Have a lovely time in Aus Kyk and good luck for the match!

Ooh and how long will you be gone?

I'm back in the country on Saturday June 8th and back at work on the Monday, though where my brain will be at that point is anyone's guess!!!!

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!

My flag is looking very wet!

I'm going to put on this week for sure. I went to a friends birthday party yesterday. Although I didn't eat anything but a few onion ring crisps and a few nut things, I drank loads. But, I was going to have the day off the diet whatever!
I will be good, so hopefully it will not be too much.

We won a match and I got my Sweaty Betty top! I'm actually in a good mood after a Wigan game for a change

Bizarrely my appetite seems to have disappeared today. My run should have burned over 1000 calories, but I seem to have wanted to eat less than normal which is really strange. I was hungry when I got back but apart from that I've been strangely indifferent to food all day.

Long may it continue!

Yay Wigan!!!! And yay tops, and you strange woman trekking all the way to the trafford Centre only to buy a running top!!! Oh vey, the extent of your madness.

Well that's it from me folks, I'm off - like bucket of prawns in the sun!!

I'll miss you all!!!!

Well it sounds like you've all had very energetic weekends. I'm running in the week and (mostly) resting on the weekends so I can't say anything that sounds very impressive. I was very sluggish on my walk/jog this morning. I have started the official week 2 of the C25K programme (although actually week 3 of running) and realised (with the aid of a stopwatch for the first time) that I have been doing week 2 (virtually) all along That said, I don't understand why I was so sluggish today. I jogged veeerrry slowly and had no energy or enthusiasm - one of the dogs was the same.

I was very bad on Friday, we took my sister and her bf out to celebrate getting their degrees. We went to a very expensive restaurant in a very beautiful location, with appalling service and the biggest portion sizes I have ever seen in my life. Of course I didn't feel I could leave anything, and by the time I got home I felt so bloated and uncomfortable and my stomach was sticking out so far that I just felt like crying I've been very good since though, and have still managed to lose my 2lb for this week. I'm glad that I've managed to keep myself on track, but I have had a lot more cravings this weekend than normal. I don't know whether it is psychological, due to the diet coke I had, or maybe the fatty foods.

Have a great time in Aus Kykaree!

Bye bye Kyk

Well, I will have you know that acording to the Beeb's weather thingy - we are 22oC today and Sydney is 18oC. Not sure where Kyk is going to though.

Yes, tis now winter in Oz. Northern Australia will presumably still be pretty hot though.

OMG, did I make a mistake today!!!

I had promised to go to this circuit training class at a local pub which has been turned in to a sort of community centre, so I thought (for no good reason) that it was not going to be up to much so I decided to do my normal 2 hour walk with the dogs and an hour long upper body workout/abs/stretches session.

I dragged my neighbour along to keep me company and when we got to the ex-pub and there was a large group of 'older' ladies. My neighbour and I had a chat and decided that it would be embarrasing to just walk out so we'd just stay for the class then go on to the gym. Then this lean, tanned, whirlwind of a woman came hurtling in - it was the instructor and she is is totally and completely FABULOUS. Both her body and face looked to be about 30 until you get up close and can see a few lines around the eyes - you could have scraped me up off the floor when she told us she was 63!!!!

She worked us really, REALLY hard - we did 30 mins aerobics, 30 mins salsacise and, just when I thought I couldn't do any more, she launched in to 30 mins resistance training with those stretchy band things. I am completely shattered. All for £1.20.

I'm definitely going next Monday afternoon but I won't be lifting weights in the morning.

wow! bargain!

Are you going again??!

Wow Sarah, that sounds like an impressive workout! I did half an hour of weights and a half hour swim this morning, nothing too strenuous because it's a semi-rest day.

I really seem to have lost my appetite over the past couple of days, I don't know what's wrong with me but I'm not complaining! I'm still eating what I plan to eat, but I'm not feeling the need to snack (I usually give myself a fair bit of leeway to eat a couple of unplanned snacks each day - usually fairly healthy stuff but so I don't feel like I'm entirely stuck on what I've got planned.

Tonight I've made a nice big salad and I've got some lentil and veg balls I made yesterday in the oven, then probably just fruit.

I think I might have signed up to play netball for work, I haven't played netball for years and I'm starting to get worried about what I've let myself in for!

Yes, I'll go again and so will my neighbour. I never thought I could ever enjoy aerobics as much as I did this afternoon, even though my legs still feel a bit wobbly and its left me incredibly hungry!

I have to go back anyway, I never got to ask the instructor any of the questions I need an answer to.

Helen - netball???????? Urghhh! Its taken me months to realise that my lifelong hatred of all sports/exercise stems back to team sports at school.... netball in particular. BTW, your meals always sound so nice - I'd love to eat more veggie meals but I can't be bothered to prepare two different dinners for me and DH - bless him, he never complains and he eats all my lovingly prepared low GI meals (every day), the two oily fish meals per week and an occasional veggie meal or two per month so it doesnt seem fair to ask him to give up even more of his beloved meat/chicken. He's even given up kebabs and fish 'n' chips for me. Must be

It's your foreign correspondent here. I am in Singapore taking advantage of the free internet and killing some time before my next flight in about 2 hours time. It's quite cool here, for Singapore anyway, and its raining.

I am going to be in Melbourne for a week, which makes Sydney's 18 degrees look enviable, it'll be freeezing. And in true travelling tradition, I forgot something....my winter fleece which is on the back of the chair in the kitchen!

Then on to Hobart which will be colder still, then Adelaide which should be fairly mild, then ending my travels in Sydney.

So far so good, I have only eaten plane food, no naughty snacks in the airports. I can't wait to get to Melbourne, only 7 more plane hours to go!!!!

I miss you all already, wish I could have brought you all with me!!!!