Ready for Summer Challenge

I have joined the 'Ready for Summer Challenge!' which is I guess a bit Americanised, but what can you do? I'll get my body ready for Winter instead. It'll be a good way to keep motivated and hopefully get involved with something greater than just myself.

My goals:

Weight loss goal: I want to lose 10kg in 10 weeks. But my ultimate weight loss goal is 60kg.

Non scale orientated goals: Size 10 clothes. Have people say 'You look so good/thin/ have you lost weight?'

Nutrition goals: Not go over 1200 calories again. But mainly just eat healthily and never feel like I'm depriving myself and that I'm starving. Not to binge. Not to eat an entire pizza, if I eat any at all, because I know I usually do that and right now, it makes me feel sick to think how unhealthy I've been.

Exercise goal: Be able to run 5km. To do 100 sit ups. 20 push ups. 2 minute plank.


In other news, here is my day:

 I had a busy day today, with life you know, not just involving exercise or whatever, but I wanted to fit in what I could, and I did that well.

I woke up at 9 (two minutes before my alarm, fuck yeah!) and chilled, had Special K for the first time with banana on top, then chilled some more, but eventually got my ass up and went for my jog. I did it in 26 minutes which is short but I was in a hurry and I did complete what I said I was going to. (That doesn't include the walking there and back).

I did 11 laps (which is less than normal but I'm not unhappy with myself), because my laps are now slightly longer. This 'is it 150m or not?' dealio has been bugging me so I have made my lap now a triangle which is harder because I'm best when I'm running straight for some reason, but it's now definitely long enough. And I did that increased lap for all 11 laps.

I run the longer part, then walk partially back, run 50 more metres, then walk again until I'm back at the start. So, I'm still calling my lap 150, as I have this entire time, though it is now dramatically longer.

Mondays stats: Distance: 3300 metres. Jogging: 2200 metres. Walking: 1100 metres.

It's not much, but it's my accomplishment and I'm proud of it. I've run the last 3 days and I'll hopefully maybe be able to do it every single day this week. Obviously that isn't going to happen every day for the rest of my life, but like someone once said 'you never regret a workout'. Even if all the ones I've done more sporadically in the past didn't do much, maybe they just kept the extra weight off?

And now, though I have felt no results at all thus far, since I haven't actually weighed myself at all, cos I don't own scales, this must be having some effect on me. I feel well, but I'm also getting more sleep so that could be it.

I'm go to my best friends house tomorrow most likely and will weigh myself there.

Today I also played netball which was fun and good. That always gets me hot and sweaty even if it's a short game. It's a lot of fun. So I did enough exercise I think, though I will do my fab ab february before bed. So wednesday, if I'm not working, I will try to work out another work out I can do, like... backyard stuff like squats and star jumps etc.

As for food, I thought I did well today, until I checked it into my calorie counting. I had one and a half salmon sandwiches on multigrain and it was like 500 calories. But I know salmon is good for me, I had no butter, it was the bread I guess, but I can't cut out bread, it's a staple. Plus it's good for grains and fibre.

So I went over 1200 which I hate. But I guess the 500 calories I burned help :) Hopefully. It's just that the other two days this week I've calorie counted, I was much lower, while still being full and happy.

I've just completely cut out snacking, as well as trying to make my meals as healthy as possible. Which means less butter/salt/oil, skim milk, multigrain rather than white, and less processed food. Also trying to watch my portions but I'm less good at that. And no eating after 9pm. Which basically just means no dessert, even fruit after dinner. I honestly don't need it.

The rule was always have fruit, then you can have chocolate/ junk. But I'd rather focus on what my stomach is telling me, rather than what my cravings are. I am full. So while at the beginning of last week (week one) I just made an absolute 'no hot food after dinner' which meant no more meals, like 2 minute noodles. I'm actually horrified that I did that the last few months a lot. And no unhealthy food after dinner except fruit and once a week junk.

But I don't think that was stringent enough, it needs to be more so. Last week I had Tim Tams and I binged on chips, which I didn't need. Now I have neither of those things in the house (just caramel slice *drool*) but unless I'm strong, I'll  the be tempted and I will eat those things. I understand that this is a lifestyle change however, and unless I plan never to eat those things again, I can't completely cut them out, but at the same time, at this point in my weight loss journey (barely off the starting block), I feel like I would rather see some results before I start eating like that. Because otherwise, if I don't lose weight, I'll blame it on the caramel slice, when maybe it's actually I'm getting calories somewhere I don't know yet, or I need to exercise more. I need to get a good weight loss and fitness program started before I start tweaking it.