57.9kg & All of the Germs

Well somehow I managed to dip back into the 57s!

Yesterday I felt pretty damn horrible, horrible enough that I didn’t have the energy or desire to work out. I didn’t enjoy the idea of dribbling snot everywhere while I was trying to get in and out of plank holds. Gross, right?

Yesterday I ate roughly 1300 calories but I went to bed hungry! My stomach was growling at 10pm. I’m not sure why. I overspent my calories on fruit yesterday, I ended up eating a banana with a little bit of yogurt and flax seed and a large green apple. Somehow those snacks added up to 250 calories and I ended up still being hungry after dinner.

I had a healthy brown bread tuna sandwich with a side salad for lunch and for dinner I split a microwave lasagna with my husband and ate it with more salad. Processed food? Yuck right! But we don’t have an oven in my apartment, only a stove top and sometimes you just want to eat something that traditionally comes out of an oven.

Anyway, despite not working out, I lost a further 400g between yesterday and this morning.

With the way I feel I doubt I will be working out today either, so I wonder if I will be in for another weight drop tomorrow? I hope so. Because if I do drop some weight tomorrow I can see that motivating me to eat well this weekend.

We’ll have to see. Yesterday I was feeling pretty crap about my body, I felt bloated and fat. I was annoyed that I had been working out daily and my ass was still flabby. But we all have good days and bad days right? And you always feel extra icky when you’re ill.

It’s annoying my cold has come now, when I only had two more days left to complete on the shred. But what can you do, life is always going to get in the way of exercise. You have to learn to deal with it if you want to carry changes over for the long term.

Anyway, time to get dressed now and prepare for my lesson. I am not feeling teaching today but what can you do!

Achoo

Ok, quick recap! On Monday I ate pretty poorly, I ended up eating a microwave cake, oops. And then my husband brought me two chocolates home. Yummy.

Despite this on Tuesday I was 58.3kg 🙂

So I exercised my little tush off yesterday!

I also… skipped dinner. Which was unlike me. But by the time I had finished exercising it was 9:30pm and I just wasn’t hungry, so I skipped it.

So yesterday I just ate cereal and a large salad with cheese for lunch.

Then I ate some raisins and continued to have the worst headache for the rest of the day, ugh.

But I completed my best ever level three workout, woo hoo, I’m almost keeping up with the girls now and I’ve finally got the jump-cardio down 🙂

Then I did my full aerobics DVD. So, warm up, first section, toning section and cool down.

Today I woke up absolutely exhausted. I thought it was allergies but it’s 1pm now and I’m feeling pretty shitty, so I think I’m getting a cold 😦

I’m the same weight as yesterday 58.3kg but I’m feeling slightly more inspired to stick to the diet now 🙂 I also know my husband doesn’t want another weekend of eating crap and putting on 2kg so I think we will be much more sensible.

So far today I’ve eaten a large (60g) bowl of cereal with soy milk, and I’ve just had a side salad (lettuce, tomato, broccoli, squirt of dressing) and a brown tuna sandwich (mixed with apple cider vinegar and no mayo).

I’m feeling very full! But that might be because I’ve just drunk thee cups of tea.

I’m going to continuously drink tea for the rest of the day in the hopes that it stops me from developing a full cold. I’m also probably going to take the homemade veg soup out of the freezer and eat that for dinner because I really do not want to be ill!

I’d like to exercise again today but I’ll have to see how I feel.

I hope I lose a little weight tomorrow!

C’mon self! I think my motivation is getting back on track finally.

Monday Blues

Today isn’t going so well.

I had zero motivation to do my 30 Day Shred workout. Yesterday I actually missed it, however considering I’d worked out for 8 days on the trot I thought I deserved a rest day. However today I had zero motivation to start it, and once I did, I had zero motivation to keep up at all.

I finished it though.

Now I’m working up the courage to tackle some aerobics.

Man, all I want to do is eat a chocolate bar. Ugh.

I just posted a photo that was taken about ten months ago. I was 55kg. I was that weight when I arrived here in the beginning of February. It’s been around five months and I’ve put on 4kg. It needs to go!

Ok, time to bounce it out.

58.9Kg & Why I need to reign it in at the weekends

Firstly I have to say that 59kg feels a lot better than it did a couple of weeks ago.

I have definitely gained muscle doing the 30 Day Shred.

Secondly, argh, on Saturday we ended up sharing a pizza for dinner. Which is fine, everything in moderation right, I had three slices. But then we went and got ice cream for dessert. Double-scoop ice cream. Yeah.

