Today I feel great! It's like I've come back refreshed and raring to go after a slight lapse in the past week or so.
It's funny how both times I've hit a major milestone (running 5km and now losing 10kg) I kind of lose my focus a bit and start thinking "well, now what?". You would think that the success would be an extra motivator to spur you on, but for me it feels like a slump. I've worked so hard and have been looking forward to reaching the goal, but then I do reach it and I feel awesome... until I start thinking about the next goal. It's like starting at the beginning all over again I guess, knowing you have to make more changes and work even harder. And the confusion about what these changes should be, food and exercise wise, just makes it worse. So instead of deciding what to do next I just do nothing... Sitting in the glory of my latest achievement for just a tad longer!
I guess that's why I thought the 12wbt would be good for me. This way I will always know the next step to take to push myself to the next level.
I'm not sure why, but as I said, I feel great today! And full of determination again. I'm thinking it might have something to do with posting my progress picture. It made me look at my ultimate goal again and see the 10kg loss for what it was, progress, but not the complete journey. I like to put everything I have into my latest short-term goal, but when I start isolating them too much I lose track of the bigger picture. There is still a lot more to do and now is not the time to start slacking off!
The 5th 12wbt preseason task was released today, but I couldn't really do it. Which I'm kinda proud of actually. We were meant to throw all our rubbish food in the rubbish (where it belongs), but I actually didn't really have any of these kinds of foods in my house. This is probably because I've already taken steps to be healthier (eg. Eliminated sweetened beverages), plus a combination of my nutrition education and my upbringing I would say. That's definitely one thing I can thank my parents for. I might have felt deprived with my brown bread and watered down juice when all the other kids had chips/ roll-ups/ soft drink/ fruit loops etc, but I am so grateful now for the healthy, varied diet I was brought up with.
The main problem I face is having tempting foods brought home by a family member as I don't have the authority to throw it out! But luckily this doesn't happen too often and we don't really share the same taste in junk food. I just have to watch out when my stepdad arrives home bearing armfuls of ice creams because the work fridge has malfunctioned again!
So instead of completing today's task, I challenged myself in another way. At the gym. For 2 hours! Normally my workouts don't exceed 45 minutes, so when I saw that the Saturday Sessions on the 12wbt can be up to 2 hours and that I should burn 1000 calories (my usual is 300-500) it did freak me out a little bit. So I tested myself today with a pump class followed by a CX-Works class and then 30 minutes of cardio. Almost burnt 700 calories, which is not bad considering most of if was strength training. Needless to say, not quite so daunted by the prospect of a 2 hour workout now!
P.S. I'm sure the exercise also added to me feeling so excellent today.
P.P.S. 1000 steps tomorrow! Will finally get to test their calorie burning powers.
P.P.P.S. I really love my heart rate monitor :-P.
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