Week 4

Me and my yoyo weight. Another fluctuation this week, although this one puts me at my lightest since starting. Yay for me.

Saturday 19 January, 2008

Week 4 weight – 95.6 kg

Initial weight – 96.2 kg

That’s a bit of a non-event really. At least my scales come up with the same result as the old fashioned clunky ones at the gym. Well, close enough – they said I’m at 96 kg.

Liz did my assessment on Saturday at lunch time. It was a lot less scary than I expected it to be – or maybe that’s just because Liz is such a great personal trainer (and dare I say it, person in general) that she doesn’t make me feel bad about my failings, instead she tells me that it’s just the start.

She took all my measurements – height (166cm – I made her do it twice to be sure!), upper and mid thighs, calves, upper arms (flexed and limp – it seems that I have 1cm of muscle on each arm. Go me!!!), waist, hips and something to do with my shoulder blades, although she was behind me so I couldn’t tell. Then we did the fat pincers and the oxygen efficiency rating or whatever it’s called. Once again, the screen on the exercise bike told us that my use of oxygen was very poor. Liz told me that wasn’t the worst you could get and I joked that perhaps for the even less fit the screen would say “go get a doctor” or “measure up a coffin”.

Oh, and not only is Liz an awesome chick and I want to impress her more than I want to impress my husband, but she’s also got a great taste in music! We had a lengthy talk about gigs we’d been to and bands we liked, and she even suggested that next time someone cool is playing in Canberra, we should go!! I think I have a new girl crush.

My first proper PT session is tomorrow morning at 7am. I’m really looking forward to it, if for no other reason than because I want to make Liz proud by being able to complete whatever workout she sets me without complaining that I’m going to throw up!