Week 1 - Day 1 - Completed

Yesterday, Michelle officially opened up the gates to a different world.

Ever since I decided to do something positive about my health and weight I've made a conscious effort to record the foods that I eat, look at my habits and figure out just what I'm doing wrong.

What I've come to realise is this:

I am an emotional eater...big time!

When I'm stressed, I eat.
When I'm happy, I eat.
When I'm sad, I eat.
When I'm angry, I clean...and then I eat.

I learned that my biggest problem has been to change my comfort eating to some other form of comfort.  The most logical choice is to focus it on some form of exercise...but man oh man, I think I'll find that hard to change.

Yesterday morning I woke up 15 minutes BEFORE my 5am alarm (that's how excited I was...or was it apprehension I was feeling?) thinking about my exercise.  Unfortunately, I didn't get up when I woke up, but tried to sleep in a little more because it was SOOOOO comfortable.  I regretted it later when I finally crawled out of bed at 5:20am because I felt more lethargic and lazy than ever. 

But I got up.  I changed into my workout gear.  I put my runners on and tried out my new cardio DVD. 

I could ONLY manage the warm up and 2 sets before my back began to twinge.

I thought about just giving up for the morning, after all I got through some form of exercise didn't I?  But then I thought, no...that's not the right thing to do.  So, I turned the news on and jumped on the treadmill to speed walk for 10 minutes.

I'm pretty happy that I did that...even though I knew I could have used my usual excuses and just quit.  I normally would have said to myself, 'well, at least you did something!', but I knew deep down that only doing 2 sets just wasn't good enough.

Funnily enough, I burned more calories on the treadmill than doing the DVD workout.  So maybe I may re-think my exercises until I get a bit more confident and feel a bit lighter.

I'll definitely try the other recommended exercises during the week and see how I go but I'm going to work on Michelle's tummy workout exercises to try and strengthen my poor weak muscles in my back and stomach.  They are just crying out for help!!!

Dinner last night was....beef with avocado and corn salsa...and it was yummy.

Of course, I made a little extra for my husband and step-son...and I shouldn't have because I served myself more than I should have then.  Portion control Gisele!!!

Tonight, dinner will be Penang Chicken which everyone has raved about so I'm hoping it will be good!

I'm finding the old excuses crop up with my exercising...and I have to learn to ignore them.  I even snapped at my husband this morning when he prodded me to get up and exercise before going to work.  I shouldn't have snapped, but I was so tired I could barely think straight...and my back was a little sore.

Not that it was too sore to walk on the treadmill but it was really tender.  I ended up having a few twinges in my back but I guess that's to be expected on muscles that haven't seen a bit of exercise in years!

As I only walked on the treadmill for a short time today I think I might try and do Michelle's toning DVD this afternoon when I get home.  Hang on...'might try'...did I actually use those words???? Someone slap me!