Period!

Today's weight : 149 pounds.

Period started today. Tummy is bloated and feeling too achy to run today. I shall stay indoor and do Pilates. Hopefully I am better tomorrow to continue my walk. I need to burn a lot of fats.

Have been analysing my daily nutrient intake with an online calories counter. http://health.ninemsn.com.au/tools/caloriecounter.aspx#9msnshared_top

I think I am suffering from iron deficiency. That would explain why I am too tired to exercise for some days in the past one month. Researching on iron rich food to include in my diet. Pistachios, sesame seeds are rich in iron. I will start to incorporate a nut or seed snack in my diet.

One Pound Gone

I have been following a detox diet of fruit juice and fruits breakfast, starch and meat are consumed during different meals for three days. I have shed one pound of weight. I will continue to monitor my weight loss. At this point of time, I am introducing a lot of factors into my lifestyle. It is hard to tell which one is causing the weight loss. Therefore I am not sure if the diet is the reason for pound loss.

In future I will have to do a comparison between my "just exercising and eat less approach" versus the "detox diet". I will need to note down what are the improvements that I have encountered since starting the detox diet. Areas that I should take note of skin condition, energy level, body firmness(saggy muscles etc)

Today's weight : 149 pounds.

No more shin pains

After taking a few days break from jogging, my shins healed. No more pain after my jog-walk session. But I will keep in mind to do more exercise to strengthen my shins.

I am starting on Pilates today. Instead of a PHA session, I will do Pilates.

The Start

Some time ago, I have decided that before the next end of season sales for various boutique arrives, I will work hard to gain an ideal figure for my height.

The Reason for this decision:

With a proportional figure, I will not have to find clothes to hid my fat thighs, butt and tummy. I can wear almost everything. Having more choices at sales mean less headache and more purchases to fill out my closet. Clothes are never enough. So are shoes and bags. ;)

Secondly, I am tired of being fat. It was 13 years ago when I am skinny. Oh gosh! That sounds bad to me... 13 long years. That is more than half of my life! I need to lose the additional weight fast!

Here's how it all begin:

I quited my mind and body draining job and work as a freelancer IT Consultant to have more free time for myself. With the extra time, I started to figure out what are my next goals. Getting into shape is one of them.

I looked at websites that talks about diets, foods that will boost metabolism to lose weight, websites that explains what are the different type of exercises and training that are effective to burn fats. Feeling very confused to what really work and what would not work, I turn to the library. I found a book on weight loss, Fat Loss Plan by Matt Roberts.

This book looks simple to follow. There are nugget-sized theory on weight loss, how body burns off the fat with exercising. An easy read. Nice book to start my exercise routine with, I thought.

I started my fitness plan as instructed in the book, following the exercise plan only, as I am not the person doing the cooking at home. But I did try to improve my diet, by eating small but frequent meals. And of course I have Kellog's Special K with skim milk for my breakfast everyday. The exercise was quite hard on me at the beginning. I started with power walking as my cardio exercise part. Followed by the resistance trainings illustrated in the book. Lunges, squats, hamstring curls and crunches. Hamstring curls were killing me. I couldn't lift up my torse. (But not anymore..)

Along the way, I purchased some little 'toys' for my new fitness lifestyle. A bathroom weighing scale, my first sports bra, resistance tubes and a badminton racket.

But due to my fickle nature, I couldn't follow the plan for the whole term, 8 weeks. I repeated same exercises for the whole of the week.

After 4 weeks, I am still not losing any weight! I realise that I am not serious enough. So I researched on more strenous exercises that will help to burn fat faster. Now I am doing PHA together with jog-walk daily. I managed to lose 2 kilos in a month. But that is still not enough. I need to lose 10 more kilos before the sales which is about 2 months away. I need to step on it. Adjustment to my diet as well as my exercise plans are needed.