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When it comes to blogging, my heart belongs to Wordpress. I have been using Blogger for the past months but honestly? It's not nearly as fun. Which is why I decided to move this blog.

healthy and bella can now be found at http://healthy.dreamoncemore.net/

As you can see, I have also changed the name of the blog (to match my personal blog), as well as my usernames on Twitter and DailyMile (dreamhealthy). Please update your blogrolls and feed readers to the new address. If you like, feel free to subscribe to my personal blog as well. Thanks.

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WW Weigh-in #6

My sixth week of Weight Watchers went decently. After last week was a little dominated by chocolate, I did so well in the first five days of the week. I hardly used any of my weekly extra budget. But having weighed myself a couple of times during the week, I barely saw a difference on the scale. Monday I had a celebratory pizza for finishing my thesis and Tuesday I had a celebratory piece of chocolate truffle cake at Starbucks. So in the end I actually ended up using a few more points than I had (and using up all my weekly extra budget). Let me tell you, by Wednesday, I was just hoping I had not gained. Turns out I must have done something right by eating that pizza and piece of cake because ...

I lost 0.5kg (1.1kg)!

For the record, on Monday I was only down 0.2kg from the Wednesday before so between Monday and Wednesday I 'lost' 0.3kg, more than in the previous five days, and I had pizza and cake! Granted, I do know you cannot think of those daily ups and downs of genuine losses and gains but the trend was definitely not toward a loss for the entire first five days of the week. I am so so close to reaching a BMI of 28.xx, hope I can get there by next Wednesday!

When a gym win is a gym fail is a gym win

I went to the gym yesterday for the first time in about a month. The last time I went was before Christmas. Christmas I was away for a week, but I have been back in town almost three weeks, so you may be wondering what has taken me so long?

As I mentioned before on this blog, I was writing my thesis, a 80-page paper that makes up for a third of my degree grade. In the two-three weeks leading up to the deadline, while I did waste an incredible amount of time unwinding by watching TV shows on my laptop, I hardly ever left my desk. I just handed it in on Tuesday. Meaning? I have time to do fun stuff again. One of which is going to the gym.

So yesterday I went to the gym to go toTae Bo again. The instructor was sick so someone else substituted for her, and he did a good job, but I noticed that after a four-week absence from the gym, I have lost most of my endurance, and I was absolutely exhausted after just a half hour. Because I was feeling nauseous and kind of seeing black spots, I ended up leaving the class early.

So I am so happy I finally went back to the gym, not so happy that I didn't stay for the entire class but left halfway through, but you know what? 30 minutes of Tae Bo is the most I have worked out in a month so I think it is still pretty awesome! I cannot wait to get back into a workout routine.

How has your workout routine been going?