Jan 15 - Working It

  It was a pretty good day at work.  I still have two long-term outstanding tasks to complete, but I've started one of them so the other won't be far behind.  It's a great relief to me that I finally seem to be catching up on things.  My empty in-tray policy seems to be working for me too!  I've managed to keep it cleared for at least two weeks now.
  Tonight I had my second ever clinical pilates classes.  Rush has adjusted my routine slightly so it is now, floor exercises with the group followed by my specific program of:
  3 sets of 10 leg push downs on the trapeze (on each leg)
  3 sets of 10 loaded extensions on the trapeze
  3 sets of 10 chariot pulls on the clinical reformer
  3 sets of 10 scooters on the clinical reformer (on each leg)
  3 sets of 10 back hyper-extensions on the gym ball
  3 sets of 10 squats with the red theraband around my knees
  and lastly but not leastly, balancing on alternate legs on the squishy board.
It's exhausting but I'm enjoying it.

  I was feeling brave tonight so I introduced myself to one of the girls who had been in the class last week.  She said she'd been coming for nearly a year now and she was singing its praises.  She said that since attending the classes she finds that she naturally sits straighter and all her old aches and pains have vanished.  She had a back injury, similar to mine but without the added damage that being overweight brings with it.  It was really encouraging to hear how beneficial she had found it.
  The classes are only $23.00 each and after my health fund rebate it's down to just $6.90, so it's a bargain as well as being good for me!  At that rate my physio benefit should hold out for another 40 weeks worth of classes.  If I stick at it, my health insurance might just end up paying for itself this year!
  I expect I'm going to be a little bit stiff again tomorrow so I'm going to try going for a walk tomorrow night as a gentler alternative on my back to the cross trainer.  It would be really good if I could key up a regular walking partner for Wednesday nights, that way I can have two nights a week where I am exercising with company.  Variety keeps it interesting.

  Today's food and exercise were:

• Breakfast was two slices of toasted multigrain bread with margarine and Vegemite.
• Morning snack was a yellow-flesh nectarine.
• Lunch was a Mission Whole Wheat mini-wrap with wombok salad and a drained 95g tin of Greenseas tuna in olive oil, followed by two Ferrero Rocher chocolates and a yellow flesh peach.
• Afternoon snack was a Granny Smith apple, cored and sliced, followed by three Brazil nuts, two pecan nut halves, two hazelnuts, four almonds, a dried peach half and some sunflower seeds.
• Exercise was a 45 minute clinical pilates class.
• Dinner was a huge bowl of leftover stir fry but without rice.

  Time for me to put head to pillow and delve into the world of the seventh swordsman for an hour or so.  I need to remember to be at work for the early shift tomorrow though, silly me let my offsider have another day off.  I really need to learn to be less accommodating, it interferes with my snooze button time!
  Jess