Its Just NOT Fair!

Why is it the number i see on the scales can dictate how i feel..i wish it wouldn't.
I started a six week yoga course on Tues with my friend B which I really enjoyed, I have been to several beginner yoga courses and as soon as I walked in the space felt right compared to all the others...maybe this time i will stick to it and actually advance past yet another beginners course.....

Feeling refreshed I woke early Wed and went for a run..the same route I used to do when i first starting walking, except instead of walking and feeling like I was about to have a heart attack I ran all the way - there and back. I was so proud of myself, I realised how far I had come, I felt great.

Why is it now, after stepping on the scales I feel down for only being down 100g. Although I did step on mid week and have actually put on .4 since wed..I have eaten reasonbly well (= room for improvement) but i also exercised my arse off..I even ran 8.8km which is the most I think i have ever run..It take me about 50 minutes but still...how can i put on weight???

Sooo..I am now deciding what to do...Do i drop it back to walking and lighter exercise or continue the way i am and make sure i stick to approx 20-22 pts a day.....I can't decide..my clothes feel better than they have done in weeks..but the scales are telling me something else....i know that i should listen to my body and clothes yada yada but I just don't want to see the number get higher..

I am off to shop.

Weigh-in

I jumped out of bed thanks to my new found energy, which makes a change from the wooliness of previous sat mornings due to "going for a quick one" most fri nights....and hoped on the scales...down 1.3kg...yah...i still didn't like the number that was staring back at me, but i have to focus beyond that....my hard work and effort paid off..so to keep up momentum i went for a walk/run with bf...a wee visit to the gym is also planned for this afternoon before a rest day tomorrow.

So last night was spent cooking a nice healthy dinner and going to the movies, we saw the Break Up, it was "nice and fluffy" (ish) and we survived the whole entire movie with no movie food..amazing...it was water and diet coke (sml)....I still don't know how they can charge $8.10 for 2 drinks...its incredible....and makes me mad, byo next time.

Couch Potato

I am sitting on the couch with exhaustion and satisfaction....I ran 7kms at the gym tonight..in 45mins and chose the random hilly mode...Its the longest I have run in a looooong time...I don't think I could do it without my ipod though....I am still not sure if I will make the half marathon but I am happy with the way I am going..i would like to think that i can run the C2S, but will see closer to the time......i really want to go the bloggers dinner......not sure if i can do both my will power isn't quite as willing as i would like...

I am counting / tracking my way back down the scales.....it feels good, nice to be in control and I wonder why i jumped of the wagon and stayed off for so long...

3, 2, 1....blastoff!

I have been counting down..counting down on a few things...one of the biggies for me was the shortest day (june 21), as from that date its all uphill, (or downhill depending on how you look at it) the days are longer, mornings lighter and the weather generally warming-up AND i will spring out of bed at 5.45am and run up and down the hills on the Bondi-Coogee seawalk...

Another countdown i have had in my head (there is a lot going on in there...) was to the lululemon warehouse sale in Paddington which was today. I am not a huge fan of sales, clearances (although i always have great luck at Birkenhead) or anything that would like to lead me to belive i am getting a bargain...but I had to go due to my love for lulu....so a short taxi ride later i find myself hunting through racks of dodgy coloured / patterned yoga gear eagerly trying to find something that I have always wanted...then i couldn't remember my size...was i an 8 or 10 (its only ever going to happen in US sizing)..

Due to the current phase of eating everything in sight, I am a 10 (at one stage i was bordering an 8) so as i moved (even further) from the hordes gathered around the size 4's and 6's and decided on a pair of black (now there's a surprise!) pants. I saved a whole $10! Never mind it cost me ~$15 in transport to get there and back.......

July 1 is tomorrow and i am on the countdown to Christmas...bit early? Well, bf being a Brit and having British friends has signed us up to a mid winter christmas/getaway/feast in the Blue Mountains at the end of July, so i am on a fast track to lose a stone/6 kg...(there is a hot tub). Three weeks after i am off to thredbo skiing for 3 days, so i HAVE to lose the recently gained pounds...I have so many reasons to, but i guess the main one is that i want to feel great and IN CONTROL.

PS I am so excited...I think i have linked everything in this post!!!!

The week starts now!

I dragged myself to the scales and hopped on...i sort of knew i would be up..and i was..67.5..ekk! what had gone so wrong when i had a good few days...my clothes still felt better, what was happening...i was very confused...so confused i had to eat... Eat. Eat. Eat. And the grey cold weather only encouraged me....and the fact that i got my period....
I often get very bad headaches when i get my period, and sleeping is the only relief, so my weekend was spent sleeping and eating.....making my Sass & Bide jeans just that wee bit further away.....

Tomorrow is a new day...i would usually think that i had blown the whole week as it wasn't a great start, but as i am writing this, or perhaps because i am writing this..(its out there) i feel that i have to make tomorrow the day i start on the right foot, and if thats what it takes, so be it.

Here's to a good week everyone! (well, just under..)

Its a hilly road ahead..

Yesterday i sprung out of bed (ok..so maybe after 10 mins of waking up) sans bf who has some cough flu thing....i figured this is when my self motivation really needs to have the emphasis on self....Anyway, as i sprung down the steps and magically started running..jogging actually, which i see as slow running...and i jogged down the road and up THE HILL..and down..and then 40mins later i am done..feeling very proud of myself...

Fast forward through day and i am starving..manage to stop at 23ish points though..however today i think Wagamamas tipped me over 30...that and the choccie koala bear and biccies....damn. I blame TTOM....................

Tomorrow is a rest day, so to speak..although i have to race around before i start work at 9 to buy my friend a b'day pressie, so i can give it to her when we meet for lunch and then meet friend B for a clinique/marie claire soiree in the evening..(we just want the goodie bag!)...am sure i have earnt at least 3 exercise points just thinking about it!

Weigh in sat...........tata

The hills are alive

I can't believe its been so long since i have posted..months! In that time my weight has been down to 64.5 (pre-easter) and up to 68 (post-easter).. After i had my fill of lovely NZ chocolate i just continued my over-indulgent streak and the lovely suede skirt i managed to slide on just a few weeks before was now stuck...Reality sunk in..i can't eat everything i want..but i also felt like crap...so have been on track for about a week and down to 66.8, so i hope yet again the suede skirt will slide once again.

Most mornings I go for a walk for about 40-45 mins along the hilly cliffs towards Bondi with my lovely bf..some days he is dragging me out of bed and other days its me... I used to hate the hills and steps (and getting out of bed) but lately have introduced some running, albeit downhill and on the flat parts but i love it, I love how i feel afterwards..the runners high i guess. I think that it was during this high, or was it after a few fri night drinks... we ended up talking about doing the half marathon at the end of Aug (i think). As yet I haven't rushed and signed up...but will see how i get on closer to the time...i figure that by then i will be lighter and running will be just so easy!

What i didn't find as easy as i had thought was the nordic walking i did with Mary, M, Sarah and our trusty leader Anja..it took a bit more co-ordination and concentration that i had anticipated...Feeling that i should be in the green grassy hills of switzerland yodalding or that something was missing (perhaps skis and snow) I really enjoyed it...I also enjoyed meeting the other gals..before I knew it an hour was up and decided that it would be best to do another hour at a later date.

So after a day of exercise (cliff walkrun, nordic walking and then walking into town and around shops) i am being a true librian and balancing out my life with a day of nothing...its 1.15pm and i am still in my jammies....