getting back into it.

And I'd gone quiet again. Just in case you thought I'd quit this exercise milarky, I've had quite a lot of illness this autumn. Very nasty headcolds which have given me a cough like one of a smoker and have ruled me out of getting up at stupid o'clock in the morning to do exercise when breathing in the first place was tough enough.

That said, I'm back on the wagon after a recent break away from work and adventures to Scotland.  So I've decided to up the intensity of what I'm doing and am doing around 20 minutes of fairly strenuous things with EA fitness plus : personal trainer. I think I've mentioned in an earlier post that it's a whole new world of hurt and doing two mornings in a row my thighs are whinging in a way which is making me walk like someone twice my age.

As with everything Perseverence is the key and now that mojo is back I need to work it some more to get the body happy to be moving again.

Easing back into things

I'm back from Dragon*Con and that means back to getting up early in order to get some exercise done.

I'm relieved that I only gained a couple of pounds whilst in the US, it could have been a hell of a lot worse.

I've not managed to get up everymorning so far because for the last week jetlag has been kicking my arse hard.  I've also been fighting a cold which has been making my tonsils flair up and then went up into my head. But this morning I was back doing step again.

The good thing is that even doing only two days out of three the weight has already started moving in a direction I'm happy with.  I've got to look at things as the big picture. I was getting quite downhearted before I went away but my body was just reacting to my menstrual cycle and not the exercise I've been doing.  One thing that the wii fit does it is does make me obsess about the directions of the graphs.  I want them to always be heading in a downward trajectory. I know from bitter previous experience that weight can reach a plateau and you have to shake things up fairly regularly. What I'm most pleased about is that over all the BMI has moved fairly decisively in the right direction. I know I've got a long way to go but I'm taking these baby steps and I'm going to get there.

A hard week,

This week has been really really hard. I've been doing the exercise, getting up at stupid o'clock to get it done and I;ve been eating sensibly and still the weight has been going the wrong way.

It was getting my down. I had no reason why this should be happening I'd even upped the intensity of the exercise. And then Friday it hit me. I got my period. I wasn't expecting it because I've got a number of health issues which mean that periods for me are not regular and don't come every 28 days they come once every six weeks if I'm lucky and it's that which has thrown me off.

It does make sense when you think about it. In addition to this I've got a bit of the lurgy going on.  So much so I nearly passed out yesterday morning. I've  taken it easy becase I'm gonig on holiday and I want to be well for that.

I'm gonna try and be healthy at D*C I owe it to myself to not go backwards.

EA Active Personal Trainer

My boyfriend bought us the above game for when we find the wii fit plus stuff a bit easy.

Well it arrived yesterday and he had a go with it and pronounced it really rather hard.

I had already done my wii fit exercise this morning but once I'd put the bins out I decided that the pizza we had eaten for dinner needed to be worked off and so I fired up EA Active and set up a profile for myself.

And it's a lot harder, the exercises are more structured and if I'm honest its more of a faff to do with the thigh strap and the putting the nunchuck in the pouch and taking out again every other exercise.  It seems to work though and that's the important thing.

I shall update further once I've got my body into it some more.

Keep on keeping on.

My work is starting to pay its dividends.

I am somewhat proud that just doing exercise on the wii fit is helping me so much. When I started this endeavour nearly three weeks ago I was probably the joint heaviest I've ever been, I was sleeping badly and I was lethargic a lot of the time.

Since starting the activities I've found myself yearning for a daily routine, I've ended up getting up earlier and doing exercise before going to work, something I'd never thought I'd do. I'm also going to bed earlier, my ability to sleep is still shaky but I'm gradually doing something healthier because I want to.

Food wise, nothing much has changed, I'm not eating badly but I am still having chocolate and biscuits just not in the quantities seen before. I've got a positive energy from somewhere and I want to use it.

The results are also beginning to show.  I have brought my BMI down by 1. I've also lost six pounds. It seems amazing and I know I have a long way to go and a lot more to do and there's going to come a point when the wii fit isn't going to be the challenge it is now and then I'm going to have to take some steps out my front door and head to the gym or get on my bike or walk or in fact try and get running again.

There are a lot of possibilities and they are all a way off.

So I'm setting goals, lots of little goals.  The most immediate one is two loose 2lbs in the next two weeks.  The next goal beyond that is to get my bmi to 39.99 so that it's under 40. Beyond that I want to be thin enough to be able to buy clothes in fat face and manteray.

All little things, little things are achieveable.

New start

Well after last night's negativity grumbles I decided to try something a little bit different because to be honest I'm struggling to find a regular time to attempt wii fit and it interferes with the tv watching etc etc.

My boyfriend suggesting getting up when he does to do the wii fit whilst he goes to the gym.

Ugh! I thought really don't want to be getting up at the crack of doom, I mean dawn to do that. However, I set my alarm early and gave it a go.

So seven am this morning I was doing yoga, marching, boxing and stepping.  The plus side is that in the morning weight is lower anyway and I had been quite desolate that the weight seemed to be increasing despite the fact I was being a lot more active than previously. Well considering I was doing nothing I've increased activity levels exponentially.

Also this morning my fitness piggybank turned bronze because I've broken the ten hour barrier. Woohoo!

In which I'm a little disappointed in myself

I've started doing regular exercise, every day in the last two weeks I've done at least 30 minutes on the wii fit with at least 20 of them doing a good amount of aerobic exercise. And despite the happy downward trend the first week. The second has been nowhere near as successful as I thought it would be.

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, I'm not eating badly and the exercise level has gone from nowhere to averaging 40 minutes.  It is most disappointing as far as I'm concerned.

And it's really where I would normally give up only I'm not going to this time. I need to increase my activity levels I really do and I'm willing to do that because essentially I need to get a fitness level that's going to allow me to do more than I'm able to right now.

Tonight, for example I did the yoga poses and then some marching, followed by the boxing as a warm up. I then had a go at free step for the main aerobic activity and I managed to keep it up for a full thirty minutes.  I am really pleased that I was able to do this without collapsing or getting the shakes.  I did get nice and warm and the pulse rate was working hard but there wasn't any stage where I thought I was working outside my limits.

I'm going to continue using the free step in 30 minute bursts as an aerobic dooberry but I'm gonna have to find ways to make it a better experience for me.

One problem is that I feel kind of guilty about hogging the tv for an hour in the evening to do this but until I'm fit enough to go to the gym without the possibility of passing out on the cross trainer I'm need to work out in our tiny lounge.

I hope that I start to see the benefit of this soon, I need a reason to keep going beyond sheer bloody mindedness.

Whistles innocently...

I've not been around a lot; I gave up on the running thing.  The reason for that was because the shape I am and the weight I am made it really hard to get the good vibes and positive oomph from exercise that one is supposed to get.

So fast forward some months and I've been grumping to myself and sleeping badly and basically avoiding exercise at all costs. I was summoned to have a GP apppointment for medication review and basically after chatting away and everything being fine, it was suggested that I actually, you know get up off my butt and do something.

So I'm using my Wii fit. I'm aiming to do 40 minutes a day between now and when I head back to the GP in October.

I've managed pretty well this week with either walking outside or some Wii activity every day since the appointment and the important thing is that I am enjoying the activity that I'm doing. For instance, I'm doing a lot of the basic and simple yoga poses as a warm up before moving onto step/hula hoop/boxing as the aerobic mainstay and then some balance games to cool down.

I've been also pleased to track my bmi going in the right direction generally. Less so today, much wine last night meant that some of my good work had been undone.  However, I did my session today and will be continuing to do so as the days go by.