Couch to 5k update

Hey guys!  Thanks for your comments about my wee nephew!  Isn't he the cutest?! =)

Anyway - I'm so proud to say I made it to the gym again today for another session of Couch to 5k.
This was Week 1 - Day 2!  And it felt TOUGH!  It seemed tougher than Sunday's session and it was exactly the same workout.  Maybe cos I've been at work all day, maybe a bit more tired?  Dunno, but 10 minutes in I really wanted to quit.  I was sweating buckets after just my first bout of running.  But I persevered and after 20 minutes, I started to feel good.  I liked that sweat was dripping from my forehead!  Ha ha!

Todays workout:


Treadmill - 35 minutes - Incline 2% - Couch to 5k - Week 1 - Day 2

Calories Burned:   400



I have been eating my fruits and veggies (At least 5 servings a day), drinking my water (and some diet soda - I really need to give it up (again!)) and trying to get to bed earlier.  I have also been out during my lunch break for a quick half hour of brisk walking!  I haven't done so well in getting up early to get to work though - I just feel exhausted in the morning.  I even bought one of those lamps that wake you up with gradual light and birdsong! The birds drive me crazy in the morning! lol  - I think it's helping me a bit in getting up in the morning since its like hazy morning sunshine in my bedroom in the morning!  Here is the wake up light  I bought:-

It's still a struggle for me to get up in the morning but this has helped me tremendously!  I would certainly recommend it if you find it difficult to get up in the morning.  The light comes on gradually and begins about half an hour before your actual alarm time is set.  But don't have the sound too loud - the birds will sound like they are in your room!  lol

Is anyone else doing the Couch to 5k?  How are you finding it??

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Baby Pics, Couch to 5k and Goals!

Hey guys!  Sorry I've been MIA the last week or so.  I have been so busy and so obsessed with my teeny tiny little nephew!  He was born last Sunday at 6.21pm and weighed 5lbs exactly!  He is so adorable, I can hardly stand it! lol  Here is a wee pic of him.  His name is Aaron =)

1 day old!

Do you like my hair??!!

Isn't he gorgeous?!! 

Anyway, he was my excuse for skipping my workouts and not following my WW plan.  I started from scratch (again!) yesterday and hit up the gym this morning.  I started the Couch to 5k plan again - and this time I'm just going to follow it to the T!  Usually I start to feel a lot fitter and run for longer than they say - of course, I end up burning myself out and giving up altogether.  This time I am determined not to overdo it.  If I follow and complete the plan, then I could finally call myself a runner!  I would love to be a runner and be able to complete a 5K, 10K, hell, even one day a Marathon!!

Here's my workout for today:

Treadmill 30 minutes - Couch to 5k - Running intervals (5 min warm up. 1 min run. 1.30 walk. 5 min cooldown).

Spin Bike - 35 minutes - I did a "spin class" podcast that I downloaded - Let me tell you it was H.A.R.D.!!

Then I stretched for about 5 minutes.  And did a cool down walk around the gym.  

Total Calories Torched:  759 calories. (10 Activity points earned!)

My diet today has been pretty good too!  I have had plenty water, 5 servings of fruit and veg, a healthy dinner, healthy snacks (and some unhealthy ones but I have tracked 'em).  I just have to remember how good I feel when I eat well and exercise.  It's not rocket science...... =)

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My Goals for 2011

By New Year's Eve 2011 - I hope to be a healthy and happy weight - hopefully about 125lbs!

Keep kicking ass in the gym

Complete a 5K and then perhaps a 10k!

Start paying off some of my credit card debt.

Try out Roller Derby.

.............this is all I can think of right now!  It will be a work in progress!!

My goals for this week are:

To exercise at least 3 times in the gym

To track my pro-points and stay within said pro-points!

To lose at least 3lbs at my next weigh in

To eat more fruit and veggies

Drink more water

Get up early for work!  (This will be the most difficult - bahahaha!)

Ok, time to go get things ready for the morning.  Hope you all have a kick ass week!

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Awards Season!!

This week I received not one, but TWO, Stylish Blogger Awards from two wonderful bloggers!  Chicky- Wanna Be Thin and a wonderful new blogger over at A Healthier Plate - So awesome to receive these!!!    


Here are the rules of the award!!  


1. Post and link back to the person who awarded you this award 
2. Share 7 things about yourself 
3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers (or as many as you can)
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them they’ve won!


