I should probably email the administrators and ask them to remove this blog...it only serves as a reminder of how crap I am at blogging with any regularity. The last post on this blog was like 9 months ago...I could have had a baby in that time, but I leave that joy to my sister in law, Meg...I have had enough children, I have done my bit and that's all there is to that.
I looked at my last blog entry and suprise, suprise, I was on a weight loss journey...it seems my life has been one long weight loss journey...one which I am obviously not done yet. The good news is I am not really any heavier than I was when I started boot camp (which I pyked out of three sessions in because I blew out my knee) of course the reverse is that I am around the same weight as I was a year ago when I started boot camp...enter my new insanity...I actually PAID money for an excercise and weight loss program...the 12 Week Body Transformation CHallenge run by Michelle Bridges.
At first I was going to remain silent about my participation, and then just bask in the adoration of the masses as they noticed the massive transformation of me and my body, my mental state and my general awesome-ness 12 weeks later. I admit I was afraid because I didn't want to have one more failure publicly added to my list of other weight loss failures...but then I decided, in for a penny, in for a pound...or 130 kilos as the case may be, give or take a kilo or two.
On Saturday I dutifully did the 'clean all the crap out of your kitchen' pre season challenge, and on Sunday I ran/walked a kilometer (well walked it in pain mostly) and did some pushups (on my knees) as well as a sit and stretch test, a sit against a wall test and the dreaded sit-up test (which in my case ended up being more of a case of lay on the ground and pretent you actually have an ab muscle or two) Had a had a bag of potato chips left in my house for Doug to wave by my feet in hopes that I could actually sit up from a lying position, I reckon I still wouldn't have made it.
Anyway my stats were 9min20sec for the 1km, no sit ups, 27 (knee) push ups, 20 seconds sitting on the wall and a -15cm stretch (though I would like to state here I don't think it was the lack of leg stretch ability that caused this abyssmal result, I think it was my fat stomach preventing me from getting any more 'bend' out of my body).
And so Doug and I headed off to the grocery store with the very large grocery list that includes a heap of herbs, so I got those potted at bunnings to make my life not so expensive, a kilo of freaking ricotta cheese, lots of veg, and quite a few wraps too.
This mornign I dutifully ate my porridge (I don't do untoasted muesli) with grated apple and cinnamon (as opposed to my normal maple syrup or brown sugar) and then got ot making lunches. My awesome kids are taking this whole thing on board so they have decided we will all eat my meals, and they will try new things...I made lunches (ham, cottage cheese, corn relish, sprouts, cucumber etc) and thought to myself 'damn this is a heap of food.' Turns out, and please note it wasn't until dinner that I realised each recipe serves two...so in essence, we ate WAY too much food today....so officially I start tomorrow.
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