First week of March down = win!

This week has been really great.

I have worked out every night this week in some way.
Monday, I did Pilates at lunch time and then a run once I was home.
Tuesday, I took the puppy for a run with Mum.
Wednesday I walked around the markets, then to and from the car park to gaming and back.
Thursday, I went for another run and felt great afterwards.

Tonight I'm going....  ICE SKATING!!!  Wooo.

The last time I did this was a few months ago, I tried out the "fake ice" rink near my place.  It was empty, warm, muggy and horrible.  I spent about 20 minutes on the "ice" and never once felt game to let go of the wall.  No I know I haven'
t skated in a longish time, but my balance isn't that bad, in fact it's pretty good, and I can still roller blade, so I'm blaming the most uncomfortable skates know to man and the fake ice...  Tonight I'm heading to the Icehouse, which is the dual rink ice skating arena in the city (where the Ice Hockey teams play) if I still can't skate then I will admit defeat :P   I don't think that will be a problem though, and I'm looking hella forward to it.  I'm tempted to see if next term they have any spots on the Ice Hokey "learn to play" team, that would be so much fun.  I still remember how cool field hockey was to play, on ice it can only get better.


This week I was also lucky enough to get my Bodymedia FIT BW from my very lovely Sister in Canada.  Thank you Andrea, you roxxor!

After some pottering around, and leaving it to charge over night I think I have most of the kinks sorted.  except for the linking with my iPhone, this is doesn't do so well.  In fact to date (I got it 4 days ago) I am yet to get it to sync.  I'm waiting on an email back from the support team with any further ideas on what I can do to fix it (I hoped the firmware upgrade Wednesday night might be for the Blue tooth), and in the mean time I make sure to sync it up as soon as I get home so I know if I'm falling short I need to get out for a longer walk or run or hit the gym.

I will be very interested in seeing how my weight loss for this week goes, so far I'm posting a deficit every day, I should if the numbers and scale align lose at least .5 of a kg (about a pound).

The final news, I'm going for a hair cut tonight.  Time to cut off the mane I've been growing for 10 years >< Not sure if this is a good idea considering I'm planning to get hitched in November and longer hair can be more easily styled, but then I can always get extensions right?  Oh dear.

I shall post before and afters...  Shall see how it goes...

Excellent weekend

This last week has been tracking well. In particular this weekend.

Saturday was a nice and lazy day at home, played some computer, relaxed and had an overall lovely day. Ate good food all in all as well, nothing crazy, a couple of choc coated coffee beans was the extent of the indulgence.

Sunday. Personal training day. Up and at them quite early (I can't seem to sleep in really late any more, even if I stay in bed late I wake up at 6am) read a few things from the readers (have a massive backlog on my non-fitness / crafty reader) and then mooched off to the other side of town for PT. I train Sundays' at lunchtime, across city once a week. I drive for an hour to get to personal training because a) I have an AMAZING trainer, b) I get to train with my Mum, c) I have coffee with Mum after and then visit Dad to spend the rest of the day with them, which truthfully wouldn't happen otherwise because they live on one side of the city and I live on the other. d) I occasionally score home cooked dinner. SCORE!!!!!

Today was a long one. Training: I have to say even though I had to stop at one point during the kettlebell workout and have a lie down because I thought I was going to puke, I had the best work out and felt GREAT afterwards. How do people work out how much water to drink during training, if I'm just running / biking I'm fine drinking when I'm thirsty, circuit training though, I'm dying of thirst the whole time, but if I drink more I just want to puke >< ???

I train for about 40 minutes, start on the tread mill and then do 30 - 35 mins of circuit. It's something different every week, high intensity and flat out the whole time. A really great workout, I train with usually Mum and another girl, I am the heaviest and also the most unfit, this is improving though. I almost fell off the treadmill when I looked at what speed I had put in for some "fast walking / jogging" and it was over a km/hr faster than what I had been able to manage previously. Obviously I need to make sure I'm up'ing my speed more regularly at home and paying less attention to the numbers and just going with what "feels" right.

I also think I had an amazing work out due to my new support garments. I found a really wonderful lingerie store down the road from my training studio and lo and behold they sell bras in my size and fitting, which after not being properly fitted in over 14 years turns out to be a 20FF, or US 42FF. I thought I was a 24DD, oh how wrong I was :P

I almost fell over when she told me the size, and the fit is wonderful, my underwires actually sit on my sternum... who would have thunk it ... GO, get fitter properly people the difference is mind blowing. (the price for large size bras blows my mind too, I forgot that they were over $100... ) I kind of hope my cup size drops a bit so I can shop at regular stores again or I'm going to cry. At least now I know where I can go to get decent bras for at least working out, which is the most important thing at the moment. My rib cage is smaller than I though though which was a nice surprise :)

I was up .3kg last Wednesday at WI. This week I intend to get that back off. I'm quite enjoying the Propoints plan to date, however I have been less than focused, I will work to rectify that this week and next. I've been tracking really well and haven't gone through all my points yet so should see some good progress this week, if not then the fact that I have to take all my pants in again is good enough for me.

Hope everyone had great weekend, here is to a good week