Exercise good... chips bad!

So I scouted through the listings for this Fitness TV. Set 4 things to record, 2 for me and 2 for the munchkin.

While they where recording and munchkin was in bed, I started to do the street dance work out. Hmm, well not really what I was expecting, it just seemed a little unprofessional and directions where a little ambiguous. So after 11 minutes I gave up and did fitness coach. 30 minutes of fitness coach and 143 calories burned was good enough for me.

Tonight happened to be “fake tan night”, so when I wanted to do more exercise this evening I was a bit limited. Sweat and fake tan do not mix well! So I did (The second of my Fitness TV recordings) “Beginners Pilates”. It was an hour long, but actually about 20 minutes was adverts, I can imagine it would be a pain to do it live. So my tip… record their shows and don’t attempt them live! However, that being said, it was great! Good clear instruction, professional looking recording, and it would be excellent for beginners. I found it a little slow, but only because it was focussing a lot on positioning and breathing, most of which I already knew.

I now plan on recording any other Pilates and Yoga shows they have on in the hope they are all as good. Will keep you updated on what I think of them.


Food wise, basic start of cornflakes with good old semi skimmed milk.

Lunch was 2 eggs scrambled on 2 slices of toast.

Dinner was a small portion of oven chips.

Snack was frozen yoghurt.

I guess the total is about 1,500? Not fab for trying to ditch weight but hopefully the 1 hr 10 of exercise will remove a couple of hundred calories from that total :) Still a serious lack of fruit and veg despite having bought loads! I WILL exchange cereal tomorrow for two portions of fruit!!


Watching big brother made me envious, I wish I could live there on a week when they live on basic rations. How great would that be for weight loss?! And that Asian girl who went out last week what was her name? Heira? Sorry if I have that wrong, I would want her in the house with me so I could join in with her exercise routines! Oh or Lisa and Mario from last year! They where exercise mad! And fake tan mad too come to think of it – they could help me put mine on my back ha!

Not sure if I will get to post again until Sunday as I am off on a trip to Cardiff via Birmingham to go and see U2 with some friends. Hopefully food will stay in the good calorie range as one of my friends is healthy eating too as she gets married in a week. Not long until weigh day (Monday) so I really need to keep my eye on the ball to have some poundage off! Will make sure I do Fitness Coach before I go out tomorrow. Its fitness test time, so it will make me do jumping jacks until I feel sick and then measure all my body parts to see how I am doing … wish me luck!

Oh btw – Ben and Jerrys frozen yoghurt is only £1.99 in Tesco this week. Better than ice-cream and tastes just as good. Go get some if you want a healthy option in place of ice-cream!