Brrrrrrr

Holy moly I’m freezing. Due to the gas shortage and as I work for a government department, we were instructed yesterday to reduce our aircondititioning to 20C. As that was even colder than outside I decided to turn ours off all together. Worked yesterday as the day warmed up but this morning my office is 16.3C. And I’m in a massive coat and contemplating getting my scarf out of the car. But I keep telling myself - better to be cold than one of those people losing their jobs.

PT was an absolute bastard last night. I literally thought I might die. Pullups, pushups, crunches, skipping, running up and down stairs, jumping lunges, calf raises…….. arrrggghhhhhh. I could barely see through the sweat running down my eyes!

Anyway, have to go for a walk and get my blood pumping before it freezes.

Em

Measurements Updated

Hey All,

I’ve updated my measurements on the appropriately titled “Measurements” page. Another 19cm gone this month. I’m pretty happy with that. That brings the total to 54cm since being banded.

Squash was fun. I totally won. I had a bit of trouble serving. And backhands on the full. And backhands with a bounce. And overhead shots. But aside from all that I was awesome. It was a bit difficult to keep score but when we had 1 minute to go on our session I said that who ever wins that rally, wins the game. I won after GB hit the ball over the back screen and across the basketball courts. We’re going to try and keep doing it on wednesdays as a bit of a break from the gym and walking. You can definately work up a sweat even if you don’t know what you’re doing!

Em

Week 13 Update

Well, I was pleasantly surprised this morning on my weigh in. I lost 1.2kgs this week! So I’m stoked. I’ll do my June meaurements tonight and post tomorrow. Starting to get a few comments about my weightloss (as you would  think so after 13.9kgs!) so hopefully the measurements will show some good cm losses.

GB is still going great guns (his weigh ins are Fridays) and is getting better with his running. He reached a personal goal of his to run around a park near us (which is bloody huge I might add), this morning so he was stoked. I’m so proud of him. On Sunday we went to Garden City shops (as it was open for some reason) and I convinced him to buy some new jeans. He wanted to wait till just before we go away to buy new clothes but his stuff is looking ridulous! (losing 25kgs will do that!). He hasn’t been able to fit into surfy jeans or shorts in ages and ages so he was super excited to find that he fit into a 38 surf-brand jeans. And his butt looked goooooood. Of course then he needed a new top to go with his spanky new jeans. No more XXL for him, he easily fit into an L. Then as a bit of a goof, I told him to try on a scarf. He looked like a model! So he bought the scarf too. His friends gave him shit but he looked awesome! I took a pic on my phone but he’s not keen on pics being posted on the my blog so I’ll just leave it to your imaginations!

GB’s back is getting better but he’s still taking pain meds and is going to go back to the doctor this week. The physio said he only needs one more session because his back is loosening up well but it will just take natural time to heal.

My leg/back pain has subsided thank goodness! Although the last couple of days I’ve had super sore hammies from PT on Monday. We had to do these things (I like to call them Death Drops) where you hold a bar bell (one hand up, one down), then keeping your back perfectly straight, bend at the hips and run the barbell about an inch away, down your legs. Owchy Wowchy. I like our PT guy - even though he calls me “young lady” which I hate coz I’m like 10 years older than him! We do something different in every session and alternates between outside stuff and inside the gym. He’s definately keeping us on our toes!

Tonight after work, GB and I are going to attempt to play Squash. I’ve never played before and have no idea what to do. My aim will be to get through the game without a squashball to the face injury. Should be fun!

Hope everyone else is going well.

Em

Tidbits

Hi all, have been quite atrocious with food choices this week. Lots of Iced Coffees and cakes and party pies and sausage rolls and not a great deal of exercise unfortunately. Still, I’ve got a couple of days to be good and hopefully post a loss this week on Wednesday.

GB today said he wants to get a tattoo to cover his scars on his tummy. I hope he was kidding. He doesn’t want them to be so obvious. I tried to explain that they fade over time and that his scars are actually pretty good - all straight lines and so will go away to next to nothing. I don’t want to get home and find him with a Ben Cousin’s “Such Is Life” tattoo across his torso. Heads will roll.

Friday and Saturday I was struggling from a killer sore leg/hip/back. My mum seemed to think that it was related to my sciatic nerve (not sure on that spelling!). It was really hard to go up and down stairs and getting into the car. While moving around I was ok but if I sat for any time it was like my leg froze up. Not fun at all. Of course it could also be related to the quadrillion lunges we did with the PT on Thursday. That boy needs to get laid because he just about killed us on Thursday! Our session went for over 45 mins instead of 30, GB was about to pass out and I was about to cry! It was full on. Fingers crossed he got a bit over the weekend and tonight’s session will be a bit easier. I’m actually hoping for rain so that we have to stick to inside the gym!

Thanks for everyone’s comments re GB’s back. It’s still not great unfortunately. He went to the physio about 3 times last week. He’s got another appointment tomorrow. It is better than it was though so finger’s crossed it’s 100% before we jet off to Europe in 6 WEEKS! WOOO HOOO!

Bye

Week 12 update

Sorry for the lack of posts lately - I have been SOOO ridiculously busy at work this past week or so and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get much better.. stupid end of financial year.

This week I lost 1.4kg - loving that. I haven’t been hungry at all really which is good. Was better with PB-ing over the last week too and feeling full after about 3 bites of food.

Exercise has been pretty average (read: non-existent) this week. Although did go to PT on Monday and will again tomorrow. GB and I were going to try out squash this week but his physio has said it’s a no-go until his back is better.

Nothing much else to report today.

Hope everyone else is going well.

Em

PS - I went to the loo yesterday and I realised I pulled my jeans down without undoing the buttons and fly! YAY!