Bits and pieces

Because I've been around this weight for ages it's so easy to forget what I used to look like. It does me the world of good to find a photo like the one in the last entry and shock myself! Is that what I used to look like! I've left the photo out as a reminder! I'm not going back there.

Motivation comes and goes, and yay I have motivation plus at the moment. So much in fact that I'm ready to challenge myself and for the first time in ages I'm going to be accountable by recording my weight here - weekly! Start weigh in this morning was 73.6 and as I remember I weighed in at 73.8 after Christmas and our holiday earlier this year, so that is almost a whole six months of a big fat zero loss (well maybe 200g, nothing at all) - but it's also a zero gain! And as I'm working at the gym I would think my body fat is down and muscle up so I've got to be happy with that! In all this time I didn't want to record my weight, I thought weekly fluctuations up or down could cause me to be frustrated at lack of result but maybe that's been burying my head in the sand, because while I'm not looking at the scales - it's easy to get complacent with eating because who knows except me! I know people have started 10 week challenges and thought that wasn't for me - but now I feel ready to do it! I then realised week 8 is the start of a two week holiday for us. So a mini eight week challenge until we go on holiday, then attempt a maintain while on holiday (or at the worse a minimal gain).

This week has been a bit of nightmare - a combination of a long weekend, a short week and month end (and a stubborn boss who just happens to me my husband!). So on Monday/Tuesday what I would normally have a week to do all had to be done on those two days, this included a massive stock take which I seem to have gained as now being part of my job but the three men didn't want to know, (a bit like me with weighing in - if you ignore it it will go away). It is part of our contract that we do a monthly stock take and have everything accounted for. I have started putting all the incoming stock onto a spreadsheet and as the guys book out the gear they just have to put their name against the Serial Number - easy - no apparantly not. Two of them got the idea but for some reason Peter didn't. Weird as I'm sure if he thought of me as his office lady rather than his wife he may work in! He turns a deaf ear! So I threw a bit of hissy fit yesterday (most unlike me - well maybe not....) I told Peter I was trying to help him, reduce his work load - all he has to do was to work in! Some stock was missing and guess who had it - Mr Bury the Head in Sand! He forgot he had to fill in the sheets! So what I'm trying to get to here, gym, aqua has been fleeting visits when I could fit them in. I thought rather than just not go to the gym, even 30 minutes was better than nothing, so far this week two shortened gym visits and a couple of aqua sessions. Little and often better than not at all!

Tomorrow will be another day where fitting in exercise will be almost impossible. We have a Resource consent meeting with the neighbours and the City Council. One of our neighbours wants to subdivide his farm, we live in a lovely quiet road, just six houses, all spaced a good distance from each other, so this is something as a neighbourhood we just don't want to have happen. Not sure how long the meeting will go for but I don't think it will be a short one.

So this week
Eating and water - spot on!
Exercise - a bit less than normal but a new week next week.