Tirrrrred.

I'm kind of knackered today, I'm putting my despondent mood down to that. Aside from my current mood, Ive had a fairly good day.
Dropped all the kids off at school, and they were getting picked up by someone else so I had a free day (until 3:30ish anyways). I decided to take myself off for breakfast, (which did happen to be a fry-up but it is Fryday ... *watches tumbleweed*) and then swimming. I had considered a yoga class as I have found out that there is one near me that runs open classes on a Friday morning, but I decided that I should get a little more fit and flexible before I attempt a class. But its good to know its there.
So, I defuzzed, wrestled my swimming costume on and cycled down to the baths, 1.63 miles apparently, according to Cyclemeter it took me and hour and 25 minutes but that was actually coz I forgot to hit stop, it really doesn't take me that long! So the water was a little cold but that spurred me on to get moving. Felt a bit of a twat stretching but Id rather that than pull a muscle again, the amount of times Ive pulled my adductors (one of them anyways!) whilst swimming is ridiculous. It was in between school kid time so was pretty quiet. Ended up swimming 34 lengths of the 25m pool, which Ive worked out to be just over half a mile. I was pretty impressed with myself. And it was hard! I always think of swimming as an easy thing, but a couple of times I was actually out of breath and my heart rate was up to 138 at one point, this is clearly something that I want to improve on.
Quick cuppa after I was done, then cycled home. I took the 'scenic' route which was basically 1 1/2 miles out of my way to make the route longer, ended up doing 3.07 miles, so about 4.7 miles altogether.
Not bad going considering a few weeks ago I was doing bugger all.
So yeah, that was my exercise for the day. I had planned on cycling a little further but tbh, I was tired! Apparently I've burned around 600 calories today so I think I've done enough.
Yoga tomorrow, a few rounds of sun salutation until my muscles burn should be enough for a 'rest' day.

Exercise.

Exercise for today has consisted of about 40 minutes cycling at various paces. Averaging around 10mph. It was bloody hard going cycling into the wind at times. Ended up going about 6.3 miles, which was taking me an hour a few weeks ago, so my fitness is already on the up.
I'm getting a bit bored of cycling around where I live tho so will have to start going for a specific goal instead of just riding around aimlessly.
That's tomorrows job!

Weight loss and healthy eating lifestyle change type thing.

• Bust - 40 inches
• Waist - 38 inches
• Hips - 42 inches
• Thigh - 27 inches

Yikes. Its kind of scary and real when I write it down like that. My thigh measurement is the same as my waist used to be when I was younger.

So, what I'm planning on doing, is writing this weight loss down so its there in front of me in black and white (or whatever colour I choose for my font!) Ive made a bit of a vague start as I'm cycling as often as I can now. But if I'm not backing it up with eating more healthily then its basically a waste of time.

I'm going to record my measurements weekly and will add in weight whenever I can. I don't have a working set of scales at the moment and tbh, I'm not sure I even want to know. I might put on some light clothing and go weigh myself in Boots.

I'm also going to record my exercise and possibly include a food diary too. I think if all this stuff is there, and I look at it every day then it will make a difference.

That's the idea anyways. Lots of encouragement and support would be greatly appreciated an all.

Wish me luck!