I love how everyone here is just so happy about the little things like making sure our lunches are packed. It's a small accomplishment I am proud of every day! no one seems to understand this outside of our healthy world here.
I was FLOORED yesterday by what I learned at my fitness assessment last night. It should have lasted only 45 min but instead it went for 3 hrs. lol
We had a lot to talk about! right down to the idiosyncracies of our fiances. haha. It was the equivalent of thinking the world was flat and finding out that it is round.
There's far too much for me to put on here in terms of what I learned but the main points that I'm now going to be adopting are the following:
- absolutely ensure that I eat every 2-3 hrs. NO EXCEPTIONS!
- do weight resistence training 3-4 days a week. Not nearly as much focus on cardio.
- Weekends are never "free days". You can be good all week but if you're not for a day or two on the weekend then it completely destroys the rest of the work you've done.
- Eat more.
Have 2 protein shakes a day. (My eating regime is perfect otherwise)
Those are points that I may have already known on some level but the reasons why have now been brought to light and explained so that I understand. I've decided that I need a personal trainer to guide me in working out effectively and have justified the expense. Basically, by taking out the drinking and eating out that i do each month, i can afford a personal trainer.
I can now say with absolute certainty that I will have that bikini body. I may not have a perfect one by this summer because I apparently need 40 weeks to reach ideal.... but it'll be a heck of a lot nicer than what it is right now.
** here's one of the major shockers that I found out....
I'm 40% body fat. Who would have guessed that??!!?! I certainly wouldn't have. I eat right (except weekends), I exercise 3 times a week, I'm not tremendously overweight according to any chart. But based on the computer calculations that were done after using forceps to pinch fat, I have only 107 lbs of lean body mass (anything under 100 is dangerous), and 76 lbs of fat. Again,
!!! Women are supposed to be 11%-19% body fat with the exception being pregnant women as 20%-25%.
btw, my yoga and spinning classes are a-okay.yoga for stress relief and spinning for resistence training.
Even when I stay within my calories, I still have more sodium than normal.
