I wrote a blog post and the bloody thing won't publish and won't let me open it to copy and paste. Grrrrr.
Anyway I love body combat. It's really bloody hard. But I love it. go and try it once. Brilliant stress relief.
I have an old injury to my knee that is playing up so I need to watch that.
Yeah I am still grumpy. think I might know why though.
Been told to gradually reduce my tablets so have gone from 3 a day to 4 a day. As I have been taking them to prevent the migraines that cause my dizziness, I didn't think about anything but that. Concentrating on my dizzy diary etc. Never considered that propanolol can also be used as a mood stabiliser. Perhaps it's a side effect.
Anyway I finished the ironing then laid on the sofa with my book. James bought Chinese takeaway home for tea.
Wallowed in the day and need to Wake up tomorrow and cheer the chuff up!
No idea what is up with me but I woke up feeling a bit blergh. Just fed up and grumpy. I booked my aqua Zumba class as soon as I woke but I didn't want to go. I wanted to stay in bed under the duvet till midday.
Weigh in day though so I duly got out of bed. I lost 5lb. Bit annoyed. Was hoping for at least 6lb. I worked damn hard last week, was under my calories every day and didn't eat the ones I gained in exercise. It's over my unofficial target of 2-3lb per week but not by a massive amount. So that didn't help the grump.
I went to aqua Zumba and I feel a little bit better but not wads. Zumba was all jumping about no weight work. Can't decide about it. The routines are ok once I get used to them but not sure if I like it. I will keep it in the list for now so that I continue to keep mixing my exercise classes up.
I feel like I need a smack on the arse or something to cheer my face up. Or some chocolate....
I used to look at those poor buggers running along the road in the rain at 8AM on a Sunday morning wondering what on earth they were doing. This morning there I was 8:20pm pounding the pavement. Idiot.
I am now on week 2 of my couch to 5k. Day one. It was 5 mins warm up followed by 90s run and 120s walk for 20 minutes, then five mins cool down. Just that extra 30s run really did feel like a killer. But I know I can do this as I used to run for 30mins at a time before all the Health issues. I just need to get back into it.
Possibility of doing body balance at 6pm tonight. Can't decide if to book myself on it or not as I have my sister and crew coming for tea. Might be tight for time. Decisions decisions.
Rest day today. well I say rest but they're isn't any really is there..... Been to Alton Towers today with the kids. Took them to cebeebies land and they loved it. Alton Towers is an enormous place though so my actual rest day involved no rest at all and I have walked 12,000 steps today. Smashed my daily target of 7500 (not including my exercise).
Should do a run first thing tomorrow morning but the balls of my feet hurt so much at the moment I am not sure how that will work out!
I may need some encouragement to get moving tomorrow about 8am!
Resisting the urge to weigh myself this morning. I know this l isn't all about weight loss it is mainly about fitness and health but part of that is being at a healthy weight.....and I have been so very good since Monday.....
No. Must resist. Monday is my weight day and I really don't want to be obsessed by the scales.
They really are! Any exercise is instantly made harder by doing it balancing on a ball. The lunges were an absolute killer.
Stood against a wall with the ball behind me rolling out up and down. Ouchy! But I completed it and went home for lunch with wobbly legs.
I then saw the ironing that was facing me this evening when I got back from the kids jujitsu classes. Urgh. All of a sudden the urge to go back to the gym took hold! I rang and booked myself in for Pilates class at 7:15pm!
The class was really really hard and I am not as flexible as I once was! I am now laid on the sofa and can barely move. The sessions in one day. I need to run myself a bath but my legs won't listen.
I am still avoiding the ironing....
Up at 8 for a run today. I booked fitball class for later but I figured is probably going to mainly be stomach back and chest work so I went for a run for cardio.
I have new completed week one of my couch to 5k program. It's only taken two weeks.... But in my defence I have been to the gym for classes instead. I will try to get back on track with the runs as well over the next week.
I use an app called c25K pro. It's brilliant. Basically you listen to your own music 🎶 and a little voice comes on telling you when to run and when to walk . The first week is 5 mins warm up then alternating 60s running and 90s walking then 5 mins cool down . Lasts 30 mins . If anyone is considering starting to run I recommend it . It syncs direct with myfitnesspal as well to show you cals burnt . Download it, get your trainers on and get outside. Everyone can find 30 mins in their day . Personally I am leaving the ironing and running instead ;-)
I run along a path on my estate up and down . Not quite ready to run on the main pavement yet because I run at 8:30am which is when people are taking their kids to school and the pavements are too busy. The path is not empty though as lots of people walk their dogs down there. Lots of people say hi. I don't feel embarrassed - they don't know that I haven't just run a 10k when I am a hot sweaty mess after four of my one minute runs!
