So far I've started eating healthier and having light, non-carb dinners, tried to have breakfast everyday as far as possible by waking up before noon, and am in my 2nd week of a regular *crosses-fingers* exercise regime. Next week the exercise will be stepped up to cardio every weekday. Need to figure out if I can share my roomie's locker and leave some of my gym stuff there...alternatively, I need to come early enough every morning and get a seat in the library and just leave all my things there all day. OR, like I did yesterday, hang out all day in gym clothes and sneakers and go home once the workout is done.
Aerobics yesterday was more intense, but its easier to remember the routine and concentrate instead on jumping a little higher and pumping my arms a bit harder. The crunches were manageable too!! I wonder if cardiodance is very different, maybe I'll go for it on Monday! Beats treadmilling anyday :P Yoga this morning was fabulous as always! I'm all stretched out and serene now!
The realization dawned upon me today that the reason why its easy to give up diet and exercise is because its mentally taxing to keep it all in your mind, along with all the other remembering and planning you have to do all day in your head. Therefore, exercise and healthy eating should become HABIT. A kind of routine thing that's an automatic reflex and doesn't require too much thought or choice. A "Just Do It" phenomenon, corny as the phrase has now become. What do you think?
By the way, weighed myself this morning after breakfast, I seem to have dropped from 65 to 63.5kg! I thought my eyes were deceiving me...but it could also just be water weight fluctuation. I won't get excited til I'm down to 60, which is a reasonable weight for my height.
I was just checking out my BMI at fitnessmagazine.com:
I also found my target heart rate for when I'm doing cardio:
Yay for the internet and all its resources!
I had one more moment of realization, and that was that none of my fitness instructors have "perfect" bodies, they're all shapely and yet energetic, healthy ladies. Sometimes you have to just embrace the body type you have and learn to live with it. Not everyone was meant to be skinny and dainty like the women in the magazines and on TV, or a majority of Singaporean girls who eat a lot of fried chicken and fried fish but still don't have an ounce of fat on them. I guess their health problems will get to them later in life..
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Wow! What a detailed plan! 1.5 - 2 kg wt loss per month is considered very healthy and the wt will stay off. Drastic wt reduction, gets back just as fast. Also all the methods employed seem to involve minimal injury risk.Thats good too. Diet and exercise has to become a way of life. Especially when you are eating out all the time. Home cooked food has half the fat content and no processed food content.
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