Thats almost a ruler!

I'm sorry to say that I'm suffering a bit of a downer day today - the worst thing being that when I feel like this - all I want is CHOCOLATE!! Don't worry though... not one piece has passed these lips... today...

So anyway... started Friday with the 6.30am Sweat Intensive class with Jacqui. Jacqui takes us through a circuit style class with short intervals doing an exercise before moving onto the next one etc. Was a great workout - left feeling stuffed.

Friday lunch time rolled around pretty quickly and I was back at M1NT for my meeting with Di. For those that don't know - Mike and Di are a husband and wife team that own and operate M1NT (always good to know about the marriage... i.e. you can't tell Mike something about eating chocolate and not expect Di to find out! :-) ) Di is a nutritionist and works with the M1NT members on diet and general nutrition advice.

Mike first convinced me to see Di about 6 months ago. To be honest it was one of the scariest things I had done since joining M1NT - I had strict instructions to write down absolutely everything that I ate and drank for the week prior so that Di could analyse my diet. I don't know why it was soo scary - I think I just had this mental thought process whereby Di is this gorgeous, super-skinny woman who was going to look at me, and my 7 day list of chocolate consumption and get stuck into me? Of course it was nothing like that at all! Di has been so wonderful to me and I have visited her regularly since - her advice has really helped cement the changes that I was beginning to make anyway through exercise.

And Fridays lunch time meeting was no different. We began by completing the BIA test - results weren't fantastic - but then I guess I couldn't have expected too much with all of the subway cookies I ate! I lost just under a KG of muscle and put on just under a KG of fat - so net difference was nil. Not a great outcome.

HOWEVER.... I AM SUPER EXCITED THAT I'M ALMOST AT A RULER!! Ha ha - I lost another 2 cm off my waist - making the total waist measurement drop 29 cm (come on that last cm!!!!!) :-)

Di then looked through my food diary. Of course she already knew the bad news about my subway cookies - she still cemented to me just how bad they are though! What I really like about Di is that I had this expectation that I would go to her and she would 100% change my eating routine/meals, however this hasn't been the case at all. Instead every time we meet we look at a different aspect of my food intake and see how we can improve it - on Friday we talked about my after dinner/pre-bed sugar snack - a habit that has been in place for at least 15 years and would be damn hard to change! Of course I know Di would prefer me not to have anything... but was also really supportive and realistic that it is a deeply ingrained habit - so Weight Watchers Jelly and Non-Fat Greek Yoghurt with Protein Powder is on the list to try instead :-) Will let you know if it does the trick.

Unfortunately the weekend didn't see me eating much better than last week. It was my fiances birthday on Saturday so this saw us out for two nights in the weekend drinking, and also out for dinner. Not only that... CRUEL CRUEL people gave him lots of chocolate!!! That's now in our fridge!!!! Every time I open it I see it! ha ha. So yes... a bit of chocolate was also consumed! Damn broken self-control.

Was very proud of myself yesterday though - of course with it being Queens Birthday our Monday morning Sweat Intensive class was not on, so typically this would have seen me not exercising at all yesterday. But instead I did 40 Min's /15 km on my elliptical cycle that I have at home (that between you and me hardly ever gets used!). Proud?

Was back at M1NT this morning and did a rather casual workout - didn't really push myself very hard so didn't get too much of a sweat up. I really struggle working out by myself - something I need to work on.

Not sure if its the miserable weather or what, but as I said I'm feeling a bit down today. And its days like this that I would usually pig out on chocolate - I am strong though!! I promise you all that I won't eat any... until I get home tonight!! hmm... compromise is a beautiful thing!

Enjoy the tropical weather :-)