A mood picture from Copenhagen, Denmark

Soooo.... Another week has gone. The training part has been as poor as the last weeks, but I did manage to have my first yoga session at home yesterday! That is not bad! :) The reason the training has been put on hold is because of the terrific weather in Oslo these days. We have had around 30 degrees the last week and that is to warm to be running in for a poor person from the north.... Last Wednesday I had a running date with a friend, but then my car broke down when we were on our way to Sognsvann so now for the last week I have been driving a motor cyckle. It sounded like a good idea, but I have forgotten how scared I am for driving one of them... Well - practise make perfekt and I feel like I can do it a bit better now. :) I dont feel like I'm gonna fall down in every turn I make. :) The biggest problem is that I havent had the energy to go to the gym after beeing sweating on the bike... To be dragging around all the gear in to the gym and lock the bike down with chains and stuff... It just didnt feel like it was worth it.

BUT! I have an ecxiting new thing to tell about! I went to Denmark last friday - the 26/6 - and I got inseminated. So now I am hopefully pregnant. :) Just need to wait another 10 days before I can take a test to be sure. But I REALLY hope so! It costs a lot of money and hurt a lot (more than I were prepared for!) and it was a really big thing to do for a girl on her own, but if it will bring me a baby I'm up for it! :)

It is a bit scary, but I know that this is what I dream of. Cross our fingers!! And I dont want to jinx it so I'm gonna stop talking about it now before I am certain of the result. :)

By the way...

... the "no candy deal" starts on Tuesday...

Obstacles...

Well - this week was SUPPOSED (!!!) to be filled with exercise - but ended up in the couch. I had a terrible week at work with totally NO inspiration - and I just wanted to be somewhere else the whole time. I have had trouble with food this week - my stomach didn't want any and the things I eat doesn't taste any good. I have also committed to a "no candy until august"deal with a friend so this weekend I have eaten to much candy - even if it doesn't taste any good! So now my stomach is really upset and that means no running other places than to the toilet. I have finally managed to eat a couple of sandwiches so maybe I will feel better later. And if I DO feel better I am definitely going out for a run. Maybe Sognsvann who is only 3 km long instead of my usually route on 7 km around Østensjøvannet.

I also need to go to Lutvann and see where I can park. I have a deal with a friend from work to go running out there on Tuesday, but none of us have been there before so I'm sent out on a mission to check out the parking facilities. :) It is close to a military camp so it should not be to big of a deal. I have another plan for a place to exercise too and that is to start running in stairs not far from my job. The place is Svartdalsparken. I am wondering if not the stairs from the old Holmenkollen ski park is still there to... A bit longer to drive, but those stairs are HEAVY to conquer... Maybe I finally will end up with a nice ass. ;)

So - back to the deal about no candy! My body really need good nutrition now... I can feel how terrible my body react on all the sugar and bad fat, so I hope to change my eating habits to be more about vegetables and fruits and white meat. I am not starting a quest to find hidden sugar, but I need to cut down on candy. Chocolate to be more precise. We have agreed that pop corn and potato chips is legal so there will still be a happy Saturday. :) Maybe - after a while - I can manage to cut that out to.

Cross your fingers! ;)

A small update

My change of lifestyle is not exactly going in fast speed - but there are notable changes. Yesterday - for instant - I managed to go quickly up 6 floors to deliver some food to some sick friends! So I am now looking forward to a week with more exercise. :) Last week has been filled with more drinking and heavy dinners than trips to the gym - and now is really not the time to fall back in to the couch.

There may be big news coming soon. ;) So stay tuned...

AA-meetings

I am reading a book right now about an alcoholic cop. He and a doctor who have been an alcoholic too is discussing all the problems the cop will meet when he is trying to stop drinking. And the scary thing is that I can relate to it! Not with drinking (I hardly drink at all. The last 6 months I have been drinking 2 or 3 times) but with candy! Chocolate to be more precisely! I have all the same excuses as he has... "I deserve it!" "Just a little bit wouldn't hurt" "I can stop eating candy when ever I can!".

It's a bit of a shock to find out that I am just like other addicts.... When an alcoholic need to stay of the booze for the rest of his life - how the hell am I gonna stay of sugar? Every time I can declare that I have finally have defeated my chocolate habit - after a while I take just a little piece and soon I eat it every day. Well - I have to admit it is not a shock because I have known that I have difficulty around sugar for a long time, but what hit me is that when this cop have a friend who has beaten the habit to help him through the though times, I have nobody. Of course I can call a friend - but most friends I know have the same habit as I do... To hear them say that I should think about what I do doesn't work since they probably eat as much candy as I do. :)

O'boy its though to defeat this habit! Not that I necessarily want to live my life without sugar, but my health would DEFINITIVELY gain on it. And to eat this much candy is not good for my veins and heart...

Maybe there is a AC-meeting somewhere? ;)

Heading forward!

I am now in the middle of the 4th week of my "transformation" and it goes absolutely beautifully! No - I am not much better at running, but my body is changing and I can feel that I get a bit more muscular. My butt is not sagging THAT much (I thing that I am the only one who can see it, but then again I do this for myself) so in a couple of weeks, maybe I get a little bump on top of it... Hopefully. :)

Last week - since Thursday - I have been training at Elixia with a friend who gave me a gift card and I have learned soooo much more these 7 days than I have done the last year at SATS. Maybe I should change gym? Or maybe I just need to read up on excercising?? :) I tried to do both a studio class AND go for a run last friday, but my legs started to hurt - so this weekend I have taken it slowly to heal and just play with my nieces and hang out with friends. And when I tried to run for 15 min on a treadmill today, my legs were just fine. Hopefully it will keep it up. :) I guess I will find out tomorrow. :)

By the way: Summer is back in Norway! I went out in the woods with my friends and we took the first outside bath this summer! :D Not to bad for an ice cold norwegian... ;)