Serves me right...

Still eating chocolate

Still polishing off the inevitable Christmas chocolate.

The sooner it's gone the better. What an excuse to keep eating!!

Started back on the elliptical - 2 x 10 minutes yesterday and 10 mins so far today. Using some of the programmes it has that vary the resistance and work pattern. Getting the hang of the controls, just have to do it more often now. It has a pulse meter that also measures your recovery rate, which is a useful tool to measuring any improvement in fitness. It rates you 1-6 with 6 being the poorest, currently I'm on 5 - pretty poor, but look forward to getting better!

Aren't the leftovers finished yet?

Well I've eaten so much I've lost track and daren't step on the scales for a day or two! Trouble is I'm hopeless at judging how much food to make when catering for more than just the two of us. In fact I'm bad enough for just the two of us! Portion sizes - what are they?!

Not to worry, once all the leftovers are gone we'll get back to normal. Now I've to get back on the cross-trainer and start in earnest.

PS I just love these wee smiley things

And it's here...!

The new cross-trainer (elliptical trainer) has arrived. First exercise of the day is carrying the blooming thing up the stairs. Phew! Even in bits it's heavy. Next exercise is of the mental variety - trying to put it together. Machine itself seems very strong and substantial (it'd have to be - who said that??!) but the plastic-casing-dust-protector-aesthetic bits don't fit together at all well and the screws are cr*p. The air was a teeny wee bit blue. I was on instruction manual reading, hubby was doing the nuts and bolts bits. But we got there, gosh it's tall. Have had a shotty, but need to read the manual to work out how the computer bit works. Looks quite clever!

Waiting for the delivery van - AGAIN

Well our new elliptical trainer has finally reached "The Depot" (wherever that is) this afternoon and will be with us tomorrow they say, but then they said it would be with us on Wednesday so I'm not holding my breath. Thing is, if they'd said Friday in the first place I'd have been quite pleased as we just ordered it on-line on Sunday - it's the broken promises that get me rattled.

Hubby's bike

Waiting for the delivery van....

We really chose a silly time of year to try to start cycling. Hubby braved the cold the other day but I was a wimp. I do a wee stint on the rowing machine, but probably not as much as I could or should. Eating OK - so slowly and steadily losing a few pounds. So I don't feel too bad about it!

So anywayjust to help things along... I persuaded Hubby that we (just!) have enough room for an elliptical cross-trainer. I've read so many posts from people singing their praises on various forums that I thought it would be The Thing to get me through Winter, emerging a bit fitter in the Spring ready to CYCLE!

It should have been delivered today, but, what do you know - no show! So infuriating!!

They'll "Try to chase it up first thing tomorrow" - another day of waiting.

Until tomorrow...