the way my body holds its fat deposits intriguing... I realise that most women hold any extra tough to remove padding on their bums and thighs, but I am lucky that the Gods of genetics smiled and felt like a change and added the legs from my 5 foot tall mum with amazing legs (yes still amazing even at 84) but then gave me Dads height (5 foot 9) and topped it off with Mums non existent bum... thank you!!

No problems with my legs and bum... on the other hand my stomach just looooves to hang on to the padding... I have a feeling, nothing scientific apart from the odd thing in a paragraph picked up here and there over the years from medical journals, that as well as a little genetic help from Mum the stomach issue may have a bit to do with the me having to use Thyroxine after the total removal of my thyroid....

So this is where my fat sits and waves and pokes its tongue out at me as the rest of my body happily sheds the stuff.. well my stomach and... weirdly enough.... the lump of fat that seems to lurk on my back..... in one place... hump like.... which I can't see.... no matter how fast I turn around... or check in the mirror... even using the special changing room at Target mirror...and having this invisible hump of fat makes me want to squint, bend over leaning slightly to the right, slide my foot along behind me and mumble "yesssssth Marrrsthurrrr" like Quasimodo... yep every time my subscapular measurement is done "yessssth Marrsthturrrr" rings in my head... LOL

So I was pleased to see a drop of 4.4mils from my Abs and bugger me only 0.8mils from my back... Damn hump! Oh well it is hump day I suppose...

I'm loving doing cardio every morning on an empty stomach... and although training at night has been a little messy so far due to the greater number of people using the machines in the evening, I now have a new program from Kelli and those guys sitting around on the hand weights had better learn to jump if they get in my way now... Although I have found that by just giving them "The Look" that all Mothers and Nana's have in their arsenal of punishment weapons I have little trouble attaining the weights I require... hehehehehe

Ohhhh and FINALLY oats arrive back into my plate tomorrow morning!!! I have missed them o bad!!! They won't be eggy oats, but at least they will be oats... sigh... bliss...

4 comments:

mq01 said...

yeah!! great progress to goal..and oats, yumm!!

Trainer T.s Fitness said...

Congrats on gettting oats back I love them!

Your leaning out really great I can't believe how awesome your doing... woot!

Tara said...

sensational results on your skinfolds Cathy!!! what a relief that must be :)

enjoy your thursday, one more day then the weekend!! xx

Chelle said...

Awesome results cathy!!! its amazing how well a detox works to rid the body of excess buckets lol... cant wait to meet you this weekend!!!