I’m back! Time to get back on track!

Good morning all.

Couple of things I want to cover in this post, so here we go.

Yesterday – started amazingly well and finished catastrophically!

After packing and tidying up the cottage, Dan and Lynne headed home to Scotland. We have agreed to revisit the cottage and catch up again mid year next year. More on that soon.

Paul and I didn’t get a chance to do much walking as this weekend was all about meeting up with friends. We did however go for a walk before we headed home, as there’s a lovely waterfall we wanted to revisit.

It was less than two miles, but is really interesting physically.

Then we had something to eat, I opted for a cheese and beans jacket spud.

Our way home was pretty awful, several hours of driving in extreme rain! We made one stop at which point I had a pastry.

When we eventually got home we ordered pizza.

Bed was most welcome last night!

Today is all about relaxing and getting ready for getting back on track, so we’ll get a weekly shopping at some point and prepare lunches. 

Long Term Goal – I have decided that although I enjoyed the train trip up Snowdon, what I really want to do is walk up it! So, that gives me approximately 9 months to get fit and healthy enough to do it.

Short Term Goal – so, taking small chunks out of what I need to achieve, I am aiming to lose two stone in the next 12 weeks… Again, it’s a huge ask of myself, and I doubt I’ll hit it, but I need to aim high to keep myself on track.

I’ll actually be really pleased to lose another stone by Christmas, but I know what I’m like, if I have a great week and lose several lbs I’ll become complacent the following week!

As for exercise, I’m going to aim for the following; stretching youtube video once a day, and when I can sit cross legged I’ll have another go at yoga. Although stretching is a new addition to my exercising, I had already noticed that they had helped me doing my lunges in the strength training bit if my exercises.

I’m going to continue with both strength training routines, and I hope to be able to do the advanced one fully by the end of 12 weeks, in the meantime I’ll substitute the harder bits for easier exercises, giving the harder bits a go once a week.

I will continue to do the cardio programme I found last week, it’s a great sweaty programme, and I really enjoy the feeling of working my backside off!

Cardio and strength training will be done on alternate days, aiming for 6 days a week.

I’ll be bringing myself up to date with news from you guys over the next few days 😊. Feels as though it’s been way longer than a few days!

So that’s it from me for now.

Bye 👋