Ali: Weightloss

Week five is over and well I lost weight, but not as much as I'd have liked but really that's my own fault.

Workouts

Damn, they really jumped up in intensity this week. We had 45 minutes of non stop working out, no rests, just go-go-go! It was good, at the time it felt like it was dragging on but afterwards I felt amazing.

Now this week at the beginning of the week I was lazy. Monday was a public holiday and I declared it a PJ day, so there was no way in hell I was leaving the house to go exercise. Tuesday I attended a session and then on Wednesday I woke up to intense neck/upper back pain - which is actually quite common for me and usually get's really bad every few months, so it was due to play up. I then had Wednesday off work, so naturally I didn't attend a session. Instead I did a 5km slow paced walk with the family and my dogs. Thursday I went to a session and Friday I couldn't get to sleep the night before so when my alarm went off at 4.30am and I'd only had 3 hours sleep I definitely rolled over and went back to bed before work - I can't make any other session on a Friday due to work. So then that meant Saturday was my third and final session of the week.

Really what I'm getting at here is it wasn't the best week and I only attended three sessions. I would've done four, had I not been in pain on Wednesday but oh well.

Food

It's getting harder and harder to stay on track. I'm over just eating meat and salad or meat and vegetables and sadly it's getting to the point where I'd rather not eat. But, to lose weight this is what you got to do so I have to stick to it even though I'm pretty much hating life right now and only look forward to my Saturday cheat meal.

I snuck a few treats in this week too which isn't good and definitely doesn't help the weight-loss but I was hangry okay.

So another 600g down. Not the best after the week I had but it was still a lose which I should be happy about, but it makes it hard when you see others losing big amounts weekly. I'm just feeling sorry for myself this week, hopefully next week will be better.

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Week one is done and dusted. So I thought I'd write a quick recap of the week that was.

Workouts

I made five sessions this week! So for week one I've smashed my goal of attending at least four sessions in the week. I trained Monday - Friday, giving myself the weekend off to rest.

On our first day we did fitness testing, and my fitness is absolutely appalling now. Below is what I achieved:

Plank - Held for 50 seconds.

Crunches in 1 min - 33

Push Ups in 1 min - 15

I didn't even attempt burpees as I hate them, I'm completely unfit and going up & down so much can give me head spins. So for week one I didn't attempt them. Fingers crossed by week 12 I can look back on these numbers and hopefully there will be a noticeable difference.

Food

For the first time ever I stuck to the diet and surprisingly it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure it was a lot of lean meat and salad but I didn't want to kill people at work like I thought I would.

It was so difficult when others at work had the nicest looking lunches or my family had yummy dinners and here I was stuck eating lean meat and salad, but hopefully in 12 weeks time I see a physical difference.

Did I crave chocolate etc? Sort of. Not as much as I thought I would but definitely when I saw my family members eating it, all I wanted was a piece. I was also surprised that all week I didn't have full strength Coke or Pepsi. I'm terrible and would normally have a can a day, sometimes two, and I know soft drink (or soda) is one of the worst things to be putting into your body. I had 2 cups of Pepsi Max throughout the week, so the low calorie soft drink, and I sort of feel bad for it but oh well I did it.

Overall week one I felt sore, I hated waking up early for morning sessions but then by the time I got there I loved it, I didn't like not eating anything I wanted but didn't hate what I was eating and I lost weight - thank god!

I've put together a weight tracker below and every week I'll update it so you can see how much I've lost. Now, onto Week 2!

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2018 hasn't been a great year for me fitness wise. I started off the year 'injured', I put it in inverted commas like that because my doctor couldn't actually find anything wrong. After months of X-Rays, CT Scans, Ultrasounds, trying different drugs and physiotherapy the only thing they found was a benign enlarged lymph-node in my breast that eventually went down and nothing else. It was terrifying being a female and having chest pain and obviously like anyone else I thought the worst, but thankfully all seems to be great in my body, I just had random pain in my chest.

So for 6 months I got told no physical exercise, but walking, while they tried to figure this out. Cut to September 2018, now - I've barely worked out all year and I got in the wrong frame of mind. I thought well screw it, can't exercise might as well eat what I want. This is NOT the right way to think people! I've now gained so much weight and it's all entirely my own fault.

What have I done about it? Well I joined a 12 week bootcamp. Back to a group that helped me years ago lose weight and get fit. I enjoyed the sessions, I loved working with the trainers and everyone there was so lovely.

My goals for the next 12 weeks:

STICK TO THE MEAL PLAN! I put this in capitols as I'm mainly yelling at myself. So many times before I wouldn't stick to it and then I'd get upset when I wasn't losing the weight I wanted and people around me lost 10kgs by week 6. Something that isn't in the meal plan but I know it will motivate me is a cheat meal. I've told myself if I lose weight at weigh in, on Saturday night I'll allow myself to have a cheat meal as a treat.
Attend at least 4 sessions a week. I know only attending 3 will barely move any weight, so I'm aiming for at least 4 but most weeks I intend to do 5 sessions.
Lose weight. This might seem obvious but I have some numbers in mind. By 6 weeks I want to have lost 5kg and by week 12 I want to have lost 10kg. I didn't want to give myself a big number, I knew if I did and I didn't get there I'd just quit. So I'm starting small and if I lose more weight than that's excellent.
Improve my fitness. I want to walk upstairs without feeling out of breath, be able to run a lap around the court without dying and be able to not take breaks during a session.

Every week I'm going to write quick updates on here about how I feel, how much weight I lost (or gained...I hope not), what food I've been eating and the workouts. People might not event read this but it's here to help me and hopefully keep me on track.

So here we go, I'm ready to start my weight-loss journey.

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