Before I started a group strength training program, I was pretty weak in my arms and a lot stronger in my legs, but this week the trainer added some weight to the lifts I was doing and I was a little nervous I wouldn't be able to do it, but I did! I felt so strong and powerful afterwards, just seeing the improvements in how much weight I can handle is such a motivating feeling.
I met my mother for lunch today in a local cafe (as a side, she does not need to lose weight at all). She had the soup and I had a big delicious omelette. After, I ordered me a coffee and asked if she wanted one too. She said she'd wait a few minutes, get a tea and we could share a something tasty. Well I was full, so said if you want to order something, please do, but I'm not having anything thanks. She tried a few times persuading me, tried if you don't I won't, its not the same if I'm eating it on my own
Same person on another day will say to me, yeah, you don't have great self control.
I got into a uniform that work provides sometimes for certain events. I have never been able to get it buttoned up around my stomach before so have always been put in the back room to work where the clients don’t interact with me. It was off site today so none of the usual people saw me fitting the uniform and someone else got the back room (but randomly selected). Today there is a uniform again but people that know me will be there. I am secretly hoping they will notice I fit it now 😃
vanity NSV: finally being able to wear a short sleeve t-shirt over a long sleeve t-shirt or thermal and not look like the goodyear blimp! I just like the look, but haven't been able to pull it off in 20 years!
I don't know why I get so nervy about going for long swims - it isn't 'for anything' particularly, it is in my own time, no pressure to be out of the pool or to actually do a long swim, pool is usually pretty empty. But still whenever I think, 'right, I am going to swim *km today', I always get so nervous until about 20 mins after I get in the pool.
NSV is that on Saturday, despite having to turn around and go back home for my goggles and cap (never change gym bags just before going out), I got to the pool and swam 10.5km. Longest ever so far. Nervousness 0 - 1 me
vanity NSV: finally being able to wear a short sleeve t-shirt over a long sleeve t-shirt or thermal and not look like the goodyear blimp! I just like the look, but haven't been able to pull it off in 20 years!
My plan for tomorrow, weather permitting, is to try to cycle twenty miles. And to leave earlier!
So, DH suggested meeting at the halfway point of my 20-mile route for lunch.
I set off, not realising how strong the SSE wind was. I was heading South, so got blasted the whole way. The wind was really cold as well so I ended up pretty well frozen after ten and a half miles. I didn't warm up at all during our lunch.
I wanted to cycle back as the wind would have been behind me but DH persuaded me that would be a daft idea as I was already very cold.
Turns out that I'd been cycling into 22mph winds. No wonder I'd struggled so badly to get anywhere. It took me nearly an hour and a half to go those ten miles. It used to take me just under an hour to get to that point. I thought it would take an hour and a quarter but failed to factor in the wind.
I thought that something terrible had happened to me overnight as it was such an effort. I nearly turned around and went home, it was that bad.
And the weather forecasters described it as "breezy". Ha! What planet are they on?!
My plan for tomorrow, weather permitting, is to try to cycle twenty miles. And to leave earlier!
So, DH suggested meeting at the halfway point of my 20-mile route for lunch.
I set off, not realising how strong the SSE wind was. I was heading South, so got blasted the whole way. The wind was really cold as well so I ended up pretty well frozen after ten and a half miles. I didn't warm up at all during our lunch.
I wanted to cycle back as the wind would have been behind me but DH persuaded me that would be a daft idea as I was already very cold.
Turns out that I'd been cycling into 22mph winds. No wonder I'd struggled so badly to get anywhere. It took me nearly an hour and a half to go those ten miles. It used to take me just under an hour to get to that point. I thought it would take an hour and a quarter but failed to factor in the wind.
I thought that something terrible had happened to me overnight as it was such an effort. I nearly turned around and went home, it was that bad.
And the weather forecasters described it as "breezy". Ha! What planet are they on?!
Tomorrow is another opportunity...
With apologies for the digression: I support "maximum rant mode" against weather forecasters and their perception of wind. I swear, if it's anything less than wind that will knock down tree branches and power lines, they're going to call it "breezy". As an on-water rower, their "breezy" would potentially be super risky for me. Why can't they just say "X to Y mph/kph"? Jeesh. I like weather apps, because even though they can be inaccurate, at least they're specific.
You are doing so, so well, madwife, with your recovery and building back your strength. This is just another example: So inspiring. And your DH was right: Hypothermia is a Bad Plan.
We now return to the regularly scheduled thread . . . !
My plan for tomorrow, weather permitting, is to try to cycle twenty miles. And to leave earlier!
So, DH suggested meeting at the halfway point of my 20-mile route for lunch.
