I am a shite blogger. I started writing this post over two weeks ago, saved it to have my dinner and never came back to it. I said I would blog for myself so that I can see my accomplishments and I need to make sure I keep doing it as I'm not feeling very 'accomplished' just now!
So first things first, I dropped that strange 3lbs that I put on (EDIT: and have since lost another 0.5lb I think, I can't remember what weight I was when I wrote this and I don't have my WI card handy). When I think about it, I didn't think anything in my life had changed for me to put on 3lb, but I forgot that I changed my contraceptive pill. I thought I was about half way through my first pack, but I was actually 2 pills away from the end of the pack, so I'm guessing by that point there was hormonal stuff going on and what not and I dropped it again this week, so I don't think it was a "real" gain. I want to keep an eye on this though. I hear women say that they find it hard to lose at TOTM even if they stick to their points, or that they crave sweet things/comfort food so end up putting on and I've never had this problem, but I did notice this month I could've munched my way big time through chocolate/cakes/biscuits/puddings.
Last week I planned to review my 2011 goals as it was the start of a new quarter (ish) but as I wasn't in the best of moods that didn't happen so I'm going to do that now. My goals were:
Set my goal weight
Get to, or be very close to, goal weight
Get my 5 a day
Get fit(ter)
Try something new
Drop a dress size by mid year
Record my measurements
And here's how I've done:
Set my goal weight - DONE!
I've decided to set my goal weight at 9st 6lbs - the highest weight for my height in my 'healthy weight' catagory in my WW book. Once I get to here, I may change my mind and want to lose a bit more, but this is my goal at the moment.
Get to, or be very close to, goal weight - IN PROGRESS
Obviously each week I am working towards this. I feel like I need to ramp it up a bit though. I forgot how much I like seeing the numbers on that scale go down and I think I'll have a gain this week, so from Saturday I want to only see the numbers go down, down, down. We're having a "lose a stone challenge by June" challenge at work which I've decided to join. You don't win anything (other than being lighter!) but it's a little bit of motivation.
Get my 5 a day - FAILED (miserably!)
I am still really, really bad at this. I get maybe 2 a day maximum, never any more than that. It's all due to being lazy and I need to step up my game! Must. Try. Harder!
Get fit(ter) - IN PROGRESS
I am sticking to going to the gym a lot more and I definitely feel like I am getting fitter. I don't get out of breath as quickly doing things now and I've noticed my results at the gym improving, especially when Spinning. One thing I don't seem to be able to improve on is my weights. I lift the lightest, wussiest weights (max 8lb bodybar, but on a barbell I can only manage around 4.5lb). I recently read unless you are regularly lifting over 10lb there's no point in lifting weights so this is something I am going to work on, although I'm not sure how yet (I will ask my class instructor for advice).
One thing I also noticed with regards to fitness was that I was walking to another part of our office with a colleague the other day and we had to go up one floor. I instinctively went to walk up the stairs, but she pressed the button to go up the lift and I thought "the lift?! For one floor?! Nooo!" I got in anyway as we were mid conversation, but it's a big thing for that to be my natural reaction - normally I'd always choose the lift and I'd even avoid walking places with people so they wouldn't judge me for getting the lift one floor!
Try something new - DONE!
I tried Zumba and Spinning and I blogged about Spinning. At first I hated it. There are no words for how much I despised it. But now I like it and it's become a regular part of my workout schedule. I even look forward to it. I won't say I love it, that's not true, but I definitely like it bucketloads more than I did before!
I wasn't sure about Zumba but I haven't kept it up - this is mainly due to when the class is (8am on a Saturday) which means I need to shower etc before weigh in. I may go back this weekend if the class is on (it's a bank holiday weekend in the UK) but I'm not making any promises!
Drop a dress size by mid year - DONE!
I am now a very comfortable size 16 and to my glee and amazement I tried on a size 16 skirt the other day and it was slightly too big. It was in the shop that I always notice stuff getting big on me before anywhere else so hopefully it's a sign of things to come.
Record my measurements - FAIL
I've not done it since I said I would. I always forget, or if I do remember it's at a totally random and inconvenient time. I am going to make a point of doing it before WI on Sat as it'll be my first WI for the month and then do it on each monthly WI going forward.
Lately I've been feeling a bit despondent with the whole weight loss thing. Several of my friends started losing weight after me and they've either a) lost loads more weight than me or b) lost more inches/dress sizes than me and c) look far better than me! In fact, one of my friends was waxing lyrical about how amazing one of our friends looked after losing weight, then in the same breath told me I look ill and possibly anaemic and to see the Doctor and stop losing weight...didn't I feel awesome after that comment?! (This was the same friend who inspired this post by waxing lyrical again about how much weight the same weight losing friend had dropped only for me to tell her I'd lost more and then her fake her way through "ooh yes...um, I WAS going to mention that to you coz...errr...you...ummm...look....like.....soooo....errr....slim?"). I think the next time this frenemy mentions my weight loss I'll tell her to straight STFU! Anyway, my point was I was feeling inadequate and basically like a loser, but when I read over what I've achieved I remember I have done a lot and I'm doing well and I should continue to do well, and not give a shit about how anyone else is doing!
Finally, I am going to post up my Health & Fitness inspiration part 2 soon (I've been saying this for months, but I'm going to, honest!!) <3
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