Week Four, 12WBT, Mini Milestone Week, Plan.

Week Four, 12WBT, Mini Milestone Week, Plan. 03/22/2010

Reg and I are planning our day’s activities, in fact, the activities for this week, my mini milestone and four-week weigh and measure week in the Michelle Bridges, 12-week, body transformation.

I have fully recovered, from the injury I got in week two.

It was not from exercising, but from, (I think), being around smoking relatives. I got a pleurisy type pain that lasted over a week, hurt with every step I took.

For me, rest is not the best thing for lung pain, breathing deeply is best so I do not add congestion and a lung infection to the inflammation pain so I took aspirin and got myself moving again.

I proudly carry my one bruise and graze that shows I walked over the Mt William Range, down to near the base then back to the base at the other side again.

Reg has his exercise injury, he is clutching a strained and painful hand and I am guessing this may have come from my squeezing it lovingly and enthusiastically at my thrill when we both achieved the Pinnacle lookout, via the Grand Canyon and Silent Street walk and in parts, rock scramble. I confess to using his hand to steady me in the steep rocky parts. He also carried Indigo a fair way in the Mt William Range hike.

I am planning to do some moderate to hard walks this week, in the Grampians, Reg and I will need to do them together for safety reasons, you do not do those walks alone Reg and I will do a steep walk to a waterfall today. I am going to wear my heart rate monitor to count calories and I will repeat the walk if necessary and also do some bench press ups and reverse bench presses as I intend to burn 500 calories minimum today.

Tuesday and Wednesday I plan to burn 1000 calories, both days in planned exercise. I will tackle two huge mini milestone type walks while Indigo is in day care on Tuesday and Wednesday, then I will do my week four weigh in and measure on Thursday morning.

Thursday will be our second last full days in the Grampians. It is weigh and four week measure day.

I will be cleaning and preparing the caravan for the trip and do shorter walks, 500-calorie burn.

If I do not make the 500-calorie burn during the walks, I stop off at the oval on the way home and jog/walk until I achieve my minimum work out target.

On our last full day in the Grampians for a long time, I will go for a mini milestone, walk climb challenge on Friday.

We head for northern Victoria, across country, on Saturday. On long drives, I try to remembering to stop the car every hour, walk, stretch do some jumps and press ups on the car to keep the circulation moving, on the trip northeast.

The weekend of 27 and 28 is the official dates for the mini milestone challenge.

I plan to have had some lifetime memory achievement Grampians walks and a good four-week weight loss to be proud of by then.

I am adding one more, milestone, to begin and maintain on that official mini milestone date. I am having some trial runs at it already.

I plan to rise early and get my main planned exercise for the day, completed, before I do anything else, next Saturday and to try to do that most days until the next mini milestone at the 8-week mark, when I can reassess.

I think that this, action will be harder than a 1000 calorie burning uphill rock scramble, for me. I have never been a morning person. I also have never, been a person to lose weight or maintain weight without an effort.

I joined, the Michele Bridges 12 week body transformation trainer guided program and I am hearing her say, morning exercise is best and I came ‘here’, to the program to learn and move forward, so I am ready to take on board, this last hardest for me to do, bit of advice.

My Mini Milestone is to become a lark instead of an owl and do 'early bird, exercise' next Saturday morning before the 400-kilometre drive to our next destination.