The weather is finally cooling down!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

It is official, heard it on the news this morning while driving to work, it was the HOTTEST March on record!

Luckily the garden has survived with DH and I here to nurse it through with hand watering. We are allowed to have our sprinklers on twice a week. But as you can imagine with continuous temperatures in the 38 - 40 range we need to give extra water.

I am dreading the power bill, as the airconditioner has been on nonstop for quite a while. Hopefully we can turn it off for good soon, that is till next summer!

I am on my last week at the clinic that I am covering for my colleague, I was hoping to get some of the cupboards sorted while she was gone, but not sure if I will have time.

Am doing OK with nutrition, exercise is not as consistent as I would like but am not sleeping well with these warm nights so that impacts on how much exercise I do. This morning I managed to do the 15min abs workout as well as walk Sooty around the park. I have stopped running as my right knee is twinging!

Hope you are all managing some exercise and eating healthy foods. I had blueberries with my protein shake this morning and it tasted yummy

Have a pretty busy schedule the next 2 weeks. A Breastfeeding Conference all day Saturday. Sunday I must finish off my job application. I have had 2 wonderful people help me out with it so need to do the finishing touches to it, and then send!

Also going out to dinner twice during the week nights , and Party Light Candle Party on Friday . I will have to be careful there as my friend always has yummy food. I will make sure I have a good dinner before I go so I won't be tempted!

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Thank goodness it is Friday!

Friday, March 09, 2012

One thing good about working full time is the happy feeling that a weekend is coming up!

Managed to jog all the way around the park without stopping! Then came home and did the 6 minute Butt workout! I still can't quite do all of it! It looks so easy when you watch the video, but when you get on all four's and start , it gets hard!

Work was a bit chaotic, but I love seeing all the babies! And their parents of course!

Am off to bed soon and looking forward to a day of some shopping with DH for some clothes for him and a new printer as ours has gone on the blink and will cost too much to fix!

We are going to have 3 days over 100 F or 39 C so staying out of the heat will be number one priority!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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I am running!

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Yes , me running!

As a teenager I hated sports! I wore glasses, was uncoordinated and hated being out of breath!

I also had bigger than average mammary glands and that was NO FUN!

So I learnt to avoid physical education sessions by either needing to go to the "dentist" , like hello, who "volunteers" to go to the dentist! Yes me! Or I would have a headache or be that time of the month ! AGAIN!

Once I moved into adult hood, I was too busy working shift work in the hospital while doing my nursing training. I walked a lot along those long wards and my weight was the best it had ever been.

I have always loved walking. Give me a mountain to climb and I will do it! Ask me to run and I would find all sorts of reasons of why I could not run, the biggest issue was getting the stitch!

So here we are in 2012, and thanks to Sparkpeople and all my wonderful Sparkfriends I have gradually learnt to ENJOY RUNNING!

I breath properly so I don't get the stitch, I don't try and break any world records, I am running for me!

It started a little 2years ago when I joined to c25K team and trained to do a 5km run. Then I got the foot injury which really messed with me for quite a while. I was so scared of injuring my foot again I left that plan alone.

Then my foot finally recovered and I signed up and did the 5km Fun Run in Perth last May and I was shocked at my time of 44minutes and 17 seconds!

So here we are now in Match of 2012 and after doing 2 months of Sparkpeople Challenges I feel a need to do something challenging out in the fresh air again.

So yesterday morning I was doing my usual walk around the park with Sooty and I decided to just do a slow jog and see how far I could go before I became too puffed out to continue.

Guess what I nearly made it all the way around, which is 1 km! So this morning I tried again and only had a short walk and all the rest was running!

So my challenge to myself is to slowly increase the distance I run and walk and go around the park twice by the end of next week and by the end of March be able to walk/run the whole 5 km.

There are some organised walk/runs coming up soon so am looking at entering again. I really loved the sense of a whole group of people heading out together.

so that is the cardio challenge and I will do some strength training as well. Probably Sparkpeople videos of my choosing!

The number's on the scales are looking good, down another kg which is 2.2 lb! 68.8kgs this morning! It has been a LONG time since I have seen those numbers. I have to look a couple of times as I am not used to that number 6 being there!

That is it from me to you! I had no intention of writing such a drawn out blog when I started but I like to analyse myself and am really pleased to be associated with a web site that encourages you to be public about your goals and achievements. To give and receive support from wonderful Sparkfriends. Thank you !

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All done!

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

I am a machine!

For the last 2 months I have managed to stick with something from start to finish.

First it was the January Challenge. This introduced me to the wide variety of Sparkpeople exercise videos. I had been doing some of them but it was so easy to have some one else do the planning of what video to do each day.

The 28 Day Bootcamp Challenge used a different set of videos all targeting different areas of the body over the week. Then as the weeks progressed we were asked to up the pace, so that by the time we reached week 4 we had to choose 3 videos that we were going to repeat.

We also had to do 30 mins of cardio at least 5 times a week! We were allowed to do it in 3 lots of 10 mins if we chose to. Some times that was the only way I was going to get the cardio in!

This morning I chose to jog around the park and managed the whole km without stopping. It was a great way to warm up for the videos! Sooty kept up with me!

I haven't decided what to do as the next challenge but it will be something along the same lines as to what I have been doing as I can manage to fit that into my busy days.

Yes I am working, but it is on short term contract. Because I resigned , I have to go through the whole process to get onto the employment pool to then put my hand up if a permanent position comes up.

DH has now been for 2 interviews for 2 different company's and both want to do 2nd round interviews! This is normal practice for senior positions. He feels that both the interviews went well. So we play the waiting game!

Well that is all from me for now, off to bed I go !

Hard to believe it is Thursday tomorrow!

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Comings and goings!

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Back to work after a long weekend. Didn't end up going anywhere as it was over 100 degrees F. Just Stayed home in the comfort of air conditioning.Managed to catch up on all the washing and ironing dh hung out a few loads. Did some filing and sorting in the office:-)

Dh went for another interview today. He says it went well. Still waiting to hear from the other company who said they wanted a 2nd interview.

My application is ready to go,just having it checked by a couple of experts. If. it gets thr all clear I will e-mail it off within the next few days.
Hope you are all having an active week. Getting the cardio and strength training in.

I have gone to bed and doing this on my phone. So I had better turn out the ligjt and get some sleep. Bye.xoxo

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