The exercise was really what I found the hardest, which surprised me. I'm used to working out 5 days a week, so I didn't think 1 extra day would make much difference. But it did! I don't know if I was maybe going harder than normal, but I tell you, by Friday I was struggling! And that's followed by Super Saturday where I'm supposed to burn 1000 calories! Are you kidding?!? I got close to 600, and that was enough for me. The less you weigh, the less calories you burn with exercise, so 1000 was a little unrealistic, especially considering how exhausted I was.
Saturday is also treat meal day, where you save up your snack calories and put them towards dinner. I went a little overboard here! We went out for Thai food and then I was REALLY craving apple pie... So I had some. Needless to say, I was well over my 1200 calorie limit, but I worked damn hard for that food!
Sunday I was back on track, and feeling a little guilty about my indulgences from the previous night. I am trying to only weigh myself once a week while on this program, because it's easy to get obsessive about a stupid number. But I must admit, I had a sneak peak on Sunday morning. Just to check I hadn't completely blown it. I had not! In fact, I was pleasantly surprised! Bring on Wednesday and weigh-in!
On Sunday night I think the universe was definitely testing me. My step-dad came home with a huge packet of Maltesers (my weakness) and a cheesecake. Then I went to a Tupperware party that just happened to be chocolate themed! More Maltesers! And the demonstration involved making Toblerone dip, which is as unhealthy as it sounds. Literally melted Toblerone mixed with cream. Then came out the dipping implements... strawberries, marshmallows, biscuits. I was reassured that any food consumed at a Tupperware party contained zero calories, but I was not convinced. I limited myself to 2 strawberries and 2 marshmallows with dip. Luckily I hadn't had any snacks all day! Quite proud of my restraint.
So week 2 started today and I'm on track. I was still very sore and tired this morning, even after a rest day, but I dragged myself to the gym. I even got over my fear of the gym machines and did my strength session on them! It helped that my gym has a 'women only' room. And tonight I feel great!
Overall the food is good. Some of it is a bit dry, probably due to the lack of calories! But this bothers my mum more than me. She wants to customise our plan a bit this week, to avoid things she doesn't like the sound of (she had quite a negative reaction to being told what to eat last week!). I'm not that keen to customise (unless it's pork or seafood!), because it is discouraged and because it makes things less straight forward. So I've told her she can be in charge of the planning if she wants to do that. And she's cooking anything she changes!
Last week was very successful, so the only things I really want to improve on this week are:
- Drinking more water. I need to make more effort to get to 2 liters a day.
- Not going SO over the top with my treat meal. Dessert is what I love the most, so I might stick to a healthier dinner on Saturday so I can fit dessert into my calorie allowance. I'll have a look at the desserts on the 12WBT website, since they have a lot less calories than apple pie!
This week's challenge is to do 300 push-ups, not including ones that are part of our workouts. This challenge sounded hideous to me at first because I really hate push-ups! But it's really only 50 a day for 6 days. The intermediate people (which is me) only have to do them on their knees, but I took up the challenge of doing them on my toes. I did my first 50 this evening (in lots of 10) and it wasn't so bad. I am definitely getting stronger (probably from all the Pump classes) and they aren't quite so torturous anymore. Well, I can do 10 instead of 1-2 now. Progress!
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