In pursuit of Health, Wealth and Happiness

Dinah93

I'll definitely join you in the shred Tete. I've done 6 week 6 pack and I find it very similar to shred, just a different work out, I wouldn't say it was particularly more core focused except there isn't the weights bit, there is still a lot of cardio. The Yoga is easy in terms of how much it pushed my muscles, but hard in that I kept loosing my balance or slipping all over the floor.

My goal weight is 8st 3lbs, but I'm a middling height at 5"6.5 (the half is important!) Currently 9st 1lb and I really want to break that 8stone line.

Tete_en_l'Air

Oh Cinny No work colleagues (or friends, family or ANYONE!) should make you feel like the 'fat one' whether you are fat or not (and you're definitely not!) so I think they're out of order there to start with, but I guess it's hard to go from joking about it to 'actually that's not OK' I think Lara's idea is a brilliant one - maybe aim for your five a day and take fruit to work, save sugary treats for after tea and then they can't pick on you for eating the sweet stuff? I don't know... :undecided

Meeting was OK in the end, just the usual catch up - I'm turning super paranoid haha!

Tete_en_l'Air

Dinah93 wrote: »

The Yoga is easy in terms of how much it pushed my muscles, but hard in that I kept loosing my balance or slipping all over the floor.

Ah see that's no good for me, I have terrible balance and it seems pointless if you can't do the moves properly. Might get the 6 pack and buns of steel vids and rotate the three of them! :eek: Are you still running Dinah?

shrimpy_80

Cinny, first of all you are completely gorgeous! I find if I know I'm eating rubbish I feel really down on myself. I am a dreadful binge eater (seriously I eat some crazy stuff) and it becomes a bit of a cycle. Plus you do get heaps of exercise with Ryder, and being out in the fresh air is way better than pounding a treadmill IMO. I bet they eat the biscuits you bring in!

Dinah93

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Are you still running Dinah?

A little but I'm a wuss and hate going out in the cold. Inside every day I want to run, but it's the going outside bit that's working against me.

Kepp

I think that's the problem - aside from gaining weight - eating rubbish makes you feel rubbish. Yet knowing all that, it still can be hard. At the end of a bad day, no-one has ever said 'I know what, I'll treat myself an apple!'

Cinny - I would second what others have said. You know better what is a good idea for you so ignore if this is totally terrible advice, but rather than making weightloss your goal your goal could be to be healthier/get fitter?

Kepp

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Ah see that's no good for me, I have terrible balance and it seems pointless if you can't do the moves properly. Might get the 6 pack and buns of steel vids and rotate the three of them! :eek: Are you still running Dinah?

Apparently when your muscles are stronger you have better balance as strong muscles stabilise you better. Have yet to discover if this is true!

Cinny91

My balance is shot and I managed okay with it, the key is the yoga mat I think!!

I think with work it's that everyone's into fitness. One of my bosses was actually saying to someone on Monday "I don't see the point in having a coffee and cake from Costa, when you could have mackerel, some rice and lots of vegetables for less calories" and I was just like :eek: I think it's just Fat Amy syndrome, I know they think I'm unhealthy and a little tubs so I mareswell say it before they say it behind my back. And obviously that kind of opens the floor to them openly joking about it.. I have snapped back a couple times but like you said, it's hard to tell people a joke's gone too far - especially when you join in as a form of self defense. It just niggles at you a little, I think. They tell me I don't need to lose weight and throw compliments at me too, but as ever you focus on the negative things!

Thanks Shrimpy! The funny thing with biscuits is, I have one or two from the pack over the week and the "healthy" people have 5 in a row! Like when I bought the cake in yesterday, I had blueberry and they were diving in and threatening to fight each other over the chocolate toffee ones *rolly eyes*

I don't know. I'm actually pretty happy with how I look at the moment, there's a little bit of podge but I figure that will go when I start getting our diet back to being balanced. I've stopped buying fizzy drinks, made sure I've got dinner and breakfast things in so I don't go grazing too You're right though, I need to focus on "healthy" aims over weight zoned ones. I'll be in for the yoga though, to replace my pilates in a few weeks.

Sorry to hog your thread, Tete!

Tete_en_l'Air

Cinny91 wrote: »

The funny thing with biscuits is, I have one or two from the pack over the week and the "healthy" people have 5 in a row! Like when I bought the cake in yesterday, I had blueberry and they were diving in and threatening to fight each other over the chocolate toffee ones *rolly eyes*

Haha, well there you go, maybe you need to vocalise a few home truths ... in jest obviously *rolly eyes*

Mmmm, mackerel! I love it!

shrimpy_80

You are all making me think I should buy Jillian's yoga now... I do get that there are different intensities of yoga, but the only class I've been to I fell asleep in and I just can't reconcile the image of that with Jillian screaming and grimacing at me!