4 Week Weightloss Challenge Week 1

It’s Monday the 28th of June and as of 7pm tonight it will be the official start of LIFE Magazines 4 Week Weightloss Challenge. The challenge for me started over four weeks as I found myself sat reading through all the applications for the challenge. The Decision was so hard to make but after a week the final ten were chosen and the response of excitement from the congratulation emails was fantastic!



So back to today which is the first day of the challenge emails have been sent, venue, time and meeting point set and I’m now sat waiting to meet all the challengers ………….

After the first session…………….
Well I have to say every single lady worked incredibly hard! The energy and enthusiasm to start something new and make some big changes is fantastic. For my ten challengers their week doesn’t stop they now have workouts, homework and nutrition challenges to take on. Now I am a lady of the real world and I know in an ideal situation you would be able to solely focus on training and nutrition BUT in the real world we get to concentrate on everything but. So everything I set is time adaptable as I know every day life is busy with work and family. The good news is when it comes to nutrition and cooking I am very much like Jamie Oliver in the fact I like it one pot, simple, easy and tasty!

So lets see what some of the ladies had to say

A little note from Emma
Started Monday not as bad as I thought it was going to be and feeling really positive about the next month.
Not eating bread this week = has been a challenge but one that's not as hard to overcome as you would imagine.

Meet Julie ……….. Week 1 - 28th June 2010
First day of SummerWeightloss challenge and I weighed in at 10 stone 3. I am aiming to get down to at least 9 stone 7 during the 4 week challenge. 7pm I set off for Ferry Meadows for group workout feeling very nervous about what awaited me but my nerves soon disappeared. I met Jackie and the other 9 readers who were all really nice and all female! It was a beautiful sunny evening and Jackie had us running up and down, doing lunges (lots of), abdominals and other exercises. My thighs felt like jelly after first 10 minutes! What a great evening it was though and great feeling exercising out in the fresh air. I left an hour and a half later feeling much more energised, much less sluggish and really looking forward to the next 4 weeks. Went to bed feeling very hungry though. Jackie put us on detox for first week with list of forbidden foods and golden rules. She also has given us what exercise we need to be doing over the first week - I seriously need to go shopping for some healthy foods!


Detox was very hard, I've never eaten so healthy and my body is craving sugar. My biggest difficulty has been to give up lattes and replace with drinking around 2 litres of water a day and the second hardest is cutting heavy processed carbs out of my evening meal - there is only so much salad and veg I can take. My cross trainer has come out of retirement and I've had to find somewhere else to hang my clothes! My biggest weakness has been weighing myself daily! By Thursday I had not lost a single pound and was thinking how can this be!! (I like to see immediate results!) I am sure that is is water retention as I know I was dehydrated before I started challenge.


Week 2 - 5th July 2010

I have weighed in at 9 stone 13 that’s a loss of 4 pounds and generally lost half an inch around thighs calf and hips! I am really pleased all the effort has been worth it and feeling more incentivised as one third of my way towards my final goal. Second session down Ferry Meadows was really good and we were really lucky with the weather again. It was also great to hear about how everyone was getting on and how many pounds we had all lost. Everyone really positive and had a really good workout incorporating some of the exercises we will be doing at home this week.


Week 2 Coming Soon

Jaxsx