I have been thinking long and hard about 7 things about myself and here they are........


1.  I hate the sound of someone brushing their teeth!  Eugh, it just makes me cringe!  It's like nails down a blackboard to me!!


2.  I just became an Aunty tonight!!  My sister had a beautiful baby boy....they had to deliver him two weeks before his due date because my sister had been having problems with "leaky" kidneys and protein in her urine.  


3. I love country music. I just think it's amazing music to drive to, work out to and do anything to!


4. I am obsessed with the USA and Canada and would love to live there one day!  In fact, they only places I've been abroad on holiday are California, Florida and New York!


5. I love Disneyland and even got engaged in front of Cinderella's Castle!!  I am soooo lucky!!  


6. I love photography and will take photos of anything...lol


7. My dream job would be a personal trainer and Weight Watchers Leader =)




I would now like to bestow this wonderful Stylish Blogger Award on to these fabulous bloggers - I have to say some of them are not recently discovered, but they are awesome nonetheless!


In no particular order.......


Whitney at Slimming Down for the Gown
Mama Laughlin
Julie at Peanut Butter Fingers
Robin at For the Love of Me
Annie at Annie Weighs
Roxie-Girl at My Inner Pin Up
Kelly at Fitting Back In
Suzi at Ok, Just One More Beer
Katie at Keeping Up with Katie
Laura at Laura Gets Fit
Jen at Prior Fat Girl
Karla at Confessions of a Determined Dancer
Brittany at Deliciously Healthy
Brandi at A Life Change: My journey to happiness
Blair at Reasonably Swanky




You should definitely check out these amazing bloggers!  




I have decided to change my weigh in day to a Saturday morning - at home - where I can weigh myself first thing in the morning and without wearing anything!   So on that note - my weight yesterday was 188.4lbs.  So from now on - I will just post weigh ins I do on a Saturday morning. But I will still let y'all know how I get on at WW!!  


Tomorrow I am going to do a post about the goals I hope to achieve in the coming year.  I didn't want to do it at the start of the year - I wasn't quite ready to fully commit to them back then!  


I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend!!  I will be sure to post pics of my new nephew!!!  

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Weigh In Results - Thursday 13 Jan 2011

Last weeks weigh in - 190.5 lbs

This weeks weigh in - 192.0 lbs

I gained 1.5 lbs this week.  I knew it wasn't going to be good.  I felt bloated, and sluggish all day today!  So much so that I didn't go to my WW meeting tonight.  I just felt too exhausted after working all day, and to have to go to the meeting which usually lasts about an hour and a half in total, I knew I couldn't face it.  It would have meant I wouldn't get home til about 8pm.  And then not have a proper meal until about 9pm. These are just excuses though.  I knew I had gained and I didn't want to have to face the scale at my meeting and feel disappointed!  Just a few weeks ago, I had gone to my meeting.  I had been perfect all week - and I was expecting to lose about 3.5lbs (I had GAINED 5.5lbs the week before!)  But when I stepped on that scale a few weeks back and had only lost 2lbs I felt devastated!  I left my meeting and burst into tears in my car!  All the while telling myself 2lbs is great!  And it was just the week before Christmas!  I was so emotional that I had put in all that effort and had lost 2lbs.  I would tell anyone else that was fantastic!  But I couldn't accept it.  And now here I am yo-yoing back and forth to my start weight.

So, I am accepting it now.  I will do better next week - I will go to my meeting and face any consequences that there may be.  No point hiding my head in the sand any longer.  It will only get me even closer to 200lbs.

Okay, that post was just a ramble of what is going on in my head.  Hopefully I will make more sense when I am not so tired!

Thanks guys for your awesome comments yet again!  You are all great and you help keep me motivated!!!

I also received a Blog award from Chicky!  I don't have time to do a proper post about it just now - but I will do one for Sunday!!    Check out her blog, she's great!!

Love you all!! x0x0x0!

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I WANT to workout!

Aren't you shocked I'm posting again?!?  Ha ha ha!  3 times this week so far!

First of all, I want to say a big hello and thank you to two new followers who left me awesome comments on yesterdays post!  Check out their blogs - they are awesome!!!

Roxie-Girl and Robin


I had another great workout at the gym today.  I actually went this morning before going to work!  Now that is the first time I have done that in a REALLY long time!  I think the last time I did that was about 6 or 7 years ago when I was doing Body for Life and worked out 6 days a week!

