Busy Busy Busy this week and a lot has happened, from dropping my weight back to my pre Christmas weight, a makeover and a new gym programme, I have not had time to stop this week. I feel great though with my success. Makeover Thursday I am so nervous!!! Met Hilarie at Dress 4 Less Tuesday afternoon to choose the outfits ready for Thursday. I had a look with my sister at the weekend and had already chosen a few outfits, but Hilarie did not like any of my choices. Hilarie kept bringing me different ones to try and eventually decided on 2 outfits. One black and white top and one Purple top both with black trousers. The next thing I knew Hilarie is bringing me bags and scarf’s etc. to accessories them. With outfits chosen Hilarie took me for a chat for the report to go in the Huddersfield Examiner next week. Tuesday morning I had to apply an allergy patch test to ensure I didn’t react to the hair colouring that was planned. I put this on my arm and as it was visible everyone kept asking me what it was. Tuesday night in the shower the test kept coming loose so I had to put some tape on it to hold it in position till Thursday.
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday went to the gym each evening and continued with my programme. I was not going to the gym as usual on Thursday so I decided to have a swim too. I have been doing the resistance programme at home before going to the gym. On Monday I was doing this in my front room and I somehow loss my balance and fell off the gym ball, burning my elbow on the carpet. My husband and daughters had great pleasure laughing at me. It is a small graze but it don’t half hurt. It is the area of my elbow that touch’s my desk at work as I am typing. How can something so small hurt so much!!! Thursday – Oh god – Its here – Makeover day – I don’t like being pampered and I am excited at the result but anxious at the process. I had to be at the hairdressers for 10am. It was a whirlwind day and everything happened so fast. The photographer arrived at 10am to do the before pictures. Hilarie disappeared saying I will be back in a couple of hours and then it was all go go go. My glasses were removed from me and I could not see. Louise the hairdresser told me this was a good thing. The colours were applied to my hair and the make up lady arrived – Kirsty. Once the colour was on it was a calm environment allowing time for the colour to take. I needed the loo with all the tea they were giving me, Beth showed me where to go but without my glasses I could not see and nearly ended up in the gents. Beth guided me safely back to the salon.
The foils were removed and I was asked how do I like my head massage hard or soft. Ohhh don’t know not had one of these before. Louise said she would do it medium. It was very relaxing and a new experience. My hair was cut and then blow dried. Whilst my hair was being dried my dinner was handed to me and I was told to eat it now – dinner on the go!!! I was eating my dinner whilst my hair was being blow dried on one side and on the other side of me Beth was cleaning my ears of the red dye.
Hilarie arrived saying there was a problem with the photographer as he needed to be somewhere else and needed to meet us earlier. It was all happening and suddenly became very rushed.
I got half way through my sandwich and it was taken from me as Louise said you don’t want hair on your dinner, that was ok but I didn’t see it again. Rollers were applied and I was transferred into another seat for my makeup. Hilarie was counting down the time whilst Kirsty was applying the makeup saying she works well under pressure, as she does some film sets that need speed. Louise was also trying to finish my hair at the same time. Photo’s were taken at different times during the morning. I felt like a film star with so much going on!!!
There was not enough time to finish the make up fully and we had to get to Dress 4 Less to get the outfits. Louise quickly took some photos and asked if I liked the hair. I had to ask for my glasses, as I could not see. I got a very brief glance at the mirror and I was whisked into a car. Off to the first stop. Hilarie dropped me outside the door whilst I ran in to get changed. They were expecting me and said how good I looked and if I liked it. I could not answer as I had only had a glimpse and not seen the make up at all.
1st outfit on and the photographer was waiting. A few photo’s were taken with my hair and make up being touched up in between shots. Quick change into 2nd outfit and off we go again. Changed back into the first outfit as this was the one I was keeping and needed to wear it for the next photos at the Gym.
