One more Saturday to go!

Ahn nyeong ha se yo,

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I had a pretty good one. As per my last post, Saturday was SUPPOSED to be my last day at Optus. I gave 2 weeks notice, and with next Saturday being ANZAC day, I thought the shop would be closed. It’s not. So one more Saturday to go. Oh well. At least I get double time & a half!!!

So – what have I been up to? Friday I went to see a movie with Andrew – we were going to see a 6:20 session at Broadway, but as I wanted to do some exercise after work, we put that back to the 9:20 session. This gave me a chance to do 30 mins on the cross trainer, and also walk home & get changed. I met Andrew at 8, and we walked to a great Steakhouse that Jeremy & I discovered in Broadway. It was yumm! It was the first time I had seen Andrew since the end of January and he thought I looked quite different! We saw ’17 again’ by the way – and it was great! Really funny and a great story line – highly recommended.

Saturday was my ‘day off’ in the program. Despite this I still ate well. I went out to Kings Cross to celebrate beautiful Renae’s 30th birthday. I was going to eat at Kings Cross beforehand – but I was not looking forward to some potential bad fast food. Then I remembered the steak in my fridge! It was the last day I could eat it too! So that was yum. I managed to get a bit of exercise walking from where I parked the car down the hill too.

Sunday I got up reasonably early – for me – and went to the gym. I normally have the gym all to myself on a Sunday morning, but this time there were a couple of babbling older women there – which was really annoying. Despite this I got in a really good workout. I started with some weights. Row, Chest Push-out, Lat Pulldown, Tri’s, Bicep curls & Chest squeeze. I did 3 sets of each, 12 reps in each set. I then did some cardio – and varied what I did. 10 mins on the bike, 20 mins on cross trainer, 5 mins on the rower (I did 1200 metres this time!), and 10 mins, interval on the treadmill. 45 mins in total. I then did another 2 sets of the above weights. I felt good afterwards and worked up quite a sweat!

I had a really healthy dinner last night too – 280 gm Ling fillet, with Lemon Pepper & 2 of my fave fresh vegies – Squash & Zucchini. It was very nice. I’ve also updated my dessert this week. I was eating Ski D’light yoghurt, but despite being quite good, and low in fat, there is a higher sugar content. I have now moved to Dairy Farmers ‘Thick & Creamy’ light, which has low fat AND low sugar. And rather than eating a small tub, I bought a large tub, eating a smaller amount, but adding it to some fresh fruit! This week it’s fresh strawberries & blueberries – which are very good for you and high in vitamins and antioxidants!

I jumped on the scales this morning – 131.1kgs! – only 1.2 kilos to go to reach my target for the month! The 120’s are SOOO CLOSE! I have also revised my weight loss tracker. I had a graph that alternated between a 1kg loss, and a 2kg loss week by week. I.E. 1.5 kg’s per week. This, whilst not too far off, is not entirely realistic. So I have updated it to a more sustainable 1 kg per week loss. Based on this, I am tracking under target – 19 kg’s in 16 weeks! See the graph below.

Also today something happened that made me smile – I caught my reflection in the mirrored finish of the elevator. I do look different. My stomach really does not protrude like it used to. It’s great to see results like that.

So that’s me to-date. I’ve got my personal training session today at 2:30 – I think I’m gonna get whipped!

See ya!