So, I gave
up Cocacola 2 months ago. This was a big thing for me. I used to have a can with every meal (including morning tea, afternoon tea, dessert, midnight snack...). Anyway, I figured maybe I should try a little bit of an exercise regime to go with this little health kick. I mean, in the past I have tried exercising, generally through things like the Wii games. The only problem with this is that after an hour of working out (at a pretty sweaty level for me) and getting some encouragement that I have 'done amazing' (a pet hate that I'll have to write about another time) I am told that I have burned 100kcal! Yay! Until I realise that I have taken in 139kcal from the single can of Coke I drank during that workout!! (Perhaps I should add here that until 2011 I also had severe 'anti-water' issues and had probably taken in more water by forgetting to block my nose at the pool than I had chosen to drink in my whole lifetime).
up Cocacola 2 months ago. This was a big thing for me. I used to have a can with every meal (including morning tea, afternoon tea, dessert, midnight snack...). Anyway, I figured maybe I should try a little bit of an exercise regime to go with this little health kick. I mean, in the past I have tried exercising, generally through things like the Wii games. The only problem with this is that after an hour of working out (at a pretty sweaty level for me) and getting some encouragement that I have 'done amazing' (a pet hate that I'll have to write about another time) I am told that I have burned 100kcal! Yay! Until I realise that I have taken in 139kcal from the single can of Coke I drank during that workout!! (Perhaps I should add here that until 2011 I also had severe 'anti-water' issues and had probably taken in more water by forgetting to block my nose at the pool than I had chosen to drink in my whole lifetime). But back to 2011. I've given up Coke and am hitting the water like a teenage girl and
alchopops. I worked my way through the Wii Active 30 Day challenge and was thrilled to complete it despite the lame, unenthusiastic ending to the game. But, this week, my friend convinced me to come back to boxercise - a class I had taken once or twice before and really enjoyed because it was similar to my favourite wii exercise - rhythm boxing. I think the instructor was a little angry at my lengthy absence. Because she drilled us! And I mean she found all the things that she knew I had difficulty doing, and 
then made us all do 10 times more of them than we normally would. And so, after 70+ pushups and the same for sit-ups (which turned into crunches when I had NOTHING left) I have no feeling from the waste up. Which means that tasks as simple as drinking the water I have now come to cherish leads to me looking like a slightly brain damaged gorilla.
alchopops. I worked my way through the Wii Active 30 Day challenge and was thrilled to complete it despite the lame, unenthusiastic ending to the game. But, this week, my friend convinced me to come back to boxercise - a class I had taken once or twice before and really enjoyed because it was similar to my favourite wii exercise - rhythm boxing. I think the instructor was a little angry at my lengthy absence. Because she drilled us! And I mean she found all the things that she knew I had difficulty doing, and 
then made us all do 10 times more of them than we normally would. And so, after 70+ pushups and the same for sit-ups (which turned into crunches when I had NOTHING left) I have no feeling from the waste up. Which means that tasks as simple as drinking the water I have now come to cherish leads to me looking like a slightly brain damaged gorilla.And what do I have to show for this two months of 'being good'? Sore arms. Zero weight loss. And 'joy' in the knowledge that if I choose to start a trend of Cleese style walking my legs could probably handle it (thank you Wii-Active jump lunges).
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