Final Week / Day 365

Final Week / Day 365

Here we are folks, my final fitness blog.

Let me start by saying it has been a great learning experience doing these blogs and getting into fitness. I have learn a lot about my mind and body, and about determination and discipline.

Here is why I did these blogs. I have had an unhealthy past, mentally and physically. As a child, I never ate much, in fact all I ate was fast food or junk food, and/or have rice and curry force feed to me, just so I would get some sort of nourishing food in my body. I hated it. I would rather drink cordial, not even water, and just want to play outside and repeat.
As I got older, I began eating different types of food, mainly because there were people around me and I was too shy to say no to them. And when I became an adult in my 20's, I started appreciating food and ate all types of different food. But I was also in a place where I was not myself. I was controlled by many people because of my timidness. And I had found that eating would help give me that little bit of joy and control, allowing myself to make decisions that wasn't from someone else, but the decisions in what type of food to eat were all the bad types of food. I found that I was still unhappy when I looked in the mirror as well as feel tiring, sick and heavily criticised about my looks.

Last year, 2014, I was introduced to an app which monitored my calorie intake. This changed my life. Within that year, I had a paradigm shift. I began wanting to care of myself, to take care of my body and mind, and all because of what this app was telling me. It has opened my eyes, and it had scared me actually. I realised I was slowly killing myself.

I began these blogs not only to inspire myself to become a better me, but to inspire you, the reader, to be a better you. Yes, my aim was to have the body that I envisioned at the start of the year and be an example to many that 'YOU CAN DO IT'. I may not have the body that I envisioned YET, but I would like to think that I am an example of 'YOU CAN DO IT'. I have also discovered that exercise can be fun, it is not all stress, strain and extremely hard work. You can go at your own pace and increase the workload at your comfort.

I will honestly say, that I feel slightly disappointed that I did not achieve the results I wanted, but I have improved my body and mindset incredibly from the start of the year. And this is the lesson for everyone. You can do incredibly well and reach your goals, as I did earlier in the year, but you must maintain it and not give up. I am still working towards my ideal body image, I have not given up and neither should you. Do NOT allow negative or external thoughts and unhealthy advice consume your mind, it will distract you from what YOU want. Keep learning more about yourself, every day. If you remember this, you will not fail!

For the final time, my body images, weight and measurements are:

January 1st, 2015             December 31st, 2015            Total Loss:
Weight: 71.4kg                Weight: 67.3kg                      Weight: 4.1kg
Waist: 86cm                     Waist: 81cm                          Waist: 5cm
Hips: 83cm                       Hips: 80cm                            Hips: 3cm
Neck: 38cm                      Neck: 37cm                           Neck: 1cm

 


I would like to thank you all for following me during this years health and fitness journey. Thank you for all the positive and constructive advice I have received from my friends, family and readers. This is not the end, I will continue to become a healthier and fitter me.

Wishing you all a safe and prosperous 2016. :) Take care and keep kicking goals

Week 52 / Day 361

Week 52 / Day 361

This week I will not be posting my progression pictures or my weight and measurements on this blog as I want to have my final picture on my final blog which will be on the 31st.

But this week has been rather busy with all that has been happening around Christmas. I haven't had much time to exercise, probably only getting in one workout this week but finding I had been keeping up with my daily steps target as I had been going around buying Christmas presents after work.

I had made an attempt to watch my calorie count during Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing day but this had gone out the window as I wanted to relax and enjoy the food, time and company I had around me.

I may have over eaten on Christmas Day but feel I had watched my food intake on the other two days. Feel I may have put on a bit of weight but we will find out the results on the 31st.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas! HO HO HO!!!

Week 51 / Day 354

Week 51 / Day 354

I have worked hard this week and ate hard as well. I spent 5 of the 7 days going over my calorie count. One day was unfortunate and the other was my 'cheat day'.

One thing I have learn is that fast food such as McDonald's, Hungry Jacks, KFC, etc, is a big waste of time, money and extra effort if you are trying to maintain or lose weight. I have had two days with fast food contained and it had left me hungry in the last half of the day whilst saying my calorie count is a little bit over or on par before dinner.

