HRM

YAY!!!! My husband came home from work last night with a shiny new HRM for me! I am so excited and very very grateful!

My shiny new HRM

BUT... I was off sick yesterday with a dreadful cold (heavy cough and sinus headache as well) and woke up this morning and just can't train. I know all the advice says that with a cold it's ok to train, but I know my body and I know if I push it today I will get a chest infection or a sinus infection and then have to take a week off.

I am feeling quite chuffed with myself though. The old Jo (Fat Jo) would have taken being sick as an excuse to eat EVERYTHING in sight. As my mum used to say 'a little bit of what you fancy when you're not well does you the world of good' or 'starve a fever, feed a cold'.

However, the new Jo (Thin Jo) has stuck perfectly to the nutrition plan.

This is good... very good!

I even had to face a huge temptation yesterday. A package arrived from my mum in England, with lots of treats from home. She'd sent over my favourite Sanctuary body products in sachets, a t-shirt from the stage show of the Wizard of Oz and some of my favourite sweets (lollies) from home. Cola cubes and rhubarb and custard sweets. OMG was I so tempted! But 24 hours later and they're still sitting in packets, ready to be taken to work and distributed to colleagues on Monday (they just go mad for English lollies!).

Lollies Galore!

BTW - my mum didn't send these over to tempt me. She doesn't yet know that I'm part of the 12WBT family and that I've lost 8kg and am working towards my goal of losing 40kg. My family (mum, dad and two sisters) are all coming to Australia for the first time at the end of July and I want to meet them at the airport and have them shocked and surprised at my weight loss. So she's not sending over lollies to taunt me!

So off to Coles to get my weekly shopping done. The meal plans for the week ahead look fab - really looking forward to the Vietnamese beef noodle soup on Wednesday - yum!