With 5.5 months left before I go for my photoshoot in Taiwan, I am standing at 65 (gained 2 kg since April). My target weight is 58 but I think it is gonna be quite a challenge. Gonna target at 60 instead. I hope I really can persevere through as I jot down this journey. Besides, I still have a 21km marathon to run and I have not started training.
So, I finally forced myself to take on the challenge. It is an ab challenge which will get tougher and tougher as the days go. Doing day 1 really easy peasy. No sweat!
On top of exercising, it is also important to take note of my diet. Well..it is Day 1 and I chose yogurt with milk instead of my usual cereal with milk because I didn't really have the appetite to eat right after my exercise (did skipping prior to the abs workout). Eating breakfast is really important because I am telling my tummy that there is food now, so there shouldn't be a time where I am supposed to feel hungry. Plus by eating my breakfast, it gives me the glucose my brain needs to start the day and ensure that I will not overeat for my lunch and breakfast.
For lunch, I opt to eat vegetarian meal. It is becoming a habit already ever since I discovered the really wonderful but expensive dishes that the vegetarian stall is selling. Expensive but healthy.
Besides exercising and eating right, a better way is to drink right too. For me, I mostly consume non sugary drinks like green tea, oolong tea and plain water. But then again, whenever I am out, I go for bubble tea with 30% sugar. Not having my drinks sweet is not a problem for me because I am at high risk of getting diabetics so I got to control my sugar intake by opting for the minimum level of sugar. I tried to opt for no sugar for bubble tea and soya but really tasteless and unbearable to drink. Of course, drink some vitamin c water ensures I am getting the nutrients needed.
Well...that's roughly for day 1 only! Losing weight is easy, especially in the initial stage because the body is not used to the amount of exercise at the start and most importantly we lose weight quite fast but it is not the fats that we are losing but the water in our body. It is the maintaining part that is difficult because whatever exercises I did, the body would have recalibrate to the new routine and gotten used to it, so it is much harder to lose weight. The only way is to increase my intensity of the exercise or prolong the running time to lose more fats.
Is 5.5 month enough to get the body ready for wedding photoshoot? Don't know...so I have to give it a try to see how it works...
Anyways, my tummy is kinda hard now at Day 13. The first 7 days was easy peasy.
Day 8 - was manageable. Started to experience soreness at the thigh cause of the leg raise.
Day 10 - tummy area started to ache at the side. Thigh still abit sore due to the progressive increase in leg raise. This is also the day when I started sweating abit.
Day 13 - planking was killing me because to do a perfect one requires a lot of core muscles to maintain the posture (straight back, butt low and elbow close together). I kinda struggle maintaining, can't do it the proper one.
I did all these with a bit of cheat code -doing it on my bed so technically I am not making my muscles work as hard as they should as compared to doing it on a hard floor. Doing all these help me with my running as in, I can push myself more in distance and walking up the stairs is much more enjoyable now.
Ok...wish me luck with the determination to continue because I have been eating fried food and curry every meal. =-O
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