sports bras and stuff

Yay, my mailorder came today. Got two new, perfectly fitting sports bras and matching undies. and I didn't even pay a lot for these (2 bras & 3 undies for about 30e including postage fees at sportsdirect.com).

But actually I'm happy I finally found perfectly fitting sports bras; Lonsdale 36C. After I lost all this weight, all my Nike bras sit awkwardly and don't really keep anything in place anymore, so I tried on a few others, but for some reason Nike bras don't fit me, I'm somewhere in between sizes and there's nothing worse than a badly fitting sports bra during exercise.

fully booked

So, my mom came to visit me on Monday and it's been quite a ride. To get at least some training done, I'm getting up at 6am the latest and go either for a run, do some yoga or spend some quality time at the gym. And since my mom loves to walk, we've been walking quite a lot. Like 2-15 km a day. Monday I went for a jog in the morning and did some resistance training (but I was super sore from GRIT class on Sunday), Tuesday I was even sorer and did about 45min of Cardio Yoga, yesterday I went to a Body Pump class in the morning and today I was at the gym for some resistance training and I took the afternoon off to go to a Body Combat class. I'll still be meeting my mother a little later in the evening, but well, I really need the kick of a Combat class right now. Plus, I've been eating a little too much since my mum and I are eating out every single evening. Monday I had some chicken with balsamico sauce, green beans and zucchini; Tuesday was fat fast with some snails and a burger at Jack the Rooster (the snails are seriously good) and yesterday I had chicken breast in Garlic sauce with carrots and zucchini and potatoes. Today we're having sushi. Looking forward to that.

Another upside to my mother's visit was the fact that I told her that I need shoes with better shock absorption, and I she bought me Nikes!

These are my new GRIT Plyo shoes:

I've been quiet for a while now...

...due to my job and training and more training and friends and... life in general.

I've been working out like crazy the last few weeks, I'm talking about 2 hours a day, six days a week. I'm starting to show some (more) muscle (especially my shoulders start to look real toned), but since I've been working out so much there has been some adjusting to eating. I realised that there is no way that I can stay on a very low carb diet. It just doesn't work for my body. After a few days I start hitting walls; like "not being able to raise my arms feeling faint all the time" -walls. So I added a little carbs. And realised that those were a little too much carbs. So I had to figure out what amount of carbs to eat to keep me going. And when to eat. I realised that timing was essential, too. Oh, and then there's ice cream. I've been eating quite a lot of ice cream during the last few weeks, so I've bulked up, but didn't really tone down. Gnah. And next week my mom is coming for a visit and this means eating out almost all of the time and cutting down on my workouts. Let's see how that works for me.

But I got new training shoes today - and OMG, do I love them!!! They are Asics Mattflex2 -wrestling shoes, but I wear them to the gym because... well, I just tried them on, because they looked cool and I didn't want to take them off any more. They fit perfectly and felt like being barefoot only with a little support in the right places. I LOVE them. Let's see how they will do during training. :)