Update.

This blog has been on my mind. I have thought about it quite often over the past few days. My lack of updating (and my general all round laziness this week). I think my downfall was the whole weigh in. I would do it, lose the paper I write thins down on, not take pictures then just think “meh” about the whole thing. I think I am going to rewrite the rules for myself. It is my weight loss so I can go about it as I please.

New Blog Rules:

Each Sunday I will report my measurements. Despite having scales I do not weigh myself. I don’t like weighing myself. Even if the numbers are going down. I find having them go down makes me complacent. I lose my drive to exercise and to eat healthy.

I will update with a bikini picture on the first day of each month. I do not like getting into the bikini. And it is cold. So I shall suffer it once a month and that is all.

I won’t weigh myself. See above for the reason why. However when I am happy with how I look I will weigh myself, just out of curiosity.

So there you have it. I shall attempt to stick by the rules. One other major factor of the blog is going on the back burning is just a matter of timing. I started working full time. I get up at ten to six in the morning to exercise. Then rush to work. When I get home from work I try and go out for a jog. After I get home and eat I am dead, I usually go to bed about nine at night. It is getting better as my body slowly gets used to it but it is so hard.

I have decided being on a “diet” will be an ultimate downfall for me. My lack of control about food has always been an issue. I don’t overeat anymore. But I still like good foods!! So I treat myself to small things on occasion. Mind you I might make a once weekly treat so I need to choose wisely! And staying away from the cookie jar at work is proving to be a challenge. One I have failed on many days. Cookies and milk is one of my favourite things. Yum!

So I am going to try and make more of an effort to update the blog. I have decided to write about other things happening in my life, not just about diet and exercise. My personal theory is if I start writing about it hopefully I will start trying to make my life more interesting. Take the ballroom dancing lessons, get lessons in French! Go out and about and experience Sydney for what it is. A big and busy city that hardly sleeps! I am a small girl in this big big town but one ay as well take advantage of it. Expand my world. Go to an art gallery. Eat something different. People watching here is most interesting too.

I need to be more independent. I hardly know anyone here but I won’t let that stop me anymore! I have my faithful cat Jack for company and companionship. He is one of the most amusing creatures I have had the pleasures of coming across. And he is as cute as a button! That and when I talk to him he looks at me and seems like he is listening. Yes that’s right folks, at 22 I am a crazy old cat lady ;)

So I shall leave on this note! Hopefully I’ll write again soon…

Update!!

Tomorrow night I shall update with my weigh in. I have yet to take pictures and will have to get one of the boys to take some of me in the morning!

Quick Update.

I must keep exercising. Even if it is so cold my fingers might drop off. This whole getting up at 6am to exercise is killing me. I am so tired all the time. I hope after a week I get used to it so I can update some more.

Going to sleep now! I have another date with dawn tomorrow. Night. xox

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I want to be the type of girl a person immediately thinks "she is hot"

Weigh In -- FAIL! :'(

Dear Diary,
I must admit, after this weeks weigh in, I gave up. I immediately though "fuck this" and gave up. This is not something I am proud of. I have been avoiding updating this very blog because I gave up. The whole point of this very blog is to stop me doing that! I have already been reminded by Jasmin to post my measurements and weight and pictures. And they are sitting here ready to be done. I suppose I am a little, no A LOT, disappointed with myself and how little progress I have seemed to make after so much hard work. It means I need to work on what I eat and push myself further for longer.

So I fell off the bandwagon. I succumbed to Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I was slack and didn’t go for that walk. I of course made up excuses. It is raining. I have a cold (I actually do really have a cold, horrible thing) etc and etc. I am very good at justifying why I am not doing something.

I have decided I need more to keep me doing this. I am going to print off my fat pictures and stick them up somewhere that I will see them everyday. I will make a list of what I can and cannot eat and stick it on the fridge. I will (try) and stop making excuses allowing me to be lazy. Stay where I am. Not get healthy.

And thus, without further ado, this fortnights weigh-in:

Weight: 85.2kgs

Measurements:

Bust: 104
Waist: 95.5
Hips: 108
Thigh: 67
Upper Arm: 32.5

No real change really…/sigh

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Resistance Training.

I find that the more I read about exercise, and the different ways of going about it, the more I learn! You will be surprised how much knowledge other people have of exercise and training as well from their own personal experience.

I am currently looking into resistance training. This helps build up your bodies muscle tone. Now I didn’t think of my muscles, I thought exercise was all about the cardio my thoughts were actually incorrect! Resistance training helps fight the flab as the muscles you are building up use your bodies fat stores. Now apparently if you build up your muscle tone to a certain extent those muscles could burn fat during your sleep!

There seems to be many different types of resistance exercise you can do. I have been shown exercises where all you need is a bench! Push ups, sit ups, chin ups, dips, squats and lunges all help. Now with this kind of exercise don’t expect to be able to do 50 squats your very first try! You need to build it up, gradually increasing the amount (or weight depending on what you are doing) to the point you would like to reach. However weights are often used and you can use the rubber bands as well.

Now I was talking to Anna about this who said that you will find that as soon as you start working on your muscle tone you will find that it helps burn the fat in all areas of your body! She would know as this is what happened to her personally when she very first began training. It certainly sounds like it would help speed up the whole process of losing weight.

I am going to start of doing more resistance training. I think a starting point of 5 of each where you don’t really require any equipment will be sufficient enough. I am thinking that with this kind of training you also need to be careful as you could probably easily over do it and will not be able to move the next day! I hope to buy some light weights to train with once I get the funds to do so. I think I could also benefit from having the weights that you wear around your wrists whilst walking.

I found the following article quite an interesting read:

http://www.medicinenet.com/weight_lifting/article.htm

It also links to a lot of other articles which would be interesting to take a look at!