Confessions of a Diet Queen

It’s quite obvious I have not been around for the past few weeks. Let me fill you in. I was involved in navigating an expedition to locate and plot the edges of Earth. Well, it turns out the earth is in fact round and not at all flat. And, there is a little something called gravity which keeps our feet and houses firmly planted on the ground (and prevents our skirt hems from floating around our ears). Who would have thought? Case closed.

I had a few different blogs up my sleeve but today I want to condense them and cram them all into today’s blog:

1. Everyone knows Google is pretty fantabulous. I mean of all the blogging platforms I chose their very own Blogger. And I’m sure glad I did because I just discovered with this one account I can access so much more than I ever dreamed possible. Now having only just been made aware of all these new tricks I can do, which the entire online population probably already know, makes me feel about eighty instead of twenty five, makes me feel like my mum who is still learning to text/sms (and has subsequently given up – voice calls only), makes me feel like someone who still uses floppy disks, makes me feel like…..um….. insert something very very witty . OK so it is obvious I’m a leeetle bit behind. But anyway, I’m giving a shout out to Google Calendar (which took me hours to figure out how to stick in my blog) and Google Docs. With your one Google account you can create calendars and spreadsheets to keep on top of your gym schedule and track your progress with say a food journal (or whatever factor of your life that you are trying to get organised). It’s all too easy, you can edit them at any time wherever you like ('wherever?' you say… yes, even if you are a baboon at San Diego Zoo)

2. I completed my first of three personal training sessions at the gym. This one was just for the PT to get an idea of my fitness. Turns out my bio age is 23 while I’m actually twenty five, yay for me. Actually, I think I may have made my diet sound a bit better than it actually is, but he said my super duper awesome healthy blood pressure is what actually gave me such good results. Now, I haven’t weighed myself in almost a year, I have been avoiding it at all costs. But it was important to finally record my weight so I would have some sort of goal to work towards. Without further ado, I am ……………..63kg (no shoes), and being 159cm short my BMI is calculated as 24.96. A BMI of 25+ is classed as overweight with an elevated risk of weight associated disease. Looks like my self imposed weight loss intervention is not a moment to soon.

3. There was one more thought that I felt compelled to put out there. But I can’t remember anymore since I have been sick for the past week and my brain has turned to mush with the onset of several debilitating migraines. I honestly was starting to fear swine flu, but now that the head pain is down to a dull throb I think I’m on the mend.

Stay tuned for more positive gym outcomes.

Diet Queen