OH HELL NO!

Terrible TERRIBLE day today!!! with regards to my diet that is. I just been making some adjustments to my diet and it worked for me. That is until today. UGH.

When I wake I am famished as hell since I started working out properly and so the first thing I do when I get to the office is to make my first cup of coffee then have my oats. Today however, when I got to the office there was a power failure and I had no back up plan. This completely threw me off track. I ended up having a WHOLE tin of pringles, I had 8(!) blocks of chocolate. I eventually had a healthy sandwich and that will probably last me the day I am so full. Weigh-in is in two days time for me and sabotaging like this was not a plan. But you know what I am not freaking out about it. I will just have to make it up by working my ass (literally) off the next two days. One thing I will say though is that I don't have as much energy because I haven't had enough fibre and fruit. I have cut down significantly on my sugar in take and eating all that chocolate today made me crash like a plane.

I have again failed at getting to the gym this morning. WHYYYYY can I not wake up???? I don't mind going in the evenings. I am more of a night owl. By the time I get home it is late and I still have to cook supper. I am trying the whole no eating 3 hrs before bedtime thing. Also, sometimes I have things to do after work and my gym closes at 9pm which means I cannot make it on time after meetings and errands.

So, from today I am on the OH HELL NO diet. This diet means I may plan in my head my meals and stuff but there needs to be some kind of action all up in here!

Second last note - I am starting a program of some sort tonight. It is an initiative that is being started by one of the personal trainers at the gym. He personally invited me (me and a million others got personal invitations - ha!) to start a weight loss group for people who are serious about losing weight. Tonight is my first session and I am keen to have someone who I will be accountable to.

Last note - a friend of mine (who is known as "the beast" because she gyms like a mo-friggin-fo) sent me some texts about her getting back into gyming. You see she has had car troubles for a good few months and has therefore been unable to go the gym. My heart completely goes out to her because the gym forms a major part of who she is. I hope she gets her car soon and we can share gym stories:) I digress. Last night she sent me texts below and I was killing myself from laughter and I thought I have to share...

"Have you ever heard of a wanna be soldier? Well allow me to introduce myself ... and how I received this honorarium title... I, The Beast, in some lapse of judgment took out to walk/jog 4 kms on Sunday on the open road. Mission was easily accomplished. Come Monday - I took on the fete of a 3km open road run and the morning earlier - I did yoga, stretched and some abs. When the evening came around push ups were the order of the day. Now I lay in bed....k*k sore. And that is how I earned my soldier stripes. The end"

She goes on to say that after day 1 she felt like Brain on Pinky & the Brain, she thought she could take over the world. she says "well turns out, I failed miserably. Pain is my middle name now. and my prowess has fleeted from me...... My muscles ache with the intensity of a migraine on a tender scalp"... Friggin funny hey!

Going to get punished at the gym now.

See ya soon!

Xo
Mother Larder