Food, food, food everwhere :o

So I'm home for xmas and I must admit I've snacked a lot :o I had a party at mine last night. The food wasn't exactly healthy but I relaxed myself and indulged. I know One of the reasons I lost all the weight was because I didn't want to have it still all on when this xmas came around.

I went for a walk today with my dog and I ran for a mile yesterday. I'm hoping to run tomorrow as well. I'm going to eat what I want but I'm going to keep eating some nice food :) I know I can get it off in the new year. Saying that I'm not giing to go wild but we all know what we are here for :)

One thing thing worth mentioning that shocked me was the fact the treadmill at home is so different to the one at my gym. As a beginner at the Gym this really shocked me. My first mistake was to think the running speeds would be the same. They were NOT. Nearly fell off the damn machine.

My second mistake was to assume they would both be in Km. Wrong, the one at home uses miles and I almost didn't notice. I think the lesson from this story is to make sure you understand the equiptment you are using before you get on :D

I just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!!!!!! Emily xxx

Weekends

I'm not sure how it's happened but I seem to be getting incredibly incapable of exercising at the weekend.

I think I excuse myself by saying stuff like, 'Oh, I walked into town and back. I walked there..etc' but in reality, I'm simply not doing my usual exercise at the weekend. Before I was making sure I exercised at the weekend, either a run on Saturday or just popping on my Exercise bike on Sunday but every weekend it seems that it's over before I've even considered exercising :(

So bad weekend for Emily.

I had my *final* physio session on Friday (trying to sort out my tight calf muscle in my left leg) and my leg was really painful after the session. He had stuck needles in my leg and given them a right good old bashing. So I was bruising. I almost didn't exercise but thankfully I actually went to the Gym. AFTER work on a FRIDAY, I know go me :D

The Gym was really quiet, which was nice. Still only running 1km max at the moment. So I'm hoping to attempt a 1.25km or even a 1.5km this week... wish me luck.

In total I have been invited to/organised 3 Christmas dinners. The first one was at the weekend and man it is hard not to overeat. I managed to snack only a wee bit and I didn't have any meat (as I'm a vegetarian and they killed my fake meat). My plate consisted of Roasted Potatoes, Parsnips, Carrots and Brussels sprouts with some Stuffing. So I think I ate far less calories than everyone else but I still feel like I ate bad food. I skipped Christmas pudding but I couldn't turn down the cheese board. I definitely had less than I would've had last year, so that's a postivie point. The alcohol consumption probably didn't help either though but in preparation I had only eaten a salad.

I'm very scared to weigh myself at the moment as I feel as if I haven't lost any weight in a while. I think, as I've said before, the main goal around Christmas is to not put on weight or as little as possible. I'm hoping to at least stuck to that. Unfortunately the next two Christmas dinners are both on the same day :o So I'm going to have a fat day :(

My plan is to come into work early that day to go to the Gym and get a good workout done before I even begin eating. Then I will just make sure that I exercise every day this week, even Christmas day!

Are other people exercising on Christmas day?

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid eating mince pies etc? Feeling very tempted and failing more often than usual, which is depressing me.

Why in the back of mind do I keep saying, 'I can get back on the horse in January'... I don't want to even fall off :(

Emily x