Kickoff!

Happy Monday lovely followers, and what a Monday it has been.

My day threatened to start off on the wrong foot. As soon as my alarm went off at 5:30am I though 'Euuughhhhhhhhhh, just 5 more minutes'. So I closed my eyes for 5 more minutes, then 5 more. Finally I managed to drag my ass out of bed but while getting dressed the sound of pouring rain was discouraging me, so I crawled back into bed.

Then I thought "WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING!? YOU DO NOT GET ABS FROM SLEEPING IN" And so I got back out of bed and braved the weather to walk the 1km to the gym. Apparently it wasn't actually POURING with rain, that was just in my mind (I'm quite the drama queen), it was drizzling slightly but it was actually quite refreshing.

Boy am I glad I got that monkey (though it felt more like a gorilla) off my back nice and early.

I did the Lean & Strong program first, minus the leg workouts, followed by a 4km run on the treadmill. In total I think it took me about an hour and 20 minutes. Mostly because I don't do a lot of weight training so I was spending time figuring out the best weights and reps to use.

The run was HARD. Really hard. I was watching the clock for the whole 26ish minutes. I was dripping sweat. The lady on the next treadmill kept looking at me with this worried 'are you about to die?' look. Clearly my fitness has dropped which makes me a bit sad, but at least I now know how quickly you can lose your fitness. Won't let that happen again!

Not sure why but now I am nursing the worlds worst headache. Not sure if it's related but I hope it goes away because I have a nice 6 hour shift at the gym tonight and I need to be perky.

When I get home I plan to take my before photos (and do my measurements), because I keep forgetting to buy a magazine. I'm still undecided as to whether or not I will post them here. We'll see.

This week is going to be hard. Until I get back into some kind of routine I'm going to be tired, hungry and grumpy, but I KNOW if I push on I will start to feel amazing.

Bring it.