This week's food

I seem to have gotten into the habit of posting pictures of my food so i figured i may as well continue! These will be my lunches for the coming week. The suspicious pink stuff is my breakfast for tmrw... Which I've just remembered i did not put spinach into! Oops!

Sunday 23rd

I woke up early this morning, and for a while I toyed with the idea of going back to sleep... Then I slapped myself about the face, got up, and went to the gym.

Overhead Squats x 10
Overhead lunges x 10 (each side)
Overhead side lunges x 10 (each side)
Windmills x 10
hip flexor wall stretch
Ball balance (with attempts to lift hands)

Single leg bench squat 2x8kg x 12 (each side)
Sprint touch back 2x4kg x 20 (each side)
3 sets

Lunge & floor touch with scaption 2x4kg x 12 (each side)
Wall squat shoulder press 2x4kg x 12
3 sets

Reverse BOSU press up x 12
Alternating dead row 2x8kg x 12
3 sets

Plank step-ups x 12 (6 each side)
Ball crunches with arms up x 12
3 sets

Ouch, that's gona hurt tomorrow!

Sunday - weekly weigh-in

Weight: 138 pounds (62.5kg) - no change
Waist: 29.5" (75cm) - no change
Hips: 36" (91cm) - no change
Leg: 22" (56cm) - no change
Arm: 11.5" (29cm) - no change
Calf: 14" (36cm)

I've started measuring my calf muscles, I'm ridiculously paranoid about them being massive or something! Am sure they've been quietly growing!

Am dissappointed I've not managed any loss at all this week, but I suppose that's better than a gain! Also I've not been able to get to the gym as much as I'd like, and if I'm honest I've probably slacked off a bit too. I don't know why but my mind is just not in a very healthy place at the moment. It's in a sweet shop gorging itself on E numbers! Every week I do this weekly update thing, and say "it all changes this week, back on the straight and narrow..." and my will power lasts about half an hour before I'm dreaming of cakes and donuts!

On the plus side, I do think I'm getting more definition in my upper body. My shoulders definitely.

Am really going to try hard this week, I'm back to updating my food diaries properly, so hopefully that will help. The ear bashing I'll receive from my trainer if I've eaten too much junk will certainly help!

Breakfast!

I'm getting better with the food. Managed to get up in time to have breakfast at home today!

Thursday 20th

I thought my PT session was at 7 this morning. So I got to the gym at about 6:40am. The showers were still working on and off (the "off" meaning sudden scalding hot water), and I got into a long complaining session in the changing rooms (we're all so pissed off with nothing working in that place!) so I didn't get up to the gym until about 6:55. I got onto the cross trainer, thinking my PT would be here any minute... turned out I was wrong and my appointment was at 7:30. So I did a lot of mucking about, and then a PT session...

Cross trainer 1-minute sprint intervals, 8 minutes at level 5
Stepper 7 minutes at level 6
Reclining bike, 10 minutes at level 4

Overhead squats x 10
overhead lunges x 10 (each side)
overhead side lunges x 10 (each side)
Windmills
Hip flexor wall stretch
Ball balance superman - I can just about lift one hand for a couple of seconds on this one now!
Plank march x 20

Single leg bench squat. 2x8kg x 12 each side (weights up from last time)
Sprint touch back 2x4kg x 20 each side (weights up from last time)

Lunge & floor touch 2x4kg x 12 each side - amended from last time so that now I hold the weight above my head and bring it down in a scaption to touch the floor as I lunge. Ouch! weights up from last time - double ouch!)
Wall squat shoulder press 2x4kg x 12 (weights up from last time)

Reverse BOSU press up x 12
Alternating dead row 2x8kg x 12 (weights up from last time)

Plank step ups x 12
Ball crunches x 12 (arms above head for difficulty)

I only did one set of each (thank god!) as we only had half an hour.

In the evening I went back for an hour Body Balance session. I love the class, but it's on fairly late for me and the last couple of times I've done it I've been at work from 8.30am to 7pm in between, so I just stand at the back like a zombie and make loads of rookie mistakes. Hopefully this will improve!

My dinner looks like cat sick!

I confess, i can't cook for the proverbial toffee. This is why my diet suffers- because i can only cook things that come in a can or a jar with detailed instructions!

Wednesday 19th

Since there was still question over whether the showers at the gym would be working, I decided not to take my chances, and went for a run from home instead.
I did the Steps Of DOOOOOOOOM up the road. I only ran up them 3 times though, as I thought I as going to die. I think I need to get back into practise with the running really, or I stand no chance with the Great South in October!
I think I was out for about half an hour, I ran to the steps but on the way back my legs were a little jellified, so I walked! Man alive, I really am out of practise!

My food has been a little better today... though I did have crisps and a cinnamon danish. Curse those danish pastries, they get me every day!

I've just watched this video on You Tube that I found quite inspiring though. This woman lost shedloads of weight, and tracked her progress through You Tube videos, now she does updates about maintaining her weight, what exercise she does and stuff. Any way so yeah, I figured if she can do it then there's no reason I can't. I just need to be more strict with myself about what I eat. So this evening the plan is to cook a healthy dinner, then sort out something healthy to have as a snack tomorrow so that I don't end up buying crisps or other goodies!

Am not particularly optimistic about the weigh-in on Sunday, as I know I've been pretty bad with my food and have ended up skipping some exercise sessions - some through my own fault and others through situations beyond my control! Still, fingers crossed! I've a PT session in the morning so she's bound to put me through my paces. Then overtime tomorrow evening, and then Body Balance afterwards. I do love Body Balance!