Category: Health & Fitness

I did it

Posted on by Libby Withnall

Finally, I managed a day of eating only healthy foods.

The day started off with a great workout at the gym. I was there at 6am and did 20min interval training on the bike, then 5 mins on the rower. Came home, got the dogs and took them on a short walk.

I did face a bit of a challenge around lunchtime. I was hungry and out with Granny doing her grocery shopping. When we stopped in the biscuit isle it was all I could do to keep my hands off those yummy looking packets. But I did. And came home and had a lovely salad made with lettuce fresh picked from my garden.

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As you can see from my food diary I did a bit of snacking today but I made sure I made good choices. I’m rather proud of myself as it’s been a real battle to get one day of fairly clean eating under my belt. And just look at all those cups of tea and not a cookie or piece of chocolate in sight :-).

Food Diary

They arrived just in time

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These books that is. For some unknown reason I have had no desire to go the gym and, in fact, haven’t been in nearly 2 weeks. I had planned to go today but didn’t want to, then kind of ran out of time, so missed again. Not quite sure what’s going on with me. I was really loving my new program.

I think I need to rework my housework routine and clean two days and do gym two days. I find if I clean first, like today, I don’t feel like going to the gym, and if I workout first I’m pretty exhausted for the next hour and don’t want to clean. I tend to only clean in the morning so if it’s not done by lunchtime it doesn’t get done.

Plan to start reading these books tomorrow and hope they give me back some desire to get to the gym. I know I’ll love it once I’m there – I always do – just can’t seem to get myself there. Today I was feeling guilty about not doing any exercise until I realized I walked the kids to and from school – which means I got an hours walk in :-). We’ve been walking home EVERY day so I’m getting a minimum of a half hour walk plus cleaning and stuff around the house. But I need to keep up the upper body workouts before I start to lose STRENGTH.

My tea addiciton

Posted on by Libby Withnall

Morning cup of tea

Well, I have always been a tea drinker. In the summer I might have one cup when I first wake up, in a Winter I might have 2-3 cups over the day. However, in the last month I have started having up to four cups a day. Even worse, I have started buying it when I’m out (something I have NEVER done). So I think it’s safe to say I’ve become a tea addict.

The tea addiction in itself doesn’t worry me, but since it’s usually accompanied by a biscuit (cookie) or some chocolate, and I’m having it around 4 times a day, it’s not so good. So my challenge for the coming week is to enjoy my tea without any treats. If I want the biscuit or chocolate, it’s got to wait until AFTER my tea. During the day this shouldn’t be too hard but I do enjoy my early morning (4-5am) tea and biscuit(s).

Turbulence Training

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Well, it’s been a while since I revamped my workout but I decided it was about time. I purchased Turbulence Training way back in January (for a body weight program I could do on holidays) and dug it yesterday to do my first workout. Later I realized I did the beginner workout when I should have done the intermediate workout. HOWEVER, I’m feeling a little sore today (but a nice kind of sore, not REALLY sore like I sometimes get) so it must have been a reasonable workout. I might stick with it for 2 weeks, then move on. I’ve got heaps of the programs workouts to move through, then I can look at buying more if I need to. I may miss using the weight machines though (he does use some but has a lot of body weight/free weight exercises).

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I’m also thinking about buying this book Strength for Life by Shawn Phillips. Being that STRENGTH is my word for 2008 I thought it might be a good book to help motivated me. Actually I’m going to make this my reward for losing 30kg since I never did anything to celebrate that milestone.