Balanced Friday

Hey Bloggers



It is friday!!! Yah!!! So far a very clean week of eating again, by Sunday that will make for 21 absolutely clean days, therefore a habit has successfully been formed! Nice.

Exercise front all good, got one more cardio in than last week and had to get a 4th weight session in due to shoulders being odd one out, so it got a dedication session!!! i luv shoulders anyway, always a strong point of mine.

Now I have to get over the weekend with no hiccups! Easy! Quoting Kristin, 'there are no excuses.'

Well work is over I just feel like vegin' with either a good book or a good movie, shame I don't have ahusband who thinks about getting dinner for me a change.

Power walk tomorro around the hills of ormeau. Might even do a run on sunday through the state forest. Better go charge my I-River.

Well here's to a great weekend bloggers!

X:D)

Blue Thursday

Hey bloggers

Don't know what is wrong today but feeling particularly blue today. i had a great morning, got to spend 1/2 hour on shoulders (left the gym floor with a massive sweat up) to move to the cardio section and sweated some more on the elliptical trainer for 30 mins, changing intensity and resistence levels every min.

I got to thinking about friends. Mind you the ones I do have are of total quality. But I don't have someone to discuss my current feelings with without saying 'get over it'. So hard to do when you don't know what is wrong! I really miss a good friend who used to email me all the time and we would talk for ages, but over the last couple of years, things have not been quite right, I can't explain it, it just sort of happened. I can not even pinpoint the time where it all started to change. Soooooooo my point is I am using this blogging spot to discuss what I would discuss with someone who is listening???? Make sense? Not to me!!!!

So what is wrong with me???? LIFE? - no I do have a good one. WORK? - no I have a very easy job that pays very well, travel is a bit of a hassle but other than that, luv working with the boys in construction. HUSBAND? - would like him to see what he is doing to his body, but one of those ozzy ockers that are so set in his way, a bit hard. Easy to live with though as he never doubts or stops me from doing what I want to do. CHILD? - Well - teenagers - what can i say. Typical teenage son who does not help around the house or cleans his room because he is too busy socialising and going to uni. normal! HEALTH? - I am healthy, no illnesses or complaints. LOOKS? - Found it! I guess if you put it down to any one thing, this would have to be it. I am doing something about it but it is the patience that I am lacking. I shouldn't feel this way but i feel cheated. My sister who is 14 months younger than me, 1 foot taller than me and about a size 8-10, has never struggled with her weight. Yet me, I have struggled ever since i hit puberty, so bad that I stopped eating when I was 21, just having 1 cup of coffee and 3 biscuits a day. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have the problem I am experiencing. I guess I have just nailed it, I recently met up with my family and all these feelings have come back. Damn! You can't pick them. Sooooooo now I am going to tell myself..............................GET OVER IT!!!!

Right that did it. Vented, read it, saw how stupid it is. Now onwards.

I am going to do Balance tonight and that always makes me feel relaxed, sore but relaxed. luv the stretching you can get out of a balance workout. Have had good food experiences so far this week, so on track. Only 46 &1/2 weeks to go to reach my long term goal. I will get there.

Bye bloggers, apologies you had to read this crap. Talk to you soon

X:D)

Measures!!!

Well did my measurements and disappointed with the result. Lost some but not a lot. Doing all the right things. Oh well not going to beat myself up on it, onward and forwards. Sue sent me an email to say that patience is the best thing and sometime soon my body will realise it has to lose bodyfat. Slow and steady is the best result.

It is Wednesday already I have managed 3 cardio sessions and 2 long and hard weight sessions. Monday was a killer with Jason and yesterday with my training partner Chris, we nailed legs. Started off with these hack squats where you touch your butt to your heels. Last set had 10kg each side with a static hold on the upward phase at 90 degree. Holding for a 5 sec count really gets hard by the 8th rep. Then Chris deciding that was not enuf, we did these step ups with a 5kg medicine ball onto a platform about 60-80cm high (must measure one day) as a supaset after a set on Leg Extensions. All that in between seated leg curls that was supaseted with walking lunges carrying 2 10kg plates, deadlifts and single leg press on the 45deg. Talk about burn afterwards, the killer though was while we did spinning class, the instructor decided to dedicate 5 mins to 'hovers'. My thighs, I can't feel my thighs!!!!!! But you know the most stupid thing of all, I feels so good that I hurt allover, it feels like I have ripped my muscles apart only for them to repair by this time next week. Insane i know but I know I am not the only one that feels this way.

So good on the exercise front and heres to hoping I can get in another 30mins spinning at home tonite. That would be sweet.

Food: I have to eat more food!!!! last week i would have relished at the thought as i was hungry every afternoon, but this week I feel like I am forcing myself to eat. Just not hungry.

I am so determined to carry on this new regime, I have even wondered how long after I finish this little challenge, can I start the next little challenge!!!. Immediatley was my response.


