FOCUS WENT OUT THE WINDOW...AGAIN!

A week has passed. I fully intended to workout over the weekend but life got in the way. One workout Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday I was eating and drinking my way through Stanthorpe. Not getting back on the scales until all the carb bloating is gone. A quick workout with TT today. I wasn't feeling the best but I actually think I've loosened up a bit. Tomorrow will be a big one I hope.

TRYING TO STAY FOCUSSED

Small drop in weight. Even closer to my 2nd goal. After that 3rd goal will be aiming to lose a further 5kgs.
Yesterday was legs. Short and sweet but didn't push it too much. Today cardio circuit. Glutes still hurting from Tuesday.

IT'S A NEW WEEK OF FOCUSSED AND DETERMINED

Diet has been crappier than crap but birthday celebrations have been finished with, as has the bottle of Tamborlaine red which was especially good - if only I'd had some chocolatey badness to go with it.
Anyway NO MORE ALCOHOL for at least a month. It is now in writing, abide by it fool.

No exercise for 4 days over weekend. Yesterday I tried out yet another new program that I found on bodybuilders.com. It was chest and back yesterday. Even upped the weights on the chest...woohoo. Today is supposed to be legs. Don't think my back/hips are ready for it so will do the cardio circuit and see if I can manage that. Also the girls are coming with me and they won't want to do legs as set out in the program, you can just about guarantee that.

Back still sore.  No exercise.  
Spent the day sewing covers for sofa. 
Diet not on track at all. 

AM

It's Thursday.  I have muscle soreness in shoulders and lower back.  Legs today.  woohoo!  Tomorrow I will ache alllllll over.    Another small drop on the scales.

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PM

Pulled muscle in my back.  bugger.

The circuit in short

Warm up 3-5 minutes 3/10 5/10 11/10
Shuttle Runs or treadmill-2 mins	20 times	t/mill
Squat with a kick: 2 mins	75 / 81	+4kg d'bell	no d/bell
Push ups: 1 mins Plank 1min	50 push ups in 2 mins. Will include plank next time
Lunges : 2 mins	no count	+4kg d'bell
Steps: 2 mins	1 min - side 1 min - front	+4kg d'bell
Crunches 2 mins or full sit ups with 5kg plate	40 / 40
Shuttle runs 2-3 mins	Tready	tready
Cool down 3-5 mins

Dieting Debstar's style - 2011

Over the years I've read and seen some pretty amazing 12 week body transformations. Kek's story will remain my all time favourite. I've tried doing it a few times and have come to the conclusion that it does not work for me, I just do not have the willpower to go the distance. I have no intention of doing the guilt trip over this because I recognise that for some people 12 full weeks is never going to work.

For me the healthy living plan can only last for 4-6 weeks. I started my health trip in July and managed to get to August when we went on holidays. Some people may be strong enough to maintain healthy eating throughout a holiday. I am not. Then I made it through another month, up until the wedding after which I totally lost the plot. ooops!

Exercise has also taken a bit of backward slide...its amazing how eating rubbish makes you feel like rubbish so anything that involves getting sweaty loses it's appeal.

Enough is enough, today I am back on my happy, slow but sure, healthy eating/exercise journey. I expect to last 4 weeks and anything after that will be a bonus. I figure that if I do this for long enough I will stop falling back on my old unhealthy habits. That's the plan anyway.

WEEK 6

Has this been the longest 6 weeks ever!!!????
It bloody feels like it.

Have done lots and lots and lots of exercise.
The eating has been tres bon but you wouldn't know it judging
by the scales. Barely a chocolate has passed my lips since
Week 1.

Ah well I'll just hang in there and hope I see some positive
improvements soon.

WEEK ONE

DIET
Well I tried to diet last week and lasted till Friday then had a Smarties binge. I think I tried to cut out starchy carbs far too quickly. Had a weekend of eating whatever but kept a bit of control.
Lost 1kg, don't know how that happened.

Exercise
Also crap. Swam on Monday, Upper Body on Tuesday and that was about it really. Walked the dog a few times but I don't really consider that exercise because I don't walk fast. Poor dog could never keep up.

Will do better next week.

TIME TO START AGAIN.

WEDNESDAY

Tired from yesterdays workout.

Exercise : HIIT

Food
Meal 1 little muffin & coffee
Meal 2 Skinny flat white
Meal 3 Spanish 3 egg omlet
Meal 4 Orange & nuts
Meal 5 Beef stew
Meal 6 Orange & a bit of muffin & coffee

TUESDAY

Exercise: Upper Body massacre. Gym Very busy. Had to swap & change quite abit.
Ran the stairs - W.assisted chin ups - shoulders with weights - crunches - push ups

Meal 1 coffee & muffin *blushes*
Meal 2 coffee & power yoghurt 1/2 apple
Meal 3 tuna & salad on mountain bread orange
Meal 4 coffee & muffin *they're good OK, and they are little* grapes
Meal 5 chicken & salad orange

MARCH & A BRAND NEW MONTH

So it's the start of March. I buggered up over Jan & Feb so this is the month to redeem myself. I've put pennys photo up the top there to remind me what I'm doing this for

Exercise: Up for 6am Bike Class.
Keks Killer Workout. Running, lunges, pop squats & crunches
Walk the Dog.

