I don't know if anyone is going to read this. To be honest, I'd been toying with the idea of starting a blog this year for personal use anyway, but in a fit of ego decided to tell other people about the url. So if you're here, hey!
The aim of this really is to document my diet and fitness over the 2011 derby season. I've flirted with keeping diet journals and blogs before, but having recently rediscovered my enjoyment of just jotting stuff down I felt like I should make more of a concerted effort this year. Feck knows if I'll stick with it, but I'm a big girl now and should be able to manage a little commitment, surely?
I'd like to emphasise that this is not a calorie and cookie blog. I don't weigh myself, I don't obsess, I'm not about trying to squish myself into a stupidly inappropriate dress size. No, this, like everything else in my life at the moment, is about roller derby.
A little background. Back at the end of 2006 I topped the scales at a grossly unfunny 121kg. Looking back on it now it's hardly surprising as my diet was pretty disgusting, but at the time my denial was so strong you could make a series of Egypt-related drowning jokes out of it. Eventually, my denial became horror, which became crying in supermarkets and ended up at gritting my teeth and deciding that SOMETHING needed to be done. I tried LighterLife for a few weeks, and lost some weight. I decided to come off the program as a) it cost about $150 a week and b) the group therapy thing was nice but really not for me. However, losing some weight almost immediately let me know that I COULD lose weight (which is where previous dieting efforts had failed) and that all I needed to do was persevere.
So I did. I stopped buying huge packets of junk food. I quit sitting on the couch snacking every evening. I quit buying beer and finding excuses to drink it when I got home. I quit my long term relationship that just wasn't working. My mountain bike came out of storage and got serious use. I stopped being afraid of exercise, started enjoying what my body could do.
I feel like I totally wasted my early 20's, but then isn't that what they reckon that's what your early 20's are for? Whatever, I feel like an idiot for spending my prime feeling winded and covered in chins.
In July 2010, roller derby happened to me. It was falling in love again, complete with funny sweaty smells and inexplicable bruises. Since I decided to lose weight I'd tried my hand at scenario paintball for a year, become a regular gym-goer, practiced yoga, become passable at rock climbing and enjoyed all of them, but this was different. It was like I'd finally found the reason I'd been doing all this. It was a reason to get fit, not to eat that muffin. It was (and is) bloody awesome.
As of December 2010 I weigh 84kg. I've lost almost a third of myself and I don't miss me at all. My goal for this year is not a weight or a dress size, it's to eat right, work hard and get better in my skating, my derby and my general fitness and diet.
I thought a good way of tracking progress would be to take full-body shots every month or so, wearing the same kind of clothes so I have a little record of how I'm doing. I'll be keeping a wee track of what I'm eating and what I'm doing to burn off the eating, and tapping out thoughts on how I feel about what I'm doing, about derby, teaching, and whatever else floats across my field of interest.
So, day one. First time on skates this year, and I was quite pleased that I was able to do two round of at least 25 laps of the derby rink in 5 minutes. The first one I totally muddled my lap counting but the second one was 27 laps in 5 minutes (I need to be able to do 25). It felt pretty good to be able to do it after a couple of weeks away from skating, I'd been worried that I'd have lost my skate fu but it looks like I'll be back on form pretty quickly. I skated for about 2 hours total, most of that at a comfortable pace, with lots of transition (skating backward) practice, swoops, milk bottles etc. thrown in there.
Food-wise, we woke to no bread or milk so brekkie was a Primo Extremo breakfast milkshake. Lunch was a scoop of "energy booster" fruit and nut mix from the supermarket, and a couple of apples from the fridge did as snacks. For dinner I made pumpkin and eggplant curry (this recipe, only add an eggplant to the pumpkin mix, and brown an onion and add to the low-fat coconut milk. I also added some fresh chillis as I like some heat to my food and had run out of ginger and chickpeas. It tasted a bit different to the delicious original but still very tasty!) and had a couple of slices of brown bread to go with it. I've drank loads of water and had a few cups of tea (trim milk, no sugar).
So, here's to 2011 and hopefully a brilliant year. Just over a month until I sit my skills test, and then, the WORLD!
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