Wow four weeks have flown by. I have never been so busy. I'm up at 5am to do my mindfulness practice (meditation) and then exercise gear on at 6am where I go crazy for 45 minutes. Needless to say I'm exhausted after a full day at work from 8 to 4.30. Then it's mother's hat on for after school activities and home duties. Saturdays are just as busy with 'Super Saturday Session' (my big Saturday exercise session - part of the 12wbt), mother's sports duties, washing, ironing etc, etc.
Thank goodness for online shopping, as up until recently the only time I had to get the groceries was Sunday after church (now doesn't that sound wrong). So with a huge smile on my face I welcomed Mr Coles as he brought my shopping to my door last night.
Part of the program is nutritious meals of 1200Cal per day. From berry smoothies, tandoori chicken salads to tonight meal - Grilled stuffed zucchini with tomato balsamic chutney. The best part is that every meal we have had, both Dominic and I have LOVED!! Now I've been on many diets with meal plans and have never been able to say that before. Each week when the new weeks meal plan, recipes and grocery list is unlocked (online) Dominic and I get excited about the coming week. Yippee there is green prawn, steak and mushroom sauce, laksa curry, salads with goats cheese feta and walnuts - yum yum!
So how have I gone??? I have gone from 85.8kg to 81.0kg. I ran/walked 1km in 8.50minutes 4 weeks ago and this week I did it in 8.10minutes. I can do 13 more push ups in a minute than I could 4 weeks ago and my body is 15cm smaller. {Big Smile}. My children and I went into out first fun run - Toowoomba Peak to Park. Anna and Dom did the 10km run and Lara and I did the 4km very fast walk (lol). I had sore muscles for 2 days after that.
However with such determined dedication to my health, children and home duties, the wheels were getting really wonky and the speed wobbles where getting a bit scary. With so much to do the one thing that I haven't been doing was my uni assignments (and my blog haha). Not that I'm a high achiever (sure), but this has put such a huge strain on my mental health that I've decided to reduce my working hours temporarily to 4 days/week. This will be interesting when I get my next pay slip. Eek!
Well that is 4 weeks in a nutshell - lets hope that I don't wait another 4 weeks to write.
Chilly 7am at Picnic Point Lara & I ready to go. Lara needing an ice pack after a little slip at the end
What a great team!! I'm so proud of my children and the support they have been giving me.
Thanks guys. XXX
