Gym days

I joined a gym today! With the weather getting colder and me getting lazier, I thought a gym might be a good way to keep up with the routine of making sure there is atleast some exercise in my life. Else winter just enables a craving for hot fried food and hot coffee every two hours....
I'm excited about the gym coz they have loads of stuff happening there - pilates, yoga, spinning, latin heat....haven't ever been to a gym that offers all this....so really looking forward to it!
It starts with the fitness assessment tomorrow....maybe I should just wear some ear plugs to it...don't want yet another soul telling me how unfit I am....but am sure it will be more positive than that and they will tell me what I need to do to get fit....So from tomorrow...with all the happy hormones being released....there probably will be less cynical statements like the ear plugs one...;)..on that note...looking forward to the interesting day tomorrow!!!

I'm Back

I'm back after a long long time...initially I was away for some inexplicable reasons and then I was being LAZY and for laziness excusesare very easy to come by....a slight knee ache, a slight headache...lack of sleep, too hot..too cold...anything!

But basically I also missed out on the 5K run that I was supposed to attend on the 5th of Sept....and since I've already admitted that I'm a queen of excuses - this time the excuse was that a friend was visiting from India and we had taken him out of town. For those who live by the "where there is a will, there is a way" principle...there would be an easy way out - but not for me! It was just easier to skip the run rather than go there and not be able to run the whole 5K.

But then as it usually happens - the conscience awakens and here I am signed up for yet another 5K on the 2nd of Oct. - and this time I made sure I signed up in advance so I don't get tempted to drop out!!

So running after a month and a half - I'd thought that getting past the first five minutes will be impossible, but hey I did two sets of nine minute runs with a walk of about two minutes in between and then another three minutes run to end! I think the weather being cooler also helped a little.

But I guess - with the muscles being so well rested for the past so many months, today could not have been so difficult. Tomorrow of course will be a whole new story!!! Looking forward though to tomorrow!!!

Inspiration?

My inspiration for the day was Drew Carey's weight loss - it for sure is a commendable achievement and it gives me heart to know its happening for people...so It surely will happen for me..But somehow to me the "before and after pictures" are not looking that appealing! I loved Drew Carey in "Who's line is it anyway?" and somehow its sort of wired in my brain that fat people have a great sense of humour - think about it...have you met a fat person who isn't funny? I think its mostly because you learn to laugh at yourself much more since you keep hearing people talk about your weight! Well that's a very personal experience as well as opinion!!

Anyway about Drew Carey - He's looking old and tired to me....I wish he'd lost weight everywhere else but the face...but nevertheless, a huge weight loss like this is definitely inspiring...(just don't see the pics though)!

So today with that inspiration I went swimming for almost an hour and then went and hogged to my hearts content! Somehow the diet I was mentioning yesterday still exists only in thought...maybe I should go off sugar...that might make a difference...!

I got the mail on the schedule for the week today - no surprises here...Am much behind schedule and with the 5K date approaching soon, there's just about a month to go....so I'd better buck up..!

Oh what a day.....

It was a terrible day today as far as any form of exercise is concerned...WHY?? Because there was none...absolutely none...!! Instead there was a very heavy lunch followed by dessert..actually it was a no-fat yogurt which when I had eaten before tasted really yummy but today it was sour...so it actually did taste like yogurt...why should you eat a dessert which seems like an indulgence but then tastes like yogurt?? This was then followed by almost two hours of procrastinating about when I should go for a swim and you know what happens after too much of procrastination right? Yes...I didn't go at all...actually I'd also decided on a specific recipe for dinner today which took forever - so that was my excuse at the time!! So a heavy dinner and some ice cream followed to make up for the damp squib of a dessert in the morning

And today I wore one of my old trousers after a very long time with the hope that it will be looser now...but guess what..it fits the same..:(..I am sooo disappointed. So I'm thinking about a diet - maybe where I don't eat sugar for week or something...but today seems to be a procrastination day...so maybe I'll leave it for tomorrow...!!

Which also reminds me tomorrow, I'll get the schedule for Week 4 of the action plan that I follow...and I am a whole week behind this time if not more...maybe I wont check my mail tomorrow...;-)

Swim!

After a lot of deliberation today, I finally went for a swim. Since it was in the evening and it easy to make excuses in the evening, I had almost convinced myself that I was too hungry and a better option would be to just have an early dinner - especially since we had some very interesting dinner tonight. But I finally did go for about 45 mins -  could've swam a little longer though but it was closing time! I really enjoyed the swim coz the poll surpassed my expectations completely. It was very large and two laps gives enough exercise to make me pant - well doesn't need too much to get me to pant of course ;-)

Now after the swim and wolfing down a heavy dinner the aches return again but they are the good kind of aches -which makes you feel good about the exercise. And now I've decided that I'll probably go for a short swim everyday - at least for 20 minutes or so, even if its just lazying around in the pool!!

So let see what I manage tomorrow!!!

??

Don't know whats wrong with me. Haven't been feeling very great over the last few days and didn't do too much running/ walking at all! My joints ache like am this very old woman - finding it very difficult to even walk straight...but today morning I decided that maybe I should go for a walk atleast. So I walked for 45 mins and felt a little better in the morning but as the day progressed the pain started to return. So A suggested that I should do something a little lighter on the knees for a few days - so tomorrow I plan to go swimming. I love to swim - so once I get into the water its difficult to get me out - but the only thing that keeps me from swimming is the thought of my already extremely frizzy hair getting wet and having to shampoo it all over again - at times twice a day...!!!

But anyway we haven't used our community swimming pool yet and have just about another month to make use of it before the winter sets in...so looking forward to a nice swim tomorrow...

Slipping??

Wondering whether I'm slipping back into my earlier way of laziness.....I could not walk properly today though..had a terrible body ache and general feeling of being unwell...Initially thought it was just an excuse that I was bringing up for consolation - but suddenly now there is an onset of a terrible cold!! Can't stop sneezing....

In the meanwhile the schedule for the week has arrived - which also made me realise that thought the time for each running set was increasing last week - I thought I had to keep doing 5 sets which was a wrong assumption. While the time per set increases, the number of sets required to be done reduce. So maybe I can keep up with this weeks schedule. Hope the cold goes away!!