Today, Tim and I went swimming at Temple Cowley pools for the first time. We also ended up getting on a machine that spits out weight, bmi, and body fat on a little sheet of paper. Currently, the machine and I are not getting along very well..

Nov 3, 2008

Weight: 11st13lb or 76.2kg or 168lbs
Height: 5′ 4.9″ (I don’t think this is accurate because I know I’m nearly 5′7″) (edit: apparently it was accurate.. last time I measured my height I was taller by at least an inch and a half)

B.M.I. 28.0 (Overweight)

Body Fat: 33.5%
Body Fat Mass: 25.5kg

Both Tim and I will be doing this again in a month, so hopefully that reading will be better :P

Also, I laughed out loud when I saw this. Ohmigod. I can only imagine if Winnie ever did something like that.. in fact, I’m surprised she never managed it.

I am not doing too good at updating this site as much as I had hoped. I was hoping for at least 3 posts a week, but look now.. it’s been 10 days and here I am finally attempting to make an update!

It has been a bit of an eventful last little while. I last posted on Friday night - it was a usual Friday night, we went out to get groceries, came home and had a late dinner, and sat in front of the tv till probably 2 am. Saturday morning we got up in a rush, we went to Kidlington and had breakfast on a patio outside of a little cafe. Tim had a hair appointment at 2, and I had an appointment to get my eyebrows waxed and tinted. After that, we searched around Oxford for a Bundt style cake pan (no dice), and then stopped at Sainsburys to stock up for Tim’s birthday that night.

I headed into the apartment with the groceries, leaving Tim to get the beer out of the trunk of the car and follow me upstairs. He came up stairs saying “my bikes been stolen!” and at first I didn’t believe him. I mean come on, we live in a gated community, cctv cameras everywhere, and all the bikes are locked up there metres from the main front door. But yeah, it was gone. Both of our bikes had been covered in black bike covers that velcro through the wheels at the bottom, and locked up through the tires. Unfortunately, there’s almost no room for bikes on the racks (seriously, there’s 4 rack spaces for 6 2-bedroom apartments), and we have to put both of our bikes on one side of a rack together, so we have to put them opposite ways. So the lock was going through Tim’s front wheel, and my back wheel. They removed his front tire, and took the rest of the bike :/

I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning and cooking, while Tim called the police, the insurance company, and went driving around to see if he could find anything. Then everyone showed up for the party, which went pretty well, it was a Britpop theme so everyone dressed Britpoppy. We listened to the new Oasis album for the first time as well. I made more Nanaimo bars, and I even made a Union jack on the top out of white chocolate coloured with food colouring. It looked really good! I also made an Angel Food Cake, which was okay for my first ever attempt, but not the greatest because I didn’t have an electric whisk, just my arm, which meant I was crap at getting air into the egg whites.. the cake came out a little dense but still tasted YUMMY :)

After everyone left, Tim and I sat around for a while, but I finally decided I was too tired and headed to bed. Tim was about to come to bed as well, but I mentioned to him that I was worried about my bike now.. what if the people who stole it come back? So he went downstairs at nearly 2 am, and locked my bike up through the frame. He came back inside, and told me he was just going to get a drink then come to bed. All of a sudden, he was rushing back towards the bedroom, whispering loudly that they were back, the bike thieves were back! We ran to the front window, and just then, Tim yelled really loudly at them. They took off, and we could see that they had been trying to get this other bike, that we thought was owned by one of the guys below us. We called the police, again, and stayed up because we could not fall asleep.

The next day we had plans to meet up with Tim’s Dad, Pauline, and Tim’s sister and her new boyfriend. On the way out, we stopped and spoke to one of the guys who lives below us. Tim wanted to let him know that someone had tried to steal the bike the night before. His first response was “Again?!” Apparently, they had stolen the front tire of the guy’s bike the same night Tim’s bike (minus front tire) got stolen. So now we know how they got away with Tim’s bike :/ But the part that gets me is when we all went downstairs to the bike racks. Not only was the tire back on our neighbour’s bike (they brought it back with them), but the bike lock was cut, and the bike was sitting there totally unlocked! So Tim scared them at just the right time that they had gotten the wheel on, and the lock cut, but hadn’t gotten on the bike yet to steal it. So, while at least this guy got his whole bike back, Tim’s is still stolen :( The only positive is that at least insurance are covering it, so he’s going to be able to get a new one. We’ve been in touch with the management company to get the cctv tapes for the police, and the guy downstairs is actually a forensic scientist, and has taken both his bike and the cut lock to the police to hopefully get tested for fingerprints.

