Its Crunch Time

Today I've read the book I bought yesterday - Crunch Time by Michelle Bridges. I've been on the weight loss rollercoaster for years now, and I've tried everything, but I never stick to anything, so it never works (hmm, funny that!). However, I love Michelle's 'take no prisoners' attitude, and proudly slogged my way through my first workout today. It was hell for a number of reasons - mainly cos it showed me just how unfit I've let myself get - but god it was good to finish it. I've got a gym membership but just haven't been able to go in the last couple of weeks - they aren't open all the time cos its just the one lady running it, and with the heat, the play commitments, and being crook, I just haven't been. So the workouts in this new book will be great cos I can do some of them at the gym, but I can also do some at home. Its really important to me to exercise every day, so from now on I'll be going to bed a bit earlier so I can wake up a bit earlier and get my workout done for the day - no excuses.

Last year I did Adelaide's City to Bay fun run which is 12km - and I ran it. Well, not all the way :) But I did enter as a runner, and I trained for it, and I loved running. But after the fun run, the lady at the gym advised to take a few days off training to let my body recover. I've now taken about 4 months lol. I'm by no means the gym bunny I sound like - I'm very overweight, and even when I was training, I ate a lot more, so I didn't really lose heaps of weight, but I did have a reasonable level of fitness. Time to get that back :) I wish I'd had my blood pressure checked when I was City to Bay training - high blood pressure runs in my family, and at the age of 23, I've recently had blood pressure readings of 140/80. So while its not time for medication, it certainly is time to fire up my exercise again and look after my poor heart.

In other news, I'm still very concerned about my home brew (and I'm still not sure if that's supposed to be one word or two - homebrew, home brew? Dunno!). According to the instructions, my airlock is supposed to be bubbling. It wasn't. So, as per the instructions, I undid the lid a bit and resealed. Then not long after, I noticed I had a sort of meringue forming on my beer! Not sure if its supposed to froth that much... And then, realised there was no more water left in the airlock, so I poured a little bit in, and upon checking about 20 mins ago, the airlock is bubbling away happily. Go figure. Hopefully it works lol.

Busy week ahead - got a rehearsal tomorrow night, James flies home Tuesday, should be getting an offer on our old house on Wednesday, another rehearsal on Thursday, probably have friends over for drinks on Friday, Saturday is my cousin's engagement party, and on Sunday I should be bottling my beer if its fermented long enough. Whew! I don't know about other FIFO wives/partners, but our house gets a whole lot messier when James is at work cos I just get so lazy and leave crap everywhere. So some time between now and Tuesday morning, I need to have a pick up.