UPDATE AND LIFE MUSINGS

Eegads its been a busy few days and a blog post typed at lunch time yesterday has never made it home in the rush and hubbub of work issues. Oh well, here goes my update and life musings.

True to my recent word I have weight trained twice in the last 3 days. Monday was back, chest and core work - a favourite session and today was Legs: Back-to-Bascis + 100 Abs. Just baby weights, good form with a longer term goal of slowly building up strength without doing myself any nasty injuries by going too hard, too fast. Oh, BTW my trusty old friend DOMS is back reminding me to "be consistent and dont break the cycle."

Yesterday was cardio day and I knew I had to ramp it up so I sucked it up and did my 1 song walk: 1 song jog combo which is a safe way to ease back into running when the aerobic fitness is lacking. And oh my, is it lacking??!! After finishing the (42 minute) session it took over 10 minutes for my heart rate to return to normal. Talk about UNFIT!! But I did feel great that I had pushed myself out of my comfort zone on this occassion.

On the diet front I've been dabbling in a few lower carb days but not being anal or obsessive about it. Whilst there is some temptation to go "hard core" to drop as much weight as possible before my holiday, deep down I know its more important and I'll be much better off just aiming for moderation and consistency. So I tackle the food side of things by choosing mainly healthy clean options with a reasonable protein intake and cutting right back on the junky treats. I dont like weighing, measuring or logging so I have to trust my instincts to know what, when and how much and be confident that I get it right.

Finally I'm conscious of not going at this like a bull to a gate and then just fizzing out after a couple of weeks. If I can temper my motivation and enthusiasm and stay more even keeled then there's a better chance that I can maintain this over a longer period. Yes motivation goes up and down naturally but hopefully less peaks also means less deep and dark troughs. Well thats the theory I'm testing right now.

M