Week 8 weigh in

He he I'm getting pretty damn slack at updating this page now huh?

Last week I actually lost weight for the first time in 3 weeks, a whole 1KG.. woop de woop. Ok actually I was really pleased with it after having gained/stayed the same for so long.

Weighed in this morning though and I have stayed the same again.. Although I shouldn't complain too much, ate a shi*load of rubbish over the weekend and only got out for 3 walks last week. One was 10km though which was good.

I complain about a lack of weight loss but don't really know what I am whingeing about. The block of chocolate I just cracked open will make that all better.... Ok so it won't help me lose weight in any sense of the word, but I temporarily felt better at least... I even have some melted chocolate on my cleavage.. I'm all class, I tell ya!!!

So as you can see, the good eating has disappeared over the last week or so, but along with the chocolate I bought at the supermarket I also bought lots of fresh vegetables and fruit and some nice meat. And I really won't eat all of the chocolate tonight! Actually after a couple of lines of it I feel REALLY sick, so that is more than enough for one night.

Hoping for some fine weather tomorrow so I can get out there and do another decent length walk..  Really starting to feel a little concern for the fact that the half marathon is 8 weeks away and I'm only up to 10km (11km tomorrow hopefully), in theory this is plenty of time, but I have to contend with rubbish weather, a teething baby and an upcoming surgery on my wrist which hopefully shouldn't put me out too much. A couple of mates told me in the weekend they will do the event with me, with no training. Made me feel a bit stink really, as I have been training so hard to get as far as I have. I guess though, they don't weigh 90odd KG so don't have all of that extra weight to contend with.

Hope everyone is having a good week so far, feel free to comment on here. Even if there is only 6 people following me, its still nice to know people want to read what is happening. And I am now up to 50 "fans" on my facebook page!!

Week 6 Weigh In

So my results were so bad lately, I haven't even bothered checking in here!
Had a week of no change at all, even though I did lots of walking, then last week I fell over and hurt myself reasonably badly, which took a few days to come right, and was also so busy I didn't have time to get out and walk anyway. Weather has been rubbish too, which if it was just me walking it wouldn't have mattered but not really fair on an 8 month old baby to make him sit in his pram for 2 hours in the rain and wind!!

So being that its been 6 weeks now, I should be doing some more photos, but seeing as I started at 92.7kg, went down to 89, up and down some more and now am about 91.5kg, I really don't see the point!! My pants are definitely looser still, but same old story, can't help but look at the scales (or wii fit board in my case)

There is still 11 weeks til the half marathon, so in theory plenty of time to go from 10km to 21km, if I carry on as I was, but still starting to freak out a little. Went for a good walk yesterday over the Mount Harbour Bridge, back again and then into town (from Sulphur Point) but ankle got a bit sore and so had to stop half way for awhile.

Anyway, I know I will get there weight loss wise eventually, its just much slower than I thought it would be!!! Planning a big walk (10kmish) on Thursday, and maybe try to get to Zumba class on Saturday too.

Hope everyone is having a good week, looks like we are about to get more Thunderstorms this afternoon.

Week 4 weigh in

I did weigh in this week, but felt so diasappointed with the result that I didn't even post on here!
Over it now though. Id gained weight and was back up to 90.5kg again :( Still less than where I started a month ago, but I wanted better results.

Anyway I've moved on and this week besides a couple of smaller walks, I have done an 8km walk (Tuesday) and today a 9km walk. So I am well on my way. I have 12 weeks til the big day, so as long as I continue to add 1km a week, I should be ok. Just gotta stick with it!!!

I have to admit, even though I have gone from barely making it 4km to walking 9km and feeling like I could have carried on, the prospect of walking 21km is more than a little daunting now that I am actually entered into it!. So am trying not to worry about it and instead I am just focussing on increasing my distance by 1km a week and working on getting faster. Todays walk took me 2 hours, with a pram. So definitely need to work on speeding up, and also getting in some walks without a pram, as it is a whole different kind of walking style when not pushing a pram :)

Have resisted the urge to re weigh myself this week. I was disappointed but I'm hoping by leaving it a week like I am meant to and getting in lots of walks in the mean time, next weeks results will be much better!

