my journey to health

Back to enjoying class again, well as much as one can!! Back into a bit of boxing this week which I love, and then off to the park on saturday for something a bit different a class I really enjoyed, I quite like seeing how strong I am becoming and have noticed recently I have pretty decent muscles in my arms, I feel them now when I bend my arms and they are well there when I flex, but sadly there is still far too much fat covering them!!
Wednesdays class was pretty good we paired off for boxing which was great and the only thing I could not do was skip, because I am fat sure, but also because I simply have no coordination, I was that kid at school that could barely skip, could never do tricks with a skipping rope, french skipping I was crap at, I have never in my life done a handstand or a cartwheel, nor was I able to spin myself around the bar hanging upside down like all the other kids could do, I am simply not built to do those things, I have always been jealous of those able to cartwheel with ease!!!

After all that we went for a walk up the big hill, well some ran, some walked, but I got to the top and my calves were okay, usually I am in agony, but not this time, I did it okay!!The wednesday before we had to spend 30 mins running up and down the little hill as many times as we could, most did 12, I did 7 – might have looked like a small ammount compared to the others but I went up and down that hill 7 times!! That is huge, that is something I never dreamed when I started these classes I would ever be able to do, I was so proud of myself not that long ago for doing it 3 times!!!

I bought a dress this week for my cousins 21st, yep a dress and would you believe it, heels!! I don’t wear heels, I jsut cannot where them I will put them on then take them off 30 mins later, which of course was my plan this time, however I have discovered that I have calf muscles and these enable you to walk relatively comfortably in heels, obviously something to do with the way you hold yourself, but I spent all night not only comfortable in heels but comfortable in a dress as well!!!

And on a side note loren (my cousin) looked amazing, she has done about 8 weeks of classes with me and you can really tell, she has lost 3 kilos, but not only that her whole body has changed shape, her dress looked incredible, super proud of her!!

We spent the weekend up in whangarei for the 21st and stayed with a dear friend of mine, she said to me that she had been looking at some of our old camping photos and was suprised at how much I had changed, so I went and had a look, sometimes I think I have not done that well, even though I work hard, the weight loss has not been enormous, 14.4 kilos now, but the changes are actually quite large when I look at old photos, so here are a few comparisons, I am feeling a little proud now