The scales dont say it all!

So at roughly the 6 month mark I have hardly lost any weight around 4lbs woo hoo!!!

But I think I have made a difference to my body shape.

This in in January

 

 This was last week

 

Not the best of pictures I know, and was just before me and the little one were about to go swimming and had an invasion of cuddly toys!!

 

But I think there is a difference (maybe its the angle it was taken?)

 

However the point is if I have given even 90% for the last 6 months I would be looking a lot better! I think the problem is I look 'alright', if you walked past me in the street you wouldn't think I was huge, well not unless you were really mean! But I don't want to look 'alright I want to look amazing and I'm only going to do that if I focus and stick to it!

 

I am still using myfitnesspal.com and I do like it, there are some fab people on there who are not just great at motivating but also understand that real life gets in the way.

 

I am still joining in with the great ladies at #WobblesWednesday

 

I have also joined up with #TeamLean2013 on twitter, great motivation. Have joined the July abs challenge to see if I can get this jelly belly

 

 



 

 

looking a bit more toned!

Have done two days on C25K and really enjoyed it, problem is fitting it in! Hopefully the next 6 months will see a huge transformation into awesomeness!!

Rain!

The rain annoys me

It's a bit of a pest

My feet are soaked

I'm wet through to my vest

But without the rain

The flowers wouldn't grow

We'd go our whole lives

Without seeing a rainbow

Next time someone gets your goat

Or something just drives you mad

Think where we'd be without rain

Remember the rainbow and don't be sad! 

#WobblesWednesday - Winning!

I am not, nor ever have been a runner, give me a dance floor and I can shake it for hours. Show me a running track and I start sweating, heavy breathing and that's before I've even put my trainers on.
So I was not looking forward to the Mums race at nursery last week, I did not (unlike some other Mums) go prepared, no trainers, jeans on you get the picture. However, I am competitive! In a kind of Monica from Friends way, so when the time came this side took over and I went for it. And my goodness I only came joint first!!! I got a medal and sticker to prove it!

Now I am aware this does not make me a runner but what was better than the medal and the sticker, which were very appreciated, was how chuffed my daughter was! I received an enthusiastic high five and was informed that her and her friends shouted 'Come on Tamsin' for the race, she may have inherited my competitive side.....

Although I was keen on taking part in a Spartan Sprint, I wasn't sure about the whole running side of it. But do you know what? I want Chloe to see me complete challenges, to work hard to achieve things, that you don't need to win the race to win for yourself. So yesterday, I downloaded Couch to 5k, I strapped on my trainers and out I went. Now before you all get excited I ran for a minute at a time for a total of 8 minutes with a one and a half minute walk in between but I did it, it was hard don't get me wrong, but I did it and for me that is winning!

I have Hypermobility Syndrome and was told not to run when I was diagnosed many years ago, but I have been having more flair up and dislocations anyway so I figure the fitter and stronger I am the better it will get, I may be kidding myself but play along for now! I will however listen to my body and not push it too far too fast. My first official run passed with little incident, I dislocated a toe but that pops back in easily, my hip wobbled but a check on posture and focusing on my core and it stayed put, I sweated, I was red, I smiled, I won!

Linking up with Autismmumma for #Wobbleswednesday while Kate at nakedmum.co.uk has a wee break!

Smile

The news of a solider hacked to death on the the street is horrific. To be honest I've not read too much about the story, didn't get in from work till late last night and away again early today. But I have been slightly saddened by the outpouring of just general hate and shockingly blatant racism on social media sites.

I do not want to belittle this attack, it was senseless, horrific and completely unjustifiable. But I genuinely do not see how making sweeping statements about an entire religion or race is going to solve the problem that we have.

Terrorism is wrong, in my view violence is wrong, I genuinely do not see why we can't just all get along a bit better. I also believe two wrongs do not make a right, so the revenge attacks we are hearing about are just as wrong and senseless.

The world scares me, I am scared for my daughters future, I can't really see how we get out of the cycle of violence we seem to be in. I do agree that the justice system needs to be improved, that there needs to be a better immigration policy, that actually the whole benefits system needs a shake up, none of these are going to happen overnight and I'm not sure if anyone has the answers. We are never going to live in a perfect society where bad things do not exist. But surely they should be the exception, too often to we turn on the news and hear of another terrorist attack, another stabbing, we are almost become blase about it.

