A little bit of competition does you good!!!

For the past two weeks, Tasha one of the other helpers at my meeting has set out to beat me at WI and she has done so. She was struggling a bit before so I am pleased for her. However, a little bit of competition is good because I've become a bit slack with my exercise over the past few weeks and this has made me get back into the swing of things.

I told Tasha at meeting last Thursday that there is "no way you are beating me this week!!!" Of course this has now turned into a challenge because she said she will. On top of that, Brian one of our taxi drivers at work is doing incredibly well on slimming world and she he is going to beat me too. Well that's enough to get me back on track, especially as far as exercise is concerned.

I'm determined to have a perfect week this week. On Friday evening I had my hair done so was unable to swimming with Trev (my stepdad) like we usually do. We went on Sunday instead. I also went to the gym on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and tonight and...get this....I'VE STARTED TO RUN!!!

Yes you heard right! This is Vicky who back in October could barely walk 200 yards. I found a beginners programme online which gives you a plan and promises to get you fit within 9 weeks. At the moment I am doing 60 seconds jogging followed by 90 seconds walking for twenty minutes. I cannot jog very fast but I'm going fast enough for me until I build up my fitness.

On Saturday afternoon I also moved all the furniture in my bedroom to clean and so this was surely worth a bonus point or two?

I mentioned to Brian yesterday that I hop he had a good weekend because I had been excellent (within points, lots of water, gym twice and swimming once). His answer was "right that does it, I'm going to go out on my bike and go running tomorrow and Wednesday. That's good because it spurred me into going to the gym last night and tonight. Tomorrow night I'm going to aquafit and as I have 30 minutes spare before hand, I'll fit a short session in the gym in.

As for eating, I've been excellent so far this week. I've banked a couple of points every day and have eaten very healthily. I have also been drinking plenty. I do this anyway because of my job which basically involves talking on the phone or radio all day but I've made an effort to drink 2 litres of plain water a day on top of anything else. Judging by the amount I've been going to the toilet, this must be doing some good.

So, so far it has been a perfect week. Let's hope this continues and come Thursday, the hard work pays dividends on the scales.

Vicky xxx