A few months ago me and 3 other slightly overweight friends decided to have a "fat off". I have always fluctuated between getting healthy and extremely lazy. In my repertoire of exercise equipment over the years has been the fold up multi-gym, the mountain stepper, the hula hoop x 2 (one ordinary and one weighted Devina McCall special) 2 x mini trampolines, 3 x boxers skipping ropes, Thighmaster, Slendertone muscle toner x 2, Wii fit and countless exercise videos (and accompanying Tae Bo gloves) and last but not least, Zumba DVD!! Don't get me started on the various gym memberships!
None of them have held my interest for longer than a couple of weeks, but being a competitive individual, I thought the fat off would be an ideal way to get me off my rapid expanding arse! Alas a couple of months went by and even my competitive edge could not compete with the cheese and onion crisps and family bar of whole nut! So here I am, about to go on my holidays with people who think a little light exercise is a 10k run around Hampstead Heath. So to save my embarrassment in those holiday photos, with us looking like a before and after shot for weightwatchers (me being the before!) I have gone into overdrive.
I have taken heart in the fact that one of the heaviest of all of us is now walking around looking like Jessica Rabbit. She is literally half the woman she used to be. What has helped is a little App called Calorie Counter. What I find great is it lets you add whatever you eat onto a diet diary, whilst telling you how much calories it contains (its amazing all the shopping brands it contains, I was surprised my Tesco fresh BBQ chicken wings contained 850 calories...so much for protein!) it will also work out how many calories you have burnt from doing housework, shopping, to full on exercises like boxing.
So here I am, 4 weeks from my paradise island, with a jelly roll that could start a tsunami! The Devina Hula, the mini trampoline and the skipping rope, have all come out of moth balls. That and my little App is going to help me get the kind of body Beyonce is always shaking in my face. God help me!
None of them have held my interest for longer than a couple of weeks, but being a competitive individual, I thought the fat off would be an ideal way to get me off my rapid expanding arse! Alas a couple of months went by and even my competitive edge could not compete with the cheese and onion crisps and family bar of whole nut! So here I am, about to go on my holidays with people who think a little light exercise is a 10k run around Hampstead Heath. So to save my embarrassment in those holiday photos, with us looking like a before and after shot for weightwatchers (me being the before!) I have gone into overdrive.
I have taken heart in the fact that one of the heaviest of all of us is now walking around looking like Jessica Rabbit. She is literally half the woman she used to be. What has helped is a little App called Calorie Counter. What I find great is it lets you add whatever you eat onto a diet diary, whilst telling you how much calories it contains (its amazing all the shopping brands it contains, I was surprised my Tesco fresh BBQ chicken wings contained 850 calories...so much for protein!) it will also work out how many calories you have burnt from doing housework, shopping, to full on exercises like boxing.
So here I am, 4 weeks from my paradise island, with a jelly roll that could start a tsunami! The Devina Hula, the mini trampoline and the skipping rope, have all come out of moth balls. That and my little App is going to help me get the kind of body Beyonce is always shaking in my face. God help me!
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Love your Blog Sonia!!!
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Please keep it up!
Bacio,
Marco (the nicer one...)
Aah! Grazie Mille x
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