Salad isn’t food…it’s what food eats!

Well, I’m off on holiday tomorrow and won’t be back until monday 29th September. And I can’t WAIT after the week I’ve had. What with having a cold, the bad news I had on Tuesday, dealing with a the re-occurance of my sprained ankle injury ( I need Physio) and an infection in one of my toes post-sponsored walk- well, ive had enough. I need a break. So for the next week i’m not worrying about food and exercise. I’m taking the opportunity to rest my ankle, refresh my head and start fresh on the Monday, including starting C25km again from week 1.

So that’s it.. I’m on holdidaaaaay!!!! yay!

Today I found out that a friend has been murdered. So shocked. She was only 21 and had a 2 year old little girl. She was strangled by her boyfriend- the father of her little girl. So sad. Such a waste.

.. I didn’t this morning, but now I do. sucks

…but i really can’t be bothered!  But I really should after the Indian takeaway I had last night….

..feel bad.

Gym tomorrow!

…but that’s ok. y’see, this week i was bad and weighed myself every day since wednesday. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were bad days for food and on wednesday i weighed 146.2Ibs (all bloatedness and water retention!) so I have lost 2.6Ib since Wednesday. Imagine how much it could have been if I had not had a 3 day binge! Definitely food for thought for next week…

Hope to have maintained weight at 144Ibs.

Managed to get down the gym today but I really had to force myself. Once the lazy bug bites it’s hard to shake it off again! Towards the end of the day I had a little mantra going in my head ‘I will go to the gym today, I will go to the gym today’ and had visualised myself in the gym, and it was still touch and go! Anyway it was my first session of the C25km. See my C25km page for progress.

So the walk is over… now I need a new challenge. I am in serious danger of slipping back to my old ways. Y’see I haven’t actually been to the gym since a week on Friday (that was August still!!) and ok I have been swimming and have done some toning work and the 14 mile walk (can’t forget that!!) but I haven’t actually done any serious cardio.

So the next challenge will be the couch to 5km 9 week challenge (as inspired by Katy!!) So tomorrow I will go down the gym and do the first session of the C25km. I will post my progress for this in a seperate page on my blog.

Hmmm, guess i’m gonna have to blog my food diary again as well. Where oh where has my will power gone?!

Well, I did it! I walked about 14 miles for the British Heart Foundation and raised £185 (about $370) If I said that I wasn’t hurting today I would be lying…but it was worth it! And I got a medal for doing it!

Picture1. Me at the start
Picture 2. The first distance marker- how  far?!! I wasn’t going all the way to Liverpool! There were mile markers most of the way along the canal and it was amazing how long a mile started to feel like..
Pictures 3, 4 and 5. Some of the nice scenery along the way
Picture 6. The 13 mile marker- that’s exactly 13miles from the first marker in picture 1. And accordng to the walk info it should have finished here, but it didn’t! It was about another mile to the last checkpoint! How cheeky-sneaking in an extra mile!
Picture 7. Ant and I afterwards.