New Blog, New Me

Time for an update....

Okay, so last week, I was in Sydney with Ryan. What a mistake that was! It was my best friend's 30th on Wednesday last week, so I took Ryan with me to fly up there for it. Ryan had a bit of a cold but didn't seem too bad. WELL...the weather was absolute kaka! It was so humid & muggy, I constantly felt the need to have a shower - like every 20 mins or so. My friend has no air conditioning in her house and both Ry & I were in an upstairs bedroom which was just horrendous! Ry was ok sleeping up until our last night there. Poor kid. But we're home now & everything is good again :)

Needless to say, my eating was insane - as was my consumption with wine. So since I've been home, I haven't touched alcohol, I'm eating very well (no junk & plenty of water, fruit & vegies) and I'm back at the gym. I'm also back at work...which is the only downer, but I need to concentrate on one thing at a time (weight loss), otherwise I'll go crazy trying to do everything at once.

So I have a question for people. I hate the gym. I find it incredibly boring. Yes I have an ipod (I had to go buy one of those tiny little ipod shuffles that have recently come out because it's smaller & easier to use at the gym than my nano), and yes I do listen to music when using the different cardio / weight machines...but I just get bored. So I've been doing classes. I did a pump class on Saturday & I did a step class tonight. Yesterday, I walked around Princes Park so I'm trying to make an effort to 'move' every day - even if it's just for half an hour. So now to my question. Can you still lose a lot of weight doing classes? I plan on doing Pump, Step, Combat & Balance and walk the other 3 days of the week. I just have to shift this weight...but I'm also impatient.

I s'pose I just have to relax, yeah? :)

Anyway, I'm being booted off the computer now...so hope you are all well...and I'll catch up with you all soon. Enjoy the rest of your week.

xx

Forgive me bloggers...

...for I have been slack! It has been frickin' ages since my last post. I'll be honest - I really haven't felt like blogging. I have been keeping up with everyone's blogs, but I just felt that I didn't have anything to contribute to blogland. Then I got a lovely email from Nannette encouraging me to just keep going. So bloggers, I am back in the game! :)

I didn't end up weighing in at the doctors on the 1st. I cancelled my appointment & figured if I didn't get weighed, then I would never know how much weight I'd lost. Therefore, if I wasn't under 100 kilos, it wouldn't matter. But last Friday (the 9th), I decided to just get it over with & went in to get weighed.

AND THE RESULTS ARE IN!!!

97.7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm FINALLY under 100! I'm such a sook that I started crying when I saw that number. My doctor just laughed at me & gave me a high five. 97.7 people - that's a loss of 5.8 kilos since Christmas. I so could have done better but I'm just stoked that I am now in double digits. It's made me even more determined to lose this weight. I've been on a bit of a downer the last few weeks, but I've managed to go to the gym each week day morning. On Mondays & Fridays, I do Pump. On Tuesdays & Thursdays I do Step and on Wednesday mornings I do cardio in the gym. However, my food intake has been shocking..but I'm getting that back under control.

Now just moving away from my issues & dramas...(and I do apologise in advance for my language) I just have to say that the Biggest Loser shits me! I feel like jumping into the screen & punching the fuck out of Courtney, Munnalita & Pati. Fucking bitches! How the hell they've managed to even get as far as they have is beyond me. I cannot wait for them to leave. They're just annoying. They're not even funny to watch. I hardly watch the show now - just on Mondays to see who they get rid of. Okay, end of bitching.

I've been seriously bored at work. I no longer feel challenged in my current role & unfortunately, I've gone about as far as I can go with the company I'm with. I still have about a year or so to go with my accounting studies so I've finally decided instead of just leaving now, I'll stick it out till the end of the year when I've got my little piece of paper (I'm only doing a diploma this year). The bonus with waiting till the end of the year will be that I'll also be about 25 + kilos lighter than what I am now which, unfair as it is, will increase my chances of getting higher paid/higher positioned job. I know that I'm bloody good at my job. I know that I'm not ugly so I've never really had a problem with getting good jobs before (how shallow does that sound???). I just think that if I'm at a healthy weight, at least that projects the fact that I care about how I look & that I look after myself well. Not that I don't now...just that we all know that some people's perceptions of overweight people is that they're lazy. I don't want to be thought of as lazy. Does any of this make any sense?

Ryan & I went to the park today to meet up with my friend, K. We spent a few hours at the park, running around & playing on the play equipment. As we were leaving, K said to me, "Now I know why you've lost so much weight, running around after Ry." I didn't think my weight loss was that noticeable, but she assured me it was. Then she reminded me of what size my jeans were. Y'see, I haven't worn a pair of size 16 jeans in such a long time...but as Kenz will tell you, there's not always a "standard set of patterns for sizes." Still, size 16 feels great to be in :)

Okay...so it's 9.30pm and I still have things to do before I go to sleep. Gotta get up at 6.00am for a Pump class. Hope you all enjoy this coming week. I'll read you all soon.

x