I spent a lot of last week feeling really horrible and crappy about myself. I’d been pigging out like crazy since Tim’s birthday party.. like you would not believe. It did not help that my Mom sent me a bunch of chocolate the day before as well.. :S I weighed myself on Friday and I was 173lbs :( I’ve decided I’ve had enough.. and I’m kicking my ass. Tim and I have plans to take up badminton and also go swimming on Thursday night. Hopefully we will start this Thursday :) I’m back down to 170.4 now, so hopefully it will keep dropping. I’ve been drinking more water, and less of the crappy, sugary drinks. I’ve also got my eating back on track.. I’ve been trying to cut out a lot of the carby stuff I was eating as well, and instead eating more fresh fruits and veggies. We went for a walk on Saturday, and then into town on Sunday so I could shop (:D), and that was about 10km in total, not including the walking around inside the shops ;)

And speaking of walking around in the shops, I must post what I bought :)

Pink Knit Beret - Miss Selfridge, £12, Brown Wide Stretchy Belt - Dorothy Perkins, £8,
Turquoise Stretchy Ruffle Scarf - Dorothy Perkins, £10, Brown Opaque Diamond Knit Tights - Primark, £2, Black Opaque Tights, Primark, £2

I’m still on the hunt for a knit dress, and a black skirt that I can wear all these awesome tights with!

I am actually attempting to properly write a blog, like I used to. It’s been ages since I actually kept up with one, a far cry from when I was updating on an almost daily basis. It doesn’t particularly have a subject, which is why I struggled to come up with a tagline for a good few hours before deciding on “confessions of a girlgeek”. I guess that one can pretty much sum it up. :) I used to have a few friends who kept up with my escapades via this blog, so a few comments from people reading would be nice. :)

I had an awesome weekend. One of the main reasons is because I got a good workout each day. And also because it was sunny both days, which is a rarity around here. Friday it poured rain from about noon till.. well.. I was probably asleep in bed when it stopped. The sun on Saturday morning made me determined to ride into Oxford, so we did. It’s a good ride, along the Thames River path for about an hour. It was full of puddles from Friday’s rain, so we got a bit dirty, but it was fun nonetheless. We even rode right through a field of cows! Once in Oxford, we did a tiny bit of shopping, then headed home through the city. We stopped at Halford’s where I finally got a bike bell - it’s purple and pink and it has Winnie the Pooh on it! I can’t wait to put it on my bike. yes, I got it from the little kid’s section… :D

Sunday, we did our weekly grocery shopping trip to Tesco, which was insane. Sunday afternoon grocery shopping has got to be one of my worst ideas ever. After we came home and put the groceries away, Tim suggested that we head to Shotover Hill to go for a nice leisurely walk after the killer leg workout we got the day before. Well, it was more of a workout than I expected! We headed off on a trail that went down a huge hill.. and once I got to the bottom I realised that we were going to have to climb all the way back up!! We walked the trails for a good hour and a half, and I was definitely sweating when we got back to the car - it was awesome :)

I watched an old episode of X-Weighted today, one that really inspires me but I don’t know that I could do what this girl did - at least not now. She was doing cardio 6 times a week, weight training 4 times a week, oatmeal for breakfast, 6 meals a day of brown rice, chicken, peas and carrots.. like, I WISH I could do that. I probably could have when I was living with my parents and eating most of my dinners alone, but now that Tim and I eat together, I don’t really think I could stick to something like that. I’m having a hard enough time motivating myself to do workout videos - I’m feeling depressed lately and not motivated at all. I hit a high of 174lbs last week - a major WTF. Anyways, this girl was about 170 when she started, and finished somewhere around 140, and she looked really good. She wanted to look fit, lean, and healthy - that’s totally how I feel as well. About a year and a half ago I was eating healthy and going to the gym a lot, working with a personal trainer, and I got down to 147lbs. I’m kicking myself for screwing that up, but it was so easy to fill my face with doritos and chocolate to make myself fell better about being in a new country, away from family, and friends, and the dance studio.