Exercise wise, I have pushed myself in jogging everyday, if not walking or jumping on the exercise bike or all of the above. The hot weather has thrown me around a little bit, finding it hard to sleep at night but have been able to have a few naps after work and exercising afterwards.

I only have one and a half weeks left till these blogs are over. My results are what I expected but I haven't given up yet.

Results are as such:

January 1st               Last Week             This Week
Weight: 71.4kg        Weight: 67.1kg      Weight: 67.1kg
Waist: 86cm             Waist: 80.5cm       Waist: 79cm
Hips: 83cm               Hips: 81.8cm         Hips: 81.0cm
Neck: 38cm              Neck: 36cm           Neck: 36.9cm

Week 50 / Day 347

Week 50 / Day 347

I have begun pushing myself this week and made sure that I had done my cardio and strength exercises for the majority of the week, accomplishing 5 of 7 days doing these routine exercises.

I have realised that these exercises are so hard. With the positive mindset and the realisation that I don't have to start with a high expectation of completed reps, I discovered again the fun in exercise. And also started seeing another body transformation again. These pictures may not do itself justice but I have been told by colleagues that I look like a lot slimmer this week.

My mindset has become more postive as well, finding that I am able to clear my thoughts during my walks and let out some frustration during my walks. I have also learn to let out some frustration while on my exercise bike, finding this again is a more healthier way to release anger, stress, frustration, etc,.

This have given me the motivation to keep going, feel like next week will be a good week and will continue trimming up for Christmas.

January 1st               Last Week             This Week
Weight: 71.4kg        Weight: 67.8kg      Weight: 67.1kg
Waist: 86cm             Waist: 82.1cm       Waist: 80.5cm
Hips: 83cm               Hips: 82.9cm         Hips: 81.8cm
Neck: 38cm              Neck: 37cm           Neck: 36.9cm

 

Week 49 / Day 340

Week 49 / Day 340

This week has been rather weird, educational and surprising week for me.

The week started well. I went for my routine walks, sometimes did my step ups routine and began mixing in some strength exercise daily challenges of planking, push ups and abs workouts. This involves doing a low set on day one and then slowly increasing the limit per day.

This was all on track, and was feeling great about it until Friday afternoon. To track back a few days, I had been feeling rather lathargic and tired. And I thought this was because I had a busy week end, and the constant tiredness was due to exercise, and therefore I would continue to build up more energy.

But on Friday afternoon, I told a colleague of mine I was not feeling well, and within moments of telling her this, I began to feel faint. My eye sight went fuzzy, as well as my hearing. I quickly sat down before I fainted and was given water. I had my blood pressure checked and that was perfect apart from having a very high heart rate. I was told by the nurse in charge that I was taking on too much at work and to reduce stress and relax more. I did not want to believe this (and still don't feel fully committed to believing it still). But I went home and went to sleep at around 2:30pm and properly woke up at 10:30am the next day, with the exemption of waking up to have a bit of food, going to the toilet or being sick. In all, I was in bed for 15 hours, I had never done that before.

While resting and relaxing, I had time to thing of what was stressing me and all the projects and things I had on my 'to do' list, and there was a fair bit of it. I may have been ignoring the pressure and pushing through it all, having the frame of mind 'I CAN GET THROUGH THIS.'

The moral of this blog is, rest is so damn important to your mind and body. If you ignore it your body will beat you down, pin you to the floor, 'wet willy' you and throw you into bed and keep you there until it is happy enough for you to get up and do the basic minimum again. Don't ever let this happen to you, it is the most frustrating and boring time you can go through if you are a productive and energetic person like I am.

Anyway, my results for this week are:



January 1st                Last week                 This week
Weight: 71.4kg         Weight: 68.7kg         Weight: 67.8kg
Waist: 86cm              Waist: 82cm             Waist: 82.1cm
Hips: 83cm                Hips: 82cm               Hips: 82.9cm
Neck: 38cm               Neck: 37cm              Neck: 37cm