I set off, not realising how strong the SSE wind was. I was heading South, so got blasted the whole way. The wind was really cold as well so I ended up pretty well frozen after ten and a half miles. I didn't warm up at all during our lunch.
I wanted to cycle back as the wind would have been behind me but DH persuaded me that would be a daft idea as I was already very cold.
Turns out that I'd been cycling into 22mph winds. No wonder I'd struggled so badly to get anywhere. It took me nearly an hour and a half to go those ten miles. It used to take me just under an hour to get to that point. I thought it would take an hour and a quarter but failed to factor in the wind.
I thought that something terrible had happened to me overnight as it was such an effort. I nearly turned around and went home, it was that bad.
And the weather forecasters described it as "breezy". Ha! What planet are they on?!
Tomorrow is another opportunity...
With apologies for the digression: I support "maximum rant mode" against weather forecasters and their perception of wind. I swear, if it's anything less than wind that will knock down tree branches and power lines, they're going to call it "breezy". As an on-water rower, their "breezy" would potentially be super risky for me. Why can't they just say "X to Y mph/kph"? Jeesh. I like weather apps, because even though they can be inaccurate, at least they're specific.
You are doing so, so well, madwife, with your recovery and building back your strength. This is just another example: So inspiring. And your DH was right: Hypothermia is a Bad Plan.
We now return to the regularly scheduled thread . . . !
Well, today's "gentle breeze" @ 13mph from the East didn't stop me. Still very cold though - apparently it's five degrees Celsius but they haven't factored in the wind chill, so probably just above freezing.
Cycled a little further and knocked another minute off my previous time.
I am so going to get that 20 mile ride in before the end of the month. . . "breezes" (and rain) permitting . . .
My workout program has a lot of plank exercises. I hate planks, I’m not good at them and have always had to do them on my knees. But this week I’ve really been pushing myself and have been able to do some of the moves in a full plank. I’m not perfect and I usually can’t do a full minute of the move in a full plank but it’s definitely progress.
Nine weeks into new running habit and I finished the C25K program.
A week later I had the first visit with my GP since starting this running thing and found out my BP had gone from 120/70 to 92/58. (Btw, I was 50 lbs overweight and had lost 40 of it before I started running. My BP was the same before and after my weight loss, so just losing weight had not affected it at all.)
Doc seemed to think that was a good thing. Certainly, I have a lot more energy than I used to.
* 8 years ago, I wouldn't have been able to have the vacation I had because I wouldn't have been strong enough to: hike, kayak, jump, slide, swim, run, and play. So I am grateful for a healthy body that I've strengthened over the years into a vessel that will let me live the life I want to live. All weight loss / size loss / etc aside, I have made it so that I can live the life I want (within the health parameters set out for me by fate's whimsical desire to give me hurdles I don't need).
Here's to a winning week this week, even if it's a small win!
"I have made it so that I can live the life I want " Best NSV ever.
Welp, some of my in-progress dresses are getting too big. I thought for a while that they were looking frumpy but could not connect that it was because the frumpy-ness stemmed from them being too big until recently.
I was almost at binge state yesterday and stopped myself..then did 120 pushups and 55 minutes on my spin bike (the most I have done on the bike since I started) finished the day like all the rest so far, under my calorie limit
I was almost at binge state yesterday and stopped myself..then did 120 pushups and 55 minutes on my spin bike (the most I have done on the bike since I started) finished the day like all the rest so far, under my calorie limit
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Well, I didn't go any further today as dusk beat me into submission again BUT I did the same route as yesterday and shaved five minutes off my time.
Still very slow but it's a definite win.
My plan for tomorrow, weather permitting, is to try to cycle twenty miles. And to leave earlier!
Same person on another day will say to me, yeah, you don't have great self control.
NSV is that on Saturday, despite having to turn around and go back home for my goggles and cap (never change gym bags just before going out), I got to the pool and swam 10.5km. Longest ever so far. Nervousness 0 - 1 me
I love that look too. Congrats!
A week later I had the first visit with my GP since starting this running thing and found out my BP had gone from 120/70 to 92/58. (Btw, I was 50 lbs overweight and had lost 40 of it before I started running. My BP was the same before and after my weight loss, so just losing weight had not affected it at all.)
Doc seemed to think that was a good thing. Certainly, I have a lot more energy than I used to.
Other recent ones include trying on new jeans and being under a size 50! And fitting into shirts that were too tight a month ago!
Oh, and on the seated leg curl machine, I moved down another hole on the pad that locks above the quads to hold your legs down
I'm a hair away from being 1/3 of the way done with total loss.
And for the trifecta, it's Friday & a long weekend for me 😁
You’re a freaking rockstar!! 🤘🌟🤩 sooo inspiring!!