Avid_evaの日記, 2015年 04月 18日

Yay I've inspired you!! Haha I'll be glad when Bounts is updated and gives me all my points it owes me, not had any since the 15th :-( Good luck with the marathon challenge, I'm off for a walk in a bit, great weather :-)  

Me too, I'm hoping I'll have enough for the voucher I want when it updates :-) I went for a longer walk today and oh my goodness miles are so LONG!! On my usual route I know where she's going to announce them on Map My Run, but I went (what seemed) MILES out of my way, to claw back some #26 ground, and I kept thinking "that must be a mile by now, surely that's a mile now, she must be going to say it any second now..." it's crazy how far they are! As for the BF inspiration, I'm slightly worried that when I measure it it'll be horrific, above a third like it was last time I did it at the gym, but nothing I do will actually change it, so I'll have these expensive scales just sitting there constantly reminding me (as if the undulating underwater thighs at the pool weren't sufficient!) what a lardy failure I am!! 

Just think, whatever the bf % starts at, it will only get better the more you exercise. I bet you'll be surprised how good it is, look how much weight you have lost !! The 'woman' on my RunKeeper never shuts up, every 10 minutes she's babbling on!! Only need 4 miles tomorrow and I've done the marathon. I'm hoping the Debenhams vouchers come back so I can buy something nice for my holidays. You are doing brilliantly :-)  

Aww thank you! I fear last time I did it I weighed about the same as I do now, if not a bit less, because I remember being outraged that at a "minimum" weight (for me!) it could possibly be so high, where was there room, with skeleton, muscles and all my organs, for there to be as much as a THIRD lard?!! But it would be lovely to be pleasantly surprised :-) But I only really walk (admittedly at "invading army pace" as my daughter complains! But even so...), swim and occasionally cycle - didn't you tell me before that I'd need to do gym/weights work to bring it down? 

I believe weights are supposed to help bring it down but that's not done me any good this week. Having said that I don't lift heavy weights, as I damaged my shoulder a bit at my old gym a few years back. I'm not too bad with leg weights (can lift 40 lb at the moment) but ones for my shoulders I'm pretty weak. Can only do 10 lb on some weights, while other women I see lifting over 50lb. Don't know how they do it! I think the reasoning with the BF is if you lose weight but don't do weights you can lose muscle instead of fat, but I'm no expert. I'm sure swimming and cycling will help greatly :-)  

Tried to send you a link but it didn't work. Have a look on Bodybuilding.com and you should be able so find a better explanation of why weights are good (it's not just for body builders!!) :-)  

Thanks hun :-)