my journey to health

Yeah I know it doesn’t sound too good lol, but wow I hurt from mondays class!! Took my awesome cousin who is also rather sore, I don’t know why I decided it would be a good idea to go to the gym after class and do arms, but we did and they are also sore, had the day off today as mike is away and I have to say I was kind of grateful so am about to do a bit of boxing at home.
Today I also started tumehe’s meal plan, as I am so crap at doing it myself, thought I would try someone elses, jeez it is a lot of food, 4 eggs on toast for breakfast 145g ham with a pita bread and salad for lunch, don’t think I will be going hungry and he seems to have good results so will see how it goes.

I would also like to mention the awesome lisa who came to class a while ago, she has not been back due to other commitments but we have kept in touch and she is 10 kilos down, freakin awesome, keep it up lisa!!
Speaking of I am 5 kilos down from when I started with mike so in total 9 weeks, thats pretty damn good considering up till now I haven’t really done too much with my food, so figure what the hell lets see what will happen with food and exercise, it will be interesting to see my weight on the doctors scales, they seem to weigh me about 4 kilos less than other scales so it is hard to compare just yet.

So first day back on monday obviously on tuesday I was sore, sore arms, sore abs, sore legs from squats with that stupid fuckin slam ball!

Woke up this morning and I was still bloody sore, just riding the bike hurt, and when he made us do squats again I actually wanted to hurt him, then when he made us do them with that bloody ball again, I actually wanted to knock him out, I swear the man is better suited as a sadist than a personal trainer, though to be fair the two pretty much intermingle!!

Not content with that though, he then proceeded to of course to make us do abs, so I sit here writing this in a fair ammount of pain, my legs are killing me I feel like I have ridden a horse for two days solid and every time I breathe it hurts.

But this is nothing compared to what else he expects us to do – he wanted us to do a meal plan, a week worth of meals, planned ahead, seriously I plan nothing, like nothing, I buy my food for dinner on the way home from picking the kids up.  I made a plan, it kind of sucked and I really struggled to do it. First day of the plan today and I failed epically I ate completely different things than I wrote down, I think I may have to change my plan and put some more thought into it. Who would have thought something so simple would actually be so hard

Just spent an amazing two weeks in the south island, we flew into christchurch, which was a real eye opener, three years on and the earthquake damage is still enough to make you cry, boy that brought back some memories driving round that city, it has been 14 years since I left and it felt like just yesturday. I also had the opportunity to stay with a lovely family and have a few drinks and a bit of a laugh.
So the second night there we stayed in a hotel, with a gym of course, which sadly sucked a bit but I still used it, then the next morning got up nice and early and started doing couch to 5k, I jogged 60secs, walked 90 for 30 mins, did well, except my bloody feet, jeez they hurt a lot!!!
We then drove to alexandra where I spent my brothers 30th with him and the kids learned to ice skate, they loved it spent hours on the rink, which was amazing, it was outdoors and there was snow on the mountains behind, just gorgeous and I fell a little in love with that place!! My brother made us walk up the side of a bloody mountain to see a giant clock, it was a long way and steep and my first reaction, purely because it has always been my reaction was hell no, I am not going up there, it will kill me!!!
Well, I went up there and it didn’t kill me and sadly I enjoyed it!
We then went to dunedin to stay with friends who we really do adore and miss dreadfully since they moved from auckland! The first day there we went for a walk on the beach so I did my walk 90, jog 60 along the beach, holy shit I thought I was going to die, my calves were burning, my feet were killing me, who knew running on sand was that much harder lol!!
We had an amazing time in dunners did cadbury world, the art gallery all the touristy things, then moved on to invercargill to stay with even more awesome peeps, whilst there I was dragged along to a boxfit class, it was awesome, i loved it and the instructor was very impressed, it is funny people see fat and instantly think unfit, I showed her lol, she kept congratulating me on how fast I had picked it up lol, little did she know I had done it many times before!!!
We then came back to dunedin for a few nights, to celebrate hubbies birthday and just hang out, then off we went back to chch where I caught up with two more very dear friends!!
On the whole trip we had takeaways once, we ate very well and I exercised right up until the last few days and then it was amazing how quickly I got out of the habit!!! What i did notice was how many more things we did, we went out and did things, we didn’t just sit around and drink, before, doing things was a little hard the thought of walking around places just didn’t appeal, there is no way in hell I would have walked up that hill, I would have waited in the car for the others to come back. We parked further away from things, thought nothing of walking 10mins down the beach to see the moeraki boulders instead of parking up the top and walking down a few steps. I just had so much more energy and motivation and so did my hubby, we had such an amazing time together as a family and we really enjoyed each others company, we never had a honey moon and it was kind of like having one to be honest.
So I got back home and the days went by and I didn’t exercise and I didn’t feel like it and boom just like that old habits creeping in. But mike to the rescue, he got in touch and made me it easy for me to come back to class, god bless him and here I am with sore legs and abs and arms and I am feeling pretty good!!!
Every now and again, we just need to sit back and look at how awesome our lives are, I have an amazing family, a gorgeous husband whom I adore, true friends who have known me forever, through good and bad and still love me, I have a trainer who gives a shit and I am very blessed and very happy!!! Oh and hubby got a wicked promotion and a massive payrise, all is well in my world

On a side note – whilst we were away I discovered a lump on my shoulder, my bra kept rubbing on it and I was a little concerned about it till I discovered it was my collar bone lol!!! I don’t remember it disappearing but here it is back again, little things!!!!