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21 Days of Accountability – Day 21

by Chavah Kinloch on September 1, 2010

I lost all of 100grams this week. Stupid period. I shouldn’t complain, usually I gain 3kg.

BUT get this, in this past one week, I’ve dropped two dress sizes. TWO. That’s right, my weight didn’t move but I dropped a whole heap of fat. Awesome! I told you monitoring this sort of thing helps. :)

This weeks efforts saw me drop another 31cm off my body. I finally lost a bunch off my hips! 7cm these past 7 days, that’s 1 cm a day!

Biggest loss for the week was 8.5cm from around my waist. Underneath this fat suit is actually a tiny waist. I’m a full blown hourglass shape when I’m not stuck as a blob. I cannot wait to see that shape again. I’d rather have the problem that nothing fits because my waist is a size smaller than my chunky butt and hips and broad shoulders;  rather than nothing fits simply because nothing fits.

So the results are in and it’s time for the totals. In 21 days, I have dropped 3.2kg, and lost 95cm of fat. Woo hoo but also… Gross. Bet no one else has a metre of fat on them… and I’m not even close to losing it all.

I calculated my total losses for each measurement the past 21 days and these are the results:

Neck – 2cm

Chest – 13cm

Abs – 19cm

Waist – 26.5cm (Yaaaay!)

Hips – 9.5cm

Thigh – 13.5cm

Calf - 5.5cm

Bicep – 6cm

Pretty good effort I think. Can’t wait to see what next week brings.

Now, I know today is day 21 and I was planning on writing about everything that’s happened in the past 21 days, today. What’s happened though is my husband is in hospital (don’t worry, he’s fine). I will get to my review of the 21 days tomorrow. I’m sure you can understand why, my head space is somewhere else right now.

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21 Days of Accountability – Day 15

by Chavah Kinloch on August 26, 2010

Take Measurements.

Yes, more monitoring. It’s a never ending thing. Dropping the weight takes a lot of planning and monitoring, if you haven’t already noticed…

Well, it does when you’re not doing a quick fix and you go about it on your own.

Obviously the scales tell you how much weight you drop and Jillian from The Biggest Loser would hate me for saying to not just focus on the scale (that’s kind of her job right?) BUT as a regular person trying to get in shape sometimes you just need something to give you hope. There will be times when you need reassurance that something is actually happening. Measurements are great for that. Especially in the early days when you can’t see much of a difference at all.

In saying that, don’t focus only on measurements either. The two should work together. I know from past experience that some days when you lose a small amount on the scale, your measurements can drastically change and sometimes when you only change a few cm’s on your measurements you can drop a massive amount on the scales. For me it’s just something I find interesting to watch and review.

So on Wednesday’s, when I share with you the results from measurements, this is what’s getting measured.

Neck

Chest

Abs

Waist

Hips

Thighs

Calves

Biceps

So today’s challenge – start monitoring. I’ve shown you how to monitor your food, weight loss and now your measurements. I’ll do a post about exercise soon. Trust me, monitoring helps!

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