Exercise Rest Day

Came home dead beat after a long day at work. Good thing the good man had bought dinner. We cleared up the kitchen and retired to relax in double quick time! I had been yearning to go for a jog but the weather had been dreadfully hazy. This is perhaps an example of when one might be happy to have a treadmill to run on instead! I was suffering from period pains (yes, at my age) too so I decided to listen to my body (and the weather) and give it a rest.

Apparently, my dog wanted an early night too:

Sparkles, my lil ol' silky terrier, loves sleeping like this.

Copyright Fiona C Yeo @ Cartoon Lagoon 2015

 

Hubs teased me about buying a treadmill for home so that I wouldn't have to make the journey to the gym. My eyes lit up and I gave a resounding yes! I was even willing to clear away my books and handbags to make room for it! What in the world is happening to me.......? But I did notice he grew silent when he realised I was actually serious about it!

 

Here's the wonderful thing. Hubs had bought me a packet of Hainanese Chicken Rice for dinner. I did scoop a big spoon of rice over to him but I finished the rest of the packet. When I weighed in this morning, I was still the same weight as before dinner. Pretty neat, huh? This is what I realised exercise can do for me even on a rest day.

 

Somewhere earlier this week, I did wake up and feel like my boobs had deflated! I could just feel the chest had become 'flatter'. They are still there but erm, what little I had have all but disappeared. Sigh. When I meant weight loss, I didn't really mean FROM THE BOOBIES but what can I do about it? This is why people say you cannot really spot reduce. If I want to lose the fats off my abdomen, I will have to work out my whole body as a whole and my tummy will reduce accordingly. But if I look on the bright side of things, I had to go adjust my bra just now because it was too loose. Too loose! Woohoo! It means my torso is shrinking in girth!

 

Let me tell you this. NO ONE has taken a look at me outright and said I have lost weight. NO ONE has said I look smaller. They only concurred when I told them I had experienced inch loss but not weight loss. So, my inch loss isn't making any difference to how I look to others. That's how demoralising it can be IF I depended on others to make me stay motivated. But I don't. I can feel it myself and I will just do the little that I can to change my bodyshape. I can feel it. Just feeling smaller and more compact as opposed to 'flabbing' or 'flabbering' (if there are such words) everywhere.

 

I was not really kidding when I said I wanted to look like I did during my honeymoon. I visualise it. It's possible but if I continue eating 'normally' the way I do, then it'll just have to take a longer time to become a reality. On the other hand, I could seriously count my calories and shed the KGs faster. Nah, I don't think I'm up to that yet.

 

I also visualise myself running at a run event...some day. I looked at this listing of running events and thought, I can barely make the kiddy standard!

 

 

I don't own the copyright to this picture. I just own that pen!

Copyright of this picture belongs to the owners of the website Justrunlah.com

which is where I took this shot from.

 

I'm not affiliated to the website in any way. I came across them when I was browsing for local running events. I hope to be able to take part in some running event somewhere down the road and I was laughing to myself when I saw that my current standard is just on par with the kids (POSB Passion Run for Kids 2015)! This is really something for me. I used to dream of running but HATED what running did to me. I'd be out of breath. I would feel like I was going to black out and my lungs would feel like they were going to burst. So today to be running 30 minutes is a BIG BIG DEAL for me. All those feelings never came back to haunt me this time round. I really can't wait to get the period cramps out of the way and start running again, haze or no haze! I want to be able to run for an hour some day.

 

Anyway, when hubs asked me if I wasn't even going to rebound, I told him I felt really tired and was just going to give myself a break. He switched on the air-conditioner, we snuggled together and that made me really lazy and sleepy! In the end, we slept really early, he and I. I do feel better today but it's started to pour! Hopefully the rain clears the haze and this evening will see me pounding the pavement. Otherwise, I'll just hop on my trusty rebounder for my regular workout!