knyt
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So my journey has become quantifiable again. I spent 5 months not weighing myself because I had become obsessive about the number on the scale. Did that help me lose weight? No. But it did help me focus on the other, more important, benefits from how I have changed my life.
My relationship with food is still a struggle. But it's cool, I'm working on my triggers and trying to find a good balance.
Exercise - now this... I have fallen in love with. I like strength training and body building. I hate steady-state cardio at the gym so I primarily do intervals or I jump on a machine for no longer than 15 mins. Just started doing circuits recently and they are very fun. I like researching and developing my own programs. I noticed that when I changed from a 4 day traditional body building split to just doing full body circuits my motivation to go to the gym in the mornings dropped a bit. I am going to change up my program to be a 4 day split (back/bis, chest/tris, legs, shoulders/abs) focusing on supersets and shorter rest periods AND 2 days of full body circuits where I get to do extra fun stuff like mountain climbers. That will mean I am back at the gym for 4-6 days a week. My mind works weird, if I start a body part, I HAVE to finish the rest during the week so I know I will do a guaranteed 4 days a week at least.
Now, after my gluttonous weekend away with my partner (which essentially was full of theme parks and eating constantly), my weight came up as 90.1kg on Tuesday morning. Tuesday and Wednesday were good eating-wise. Yesterday had a slip-up when I went to eat dinner with my partner's family. Crumbed chicken and lasagne with salad leading to bread rolls with chunks of brie and other cheeses and eggs and olives and raahhhhhhhhhh. I ate a lot. A LOT. But I didn't get sick. I didn't feel super-full even. Stomach must still be stretched out from the weekend. It's all good. The week isn't over and I'm back to normal this morning. I can just count that as my free meal for the week.
I have only exercised once this week - Tuesday morning. But I should have my new program formulated in time to start next Monday or Tuesday. Till then I will try to do some nice active stuff like taking the dog for a walk or doing some yoga and other relaxing stuff. I'm going to a rave on Sunday night and don't want to have DOMS from strength training so that's why I'm sticking to the relaxing stuff till Monday or Tuesday.
Tata for now.
My relationship with food is still a struggle. But it's cool, I'm working on my triggers and trying to find a good balance.
Exercise - now this... I have fallen in love with. I like strength training and body building. I hate steady-state cardio at the gym so I primarily do intervals or I jump on a machine for no longer than 15 mins. Just started doing circuits recently and they are very fun. I like researching and developing my own programs. I noticed that when I changed from a 4 day traditional body building split to just doing full body circuits my motivation to go to the gym in the mornings dropped a bit. I am going to change up my program to be a 4 day split (back/bis, chest/tris, legs, shoulders/abs) focusing on supersets and shorter rest periods AND 2 days of full body circuits where I get to do extra fun stuff like mountain climbers. That will mean I am back at the gym for 4-6 days a week. My mind works weird, if I start a body part, I HAVE to finish the rest during the week so I know I will do a guaranteed 4 days a week at least.
Now, after my gluttonous weekend away with my partner (which essentially was full of theme parks and eating constantly), my weight came up as 90.1kg on Tuesday morning. Tuesday and Wednesday were good eating-wise. Yesterday had a slip-up when I went to eat dinner with my partner's family. Crumbed chicken and lasagne with salad leading to bread rolls with chunks of brie and other cheeses and eggs and olives and raahhhhhhhhhh. I ate a lot. A LOT. But I didn't get sick. I didn't feel super-full even. Stomach must still be stretched out from the weekend. It's all good. The week isn't over and I'm back to normal this morning. I can just count that as my free meal for the week.
I have only exercised once this week - Tuesday morning. But I should have my new program formulated in time to start next Monday or Tuesday. Till then I will try to do some nice active stuff like taking the dog for a walk or doing some yoga and other relaxing stuff. I'm going to a rave on Sunday night and don't want to have DOMS from strength training so that's why I'm sticking to the relaxing stuff till Monday or Tuesday.
Tata for now.
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