Today (day 3) I had my first personal training session and man am I unfit! Joey, a lady – it is a woman’s gym after all, set up a circuit for Mum and I with 8 different stations.

We did each exercise for 1 minute the first round and 30 secs the second round. The exercises were; squats with dumbbells, medicine ball swings, step ups, medicine ball sit ups, squats with bar weight, side step ups, shoulder press with bar weight and the plank.

After the first 3 exercises I was starting to feel the full force of my lack of fitness but I managed to push through although holding that damn plank position for 1 minute was tough! Halfway through the 30sec round I started to get light headed and that sick, feel like I’m going to throw up, feeling hit me.  You know, that feeling really, really unfit people get.

Food wise today has had a menu of muesli and fruit along with a protein shake for breakfast (not the nicest tasting things are they?) morning snack of cheese and grapes. Lunch was yummy, half a wholemeal bagel with smoked salmon, lite cream cheese and mesclun salad. It was supposed to be 90g grams of the salmon but there was no way I could eat that much salmon so it was more like 45g. Dinner was another chicken stir-fry with a lemon flavouring to it this time. Dessert tonight will be yoghurt, fruit and nuts. I was supposed to have nuts with breakfast too but completely forgot!

Friday is my birthday and I’m thinking about a small treat that I can have to celebrate. I’m thinking a small amount of yummy dark chocolate perhaps? Or an icecream? I’m not sure yet, it’s got to be something worth it though. Hmmm, still thinking about that one.