Hi everyone
I'm baacccckkk!! I have had a slow start to the year so far, but I am hoping that slow start means good finish :) Anyway, I have had a bit of a set back in the last couple of weeks. I was just starting to get back on track and really get into my exercise in a big way for the year when I found myself in a lot of pain. I ended up having to go into hospital and having surgery which was definitely not expected or planned for. After the surgery I was told I couldn't exercise until the wound had healed which would be at least a week and maybe longer. I hate exercise. I really really really hate it. But no matter how much I hate it, I suck it up and do it because I know that if I want to get to where I want to be in the timeframe that I want, I have to. So as much as I hate it and was secretly just a tiny bit ecstatic that I wasn't allowed to do it, I found that in a very short space of time I became more and more frustrated that I wasn't allowed to. It was really doing my head in & I started to get into a negative frame of mind, thinking that because I couldn't exercise I couldn't lose. I have to say I did go off the rails a little bit, but then I pulled myself together and told myself to take my own advice. Weight loss is mostly eating. Exercise helps in a big way, but it is definitely possible to lose weight without exercise. So as long as my eating is right, I will still lose. Maybe not as much, but it doesn't matter as long as I am losing and I will be able to exercise again eventually. So the next day I started back on my eating plan and the rest is history as they say!
After 2 whole weeks of no exercise I finally felt that I wouldn't do any damage if I tried to do something, so decided to go for a 5km (3.1 miles)walk. I ended up jogging 1.5km (0.9 miles)of it and felt fine. I did that on Thursday just gone and then thought I would try to do a little bit more the next day. So on Friday I did the same 5km but jogged 4km (2.5 miles). I have to tell you, that is the most distance that I have jogged non stop by a very very long way. I reckon the longest that I have jogged in one hit would be maybe 500 metres (0.3 miles) lol!! Today I thought that if I can jog 4km out of 5km, then why can't I jog the whole way? So today I jogged the whole 5km! I need to work up to 10km (6.2 miles) by the end of June and I need to get faster as I wasn't quite as fast as I need to be not to be disqualified along the way, but for now I am ecstatic. I just told myself that I could do it and although I told myself I could, even I am amazed that I jogged 5 whole kms without stopping once! Even after having 2 weeks with no exercise. Baby I'm baaaaacccccccckkkkkkkk!!!!!!
So this morning I went to weigh in and found that I had lost 2kg (4.4lbs) so that makes a total of 64.2kg (141.5lbs) and 2.7kg (6lbs)(I made a mistake in my last post - should have said .7kg)this year. Like I said, slow start but a loss is a loss and it can only get better from here on in.
There is a slight chance that I may have to go into surgery again in the next month or so, but I have made peace with that. I am happy & healthy and if it has to be then it has to be and it doesn't mean that I can't still get to my goal. If I have to have more time off from exercise I am not going to let it get me down. I am just going to make sure that my eating is as perfect as I can get it and it will still happen.
I hope everyone is chugging along on this journey of ours. We have some big things ahead of us and it will be awesome to see!!
Until next time.......
