The number on the scales definitely doesn’t count this week. I’d like to claim that all I needed to do was look at my Personal Trainer and I immediately dropped a few pounds, but sadly this is not true. I’ve spent the last few days being ill. Being a real foodie, it’s extremely unnerving to suddenly not be constantly thinking about food. Imagine how easy, but ever so boring, life would be if you fell into the ‘eat to live’ category of people. I am firmly a ‘live to eat’ kind of girl!
To be fair I slept through most of it so I didn’t spend countless hours wondering how to fill my mind now I wasn’t planning my next meal, wondering whether I’d been good enough to deserve and ice cream, or researching what I could try for new dinners next week. The very small silver lining of this bug / food poisoning or whatever it was, is that the last things I’d eaten were mussels for lunch, KFC for tea and an aperol spritz. Let me tell you, this is far from a winning combination when it’s on the way out – hot wings and aperol (which tastes like alcoholic cough medicine) is the worst thing ever to throw up. So the good news is that I’ve probably been put off KFC for life! Being our nearest take away and one of my guilty pleasures, this should be of great help.
I’m still not 100% so eating very plain foods and I had to cancel our second PT session yesterday. Even though the first one didn’t kill me as expected, I suspect she eased us in gently and is planning a full on assassination this week so I thought it was best to be on top form before being put through my paces. The last one was good fun though. There is a definite benefit in having a training partner as the bride and I were measured and weighed at the start and also had to complete a 1km cycle and 500m run and row as fast as we could. I’m sure we both pushed ourselves harder knowing we were racing. It will be interesting to see how we get on as we quite different body shapes but weigh exactly the same!
We’ve signed up for 10 sessions, which comes with a plan to follow outside of our PT sessions. I have decided that I am going to stop weighing myself weekly and only do it monthly so I can focus on the exercise and getting fit, not on the number. Now I have had my measurements done and done the speed tests, I will also be able to compare how my body changes and my fitness levels – a much healthier way of tracking progress I believe.
I’ll still keep you updated with my progress and am planning to keep a food diary once I am better so will try and share some insights from this too.
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