140 to go! - Katie

140 days. Thats 20 weeks to the day, and a goal of 20kg to lose... and I'm well on my way. I think!

I did miss 2 days of real excercise this week, when I was staying at my brothers. The cost of using the local gym for a casual visit was ridiculous ($26.50 to use a bike, treadmill and elliptical for an hour?!), so I skipped it. I continued eating well, trying out a faux cous cous, made with cauliflower and flavoured with roast veges, herbs, garlic and lemon. It was amazing, and did me for 2 lunches and a dinner. Breakfasts continued pretty much as usual - raspberries with plain greek yoghurt and LSA mix, and tried a protein shake... I don't think they're for me, though. I'll stick with the healthy, natural stuff, and get my protein from meats and fish, nuts and veges.

So, apart from the 2 days I just mentioned, I've worked out pretty hard. Well, hard for me. For the seasoned, regular excercise crew, its probably not much at all - but I'm building up a little each day, and I'll get there! My first goal, is to have lost 15kg by my birthday... thats 9.5 weeks, so only just over 1.5 kg a week - very doable, if I keep building my workout each day and eating healthy like I have been.

Specifics - Monday - 2.4 km on the treadmill, 2.6km walk outside pushing a pram, 3km on the stationery bike and 150 strides on the cardio twister.
                  Tuesday - 1km on the treadmill, 9km on the bike.
                  Wednesday - 15km on the bike. First day of work at the new job!
                  Thursday and Friday were my off days, with just a short 1km walk to work on Friday.
                  Saturday I only got in 5km on the bike, due to a tantruming 2 year old most of the day, and issues with cars. I hate cars at the moment!
                  Sunday (today) - 100 strides on the cardio twister, 12km on the bike, just under 1km no the treadmill, half of which was jogging.

I definitely need to work more on the jogging. At the moment i can do about 40 seconds at a time, before I think I'm going to die - so my goal there is to jog 5 mins straight by March 1st. Each day I'll add just a little bit more time to the jog, and cut down the walking intervals. I'm finding that excercising pretty much as soon as I get up sets me up for the day, wakes me up nicely and stops me falling asleep by 3pm, which is definitely a plus in a new job! Hopefully now that I'm back at work full time, I'll shed more weight, faster, because I won't have the option of veging out on the couch watching tv and snacking - or baking cookies and eating too many!

Operation Bye Bye Fat Chick? Achievable!