Someone said it!!!

Someone said it! For the first time, a random person who doesn’t know me that well – a person in the team next to me at work – approached me in the kitchen at work and said those 4 magical words…. “Have you lost weight?”. Yay! Thanks Paula!

I was starting to feel a little downhearted too. I have been at the same weight since Monday. No matter what time of day I step on the scales, it has shown me that same ruddy weight every time! I’m beginning to hate that number!!! And i’m so close to being able to announce that I’ve lost 10 kilos that it is very frustrating!!!

So what have I done this week?

Monday – walked home from work, then stopped in at North Sydney pool and swam 8 laps. I know it’s less than the 10 I did on Sunday, but I swam differently – really powered each lap and my arms were pretty buggered! Food – lunch, Mexican wrap – mince beef, beans, salsa etc. Dinner, steak & vegies – nothing bad!

Tuesday – was going to go to Balmoral with Neil, but it was pretty horrible weather – so after I walked home (and was soaked by the rain) Neil & I drive back to work and we went to the gym. I did 10 minutes on the Cross trainer, and then another 20 minutes on the treadmill doing intervals – 2.5 min fast walking, .5 mins running. Then I did a small amount of weights. Food – lunch, Balsamic chicken salad. Dinner, marinated lamb chops and vegies – I did have something bad though – a 50gram bag of chips – I saw my favourite at the petrol station – Smiths ‘Big Red’ – tomato sauce flavour I thought was off the market!

Wednesday – walked home, and then spent a couple of hours cleaning. I really had a lot of stuff to do so lots of washing and putting away – the most physical, which did draw a sweat was the vacuuming. Food - lunch, Moroccan lamb salad. Dinner, Minestrone soup. I also had a Chomp. Bad me.

I had lunch at Wagamama today – my farewell lunch with my management team – it was my first time to Wagamama – and it was really nice. I had Ginger Chicken noodles with chilli. Yummy! I’ll update what I do for exercise tomorrow – I don’t even know what I’m going to do yet!

C-ya!

Off the wagon... then on again...

Well I had a couple of days last week where I did not quite stick to the plan. I think I tripped whilst riding the wagon, and I partially fell off. So my main problem was Friday and Saturdays – I don’t think I deal with the heat well.

Friday I still walked home – I just didn’t do anything else. And I still ate well.

Saturday – it was a stinker as we all know, and I worked all day. I had a can of Sunkist – non diet :-( - with lunch. Lunch was good – thai chicken salad with lots of chilli – it was HHHOOOOTTTT! In the arvo and evening I was bad 2 more times. I had a vanilla slice from the patisserie, and an ice-cream when I went to the movies.

However – the guilt from those 2 days spurred me to ‘fix’ myself yesterday. I had a cruisy day in the morning, and at 4pm headed out for another big walk – and a swim. I walked for over an hour, up and down hills through North Sydney & Waverton. I discovered on this walk that I am definitely much fitter than I used to be. When I did this same walk at the beginning of my journey, there is a street – John St – in Waverton which runs from a park, straight up a fairly steep hill. The first time I did this street, I had to stop about 3 or 4 times to catch my breath. This time though I powered straight up it without stopping once! I was very proud!

The walk went past North Sydney pool where I stopped in to do some laps. For the first time I did 10 laps!! Half a K!! That was great! By the time I got home I was pretty tired.

So I’m motivated again, and well and truly back on the wagon.

And this morning I got on the scales – I’m still losing! Yay!

Sleeeeeep

Felt a bit crook today and headed home from work at lunch time. Had a nice big sleep though this arvo and ready for a new day tomorrow! Let's just hope it's not too hot!

Exercise compilation!

Howdy pardners. Today I was very sore from all my work yesterday - especially the back of my legs from all the squatting, lifting & climbing steps. But even still Neil & I went down to Balmoral to do some extra exercise. So here's what I did...

*walked home - 40 mins

*dips - 5 sets of 25

*crunches - 5 sets of 20

*jogs & sprints - 6 x 50 metres

*swimming - 6 laps x 50 metres

Interesting to see how i'll feel tomorrow!!

Also today I was fiddling with an Excel spreadsheet to track my progress, and also put in goals for the future. Basically I alternate (in the goals) losing 1 kilo, then 2 kilos per week. Below is a graph showing my goal losses, and actual losses. A bit geeky I know but hey.. why not!?!

Over 6 litres!

Today I had the day off to be home for delivery of my new bed - and that meant a lot of work for me. Today involved pulling apart my old futon, completely clearing out my bedroom, and doing a heck of a lot of cleaning. There was so much dust under my old bed, I had to put the hose of my Dyson directly onto the carpet and go over under where the bed was inch by inch. Then there was hauling my old bed frame down to the garage awaiting its new life, and putting the futon mattress in my car and taking that away for its new life as rubbish!

Needless to say - just doing this over a period of about 4 hours, I worked up quite a sweat! My shirt was absolutely sopping wet - and I had a real need for water. I drank over 6 litres of water today and didn't pee once!!!!

For those interested, here are pics of my new bed & new bedspread.

I killed me!

Last week when I started to 'ramp up' my exercise, I started swimming at Balmoral Baths. Day 1 I did 6 laps. Day 2 I did 8. But..

They weren't real laps. I had to stop one or two times per lap to pull up my pants as they kept falling down!! Not due to weight loss or anything - they were tight as - it's just your tummy retracts in water, and is pulled back by the forward motion. I never felt stuffed afterwards.

So this time, despite the tremendous embarrassment, I wore my stretchy pants - knowing they would not fall down! And it worked - I was determined to do 8 laps - only stopping at the ends. I did it!! But at the end I felt real dizzy - which must mean I did good! Only an hour after did I feel better - and felt great for it.

Just keep swimming.....

Well waddaya know....

I stepped on the scales this morning and.... 142kg!!!!!

I hit the target - just a day late :-)

I'll be updating more regularly from now on. Have a good Monday all!