I have put all my food and exercise into myfitnesspal and here is the graph it had come up with.
It's net calories which is basically the amount of calories I consumed minus the exercise calories burnt. If the graph stayed on the red line I should lose 1.5lb per week.
It is going better than iv had hoped. Hoping for some good results on Monday with my fat percentage.
Well today got off to a shaky start. Around midnight my eldest boy had an asthma attack and we were up for hours. Just had him settled at 3:30pm then my youngest woke up having a bad dream and needed me in his bed for a cuddle. I left there at about 4:30am and Xander was up in our bed wheezing and coughing from 6am. There has been no sleep....
He wanted to go to school so he has gone with a note asking the teacher to ring me if any problems.
Sooooo. I called the gym and booked aquacise before I went back to bed. So if it's booked I have to go. When I got there there were two classes one at ten and one at 11. I figured in for a penny and asked if there were spaces on the 11am. There was. So I stayed and did both classes! They were different teachers and very different. First was more cardio and jumping around in the pool. Music was seventies disco and was awesome. Second was more muscle work with the floating weights and the music was eighties. Was good. Then for the last five minutes of the second class we played a game of volleyball to ' dead ringer for love ' by meatloaf. Brilliant! Lots of fun and laughing 😂
I had my new swimming cossie on so my mummy tummy stayed put this time. My legs however didn't.... The pool is divided into lanes with these floating dividers. Aqua get 2/3 and lame swimming gets 1/3. I was doing my leg exercises quite close to the divide and we were floating on our front kicking our legs backwards. I booted a poor bloke in the tummy who was swimming! I felt so bad! He was very nice about it but I gave him a huge kick. Oops!
Aqua is one class where I am not the largest lady. Not by a long chalk. There are also quite a few older ladies that do it (although they don't seem to do all the exercises).
I now need to lie on the sofa and sleep. But it's lunchtime and I am also starving. By the time I eat it will be almost time to pick the kids up.
Last night I genuinely had to take an ibuprofen tablet 💊 my arms were killing me that much ! So out of practice ..... Anyway I slept well and woke up feeling alright at 7:15am so duly booked the 9:30 class. I then feel back to sleep and woke up at 9am in a blind panic ! Luckily I had got my gym kit out the night before (if you fail to prepare then prepare to fail) so was out the door for quarter past and made it in time .
Today's class was legs, bums and tums. I was OK during the warm up but the first five lunges were like someone stabbing tiny hot knives into my thighs. I didn't get out of breath at all but the muscle 💪 work was tremendous. I picked up 1.5kg weights which were about right for the tricep work but bit light for anything else. Might get 2 or 2.5 if I do it again. Or both maybe. A few other ladies had two sets and I did wonder why.
I was still the largest lady in there. Even the old dears in there were skinnier than me. Must persevere though . Rome wasn't built in a day .
Well. If Arthur is a tomato I am a beetroot.
Got up this morning with the kids just after seven and something possessed me to book in for body combat at 9:30am. By 9am I was regretting my decision add I was terrified. I am so very unfit what was I thinking! Anyway I got in the car and figured I can always chicken out and go on the bike instead when I get there. I cannot tell you how many times I nearly did. Walking in, walking up the stairs, when the instructor came over to ask if I had done it before etc.... Then when the blokes and the skinny minnies walked in I was almost high tailing it out of the door!
I told myself I would just stay for half of it and leave if I couldn't cope. No shame in that. The instructor said just do what you can and test of you need to. Thought that was nice get out of jail free card. After first 15 mins I thought I was going to die. Everyone else was smiley and normal but in the mirror I looked like a blob with a purple pin head. Was awful. I hate those mirrors with a firey passion.
BUT I stayed. I did the whole class. I did the basic moves but I did everything. I now feel like someone has put me through a mangle. Everything hurts. And worst of it is I know it's gonna be worse tomorrow.... Urgh.
And do you know what? I loved it. I bloody love body combat. Punching kicking is great stress relief. When instructor is shouting 'imagine you punching him in the ribs ' I proper was! No-one in particular but I was kicking the shit out of someone. With no possibility they will punch me back. 👊 . Best kind of fight .
Tomorrow the class is legs bums and tums. I don't know if I will be able to walk to go or if my body will seize up but so far as hoping to.
