September 27: #95 - Public holidays

As I mentioned in yesterday's 100 day challenge blog post, today is one of Queen Elizabeth's many birthday's. Happy birthday your majesty. But it means that we get a day off "work" whatever that means and a chance to do a lot of work on our goals and of course challenges.

My to-do list for today:

• Exercise / Weight Loss: Personal training day today with Hils at Efit121 (http://www.efit121.com.au) - always good for a laugh and a lot of workout in half an hour. I am much stronger now compared to when I started with Hils. Today I managed to do one exercise quite easily that I couldn't even manage a single one of when I first started. I can now deadlift 60 kilos and my back which has always hurt (I usually suffer from sciatic pain caused by a degenerative disc in my lower back) aches pleasantly and I no longer get the shooting pain down my leg which is fantastic. The other thing I noticed is that I don't get as many migraine's - again the muscles are protecting the joints and my neck which I damaged and nearly broke in my early 20's can now stand the extra weights too ... so more than a few bonuses from doing regular exercise.
• Incidental exercise - gardening today was an hour of lawn (well weed) mowing.
• Ad-hoc spending - today is a public holiday and the weekend rules apply, so I enjoyed my cup of coffee today :-)
• Discarding 100 things gallery - http://www.motivateme.info/discarding-100-things/ - image has been posted
• 100 day challenge - blog posts - underway
• Write and send the Daily Dose of Motivational Medicine - sending "as we speak"

Back to work tomorrow, so lots of house hold stuff happening including the making of gorgeous slow cooked lamb shanks for dinner... the children are drooling already, and I must admit they do smell rather yummy.

How are you going with your challenges?