Exercise over the weekend

Lots .....

Did quite well with it, but could have done better.

Friday night did spinning and then studio strength, and worked hard in both.

Saturday went for a very brisk 1 hour walk. Had a bit of pain in lower back from a cow pulling me on saturday morning, so didn't make spinning as i wanted to rest it an make sure i could do my walk with the girls on the sunday morning.

Sunday did about 6-7 miles with the girls from the gym that are starting to train for the moon walk in May in London. It was very muddy, but loved every minute of it.
I then did Aerobics, Studio and spinning last night. I was very careful with the weights in studio as my back was still a little sore. It feels better when I am walking and fine at spinning, so as long as I am careful it should be ok.

Food wise quite good over the weekend, no alcohol except a small mug of gluvine whilst on the walk with the girls, but i have been under syns all three days. I am also trying to very steadily reduce my portion sizes, and i am now only having one slice of bread with my breakfast. I had a little sneeky weigh on my home scales and it was reporting a 2lb loss, which is a little disappointing with all the hard work I feel i have put in, but not getting to dispondant till I have had my official weigh in tonight. So for the moment its a case of fingers crossed and wait and see !!!!!!!

week 85 Weigh in

A satisfactory result due to have three meals out a loss of 1½lbs. That is 8½ lbs in three weeks, the disapponting thing is that i put 14lbs in 2 weeks over xmas !!

But at least it is comming off and I am feeling quite fit at the moment, allthough I have got to improve in the gym. I have got to get my times better on the rower. And get back to more cardio in the gym. I am going to try and do some extra in the gym on saturday.

Food wise this week I did have a meal out last night, but that is it now till next week, so i should be on for a loss this week. I would like to have a 2-3lb loss, cause I have lots of exercise planned between now and Sunday and I am going to work hard to achieve the results.
Spinning & Studio Strength later today so that should help as well and the same booked tomorrow.

I have been writing down all my food and exercise in a book and that is really helping, and also I have found out that my BMR is 1720, but i am going to try and find out a bit more about that. Isn't the internet a wonderful thing !!!

week 84 Weigh in

A great loss of 4lb. Really pleased that my hard work of last week paid off. I am gong to try and work harder this week cause i know that it will harder. I was Slimmer of the week this week, and it has been a long while since I have done that. I would like to get it again soon.

I did have a few more original days than i was going to have, but it has worked so I am going to keep up the good work. I have one meal out planned this week, and one night when I am not sure what will be happening food wise. But i know for sure both nights I wont be drinking, as I am going to drive both of them.
I am going to go for a walk every day this week at lunchtime as well, unless the weather is really bad, and that should help things along.
Fitness goals this week are more walking and improve rowing times and distance in the gym, whilst still doing other classes. I can see improvements with the weights in my studio strength classes.

The weekend

Well I did lots of exercise and i am back on track with my weights at studio strength. I have got to start increasing the walking, and get back in the gym more. I need to improve on the rower and xtrainer. But there is time to do that.

Food wise not too bad and I am expecting a loss at weigh in tonight, and i do deserve it this week. It feels good to be back in control, and even when I had an impromptu invite out for lunch yesterday, i knew it wasn't going to ruin my whole week. But also I had been for a walk in the morning and went to the gym last night, so hopefully that will have counteracted it.

I am trying to reduce my portion sizes a bit now, as a new aim for 2009. Because i love my food and still love it, i am going to try to scale things down a little and only eat when I am hungry... Apart from breakfast. I do have my big breakfast every day, and that helps me stick to plan for the rest of the day.
On the Slimming World new Extra Easy plan , I have been getting on ok with it but i do enjoy my healthy extras and have found myself reverting back to original, quite a few days last week. I think I am going to use extra easy every now and then rather than the norm, as I know i can loose weight very successfully on original.

Anyway i am looking forward to weigh in tonight, which is a good feeling, and looking forward to the gym tommorrow.

How the diet is going

Still going well been really good for over a week now, maintaining exercisie levels, and getting back into a bit of a zone.
I have been doing the Slimming World Extra Easy plan but the last couple of days I have gone back to original, but only cause it was easier.
Motivation is still high, and I am looking forward to getting through this week with all days on plan. Just need a good loss at the end of the week as a reward. I may have a little sneeky peek on the scales on friday morning just to see how things are going.

New Years Resolutions

My New Years Resolutions

There aren't many but at least if they are wrote down at another point in time I can see if I achieved them, which will be interesting in December.

Obviously number 1 is to loose the weight I put on before Christmas and over Christmas, and then another two stone. I am not ready to say how much i put on yet, but I am working very hard to get it off

2. Get fitter and try to run. I live in the countryside and would love to be able to do some running, down side to this is that i live on a great big hill

3. go to bed earlier. A silly one but after comming home from the gym and having a bath i then seem to spend too many hours in front of the tv catching up with the sky plus.

4. Get to work earlier, i have got in to a bad habbit of just getting to work on time, i used to be a real early bird, i have no problems getting up for show's, it seems harder for work.

5. get on top of my spare room, that is full of clutter, and clothes that no longer fit, that I have been going to list on Ebay

Well there they are.... not an exhaustive list, but it is still written evidance

Week 84 Weigh In

Finally good news to report and i am back on track and feeling more in control.
A loss of 2½lbs which to say they was a new years eve and news day in the week, it was really good. I was trying the new Slimming world Extra Easy Plan, which works.
The new plan allows you to have meat and pasta/potatoes in the same day all free. It was a bit wierd but got me through new year sucessfully. My aim is to have a loss at every weigh in during January, that should help me get back on track.

This week i should have nothing at all to throw me off track, and there will be no alcohol drunk at all for the next few weeks. At least !!!! I have the gym planned most of the week, and i am going to start to vary things a lot more. I went on the rower on Saturday before spinning and I realised i need to actually go in the gym more to get some variety. I have booked in for aerobics, studio strength, spinning and the gym this week. I am even going to do more walking at the weekend and possibly walk up town a bit at lunchtimes.

I am not going to write about my final target till I am 10lb awayfrom it cause as soon as I set it last time, I started to fail. All the way along when i never set a target i kept loosing, so i amd just going to keep plodding away at it for the time being, and just want to get back in to a pattern of actually loosing weight. I do have a couple of mini targets in mind, one of which is a challenge with an online buddy I have on a Slimming World Forum, which is a race to 13 stone, which will take me a while but I will get there. Also I want to have lost weight for the start of the cattle showing season in May which is when the food and drink becomes more of an issue.

Anyway the gym later and an original day for me today as I have lots of Lamb to eat up and tonight i have the rest of it, so it seemed easier to go back to basics today. Also the original and green days are going to shift the weight off quicker, and I could do with a New year boost to shift some of the Christmas weight that is going to take a while to get rid of !!!!!!
Anyway Motivation is sky high now, and I hope going to last for a good long while.

Last weeks WI week 82

It was bad news but I went and found exactly where I was, and went away thinking I would not have a gain next week.
I managed to control New Year and make it 24hours off track, from 6pm till 6pm. After that i got back on track and didn't leave it till today the 5th to get back on track.
Weigh in tonight should be good, and one of my new years resolutions is to blog more often
I promise !!!