Photo taken on Friday 20th January 2017

Photo taken on Friday 13th January 2017

I started this week feeling incredibly demoralised and disheartened, as when I weighed myself I had put on one and a half pounds since the week before. I was really confused as to how it happened as I had been cutting back on food and I had been to the gym three times that week. I did some internet research and I think it may have been water retention, and that it is usual to put on weight after you start to exercise more as your body is adjusting. I re-weighed myself on Wednesday and I was down to 9st 7 1/2 lbs, and I felt much better about that.

This week all I have wanted to do is eat. This is probably because of cutting back how much I am eating but also cutting down on how much bad stuff I was eating. So what did I do? I went to McDonalds yesterday....oops. BUT it did satisfy my craving for rubbish food, if that is any excuse.

For workout classes this week I attended LBT again (the class was double the size of last week because of all the resolutioners), and today I did a Kettlebell class followed by Fast Abs. I was a bit unsure about kettlebells as the last class I did in that was far too intense and I had to walk out after 5 minutes. This class today though was with the same instructor as the one who does my LBT class and he just lets me go at my own pace which is what I'm happy with as I feel a lot more comfortable. I didn't feel I got much from the Abs class because it was only 15 minutes long, it needed to be half an hour for me to feel like I had worked out.

I can't see any different in the picture from last week either, if anything I look worse! But it has only been a week...

Next week I need to up my game in the gym. I don't feel as achey as last week but I know I've not worked as hard because I've felt a bit down this week (just in general). I may also have to change my gym schedule because of work and other commitments.


My Favourite Song/Album To Workout To:

Drones - Muse - I've still been listening to Busted a lot but this was creeping into my workouts this week

It's another new year and like all new years, I try to commit myself to a resolution (or a few). In past years, it's been to either read more, blog more (which was last years and I obviously didn't do that! - although I have started doing a monthly blog on my teaching website at the end of last year) or eat better.

This year I'm not committing myself to loads of resolutions, but they are;

1. Lose weight
   - I've really let myself go over the past year, especially over Christmas! I'm at my worst ever weight of 9st 8lbs - I know you're thinking "that's barely anything!", but I'm quite petite and I'm borderline healthy weight/overweight on my BMI. I'm also supposed to be going to wedding dress fittings this month but looking at myself in the mirror earlier this week made me realise that I need to do something about my body as I don't feel confident or happy at all with it. So, I've joined my local gym, I got my induction done a few days ago (before all of the other Resolutioners) and I'm going to try and eat better. I'll try and keep this blog updated with my weight loss journey to help spur me on.
2. Perform more music
   - I have played music for a majority of my life, even getting a degree in it, yet I only sing in front of a crowd at my student showcases. So my other resolution is to perform more - get out to open mics (I'm going to be running one from February!), record more Youtube covers, get booked for singing at weddings/events etc... becoming poorly whilst at university forced me to stop performing in public so now that I am much better I can get back into it, especially as it is something I really enjoy and I miss it so much.