Lose 10 pounds

I have ignored this goal for some time.
Not because I don’t intend to achieve it, but because I have been so busy I haven’t had time to continue addressing it. Some excuse, you say. Well, for those of you who have never been ‘too busy for anything’, clearly you’ve never lead a hectic lifestyle.
After the school production has finished in 3 weeks, I will pick this goal up again, as I’ll have time to go to the gym without being so tired I can’t use the weights properly, and I’ll have time to shop properly again for food instead of sugar…
I have actually lost weight since I’ve been stressed and dropped my program, but all of my muscle has turned back into fat as well and I feel revolting.

So. For those interested, I thought I would write to let you know this goal WILL be achieved by the end of the year.
So help me…

I haven’t been on here in well over a month. It is not that I have not been fulfilling my goals and therefore felt embarrassed to write, I’ve just been uninterested in expressing myself at all!
However, it is all going well. I had my first weigh-in at Curves a month ago and had lost just over 5 pounds and over 2% bodyfat. I was very happy with that.
Since then Christmas and New Years have come and gone… so I’ve no doubt when I have my weigh-in next week I will have gained weight. But that’s ok with me, because I know it’s a long process and I know I will work it back off.
My mother has sinced joined Curves, it’s great having someone else to go with, someone else to roll my eyes at when the lovely gym ladies get far too enthusiastic and I just want to be left alone rather than pushed.
I’m hoping we can do this together.

My diet has not changed, but I already know I don’t eat particularly badly… just too much!
I’ve stopped going back for seconds.

I also did find it slightly difficult to drag myself to the gym, but have managed to go three times, and I’ll go tomorrow morning… even though it’s Saturday.

I’m quite sure I’m not really losing weight, but I do feel better, and not as guilty when I have that beer after work, or that biscuit with my cup of tea.

Well, although I am already a member of a great gym that I never use, I have now joined another one.

With only two months left of my membership at Fernwood I was unsure as to whether I wanted to join again or not.
It is a fabulous gym, but I really don’t use the facilities properly, so $20 a week is a bit of a waste for me.

I have now joined Curves at a monthly rate of $49 that has a program I think will work better for me for the following reasons:
1) Half hour workouts- I hate that my workout at Fernwood is about 1 1/2 hours, I feel guilty spending that much time in a gym when I should be preparing lessons or doing more important work than improving my thighs.
2) It is cheaper and I’m paying for one facility- exercise and motivation.
3) It is a circular circuit- which means other ladies are involved- which means I’d feel embarrassed if I left before I’d completed my workout. At Fernwood, I could do 10 minutes of a workout and nobody would know!
4) It is closer to home, so it is easier to ‘swing by’ after work.

Oh- and I was weighed at the gym… lets make it 15 pounds… I underestimated how much weight I’d gained!

Though I know I am not really overweight, I am sick of puffing after walking ten metres.
I am not that unhappy with how I look (though a few pounds off the legs and bum would help!), I just want to feel better.

Don’t eat that biscuit Babsy, you’ve had two already!!!

This is where it all goes wrong…
Motivate me people, MOTIVATE ME!