10 minutes in the morning

I got home from work at 8pm yesterday, made dinner, ate dinner, and went to bed. Today, got home at 6 and went straight to bed. Hubby had to drag me out of bed at 9pm. Cereal for dinner – crunchy nut cornflakes with a banana and skim milk. Watched some TV. About to have my juice and go back to bed. Not much exercise happening here.

I was reading a women’s magazine at lunch today. They had a few women who had tried to fit different kinds of exercise into their lives. One woman started with just 10 minutes of stationary cycling at level 1 in the morning, and built it up to 20 minutes twice a day at level 2/3. She lost a stone in a month and was planning on buying a bike and going cycling with her kids. Reckon even a non-morning person like me can manage 10 minutes before work, so that’s my mission for tomorrow.

Those of you who have been tuning in from the beginning will know that hubby bought me a turbo trainer – a device that you can attach to a regular bike to turn it into a stationary exercise bike. You’ll also know that I loathe the bike. I still can’t ride a proper bike. I never learned as a kid. And I find it too painful and uncomfortable to do more than a minute or two of practice while also trying to steer and not fall off. The turbo trainer was supposed to be an intermediate step, to help me get used to the bike. But I don’t enjoy cycling and I rarely use it. So, tomorrow, ten minutes. And we’ll take it from there.

On a happier note, my weight is up one pound, but there’s been a nice drop in my body fat reading, from 44.6 to 43.7%. I can live with that. ‘night all.