I currently measure 37-27-37 and I looked up pictures online of women who have my figure and I was gobsmacked … okay look at these … these photos are of a model called Angela Nicole who I look at and think WOW she is one seriously HOT babe!!
But … I have her measurements! I measure exactly the same as she does … so why I am *I* fat and she is perfect? I look at her and think MAN I would KILL to have her figure … yet I have her exact same measurements!!!
It’s not me being all body dismorphic either … I do have a flabby stomach and stretch marks … Angela Nicole’s figure is perfect and toned and gorgeous. According to her stats she weighs 125 too … 7lbs less than I do – but she is also an inch shorter than me. I have to forgive myself a certain amount as I have given birth to two children and been pregnant four times (yes I lost two babies) and I realise that the stretch marks will NEVER go … but if I can get my stomach as toned as hers? Then I reckon I could even actually be happy with my body.
Blimey did I say that?
So … New Plan to get my 37-27-37 figure MORE like Angela Nicole’s …. EXERCISE MORE!! My new regime will start the day I move into the new house (all my exercise stuff is over there! LOL)
Run 3x a week for at least 10 minutes (building up)
My new house is 5-6 minutes drive from the children’s school … and there is a huge great big park literally by the school. I have NO reason not to take advantage of it go for a run when I have done the morning school run. This part of the plan also involves buying new running shoes because of course I have nothing appropriate! If I start off with a ten minute slow walk/jog around the park and then build up to a faster pace and more laps slowly … this will help to tone ALL parts of my body.
Body Pump
I went to body pump classes at the gym religiously twice a week in the past and got into it to the point that I bought my own bar! For a while I was really good about doing it from home twice a week and saving the money on classes … but I got out of the habit. New plan involves doing a body pump routine at least twice a week in the evenings after the kids have gone to bed. I can download the music tracks to work-out to from YouTube. The full body pump class (Les Mills) works out every single major muscle group.
Kickboxing
I’m actually one belt away from being black-belt although I haven’t trained since February and my fitness is probably way down… but kickboxing was always my method of venting ALL frustrations and taking it out on the kick bags … or my partner in sparring! I was actually shit hot at the point I stopped going, and the only reason I stopped going – was money! Kickboxing classes cost £4.50 a week – it’s in the evening and not a problem to take the kids along as there is a room they can sit in with a book / nintendo DS etc … so IF my budget allows, I want to do at least one class a week or heck even every other week! This will have to be a budget based thing though because the classes do cost money.
Sit-ups and stomach toning
This is the biggie and I have to commit to doing sit-ups every other day, but I can do them before bed no problem. I have no idea how many I should be doing though? I guess I am aiming for around 50 then increasing … any advice there?
So yeah … that’s the new plan … to carry on eating as far as my appetite allows (low fat/low cal/healthy options only) … and to increase my exercise. At the same time I promise myself I will try NOT become obsessed about exercise calories / calories consumed and create weird and wonderful excel spreadsheets to calculate the difference!
Progress in Ness-Ville methinks!
It’s what I love about moving to a new place … a chance to change ALL of the rules – for the kids as well as for me!! I AM going to make this work and I AM going to have “the figure I would kill for” by Christmas.
That is realistic yeah? 8 weeks?
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