So another week has passed in our household and as I mentioned last week the heat is finally here. So yesterday we hit the tennis courts for the first time in high temperatures.
Now this is going to be tough as its amazing how hard it is to enjoy tennis when you feel like you are running around in a sauna. It was 30 degrees and even though we did a lot of clock watching we managed 90 minutes of tennis, along with drink breaks in the shade when we felt too hot. Shamefully it was 9.30 in the morning so it was not like we were attempting exercise at the hottest part of the day.
This brings me to my favourite exercise and that is swimming. Wow I need a pool to swim in. Thankfully the water park has opened for the summer and I am certainly going to be there in the next couple of weeks.
I am also stepping up the exercise in the gym because right now I have stopped feeling like I am pushing myself and in my mind gym workouts are only any good if your heart rate moves and if you are sweating all over the machines.
So in the last week I did the fastest speed my body would allow on the cross ski trainer and went on the rowing machine it give myself even more exercise and come weigh in day I had lost 3 pounds. This is my best week in ages and also put me below my first 10% weight loss target.
Now I just can’t believe how great it feels to have lost 10% of myself since I started this journey.
Out of interest I weighed up the weight loss between me and Dominic this week and we have lost exactly 4 stone between us. Which is amazing and just another 10 stone to go. Now that does sound scary and I don’t want to think about it like that!!!
So here is to losing more weight next week and my next target is just 10 pounds away as I want to be at 13stone13 which will put me as just overweight and I will no longer have a BMI that says I am obese. And obese just sounds like a big horrible word that I hate thinking about.