Week 48 / Day 333

Week 48 / Day 333

I have been very slack this week. Not eating healthy or exercising that much. I had tried but the motivation was not there. I may have exercised once or twice during the week but I have been feeling tired and exhausted from work.

Yet again, I have gained another 100grams during my weigh in and seeing this becoming a trend. My BM1 is nearly at the 23 mark, having a BMI of 22.91. As the year is coming to a close and the weight challenge nearly over, I must find my motivation again and get to my ideal weight and measurement goals before the year, or even Christmas arrives.

 

January 1st                Last Week             This Week
Weight: 71.4kg         Weight: 68.6kg      Weight: 68.7kg
Waist: 86cm              Waist: 82cm          Waist: 82cm
Hips: 83cm                Hips: 82cm            Hips: 82cm
Neck: 38cm               Neck: 38cm           Neck: 37cm

Week 47 / Day 326

Week 47 / Day 326

This week I had become fairly relaxed as I celebrated my birthday during the week. I had overeaten on most days and exercised maybe one or two times during the week. I had kept myself busy with other things other than exercise, which allowed me to keep moving and keeping active which was good.

Feeling I am slowly putting on the weight that I had lost however and finding that I am loosing this battle with my yearly challenge. To be honest I am at the point of wanting to give up, thinking that I am not succeeding and not setting a good example to motivate people in weight loss and healthy living, but then again, there are many people facing the same problem as I am, and that is the mind playing tricks on you and making me and you believe that it's over, there is no point in continuing and that you aren't really worth it. I can honestly say, it's hard, only because the mind is fogging out the clear mind it once had when I was winning. How do we get back into that frame of mind??? Start from scratch, lets begin again.

After I thought that, I looked at my photo comparison below and thought, I have lost the weight, my body does look smaller than it was at the start of the year, I have succeeded, AND I CAN DO IT AGAIN!!!! and an even better thought came to mind, I already have a head start from week one. there isn't much left to go.

 

January 1st                Last Week             This Week
Weight: 71.4kg         Weight: 68.5kg      Weight: 68.6kg
Waist: 86cm              Waist: 82cm          Waist: 82cm
Hips: 83cm                Hips: 82cm            Hips: 82cm
Neck: 38cm               Neck: 38cm           Neck: 38cm

Week 46 / Day 319

Week 46 / Day 319

This week has thrown me off a bit, leaving my mind in a state of confusing and wonder. I had exercised around 5 days this week but I had gained more weight, which I though was fine as it could be muscle gain, but my measurements had gone up too, and that made me unsure of what my body was doing.

As I write this, I have realised that I have been pushing my body to hard and not relaxing or stretching as much, as I have come down with a severe cold and flu like symptoms, feeling very run down. I am still to learn the limits my body can take and to have appropriate rest, finding the balance.

 


January 1st                Last Week             This Week
Weight: 71.4kg         Weight: 68.4kg      Weight: 68.5kg
Waist: 86cm              Waist: 83cm          Waist: 82cm
Hips: 83cm                Hips: 82cm            Hips: 82cm
Neck: 38cm               Neck: 37.9cm        Neck: 38cm

Week 45 / Day 312

Week 45 / Day 312

This week has not gone according to plan. I had aimed at the start of the week / end of last week to stay away from sweets and sugary snacks, but have found that everyday this week, I had eaten something of that genre. Sometimes unintentionally, but mostly intentionally, getting into the frame of mind and having thoughts that I have already broken my promise, why begin giving up now. But in saying this, I had learnt that I struggle with staying away from sugary snacks and have a 'sweet tooth'. I can enjoy these snacks, as the cookie monster says, I should make it a 'sometimes' food.

Even though I had managed to cut it out in the past as a challenge, it can be done today, I just have to manage my will power and determination, but also keep in mind that I can still enjoy them sometimes, maybe having these food one or two days during the week, perhaps on Wednesdays and Sundays?

I had also suffered very bad heyfever / a cold during the end of the week and had rested up from doing much exercise during this time. I had walked 3 of the 7 days this week and did a few strength exercises out of boredom. I have learnt that I struggle to keep still, but also learnt that rest is important. I feel this is something that is not quite sinking in.