On Sunday it turns out having one cheat meal a week completely messes up my digestion, so I felt horribly bloated for the entire day. Combine that with intense lady hormones, I ended up eating a piece of cake. The rest of my meals were bizarre because I just couldn’t bring myself to make us a proper meal, so I had a wrap at one point, some cereal, some porridge at night time and I ate some cous cous I was experimenting with.

And here we are, Monday with zero will to work out and feeling bloated. And I still really want some chocolate.

I just don’t have any motivation today.

I get very guilty if I don’t stick to perfect meal plans. For instance, this morning I ate a small bowl of cereal (30g) and then a papaya. And I felt guilty about it!

Then for lunch I ate some cous cous with iceburg lettuce, couve and an apple. And I feel guilty about that!

I need to sort my dieting brain out, it’s crazy to beat myself up about little things like raisins or coconut milk added into cous cous. Ugh.

Hopefully I’ll feel better as the day goes on!

57.7kg & Day 6 Level 3 of the 30 Day Shred

Well today I didn’t feel very discouraged! Back in the 57s, woohoo!

Yesterday was very funny because I was being heavily influenced by my ovaires (if you know what I mean).

I assumed that my husband and I would go out for a cheat meal, so I ate breakfast as normal, then worked out, then ate one piece of toast with two soft boiled eggs.

At around 5pm I went lady-crazy and started drool-dreaming about our cheat meal. I asked my husband if he wanted to go to an all-you-can-eat-pizza-buffet. Yeah, seriously. In my whacked out state I thought I could somehow justify that in my diet. He shot that one down straight away, haha. So then I thought, well we could order dominos and get one of those chocolate pizzas. Nope. He vetoed pizza right then and there. Thank God, right.

After that I asked him if he wanted to go to a barbecue restaurant, in his infinite wisdom he said no. There was still about two hours before he’d get home so I decided to try and calm down.

After two cups of delicious English tea my cravings had disappeared and I felt a lot calmer.

So instead of going out for a cheat meal, we actually stayed home and ate a salad, ha! I had mine with a small jacket potato and my husband ate his with a piece of lean steak. Success!

Although we did get the midnight munchies and ended up eating a sandwich each. Which is still infinitely better than eating pizza. So win win.

Today I ate my cereal, like usual and then churned out a very decent attempt at level 3. I’ve found that I can avoid the intense head stabbing pain when coming up from planks if I come up very slowly and breath very deeply. Since I’ve started doing this I’ve been feeling a lot better about the workout. After the shred I completed the warm up and first full dance workout from my aerobics DVD. I was feeling pretty good about myself for managing that!

Also this morning my husband commented that my stomach was starting to get some definition lines on it. I don’t quite see what he sees but his encouragement certainly helps 🙂

For lunch we had a salad with homemade breadless hamburgers. They were quite a success. I mixed the beef with a tablespoon of garlic, some herbs and a beaten egg and cooked them on a George Foreman grill. We topped the burgers with small slices of low fat cheese. It came in at around/just under 500 calories.

Looks like our cheat meal is going to be tonight, I hope it doesn’t hurt the scales too much, but I have to say I’m really looking forward to it (whatever it it).  Although that’s kind of a lie because right now I am very satisfied after eating my skinny burgers, ha!

See you all tomorrow

58.1KG & Day 5 Level 3 30 Day Shred

Today I’m feeling a bit discouraged.

I have an issue with not losing weight this week and I have an issue with pain during the workout.

When I do the plank moves in level 3 I get a stabbing, throbbing head pain when I come up from them. It is horrible. Apparently it’s to do with low blood pressure but it makes me feel like I’m going to have an aneurysm. It’s seriously horrible.

But also, how hard can it possibly be to lose three kilos?

I’ve not eaten anything bad this week, stayed within my calorie goals and the weight is going no-where.

Some days I think the shred is making my body more toned but it hasn’t deflated the balloon that is my stomach, and that’s the part I care about!

I know many many people say that they don’t lose weight doing the shred but I was really hoping I would lose at least a little bit.

I’ve been waking up feeling very ahcey lately, so the exercise must be doing something to me!

Oh well, I shouldn’t give up. Just keep working through this plateau. I’m not sure what I’m going to do after the shred though. I had thought about doing it again straight away but if it isn’t going to cause me any weight loss what’s the point?

Anyway, yesterday I ate;

Breakfast – Nesfit cereal + soy milk

Lunch – 2 egg omelette with low fat white cheese, green pepper and a small side salad.

Dinner – Small filet mignon steak with salad (iceburg lettuce, raisens, papaya, carrot, 1 tsp dressing)

Snacks – Green apple, handful of strawberries.

Can you tell I like fruit?

Consumed calories was 1000.

