With Christmas just around the corner is now really the best time for both my heart rate monitor and my elliptical to break down? Argh. In the last few years since I have been on this journey I have always been able to get through Christmas quite easily by working out extra hard in the [...]

I am looking at my next main goal listed on the side there and trying to remember why I have it set as 9.9 – usually I set at at something that is a major milestone like 50 pounds lost, 5 stone lost, less than ever before, no longer obese BMI etc but no matter [...]

Not something I thought I would ever say just a few years ago before I started to get healthy – I was strictly a white bread/rice kinda girl! Now I can’t get enough whole wheat stuff and the processed stuff makes me turn my nose up! How Wheat Works is a great site I came [...]

Remember how I posted that I had just started using weights and would report back? Well, I don’t really have anything to report back as unfortunately I used them three nights and then got sick – blasted migraine again! I really should go to the doctors about them. I went before when I first started [...]

I know that The Biggest Loser has always done product placement, but is it just me or have they really ramped it up this season? It seems like there’s a ‘Trainer Tip’ (read: vaguely hidden plug) at the start of every section – not to mention all the “Hey everyone let’s go to Subway and [...]

And I don’t mean at the time, I mean afterwards. After my first ever jog, which I hated, it took me three days to recover. I had all the usual aches and pains that you’d expect but I also felt light headed for a few days and my shins felt like they were going to [...]

My fiance went on his first 8 mile walk a few weeks ago and is trying to convince me that we should start walking together. I’ll be honest I have always hated walking – generally I just want to get from A to B as fast as is possible and walking is just the slowest [...]

I’ve not been updating this blog much lately have I? Truth is there’s not a lot going on – I’ve lost another few pounds but things are moving ever so slowly the last few months. Just yesterday I started weight training so I will update and let you know how that works out. I was [...]