My week has been the same as the previous weeks here in Cairns. I have made two friends at the gym and they both go to all the classes I go to. Pam is from the state of Victoria and Eve lives here in Cairns. It’s really nice having some people to talk with and socialize with while I am here - it makes it so much nicer. Pam is leaving Cairns the day before Dad and I do, so Eve will be sad when we leave, she says. Pam, who is 72, encouraged me to try the ‘Body Pump’ class this week and so I did on Wednesday and then again on Friday. It’s mostly working with a barbell and free weights. It is really hard and you can tell how hard I have worked in the class by the amount of sweat on me. :-). Although it’s not my favourite class, for sure, I know from my readings how important it is to do strength training and so I will continue to do the classes and just be exhausted at the end of each one. :-)
I began on my ‘journey to good health’ on 6 August (when we got to Cairns the first time we were here) and it’s going really well. When we got back to Hervey Bay after our first stint here in Cairns, I weighed myself and I had lost 11 pounds. We don’t have a scale here, so I don’t know how much I have lost since coming back to Cairns, but I know that I must be losing weight as my clothes are fitting much better. It’s quite exciting!
I have been listening to podcasts on my iPod while I walk back and forth to the gym. The one I am listening to now is a weight loss one where the host interviews people about their weight loss journey. I am learning a lot of things as I listen. One of the things that this host has mentioned a few times is that, in her experience, it’s much harder to maintain a weight loss than it is to lose the weight in the first place. She also says that however we are going on our weight loss journey (in relation to what we eat and the exercise we do), we must be able to maintain once we have reached our desired weight. Dad and I have been doing really well on our eating plan and we do believe that we can eat this way for the rest of our lives. We are eating normal food, just in smaller portions. We also only have treats once in a blue moon.
Me with my half of our pork rib dinner
Me with my half of the 'bangers and mash' dinner - I took half of my sausage home for Dad to have for lunch tomorrow
We went for a walk along one of the main streets and came across this cute bench - we love the art work
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