Day 73 - What a difference a day makes

Sorry for my whiney post yesterday. I was totally in a funk. Thank you to everybody for your supportive words. They really did help.

Things have totally turned around in the last 24 hours.

Firstly, I jumped on the scales this morning and they read 72.8kg. Finally!! They had been stuck on around 73.4kg for a week or so. So that brings total loss to 11kg so far.

Then I remembered that today the office was officially closed for Obon. A child-free non-work day!! The first one since Max was born. I knew I had to make the most of it.

So after breakfast and dropping the Maxinator at daycare, I scurried home on foot (cardio, cardio) to knock over my skips and workout. Skips were not too bad today but then they are always better after I have completely woken up and eaten breakfast.

Pull-ups are still a joke but I go through the motions of every rep and set trying to "grease those wheels". Lawnmowers I can really feel in my back. Pulldowns gave lots of burn.

OMG triceps hello!! I failed on each set of the tricep dips and only managed 10 on the last one. I was failing after about 15-20 during the tricep extensions. Abs - again I am substituting V-sits for kung fus and the bicycle was brutal.

All skips and workout done within the hour and feeling like I had really achieved more than I have in a while.

Morning fruit - snack, yoghurt and egg white.

So my day has continued to move on at full speed as I managed to get a waxing appointment at Boudoir in preparation for our beach holiday mini-break from Sunday. After this, I walked up to the Olympic pool at Sendagaya and did some laps in the 50m pool - cardio, cardio.

By jingo, by crikey, 50 m is a long way! (OK you swimmers stop laughing)

I kept to the slow lane and managed about 20 lengths using a combination of different strokes and even a few laps of just using a kickboard. I guess this took me around 25 minutes so I was going pretty slow.

It was my first time at this pool and as I have a few baby free days next week, I plan to return. The use of the gym is also included in the entry price and the facilities are lovely. A change of scenery for my workouts will be something to look forward to. Conny - want to join me?

I did catch sight of myself in my bathing costume and even I had to admit I am looking much healthier and more athletic than I have in a very long time. My body shape has really changed in the last few months.

So I am feeling kinda fly today. 

Side note: I did amuse the lovely older Japanese ladies with my fresh brazilian wax and bright red c-section scar. (TMI?) There were more than a few double takes in the shower room. I am now sorry I didn't opt for a vagazzle today. That would have been a total laugh.

Then I had to race off back to daycare to feed Max by 1pm. It was a busy morning and I was really tired. As I walked to my office from daycare and I could really feel the exhaustion in my legs.

But here I am now in my office having eaten lunch, faffed on the internet and plan on catching up on a heap of work. No rest for the wicked as they say. It is lovely and quiet with no phones ringing. I am surprisingly full of energy today which is a big shift from the last week and definitely better than yesterday when I hit bottom.

By god I babble on and overshare the minutiae of my life. It will be funny for me to read this blog in the future but it is probably dull as dishwater to anybody who reads it - if any.