Weigh In - August 12th

This week I have discovered the best workout ever for your calves....walking in safety boots!

My work project for this quarter is to do an audit on our fixed assets and this has had me spending time out in the workshop with our operations team and means I have to wear full safety gear; big glasses like you used to get in science class for experiments, luminous jacket that makes me look like a traffic cone, and safety boots that make my feet look very big and square...it's a very attractive look! After 1 day of wearing the boots I woke up almost crying with the pain in my calves. I cannot believe how much they hurt!

I never get calf pain from dancing or working out, and I always thought my calves were pretty strong from Relevés and working my way up to Pointe but I was definitely wrong. My respect for our ops team tripled this week after experiencing the pain they go through from wearing those boots everyday. I'm now off to go investigate ankle weights, in the hope they'll do just as good of a workout as the boots do.


I started logging my food again last week and after seven days I lost just under a pound, which I'm pretty pleased with. I'm now on day 3 of week 2 and it's still going pretty well. It was very easy to get back into the habit, and it'll be even easier when I eventually get into my own kitchen. I've never been this excited about a kitchen before but I honestly can't wait!

My lovely boyfriend spent Friday night being my personal trainer at the gym. He had me doing lots of weight training using the machines and then introduced me to what he described as my "new best friend" the medicine ball a.k.a Bally.

Every time I've done sit ups in the past I've never used any weight, but Omar had me practicing them with Bally. That hurt! I managed a few but it was so much harder than I ever thought it would be. That's given me something else to work on, not quite sure Bally and I will be best friends though.
So all in all, this has been a week of getting back into old habits and finding new stuff to work on. Good progress in my opinion!