Thanks to all and 'Body Blitz'.
I started this blog with a little trepidation as I was unsure of the response I would receive but I would like to say a big thank you for all the positive feedback. Especially from Steve Ford and Marianna Barker...thanks guys (emails are on their way to you).
Body Blitz
Well today I started 'Body Blitz'. This is something that the is run through the 'Womens Health and Fitness' mag.
Basically it is 12 weeks in which to improve your body and fitness as much as you can. This is actually my third time of trying to do this thing so I believe that if I start out by posting my progress on here you guys and girls will give me your support along the way.
The biggest embarrassment over though...and that is having to go get the photos printed and picking them up from the till girl who just has to inspect everyone of them and hands them over with a pitying look in her eye (well, it might not have been pitying but I was feeling sorry for myself).
Here are my starting measurements:
Height: 161cm
Weight: 87KG
Chest: 102cm (big!!but heh...im down from a 22G to a 18DD..lol)
Waist: 110cm
Calves: 44.5cm
Arms: 32cm
Thighs: 57cm
Hips: 122cm
Day 1 - Not so perfect but its a start.
I decided to kick this thing off with an uber gym sesh and now I feel all pumped and only deserving of a chokky bar (kidding).
I started off with some upper body weights (dumbbell presses, bicep curls, some over head thingies for triceps etc. etc. ), moved swiftly on to a bit of leg stuff with some weighted squats and then chucked in some ab work just for the hell of it. I would normally do my cardio stuff before weights but had read recently that it can actually be more beneficial sometimes to do weights first. After a 4km run on the treadmill I then jumped in the pool for 25 laps...oh man, I'm gonna hurt so much tomorrow.
I fell down by having a couple of handfuls of pringles and 2 pieces of white bread : )....oh well, we cant all be perfect.
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Confessions of a reformed dieter
I will leave you today with a quote from my favourite dieting books (well its more of a diary) by AJ Rochester and every time I read it I believe that she was actually living my life. If you life the sound of it you can get it here:
"Have you any idea what it feels like to have no control over how you live your life? To feel trapped in your habits?
To not want to know yourself so much that you eat and you eat and you eat until you feel so full and so sick and so disgusted with yourself that your mind is too busy loathing you to have any space left to think about what is really bothering you? Well, I do know what that is life, because that is my life."
Sweet dreams
xbg
Body BlitzWell today I started 'Body Blitz'. This is something that the is run through the 'Womens Health and Fitness' mag.
Basically it is 12 weeks in which to improve your body and fitness as much as you can. This is actually my third time of trying to do this thing so I believe that if I start out by posting my progress on here you guys and girls will give me your support along the way.
The biggest embarrassment over though...and that is having to go get the photos printed and picking them up from the till girl who just has to inspect everyone of them and hands them over with a pitying look in her eye (well, it might not have been pitying but I was feeling sorry for myself).
Here are my starting measurements:
Height: 161cm
Weight: 87KG
Chest: 102cm (big!!but heh...im down from a 22G to a 18DD..lol)
Waist: 110cm
Calves: 44.5cm
Arms: 32cm
Thighs: 57cm
Hips: 122cm
Day 1 - Not so perfect but its a start.
I decided to kick this thing off with an uber gym sesh and now I feel all pumped and only deserving of a chokky bar (kidding).
I started off with some upper body weights (dumbbell presses, bicep curls, some over head thingies for triceps etc. etc. ), moved swiftly on to a bit of leg stuff with some weighted squats and then chucked in some ab work just for the hell of it. I would normally do my cardio stuff before weights but had read recently that it can actually be more beneficial sometimes to do weights first. After a 4km run on the treadmill I then jumped in the pool for 25 laps...oh man, I'm gonna hurt so much tomorrow.
I fell down by having a couple of handfuls of pringles and 2 pieces of white bread : )....oh well, we cant all be perfect.
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Confessions of a reformed dieter
I will leave you today with a quote from my favourite dieting books (well its more of a diary) by AJ Rochester and every time I read it I believe that she was actually living my life. If you life the sound of it you can get it here:
"Have you any idea what it feels like to have no control over how you live your life? To feel trapped in your habits?
To not want to know yourself so much that you eat and you eat and you eat until you feel so full and so sick and so disgusted with yourself that your mind is too busy loathing you to have any space left to think about what is really bothering you? Well, I do know what that is life, because that is my life."
Sweet dreams
xbg
posted by buglegirl at
18:34
1 Comments:
Wow Paula!!!
To diet is one thing. To admit to a few people how bad things are is another thing.... but this is huge!!! Nearly as huge as not-so-Stickman!!!
I read further down the page about always thinking you'd always stuggle with weight. I always knew I'd be bigger, and I was told that I'd die young from my weight. So when I surpassed both ages that I was given as Estimated Times of Death, I think I mentally just gave up.. Not that I'd started much either!!
Keep up your hard efforts. XLCR need you alive to go for 5 in a row!!
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06 April 2008 20:21
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