Step 1: Health

Oh my goodness. All I can say is that there is one primary reason why I am super happy for my weight loss - THE SHOPPING!!!!! I bought my 2nd Cue dress today. It looks bloody awesome on. Size 12. I can't remember the last time I wore something labelled size 12! And I went for a bit of a browse around Myer. So many amazing summer dresses and tops and skirts out right now. Gosh I just want to go on a massive shopping spree. My willpower muscle is now getting flexed for the benefit of my credit card rather than my waist line!!

I did it!!! I finally freakin did it. Well, not like I really fully tried before. But last night I finally burnt my first 1,000 calories. And as I'm an auditor, I'm all about the evidence, and here it is............  It felt so amazing to achieve that! I worked so hard. I sweated buckets in that gym. Pretty sure they would have had to mop up after I left. Haha. Just kidding. As well as being nice and sweaty, after the ordeal my feet ached, my legs burned, and my face looked like a tomato. One feeling I had that I had never experienced before was that my chest felt so short of breath that I could not physically take a deep enough breath to give it what it needed. It was a weird feeling. It went away after about an hour though. All that pain didn't matter. I'd hit my 1,000 calories and it felt so amazing!!! What a rush! How did I do it? First I did a Pump class at the gym. Then I basically went on a treadmill and did Michelle's "Learn to Run" week

Hmmm, so today Mish posted in the forums a challenge for everyone. She's obviously trying to accelerate our results over these last four weeks of the program (as she's introduced no carb Tuesday as well). The challenge is to burn 1,000 calories three times this week. Oh my god! I've never reached the 1,000 mark. The closest I've ever gotten is 900 calories yesterday in the "wk 8 mini milestone" which went for two hours. And then I've hit the 750 mark like twice. Otherwise it's always between 300-600 calories burnt in an hour. Well I'm up for the challenge! I'm a bit nervous about it given I haven't done it before. But I really had a shonky period across weeks 4-8. I was not impressed with my performance (or lack of) whatsoever  (so many ups and downs and not too much weight loss). I really wasn't very consistent with the diet or exercise at all. I was probably on target for 50-70% of each week. Which isn't good enough to be honest

After my "celebrating small wins" post yesterday, I am finding myself very unhappy today. This is for a few reasons. But they are really playing on my mind. Last night I went to bed at 11:30pm. Was still awake at 1:30am. Stressed out and not getting to sleep. I'm now awake at 2:30pm (just in time to watch the Melbourne Cup), after staying home from work today. I'm really sick! Being sick is so frustrating!!!! I can barely breathe out of my nose. I can't seem to clear the gunk out of my throat or nose. And my body is just sore. I've been sick since last Thursday. It's been too long. Maybe it's time to head to the doctors? I'm not sure. It's just so frustrating. I hate being sick and not being able to get up and about and take care of things I need to. The other things I'm unhappy about is the stupid client I'm working on at the moment. I've been working on them for about 3 months now and it is never ending. They are so needy and ho