Catch you on another day bloggers!
X:D)

Monday - Week 5

Hey bloggers

I am tired this week.........put in a huge training session this morning, had all intentions to do half hour cadio this afternoon, but after battling traffic, pulling clothes off the line, putting a load on, cooking for husaband & son, pulling out my food and cooking, I am so tired. What is with that. I was yawning all day at work as well. Good day food wize except this morning at 4.30am I pulled out what I thought was my chicken for lunch out of freezer, but when defrosted at work, it was sweet potato. So lucky I am a person who can't decide what to have, I had a tin of tuna with me. I am not a fan of tuna for lunch, I usually do not like tinned fish. I am a huge fan of fresh fish.

Oh well thought I fill in my blog for the day and hit the sack. It is 8.30pm and I still have to pack my clothes for tomorro to go to gym then to work and then back to gym. I luv tuesdays at my gym. At 3.00pm I get together with my friend who I have trained with for 5 or so years. She is the Fitness Director of my gym as well so I have gotten to know her trainers pretty well and we banter like good friends. In fact they are friends. We start with an hour of weights, be it chest and tris or legs! then I have an hour of boxing and to top it off with 45 min of spinning class. Awesome. I am pretty shagged afterwards, but still exhilarting. I want to get up early and go for a jog, or do some abs. I need to do something tomorrow, guess I will decide that when I get up.

Okay signing off and catch you later.

X:D)

Weekend over

I made it to the end of weekend without slipping up! Wahoo! Only minor hiccups that will not worry me. Powerwalk was a little hard on my arches on Saturday. A day of rest today, have a big week ahead of me. Beginning of week 5. I have been reading other peoples blogs to maintain inspiration. Understanding that the changes will not happen as fast as I had hoped is very hard, but in my mind I know it, but my heart is saying why not! What I have discovered is an amazing little network of people who have or gone through same issues as me, and patience and persurverance is the main objective. spent all morning preparing food for the next week and then some. Week days are easy at work and mornings too, evenings pretty easy as well, but weekends are a little hard. Its not that I don't have anything healthy waiting for me to eat, its just I dont feel like cooking. I have been reading a few blogs this afternoon, make for some inspiration to a person like me. Looking forward to waking tomorro@ 4.30am to go to the gym, get totally zapped by 'J', my friend who is a trainer at my gym. Back and Biceps we do on Monday mornings. Says he is going to hurt me tomorrow as I was cheeky to him during the week, but I don't think so, he is a big sissy.

Friday is here!

Whew! what a day. I had all my food good and ready, then was taken out to lunch by my boss. Bit hard to turn down, but did well, had 2 chickpea patties grilled and a tossed salad.
All good! Got home and pulled out fish and steamed veges for tea, then I buttered a piece of bread and ate it! Where the hell did that come from? I continued cooking my dinner, kicked myself in the butt and got on with it. What a Dohhead. Going so well and I stuffed it without a thought! Talk about a dumbass. Lucky I am going for a long hard 2 hour power walk tomorro with a friend and 2 dogs. Might have to add in that extra hill!

New Beginnings

Well I am 3 & 1/2 weeks into my first real challenge and really it feels like that that this week is my real perfect week. i have managed to do all the cardio and weights that I wanted to do this week and it is only Thursday so far.

My first week was a fizzer as i started off really well then had 3 social functions to attend one day after the other. The next week was worse as I had to spend time with my visiting relatives on a house on Stradbroke Island and got lazy as far as sorting my priorities and food out, also raining all week and missed walking on the beaches. Third week was very good, but did not reach my goal of the amount of cario sessions i have to do.

I know I have a very long process to go to get to my long term goal, wish it would happen faster. i am still not quite feeling like I have done anything, so I thought I would start this blog to record my feelings and thoughts. I have given myself 52 weeks to this long term goal! My inspiration for this attitude change was a picture of Carolyn Gerdtz, who amazingly transformed her body to something awesome in 57 weeks, and I hear she is thinking of competing!!! That has always been something of an interest to me, though I don't know if I could actually get on stage and pose. I know a few people at my gym who are competing this year who I think would do really well, they don't look like they have starved themselves, and they are being coached by Jo Rogers, a legend in Queensland.

i thought I would notice a bigger change within the first few weeks, but alas I do not. I will not let this beat me, I will continue doing what I am doing and try and try and try!!!!!! OMG! i am now rambling.

I decided I need a massage as my back is very tight from weights on Monday morning. I train with a friend of mine who is a trainer (I pay him - mind you don't mind either, good perv) who does push me on my back and biceps. My forearms are so pumped after the workout, i have trouble driving to work! We did these negatives on bicep curls on preacher, man what a burn. i had to fight him pulling the bar down and try and keep the bar up. I also train with another friend of mine on a Tuesday afternoon. This person is a very good friend and it was she many years ago who got me hooked on weight lifting. We usually have an awesome sessions, be it on either chest and tris or legs and calves. Either way I always have DOMS the next day, if not started that very night.

I just need to increase my cardio a little more, and then I think I might have the right mixture. Food wise I am following as regimentally as I can, hoping to keep this pattern for another 49 weeks. Heres to the next 49 weeks and NOT counting!

X:D)