Food has been good so far:
Meal 1 Power Yoghurt
Meal 2 Power Shake
Meal 3 Tuna & Salad on Mtn Bread
Meal 4 Sushi (yumm)
Meal 5 Apple muffin with coffee (stuffed up already but it was only small)
Meal 6 Beef casserole with broccoli.
Meal 7 Orange

WEDNESDAY

Hubby started late again today! Missed another morning of cardio!!! This has got to stop. Today has been spent shopping in Southport for just about everything. Spent 3 hours walking before I stopped for a Skinny Flat White. So walking is an exercise. ITM came to gym & we did that newworkout again. I thought it was TT holding us up but nooooo I think they work with each other to slow the whole workout down.
Food Little piece of toast, bit of Sustain cereal. MTea - SFWhite & sushi. No wonder I was hungry!
Got home & want on a bit of a rampage (naturally) but managed to get myself out of the house before it got too bad. Lets just say choco chip hot cross buns are gooooood. Only had power yoghurt, apricots & nuts for tea. Just wasn't hungry. & followed it up with a little chocolate & 3 walnuts...this is my new treat & equally bad for me. Do you see any vegetables in there & how much fruit...bad Debbie.

TUESDAY

Hubby didn't have to get to work early today so was a bit of a sleep in this morning.
Had Sustain , 1/2 slice of bread & 2 cups of coffee not quite the breakky I was planning on.
Went to movies in morning so lots of sitting & no moving. I grabbed a peach for morning tea and then for lunch it was skinny flat white & !/2 savory muffin. It looked OK but half way through it started tasting really oily. Probably because of the amount of cheese. Won't be getting that again. Rest of eating was pretty good. Too much coffee again

2pm Did biceps & triceps with my sucky little weights. Started off with 5kg on concentration curls but ended up with 3kgs on last set and struggled with that! So sad. love doing triceps, don't know why, it never seems to make much difference.
5.30pm Tried out a new fat burning workout with the girls. It's a doozy. The girls kept moaning & stopping for a breather & water. I reckon I could get through it fairly quickly on my own. Anyway it had me sweating somewhat. I've stapled it to gym file so will be doing it alot.

MONDAY

Started today with a Spin Class. Got a bit of a shock to find it wasn't a bludge pedal & pace but a full on 1hour spin. More of a shock to the psyche than anything. Legs are mighty sore from doing weights on Saturday. I thought it was only hammys that were sore but this morning proved that quads weren't much better. Went back at 3.30pm and did back. Lots of men today felt abit intimidated with my pissy little 3kg weights so forgo the flye & did upright rows instead 6kgs don't look quite so bad.

Food was ok about 6 tiny teddies. 4 cups of coffee need to work on that

SUNDAY'S REVIEW

The first week has come to an end & I am not impressed with myself.

Firstly NOT enough cardio by far though the weather had a bit to do with this. Did a spin class & a HIIT and that was about it. Pretty slack really. The weights went well. Still going through all the library books I took out & got thoroughly confused with what I wanted to do. Managed to muddle through anyway. Only went to the gym 5 days not 6 due to Australia Day

Food was sucky too. Tried to cut down on coffee but had a blow out on Friday that just continued on. Had chinese on Saturday night. I could have passed on that but didn't want to look completely food obsessed. Mainly ate all the veges & not much else. But still it was chinese & I'd already stuffed up with the apple pie. Had some more of that today too, but only abit this time so didn't feel quite so guilty when eating it, or sick afterwards.

Goals for this coming week:
Cut down on the coffee again.
Increase cardio. Get in some more swimming if it is too hot. Atleast 2 HIIT's this week
Eat mindfully.
Take photos on 1st February. Maybe that will help motivate me.

SATURDAY BLOWOUT

Its Saturday & the journalling has been a disaster. As has been the diet. Had Chinese. Not my idea but thought family would give me crap over eating another salad. It was sooo nice. Did a leg workout. Bum hurts somewhat right now. Don't think my legs/bum will thank me tomorrow.

Today not going too well. Had a SFW and APPLE PIE for morning tea. Total weakness on my part. Looks like that might possibly be my cheat meal for the week. I felt quite sick after.

Exercise. Stupid me waited for Avril to turn up & go to gym at 9am but she decided against it. I should have gone at 6am. Looks like its once only for me today.

TUESDAY

TUESDAY
Missed out on posting yesterday 'cause this computer wasn't playing the game.
Exercise : Walked dog for 20min 9am Gym with Avril HIIT on Xtrainer going from level 7-14
6PM Biceps/Triceps Had thought I would be doing more but ran out of time
doing 3 lots of 20reps is timeconsuming but works. Quite sore this morning.

Food: On track 3 coffees one of them being a Skinny Flat White.
Also had white bread again.....bad debbie