Mighty May is under way. (what a word-smith hey).
As I prepare to rest my weary legs, I'll share with you my pretty good start to May. It's not perfect by any means but I'm certainly heading in the right direction again. The exercise demons that haunted me a little last month have retreated and I'm enjoying some fairly punishing workouts at the moment. I kicked off with the already mentioned 50odd km ride on Sunday, followed it with a hour long walk/jog (yes jog, think Cliff Young) Monday night, 25km ride on Tuesday and finally I did the 8.5km to Uni today as another walk/run and followed it up with a 15 km ride home. So clearly the exercise routine is back on track so it's time to get serious on the food front again.
Despite the obvious results since New Years Day, I still find myself making too many poor decisions regarding my diet. So I'm really trying to hang tough with my diet this month and see what I can achieve. Not surprisingly, it's all about preparation. I've invested in some more tupperware (knock off, not the real thing) so I can prepare single meal serve, fresh veggie packs. I find if it's already prep'd and ready to go I'm more likely to stick to the plan. So it's lean meat or fish mainly for the next few weeks with fresh veg. I have fairly simple tastes so it works well for me.
I am only 10 days away from my TV prac for this semester so I thought I'd look back at a few of the story's I did last year. I've included a link to a story I did for QUT News on October 1 last year. Pedal Power to cut city congestion. While I don't know for sure, I think I was around 135-137kg at the time (my heaviest ever weight), so its a bit of an eye opener looking at myself on camera now. On May 16 I will start a new week reporting for QUT News then I'll follow it with a week of news reading as well. I really love the TV and radio stuff so I am keen to present myself as well as I can on camera. I know I've got a good head for radio but it's nice to have a few strings to my bow as I push forward looking for work. The bad side to my TV work is the suit shopping I will be doing tomorrow. I will be looking for the most stylish & cheapest suit I can find to tide me over for this semester. I plan to be 20kg lighter by the time a need a suit on a regular basis so with any luck this one will soon be resigned to mothballs as well.
I may be on the cusp of a couple of new but exciting work experience gigs. Inside Football magazine may be an option for me in early July and Channel 7 sport in Brissy looks like it may be a goer as well very soon. In addition I may have secured my first paid match reporting job with "The Australian". It would be a one off only but if I do a good job I'm sure it may lead to more opportunities as the Oz only has a single sports journo in Brisbane and she can't be in two places at once.
So all in all things are looking pretty good. Uni, exercise, work experience and the diet are all on track so hopefully things stay that way. It seems like months ago I said I was almost halfway to my weight loss goal but thanks to my less than impressive April, it hasn't happened. Fortunately, it may well happen this week and I'll crack a little smile inside when it does. But really 99kg is the next real motivation at the moment. I'll really feel like my life as changed when I can say goodbye to the 100's
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