sylviane's journal

Monday: no laps but 'swim-fitness', which means basically all sorts of activity in the water from normal swim-stroke to excersizes for your belly- arms-legs-etc. Exhausting, but fun to do. It meant I was for about 2 hours in the swimming-pool, becaus the do it with intervals to not exhaust you too much.

Tuesday: 50 laps 1000m

And then it turned Wednesday (today) I started of with my usual 50 laps, halfway (around the 32nd lap) the whirlpool in the swimming-pool got turned on, because kids wanted to use it (it's one of the difficulties of swimming in the 'recreational' pool). I cursed, because the whirlpool creates a current in the water that is hard to fight. But I stubbornly decides to at least finish 40 laps, because,.. well, I like round numbers. While I was resting between the 37th and 38th lap (because with the strong current I try not to overdo my swimming) I overheard some woman explain to another that the lessons on 'aqua-fit' were back at 11am.

Prior to the summer-holidays they used to be around 10.30-10.45 am, but the teacher got sick and couldn't come for a while and they seemed cancelled all-together, but after the summer-holidays they came back, but at 11.15 which was considered by many as 'too late', because a lot of us have to pick up (grand)kids from school at noon. So, now it is back at 11.00, so I thought I'd join (it's free) believing it would be the usual jumping around to some music...

So, because I still had 15 minutes to burn before it was 11am, I swam  slowly until I had done my 50 laps and hung around until the aqua-fit session would start. You know: loud music, a bit hopping around, doing some vague excersizes that get you very wet and that are fun to do...

Ahm, no... we had another  teacher and he ... made us swim laps! So in total I did 72 laps this morning. I was tired but feeling 'goooooooood' ...

Then Iris reminded me that she would have lessons in water-polo tonight, which had completely escaped my attention. I had said last week that i could use the time between dropping her off (around 6.30pm) until the recreational pool closes (7pm) to swim some extra laps had i thought of it and this time SHE thought of it. So,.... I swam another 20 laps tonight.... My legs are dead and my arms feel like made of reinforced concrete, but I still feel 'gooooooood' !

I think I'm getting addicted to swimming... No swimming Thursday and Friday, because, well, those days, you know. But I expect to be in the pool on Monday! Can't wait!

 

 
 Lost this last week: 1.2 kg






Since my new start on 15 August:

Lost: 2.0 kg

Which means 43.0 kg to go before 25 June 2013

Alright, silly me, but I have a bit of mixed feelings here. I'm happy that it is 1.2 kg, but I had wanted it to be more. (Greedy little me) I may be imagining this, but it feels as if certain parts of my body (thighs, belly in particular) seem to shrink, my arms seem to get more shape, but I don't see it on the scale.

I also know that it's natural. I'm not on a 'shock'-diet, but altering my way of eating and because of that I lose weight slowly and steadily and my body will therefore adjust at a slow pace, and it's normal to lose weight, stand still while your body 'catches up' and then lose weight again. I know of all that.

I also have to remember that because of my swimming the fat may go, but the muscles grow, so maybe that also accounts for the idea of shrinking on one hand (certainly for the better contours of my arms) but remaining stable on the scale....

I also keep in mind that I've lost 11 kg since the start of this year. Still... I would have liked to see less kg on the scale... It would give me a bit of a moral boost. I know I'm on the right path, but ... Just a little less kg on the scale?

Come on, Syl, hold on to the good points!

Yeah! to the 1.2 kg this week.
Yeah! to the 2.0 kg in total since 15 Aug.
Yeah! to the 11.kg in total since 2 Jan.

So, it's been 14 days since my 45th birthday. Provided the world doesn't end on 21 December 2012 or if I'm not struck by death and/or dismemberment by that date, my next birthday will be on Wednesday 5 June 2013.

Following an idea from Brothers & Sisters (Justin's) I have thought about the changes I want to make in my life. Last year I had made a '45 things to do before I turn 45'-list, thought it was of a joke than some carefully drafted plan, but when I ran into that list a week ago and read that list back, I realized that from all the things I had marked (even if in joke) I had accomplished only one thing, which was more by accident, than by my own decision.

I found that actually a bit unacceptable. I admit that certain things would have been difficult to accomplish or would have required some luck ('meeting Matthew' to name one), but not everything on that list was beyond my possibilities. So, I've started to work on that list again and this time it's for real.

And if anyone's curious: I've decided to call it the 45-project, because I like 45 a lot better than 46 ;)