Denise is going to get fit and healthy – week 6
Friday 13th November
It has been a busy week – 3 days at a conference last week meant that work has backed up and I’ve been working very hard. In the past when I’ve been working hard I’ve ‘treated’ myself by eating lots of high fat food. I would normally eat, almost continuously as I did heavy brain work, but no more – I drink my water and eat regular and don’t get the urges to eat the sweets and choc ices.
I think some of this is a change of mindset, I can now see chocolate and not be interested at all, why would I want to put crap like that in my body.
I had 3 good days in the gym where I worked out – the weekend on my own and Monday with Ben. I’d scheduled to work with him as I was worried I would not be able to remember what to do, but I was fine and I’ve made progress, I saw Ben again yesterday and for example am now doing my ball squats with 5kg weights in each hand. Yesterday I did 15 of these – amazing when you look back and how few I did at the beginning.
Ben had told me not to work out with weights for more than 3 days on the run, so on Tuesday I had planned to do my fast cycling but I woke up and felt tired, so then I had to decide whether to do something when I didn’t feel like I’d give it 100% or to take a rest. I opted for the later, and I’m glad I did. Sometimes ‘going for the burn’ and pushing yourself too hard isn’t the right thing to do. You can’t use this as an excuse regularly but sometimes your body is telling you something and you do need to listen. I had pushed myself so hard over the weekend and Ben pushed me still further.
I’ve continued to make progress on the fast rowing but it is very hard – 250metres rowing as fast as I can. The first time I did this (on 3rd November) my times were – 1.10/ 1.09/ 1.07 and yesterday I did an extra circuit and my times have significantly improved – 1.03.2/ 1.04.0/ 1.04.7/ 1.07.7. I’m also now doing my dumb bell press ups on a ball and have increased from 3 sets at 9kgs (11/12/13 reps), by the next day I was up to 10kgs and was able to do 12/14/13/13 reps.
I’ve been mainly happy with my eating and drinking. I’m on my second week of carb cycling – basically no potatoes, bread etc, nor any fruit. I’m also this week taking apple fibre. The carb cycling ends on Sunday and I’m on 8 days of apple fibre, so it’s tough but I’m sticking with it. The only day I was less happy with my food was Tuesday. This was the day I felt really tired and I’d run out of salad stuff in the house so ate more protein than veggies. Looking back I don’t think that was a good move – a chicken leg for lunch and again for an early tea as we were going out to see MUSE in concert. I know I’d be hungry so took along a bag of pistachio nuts. So I felt I need to compensate over the next couple of days and I cut out on my snacks.
I was very worried about weighing myself today, thinking that maybe I’d not eaten enough. So it was with trepidation that I got on the scales, but good news- I’ve lost 3lb, so now exactly 1 ½ stone off in 6 weeks – it’s the motivation I need to keep going.
Total loss is 21lb
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