Monday Morning Update
I said after last weeks weigh in and finally getting under my goal weight I said I wanted to be somewhere in the 94'kgs range and didn't care if it was 94.99kgs so long as it was under 95kg. I wasn't that confident on my chances considering I had a Malteser blow out on Saturday
....and Yes it was the bucket size
Whilst I didn't eat the whole bucket I had a fair few. My confidence was low that I would actually lose the 600 grams I needed to get there. Doing my weigh in this morning I was not expecting to be out of the 95's however much to my delight I weighed in at
94.1Kg(207lb) which is a weight loss of 1.5 kg (3.3lb)
I am ecstatic at the result, I never expected to lose that much and I can see if I am not careful I will have body image issues. I want rid of this weight around my middle however my understanding is that I am doing the best exercise for weight loss already so I just need to be patient...LOL not one of my stronger qualities.
I have been monitoring my stats and my resting heart rate is averaged over 5 recent reading to be 58. When I walk I have started to do a warm up that consists basically of walking at about average walking pace for about 3/4 of a km then beginning to increase the pace steadily until I feel at a pace my hip can tolerate and that I am still getting workout. Today for example I did another 8ks and my heartrate according to my Fitbit was 103 average and I was fat burning for a total of 1hr 9 minutes of my total 1hour 22 minute workout and considering the first 10 minutes is warm up then I think I have the formula working pretty well.
Just an observation...I am a recovering nicotine addict and I have been clean since June of 2015. Today whilst out on my walk I came up behind a couple in their late 20's it must have been about 7am and they were strolling along smoking....When I got a face full of their second hand smoke I was surprised as to how offensive it really was. As I walked past them I could smell a hint of perfume coming off the woman but the pervasive smell coming from them both was one of stale tobacco...did I smell like that for most of my life?... I certainly did, I can't imagine that now.
I had some tough moments last week but it was all put into perspective by the wonderful mob of ladies from Susan's whom I was lucky enough to have a skype call with who were all together to Tia and Debi's wedding. Had a lovely time chatting with everyone and even got to say hello to the ladies of the moment. I would have expected to see some sore heads on the Sunday morning as those girls were ready to party. It was so great to meet the people behind the threads that I follow and some I don't. I was so envious of not being able to be there and meet each one of them properly.
I removed myself from social media leaving access to me via messenger, email or telephone so hopefully this will cause no one any problems. I have no doubt that some will be created because of this, I am sure my father will attribute this as some kind of backlash against him and I guess to a very a small extent he is part of the problem but not the entire problem. This pain created by them is going to stop one way or another.
Having another Photography date with Cindi later in the week depending on weather. I have a couple of projects I am working on as well but still waiting on my new lens...hopefully in the next day or so. I set my small light studio up the other day and it seemed to work pretty well giving me a nicely lit area to photograph small objects...just need a lens to do it now LOL. Other than that I have an LGBT group on Saturday if I want to go, A nice bunch of people and I probably will go.
Its just gone 9:15 and I have a heap of chores to do including going to the shops but will be back a bit later to hopefully catch up on everyones threads
Take care
Liz
106D 22hrs 3M BWCA?
