Hi Everyone!!
First of all I would like to say - WAY TO GO KRISTA!! - and everyone else doing the Bloomsday run with her. That is awesome and I so wish that I could be there too. I will be there in spirit though and I know that one day the sisters will be doing it together lol!! My sister and I will be competing in my first marathon on the 22nd April. It is called the Gold Rush Marathon and we are doing the 7km run and I can tell you that I am not looking forward to it, but we will do it. How proud will we all be when we have completed our challenges?!! No matter where we are in the world, we are all in this together and it is great to be able to motivate each other and celebrate our successes together.
I actually wanted to leave Krista's last post on top for a while but as today was my first weigh in for the year, I didn't want to leave it go because otherwise I will feel as if I haven't fully got into the swing of things because I haven't owned it. It really feels as though I have got off to a slow start because it is almost the end of January and I have only just weighed in for the first time, but at least now I feel like my journey for the year has begun, sluggishly slow or not!!
Soooooooo - why has it taken me so long to get there?!! Well as you know I was having a week's break after my New Year's Eve weigh in - a week and 2 days actually as I started on New Year's Eve after my morning weigh in and went through until the Sunday after that first week of the year. Thank goodness I didn't have any longer than that!! I actually had said that I was going to have a full 2 weeks off which I know would have turned into 16 days because I would have gone through to the Sunday, but decided beforehand that that would be way too long. I am amazed to say that when Monday the 9th of January rolled around I was actually glad that it had arrived. I really needed the break - my body and my mind needed it - but I was definitely ready to get back into it and get this thing finished!! It was also a very good exercise for me to do because it showed me just how quickly the weight can go back on if I am not careful. I put on a lot over my break. Not all of it would have been actual weight. A lot of it would have been fluid but it was still shocking to hop on the scales on that Monday morning and see the results of my time off. I did still exercise in my break time, but not anywhere near what I normally do while I am trying to lose and I didn't watch what I ate at all. If I wanted it, I had it. One year ago I would not have been able to do that and get back on the wagon. I would have kept right on going and it just goes to show how far I have come in a year. I knew that I would put on and I was ok with that. I don't think that we should have to go through life and never put anything bad in our mouths. My break was my Christmas break, I just had it a week later than everyone else because I was trying to make my goal by the end of the year. So I don't feel like I missed out. I had all the yummy stuff everyone else had over Christmas and New Year, just later than everyone else and it was worth it lol!!
Monday the 9th came though, and that was it for me. Back on the wagon and happy to be there! I jumped back into my exercise regime and added some new much much harder training in 3 days a week as well. I had already told myself before I started my break, that if I was going to do the crime, then I had to do the time and I am proud to say I hooked into it like a trooper. So in the 3 weeks since I finished my break, I have been working really hard to lose what I had put on and then some so that I could go to my first weigh in for the year. It was actually supposed to be last Saturday, and although I had lost all of the weight I had put on over my break by then, I think I must have put on muscle from all of the extra training, so I didn't go last week. I trained really hard again this week because I really didn't feel like my journey had started yet, since I hadn't had that first weigh in. Thank goodness I managed to lose enough to get there this morning. I had a .6kg (1.3lbs) and although it wasn't the number I was looking for, I am happy that I have a least made it onto the scoreboard and I finally feel like I have begun!! It is especially good when I take into account that whether some of it was fluid or not, the scales showed that I had put on a whopping 12.7kg (28lbs) in the 9 days I had off. Like I said, it just goes to show how quickly it can go back on if I am not careful and even when I get to my goal weight, I am going to have to watch myself for the rest of my life. This is not a short term thing - this is a lifetime thing. Some people are lucky and they don't have to be so careful, but some of us are not so lucky and we have to really work at it. I guess we all have things we have to work on in life and this just happens to be the thing that I have to work on and I know that I will be fitter and healthier because of it.
I also made my list of New Year's Resolutions and my goal for this year is 50kg (110lbs). It is a big goal again but I really want to finish this thing this year. I did it last year and although when I get into the double digits I think it will get harder, I do still think that I can do it and I am much better equipped this year. I learnt a lot last year and I found what works and I know what I have to do to achieve my goal. I can't wait to get there and that keeps me going. It took me a long hard road to get where I am now and although I still have a lot of hard work ahead of me, it will be so worth it and I am looking forward to enjoying all the little milestones along the way.
Anyway, enough dribbling on from me for now. I will post again when there is something to report, but until then keep going. Krista has asked the question before - "How many times can one begin again?" and the answer she gives is, "As many times as is necessary". She is right. We all fall off the wagon at some point. That's life. Life happens. The important thing is that we don't give up. Keep going and I will catch up with you all again soon!
Shari
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