My 2012 Body

I know I know, what a cliche! A diet in January? I blabber on about diets a lot; at work, at the gym on twitter, and now on my little old blog. I'm sorry, I can't help it I love a bit of a weight loss gossip. So here I am again talking about diets...
As most of you know I lost about 47lbs over about a year and a half. I'm so proud of this but I've hit a plateau. I cannot get down past the 10 stone I now weigh. I've always dreamed of a flat stomach so now I want to make it happen. 


I get requested a lot to do videos on how I lost the weight etc, I've made a couple of videos so far but it's January I intend to make a lot more. 
I'm thinking of vlogging my mission for a flat stomach and my new weight loss goals as well as making more recipe posts etc. I want to know if this is something you are all interested in and exactly what kind of videos you would like to see. Be specific people! Weekly weigh ins? Recipes? What I eat? How to tone the abs? A gym vlog? Just let me know.


I've also taken 'before pictures' ahhh scary! Which I may be posting after I reach my goal so you can see before and after. 


My goals are as follows:


Lose 12lbs
Tone and Flatten my Stomach
Drink 2 liters of water EVERY day
Try new vegetables
Cut down on booze 
Be able to Run 5k


Fancy joining me in my challenge to get a flat stomach? Feel free to tweet me, comment or just drop me an email :) What are your diet, fitness and health goals for 2012? x

Diet Talk...

Before

After

Still a long way to go, but 3/4 of the way there! :)

I feel guilty writing this post for two reasons: one, I just ate half a brownie and I'm 'preaching' to you about weight loss and two, I haven't blogged or youtubed anywhere near as much as I said I would. I could list a bunch of ligitamate reasons as to why I have been MIA but all you really need to know is I've had a 'catch up' day today and hopefully I will be posting a lot more.

Last monday (yes I know five days ago) I weighed myself and I'd lost a 1 lb... not amazing by any means and not quite on track for my 8lb weight loss but atleast its something. 7lbs to go and three weeks to do it in! Good Luck Me!

This week I have been a little strickter (minus the tiny bit of brownie) but not amazing with the exercise! My goals for the rest of week 2 and week 3 are to:

Lose 2lbs (Week 2) 
Lose 3lbs (Week 3)
Drink TONS of water
Eat more veggies
Try a lot more recipes!
Walk Home after work and college
Do my Davina DVD atleas twice

Good Luck to all you dieters out there! Next 'weight loss' post should be up on monday so I can let you know how I've done this week!

Love,
Onna x

What I love to eat :)

Breakfast: Mango & Rasberry Smoothie

Serves 2

150cals per portion(Roughly)

200-300ml Orange Juice

(Depending on How Thick you like it)

1 Large Banana

1 Handful of Frozen Raberries

1 Chunk of Mango (Chopped)

Whizz all together and viola! So simple and so tasty!

Snacks: 

50g Raisins 

(Roughly 130 cals)

40g Roasted Almonds

(Roughy 200cals)

Use raw almonds, fill an oven tray and use 1/2tsp of Olive Oil and 2 tsp of Salt (Depending on the size of the batch)then mix them all together. Roast in the over for roughly 20 minutes at around 200ºC (Keep an eye on it, cooking time varies) Leave to cool then portion up!

Remember dried fruits and nuts are very nutritous and filling but they contain a lot of calories so always portion control! 

Dinner: Chicken Tagine

Serves 2

I got this recipe from Kelly at Kelanjo19, it was one of her cooking videos but is no longer up there so I've written out my version of the recipe here:

Ingredients:

1 Large Chicken Breast (or two small ones)

1 Onion

1/2 Red Pepper

1 tsp Ginger

1 tsp of Mixed Spice

1 Handful of Dried Apricots

1/2 Handfuls of Raisins

1 Organic Chicken Stock Cube

Tin of Chopped Tomatoes 

(Mine were whole so I chopped them up)

1 Tsp Dried Oregano

1 Tsp of Chilli (Powder/fresh/Sauce)

1 tsp Honey

Salt and Pepper to Taste

Fried chicken for a few minutes

Add onions, peppers ginger and mixed spice, continue frying until softened (if chilli is powdered add in now)

Crumble in stock cube

Add tomato, small amount of water, salt, pepper, oregano, chilli and honey

Cook down on lowest heat with lid on for 30 minutes

Serve alone or with brown rice or wholegrain pittas

I'm hopefully going to try an brand new recipe tonight, so I shall try and be a good blogger and post the recipe. Let me know any type of meals you would like to see,

Love,

Onna x

Are we skinny yet?

I know a lot of you ladies are joining in on my 4 week weight loss Challenge so firstly I just wanted to say a quick thank you to for all your support and positivity. Its so lovely to have lots of you wanting to join in and I can't wait to read your tweets and posts about your weight loss (Feel free to send me links via twitter)

I got a couple of people saying they were too nervous or self-concious to join in with the challenge, but please don't be! Feel free to just join in at anytime and not update me, I want everyone to get healthy and happy for summer.

Just wanted to say good luck and keep up the good work! Here's a few useful links so help you on your way:

Healthy Recipe Blog:

http://www.ohsheglows.com/

My Favourite Workout DVD:

Davina Super Body

Calculator for Calories burned during Exercise:

http://www.fitsense.co.uk/fit_article.php?id=43

Calories Counting:

http://www.fitsense.co.uk/fit_article.php?id=43

BMI Calculator:

http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx

Motivational Blog Post:

http://onnaslittleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-cannot-wait.html

My Fitness Routine: As promised ;) 

Good Luck,


Onna

4 Week Weight Loss Challenge!

I havent done a weight loss post in ages, its about time I did! Was going to post this in video form but I have to get up at 6am so I don't have time. Most of you know (I blab on about it enough) that I lost around 2 and a half stone last year, but my weight recently has come to a complete plateau. I'm sick of feeling chubby and feelings sorry for myself so I thought I better do something about it! The best way to break a weight loss plateau is to shake things up! 

The Challenge is to lose 8lbs in 4 weeks, starting from tomorrow, monday morning. 

Each week I'm going to set myself three mini goals to help towards my weight loss. This week they are: 

Go running at least once

Avoid Coffee ALL week

Try one new healthy recipe and blog about it

At the end of each week I'll make a Vlog telling you how much weight I've lost and how that week has been. If you want to see these just go subscribe to my youtube channel. 

For anyone who wants to join me in my weight loss journey you can comment on any video or post, or just tweet me and let me know how you are doing... obviously blog posts and videos would be amazing!

I'm going to do a post tomorrow(while in college, teehee) my fitness plan for the month. I want to get as much cardio in as possible (without injuring myself) as add a lot of strength training to my routine so tone up for the bikini season. 

As for my diet as always I'm going to stick to around 1200-1500 calories but I'm going to try and experiment with foods and eat more vegetables. I'm going back to drinking 3 bottles of water a day as I have been slacking recently, and I'm going to try and drink more green tea. Let me know if you want any posts about my diet!

Good Luck,

Onna