It probably doesn’t sound like the best use of my personal training session but I think it was definitely worth it. I love yoga, and at the end of our session, I was just incredibly chilled. Even more of a result at the end when Michael the cynic declared that he liked yoga and would be doing more of it!

Roll on next week!

I have also started various things aimed at balancing the body, mind and soul. I’ve started acupuncture (not for the first time), yoga, meditation and visualization sessions. Some of the things I’ve done recently have achieved mind-blowing relaxation. Definitely worth a try.

A certain gobby owner of this website who drives a mini and just loves yoga (!) has been challenged to incorporate some yoga into our work-out sessions. We shall see on Monday just how he succeeds with that challenge!

Namaste.

For more on health and fitness or just for a place to vent some steam, check out http://www.tearingmyhairout.com/

My next mini-target is the 6 stones mark. C’mon body, mind, soul, Michael, we can so totally do this!

Michael perhaps our Monday work-out should be a celebration? Ha. Not that kind of celebration mister…I’m thinking the Evil Michael torture-till-you-drop session, with music by the renowned craptastic DJ Whyte…:-)

As always, thank you all for reading my blog and for your support.

 For more on health and fitness or just for a place to vent some steam, check out http://www.tearingmyhairout.com/

I love exercise and I have worked out regularly for over 15 years. Whilst I appreciate the advantages of exercise, my primary goal is to keep losing weight on the scale. The end of last year saw a crisis with my work-outs caused by the fact that every time I worked out, I seemed to gain weight or only lose very little weight, whilst experiencing impressive losses on days and even a whole week without exercise. I struggled to find a definite answer to why this was happening. Perhaps water retention, hormonal imbalance, excess of male hormones, who knows.

Michael really impressed me by the way he handled my struggles. He made it pretty clear that his priority was whatever helped me to reach my weight loss goals and if that meant stopping our sessions, or sticking to low impact exercises, we would do that.

I’ve had a long period of soul searching and reflection. And whilst the fact is that for some reason, my body seems to lose more weight without exercise, I am not willing to accept this. Exercising is part of who I am, what makes me feel good, the ‘me’ that I love, and the person I want to continue to be in the future.

I have therefore decided that the benefits of exercise far out-weight whatever weight targets I have to meet and in the last couple of weeks, I’ve once again embraced the joys of exercising hard and loving it.

Yesterday, I tried on lots of new clothes I had ordered online from the sales. They were all UK size 14 clothes and they all fitted perfectly. In fact, one was a little too big! For someone who in August 2008 was wearing size 26 clothes, and even one size 28 suit, hiding in a wardrobe somewhere, yesterday was a pretty big deal.

My New Year resolution is to lose 45 pounds (20.8 kg). I shall definitely give it my all.

Michael and I resume our sessions tomorrow after the Christmas break. And sorry Michael, low impact exercises are for babies. Tomorrow, you’ve got to bring it on and show me what you’ve got! 

 For more on health and fitness or just for a place to vent some steam, check out http://www.tearingmyhairout.com/

I’ve now lost exactly one stone since I started training with Michael. It might not seem like a lot to lose in 7 months, but given the drama and resistance my body has with weight loss, a loss is a loss is a loss and I’m good with that. I need to lose 2.8 pounds (1.3kg) to get to 5 1/2 stones total loss. My next major personal target requires only 7.7 pounds (3.5kg).

Michael and I continue to meet weekly and every week, we seem to achieve something that wows both of us.

My body continues to defy all logic and the usual assumptions about weight loss, y’know, calories in versus calories out + exercise. But as the song says, nobody said it was easy…

For more on health and fitness or just for a place to vent some steam, check out http://www.tearingmyhairout.com/