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So again today we went for a ride/scoot/jog to Coburg Lake. I was very annoyed with my HRM as it was not reading the correct HR. For example, I was cruising up a hill and my HRM said 117, but I know I was doing about 174 BPM (cause I know my body and I also did my own check!!). So I don't believe that my total calories for the jog were correct. Not that it matters too much (it's just a sign to get new batteries, really!), total calories after a cool down stretch was about 950, then we spent the rest of the afternoon outside, including lifting 25 bags of soil (I reckon they weighed about 25kgs each) up to chest height and had to tip them out into the new vege garden. Got a bit sunburnt (beautiful spring weather!). Going for a ride tomorrow to enjoy the sun.

84 days

Ok, so I just realised that Popeye has 84 days to go before he is home. Well, I didn't just realise that (especially since I have recorded it day by day in my diary!), but I just connected that 84 days is 3 months and 3 months is 12 weeks and 12 weeks is the perfect amount of time to lose some serious weight and look really hot for xmas (and Popeye!). Hopefully this will take my mind off how long I have to wait for him and give me something to focus on. So, I am about to drag the chill-dies away from the cartoons (it's so funny, they are LOVIN' the new channel 99, which has all the programs I grew up on - Bewitched, I dream of Jeannie, The Jetsons, The Flintstones! Classics!) and put them on their bikes while I go for a jog along the Merri Creek Trail to a park. Gotta get my thousand calories burnt today.
I have a new mantra to get me through...Why are you doing that?
I'm gonna ask it every time I am lacking motivation or am about to do something to sabotage myself.
Finding it hard to get motivated to do exercise? Why am I doing exercise? To get fit, lean and feel good about myself. Who would say no to that?
Snacking on crap from the fridge? Why are you eating that? Not sure really, maybe I am thirsty, or if I am really hungry maybe I need something more wholesome.

SEE, in theory it works!!!

I'll give it a go and let you know! Starting now...

Why are you going for a jog? Because I want to burn 1000 calories each and every day, and I love the feeling I get at the end when I have completed a jog!

Oh yes I do! Off I go!

Tahn

MIND OVER BODY

So, I didn't do much today. Finally dragged myself out of the bed and did a little exercise on the bike. I also had a few swills of coconut oil. For dinner I had a small bowl of spaghetti and sauce made by one of the kids, followed by a bowl of fruit salad and small amount of custard. Getting a little bit more motivated. I'm trying to get my head to tell me it is full instead of stuffing myself until it comes out of my ears! It is the night time that gets me. Especially sitting at home, all alone, kids in bed...sounds a bit like a sob story!!!!
Just gotta get my mind over body

CHANGE OF BLOG NAME

Ok, just a quick post today.
I have decided to change the name of my blog today as I didn't complete my 12 week challenge and it wasn't helping my cause by looking at that title every time I logged on! Hope you all stay with me

Tahn

Nine Hundred and Seventy Three

That's the amount of today's calories burnt!

I walked the kids to school and then jogged to the Merri Creek Path and went all the way to CERES and back! Not sure of the kilometres (maybe about 8?), but it took me 1 hour and 20 minutes. Actually, it may be more than 8km, because I can easily do 2 laps of the 'Tan (almost 4km each lap) in slightly under 1 hour. I would like to know how many km I do...should have bought the foot lap counter thingy that went with my Polar HRM. Oh well, CERES is a good marker, maybe I'll just try to improve my times.

I thought tomorrow I might jump on my pushy and ride to Dight Falls (is that the name of it?). I think it is about 9km one way. Something different and I wan't have to fight the traffic! Oh, just remembered, I have to pick up my visitors tonight, LATE, and I wonder if I will actually get to exercise? And Tweenie (she just turned 11 a couple of days ago) has an orthodontist appointment on Thursday...

At least the sun is coming up earlier, and the days have been warmer. It was quite hot today when I went jogging. Will need to invest in a flattering pair of shorts (not sure there is such a thing for me!) to exercise in this Spring.

I have been doing a bit of baking and cooking recently and really growing in this area and was thinking of starting another blog to post pics of the food we eat. Not sure if I will post any recipes though, I am very much a recipe follower (I follow every step!) and so none of my recipes are made up by me! I have a stack of vegan cookbooks and I frequent the internet for more. (Actually, as I typed that I looked up to my tabs and counted TEN tabbed internet pages with vegan recipes on them!) What do you think? Probably just another time waster! haha! Something I am good at!

Anyway, must go. Have a house to clean in anticipation of guests tonight and I also need to rearrange my gym room to fit in the mattress for them.

Til tomorrow

Tahn

I'm feeling good today.

I rode to Moonee Ponds (9km) to train Jean's mum, we walked to the park, then I stepped up her training quite a bit today and I joined in. Then we walked back to her house and I again rode 9km, only back home. I checked my HRM and I expended 1738 calories! Feeling good!

I also just checked my emails and got one from my mate, who apparently won some footy tipping at his work and is offering to take my family and another of his friends out to Shakahari! AWESOME! I've never been to Shakahari, and have heard it is the BEST vegetarian/vegan restaurant (fine dining for vegans!) and that it also has the price tag to go with it!

I am very proud to have such wonderful, selfless friends! Thanks Andrew!

Well, I managed to convince my mum to come over here to recover and She has stayed with me for a week and now she is with my sister until Thursday. Then she is coming back here for a while. So...I have done NO exercise while she has been here! Tomorrow I have a friend and her family coming over from WA. That should be fun! There maybe a bit of alcohol consumption occurring while she is here!! :)

Time for a nice, warm shower!

Til tomorrow (maybe!)

Tahn

A New Day

I think I have turned a bit of a corner...instead of heading down the straight path of depressive nothingness.

I have a little spark of renewed interest in starting up a personal training business. Swinging back to my first thought for a business which is training women instead of the children thing I was focusing on. I think that in my avoidance of going back teaching is a huge big hint for me. I don't want to work with children! I cannot be bothered with the discipline side of things that tends to take over the whole day (actually teaching the kids is FANTASTIC and so rewarding, but I cannot deal with telling kids off ALL day long, then coming home to my own kids with NO patience for them).

So I need to work out what area I would like to focus on. Definitely WOMEN, but do I leave it that broad or focus on elderly woman and fall prevention? I am really thinking about woman aged between 45-70 maybe(?) who may have a bit more time on their hands plus now have no children left at home to care for so may have extra money to spend on themselves.

Today I went for a jog along the Merri Creek trail up to CERES in Brunswick. I've decided to make a conscience effort to expend at least 1000 calories per day. So, this could be 40 minutes in the morning on the stationery bike and another 40 minutes of cardio at night. Or an hour and a bit jog. Or maybe a bike ride. Riding to Moonee Ponds takes about half an hour and I expend just over 400 calories each way. Not bad. Plus the weather is warming up and getting lighter in the mornings - good for jogging.

I think that if I continue to sit at home and do nothing every day I will never get a job, will have to start teaching again, be unable to step out of my comfort zone to begin my own business. I don't want to get to 60 and have regrets, I should have done this or that. I need to get proactive - easier said than done in my case, but I hope to take my own advice.

On another note, my mum had to return to hospital last week as she developed pneumonia! Uggh! Poor thing! I'm hoping she will be able to come over to rest and recover. She wants to get back to work although she needs to REST! Hopefully I can convince her.

I hope to post again soon. I am better at expressing my emotions in writing than I am verbally so this may give me a kick up the bum in all aspects of my life! (although my writing is in no way poetically written!- I just type without any thought about making sure it is entertaining for readers! Sorry bout that!)

Tahn