Week 6, day 1 - Progress - not only in the gym...

The past week was a very busy one, not only workwise. Roland's mum was staying with us for a week and a half altogether. We took her home on Friday morning. Thanks to her, I was able to catch up with work, did a great amount of housework and had time to look after my kids too.

On week 5, I managed no gym sessions (oops!), but two home sessions! One on Tuesday and one on Thursday. On Thursday Zsombor was trying to do a lot of the exercises with me, we had good fun. It's really interesting that although he looks really strong and constantly exercises his body, a lot of the exercises were really hard for him.
Me and the boys had such good walks on Wednesday and Thursday too, at least 2 hours each. I got on the scales this morning, and it has shown progress: I'm now 195.3 pounds, 88.6 kgs. I celebrated the achievement with a gym session. I was really up for a weight-lifting workout, but the gym was surprisingly busy. The PT guy had at least three 'students' there, and even after they left, the PT was staying with a friend, and they were sooo very busy doing weightlifting, so I thought I could do the cardio day, why not. So I did 30 mins on the bike, 5 minutes on the crosstrainer (this is really not for me, not sure why), and 25 minutes on the treadmill. In all cases my heart rate was an average 118-120. A good stretching afterwards, then I walked to the playground near the gym, where all my boys were waiting for me. Zsombor was showing his new talent: he could run around a large basketball court without stopping. It was really nice to watch him running around, jumping, and just being silly. I hope we will always enjoy some sort of body exercising.

The news of the week was not the weightloss though: we went to the local kindergarten and signed up for a place for Zsombor. He was so excited about it, really proud of himself, and now keeps telling everyone that he is starting kindergarten in September. :) Bless. I keep telling him stories about it, and try to paint a picture that it is actually a privilege for the children if they can go there. We'll see what he will say if I take him there in September, and he will have to stay there without me... But the general manager told us that until then, we can go in every day if we want and go out to the playground when the other kids and theachers are out, so he can get used to the setting. I think it's a good idea.

My big boy, ready for school.