Tough week - and a bite of chocolate

The kilograms and centimetres are continuing to fall off our weight-loss champion Vanessa Pringle as she learns how to say no to barriers and a certain naughty food.

I can't - it's an easy word to say and boy did I throw it around when I had my gruelling personal training session with Brett.
I think I lost count of the number of times I said "I can't jump up on the high box", "I can't lift that", "I can't possibly do pull-ups".
And you know what?
He supported me all the way, told me that I could do it and I have to laugh because I actually did do all the exercises he asked me to.
It was a lightbulb moment when I realised I had put a barrier up for myself without even thinking, so from now on I have wiped the word "can't" from my vocabulary.
Sunday morning was the day I knew I had worked hard at Brett's awesome training session as my muscles felt like they had been used as Mike Tyson's punching bag. Thank goodness I could still walk.
I hope that you all took the chance to walk around Mauao last week when the weather was lovely and sunny - how did it go?
My tip this week is for people who have the infamous gym membership and have been two or three times but not been back.
If your gym is close to work, why not park your car so that you have to go past the gym - then you can have no excuse. Or even better, get a friend to go as well and then you have to go.
If you have been thinking about joining but are not sure, why not pop into a gym and ask if you can have a free trial for a week and see if you like it. If you find you don't enjoy it then it hasn't burnt a hole in your pocket.
In regards to my journey at the gym, I know I have said that I want to lose 12kg in 12 weeks but I have since learned that other things are going to change, like muscle size.
I was pretty hard on myself at the weigh-in until Brett explained that muscle weighs more than fat so my loss of 5.66 per cent body fat was a huge success in just 14 days.
I have already lost 5kg of fat and have gained around 2.8kg of muscle, which helps burn the fat as it raises my metabolism.
The only gutting thing about losing fat is that I don't get to choose where my fat is taken off. I've lost 2cm off my bust and only 1mm off my biceps but a mammoth 6cm off my waist.
My next weigh-in is on Thursday, so make sure you read next week's column to check out my progress. The rest of the week consisted of eating one piece of chocolate, going to uni and getting up early to go to the gym six times in a week.
Haha, did I get away with that? Or did you just read it?
I confess - on Monday night I ate one square of chocolate and I got the guilts something chronic, but I am human, and I did tell you I would be honest.
Sorry Brett, it won't happen again.