Teaming up with her sister Kellie, Jodie aims to show her parents the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in the hope they'll follow in her footsteps.
Update 10
Whoops! Didn’t find the time to enter my diary this week!
Update 9
I have had the best week! I’ve dropped another dress size! I was trying on a size 14 skirt the other day and it was too big! My goal was to get to a size 14, but fitting into a size 12 is unbelievable. I can’t wait to get to Finale and feel good in a lovely dress. My back feels better now so it’s all systems go!
Update 8
I feel great. A parent at school has nominated me for the Pride of Australia medal. I am told that I am an inspiration to the young kids that I teach! The subject of overweight children is all over the media and healthy eating and exercise is really being encouraged in our schools. My kindergarten class get a stamp on their hand if they have a piece of fruit for morning tea and it is working as they are eating fewer chips, lollies, etc. I am also doing fitness with the whole grade. I used to watch before, but now I’m fully involved. I can’t believe how good I feel and I’m bursting with energy.
Update 7
I’ve been an emotional wreck this week. I feel like I have too much going on and I am not coping. I made wrong food choices on a couple of days as I was upset. My trainer Matt has spent so much time and energy on me, I really saw how much I was letting him down and I knew that I can’t just think of myself anymore so I forced myself to snap out of it. I have to do this for my trainer, my husband and my family. I am going to step up my training and give it all I have!
Update 6
It was great to catch up with the Second Chance team in Sydney last week. Kellie and I are over our ups and downs and putting it all behind us. We formed close friendships with the Second Chance team, especially the group that came out for dinner with us.
Meal Replacement ambassadors Sam and Alison were so inspiring. I have their support to get me through the last few weeks. We were even privileged enough to be asked to Sam’s 21st birthday. It was temptation heaven but his parents were prepared for us and we were offered healthy food.
Today I went shopping for my Finale dress. I’m only 5.5kg away. The dress has to be ordered from the states and it’s $1,200. I hope it’s Kellie and I standing up there on that stage come Finale. We received great news that our mum is in remission so we have nothing stopping us now.
I am now almost the weight I was when I got married. Whoo! I’ve had a great week. My trainer Matt is getting tough and he is ignoring me whinging every morning. I’m on a real high. I hope this energy and motivation will show up on the scales.
Update 5
My current weight is 90kg. I haven’t lost anything this week and I blame Kellie for ‘pulling the plug’ on it all. It has really got me down. Also, it is my birthday today and the celebrations started on Saturday and will go on all week and will include quite a bit of eating out as I get together with different friends. So Kellie isn’t totally to blame I suppose.
I am very emotional as Kellie has blamed me for the fact that her trainer quit on her. I haven’t been the same since that one! I am hoping she will call me in the next few days so we can get things sorted out. I am an emotional eater and my little sister not talking to me has upset me hugely. Kellie and I have really put our relationship to the test over the past few weeks. It is very hard when one person loses weight and the other doesn’t in a competition like this. We have had many words, made each other cry and got ourselves so worked up. This journey is harder as a couple than I thought, but I just want to let her know I do love her and that I am going to give the next few weeks my all. We will get to Finale and we will say we did it together.
Tomorrow I am due back at the gym with my trainer. Not sure about how I feel about this as after the last session with him I couldn’t walk or bend for three days!
Last night I spent hours throwing out all my big clothes (sizes 18 and 16) and I am now slipping into a size 14 again and it feels great! I have also had some of my favourite dresses taken in.
While I was tidying up I came across last year’s diary where I noted down my weight; it was a massive 107kg! It feels amazingly great to know that I am now so much lighter and that I have dropped almost 20% of my body weight in just a couple of months of taking part in the Second Chance Challenge. I can’t wait to lose the next 10kg. I’m getting so many positive reactions from people that I haven’t seen for a while and everyone wants to try The Biggest Loser Club Meal Replacement products!
The kids at school always told me I looked beautiful, but now they go home and tell their parents that their teacher is ‘a movie star!’ Don't you just love kindergarten?
Update 4
This week I was driving and had my eight-year-old son Jordan in the car. He kept staring at me. I asked him what was wrong and he said, ‘Mum, you used to have these sort of floppy bits hanging from your arms. Where have they gone?’ Wow, even my young son has noticed!
On Saturday I bought a pair of hot pink boxing gloves and pads and a skipping rope. My family are going to help me train on the days I don’t see my trainer. Talking of my family, I just wanted to mention also that just like me, my two children are now looking at calories on every food label. When we go shopping and they pick up a packet of something they might say ‘Too many calories!’ or ‘Way too much sodium in that!’ I can hear myself in them! I thought it was funny but maybe you had to be there!
Update 3
Dear Diary,
We just received an invitation to a friend’s wedding which is about just over two months away. One of my goals is to have lost 15-20% of my original starting weight before this wedding. I have a sexy halter neck dress that I want to wear, so fingers crossed!
I also have my nephew, Jais’s christening at Easter time and I am looking forward to seeing my sister and training with her in Cairns.
Update 2
Well, I have just had my first training session with my new personal trainer Matt and it was the toughest thing I’ve ever had to do. Every time I wanted to give up he would ask, “How bad do you want it?” We started outdoors at Wanda Beach. On the way home I felt like I was going to pass out while I was driving and I just wanted to vomit!
For three days every part of my body ached, but I pushed myself to get out of bed at 5am for training at 6am each day and did the occasional workout on my own, too. Yesterday I met Matt at a wharf near Cronulla Leagues Club; what a picture perfect position to train! The wharf goes between the mangroves out to the water. He made me run along the wharf and at the end near the water we did boxing and a number of other exercises. Oh my goodness, my arms are so sore! It’s great training outdoors and it is very private.
This week, I have kept up my focus; I have never been more determined in my life! I feel great and I am so pleased with myself. Kellie is coming to Sydney next week so I can’t wait to train together.
Update 1
Week one was great! I have started off well. I am very determined to get to my goal weight and I am very pleased with my results. I have a personal trainer, Matt, who will be training me three times a week and tomorrow is my first real training session (we have already had one session but that was all about nutrition). He has been wonderful and calls every day to fire up my motivation and to find out what I have eaten. He told me I was not eating enough.
My son had his eighth birthday party on Sunday and I catered for it. I am proud to say that even with all that party food around, I stayed with my plan. I didn’t even have a taste and I was very pleased with myself!
This week has been extremely busy with concerts, dance concerts and presentation days at school. Now that these things are over though, I’m going to concentrate on exercise.
It’s been wonderful getting the emails from everyone on the Second Chance team. They are very encouraging and motivating. We have a great team of people involved with the Second Chance Challenge and I’m hoping to see every one of them at the Finale.
Thank you for giving Kellie and me this opportunity to change our life. I can’t wait for our mum to see us at the end. She will be so proud of us!