Oh dear {sigh}

I still am battling with my lack of exercise and weight gain. :(

I was supposed to go to a cocktail party last week for work - NONE of my dresses fitted me and I did not want to go and buy a dress to cover it up.

I am going to Adelaide next weekend with darling beloved and I need a dress for the dinner out. I know I will not loose enough to get into anything so I bought one of those "slimming" undergraments - kinda like being squeezed into a sausage skin. I managed to look kinda OK in ONE dress. It is too high in the back for my favourite Diana Ferari cocktail dress and it also makes my chest look abnormal in it.

I have started slowly getting back into the fitness thing - for the last three weeks I have cycled to and from school on Wednesday afternoons, towing the bike trailer with Will on the way and Will and Tim on the way back. I also have started doing sit ups again too.

I stacked my bike big time yesterday. I took a turn too sharp and caught the trailer on a febce which of course stopped me in my tracks, having my feet in their straps I couldn't bail out quickly, so just fell off. I now have quite an impressive bruise on my upper left thigh!

Call Me Muffin Top

That's me :( I have exploded. My fault no one to blame except my poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Look at that! My jeans are now too tight and EVERYTHING hangs over the top errgghh!

I have started to do something about it. I went for a huge 1 hour walk on Saturday up Mt Oakey and back, its a very steep walk up! I'll do it again on Wednesday morning, and then again on Friday morning. My first goal is to make it to the top without panting. A long way to go yet!

Opperation Wobbly Bits

Going back to work has its pluses and its minuses. One of the biggies is my fitness or lack of. Two years ago I was running and training to particpate in a half marathon. I was most likely the fittest I had ever been even before children. With the boys spread between school and preschool I had no choice but to drive rather than walk as much. Somewhere along the line I stopped running too. Introduce me going back to work last year and less time to be active I've suddenly become Little Miss Tub. I'm short so I can't really hide too much weight.

I'm determined to get back to where I was. I have no set weight or measurements that I want to achieve, I'll know when I get there. I'll have abs instead of that wobbly thing called a tummy and hopefully my butt will relocate upwards. I think it is really only about 10kgs that I have to loose and the tuck shop lady arms (sorry Canteen Managers and helpers) but you know what I mean.

I weighed and measured myself today: 68kgs, 97cm bust, 81 cm waist, 95 cm hips.

... pause ...

I just did 20 sit ups - I used to be able to do 100 in one go :(

Its a start ...