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Quick catch up

So as I have been mega quiet on here I thought I'd give you a wee post!! Have really been living quietly, working and gyming, trying to get organised for Christmas. Am now onto my last week of SOBD, 6 days a week for 5 weeks now and I am feeling it, my bed time is creeping earlier and earlier, I now wake up before my 5.45 alarm most days 😫 BUT Did my measurements and photos last week, have lost a kilo of fat and a few inches, photos show my stomach is getting flatter and I love my ass 😂😂 Good kick up the bum and a reminder to stay on track over Christmas. Another 5 days at the gym then a wee few days off while I'm in Prague ☺️ I can do this!!!💗xx

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Oh busy week!

Oh here I've been quiet this week!! Had a Monday-Friday 9-5 and I hate it! No cheeky days off or night shifts. My thoughts this week: 😠To hell with this scraping the car nonsense, was iced up before the gym, 50 minutes later was icing again! So I'm going to put a sleeping bag in the car to sit in while i blast the heaters to deice. 🤔people who go to the gym at 6am and spend the entire time chatting. Surely if ur there at that time it's to beast it and get the hell out, no roll about on a gym mat with your pal chatting about your outfit for the weekend. ☹️Hurt my shoulder at the gym on Wednesday and have been sleeping badly since, that horrible pain you get when you move the wrong way, annoying 😤blokes at the gym that are using every machine possible, last week one guy was claiming three machines at one time. Arse ☺️it's Friday, I'm off the weekend, tomorrow is a rest day because I have beasted it every day this week so far💗happy times!!

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One of those days

Today is absolutely one of those days. Didn't sleep amazingly well, and when I woke up two minutes before my alarm went off I had a serious debate with myself about if I should get up and go to the gym or bail, go back to sleep and go to the gym after work. That however would mean I had the full day of waiting to go to the gym and would conflict with my evening of sitting on the couch! (I'm 12 hour shifts the next two days so sitting on my couch tonight is very important!!) In summary, I didn't want to get up, I didn't want to go to the gym and I don't want to go to work. But I got up, I went to the gym (grumped my through through every set right enough) and I'm on my way to work. Thank god I prepped my lunch last night or today would be a write off. Don't need to win every day, sometimes you just need to get through it! I'll win tomorrow 😂😂 ☺️💗

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Cheeky day off work

Love a Monday off work, I had a lie in, went to the gym and have done loads in the flat and shopping wise. Feels lush wandering into the gym without worrying about having to be out for a certain time, and it was so quiet it was bliss! Went to the shops for a few things and tried on a dress I had been looking at. I should mention now that I am at that constantly sore stage from workouts, my arms become sore and heavy at shoulder height. So now the dress I got has a zip up the back and I was on my own. Because I'm so lazy and couldn't be bothered taking off my boots and skinny jeans to try on one dress,I had just slipped my jeans down so they wouldn't be in the way of the dress. The option of asking the changing attendant disappeared as I had vision of falling out the curtain to ask, landing in a heap on the floor with everything hanging out. Oaft. So I struggled on through the pain and got it to zip up! Yay! And the dress looks beaut, excited to wear it on a wee day out in Edinburgh next weekend. Then I went to Asda and had my trolley on the travelator when the damn thing decided to stop, the trolled are designed not to move on these things so I was stuck. Imagine me pushing the unmovable trolley up the thing it really doesn't want to move on! Second workout of the day! Think I've earned a wee sit on the couch watching Criminal Minds ☺️💗

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A new machine

Lynsey came to the gym again today so I decided I wanted to go on the body fat machine thing. Never done it before and thought because I had moral support today was a good day, plus having just done my progress photos etc today was the day. And that great thought lasted about two minutes. The machine told me I need to lose about 4 stone to be in healthy range, so I weigh too much, have too much fat and am morbidly obese. Great. I think these machines should have a function where you tell it what size bra you wear, I am at a distinct disadvantage here!! Ah well, beasted another work out and just get on with it 💗

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Making me accountable

Since Sarah gave me my fitness diary the other week, I realised I haven't done photos or measurements since finishing BC at Easter. Decided I would start this again this month as I've got a 6 week block to totally beast this programme. It's actually mental how much courage you have to build up to put on a bikini and get photos taken of yourself, then measurements. It definitely makes you accountable and is a massive motivation. The mirror can lie, and I'm a master at pretending the reflection is better then it is!! So around the 1st of each month I'm going to do this again and hopefully see a difference which will spur me on 👍🏻💗

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My Lynsey came to the gym with me!! First workout together in a good few years, good wee sesh but poor Ally was getting called all sorts throughout 😂☺️lynsey does not love Shred or Be Dead!xx

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Look how excited I was!! This was this morning, leaving mum and dad's house to go find a gym that would let me in without doing an induction. No gonna lie, u felt a bit like Dora the Explorer, only she knows better Spanish than me and her hair is always on fleek. I digress. So went to Linlithgow, meanie on reception wouldn't even consider letting me within spitting distance of the gym. To be honest if I tried to spit I'm pretty sure I would just dribble down my chin so I would need to be incredibly close. Oops, off topic again. So I toddled back to the car to head back to Bo'ness to the ancient Bo'ness Recreation Centre, many a time spent there in my youth and it had that feeling of it that it used to be much bigger. Anyway, receptionist again freaked out that I hadn't had an induction, but Andy who works in the gym wasn't bothered in the slightest and let me in nae bother. Yay Andy! I then did my entire workout looking like a startled rabbit trying to figure out how to do my weights etc on machines that aren't what I'm used to! Tomorrow, back to normal gym and active bitch face instead of trying to pretend I'm nice so people help me ☺️💗