Week 19 started with me feeling rough. I’d had a few bad nights with Lovely Girl #1 (you know that your 18 year old is properly ill when they wake you up in tears at midnight and get into bed with you) and then I succumbed to her cold.
I spoke to Luke who issued the sound advice of “rest, get better and then resume training”. I rested, got better and remembered that I loved training and had really missed it.
That said, just because I’d missed working out, I still had to coax myself into getting back into it. It is a universal truth that the less you move your arse, the less you want to move your arse – and vice versa.
Day 127:
I felt like death all day.
The plums were picked 3 minutes before I ate them. Fifteen minutes later I had an awful burning in my tummy. Not heartburn or indigestion but a burning stomach.
We were still eating random meals from the broke fridge/freezer. This accounts for the 1/4 gluten free homemade Marguerita pizza with beetroot and broccoli.
The pizza was amazing.
Day 128:
I felt like a bag of hammers all day – headache, sore throat and general malaise. However, I ate the last 1/4 pizza whilst I was making lunch because I was feeling ill and it cheered me up. It was lovely.
I was supposed to be doing cardio today and I told Luke that I would see how I felt later. Luke told me not to and that I needed to stop training until I felt better. He was right.
Day 129:
I had a catch up call with Luke at lunchtime. We agreed that we would keep Wednesday’s training session in the diary and see how I felt.
Despite feeling like death warmed up I did pretty well on the food front today. We currently have a glut of courgettes from my dad’s garden. I made up the lunch recipe in an effort to use some of them and it was one of the best things I’ve ever cooked.
I didn’t feel like dinner so I had some left over lamb and some chocolate.
Day 130:
I felt marginally better today.
In terms of vegetable portions and water intake my day was perfect. My aim is to achieve this every day.
Day 131:
I woke up feeling much better.
I trained with Luke at lunchtime and felt amazing. We agreed that I needed a new goal. I suggested the I aim for 10st (a ‘loss’ of 6lbs) in the next 5 weeks. Luke suggested that we aim for a scales weight starting with 9.
I told Luke that another half a stone weight loss would be amazing but I didn’t want anything to detract from building strength and muscle. Luke agreed, of course.
Finally I have got it through my thick head that what the scales says doesn’t really matter compared to my fitness levels.
I trained hard and had an horrendously busy afternoon at work. If I hadn’t cleared my head with exercise then I don’t think that I would have achieved as much as I did.
I didn’t have a proper lunch as I can’t eat after training.
After dinner I had some 90% chocolate and, for the first time, it was too sweet.
Day 132:
I did a 2 mile walk first thing at a fast pace and had double helping of courgette for breakfast.
I trained with Luke at lunchtime and as usual, I couldn’t face eating afterwards. A Vega Clean protein shake was enough. I was working from home in my parent’s dining room and my mum made the most amazing lamb, lentil and carrot curry. I had some mid-afternoon.
After dinner, instead of the usual 90% chocolate I had 6 tiny Montezuma 100% Absolute Chocolate buttons. 100% chocolate is a work in progress.
I was feeling quite tired and got an early night.
Day 133:
I took the progress photos first thing and spent the morning feeling fairly annoyed with myself. I wrote a whole separate post about the first ‘no progress’ photos.
All in all this was a good day. I did an amazing workout at lunchtime, ate pretty well and drank lots.
End of Week 19 Progress Photos:
I’m not impressed with these. They aren’t as good as last week’s photos.
Side Quest Progress Photos (Week 5)
It’s the side photos from this week that have impressed me the least. I don’t like this feeling of having failed to improve.