At Cedar Court Hilarie and me had a drink, as we were a little early and needed to wait for the photographer as well as John and Jackie. A quick check of my phone showed several text messages asking how it was going and if photos were available yet. They must all be sat watching Facebook waiting for updates.
Hilarie was again brushing my hair before the photo’s. Jackie asked me how it had gone and what I thought of my hair, at this point I managed a longer look in the mirror. The whole day was surreal and I was still trying to keep up in my head. It was a whirlwind day and I felt like I was on a rollercoaster and I had no control on how fast I was going. Being whisked from one place to another. Hilarie asked if I was staying at the Gym. Silly question I am not going in the gym having just had a makeover, It will spoil my hair & Makeup!!!! I arrived home and had a good look at myself. My hair was great but not as red as I thought, it was a nice colour though. The red strips enhanced the base colour nicely. I was a little surprised at the make up as I have a natural glow in my skin and plenty of colour but the foundation washed me out and I looked very pale. My daughter applied some blusher and I put on some brighter lipstick rather than the nude colour Kirsty had put on. I looked much better now. We decided to go out for our monthly meal tonight a week early whilst I was looking smart. I updated my Facebook page to show all my eagerly waiting family and friends. Rubies hairdressing had beaten me to it and already posted pictures.Weeehay Friday the scales have dropped nicely I am now back under 15 stones and at my pre Christmas weight. Having put lb. on I thought it would take a while to move but I am so happy getting back down so quick. I have been really good on the food front with no snacking and only having maximum of 1200 calories per day. The sugar cravings have stopped so this has helped too. Mark said he would have a look at a new programme for me. Mark has not done me a programme before so it will be good to try a different one. Friday I decided to go to the gym early as I did not want to get stuck in the snow! I saw the new programme and saw the distance on the rower – I knew that would be hard but the rest looked ok. I started on the X-Trainer setting the programme and level as stated. It started ok but then as it reached the higher resistance I struggled to get the paddles to move. I was putting my full weight on each side to move it very slowly. I had to pull more with my arms to help my legs. Every time I let go with my hand to get a drink my legs slowed down again. 15 minutes seems forever when it is so hard but was pleased I did manage to do the full 15 minutes.
Onto the treadmill, not been on here for a while so here we go. And go we did – Time for a program. I set the program at level 4 for 15 minutes as Mark had stated. I felt it was a little slow so speeded it up to my usual rate of 6. I then noticed it said 6.1 but thought I had done this increase – I now know how wrong I was!! On the display it showed some peaks I was expecting the incline to activate and increase, but I was wrong again. A noise was made and suddenly the speed got faster and faster. I had a brief moment of panic thinking how fast is it going, I can’t keep up, to realise it had peaked at 12.8. I have never run on here before and I don’t do running, so it was a big shock and I started to laugh at myself in disbelief I was actually running on this thing. If only everyone had seen my face, it was a picture. The speed returned to 6.1 after what seemed like minutes but was probably only 30 to 40 seconds and it gave me chance to recover and think about what had just happened! Before I knew it, the noise appeared again and the speed was again increased. I had just worked out what the peaks mean and there was loads of them moving my way very fast. I had 1 minute fast and 1.5 minutes slow. I did not have enough time to recover when it speeded up again and I found myself dreading each increase and fighting to decrease the speed in a panic every time it set off. I managed 10 minutes and had to get off. My legs were like jelly and I was out of breath. I was done in and a little shocked as I did not know it would set off running like that. I will be more prepared next time!!After a little while to recover I thought I would try the rower but after 7 minutes of watching a car that was stuck trying to get out of the drive I decided it was time to go home as I knew I would get stuck. Our car is automatic and rubbish in the snow. I did get stuck on the drive but with a lot of revving and perseverance managed to slowly creep forward to the main road. over the weekend the snow was too bad to get to the gym and my legs were sore following my short but intensive visit on Friday, it must be the hard resistance on the X-Trainer. Its going to take a while to complete all of this program in one go. Not sure I’ll ever manage the 15 minutes on the treadmill.
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