Not very motivated this morning Have been awake for 3 hours trying not to think of having to go skipping. Know that I need to go now, but so weak and wimpy may now need to eat first!
(40 minutes later).....
Then I read Patrick's e-mail and thought GREAT.... only 7 x 2 minutes = 14 minutes, 10 minutes less than I have been skipping, but then motivation fizzled out quickly as I stood up and nearly collapsed from weakness. So, now feeling thoroughly disappointed with myself. Missed my cue to burn more fat, realised that I should be slightly less fanatical and take life a bit more as it comes. Decided to have breakfast and for the first time was uninspired by my brown rice and veggies with a boiled egg. Even adding strawberry balsamic vinegar to my rice/veg concoction to give it more taste didn't help much. Looking forward to my snack now. Will exercise later this evening before dinner and just go with the flow today. Was so tired from 5 hours of shopping in Glasgow yesterday that my whole body hurt this morning more than it usually does.
Am a bit afraid that eating as much veg as I want will mean that I don't eat enough. Not sure if sticking to my previous quantities and then adding more if I am hungry is the way to go, or just reduce if that is what I think I am interpreting my body wants.
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Day 42: Done and dusted for the day
Was hungry when I went to bed, so getting up and skipping before I ate was quite difficult. Lots of JFD's under my breath. Skipping in front of Scottish old age pensioners who just shake their head is quite difficult mentally. But I just stare at the ground or nod at them depending on how much of a lunatic I gauge them to be labelling me.
36 x 4 creeps yesterday left me nearly crying again. Having trouble with the bicycle ab work so when the legs give out I just sit there for the remainder with my legs in the air.
Shopping in Glasgow today. Will take the weighing scales.
36 x 4 creeps yesterday left me nearly crying again. Having trouble with the bicycle ab work so when the legs give out I just sit there for the remainder with my legs in the air.
Shopping in Glasgow today. Will take the weighing scales.
Monday, 11 July 2011
Day 41: Bye bye countryside, hello Glasgow
Had a fabulous skip this morning whilst still up north in the Scottish highlands. Still achy and tired when I wake up so does take me a while to mentally make myself stretch and get out there. A bit of a bitter-sweet feeling as I am skipping along in the surprisingly warm weather (just for that hour mind you before it started to rain again) as we decamped back to urban Scotland this afternoon. The sound of the bees and wasps in the flowers along the road were very loud. The smell was just unbelievably fresh. Only a few cars... there had been tonnes on Sunday as people wended their way to church. Took some pics for Tracey of my route which I will put up on Flickr so that I can remind myself of the idyllic route I took for the past 4 days. Not sure how far I travel on my skips, but must be about a kilometre. I will really need to learn to skip in one place as some of the other destinations I will be going to this summer will not be conducive to skipping the distance.
Still need to do my exercises today, but psyching myself up for that a little later.
Dinner last night I cheated a bit, but very consciously. My 21-year old nephew cooked us all a beautiful roast dinner. Had a tad more roast lamb than my allotment, and since everyone else also took a generous helping I didn't have enough of the roasted vegetables to complete my dinner requirement. As I desperately wanted a roast potato, I added a half roast potato to my helping. Lovely conversation, a long session at the table and then fresh raspberries and strawberries. Because I added a bit of cream to my fruit, I left out my egg white. I also had 2 small glasses of red wine. It was one of the best dinners that I have ever had, and since I know that I will have to wait another year to see my nephew again, and even then he may not be in a position to cook for me, I ate my extra lamb, my half a roast potato and drank my 2 glasses of wine with the utmost joy. For me veering off the PCP path for that was done on my terms and sooooooo worth it, so there was absolutely no guilt whatsoever.
Busy few days coming up in Glasgow.
Still need to do my exercises today, but psyching myself up for that a little later.
Dinner last night I cheated a bit, but very consciously. My 21-year old nephew cooked us all a beautiful roast dinner. Had a tad more roast lamb than my allotment, and since everyone else also took a generous helping I didn't have enough of the roasted vegetables to complete my dinner requirement. As I desperately wanted a roast potato, I added a half roast potato to my helping. Lovely conversation, a long session at the table and then fresh raspberries and strawberries. Because I added a bit of cream to my fruit, I left out my egg white. I also had 2 small glasses of red wine. It was one of the best dinners that I have ever had, and since I know that I will have to wait another year to see my nephew again, and even then he may not be in a position to cook for me, I ate my extra lamb, my half a roast potato and drank my 2 glasses of wine with the utmost joy. For me veering off the PCP path for that was done on my terms and sooooooo worth it, so there was absolutely no guilt whatsoever.
Busy few days coming up in Glasgow.
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Day 40: Knackered
Went skipping first thing after I managed to psych myself that my body didn't really hurt as much as it did. Creeps last night had me in tears.
Sluggish is the only way to describe my skipping. But..... I finally managed to get through it. Felt endless. Then breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee as I couldn't move. Then exercises. Then lunch. I am now ready to finish my day and it is only 3pm. Am totally and utterly knackered. Not sure how I am going to get through the rest of the day.
Phrase of the day from hubbie: "I just can't believe the weather. Scottish summers are just crap." (putting it all into context, we are sitting around in sweaters)
Sluggish is the only way to describe my skipping. But..... I finally managed to get through it. Felt endless. Then breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee as I couldn't move. Then exercises. Then lunch. I am now ready to finish my day and it is only 3pm. Am totally and utterly knackered. Not sure how I am going to get through the rest of the day.