Back on with my day then… I’m going to make a huge effort to drink more water today, hopefully that will help my poor muscles.

58.7kg But Skinny

So I have no idea if level 3 of the 30 day shred is working for me or not because I am still terrible at doing it. It’s very hard to keep correct plank form and those plyometric exercises are killer. I’m also not convinced I’ve got my crunches down pat yet but I’m going to keep at it.

This morning I woke up sore! I’m quite pleased about that actually, to me it means I have been working those muscles hard. But I did wake up with all the weight I had lost yesterday back. However I’m looking pretty slim so I’m going to put that down to water retention to repair my muscles, even though I did eat around 1400 calories yesterday.

So, yesterday I managed to fit in a level 3 workout, then I did 10 mins of aerobics. At night time I did a few reps of sit ups.

Breakfast was Nesfit with soy milk.

Lunch was weird because I ran out of meat so I ate brown rice, couve, grated carrots, broccoli mixed with sweet and sour sauce. It was nice but too many carbs.

I snacked on pineapple and banana and yogurt with flaxseed.

Dinner was very late because we had guests over again, I had 3 small light wraps; 2 with tuna and a spoon of light mayonnaise and 1 with low fat cheese.

Today I plan on having a giant salad because, it’s good for me, right? 🙂

Off to try a little bit of yoga before I hit the shred and follow it up with bouncey aerobics.

58.1kg & All of the exercise!

A quick update before my morning classes.

Yesterday I ate around 900 calories but I was absolutely stuffed!

I had Nesfit cereal with soy milk for breakfast, as usual.

A coupe of slices of pineapple as a mid-morning snack.

A huge iceburg lettuce salad with raisens, low fat cheese, grated carrots and raw onion for lunch (which left me stuffed until about 8pm, and I mean stuffed).

And dinner at 9.30pm (yeah, bad time to eat) was a small jacket potato with salad and tuna.

I didn’t feel like I had only eaten 900 calories, it was quite glorious.

I think the secret to my stuff-your-boots salad was the raw onion! Crazy!

Also yesterday I did ALL OF THE EXERCISE.

I did level 3 of the 30 day shred (still not quite got the hang of it yet) and then I did my full aerobics video, a 15 minute warm up, 25 minutes of cardio and then 15 minute cool down.

And then since I still felt pumped I decided to do level 2 of the 30 day shred, I had just finished my first circuit when my husband got home and we decided to go work out at the beach in front of our house since they have a workbench there.

So I did a few reps on the work bench and then we went for a very short run.

My body was aching after all that but this morning when I woke up I felt perfectly fine, success!

I’m still not (completely) happy with how my body looks but this morning my stomach did look smaller, yay 🙂

58.3KG & Day 2 Level 3 30 Day Shred

So let’s talk about yesterday!

My first attempt at Level 3. It was a BIG surprise, I hadn’t even looked at that section of the DVD before so I had no idea what I was in for.

Cardio with weights?! Jumping squats?! This stuff isn’t easy!

At one point during the weighted star jumps I was pretty sure my weights were going to go through the T.V screen, but we both survived the workout unscathed, somehow.

I didn’t manage to keep up with the girls at all, and for the first time since I started this experience I couldn’t keep up with the cardio. I usually go all out on the cardio to make up for my weakness on the strength circuits but I couldn’t keep up! Mainly I think it was shock ”You expect me to do what? Huh!” so I’m looking forward to my next attempt.

Because I couldn’t keep up I wasn’t sure I had achieved an optimal workout but I sure was sweating by the end of it and this morning I woke up aching, which hasn’t happened for many workouts now, so I’ll take that as a good sign.

I also managed about 20 minutes of aerobics afterwards, which I think really does help.

I also managed to stick to roughly 1100 calories yesterday and what was wonderful was that I wasn’t hungry at all!

Breakfast was Nesfit cereal and soy milk, around 40g.

Lunch was two small-medium soft boiled eggs with brown bread toast and no butter.

And dinner was delicious, two salad and bbq chicken light wraps and one salad wrap.

Snacks were pineapple. I love my pineapple!

I also managed to put away around 2.5 litres of fresh water.

This morning my stomach was nice and flat, my ass looked a little bit lifted and the scale told me I had lost 400g. So not bad for day 1 !

Now it’s just a case of keeping it up! This week I want to see results!

To end this on a nice note, yesterday evening my husband commented that my legs were looking slimmer, which is awesome because I’ve always had kind of chunky legs even when I’ve been very slim, so that’s great! If this workout fixes my life-long trouble spot I can end it on a high 🙂

My first goal weight is 57kg – I WILL get there this week! (Without being hungry)