Yup, despite having a terrible weigh in this morning, I didn't let that stop me at the gym. On the contrary, I pushed myself even more. Spent about an hour at the gym today, had a leg day today! Quick warmup on the treadmill (3min walk - 5min job - 2min walk) followed by two different leg machines, a quick ab set, squats, backwards lunges and stepper to finish it all off. My heart rate absolutely sky rocketed on the stepper, I hit 190 at some point.


It was wonderfully quiet at the gym as well! Barely anyone there, was very nice to be able to do your sets without thinking that somebody is waiting to get on the machines and so on. Also managed to snap this picture during my cooldown, my (very blurry) other half in the background. :) I find it so incredibly important to stretch properly after doing a workout, I just end up being stupidly sore the next day if I don't.

It's been such a pleasant day in other ways, too. :) We had some family around and I got a chance to take pictures of all five dogs of the family again. I can't say it enough, photographing animals is such a rewarding thing to do. You can't tell a dog to pose or sit still, you're forced to think very quick and be ready with the camera or the moment is gone.

Meh. Progress check next week, if I carry on with this pace it'll look like I've lost sod all this month. -.-

OK let's just clear it up first, I don't actually have diagnosed OCD. I just have these funny little habits that make me obsess over stuff. :D Now that I've got my UP, I feel really guilty and bad if I don't hit my 10k steps every day. At the moment I'm somewhere in the late 6000's, but it's really bugging me. I'm actually really tempted to go for a walk just to fill those steps.

Oh and I will be going over the UP app next week as promised. :) Now that I actually got it to work on my tablet, I can access the app easier and will be taking lots of screenshots of it and so on. So stay tuned for that!



But yeah, other than that my day's been quite bland. Went for a walk in the afternoon and that's it. I didn't keep my hopes up about the gym today as my other half actually hurt his leg at work last night and he did ask if we could go tomorrow morning instead. I will definitely make sure that we go tomorrow, I want my two gym sessions a week! I pay a lot of money for my membership, I want to make the most out of it.

I'm kinda nervous about my weigh in tomorrow because of skipping the gym. I feel like I haven't done enough this week to lose weight, but then again I always have these doubts in my head the night before. Argh.

For the past few days I've been really busy with my uni stuff. I need to do some prepwork for the course (learn the software, do tasks etc) and read nine books. Well, I've started browsing the books and sort of read bits and pieces here and there and I've already done a few of the tasks. I'm so happy to have the next two years of my life planned and steady, giving me a bit more stability and hopefully at the end of it have a job in my own field. :)


I was actually so tied up with it all today that I didn't realise to have lunch until 1pm. In a way it felt really good, I haven't been this focused on anything for a very long time. I love just losing track of time when doing something I enjoy, getting stuff done and seeing results I've worked hard for. I could say exercise is one of these things, I can just go for a walk and get so carried away I end up being out for a lot longer than I intended. Getting into fitness / losing weight is definitely going to help me with studying as I've got a ton of determination I used to lack during college.

But yeah, a quick fish finger sandwich (with a small dollop of mayo, cucumber and beetroot) for lunch and I decided to give my brain a break from all that thinking. Quick change of clothes and off I went for a walk, with an added bonus of seeing my friend. :) I think everyone needs at least one good friend in their life, someone to just spend time with and be silly. We just sat at the beach today, throwing rocks at random bits of rubbish on the beach. I have awful aim, don't think I hit anything more than once haha!




Today was going to be a gym day for us, but unfortunately my other half had a very long day at work so he didn't even come home until 20.30pm. In a way I'm glad we didn't go tonight, my legs are STILL sore from the leg workout I did at home and it'd be a leg day for me at the gym as I did arms and core on Wednesday. I was thinking of doing a workout from a dvd tonight instead but I'm just too full of pizza at the moment to even think of working out haha! So yeah, made pizza for dinner tonight. I knew my other half would want something very filling and big after a long day of work, so whipped up a very yummy chicken pizza with a wholemeal base. I love making pizza but I've never actually made it with chicken before! Was just a simple mix of chicken, tinned tomatoes, onions and green peppers + grated cheddar on top. It turned out absolutely incredible, quite sweet because of the peppers but I was more than OK with that!



And as a little treat, my father in law got me a Flake bar. :) I love these things, the texture of it makes you think you're eating a lot of chocolate but it's just 170 calories for the whole thing, whereas you'd probably be eating twice the amount of calories in a normal chocolate bar this size. Satisfies my need for chocolate. :D

Yeah, last night's workout definitely did it's job. Sore leg muscles and stairs just don't mix well... :D Everything has been a bit of a challenge today!

I wanted to see if going for a gentle walk would open up my muscles a bit more and make the soreness better. It did actually work quite well, granted I was still very sore after the walk but I felt better! Now, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, I love it that the workout actually affected my legs the way it should!


As we didn't go to the gym last night, my other half was very excited about going tonight! I focused on my arms tonight to give my poor legs a bit of a rest and it really sank in well! Towards the end I had to do shorter sets (at the start I could do 10-10-10 but the last set was 10-5-7) as my arms were just so drained out, but I'm very proud of myself for giving it all I got! I also did some core work to strengthen my abs and back muscles. This paired up with 10 minutes on the treadmill start and finish as warmup and cooldown. I'm gonna sleep well tonight.


And now to get all you readers involved! I'd quite like to do a special post about some random thing, please do comment on this post with your ideas! Can be about anything life related (as long as it's you know, within good taste), I will pick the best idea and make a post in the next few days. :) Anonymous commenting is enabled.