Feeling Stylish

Not my 60th, mind you.

Skirt: Select – £6 | Top: New Look – £2 | Shrug: Dorothy Perkins – £12 | Necklace: Dorothy Perkins | Shoes: M&S – £35 | Scarf: Zara – £10

It was my Dad’s 60th birthday last week and we had a nice little party, complete with disco and nibbles at our local pub. It was a wonderful night full of catching up and a lot of dancing. Benj and I also revisted TVRs (Tequila, Vodka, Redbull) for the first time in seven years. Mistake.

Makeup without the lipstick

About 5 Jack Daniels and Diet Cokes into the evening…

As far as fitness goes, this has been a good week. I’m not going to count my chickens yet because it’s not the end of the challenge and I still have a big party to get through tomorrow. (I can replace food with alcohol, right?) But I have lost weight and inches. Actually, a lot of weight. I don’t trust the accuracy of my scales but I am currently very happy.

Things that have happened so far this week

• I ran 5k in 37 minutes and 50 seconds
• I put up with wrist discomfort while doing yoga and didn’t hurt afterwards
• I went to a pub and didn’t drink alcohol
• I didn’t beat Ben in any games of badminton
• I injured my shoulder trying to beat Ben at badminton

Full update on Monday morning. The next challenge will consist of two weeks of the TLC Plan from Activia.

There’s a magazine I keep seeing at work (it shall remain nameless) that boasts the new diet plans that will help you shift that Christmas weight and how no one wants to wear Spanx.

It got me thinking, do women really need to be told about more ‘diets’ and quick fixes that are going to make them healthier/better/prettier?

Is it too much to say eat less and move more? Generally that will work for 80% of the population.

I intended to go into a 2,000 word tirade about how it’s not ‘easy’ if it were then we wouldn’t all be so god damn fat. However, I’ll leave it here. Comments, abuse and LOLs are welcomed below.

I weighed and measured this morning, all in preparation for the fitness challenge Running Bunn and I are undertaking.

Somehow, I’ve managed to put on 2kg over the weekend. So hopefully that’ll be easy to lose! My starting stats are:

• Weight: 84.5kg / 186lbs
• Chest: 40″
• Waist: 34″
• Hips: 42″

My muscles have just about recovered from my PT session on Friday, an early morning 2.3k on Saturday and a 7 mile walk (plus roast dinner) yesterday. Tonight I’ll be attempting my 4.6k route with the boyf. Under 45 minutes would be nice but I’m not holding out much hope for that. It is very, very cold.

I’m not going to update here every day but follow me on Twitter or Tumblr for up to the minute complaints and victories.

I’ll also share the beautiful charts Ali and I made to track our progress this week. (I might even make mine into a PDF for you to download.)