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

TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

MONDAY The start of a new week. Got on the scales first thing which is something I haven't done for some time 68.8kg eeeeeee! 3kgs to lose and that just takes me back to end of Nov. when I hit 66kg. I have 8.8kg to lose. Do not lose sight of the goal though it be a long long long ways off.

Still not 100% sure how I want to tackle the training. Will go over progress report again today & definately figure it out. Working it around Avril & Lisa is going to create problems but I'm gonna have to work this for ME first.

Food went well. Not going to waste my time journalling it. Will enter bad stuff. Trying to cut down on coffee. V.difficult.
Crap I ate today - 1/2 slice white bread & golden salad

This morning I did 45mins on Spin class. Feeling total crap possibly because of alcohol consumed last night also worst time of month to start any kind of exercise programme. But can't be helped. Even 45mins of half hearted spin is better than nothing. Lisa wants to do something around 9am.
9am Swim for 1/2 hour. Too hot for anything else.
7 pm Back workout. Need to get weights sorted.
Seated cable row 2x43 1x36
Bent over fly 2x3kg
Delt raise 2x10kg (bringing barbel up to stomach, squeezing shoulders)
weight assisted chinups. 55kg Had a bit of fun with these as I had no idea about weight. It does say start on your own weight but that was way too easy. ended up doing 55kg Will be doing them again. Definatelg good for both trapesium & shoulders.

PENNY IS MY HERO

PENNY'S Training Diary

Monday-to-Friday: One-hour cardio session before breakfast (cross-trainer, treadmill, stationary bike and rower). Don't forget this...... every day exercise
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday afternoon: One hour of resistance training – alternating upper and lower body workouts with each session.

GET SERIOUS ....PART 2

Yep, it's that time again. Just about through December/January & once again I have put on 3kgs. I said I wouldn't drink.....like about 100 times during this period but did anyway.

The clean up will start on Monday but I'm going to put up some goals, ideas etc today today to get the enthusiasm started.

Goals I need to really focus on:
Drink less coffee
Drink more water
Drink NO alcohol
Eat less sweet treats

I might do what idiet does and put up a goal each week and stick to it for at least 1 week....and hopefully continue to carry it on.

I need a mantra, or a couple of them. For starters, why am I doing this. I want to look the best I possibly can. How can I keep focus? Think I will start me a challenge in February. I've been thinking everyone will have started in January so a Feb start might be ideal for me.
How can I get there? Staying Motivated, Focussed, Determined. I'm going to have to write that up where I can see it every day.
Recognising my downfalls. Tiredness. Need to focus on eating smart.
Training with the girls. Prepare their training so that it coincides with what I'm doing.
Unorginised. My worst trait. Make sure I go EVERY morning at 6am. No more stuffing around on the computer first thing. Take the time to go over programme & make changes if necessary BEFORE I get to the gym.
JUST DO IT

THURSDAY

Thursday Morning Walked to gym. Did body conditioning class. Lots of ab work at the end. Was so hard. Obviously I need to push myself harder when I do these on my own. Did spin bike on my own for 20 mins, walked home. 2 HOURS OF EXERCISE. IAMSOGOOD...IAMSOGOOD
Thursday Night Spin Class for 1 hour

Food
Meal 1 Power Yoghurt & strawberries & nuts
Meal 2 Sultanas, nuts & orange. 1/2 biscuit
Meal 3 Omlet & cheese & tomatoes
Meal 4 1/2 biscuit &coffee & apple & sultanas & nuts
Meal 5 Stew with lots of veges

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Morning HIIT on Xtrainer wasn't as good as I wanted. The Xtrainers were all taken so I went on the Ski machine thingy for 20mins first so had worn myself out abit for HIIT.

Food
Meal 1 Power Yoghurt & apple
Meal 2 Orange, nuts & SFW
Meal 3 Pita Bread & Tuna & Salad
Meal 4 Nuts Sultanas & biscuit.
Meal 5 Yoghurt & biscuit & coffee

Yeah, yeah I know Meal 5 was a shambles. I really wasn't hungry at all and I forced down the yoghurt but the biscuit just jumped into my mouth. Damn TT for making more biscuits. I really need to break her arms

TUESDAY

Tuesday morning Lower Body Weights. Did some serious squats & lunges on Smith Machine. Heavier than I've attempted before & I got through it. Though not reall happy with the way my knees are reacting tonight.

Food
Meal 1 Power Yoghurt
Meal 2 SFW coffee
Meal 3 SFW & scone - what can I say I went to the movies.
Meal 4 Orange & 3 walnuts
Meal 5 Chicken & a huge plate of veges to make up for the dismal diet of today
Meal 6 Coffee & 1 Lindor chocolate

ThisisnotthewaytofeedyourbodyDeb.TomorrowIexpectyoutodobetter

MONDAY

Monday morning - Spin class
afternoon - Did lower body/cardio with AC for 40mins

Food
Meal 1 Power Yoghurt
Meal 2 Soup & coffee
Meal 3 Salad & tuna
Meal 4 Orange Sultanas Walnuts
Meal 5 Chicken & Veges
Meal 6 Coffee & 1 lindor chocolate