Phrase of the day from hubbie: "I just can't believe the weather. Scottish summers are just crap." (putting it all into context, we are sitting around in sweaters)
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Day 39: Upset I will have to work out late tonight
Spent the day with the extended family which was lovely, but we are now coming up to our dinner appointment and I thought I could at least squeeze in my skipping. No chance. Since it takes me 20-25 minutes won't make it, so it will all have to come after dinner.
However, having read Patrick's Day 39 missive a bit worried about getting maximum fat burn as I have lots of fat, so tomorrow morning before I do anything I will be skipping away. I have to get my head around separating the skipping from the workout as I have been very adamant in my own mind that they must go together. But if that is how I will burn fat, then that is what I will do. I do find however that I am very, very stiff in the morning, but that may have a lot to do with the fact that I am doing all the skipping and workout in the evening or maybe I just need to get going and JFD. If I jig it around I might also get in some 8MA.
So the bad news... not yet done any of the Day 39 exercises yet and it will weigh over me whilst eating dinner out at a lovely country house hotel...... think I should just relax and enjoy it and then make this my last late night workout.
But the good news is that it is liberating skipping down Scottish country roads. Only met one tractor and 2 cars yesterday. Beautiful smell of the woods and the ferns and the honeysuckle growing wild. Bad thing is the midges.... little mosquito like things with a very painful bite. But we are at the foot of the Highlands, so it is light until 11pm and I will still get some of the same tonight. This was the first time the skipping wasn't mentally painful. Lots of stop starts, but the enjoyment of looking at the view made it all worth it. Not good at skipping with a camera Tracey, but will try to take some photos. Sad thing is we are only here 4 days before we go back to urban life in Scotland, but there are still lots of benefits.... the temperature being the main thing.
However, having read Patrick's Day 39 missive a bit worried about getting maximum fat burn as I have lots of fat, so tomorrow morning before I do anything I will be skipping away. I have to get my head around separating the skipping from the workout as I have been very adamant in my own mind that they must go together. But if that is how I will burn fat, then that is what I will do. I do find however that I am very, very stiff in the morning, but that may have a lot to do with the fact that I am doing all the skipping and workout in the evening or maybe I just need to get going and JFD. If I jig it around I might also get in some 8MA.
So the bad news... not yet done any of the Day 39 exercises yet and it will weigh over me whilst eating dinner out at a lovely country house hotel...... think I should just relax and enjoy it and then make this my last late night workout.
But the good news is that it is liberating skipping down Scottish country roads. Only met one tractor and 2 cars yesterday. Beautiful smell of the woods and the ferns and the honeysuckle growing wild. Bad thing is the midges.... little mosquito like things with a very painful bite. But we are at the foot of the Highlands, so it is light until 11pm and I will still get some of the same tonight. This was the first time the skipping wasn't mentally painful. Lots of stop starts, but the enjoyment of looking at the view made it all worth it. Not good at skipping with a camera Tracey, but will try to take some photos. Sad thing is we are only here 4 days before we go back to urban life in Scotland, but there are still lots of benefits.... the temperature being the main thing.
Friday, 8 July 2011
Day 38: continued
Why is it that I can do tricep dips elegantly, smoothly and well one day and then the next not at all?
Thank you for the tip on the pistol squats Inés... that worked a treat. Goodness knows which muscle groups I was working the way I was doing them!
The bicycle is beyond me. I get 15 good seconds and then I die. And as for the plank..... 10 seconds on my toes and then I can barely stay with it on my knees for the next 30.
The thing that keeps me going is all your comments as well as the way that I feel and look.
But I am starving each night at dinner and today again did a very bad thing. I had an extra 20-30g of protein when I ate an extra sausage. Maybe the trick is to stand up after I have finished eating my dinner, but I am with our family whom we came over to see so can't very well do that. Sheer bloody minded is what I am going to have to be and just tell myself NO! Watch this space. Other than that I have been religious about what I eat.
Thank you for the tip on the pistol squats Inés... that worked a treat. Goodness knows which muscle groups I was working the way I was doing them!
The bicycle is beyond me. I get 15 good seconds and then I die. And as for the plank..... 10 seconds on my toes and then I can barely stay with it on my knees for the next 30.
The thing that keeps me going is all your comments as well as the way that I feel and look.
But I am starving each night at dinner and today again did a very bad thing. I had an extra 20-30g of protein when I ate an extra sausage. Maybe the trick is to stand up after I have finished eating my dinner, but I am with our family whom we came over to see so can't very well do that. Sheer bloody minded is what I am going to have to be and just tell myself NO! Watch this space. Other than that I have been religious about what I eat.
Day 38: Everything is slow
Feeling similar to others at the moment. Tired, hungry etc.
But, for the first time in many, many days now don't feel as listless. Waking up in the morning though my whole body hurts. My husband's helpful comment was "I thought that by now your body would have become used to all the exercises". I then had to explain that the lovely Patrick ramps up the exercises each week and that it is just getting harder and harder.
Pistol squats are a nightmare. Tricep dips are better. Push ups better.
Skipping is crap, crap, crap.
Good news is that it is finally Day 38... no longer need to be confused. Think I may need to write days in diary to alleviate confusion.
But, for the first time in many, many days now don't feel as listless. Waking up in the morning though my whole body hurts. My husband's helpful comment was "I thought that by now your body would have become used to all the exercises". I then had to explain that the lovely Patrick ramps up the exercises each week and that it is just getting harder and harder.
Pistol squats are a nightmare. Tricep dips are better. Push ups better.
Skipping is crap, crap, crap.
Good news is that it is finally Day 38... no longer need to be confused. Think I may need to write days in diary to alleviate confusion.
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