For the past few weeks months, I have felt "blah" about losing weight, eating healthily, working out, going to the gym etc and I just had no interest whatsoever in going to the gym.  Deep down, I wanted to WANT to go, but I just didn't care enough to do it.  I had no energy for living life.  I couldn't be bothered doing anything.  I was waiting for that light bulb to go off in my head and I would WANT to go to the gym again, and want to focus on my diet and losing weight!

Then it clicked just this week.  I WANT to go the gym again.  I WANT to get sweaty and out of breath and feel so sore the next day that I can hardly move!  (Yeah, I'm sick like that! lol)  And that's exactly what I've been feeling like today - it's painful to even get up from a chair!

Here's what I did:

Treadmill - 15 mins - 2 mins walking, 2 mins running, 1 minute walking, 2 minutes running, 1 minute walking, 2 minutes running, 2 minutes walking and 3 minutes running.  Total running time: 9 minutes!!

Cross Trainer - 10 minutes - Kilimanjaro Hill Program - Level 10 - 15

Spin Bike - 10 minutes - intervals.

Some stretches at the end!


I burned about 450 calories in this workout and felt great afterwards!

It's weigh in day tomorrow but I have a feeling I will stay the same.  I haven't been tracking my points and haven't been eating much fruit or veg - which means I have been snacking too much on potato chips, candy bars and ice cream..............woops - I really need to get to the grocery store.  I am missing my fruit and veg!!

Hope everyone is having a great week!

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Workout - cardio and barbell circuit!

I had a KICK ASS workout at the gym after work today.  I did just over an hour which included:

Treadmill - 10 mins - alternating running with walking
Crosstrainer - 10 mins - Kilimanjaro hill workout - level 10 - 13
Barbell Workout:  using 10kg  barbell including:
Press Ups
Deadlifts
Upright rows
Squats
Shoulder Press
Lunges
Underhand row (for back)
Plie squat

I did 10 reps of each exercise and was going to repeat it 3 times, but my legs were toast just after 2 sets!

I then hopped on the spin bike and did 15 minutes, followed by 2 x 20 crunches on ball and then 3 sets of tricep pushdows (10kg). My triceps were burning!!

All this plus stretching burned a whopping 750 calories!!  I was a total sweat fest and I felt so GREAT afterwards!!

Now if I could just get me appetite under control then I will be a weight loss machine!!

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Weigh in update and some Florida photos!

I totally forgot to do an update after my Weight Watchers Weigh in on Thursday night.  Despite not having the best week and not really tracking for the most part, I still lost one pound!  Obviously I would have liked to have lost more than that, but a loss is a loss and is better than a gain.  Tomorrow, I am totally back on the WW wagon and am going to kick ass!  I hope to lose at least 1.5lbs this week.  And if it's more than that then it's a bonus.  Also last Tuesday I went to the gym!  My first time back there in months!  I managed to do a 40 minute workout.  I did 10 minutes on the spin bike, then hit the treadmill and managed to run on and off for 20 minutes and then did some weights for chest, back and shoulders.  I really didn't have a plan to follow when I went to the gym so I felt I gave it a half-hearted effort when I did my weights.  I did give it some welly when doing my cardio tho!

As you can see, I revamped the blog a wee bit, but I'm still not entirely happy with it!  I am going to try and design a better header for the blog because I feel it's a bit too plain and a bit boring!

I was also going through some of my Florida photos.  I loved looking through them but I also felt a little sad that I'm so big in the photos.  Why didn't I stick with my trainer and diet plan before going??  I just feel regret that I went to Florida feeling like a whale.  But.......there's not much I can do about it now, apart from just sticking to my WW plan, exercise and try and lead a healthier lifestyle without feeling I am sacrificing anything.

I am going to post a photo of me taken at Disney Hollywood Studios - This will be my "before" photo.  Last weekend I took some "before" photos, just for myself to see - since I am just wearing my underwear!  I was totally horrified by them.  Maybe one day, when I am hot and slim, I will put them up as a comparison!!

Here are some photos from vacation - I hope you like them!

I was about 187lbs here.....

Celebration, Fl.  One of my favorite photos!

One day I will be confident enough to do this!!

I hope you liked seeing a couple of my Florida pics!  I certainly enjoyed looking through some of them - I have over 3000 photos!  Plus nearly 1000 on my iPhone........  Ha ha ha!

Hope everyone has a great week this week!

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