About Me

On 4 January 2010 I pledged to get slimmer, fitter and healthier. My journey has so far being bumpy, so bumpy in fact that I derailed in March, got back on track in June and have now just completed my first 12 week programme of working out and eating healthily. I have so far lost 9 pounds and am steadily working towards my goal to lose the grand total of 21 pounds. However, a strange thing happened during the 12 week programme: I started enjoying working out. I realised that I actually love to sweat and I am pretty good at it! I kick @ss in the gym and I check myself out in the mirror while I work. Oh yes, I am a warrior, waging war against each and every excess pound!

Saturday 16 January 2010

Weekend Pilates

I am suffering from DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), Lordy am I suffering! I went to spin yesterday morning and had a good go at the standing sprint and I'm paying for it now. I found yesterday harder than any other class and was essentially useless in Circuits afterwards. In summary today I feel like I've been kicked in the ribs and had my quads sliced. Today I tried a Pilates class with the boyfriend to get a good stretch. It is very diferent to yoga and, ideally, I would do both. My exercise schedule is pretty packed though so adding anything else to it would be unrealistic. I'm quite lucky on that my gym is in the same building as my work so I popped in and unpacked all my boxes ahead of my move to a new department on Monday. I had a good appraisal from my previous department so I want to hit the ground running. Unfortunately this means I will probably have to miss a walk with the girls tomorrow as I reckon I'll go in to work again tomorrow.

A few months ago I discovered beetroot and today I re-discovered beetroot salad! I forgot how much I love the stuff and it will be this week's Food of the Week. I did notice that it has a high sugar content so I will be sure not to have it too often. It went amazingly well with my pork chop and sweetcorn dinner. I go weak at the knees at the thought of crackling so I made sure to trim the fat prior to grilling!

I confess that I fell off the wagon a little yesterday - I had a mini donut and 2 chocolate squares and today I had 4 chocolate squares. But as I will not allow a fall off the wagon to amount to a relapse I'm just going to get on with it.

Food for Today

B: Maple syrup oatso simple
S: 4 squares of chocolate
L: Half carton Carrot & Coriander soup
D: Pork chop with beetroot salad and sweetcorn
S: Vanilla custard Muller Rice

Water: A B Y S M A L

Exercise: 1 hour Pilates

Total calories: 991
Carbs: 109
Fat: 28
Protein: 68

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