my journey to health

Yes I am going to cheat!! I am very anti any type of diet, the only way to live healthily is to eat properly, good wholesome food and of course good exercise. I swore to myself I would never do another diet, but here I am my first day on optifast. Why?? Because I am struggling with my exercise, because I am just to big to do a lot of it, because I am hurting standing all day at work, then doing class my feet hurt, my back hurts, my leg hurts, sometimes so badly I cannot even stand on my left leg. The only thing that is going to help this is losing weight.
Now I have been happy to lose it slowly, I am good with that. I don’t expect miracles, I don’t expect a bikini by christmas, I am stoked with my weight loss, I am stoked with my fitness, I am stoked with my muscles. I am not stoked that this body is holding me back.
So yes I am doing a diet, one recommended by the doctor, to hopefully drop a bit quickly so I can do these things a lot easier and avoid injury, yes I feel like a sellout, yes I feel like I have taken the easy road, but I am okay with it, it took a long time to decide and I am comfortable with my decision!!
This last week we have been doing the meanest leg workouts, wed night was crazy I’ll see if I can post what we did

This was hard we had to do it 3x and in between each exercise we had to run down to the playground, I managed it twice through and got one exercise into the 3rd round, some of the girls did it 3x they are legends!! I was expecting a reasonable ammount of pain the next day but weirdly I was fine, my knees were a bit achy but my legs were sweet!!! Saturday was a little easier cardio wise but harder leg wise, I did not escape that without pain, I was pretty sore on sunday.
Then turned up late to class today, oops he changed it 9 not 9.30 lol. So I only got a half workout but it was still good, I love that I am finding tricep dips a little easier now, I am doing 8 kilos comfortably, not struggling and bicep curls I am pissing through at 10 kilos now. My friend did say to me the other day you are going to have the meanest body when that fat goes, and I think she is right there are a fair few muscles hiding under that fat layer now!!!

I am going to start an extra personal training session with mike and sandi this week, just step it up a little. Sandi is awesome, I started class and didn’t recognise her, but she did me, we went to high school together and I love having her in my class, she struggles just as much as I do some days with weight etc and it is nice having someone who gets it. she is a lot smaller and fitter than me but she fully understands the struggle.

My achievements this week, have been easily upping my weights on my arms, and being able to pull my knee into my chest when we stretch! When we started this one of the stretches is to put your hands behind your knee and pull it into your chest. I couldn’t do this, I could put one hand on top of my knee and attempt to pull it, but on saturday I got both hands behind my knee, as I was doing it I clicked and thought shit, this is the first time I have ever been able to do this stretch properly!!!
My husband this week told me everytime he cuddles me I feel skinnier – love that man!