I have again re-evaluated myself, mentally and physically and still found my best results this year were in week 16. I am using this as motivation and setting the weight and measurements goal again and setting the challenge to reach this by the end of the year. There are less than 10 weeks to go so this should be achievable.

January 1st                 Last Week                  This week
Weight: 71.4kg          Weight: 68.6kg           Weight: 68.4kg
Waist: 86cm               Waist: 81cm               Waist: 83cm
Hips: 83cm                 Hips: 82cm                 Hips: 82cm
Neck: 38cm               Neck: 38cm                 Neck: 37.9cm

Week 44 / Day 305

Week 44 / Day 305

This week was a week of a bit of a shock to me as my sister who I have been on this health and fitness journey with this year, had been admitted into hospital earlier in the week due to a minor heart attack. She had the attack whilst on her exercise bike. We had re-learnt and reminded of our genetic family history of unfortunate heart health and have been warned to take care of my heart and health. This includes what I eat as well as other factors such as stress.

Besides this news, I had been a bit slack with restricting my sugar intake at the start of the week and eating far too many sweet items like cakes and ice cream, but had been pushing aside these items later on in the week, limiting myself to one item, if anything, per day. I found this rather tricky, but know I can restrict myself from eating these items as I had done it before for a month. Will test myself and say no to any sweet and sugary items throughout the week.

I have been looking back at previous photos and found the most impressive photos are in the time frame of when I was watching my sugar and carbohydrate intake. I feel this is what was helping me with my figure. Here's to next week (takes a sip from his cup of black tea).

 


January 1st                 Last Week                This week
Weight: 71.4kg          Weight: 68.2kg         Weight: 68.6
Waist: 86cm               Waist: 82cm             Waist: 81cm
Hips: 83cm                 Hips: 83cm               Hips: 82cm
Neck: 38cm                Neck: 38cm              Neck: 38cm

I will work towards loosing the love handles again and toning my tummy.

P.S.: I will be going in to the doctors to check the health of my heart and blood pressure. Recommend others to do the same every once in a while to see how your healthy your body is. Please take care y'all.

Week 43 / Day 298

Week 43 / Day 298
Again this week I have been working hard to catch up on my cardio and catching up on my kilometers for my 100 days of health challenge. Still behind by two weeks but I am still motivated to finish it off, or see how far I can go, but still not giving up.

I haven't been too disciplines with my calorie counting and food intake, going over my calorie count 3 out of 7 days. I will work to minimising this next week.

I have also tried to get motivated to doing some strength exercises but only did strength workouts with week, which I will work to improve from next week onwards.

I am finding that by body image is not improving, but also not getting worse. I am not sure if I am plateauing or not, but have had thoughts of changing my workout program to a higher intensity or not, or not sure if I am not resting enough.

January 1st                 Last Week                This week
Weight: 71.4kg          Weight: 68.4kg         Weight: 68.2
Waist: 86cm               Waist: 83cm             Waist: 82cm
Hips: 83cm                 Hips: 83cm               Hips: 82cm
Neck: 38cm                Neck: 38cm              Neck: 37cm

Week 42 / Day 291

Week 42 / Day 291
This week I have been concentrating on my cardio workouts, especially my walks for my 100DoH challenge. I am pushing hard to get many steps in my day and changed my daily steps goal from 10,000 steps to 20,000 steps. I am glad I did this as now I feel I can challenge myself even more.

I had been eating well through out the week and felt I should have a'cheat weekend', as there were several parties I attended this weekend. This didn't workout well for me as I weighed myself and took the photos as it didn't justify the efforts I made on the weekdays.
















January 1st                 Last Week                This week
Weight: 71.4kg          Weight: 68.5kg         Weight: 68.4kg
Waist: 86cm               Waist: 82cm             Waist: 83cm
Hips: 83cm                 Hips: 83cm               Hips: 83cm
Neck: 38cm                Neck: 38cm              Neck: 38cm