Week Eighteen: Day Six

woah month five already. this is the last month of the official challenge! i'm not where i thought i'd be but i've made my peace with that fact. having come to realise that transforming my diet and exercise is not just a 22 week challenge but something i have to work a lifetime at, i'm fine with not being the shape or fitness level i want to be. however, i know i will get there eventually even if it takes me longer that i had originally envisaged. what i want to do is meet my first goal though (losing some body fat and being able to run 30 mins non-stop) by the end of this year or early next year. then work on increasing my fitness, eating even better (i want to become vegetarian and eat 100% clean) and doing more sports after that; i want to have new goals for me to complete throughout my life.

anyway, sorry for the lack of posts. not only was i busy until last friday evening, i have been ill for about one week now. i'm feeling a lot better now though and attribute that to sleeping and waking up earlier.

i should be resuming running from tomorrow. i'm starting week two of a modified jog/run to walk programme. this week it's jog/running for 1.5 mins and walking for 2 (or it might be 3, can't remember :s ) mins. i will report back in a couple of days with how i've been doing on the programme and other news too.

Week Seventeen: Day Six

b: wholegrain cereal
l: pasta with tuna & tomato
d: baked chicken breast

despite lack of posts (due to university stress and being very busy), i'm still hanging in here.

Week Seventeen: Day Two

i had a truly awful day yesterday (started off well then i had 1/2 a pizza and some chicken and then i went out so had a lot of alcohol). today was so-so because i had museli (breakfast) and then wholewheat pasta with tuna and tomato sauce (dinner) but i also had chocolate. i've been stressed and upset but eating shit food really isn't the way in which to deal with this. i will be back on track from tomorrow.

Week Sixteen: Day Seven

b: wholegrain museli with skimmed milk
s: special k bar
l: muesli w/ chopped banana and skimmed milk
s: N/A
d: chicken & tomato tortillas

sorry, busy again. so many deadlines! i didn't have time to post this on 06/03/08 so i'm doing it the day after, although the date has been changed.

Week Sixteen: Day Six

Wake-Up Call: N/A
Exercise Time: N/A

Cals to Burn: rest day.

Food:

b: N/A
s: N/A
l: chicken stir-fry
s: n/a
d: museli w/skimmed milk & banana.

Report:

Today is my scheduled rest day which is handy considering I woke up at 10.30am after I went to bed at 5am or something. Despite that, I felt this weird urge to exercise as I was sitting there feeling a tad nuseous. I ended up doing Slim In 6 - Burn it Up. I skipped the abs section and my tape froze just before the 4 min yoga section but I still burnt 265 cals. I wanted to make up for yesterday and do 300 cals so I did just under 10 mins of Kenpo X (cool down included) and ended up burning a further 55 cals. So today I've burnt a total of 320 cals.

I feel kind of head-achey and I can't really face food. I have just planned for lunch and a snack because I think I can handle those and I feel I need to eat at least one meal and a snack. I am just drinking a lot of water right now.

Week Sixteen: Day Five

Wake-Up Call: 8.00 am
Exercise Time: 8.15 am

Cals to Burn: 300

Food:

b: fruit & nut wholegrain muesli with skimmed milk. Banana.
s: banana
l: 4 pita “pizzas” (just cheese & tomato) =0
s: banana
d: muesli with banana

Report:

I was planning to exercise this morning but I overslept and then found out my copy of Slim in 6 wasn't working. I didn't want to do P90x two days in a row because my muscles were slightly sore. I need to get some more tapes that I'm not so reliant on just a few.

Ooh dear, too many carbs :s

I clearly should have ate lighter since I knew I would be partying and would end up drinking.

Um…I had two sweets whilst out. I also had quite a few drinks. I’ve lost track of how many. I then got home and proceeded to eat some bread and cheese and a banana. Soo not good.

The only good thing to result out of this is my cheese and bread being finished. Also, it had made me realised that I can go back to NOT eating bread quite happily (like I was before anyway).

So...a strange day today. Too many carbs & alcohol. Not as great as I would have liked it at all. The next time I plan to go out, I will eat light (just salads and stir-fries), so the cals from drink don't hurt me too much. Then I wont eat anything when I get back home.

Week Sixteen: Day Four

Wake-Up Call: 8.00 am
Exercise Time: 8.15 am

Cals to Burn: 400

Food:
b: 2 Quorn filets (94 cals for both) with a little OO & lemon dressing. Pear.

s: banana

l: Tortilla “pizza” (using pan toasted wholewheat tortilla as a base for some pizza-style toppings which were tomato sauce, roast chicken, sweetcorn & half-fat cheddar cheese).

s: banana.

d: N/A



Report:

I practically talked myself out of doing exercise this morning. I was making all sorts of excuses, like, "I hate exercising this late" (yep, 8.15am is late to exercise for me lol...) and I was put off by my house-mates walking around the house. I was pretty much sitting there feeling pathetic and lazy. I have this "inspirations" album filled with women who have my body shape but are in great shape and there are some women there I only really admire for certain parts like legs and abs (but may not necessarily have my shape). So I looked through this album and stopped at Lauren London and Jade from ANTM. I was motivated to get up! So...I did P90x Plyo X (plyometrics workout). I burnt 447 cals this morning! Exercise really gives me a great sense of achievement. I'm losing weight via diet alone but I know it isn't enough because this is a life-style change for me and exercise has to be a part of that.

Oh and I woke up at 7.50 instead and exercised at 8.30am.

I was not hungry at all come dinner time, so I skipped it.