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Went to my Lindy Hop class last night. It was fun and I feel like I am beginning to get better at it. Going indoor snowboarding today for my anniversary. Haven't snowboarded for many years (maybe 8 years ago), so it should be funny. Maybe I should have cancelled going to the fitness club tonight, but I don't want to let me friend down. I might just take it very very easy though.

Swapped the Zumba class with an hour on the machines and weights on Thursday evening and jogged 9kms today. Been drinking quite a bit of water. Still eating too many crackers with chocolate spread however. Still not drinking alcohol. I am feeling good in general. I like this time of year. The weather's gorgeous this weekend.

Went twice to fitness club in the 1st week of joining. The 1st day, Thursday 8th April, I did a zumba class. Then on the Tuesday 13th I did 1/2hr on the cross-trainer and 1/2hr doing the weight machines. Then the Thursday (15th April) zumba class again. I'm supposed to get some instructions from a trainer tomorrow, but as my friend was to arrange it, I'm not sure it's happening yet. Really need to go to my Lindy Hop dance class tomorrow night though as I keep skipping lessons and end up behind in learning the moves. So my aim is to have the Lindy and Zumba as my 2 dance classes per week and once a week do the machines and at some point I'd like to also incorporate a pilates class which is also at my fitness club. I just don't want to do it all straight away in case I find it too much to fit in, get stressed out and end up giving everything up. Glad to be active again though.

Finally got round to joining a fitness club again. 3rd time lucky I hope. Joined last Thursday with my friend and we did a Zumba class. Missed my dance class last
night as my period just floored me, but went to fitness after work with my friend again and we did a 1/2 hour cross training and 1/2 hr of weights. So that's twice in a week that I've exercised. Going to the Zumba class every Thursday from now on. That's the ball rolling for me now, I just need to keep it going.

Actually re-arranged the joining of the fitness club with my friend from Tuesday to Friday, but last minute she cancelled due to feeling unwell. I was glad she cancelled as I am still at the tail-end of my cold/chest infection and hadn't slept well the night before from coughing so much. Anyway, I feel like I am stopping myself from starting my new healthy way of life. I also think that I have been eating loads of chocolate, crisps and crap because in my mind until I start exercising I reckon I might aswell not be bothered with my eating habits either. I wish that I was on track, but I definitely haven't got on it yet.

At least it's only a week instead of a month since my last blog. Full of a cold today, so doubt very much that I'll go to my dance class tonight or even work tomorrow if I feel the same as I do now. Annoying that just when I was feeling motivated to kick-start my life with lots of activity, something throws me off course. Was also planning on joining a fitness club tomorrow evening after work along with a friend of mine. She can't do it any other time in the week, so it looks like it'll have to be postponed for yet another week. Oh well, I'm sick anyway, so best not to push myself too hard.

It's been nearly 5 weeks since my last blog, that's terrible. I haven't weighed myself, but I think I'm still as overweight as I ever was. Although I haven't lost any weight I am feeling optimistic as I am planning to join a fitness club again. This time I will be going to a Zumba class once a week with a friend so I'm hoping that I will really keep the momentum going this time due to having someone else to go with. It's that Springtime positive feeling that I have every year. I am proud that I have totally abstained from drinking alcohol since I made that my Chinese New Year resolution on 14th February 2010. Although I think I have been compensating by eating lots of chocolate. Well there's definitely a lot of improvements needing made in my weight-loss life!

Set a Chinese New Year's resolution to stop drinking alcohol for good. Will see how that pans out. Don't know how I'll handle social occasions as I always used drink as a crutch and don't know how to have fun without it.I want to be able to have confidence without any aides. Hoping to start a family this year so it's kind of in preparation for that.

Snow's almost gone now so my plan is to start jogging again this weekend. Not ran since Christmas which is almost 2 months!! Not very good, but the snow's been the main reason. I hope I don't have to start again from square 1, but am still fit enough to jog 10kms perhaps taking more time to do it.

Also going to start doing push-ups and sit-ups regularly which I did start but didn't keep going.

The symptoms I had before which I am presuming was IBS have disappeared thank goodness. So I feel pretty good for this time of year as I have been known to take a bit of a dip in mood at the very end of winter.

All in all, I feel good.

Only had 2 days at work last week and felt really sick those days. I think I may have Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The only good thing about the way I have been feeling is that I am not wanting to eat as much as usual and what I eat has been healthy. Basically haven't done any exercise since Monday's dance class, but tomorrow I have a Lindy Hop party to go to and then my dance class is the night after. So I hope that stirs me into exercising again. Have been pretty active recently though.

