Sunday is Day One

... of my gradual reintroduction to exercise.

I have 2 mini goals, cardio and muscular endurance.

Muscles will be done with resistance bands and my kickboxing bag.

Cardio will be powerwalking.

Tomorrow is walking, just 1 mile at a steady pace. So tonight I check I have my kit, HR monitor and route all sorted (I know I have but will check anyway). Must remember to dig out my journal too, it has the route distances in it.

I have only one thing to remember

Gradual is the key term. Do NOT push it! Well, not just yet :)

Screwed my courage to the sticking point...

... and won!

I am 8lbs below my old all day every day weight and, having leaped back on the wagon, am again losing about a pound a week.

Knees are feeling good again and the Darth Vader breathing seems to have gone, even with the hayfever. So exercise is my one and only goal for summer.

I will do some, simple as that :)

OK, so the workout schedule won't be that simple but the target is.

I'll be back, for a short while at least.

Take that!

I have lost all but 1 of those lbs and am happily gallivanting on to lose more.

I am nearing my sticking point, so I might have a stall but hopefully adding regular exercise will sort that out!

So 4lbs down and 4lbs to go for January! Yee and ha!

New Year and a restart

Well! I gained 5lbs in 2 months for not keeping my eye on the ball. OK the last 4 weeks have been a bit OTT with all sorts of Christmassy goings on! I can't really complain, but I must get a grip again!

So, I will give myself this month to lose those 5lbs again.

I need to get myself all organised, so here goes:

1. Get my gym bag re-packed
2. Make a shopping list for quick lunches and big bulky teas
3. Make a proper effort to stick to Monday, Wednesday and Friday as Down Days
4. Use mfp to check all days kcal intake

There. Short and sweet, nothing to it, just get to it!

And good luck to anyone else who drops in to read this!

1.5lbs down

So that's 4.5lbs so far this calendar month.


September's last weigh in will be next Tuesday (Oct 2nd) so hopefully I will lose another lb. My big aim was for 8lbs overall, but, over time, I will be very happy with a single lb a week. so this month I am ahead :)

And yes, JUDDD is still very, very easy to do!

3lbs down

And a week to go before the end of the month!

I wouldn't mind but I fell off a few times, including this week (it turns out it was my birthday) so I'm having a weekend of fun, food and wine!

5lbs to go before I get to Onederland.... sometime in October... for the first time in decades!

I do love JUDDD!

Just the one

Ah well. That's still a pound a week on average, which is after all what I worked out all those kcals for!

I am not sure why I was expecting more. I did lots of calculations to ensure I lost slowly and permanently. Now I want to see the kind of fast weight loss that I know is not sustainable!

Just greedy I suppose.

Anyhoo: September's target is purely based on DD successes as I go back to work and it might prove a little difficult until I get into the swing of it.

• 8 - 12 DDs
• 4 - 8lbs