Emotional Times

It's been a seriously emotional week here!
My little (not so little) boy left primary school yesterday and I think it has affected me much more than I thought it was going to!

For the last week I have been a complete ball of emotion. I didn't really know what to expect and I'm certainly not ready for the boy to move on to pastures new, but I guess this is the start of an exciting new chapter, one that I hope will be as successful as the previous one for him!

Because of everything that has been going on, and because of all the school events my exercise and diet plan has well and truly fallen by the wayside. So far this week I've made it to the gym once for leg day.
It has been quiet nice to take a week off and focus on things other than chicken and water, however I am now itching to get back to the gym and smash it next week. Getting to the gym and working out around the kids is going to be somewhat difficult!

European Night

Crikey I am really rubbish at the minute.....I've been working on a few things and all will be revealed soon!
Anyway I promised a post about the Euro night we went to so here it is!

I've been working out hard lately as I was desperate to wear a dress! I bought a dress I absolutley loved - and the fact that is was a bargin from Dorothy Perkins made me love it even more! I was desperate to show how hard I've been working.....That was the idea anyway!!
Instead I got there wearing my dress and immediatley felt fat and self concious. Now I know I still have a long long way to go but looking how far I've come by now I really should be feeling better about myself.....seemingly not! I worry more now about what I look like than I did before I started losing weight. I guess I'm just more conscious of it.
So the night consisted of me asking my husband multiple times a second whether my hair was ok, whether I looked fat etc. It also meant that I missed a big portion of the night as I was worrying A LOT.........

However despite this a fab time was had by all! We drank lots and ate lots - far too much...After not eating bread for nearly 6 months I suddenly consumed a lot of French Bread and by 10pm was feeling huge and bloated. This did nothing to help with my self conscious worrying!

Anyway here is a few pictures from the night......

 

Despite not drinking a massive amount my head was rather sore the next day so we headed to the seaside for a bit of chill out time. The only problem was it rained most of the time we were there but never the less we had a great family afternoon out.

 

Round Up

Whew what a weekend! It has been the most amazing weekend and I'm so sad it's over!

Diet and exercise went totally out of the window....but none of that matters because we went to the TOUR DE FRANCE in Yorkshire! It was amazing...............

Yep that's the Yellow Jersey right there!

 

AMAZING SIGHT!

The rest of the week prior to the weekend had been a rip roaring success...well for me anyway. My diet has largely been clean - I've eaten a tonne of chicken and drank so much water that I feel like I'm drowning! I've also done the first proper week on my new weights gym plan. 

Monday is now LEG DAY - Yes it hurts, Yes it's hard but it is now by far my favourite day of the week.....Hamstrings and Quads get a total hammering.I also do my abs on a monday. To be honest doing abs seems a bit of a waste of time being as there is still so much fat sitting around my stomach but it's on the plan so I'll do as I'm told.

Tuesday is BACK AND BICEPS - My least favourite day.....No idea why but I really really dislike working my biceps and it seems to be taking a long long time for me to see any results on my back.

Wednesday is TRICEPS, CHEST AND ABS DAY

Thursday is REST DAY

Friday is PT day

SATURDAY is family SPIN day! My son is now 11 and is now old enough to go to a spin class with me. He loves it and he certainly works harder than a lot of the adults in the class!

Sunday is REST DAY.

This coming Saturday we are going to a wine tasting event. I've got my outfit....(European Fancy Dress) so I'll write a post about that later in the week :-)

For now here's a couple more photo's from yesterdays tour!

 

RESULTS & CATCH UP

I know, I know it's been a while again!
Life suddenly got really really busy for me. My new business seems to be going from strength to strength (more on that another day) and with trying to fit work, the gym and general family life in my blog seems to have been put on the back burner.
I have found I've been missing it lots though so I will be back soon!
Anyway here are some progress pics in the meantime!

In all honesty I think I look fatter now than I did back in May but on the plus side my bum seems to have lifted lots - must be all the squats!