Week 2 - Day 2

Okay, my first week wasn't the greatest...

I am finding it hard to get the exercise into my schedule.  I know it's one of my biggest excuses but I'm not sure how to change this excuse at this time. 

I get up at 530am every day, make lunches for me and my husband, tidy the kitchen, feed the cats, get my things ready for work, shower and then take off for work.  When I get home (anytime between 630pm and 730pm at night) I get dinner ready, eat and then clean up.

By the time everything is tidy it's usually 9pm or so.  At that point it's time to catch up with my husband for a half hour or so before heading off to bed (he's busy studying his Uni degree via distance education so is usually locked away in the office until dinner and then goes back in until 930pm when he breaks for the night and has a quick cuppa with me.

I've been trying to make some meals to freeze, but last weekend (my first weekend on the 12WBT) I was only able to squeeze in time late at night to cook.  And the rest of the time was spent looking after my grand kids and trying to do some household chores (laundry and cleaning).  With the rain that we've been experiencing it's making things hard to get done (laundry is still hung out on the back deck and the floors are filthy). 

I've signed up for yoga at work, which runs every Tuesday at 515pm, which is a start at least.  I know then that I get that workout over before heading home.  I've tried preparing the lunches and work stuff the night before, which helps out, but the last time I exercised first thing in the morning I threw my back out (probably because I wasn't quite awake and trying to work out to Mish's DVD).

Don't get me wrong, I am losing weight (as of yesterday I'm at 109.1kg, which is great) but I feel like I'm taking two steps forward and one step backward every minute of every day. 

Refocus Gisele.
Regroup and get on with it.

I'm still making progress but not as quickly as I had anticipated.
I just need to keep making the changes and things will work out in the end because everything will become a habit and I will make the changes I need to make all of this a habit.

This weekend is my first SSS with the Blue Mountains crew...it should be interesting as I can barely do any of the exercises at this time, but I needed to make the commitment to going, to making a commitment to exercise at all!

I figure if I go and do anything (whether it's the complete program or not) it is exercise and I will get better with time!

Then it's a weekend of grand kids, cooking, cleaning (and more cleaning) and waiting patiently on Sunday for my husband to call saying his exams went well.........

Until then, every day will have a bit more exercise in it.  And every day will have a renewed promise to myself to better my eating habits and continue with reshaping my life (and my body in turn!).