April Target Hit!

I was a bit worried about this target, I was away for the weekend a week ago and I think I lost my tiny mind a little bit!


We go away with friends every now and again and I go with every good intention in the world of behaving myself and just drinking wine in the evenings and going out during the day and working some nice exercise calories up and sticking within my targets. Then everyone buys chocolates and cakes and crisps and leaves them open in front of me!


I swear, I'm like a crack addict set down in front of a mountain of top grade charlie!  I even brought back 2 hot cross buns that they don't sell where I live so that I could savour them!!


I am a sick puppy.


Malteasers are alright though right? Right??


Anyhoo.


Got home and back onto the wagon big style.  Got into Jillian Michaels 30 day shred again - finished level 2 and did day 1 of level 3. Ouch. Back to that tomorrow *shudder*.


Have had a nice swim (learning butterfly stroke at the minute! I know!), did some exercise biking and am in the process of (with dearly beloved) doing up an old bicycle in order to start learning to ride!! I am incredibly excited by this prospect :D  I know there's going to be a bit of falling down and some scraped knees and stuff, but I don't care, I *want* to be able to ride a bike. I *will* learn to ride a bike!!


So! Weighin!  I set a target of 12 stone 7 pounds for monday and when I stepped on the scales I was pleasantly surprised by:

12 Stone 5.25 Pounds

Which was very nice indeed.

So I'm hereby setting a new target for 30th April of 12 Stone 2 Pounds.  That will get me to the threshold of a new decade of lbs (170) just in time for my 31st birthday (yikes)!

Oh, also, my leisure centre membership has changed. Which means I'm going to be able to go to the fitness suite as well as the pool. This opens up the possibility of my starting jogging.....  Interesting developments abounds!


Till next time!!


xx

2 Goals in a day

Well, I've had a very big couple of days.


Last weeks weighin was a little disappointing as I had a gain after a weekend away.  But I put it to one side stating water weight as the only reasonable solution (not drinking a lot of water to avoid using festival toilets and the associated queues).  


Yesterday I stepped onto the scale and was absolutely blown away with the reading.


14 Stone 5 and a quarter pounds.


A loss of 6 and a quarter pounds.


which means I'm now (*quick calculation*) 201.5lbs.


which means that I've lost 101lbs in total.


It ALSO means that my BMI is now 29.7!!!!!!!!!


I am no longer Obese.


Now I'll admit, I don't feel a whole lot different this week than I did last week. I don't think my clothes are fitting any better than they already were. My confidence is already pretty high, but to have that label taken off my ass. It's pretty damn liberating.


The one thing that's slightly annoying me however is not having anyone to share my utter joy at this with.  My mum has failed in her attempt to lose any weight, I've gotten to a point with my family that I've really stopped trying to get them to do anything. Despite the fact that my Mum is hobbling about at the moment with severe hip pain and convinced that the next family event that we have she will be stuck in a wheelchair for it.


She's already walking with a stick at the moment and she's only 55 years old.


I know how hard it is to lose weight, believe me, I KNOW! But I know for a fact that she hasn't even tried. I had to give up nights out for a long time to make sure that I was sticking to my calorie goal, I stopped drinking alcohol during the week (actually at all for a fair while till I was getting to where I wanted to be) and I know that a lot of their calories for the week comes from the couple of drinks they have at night time.


It makes me cross that she hasn't tried. 


Part of the reason that I want to lose weight is that I want to have a baby. I'm 30 years old now and I am ready to be a mom, but I want to have a healthy body to give any baby that I might have the very best start in life.  I want my mum to be around to meet that baby. I'm afraid that she's not going to be if she keeps going the way she's going.


I told her yesterday that I've lost 101lbs and that I wasn't obese anymore, she didn't say anything. No congratulations. Nothing.


I was so cross, I didn't want to talk to her.


Kinda took the shine off my day really.


I'm really looking forward to this weekend though. I get to wear my gorgeous dress I bought while I was on holiday in America! (Friends wedding)


I'm gonna look friggin amazing ;)

Shopping with the norms.

Yesterday I had a bizarre and wonderful experience.  


I decided to go shopping yesterday to try on some clothes, see how I'm doing, and maybe get some things for the summer time as all of my light T-shirts are all a size 22-24 and hang on me like a tablecloth.


So, in I went to Evans wearing my size 18 jeans and my size 20 black vest and had a look around.  First thing I noticed was the amount of large prints and long tunics that appear to be in fashion this year.  I hate large prints.  Long tunics are ok, but they do kinda drown me given how tall I am, it makes me look like I'm wrapped in a blanket.  Anyway, I digress.  Feeling brave I picked up a pair of size 16 lycra assisted (thank god for lycra!) bootcut jeans.  I also picked up 2 size 16 t-shirts and headed for the changing rooms. 


"Lets have a look and see how far I have to go to get into these bad boys" I was thinking.


Guess what.....  They only bloody fit!!  


Size 16 jeans! And size 16 t-shirts!  I was absolutely elated! I've never jumped up and down in a changing room for joy before, normally when i jump up and down in a changing room it's to try and pull a pair of jeans up over my bum!!!!!


I'm still high about it as you can possibly tell.


Then the tops, THEY FIT TOO!!! Can you believe it!? I'm officially a size 16 on top!  I am not yet counting the size 16 bottoms as evans jeans tend to be quite forgiving, plus they're a nice cut and have a bit of stretch to them, so anything linen or with no give in them will be far too small, but still.  I'm happy :)


So.  As I walking into the town I noticed H&M. A shop that I have honestly never ever been in as it only does sizes up to 16/18


I WENT IN!


I TRIED STUFF ON!


I DECIDED WHAT TO BUY BASED ON WHAT I LIKED AND NOT JUST WHAT THEY HAD IN MY SIZE!!!!!


These are feelings that people who have never had a weight problem will just never feel.


I was walking past Gap and I got a lump in my throat as I realised "Oh my god, I can go in there and actually look now!"


I'm absolutely delighted, as you can possibly tell :)


Roll on the summer holidays :D

Weigh Day and the importance of exercise.

If I keep this up (i definitely will be on twitter) you'll discover that monday is my #weighin day.

This morning I was delighted to see a 4 pound loss on my happy scale to take me down to 16 stone 9 and a half pounds.  I started on 21 stone 9 pounds, so I am just half a pound away from a total 5 stone loss!!! I can hardly believe it sometimes really :D

I'd like to take a few minutes to talk about the exercise i did today.

I try to do at least 30 minutes of activity every working day (4 days a week) which means i do a 30 minute walk at lunch time.  Even if that is just to the shop and back :)  On my days off shift I try to do more.

Today was the first day in a week that I've had a day off to be able to do my exercises.  THAT WAS DIFFICULT!! When I last did my DVD it felt like something that I had it sorted and that I could do it and enjoy it every single day.  Then I had a week with no shift day off with no access to anything more than my walk at lunch time.  Today I did 30 minutes aerobics and 30 minutes callisthenics and then 45 minutes of exercise bike and now I feel so good! It took a bit of effort to get going but I did it and I'm so glad I did!

It is so important to keep your activity levels up! your metabolism will thank you for it.  It really really will. Also it helps save you from too much excess skin and wobbly bits!

Hope you're all having a really good day today!  Here's to target day!