Posted in alone, baby, Challenge, DomesticAbuse, exercise, Fitness, Girltalk, Heart, Heartbreak, Holiday, Journey, Marathon, Recovering from abuse, relationships, Singlemum, Strength, training

Oops I did it again …

…. I signed up to the half marathon in September! This time no one can get in the way of my training. It did actually pop into my head earlier about how unreliable he was.

“Baby I got you, were a team, you are my world. 100% I will be there in the morning so you can go gym. I promise you. On my life. Fully supporting you. Have faith in me man’ , morning came no sign of him. ‘yeh so what, I overslept, I can’t help it when I do the job I do my body just shuts down. I didn’t ask it too. It’s hard work you know.’ Suddenly his promise from the night before does not hold for anything, he turns aggressive and angry that anyone would dare question why he has gone back on his promise. This damages his ego, he is no longer the person he was making out to be the night before! This is a form of abuse, it’s power play, he gets someone fully reliant on him and then has no regard for that person. This complete lack of respect and control made me feel so damaged. He is an asshole. He is an abuser.

Good! Right! Needed to remind myself of them after I had just seen pics of our baby with him on our holiday. Although he was an asshole there too. I’m so tired though so will talk about that tomorrow.

So yes! Half a marathon!! It’s on. I did day 2 of the training programme app and actually hit 16,000 steps on my fit bit for the first time in months!!

I aim for a big walk tomorrow.

Watch this space

Xx

Posted in 14weekspregnant, Diet, exercise, pregnancy, PregnancyJourney, pregnant, SecondTrimester, training

Reality check…

imageOk SO I got on the scales. The scales at the gym too which I am so sure are very generous and well… It wasn’t nice. Over a stone heavier than what I was when I was training last summer. People do comment about how I don’t look any different but that’s because the weight is distibuted everywhere. Even my blinking face!!

I knew last night I had a battle already on my hands, looking at old pictures already and comparing it to now. This one in particular , I feel so frumpy, something I just did not want to happen! I have 26 weeks left of this pregnancy and I refuse to hate it as much as I do now! So that is why this morning I got in the gym. I did 40 mins of CV but plan to do that regularly.

The hunger really has subsided. Cereal for breakfast, salad for lunch, and a chicken salad for dinner. I had a packet of salt & vinegar mccoys as a snack and had half an easter egg this evening. Trust me when I say compared to my recent appetite and pig like ways this is GOOD!

I don’t want to be hiding in the my house this summer because I feel like I shouldn’t be seen in public!

Operation fit, healthy and happy pregnancy is on! 🙂

Posted in Cleanse, Detox, Diet, exercise, Jason Vale, Juicing, Running, training

Day 2 sickness 

imageToday has been awful and I can only hope that tomorrow is better. Obviously I wrote mid afternoon yesterday after I had realised what a dumbarse I had been with making my juices but I still felt ok. Evening struck and I realised I could no way stomach the purple thing (Ruby Tuesday) knowing the pineapple skin was in it. Instead I had some fruit. Then the 7pm juice I managed half. Dominic the forever supporting boyfriend drank what I couldn’t, even knowing about the pineapple skin, bless him. My sickness began after the half of juice and at around 11pm I was sick. Gross! Although hardly anything came up of course. I knew I needed something a little substantial before bed for any chance of juicing today, so I finished the evening on a strip of mackerel. Strange I know but curbed the sickness.

I woke today and thought about a glass full of greens, it made me shudder !! I not only still felt sick but also very weak. The school run was a chore and as I was due in for work at 12pm I knew I had to try and get rid of this sickness. More mackerel then! It helped for a while but the thought of work filled me with fear. Luckily I managed to swap my shift today so I could get through day 2 pretty much glued to my bed. Now I say day 2 but it hasn’t been really, I’ve gone off the ‘juice cleanse’ plan but I have still eaten clean and minimal. I can barely stomach much anyway. Chicken breast and veg for tea, figured if I’m not juicing it I still best eat it.

I hope the sickness is gone by tomorrow, but I also hope my appetite stays away.

Posted in Cleanse, Diet, exercise, Jason Vale, Juicing, Running, training

Enough is Enough… 

imageDespite getting myself to the gym every morning and completing a small run I still was not getting anywhere fast. I know tiny steps are best but when I gained this weight in such a short space of time, I want it gone in equally a short space of time. I found myself still constantly hungry and making bad food choices and just not able to put the God damn food down!!

SO… I planned last week after recommendation from my sister to do a juice detox. Now she’s managed to lose weight using this fancy Ninja device that cost her just short of £100 in the January sale. Fair play to her, she’s in love with it and has either a juice or a soup for breakfast and lunch then an evening meal keeping within 1000 calories for her day. I don’t want to calorie count or restrict myself so much, I want to be back to how I was and stop needing to eat everything in sight!! So … I purchased a juicer , less than £30 which wasn’t bad and purchased an app which promises me amazing results. Jason Vale 5 day juice challenge, and then by Saturday  I can wear that size 8 dress out for my friends birthday that I wore just before Christmas. It’s on!!

Sunday is a strange day to start BUT after Friday I knew it had to be sooner rather than later, my eating is out of control like I’m gaining DAILY over here!

This morning I made all my juices ready for the day. Veggie Power and Ruby Tuesday. Well I thought the first one was bad but Ruby Tuesday was just something else. Jason Vale says it’s one of the nicest, well I’m doing something wrong because there was nothing nice about pineapple, carrots, raw beetroot, raw ginger and basil! I downed it in one, and I’ve got the privilege of having to drink another one of each before the day is over! Determined though! So determined.

…..And so I just realised what maybe could have made it taste so wrong, I was meant to peel the pineapple. 🙈 What a tit!

Posted in Diet, exercise, Running, training

Easing myself in .. 

Tuesday, Wednesday AND Thursday this week I ran for an average of 20 minutes. Well I say ran, it wasn’t a full 20 min run, it was 1 min running, 1 min fast walking. Like my app told me. It did something though I could feel it the next day, just goes to show how out of it I am at the moment. 

Today the app told me to brisk walk 1.6km, i smashed that due to a leafleting job I was on. I can’t believe how many hills I had to climb either. In total I covered a 12km distance and fully deserved my tea of chicken and rice. 

I’m trying to fight the urge to not go to the shop. My craving for Dr Pepper is insane right now. I can’t wait for these cravings to stop. Sunday I am leafleting again so it justifies the fact I cannot get to the gym all weekend. Next week diet must be better!!