My shins, they are aching.

Being sick of putting on weight and becoming more and more unfit, I signed up for the gym at the start of the year.  And tried to go twice a week to do classes or cardio and weights.

Nothing happened.

So a girlfriend and I signed up for sessions with a personal trainer, and I learned what a real workout is – and promptly signed up for the 6 week/18 sessions boot camp.

I've just finished week 5 of the whole shebang, and boy is it hard work.  But I am definitely seeing results, in both my fitness and my weight and measurements.  But best of all – I'm enjoying it.  I can't wait for the next fit camp to start (January) and I'm mourning its upcoming absence.  I am so excited about repeating the fitness test next week – we did it the first session, and will do it the last session to compare results. 

Already I know I can beat a lot of them – the first week I could only do half a full pushup (i.e. on toes).  Today at training I did about 8.  Two weeks ago our personal trainer updated the initial measurements she took, and while my weight hadn't dropped by much (due to the increase in muscle), I had lost a total of 12.5cm/5in off my body, including 5cm off my hips alone.

Also, Arlo loves going to the creche.