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Isn’t it amazing how making such a change in your life can bring results so quickly? After 1 week and 5 workouts which have developed from 1hr to 2 1/2hrs, and having eaten quite healthily for the past couple of weeks, I have lost 2kg since last Saturday night. I already have more energy and just feel a lot more positive! Not that I rarely didn’t feel like I was in a good mood, but it’s a different kind of feeling Exercise + Healthy Eating = a lot less scary than I thought!

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So, I joined the gym last Friday! I’m going to Fitness First here in Glen Waverley, and have already worked out 4 times At the moment I’m just doing cardio workouts, but I have signed up for personal training, so hopefully should start that soon. To get myself into the regular routine, I’ve set certain days aside for me to go straight after work and I’m sticking to them, no excuses! I have to admit, even after just 4 sessions, I feel great. I’ve never done the whole exercising thing, so it’s new to me. I’m not doing it to necessarily lose weight (though I know it will happen naturally), but rather to tone up and improve my physical fitness. I can’t ever remember a time in my life where I was fit. It would be nice to be able to run for more than a metre without feeling like I’m going to have my lungs explode or something I do eventually want to also use this as a tool to quit smoking, but we’ll take that step when I come to it

So today I went, and slowly I’m increasing the amount of time I spend on the machines. For instance on Friday when I first worked out, I spent just half an hour on the cross trainer and half an hour on the bike. Today I spent over an hour on the treadmill, 45mins on the bike and 30mins on the cross trainer. Eventually I’d like to get it to the stage where I can do an hour on each, until I am confident enough on the weights machines to add them to the routine. I know absolutely nothing about them, so this is where the personal training will come in handy I’m hoping that I start to see the benefits within the next few weeks, and have given myself a timeline to my birthday (May 19th) to reach my goal, which is a more toned body and increased fitness. I’d like to be able to go for a jog in the morning sometimes, but at the moment I just can’t handle that. I’ve never really been able to run, I just don’t have the strength or fitness for it (plus large breasts don’t help!).

But keeping checking back, I will update on my progress!

Also, currently enjoying Red Alert 3 on 360, and have just started playing Red Alert on iPhone as well, so will do a write-up on how well it handles on a mobile (when I have time though )

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Last night we had Halloween Karaoke down at Strike on Chapel St! Was a brilliant night, there was a great turnout. I went dressed as Lara Croft in a costume I put together myself (was a lot cheaper than buying a ready made one!) and I think I looked pretty good But I do have to say the best costumes there were the Willy Wonka and Oompa Loompa and Buzz Lightyear! I sang my usual Ice Ice Baby and then decided to Rickroll every and sang Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. Was also great to see everyone who I haven’t seen since the last karaoke back in May Props go to Jay and Thomas to hosting and to Amanda and the rest of the staff at Strike for providing an awesome venue and alcohol!

Photos can be found on My Flickr

Also I’d like to wish my Mum a very Happy Birthday!

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