Overdid it with the house cleaning on Monday, in particular cleaning the floors, where I was bent over on hands and knees for a long time. Then skidded off my bike on the way to dance class, so did dance class in a bit of a stiff state. Needless to say I ended up with a sore lower back on Tuesday and as a result had 2 days off work. It's still sore but I will go into work tomorrow as I can just see the workload piling up and up. This has taught me to listen to my body when it tells me that I need to take it easier on myself and rest. The 2 days I have been off work I have been very healthy with amounts of food I am eating and types of food I am eating. I had been wanting to get going with doing 100 sit-ups and 100 push-ups each day, but the back has put the brakes on that plan for now. Have just got back from a 1/2hr walk and going to try a cycle now as I need to go to the bank.

Skyped with my dad last night and he said I looked a bit fatter around the face which I didn't really like hearing, but I am going to use his remark in a positive way to push myself into being more conscientious in my day to day activities and eating habits.

Made 2 delicious chocolate cakes for boyfriend's birthday over the last 2 weeks and ate a lot of them both myself. That and not doing as much exercise as I should have done is the downside. I bought the complete dvd boxset of 'Friends' so every night after I get home from work I get glued to the box for hours. I get obsessive with dvd series and they take over my life especially in the winter time. The upside is that I have been eating really healthily and drinking fresh homemade veg and fruit drinks over the same period so I feel really good these days. I have made a pledge that this year is going to be my best year so far starting from now. I am really happy that I went to my 2 last dance classes as those lessons are one of the best things in my life and it gets me down when I skip lessons which is a bad pattern of mine which I have had since childhood and I want to get out of that habit of quitting. I think I need to allocate regular days/nights to specific types of exercise each week the same way as with the dance classes so that I don't need to think what and when I am going to do, but it just becomes automatic. I also want to blog more often, but that's enough for now.

Since my last blog I've spent a week over Christmas in Portugal with family, had New Year back at home and then a week at the beginning of January in Scotland visiting family and friends. I took note of my weight on 3rd December and it was at 67,1kg then on 1st January it was 64.1kg, so I was very happy about the start to my year. In Portugal I ran 3 times on a running machine between 5-6 miles each time and the food I ate was very nutritious, although I overdid it on homemade banana cake. In Scotland I did no exercise at all apart from a lot of walking around and travelling to and fro. This was due to catching a cold on the 1st day of that trip, which I have only just got rid of. Since then I've come back home to normal life again, already into my 2nd week back at work, so last week was exercise-free too although I suppose I should count the 50 minute-a-day cycling to and from work 4 times a week. I weighed myself again and the scales had gone up to 64.9kg, but I am back on track as I am now motivated to get fit again and keep the momentum going. I started last night by rejoining my dance class and tonight I did 100 sit-ups. And now that the snow has gone I can start jogging again. My water intake has been on the whole pretty good. I do however want to start making fresh fruit drinks and smoothies again on a regular basis.

Missed dance class last week (Monday 7th Dec) as I was sick. Ran 10kms the day after, then made and drank a freshly juiced orange, cucumber and spirulina drink. Made a delicious banana cake on Thursday which I have been eating, with the help of others, aswell as too many Kettle Chips over a few days. Once a week I have been buying and eating a box of fresh chopped mixed fruit containing kiwi, melon, pineapple, grapes and strawberries and really enjoying eating that to eating my usual banana, apple and orange combo. The last 2 days I have made banana smoothies. Mixed walnuts in todays smoothy which was a nice addition. Yesterday I listened to Pete's podcast interview with nurse Jane DeVille Almond and found her home-hitting truths made me sit up and pay attention. I like her line "If you don't care, why should anyone else care!?!" Firm, but fair. Then I watched all 5 episodes of Fat Chance on the PeteCohen TV website and was again moved by how losing weight is possible with the right attitude, effort, dedication, support and encouragement.

Very proud of myself today as I ran my personal best which was 10 kms in 50 mins. Woohoo. Last Monday I ran half that distance kind of got lost and because of the break in my running due to not knowing where I was going I ended up losing the momentum of the run and walked back home. That took me 2 hours and was very tiring,

Yesterday I made fresh juice with oranges, a lime, an apple and spirulina powder. Maybe that was what gave me the energy for my performance today.

Recently I switched the multi-vitamins I take daily from regular drug-store variety to ones I ordered online from a company called Nature's Own. I liked the sound of their vitamins because instead of extracting the specific vitamin they include other ingredients which would also be present in the food source of the vitamin. Their motto is "Food State is as close to food as possible". Here's their website for anyone interested:

https://www.natures-own.co.uk/

Lastly, I have saved 10 Euros in my healthy investments for the future metre stick, yay

I forgot to say that in my morning muesli I also add a tsp of crushed linseeds, tsp of pumpkin seeds, tsp of sesame seeds. All good things for veggie/vegans.

I also started buying my bread from the health food shop.