It's been a while

It's been a while since I posted and I am happy to report that things are sunnier in the house of jojo at the moment. I'm:
Back at teaching tap dancing.
Training for the 1/2 marathon in October.
Lots of good stuff to look forward to.
Am not eating chocolate.
Taking my vitamin supplements every day, and making sure I exercise no matter what.
And I've even compromised my interior design tastes by including a brand new piece of exercise equipment in our loungeroom! We just got a spin bike so we can watch tv and exercise at the same time. I'll get onto it tonight while catching up on shows I've taped.



1/2 marathon training is going fine. With 8 weeks to go it should be ok provided I follow the program and keep myself out of injury.

love,

Miss jojo xx

Agile - was it worth it?

Probably. I did learn a few things out of this experiment.

1. My weekly patterns are quite predictable and boring.
2. There are a couple of habits I have that are stopping me from maintaining my weight and the worst is chocolate at work.
3. Injuries have really stuffed me up. I actually think it would be good for me to lighten up my training for improvement and instead just train at an even pace for a while. I am rethinking whether to do the half marathon in June or leave it until October.
4. Monitoring and planning every day (online or in a book) does increase accountability.

That's all for now. When I get inspired about something again I'll blog again.

cheerio

Miss Jojo xx

Agile experiment over

Will hold a retrospective at the end of the week.

miss jojo is lazy

At posting. I had a big weekend of food and wine, and I exercised too. The food was healthy(ish) but I ate a LOT! I can see my stomach has expanded already. Hopefully some of it's just hot air.
wot I did yesterday
Yesterday I ate enough food for 1.5 people.
Ran 8km in the mother's day classic.

Today
I am struggling with food - I ate my lunch at 11:30 and ate 3 pieces of fruit so far.
Planning active recovery session (half an hour cardio at the gym).


Obstacles
My brain is better and my soul is back. Except for the simple bad habit of wanting to eat chocolate at work, I'm alright and motivated appropriately.

cheerio

Miss Jojo

Agile Friday

I'm *starting* to feel better. Last night as I was driving to tap I pondered that I understand why depressed people kill themselves - if I thought there was no way out of feeling like this I'd feel doomed too. It made me think that I'd better scoot off to the doctor again, and maybe this time I should take up his suggestion of trying anti depressants for a week a month. I've been trying to keep it at bay with good food and exercise and vitamins, but this week has been an internal hell week for me.

My body is looking pretty good though - tummy is nice and flat and jeans are suitably loose. On with the agile post.

Yesterday
Ran 40 minutes, 1 hr hard tap class, and I also walked for 25 minutes with a hand bag, a fully packed gym bag, and four compressed pillows! Functional training at work.
I ate good food, except of course for chocolate. I burnt the chocolate off and I didn't eat my lunch - I had the chocolate instead. For the record: 400 calories worth.

Today
Walking to and from osteo = about 1 hour extra walking. All up I will walk maybe two hours today.
I'm hoping the osteo clears me to start doing some uppper body work.
Tonight we are going out for dinner - wine and Vietnamese food. Yum.

Obstacles
The ususal, boring, repetetive, when will I ever learn. I don't make the chocolate eating behaviour non-negotiable.

Miss Jojo xxxxx

agile thursday

In the immortal words of Dolly Parton here we go again. My mantra today is calm, even as my head and body are filled with poisonous thoughts and feelings. I swear I am mentally ill 2 - 3 days before my period, and my heart is made of stone. Fun, huh?

Yesterday
tap only. did not run - work is crazy and I don't get a break.
ate really really well. I am proud of myself for that.

Today
run or else I think I will kill myself.
tap tonight.
eat good food.

Obstacles
work. I'm so stressed with the amount of things I have to get done, and I am committing to my work commitments this week. I need to be a power house and knock off about ten things, all due today, and then I can get out for a run.
I've double dosed the Blackmores PMT tablets but left it too late.

Summary
thank god I a) know that what I am feeling has a physiological cause and b) know that the end is in sight in a day or so, otherwise I would be a really scary human being.

Miss Jojo

Finding it bloody hard to fit in a run

I didn't run yesterday. Interviews all ran late, got home at 7:30 and with no dinner preparation in sight decided I should cook something to get us through the next few nights, then did an hour's tap choreography, then went to bed!

Got up to do it all again today. I brought in my running clothes and I'm trying to squeeze in 40 minutes at 11:45 this morning. Better not spend too much time blogging!

Yesterday
no exercise, but I ate good.

Today
2 tap classes (= about 300 calories)
40 minute run
eat good - easy as we're having vego indian for lunch (no cream or coconut) and then I have tuna pasta for dinner which is scrumptious and really really good for me

Obstacles
gotta remember to breathe, and just make time for the run


PS PMT is going well - said "Fuck" in front of my team today and yelled at the admin manager