Well, I am afraid it has not been a very productive week work out wise. I was really busy on Monday and Tuesday and usually I’d work out at least a little bit any way, but I just felt like I had been hit by a ton of bricks – despite getting caught up on [...]

Well I managed to complete Week 1 of Couch to 5k despite a migraine and getting my period last week. I am very pleased with myself. Today I start Week 2 – running for 90 seconds at a time instead of 60 – I hope it’s OK. Looking outside right now the weather looks wet [...]

My body is really working against me this week. I started Couch to 5k finally and because I get migraines so often I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get through the full 9 weeks without interruption – but I didn’t expect it to happen so soon. I went to bed on Wednesday [...]

I did it, finally. W1D1 of C25K completed – that’s Week 1, Day 1 of the Couch to 5k Running plan for anyone not au fait with the acronyms. I actually went out first on Thursday night just to walk the route I planned on taking and it did not go so well, there were [...]

….where are you hiding recently? I have been talking about starting the Couch to 5k running plan for around two months now – I’ve bought the running tights, I got running shoes for my birthday, I have a stack of tshirts ready for action, I’ve downloaded the first few weeks of podcasts. Yet every night [...]

I decided to have a naughty week last week while I was away visiting family – there’s no better time to do it because obviously it’s harder to stick to the diet and work out routine when you are out of your comfort zone and I actually do think it’s healthy to ease off now [...]

Oh dear, I have lost track of when it was I last worked out now – I have been sick for almost two weeks and to top it off I have not been sleeping the last few days because of our noisy neighbours. I really don’t know when they sleep, they party until 5am and [...]

So I stick with my Crazy Low Calorie diet last week, I was consuming anything from 700 – 1200 per day and burning anthing from 400 – 700 through exercise. I actually lost 2lbs. This makes me very happy as I have not lost any wieght no matter what I have tried recently – however [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]