Happy New Year everyone! Did anyone make resolutions regarding their health? I've got a few aims/goals I'm going to push towards, but first I'd like to look back to 2013 and see what I've accomplished so far!

• lose the last 6kg by June
• get into some sports in a more serious way
• track my food and drink more carefully (been slipping with this one again)
• track all my activity on HeiaHeia
• have less takeaways!!

I am also changing the way I do my progress a little. I'm only going to start posting my weigh ins once a month with the progress check instead of every week and then one big chunk of progress every four weeks. This is what I've wanted to do for a very long time now but I felt like I shouldn't do it mid year, but now that it's officially 2014 I'm going to start doing it. :)

Oh and I am going to do a summary of how I've done measurement wise on Sunday as well. I'm really not looking forward to it, I have a feeling the scales won't show the numbers I'm aiming for!

Let's start this post with a nice little update: the silly 900g gain yesterday is all gone already, which just proves my theory of my body just being in a bit of a shock from the increased amount of exercise. :)


Right. I'm getting on with my UP really nicely already. It's barely noticable when you're getting on with your business (apart from when typing on the computer as you do need to rest your wrist on the desk) and didn't have any issues with it last night when I was trying to settle down and sleep. Unfortunately I had to wait until 6pm to sync my data with the app as my other half was working all day, but here's the stats from last night and today!

• Total of 8hr 38min in bed
• Fell asleep in 16min
• Light sleep 4hr 50min
• Deep sleep 3hr 32min
• According to UP I didn't wake up at all during the night, but I do remember doing so a few times
• Didn't get to test the alarm system as I kept waking up all morning :D

And by 6pm I had done 7,841 steps. :) I went for a short walk in the afternoon and done a bit of housework around the house. Hitting 10k is a lot easier than you'd think! I bet a lot of people just see a big number and think that there's no way you can reach it, but it only really takes roughly an hour of walking and then doing stuff around the house.

Today was meant to be a gym day but my other half had quite a long day at work and lots of driving there and back so we decided to postpone gymming til tomorrow evening. I did kinda see it coming so I planned a quick leg workout for myself. Just a simple, basic workout with dumbbells for some extra resistance. The workout itself was about 15 minutes, but I got insane burn in my legs in that time. Didn't want a long workout anyways at it was getting quite late.

And just to test out my new camera's video function, here's screen caps of my workout! :) I probably won't be doing a lot of this at the gym as I do feel a bit silly taking pictures / video of myself in front of people but I'll post my home workouts on my blog whenever I happen to do them. Blurry images but can't do much about it as they are just still images of the video. :p And no tripod yet so had to rely on a drawer, will have a better angle for future snaps.

1. Squat and press