Nikki

Sneaky mid-week weigh in

So I've done my Personal Trainer course, I know you aren't meant to weigh yourself too often etc, but yesterday morning I got up and felt I needed cheering up, so weighed myself again. Monday is weigh in day, and seeing as I had gained weight at my last weigh in, this really could have backfired, but nope, I have lost weight!
So as at 3 weeks, 3 days, I have lost 3.2kg!! That takes me from 92.7kg down to 89.5 which I am pretty stoked about!! My pants are definitely looser around my hips, which is a nice feeling!

Managed to stuff my knee yesterday, purely by bending down to talk to my baby, so no walking for a couple of days to let it come right, Its ok long as I don't fully extend or flex it...

Yay for Fridays!

Mama can't count!

Today was my 3 year wedding anniversary so should have been a good day but it was a SHITE day!! Lots of things went wrong but putting that aside, high points of today would have to have been taking my 7 month old baby, Dex, for his first swim at the pools, which he absolutely loved! And the other high point is getting in an 8km walk when I left my car intending on only doing about 5-6km! Actually I completely miscalculated and got myself all confused. I got halfway through the walk, was turning around to come back and thought that I had gone 6km already and therefore my walk would be 12km by the time I got back to the car.
Was so proud of myself when I got back to the car, absolutely stuffed but happy I can now manage over half of what I need to do in August.... then I drove it and checked the distance.... It was only 8km :( GUTTED!!!! But still, at least it was more than I had planned to do!

So am pretty tired tonight after a long day, but feel I have at least achieved something. And I can go to sleep happy as I had a huuuge bunch of flowers dropped off to me by my sister in law, my hubby sent her to get me a big bunch of flowers on his behalf as he is out of town. They smell great and are so pretty.

Time for sleep now, good night everyone :O
Nikki

Week Three Weigh In

So disappointed. I was so good last week and went for my biggest walk so far (8km) and yet I have GAINED weight! 200g, which I know isn't a huge amount but I really had hoped to lose weight this week. Oh well just means I gotta work a bit harder I supose.
Entries for the Half Marathon have opened now, I think I will enter this week so that I REALLY have to do this, although with the amount of people that I have told about it so far, I wouldn't get off too lightly if I did try to squirm out of it!!
I have been amazed at the amount of people that are interested in my progress, from setting up a Facebook Page I already have 47 people following me, and 5 of those have come across to this page as well, all good motivation for me though, knowing there are people who are going to want to know how I am progressing.

Raining today and has been all night. Was meant to be going for another 8km walk today, but really wouldn't be fair on Dex to stick him in the pram for a couple of hours while I walk. I have a rain cover but still, not much fun. So will see how the weather goes, might go for a shorter walk and hope it fines up tomorrow. I am husbandless until Thursday night so I'm sure I will need something to fill in my time :)

Hope that everyone has a good week
Nikki

Week Two Weigh In..

So I weighed in this morning, since last Monday I have lost another 1.3kg! Considering that I lost that in the first few days of the last week and then ate lots of rubbish and didn't walk as much for the last 4 days of the week, I am really glad I lost even this much!!!
This far, after 2 weeks exactly, I have lost 2.5 kg, so pretty happy with my progress!

Had a very rubbish weekend in some ways. Dex was really unhappy and screamed for a good part of our weekend away, so I had not alot of sleep and so didn't want to eat healthy food. It comes back to the same old story, you feel down, so you eat badly, which makes you feel guilty, so you feel down. Such a nasty circle :(

Still not feeling any better today, but have eaten healthier food, although I had eggs on toast for breakfast at 7.30am and then forgot to eat until 4.30pm when I had a roast beef sandwich! And I wondered why I felt so shaky and airy fairy.

Back on track tomorrow though, going to go for a big walk, get my thoughts in order, and make sure I increase my distance to 6.5km by the end of this week!!! Entries still haven't opened to the half marathon I want to enter as a walker, but that doesn't change the fact I need to keep training for it if I want any show of finishing!!!!

Hope everyone reading this has a great week :)