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What a change.

Yep - constant changes!

Have pulled up a bit sore from Monday's workout - doing the stiff legged cowgirl walk from sore quads.  Haven't been gentle on myself tho - we had 6 tonnes of loose fill delivered yesterday, and today I put in a good fours hours worth of shoveling and running wheelbarrows down our steep driveway - I think I'll be quite sore once I stop and sit for a while.  It wasn't all too bad, did have little rest breaks but my legs felt it, especially wheeling the barrow down hill.

Not working out today, think I have done enough, but have scheduled the gym for Friday. My dog thinks it's Christmas already, he has at least four tonnes of dirt to dig in at the moment

Things are going swimmingly - have broken the 110kg barrier this week.  Really hate to divulge my weight, though getting more comfortable as it goes down.  My next milestone is 102kg to have lost 50kg, and then to slide under the hundred to Double Digits - very exciting stuff!!!!

 Really pleased with my motivation and determination at the gym.  Have been really focused and am doing less self-sabotaging and negative thinking.  Just need to step up the exercise more at home.  My measurements were taken at Gym on Monday (first time in 12 months) and I'm sure she said I had lost over 20cms from waist and hips (separately) and my blood pressure has gone down well.  The graph on her computer looked very impressive with the sharp nosedive.  I am slowly regaining my strength - has been frustrating when I think that I used to be able to easily benchpress 30kg bar, and now I'm pushing it to do 20kg - but happy that everything is improving.

Am still having trouble with my back/leg - going back to the gym stirred it all up again i think, or that's when it started to get bad again.  Back to the Physio/accupuncturist for a visit monday morning, so hopefully we can go through my workout programme and sort out the good from the bad and help fix my pain for good.  I am so looking forward to the relaxing massage and am intrigued by the Moxa and Chinese herbal oils - I am very receptive to alternative therapies now that I found accupuncture has worked so well for me before.

Had a checkup with my surgeons lacky/associate - very nice man, I was fearing the worst thinking that I haven't lost enough weight and will be in trouble for something blah blah bla..... needn't have worried, and I think I am more impressed with Dr Seeley because he focused more on exercise and asked what I was doing - rather than Dr Talbot who said I wouldn't need to go back to my gym regime, just "do a bit of walking" i think were his words....... Walking alone is not going to give me the muscle tone that I want. 

The only thing displeasing me at present is excess skin - I think my tummy has taken up the slack fantastically for the amount of weight that I have lost, though the skin is crepey and wrinkly.  The things that don't thrill me are my upper arms, my legs (particularly upper thighs) and elswhere we won't be talking about....  I don't want to look like a Sharpei (though they are cute) after losing weight.

Anywho all is good at the moment - moods are still up and down a bit, but I am more positive than negative these days - gotta love that, and also found the self belief to enrol in Uni for next year - not anything too difficult, but a stepping stone in the right direction.  It's all happening, as I predicted 2008 would be the start of my success.

I set myself a challenge this morning - I am sorry to say but I feel like a dead set legend now!  I don't generally post twice in one day, but thought I should share my achievement.

Took the dog for a walk today - we live at the top of a hill, not too steep, but the gradual kind that really kills you on the way back up.  Anyhow Scout dragged me down the hill, round some of Lake Illawarra, and we walked back.  If anyone knows Cowper street Warrawong that goes up past Port Kembla Hospital - this was my Everest - I used to puff and pant, and had to stop at the bus stop for a breather in the past.  Nowadays it's barely a challenge!  I was dragging the damn dog up the hill and getting an arm workout at the same time - I had tried to make a deal with Scout that he would help ME up the hill.  But god damnit I made it up under my own steam and didn't stop once, or feel totally out of breath

Now the only down side to this is......................... I'm going to need a new challenge!!!!!

yes, having trouble resisting all things christmassy food wise.  Have managed a small weight gain, though have reined in the pig-outs for now.  Exercise is a little challenge at the moment - gym closed for holiday from last thursday to 5th January.  Have been walking the dog, and dragging him up the bloody great hill but it's just not the same as grunting it out at the gym.

Am still on holiday until Saturday, but had an awful shock when I went to pick up my new roster - god damn it sucks, and I am beginning to think my boss hates me....... or she just cannot write a roster - probably the latter, but I feel desparate to find a new job yet there is nothing available at this time of year.  Will just have to keep plugging away.

Just choose your portion sizes wisely and keep the exercise going (ie. don't give in to the justifying thoughts of "walking isnt as good as going to the gym so I'll just take time off exercise until the gym re-opens")

Ray

Ok so I have faltered over the christmas period......  I fell victim to the old 'mindless eating' that used to be a huge problem for me (obviously it still IS a problem).  I have done some walks, but given up on taking the dog - he lay down in the delivery driveway of bunnings the other day and was quite reluctant to walk back up the hill with me.  Little bugger walked so slowly that I got very little benefit from my hilly climb.  So today he got left at home, and I walked down alone, though as I bought a tin of paint at the bottom I didn't walk back up today - though could have done some arm exercises (may have looked a little silly).

Have become a convert to the bosu ball - bought a slightly cheaper version of one, and am enjoying the challenge of it  They're a bit like using a wobble board, though it's an all in one thingy.  I really need to build up my butt muscles to combat my leg pain according to physio, so this will help me I'm sure.  Also got a 'ladies barbell' for chrissy which has come in handy, though it has puny weights so will have to get a few more plates for it.

Anywho, that's my rant for today, off to work soon!