Day 2

Today I am sore. Very sore. And for a good portion of the day I didn't smell too great either. But on the plus side - I have completed another day of the 30 Day Shred and done not 1 but 2 sections of the couch to 5K program.

Days 2 and 3 of 'The Shred' are supposed to be the worst, but you just have to push yourself through the pain and do it. Despite being only a 20 minute (I think it's more like half an hour once you add on the warm up and cool down though!) work out, as Jillian says 'if you want to work out for 20 minutes a day and see a difference you're really going to need to push', so it's 20 minutes of HARD work. My legs tremble and my whoel body aches and my arms become these dead weights I have hanging off the side of my body. But I get through. Not sure how, but I do. I guess in the scheme of things 30 days is a short time period to see a difference in, and you do see a difference - if you stick with it.

The reason I decided to start with the Shred was because it targets all areas. My main issues right now are my arms and my stomach - but the funny thing is that those are my skinniest areas when I'm slim, I tend to really not carry weight around my middle at all up to about 10stone, so that just highlights how overweight I really am. Due to this though I just want to really concentrate on burning fat off and dropping the lbs, because the last place you gain weight is the first place you lose it - and I don't want to get caught up in only working 1 area of my body. I will be focussing on different areas later on in my weightloss but in addition that I will hopefully still be doing to couch to 5K program (or maybe even moved on from it!) so I should still be burning fat all over.

So in keeping with my burning fat all over the best way to burn fat seems to be cardio - which is why I did 2 sections of the C25K program today. I noticed yesterday that despite feeling like I was in hell for part of it the running seemed to get easier towards the end once I got into the stride of it so to speak, so I decided to start with level 1 before going on to complete another day of level 2. I wasn't expecting to see any dramatic difference in my running ability in a day and I didn't - but I did take my inhaler and I did use it once, but only when I was on to the level 2 part of the workout. The difference this made was that I didn't have to pause or take any extra rests, I was able to keep going with the program and run when I was meant to and only take the rests I was meant to - so that was encouraging. I'm not saying it was easy but I did it. In an hour I covered 3.5 miles, so I'm obviously running really slowly and walking so slowly that I may as well be at a standstill but I'm really not fussed about times at this point - I just want to be able to keep going.

I'm away to the cinema just now, which is going to be hard because I'm usually a bag of minstrels and an ice cream type of girl but I have gone to our little tesco extra (the beauty of living in the city centre) and picked up a berry medley - strawberries, red grapes and blackberries - and 2 Juicy Fruit Twist fruit salads - pineapple, strawberries and apple - to take with me, that should hopefully let me feel as though I'm still eating something.

And I'm going to see The Avengers (again - I love it!) so if I can't get motivated from looking at Scarlett Johansson, who believe it or not has the same body as me when I'm thin, in a cat suit then there's probably no hope left for me anyway!