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"You can have the results you say you want, or you can have all the reasons in the world why you can’t have them. But you can’t have both. Reasons or results. You get to choose."


Susan Carlson

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Doing stuff

Hi there,

Well, while my grand start the Monday after my last blog fizzled...  I have started working out regularly.  I found a great web site for tracking my workouts that makes it a bit of a game with points, levels and badges...  totally suits my personality and seems to have tipped me into regular workout mode!

Eating to follow at some point.  But fitness and strength are the keys to me completing Stampede in October.  Slimness would help, a lot, but one step at a time I think.

I am loving my workouts.  Right now a mixture of indoor cycling, stairs at work, my weekly class (kind of like a boot camp) and a few sessions of planks, sit ups etc.  I would like to get some running in too, and more strength work.  But to start with I love that I am working out at least once and sometimes twice each day :)

So I see the light at the end of this tunnel.  Its a long tunnel, but the journey will be fun regardless!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Where am I at?

This time I am not back on that elusive band wagon, yet.

I am going through some life changes, and plan to use the momentum to change my weight and fitness.

My father passed away last week.  5 days ago.  The funeral is in 2 days.

My dad was a fit man.  He didn't eat well, but he ate only when hungry.  He drank too much but he exercised regularly.  He didn't sit a lot.  In the weeks before he died he considered himself lazy if he spent a morning in bed.  He was brave, stubborn and courageous.  He beat the odds, surviving 4.5 years after being told he had 6 - 18 months.

He played his last cricket game last December.

He is a hero to me.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not doing this for my dad, I am doing it for me.  But I am using my dad as inspiration.  He fought a much tougher battle, with more effort, pain and sacrifice than a weight loss and fitness journey can ever contain.  He fought with everything he had, courage, dignity and stubbornness.

I was on my way already, but with baby steps.  Then he got worse the past few weeks.

So what had I done?  I signed up for an event called 'stadium stomp' which is climbing up and down stairs at the MCG - about 1900 of them for me, the full course is about 7000!  This event is this Sunday, and I will take part.  I won't be fast, but I will complete it.

I also signed up for 'stampede' in October this year.  This is like 'tough mudder' - or a 10km obstacle course.

I am doing these things with a friend, who makes sure I am doing at least some exercise.  We found a great boxing/cardio/weights/pilates session we will do each Saturday (I have done one, and will start again this week).  I do stairs at work twice a week (and I will be at work regularly again from next week).

I need to do more during the week.  I need to get strong and fit.

I also need to lose weight.  If I need help over a wall on the obstacle course I do not want to feel like they are pushing a baby elephant.  I can't get to goal, but I can get a fair way there.

So I don't have a grand plan yet.  I have time this week to make one.  Monday I go back to work and I start WW again.  I need an exercise plan.  A realistic one.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Doing stuff

Hi there,

Well, while my grand start the Monday after my last blog fizzled...  I have started working out regularly.  I found a great web site for tracking my workouts that makes it a bit of a game with points, levels and badges...  totally suits my personality and seems to have tipped me into regular workout mode!

Eating to follow at some point.  But fitness and strength are the keys to me completing Stampede in October.  Slimness would help, a lot, but one step at a time I think.

I am loving my workouts.  Right now a mixture of indoor cycling, stairs at work, my weekly class (kind of like a boot camp) and a few sessions of planks, sit ups etc.  I would like to get some running in too, and more strength work.  But to start with I love that I am working out at least once and sometimes twice each day :)

So I see the light at the end of this tunnel.  Its a long tunnel, but the journey will be fun regardless!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Where am I at?

This time I am not back on that elusive band wagon, yet.

I am going through some life changes, and plan to use the momentum to change my weight and fitness.

My father passed away last week.  5 days ago.  The funeral is in 2 days.

My dad was a fit man.  He didn't eat well, but he ate only when hungry.  He drank too much but he exercised regularly.  He didn't sit a lot.  In the weeks before he died he considered himself lazy if he spent a morning in bed.  He was brave, stubborn and courageous.  He beat the odds, surviving 4.5 years after being told he had 6 - 18 months.

He played his last cricket game last December.

He is a hero to me.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not doing this for my dad, I am doing it for me.  But I am using my dad as inspiration.  He fought a much tougher battle, with more effort, pain and sacrifice than a weight loss and fitness journey can ever contain.  He fought with everything he had, courage, dignity and stubbornness.

I was on my way already, but with baby steps.  Then he got worse the past few weeks.

So what had I done?  I signed up for an event called 'stadium stomp' which is climbing up and down stairs at the MCG - about 1900 of them for me, the full course is about 7000!  This event is this Sunday, and I will take part.  I won't be fast, but I will complete it.

I also signed up for 'stampede' in October this year.  This is like 'tough mudder' - or a 10km obstacle course.

I am doing these things with a friend, who makes sure I am doing at least some exercise.  We found a great boxing/cardio/weights/pilates session we will do each Saturday (I have done one, and will start again this week).  I do stairs at work twice a week (and I will be at work regularly again from next week).

I need to do more during the week.  I need to get strong and fit.

I also need to lose weight.  If I need help over a wall on the obstacle course I do not want to feel like they are pushing a baby elephant.  I can't get to goal, but I can get a fair way there.

So I don't have a grand plan yet.  I have time this week to make one.  Monday I go back to work and I start WW again.  I need an exercise plan.  A realistic one.