Week One Overview

It's Monday and I am off to a fabulous start this week, not!

I was up early (5.30am) and it was cold. So I thought, I have time. Just a few minutes of Candy Crush and I'll be on my way. And I was, at 6am. Grabbing breakfast and lunch out of the fridge. Checking on my laundry that was hanging in the lounge room (I live in a unit, can't hang anything outside and don't like useing the dryer, for a few reasons but mainly cost) and racing out the door to the gym.

Normally at 6am there is no traffic, but today . . . everyone was on their way with me and I took just over an hour to get to the gym where normally at that time of the morning it would take 45 minutes max. 

Oh well, I'll get what I can done this morning and will do the Pump class tonight to make up the calories that I don't burn this morning. No problem. Crisis averted. Almost halfway through the workout, I'm 279 calories lighter and I have to head for the showers if I want to make it to work on time. 

At work, I grab my bag, jacket and lunch . . . hmmm . . . my lunch is missing. I don't have a big car, in fact I have a tiny car. I look through the boot. Maybe my lunch (and breakfast) is under my gym bag? That's the only place it could be in my boot. Nope. Then I remember, I checked my laundry. Who knows why I checked my laundry - it's not like I was going to take it down this morning. Nevertheless, I put my packed breakfast and lunch down to check my laundry. And that's where it still is. On my kitchen bench :( At least I will have dinner there ready to heat up!

Oh well, this is just another challenge that I have to get past.

On that note, my summary for the first week of the 12wbt are below:

Yes, Sunday Calories are empty. That would be because, as I turned up for dinner at my folks place, mum was pulling a freshly baked loaf of bread out of the bread machine. OMG!?! How do you resist that smell on an empty stomach? So yes - I sabotaged myself. And it was a very yummy sabotage.

I have to push myself so hard at Pump tonight if I want to see you shrinking Jelly Belly!

Enemies

After yesterday and all the running around - anyone would think that I would learn, but no, my alarm didn't go off again today!

I am my own worst enemy! I checked and double checked the alarms on my phone last night, but clearly failed in my mission. I knew immediately upon waking that I had done it to myself, again. The good news was that it was 6.20am and not 7am again!

My internal dialogue was telling me to curl over and go back to sleep. But I thought about laying out my clothes and packing my gym bag last night at 10.30pm - what a waste of time if I didn't get up now. And, then I'll have to go to the gym tonight and there is a class in the stretching room so, who knows where I would have ended up doing my session. So it was easier to get up and race to the gym. My normal hour commute took 45 minutes which left me roughly 30 minutes to get through today's program. So I pushed myself, hard. And then I was almost sick! 26 minutes and 259 calories later I made my way to the showers. I hadn't quite finished the workout, but at least I made myself get up and go.

There are so many gadgets for fitness available, Michelle has Polar Heart Rate Monitors available for sale on her website. About two years ago I was given my heart rate monitor by my folks (thanks Mum!). It is to date one of the best gifts I have ever been given. Mine is a Suunto. I have various accessories that I use with it including the foot pod so I can see how far I have been and the pace that I am at.

About six months after getting it, the chest strap broke (turned out there was an internal fault) and we had it sent back under warranty. Those three weeks were the hardest workouts I have ever done. Once you have a heart rate monitor, I don't think there is any going back! Mine has an internal coach and pushes me to achieve different levels of fitness. If you're thinking who cares? I don't blame you, whatever brand you use, they will essentially tell you the same information. But today, for the first time since having my watch I reached level 6 in my activity class, so in Big Kev style, I'm Excited!! Yay for small goals achieved!!

Gahhh!

Do you remember the last time you slept through your alarm?

For me it was this morning. I either slept through it or turned it off without realising. Have you ever had that moment when you open your eyes as your stretching, thinking it's so toasty that it's going to be hard getting up? And then you open your eyes. My not quite awake brain just can't figure out why it's light at 5.20am, then it goes in the opposite direction. It must be 9am, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, I'm going to be late for work. I am late for work! Dammit, I missed my cardio session this morning, sh*t I have to weigh in this morning - it's Wednesday!

The cussing went on a while. Mornings are not the time of day when I have a large vocabulary - obviously! I raced around, unpacking my gym bag and putting on the clothes that I had in there, and repacking it with my gym clothes that I had laid out ready to go the previous evening. What else do I need? Breakfast! Lunch! And so the internal cussing continued as I raced to the kitchen to get my lunch and breakfast which I already had ready to go.

Once I got over my annoyance with myself for sleeping through my morning cardio session, all I could think was Thanks Michelle, I have all my food for this week ready to go! Thank you that I'm organised this week!! If it wasn't for her challenging us to make our selves organised, I would be food free today and very hungry.

As it was, I made it to work by 8am - barely. No thanks to the accident, police and ambulance all blocking a street off (I hope everyone was ok!).

I even remembered to weigh myself! I am excited to be a part of the 12wbt already, but jumping on the scales this morning was positive reinforcement for my decision. 1.4kg down in two days, and I haven't been going hungry or killing myself with exercise. Rather, I'm feeling great and looking forward to the exercise sessions. So, Jelly Belly, don't fret, I haven't skipped my cardio session, I have simply rescheduled it to tonight after work, brace yourself, the last one hurt!

On my must do list for tonight is to set, not one alarm, but multiple alarms. Can't miss my toning session tomorrow!

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