Big Workout Complete

Big session with the trainer this morning, and I am feeling mightily pooped at the end of it. It was such a hard workout that my old shorts finally gave up the ghost and now must be consigned to the dust bin. Good excuse to buy some new ones at least, which I did on the way home. Should be looking sharp now with my new shorts - may have to get some new t shirts to go with them I think. However that will have to wait until I have enough money to buy new clothes.

It was mainly an uypper body session today but she also hit me with lunges for the length of the gym. We were in a different area today so the lunge session was much further than usual and it really did get my heart rate right up. She told me part way through that she is going to be working me a lot harder to get my heart rate up like it used to be when I first started. This will burn more calories and will help to get me fitter - along with the new workout. Sounded great, didn't feel quite so good doing it though! Funny that. However, I did feel great when I finished and enjoyed the trip home and stopping off to get some shorts on the way. Feels good to buy with confidence off the rack - I only need XL now instead of...larger sizes than that!

I also did the shopping ont he way home and will start to cook it shortly - we'll have chilli for dinner tonight. Yum. I have a nice low fat version that I can make and it should be real nice for my partner and I tonight. This is hot food weather, and as it speeds up the metabolism I figure that it has got to be good for us!

The diabetes and obesity debate featured on tv again this morning and I managed to take some of it in before the session with the trainer. On morning tv the were debating what, if anything, the government could do about the 'obesity epidemic'. The issue was a little distorted I felt because they seemed to be suggesting that people were blaming the government for being overweight. I don't really think that is the issue at all, no one is looking for someone to blame for being overweight, at least in the way that I see it. What is being asked is "what, if anything, can the government do to deal with this problem before it gets any further out of hand". Once they got off the side issue of blaming the government for what you eat, there were some suggestions that caught my ear.

One such suggestion was having gym memberships claimable on medicare (the government health insurance scheme. The only point against it seemed to be that it would be impossible to know if the people who joined actually went to the gym. Not the best counter argument as they certainly wont if they can't afford it. Another suggestion was making foods with a certain fat and sugar and cholesterol percentage illegal. I'm not sure about this one as I would hate to imagine what "fat and sugar pushers" and an illegal trade in food would be like! What was surprising was that no one suggested making healthy food available in schools or making healthy food cheaper to buy. I'll be abolutely staggered if there is any concrete proposal to do anything, but I will keep you posted.

Weigh in tomorrow - check back then and see how I did.