Sorry to have disappeared for a few day- I took a mini break from blogging and have only just managed to catch up on all the blog posts that had piled up in my reader.
I think I had also hoped to have good news on Thursday night after weighing in at weight watchers. Despite having a reasonable week food wise (stuck to points most days, only one I think I went over) and exercising a fair bit ( since the Thursday before til Thursday of this week I had done 2 x 3km walks, an aqua arobics class, half an hour hooping, and a half our pilates DVD as well as doing 10,000 steps 5 out of the 7 days. Plus some 10 minute hooping sessions here and there) I put on .3kg. I am really really hoping that is was just water retention since we are experiencing 30 degree heat and higher. I know I had a bit loss the week before and that is hard to maintain but I was hoping for at least a .5kg loss but instead I got a gain.
While I find it easy to stick to my points during the day for breakfast, lunch and snacks, dinner is a bit hard especially since the boys are not so much into the healthy food I would prefer to cook. Especially since I am the last home and then usually go for a walk or aqua class or a weight watchers meeting dinner time is getting a bit late so they usually want something quick. So for this week I will write up the menu plan and stick it to the fridge and explain that if they want to start preparing that is fine otherwise dinner won`t be til about 7pm. If the food is coming from a recipe book I will mark the page and leave it open on the counter!!! Some easy meals coming up this week (I think) will include steak & salad, buritos & maybe some kind of healthy beef stew with steamed vegies. I would also like to include one vegetarian meal a week at night but the boys are not interested!!!
The biggest surprise for me so far I think is that while I am at work everyday I find myself thinking of where I will be able to get my exercise for that day. I wear a pedometer everyday (at least on weekdays) and check it occasionly to see how I am going with daily steps. I think about other exercise though like whether I will go for a walk, do an exercise DVD or some hooping. I had even planned to go to a Yoga class this morning but when my alarm went off at 8am I realized it just wasn`t going to happen because I felt too tired. Instead I did a pilates 30 minute DVD with a resitance band at about 12pm. The plan is to do some hooping a bit later as well since we are going out about 5:30pm and going outside for a walk before that time won`t be happening (Dad & I usually go, and take Abbey- it is too hot to go at 4pm though). Tomorrow though I will do a big walk late afternoon and maybe, just maybe, even go to the local pool for a swim since it is so damn hot!!!
My interest in exercise has come as a bit of a surprise. See I hate exercise but I haven`t always. In fact when I was younger I was a very competitive athletic competing mainly in short distance running events (100m, 200m, hurdles etc) as well as some other events like triple jump, high jump, long jump & shot-put. I did little Athletics for years and years and much to the surprise of people I meet now I was actually quite good at it. I stopped running & competing at bout 14 or 15 years of age but switched to soccer for a few years before giving up on sports entirely. That was probably my biggest downfall since I had always loved food but the consitent exercise had kept me slim. It wasn`t til I stopped exercising at about 16 that I ballooned out- even more so after I left highschol (and headed to Japan!)
What I am really hoping for is that if I can get into a comfortable routine here combining mainly walking and hula hooping as well as some fitness DVDs then perhaps I will succeed in keeping the weight I hope to lose off once I return to Japan. I feel good after I excercise where as I never used to (well not in recent years at least) in fact I always wondered if those people that spoke about endorphins been released when you exercised were talking shit. Because I never got that happy feeling they talked about!! Now, while exercise doesn`t make me feel all happy or anything I definitely feel better after it and I am noticing changes in my body even if I haven`t lost weight. The biggest i think is in my arms and also in my posture- I feel like I am standing straighter which in turn is (perhaps) making me appear slimmer!
Let me just say though, after doing the pilates DVD twice now, it is so hard. Much harder than I could of imagined. I still hope to get to a Yoga or Pilates class sometime soon- some of you might remember that attend at least 2 classes of pilates or yoga is on my 101 list. I really hope that next Thursday when I weight in that I will have had a loss- I do realize that weight loss takes time and that it won`t happen overnight but I don`t want to lose heart/motivation and if I don`t get a loss then I just might.
How do you keep fit? What exercise do you fit in and do you have a favourite?
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