Feb 13 2012: Lucky for Some

So here we are, Day 1 of the Walkabout Wellness Weightloss Challenge and at the start of a life-changing process that will build on the preparation of the last few weeks.

After all the excitement and efforts of yesterday, I didn’t make it past 10 last night, which is why I woke just before 4 raring to go!

Food:

Breakfast: 1 slice dry toast with vegemite (pre-gym) slice dry toast and microwaved egg

Mid-morning: Large banana

Lunch: Salad bowl – lettuce, tomato, grated carrot, cucumber, grated cheese, olives, beetroot, lean beef

Mid-afternoon: Banana

Family Dinner: Chicken skewers, sweet potato oven chips, corn-on-the-cob

Drink:

Plain, filtered water: 5900ml

1 glass orange juice (200ml)

1 long macchiato – no sugar (not as bad as feared)

1 glass skim milk

Activity:

Gym (details below)

Short walk with Marble

Caught bus into Perth today and got off early, leaving about 1.5km to walk

Down stairs level 8 to ground x 2

Up stairs level 1 to level 8 x 2

Step count: About 10,200 – accidentally reset the counter shortly after hitting the 10,000 mark

**Gym:

**5 minute warm up on bike

Stretching – legs, back, shoulders

500m warm-up row – 3m 01s

10 push-ups, 10 fitball squats, 10 calf raises

500m row – 2m 23s

10 push-ups, 10 fitball squats, 10 calf raises

500m row – 2m 32s

10 push-ups, 10 fitball squats, 10 calf raises

500m row – 2m 32s

Stretching – legs, back, shoulders

Physical, Mood etc.:

**Morning – **Woke up just before 4am, aching a little all over from yesterday, raring to go.

**Lunch – **Feeling wide awake and full of energy. Aches mostly gone.

**Night – **Not feeling exhausted, will probably go to sleep quickly though (9:45pm)

Notes:

Have a new route to get my mid-morning snack and lunch… down office block stairs, zig-zag around the complex, down some other stairs, across footbridge, sweep round past convention centre (behind busport), all the way around back to front entrance of busport.

Trip back – across footbridge, walk all the way along until come out on Mill St, walk uphill to St George’s Terrace all the way to pedestrian area that leads down to our building. Then lift to level 1 and stairs to level 8. Clocked up a couple thousand steps or more, and a massive sweat. Heavy going up the stairs, however recovery time was under a minute!