WEEK 4

22 /1 – week 4 of 52 week blog

Weigh-in 11stone 7lbs  (161 lbs or 73.2 kg)  belly-button measurement : 42 1/2 ”  relaxed  40 1/2 ”  pulled in

So, a 1 lb drop – that’s 7lb over the three weeks – but more impressive this week was the waist measurement. Yes, I did check that the measurements were ‘level’ and in each case, relaxed and pulled in there is a 1 inch difference from last week (and that was half an inch down on the first week I measured) All in all I am happy with the results from this week… it does so help to motivate when there is change.. I don’t know about you but it is when I have a week with no change that gives me the biggest challenge. However, with you, my new cheer-leaders and monitors on board I am sure I can beat it!

Food:

Egg, bacon, toms, mushrooms, thin slice toast, butter and marmalade. Roast FR chicken, 5 thin roast potato slices, parsnip, carrot, beetroot, brussels, gravy. Stewed apple and blackberry and custard (half portion) one cheese-topped crumpet, very thin slice banana bread, kiwi, apple, Evening – other half of stewed fruit and custard.

Exercise:

17 each arm triceps extensions with a1.5 kg weight : 16 lateral extensions, with 2.5 kg weights in each hand. Second set 20 each arm triceps extensions with a1.5 kg weight; and 17 lateral extensions, with 2.5 kg weights in each hand. Half hour aerobic and stretching exercises

Notes:

Sunday is Sunday – and the tradition in this household is for a proper English breakfast, that looks huge compared to my daily breakfast, followed at dinner (lunch) time by a roast dinner – come cold weather, come hot weather. Again, this appears to be huge and we have dessert, though I have been cutting down the carbohydrates on that down by substituting stewed fruit and custard for the usual Fruit Crumbles or Pies. No one has complained ….yet.

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Food:

Egg, orange juice, 2 cups milky tea, 10 grapes, Toad in the hole (easy on the batter) cabbage, leeks, carrots, gravy with Worcestershire sauce in it, Tea: Fish soup made with salmon, haddock and smoked haddock, with leeks, carrots, parsnips and a a small amount of potato and milk. 1 slice wheatmeal bread. 1 kiwi 1 apple. hnadful of raisens and sultanas.

Exercise:

First set: Snatch (with 10 kg) 38: Sit ups  21. second set: Snatch (with 10 kg) 32: Sit ups 20. Time taken 10 mins.  Half hour aerobic and stretching exercises

Notes:

Decided to time my weights sessions… I knew they weren’t taking long as I do them to music and they only took 3 tracks, but it’s good to know because one of my crfiteria is that they shouldn’t take too much time as I am quite a busy hedgehog and I really can’t afford to take much time out to do the exercises. This is one, but only one, of the reasons I don’t go jogging or cycling for exercise. The other reasons will have to wait for a post of their own as from last week as I realised my notes over the week created a bit-too-long post in one bite.

 

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Food:

Egg, orange juice, 2 cups milky tea, Steak, shallots, 5 thin slices roast potatoe, parsnip, carrot, cabbage with apple. Tea: Small pasty, kiwi fruit, Apple, Mid evening yougurt, 1/2 oz mixed nuts.

Exercise:

Set 1:   55 squats with 5kg    32  lunges.  Set 2  46 squats with 5kg    34   lunges. Time taken 11 mins. Half hour aerobic and stretching exercises to music

Notes:

Still finding the lunges really hard work – just making it over the 15 – though I guess if I ended up doing a lot more it would take more time – 11 mins today  – not too much of a time suck! I suppose I should explain what I do for my aerobics and stretching sometime.. in case anyone wants to know!

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Food:

Egg, orange juice, 2 cups milky tea, 3 brzils 1 cube pl choc, 1 mint imperial (it is Wednesday!) Lasagna, leeks, carrots and cabbage, Thin Thin pizza with chicken, ham, mushrooms, peppers, tom paste and cheese. 1kiwi 1 apple

Exercise:

So, Using 2x 2.5 kg dumbells: First set: triceps extensions  28 :  front raise.

Second set triceps extensions 17  front raise27 time taken (including faffing around getting the position on the bed right for the new style triceps extensions 15mins)

Half hour aerobic and stretching exercises

Notes:

Having found the tirceps extensions a difficult to get right without hurting my elbow a new way of doing these was suggested.   http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/DBLyingTriExt.html   if you want to see it- I don’t have a fancy bench so i used the bed with folded a pillow supporting my head so it project a little beyond the foot of the bed (had to be that way round – can’t do this where you have a headboard!

 

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Food:

Egg, orange juice, 2 cups milky tea, Lunch: pork chop  with apple sauce, potato (5 thin wedges, parsnip, shallot, calabrese, carrot, gravy. mid afternoon. 2 mint sticks (still that same box from Christmas) 1/2 oz mixed nuts. Tea: Fish in breadcrumbs, pickled beetroot. Apple. 1/2 oz mixed nuts, half slice bread and butter. (I know! I know! Was making sandwiches up for M, had to cut crust off fresh loaf – couldn’t resist – gave half to Bonny)

Exercise:

Set 1: Using 2.5 kg dumbells in each hand: bicep curls 52.  Wrist curls   42

Set 2: Using 2.5 kg dumbells in each hand: bicep curls 41.   Wrist curls   44

Belly dance class 1. 1/4 hrs)

20 mins aerobic exercise to music

Notes:

I was a bit short of time – so missed out stretching from the half hour workout I usually do in the evening  as had just done belly dance class  which includes a great stretching warm-up

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Food:

Egg, orange juice, 2 cups milky tea, Lunch: Fish in breadcrumbs, chips (6 long ones) peas. Mid afternoon, 1 oz mixed nuts 2 mint sticks. Tea: Ham and sausage tortellini with crunchy green salad, 2 small kiwi fruit ( we have finished all the large (standard) sized kiwi and now are eating all the small ones that we get on our Kiwi plant.

Exercise:

Set 1: Snatch using single 10 kg plate – 47 : twisting sit-ups – 20:

Set 2: Snatch using single 10 kg plate – 439 : twisting sit-ups – 20

half hour of stretches and aerobic exercise to music

Notes:

Saturday (tomorrow) is the Big Breakfast – so all exercises will have to wait until the afternoon, if I am still standing – will be cooking from 9am to 1pm!

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Food:

Egg, orange juice, 2 cups milky tea,Lunch at the Big Breakfast – 2 sausages, 2 rashers bacon, 2 eggs, mushrooms, tomato, one slice bread and marmalade. mid afternoon,1 mint stick. Tea: half medium baked potato, butter, gammon, mixed salad with dressing. Evening: large wine-glass of sparkling white wine with cassis. 1/2 oz peanuts.

Exercise:

Set 1: squats with 5 kg weight on shoulders – 41   10 inch step ups – 106

Set 2: squats with 5 kg weight on shoulders – 30   10 inch step ups – 98

half hour of stretches and aerobic exercise to music

Notes:

Stood helping to cook about 200 Big Breakfasts in the Village Hall today from 9 to 1.30, then cleaned ovens and tidied up.. felt as if I had already done a workout – but stuck to the schedule even though the resistance training that I usually do in the morning was completed at gone seven in the evening. *virtuous feeling*

 

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