Well I didn't actually get to walk as soon as I got off the computer.
However I did eventually and I'm feeling fairly happy about that.
Breakfast ~7:00 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. ½ glass tomato juice. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
There is a space here where a snack should be....
Lunch 3:30 2 slices wholemeal bread, 100 gms cottage cheese. 1 box V8 vege juice.
Snack 7:00 1/3 C Velish vege soup.
Exercise 8:10
pm Walk. 5-10 min warm up. 20 minutes - intervals of 1min fast 2 min normal walking. (The same distance for fast and normal). 5-10 minutes cool down.
Well what I want to remember about that training is that once I was home I felt great! My muscles felt relaxed, I had a nice sensation from breathing hard. It wasn’t as hard as it could have been though. I’m thinking it might not have been hard enough to stop me trying again tomorrow. If it was then I want to try Wednesday and do it for longer. (I’d like to try to do it in the same place though and I don’t know if there are any teams training there at the time I’m aiming for.)
I want to keep the feeling I had while I was there of being interested and able to cope, rather than the feeling of extreme distress that I recall from the last couple of times. I dunno, maybe extreme distress is required? I think I might have to work up to it though.
What else I probably need to remember is not as nice. This is the first time I have trained with much intensity in about a week. The pain in my thighs had pretty much disappeared. I really thought I was warmed up by the time I got to the oval. I had walked to my local park – 1-2 minutes. Done some leg stretches, ankle stretches, shoulder rolls, thigh shaving thingies, dead rows, squats, walked to the oval - about 5 minutes - feeling nice and energized and moving my arms the whole time – punches and things - goosestepped a bit. I got to the oval where it is flat and light and I didn’t think I was likely to trip. I thought I was warmed up – why do the slow bit first when I’ve already walked here? So I thought I ought to start walking full bore as fast as I could and Aaaaagh – instant thigh agony!! Holy moley. So I walked a bit more slowly for the first length – and then tried a bunch of squats, and walked some more, tried some more fast walking – but not flat out. I guess the good bit is that I did feel I managed some flat out patches after a while. Idea for next time. Do what I’ve done before, that I somehow forgot tonight, and try to go faster and and faster a bit at a time up to my fastest speed!
At least to start off with!
Dinner 9:15 Spaghetti – ¾ C spaghetti, 135gm tinned red salmon, tomato, green olives, spring onions, parsley, a little lite condensed milk. Fresh carrot, mushroom, celery, cucumber.
Water: ~2000 ml
Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:30
On plan:113 days. Achieved food target: 95 days. Exercised: 96 days. All goals: 7 days.
We are getting further news about my dad in dribs and drabs. I have been dreading today’s news, all weekend and all day. It was a very bad report. It is strange that such bad news could be a relief compared with what I was expecting. It looks like my folks are staying on their merry-go-round of tests and specialists and temporary hospital stays for now.
The
gym membership is definitely on. I won it on a promotion at the shopping centre, but once I got home I wondered if it was conditional on me doing something I wouldn’t agree to ie spending money (where’s the scrooge emoticon?), but I’ve found out that’s not the case. It’s for two people so probably my son will go as well. My husband doesn’t want to and my son has been hanging out to get into a
gym for a couple of years now. He fully expects to be ripped in a month.
I’ll just wait until after next weekend when my wrist should be stronger.
But you're doing a good job at it Felici! 
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