Maybe if we were all a bit nicer, a bit kinder in our daily life we can slowly change the hate. So today, smile! While you are walking down the street, smile, go on even say hello. You might get the odd strange look but I'll bet most people will smile back, you never know you might just make someone feel a little bit better about this world we live in.

Motivated and committed!!

I am a changed woman, on Sunday morning I had done a workout before breakfast and 8am! This is not normal behaviour for me I can assure you. But I think it might start to be.......

Today I have completed my seventh day, yes everyday for a whole week, of 30 Day Shred! It's hards but it's short so it fits in, I have managed to do it every day either first thing on non work days (with little miss giving 'encouragement') or once she has gone to bed but before I do my jobs, yes I am prioritising me!

I am eating roughly 1300 cals per day as I have found this is what suits me for weight loss and I am logging everything. I'm not feeling deprived and am already feeling the benefits of daily exercise, I'd thoroughly recommend it!

I also realised that actually I've come quite far since January, I've lost 7.2lbs which isn't amazing but its half a stone better than I was at the start of the year.

More importantly I have lost 9.5 inches, including 3" from my waist and 3.5" from my hips :-)
It does look like I am destined to have tree trunk thighs for the rest of my life as these have not shifted.

I have also walked 356 miles since January - I love my fitbit!!!

This year has thrown the odd curve ball, being made redundant for one, but I am proud that, although chocolate has been consumed on a weekly basis, I have not completely fallen off the wagon. Actually I think it made me more determined to be in the best possibles shape I can be.

So onwards and downwards, it is my birthday on Wednesday next week and I fully intend to fit 30 Day Shred in at some point. After all what better birthday present than having a toned, fit body?

Linking up with the very lovely Naked Mum who is doing an amazing job keeping us all going for #WobblesWednesday

Making time

Well, my Easter continued a little longer. Went to visit my Mum with the little lady at the weekend, went to the lakes, met up with a friend and went to South Lakes Wild Animal park (which was amazing, you should go!) all in all had a lovely weekend. Also had a Chinese, a chippy and ate in the hotel restaurant hhmmmmm diet?? We did do a lot of walking and I wasn't as bad as I could have been but it does mean no weight lost this week.

But on to today's post, I need to make time to exercise. As a working Mum it's not easy but I think I have a plan. It is all about choices isn't it? I could get up earlier but (I know excuses) I get up at 6.30 and as Chloe is a rubbish sleeper I will have been up at least once through the night for a little while so the thought of getting up earlier.... No it just won't happen!
Fast forward to the other end of the day, I usually have about an hour of sitting watching tv before I go to bed. Sometimes this is something I really want to watch, as I type this I'm watching The Following which I ain't missing! But often it's just on. So I can use this hour, can't I?

I have a plan, on nights where there are things on I want to watch I'll do some weights, some ab work, stretching - stuff I can do in front of the TV.
On nights when MrF is out I WILL do a workout DVD
On nights when MrF is in but the TV is rubbish I will brave the outdoors, now I'm not promising running straight away but a speedy walk with a little jogging thrown in is the plan.
Weekends can be tricky but am usually running round a park anyway and will try and fit in what I can.

That sounds fair enough, doesn't it? I need to stick to it, I WILL stick to it. Please shout at me if I don't.
#wobblesWednesday won't be wobbly for long!

Changing attitutes

Ok so it has been Easter, now for a greedy little piggy like me this can prove to be a bit of an issue. Especially with a four year old in the house which results in a mountain of chocolate being gifted! But I have survived Easter!! I had one day of pigging out a bit on the C word but in the grand scheme of things was not too bad at all. We had a busy weekend with lots of walking and (shockingly) not too much eating so am holding my head high!

The thing is I sense a change, I would have used the weekend as an excuse, not an excuse to enjoy myself but an excuse to eat and eat and eat until I felt sick. Ok so on Easter sunday 456 of my calories came from chocolate but I was only 32 cals over my goal over so you know lets not worry.
I am a firm believer in balance. There is no way I am cutting anything out of my diet, for then I would just think of that and nothing else. So yes I have have had and will continue to have some chocolate, the odd meal out, a bacon butty here and there. But no I will not stuff my face midelessly!

Oh also I really need to step up the exercise but am sturggling to fit it in. Have a marvelous suggestion for train companies, make one carrage a 'walking carriage' decked out with treadmills instead of seats so you can 'walk' your comute! Would make my life a lot easier.

Linking up to the fabulous NakedMum for #WobblesWednesday yes I know it is Thursday but I ran out of time yesterday!!