Graduated and just living life!
After a watching UndergroundWellness‘s videos for a year now I just found out he posted a playlist of “The Most Comprehensive Fat Loss Program Ever!”.
I do agree to most of it except from the protein shake warning. Personally I think they are great and I don’t think they are that harmful. But the point is this is a great list of videos.
Have a look for yourself.
Image by ashley.adcox via Flickr For the past week I have been a bit under stress.
I was depressed, I felt giving up on everything. I got to the point of not leaving my room. Which then led to not going to the gym or just going out fully. But somehow I was able to attend a party at a friends house which I enjoyed. I tried new things and discovered a new lifestyle (well I didn’t follow through with it as I am still not into this party stuff. But I am willing to go and follow through next time).
To tell you the truth it was the first time I went out to a party, drank and enjoyed myself. But it felt uncomfortable as I didn’t get drunk enough to get involved. Well that is what I thought. Overall I really enjoyed it, I talked to a few girls.
Well going back to the subject of having a stressful week, I did have my ups and downs throughout the week due to work and *other* issues (can’t talk about it right now, but I will). And somehow it cleared up over the weekend and I really got some of the stress and depression out of my system. For example now I am not angry at stupid mistakes from other people. I just somehow let it go, which feels weird and good. Yeah, I know it sounds a bit weird talking like that but I was depressed and angry for weeks and I just got pissed off for nothing.
If I keep that up everything will be alright.
Well I have to finish up, today I will continue tomorrow. Writing this felt really good. I will post some more tomorrow.
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Image via Wikipedia I was going through a few old jackets and clothes this morning and I realised some of them were xxl and now I am wearing XL size clothes.
I think this is a great achievement personally, dropping a cloth size.
I gain a little bit over this weekend as I had a BBQ and a pizza through saturday and sunday. I am now going to try go and fix my bike today and head to the gym.
I will see if they can fix my bike, if not I am getting a new bike.
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Image via WikipediaThis week I felt quite healthy, I kept off sandwiches, fast-food and processed food (microwave,etc…).
I stayed away from the usual weekly subway as I’ve learnt that the amount of salt in their sandwiches are quite high. A 12″ tuna sandwiche has around 6g of salt and you only need 9g. So basically if you’ve ate breakfast and dinner you’ve exceeded that amount.
I’ve also tweaked my program to include a mix of both after I’ve learnt that anaerobic exercise burns sugar that you just ate. So basically I have added a bit of weight lifting before my cardio on two of workout I’ve done this week. Also I started to do some home exercise such as crunches, weight lifting, press ups, russian twists (video), leg lunches and some shadow boxing (i should get a glove and pad when i get some more funds).
To warm up I just do some bicycle movement while laying on my back or do some on the spot run and shadow boxing. Same goes for my cool down. Then I do some stretches (here are some of them: http://exercise.about.com/cs/flexibility/l/bltotalstretch.htm )
I also found something that helped me get my head around weight loss/tone up. Basically when you start dieting you normally eat just below your daily BMR (mine is 2189 according to me new scale). You also learn that 1lb of fat is 3500cal. Now when you start eating less you start losing the pounds. But after a week you find that you are not losing anything anymore. This is basically telling you that your body adapted to the change. It taught itself to lower its burning rate to meet the new calorie intake. This makes you stable in your food intake and the only way to lose some is to reduce your food intake again which is dangerous. I also read that the only way to counter act this is to increase your activity, more specifically weight lifting and resistance training. These build muscle and that increase your daily burn as every 1lb of muscle burns 102 cal an hour. Therefore instead of lowering your burn rate you will increase your burn rate and then lower your body calorie intake by eating the same thing.
So basically mix diet with exercise to lose weight.
