Hello 
I'd like to introduce myself, if that's okay! My name is Nina, I'm 32 (until Wednesday!) a mother of two living in Ireland with my husband and five year old girl and two year old boy.
After having my daughter I lost the baby weight really quickly but not with my little boy! He was actually very sick when he was born and it took until he turned two that I decided 'Right! I'm not comfortable carrying around all this extra weight so it's time to get serious about getting healthy.'
I started early May with my current exercise /eating plan, I'm currently 13 weeks in. I started at 86.8kg and I'm now down to... (drum roll please!
) 86.7kg!! Wow, right?! Practically nothing! Thing is, my exercise plan involves a lot of heavy lifting - hence my username so apparently I'm losing fat and gaining muscle. (You can't see any muscle yet, I've still quite a lot of fat to lose first!)
So it can be a bit of a headmelt to work really hard and feel like you're not getting anywhere when the scales doesn't budge (or goes up!) but fortunately my husband /personal trainer convinced me to take pictures and use those to gauge my progress. It's also hard to set a 'target weight' because pre-babies I was roughly ten stone but I'm almost definitely going to end up heavier after doing weights. My 'target weight' is whatever I weigh when I get my body fat down to a healthy percentage.
So that's my story, sorry for the length! See you all on the boards!
I'd like to introduce myself, if that's okay! My name is Nina, I'm 32 (until Wednesday!) a mother of two living in Ireland with my husband and five year old girl and two year old boy.
After having my daughter I lost the baby weight really quickly but not with my little boy! He was actually very sick when he was born and it took until he turned two that I decided 'Right! I'm not comfortable carrying around all this extra weight so it's time to get serious about getting healthy.'
I started early May with my current exercise /eating plan, I'm currently 13 weeks in. I started at 86.8kg and I'm now down to... (drum roll please!
) 86.7kg!! Wow, right?! Practically nothing! Thing is, my exercise plan involves a lot of heavy lifting - hence my username so apparently I'm losing fat and gaining muscle. (You can't see any muscle yet, I've still quite a lot of fat to lose first!) So it can be a bit of a headmelt to work really hard and feel like you're not getting anywhere when the scales doesn't budge (or goes up!) but fortunately my husband /personal trainer convinced me to take pictures and use those to gauge my progress. It's also hard to set a 'target weight' because pre-babies I was roughly ten stone but I'm almost definitely going to end up heavier after doing weights. My 'target weight' is whatever I weigh when I get my body fat down to a healthy percentage.
So that's my story, sorry for the length! See you all on the boards!
