Gearing up to start the challenge!

Well, the past 2 days have been a bit of a struggle.

With the crappy weather and the fact that I have been starving before I even get to the gym, finding the motivation to actually go has been interesting. I think it helps that I have been getting dressed in my gym clothes at work, and I have to pass my gym to get home every night, so I really have no excuse.

It also helps that I am fantastic at making myself feel guilty when I don't go, and also when I eat crap food. I haven't eaten fast food of any kind in 2 months, and although I now very rarely get a craving for Macca's or KFC, the idea of giving in and breaking that fantastic streak is enough to keep me from pulling through the drive through ever again. I also don't miss the sick feeling that either of those give me once I do eat them... They just never taste as good as I think they are going to...

I had yet another one of my "epiphanies" (as I like to call them) yesterday, as I was driving home from the gym. I often have these epiphanies whilst driving. I am constantly amazed that I reach my destinations in one piece really, cause quite often I don't remember how I got there...
Anyway, back to my epiphany. I often get what I call my "hungry days". These are days that, no matter how much I eat, I'm still starving. Yesterday was one of those days. Now, I can never find any pattern, though I always blamed it on hormones, even though they never happen at a particular time in my monthly cycle (sorry boys, didn't mean to bring that up!). The day before I had been reading the Ashy Bines web site and once again, the subject of water came up, and the fact that your body can often mistake dehydration for hunger. I have read this countless times over the years and whilst I took it on board, I never really associated it with how hungry I get, because when I have these hungry days, it's all I can do to stop myself from ripping the pantry apart and gourging myself on everything I can get my hands on (thankfully I have finally developed the common sense not to do this!)... But yesterday, I realised that the reason my stomach was seconds away from eating itself was quite simple... I hadn't consumed more than a glass of water all day! Even when I was at the gym, I had barely drunk any water, as my fantastic Lorna Jane drink bottle has this aggravating screw top that is a pain in the butt to open when you're walking at level 6 on a 9% incline, and given that I was feeling particularly lazy yesterday, that seemed like too much effort...

Now that this has occurred to me, unscrewing that lid will not be such a challenge, because I'd rather that then consuming more food then necessary (and avoiding a dehydration headache in the process). My biggest problem is when I'm at work, as I forget to drink all day (it will often take me at least an hour and a half to drink my morning coffee), so I've set up an hourly reminder in my work email to remind me to drink water. Maybe a little obsessive, but I am dedicated to this weightloss journey I've embarked on, and I'm pretty much trying everything I can to succeed. It's already worked this morning, I'm onto my 3rd glass of water already!

Anyways, enough rambling. Tonight I am off to my last Friday night Zumba class (they have decided that only stay at home mums, old ladies and unemployed people want to do Zumba at my gym, which I am very pissed off about), and tomorrow morning I'm off to a group training session starting at 7am through to 9am, followed by an hour of body pump... Man, I must be crazy... But I'm loving it!

Only 3 more sleeps til the start of Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation Challenge!