Holy cow CQ, was the machine properly set up?! I can't believe 10mins would do so much damage and believe me, i am the WHITEST woman alive! At least you got a day off i suppose, but your poor skin!

I have had a funny sort of week. I did your workout on Monday, felt great. Then AF came which was a big relief but also gave me quite a dodgy tummy for a few days. One of DD's friends has been down with the winter vomiting thing again, so it's possible we had a mild case of that, but DD has been totally fine and i've just had random tummy pains and gas, which isn't unusual for AF-time.

Anyway last night i did feel decidedly rough and my gym-buddy was in bed also with stomach pains and so i ended up skipping pump. I didn't even feel up to doing your workout either, though today i plan to do about 30-40mins step and THEN the weights so we shall see how that works out

Anyway, i went and re-did my weights and measurements. My weight is weird. Last week i was 13stones/83kg. This week i am just under 12st12lbs but the line is RIGHT ON 81kg. This must mean the dials are slightly out, since i just checked and 83kg is ALMOST 13stones1lb. But anyway, i've lost about 3lbs/1.5kg in the last week and in my measurements you can see i've also lost 7cm overall, 2cm from my chest, 2cm from my torso at bellbutton level, 1cm from one thigh (one was bigger but they're now the same size) and 1cm from each arm. I feel much better too, my bones are closer to the surface in some places and i just feel good. I felt good before i weighed and measured too, so if there'd been no difference i'd have still felt good, because my body FEELS better to me at any rate.

I am so happy that i proved to myself i CAN lose weight. And it's actually been relatively easy. I've really enjoyed the extra workouts, i'm never hungry because of all the veg and fruit i'm getting in, and the few times i've craved sugar i either have a little (literally about 4grams) square of chocolate or a mug of hot chocolate, but that's happened about 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Because it doesn't feel at all like a diet (still having whatever i want at the weekends, but just craving junky food much less) it just feels really good. If people have asked "are you on a diet?" i just say "no, just trying to eat a bit better".

Anyway, that's my little woohoo! And i couldn't even RUN to assist with the weightloss, and given 2-3lbs is the most i'd WANT to lose in a week (i'd attribute some of the loss to being waterweight, from getting AF, or i'd be a bit concerned it was coming off so fast) so i'm kind of glad now. I'm hoping when i've lost a bit more my foot injuries will slow down. When you run your foot hits the ground with 3x the force of your weight. So and extra 5lbs might not be much on the body, but in the run it's 15lbs extra force on each foot every single time it hits the ground.

My foot has been pain free most of the week but i decided to give it a good chance to heal before taking it out for a run. Maybe next week.

Bx