(Some meals from Week 2)
Week 2 of my weight loss and fitness journey I have found a little more difficult. I was waiting upon an appointment majority of the day on Monday, and promised myself I'd go to the gym in the afternoon (after my husband was back from work, along with my son from school). However, 4pm hit and I just really struggled to find motivation to get off my arse and go to the gym - so I ended up skipping it. For some reason, I felt really drained on the Monday too, however, I promised myself I would make up for the missed session one night after work instead, which I managed to accomplish on Thursday.
I was so thrilled about losing 8lbs when I weighed myself on Monday, I decided to do the same as the previous week and weigh myself daily so I could see the loss progress throughout the week, however, I got slightly disheartened when I seemed to put back on 2lbs on the Tuesday, and the extra 2lbs did not budge on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. In attempt to not let this get to me, I avoided checking the scales on Saturday and Sunday and reminded myself that the weight gain may not be fat, but water retention. (I intend to get myself a better set of scales that can measure my fat loss and other things rather than just general weight loss so I can track this better).
Following my gym sessions on Tuesday, Thursday - I had developed a routine of 1 hour walking on the treadmill and half an hour swimming afterwards On Saturday, my husband was working most of the day and my son had a Stage Coach session in the morning, so I had to split my gym session to an hour in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening (once my husband was home to look after our son whilst I went to the gym). This was when I decided to try something different. In the morning, for half an hour I did the treadmill only. I tried doing 5 minutes walking, followed by 5 minutes running in that pattern for 30 minutes (35 minutes including a 5 minute walk cool down, as the last 5 mins running period took me to the half hour mark). The first 5 minutes of running (casual jogging) didn't go too badly - then I struggled a little bit on the 2nd and 3rd jogging sections of my work out. I found I struggled again with this in the 2nd 30 session I did in the evening, however, I was relieved that I pushed myself and accomplished my goal. I then found it even more difficult doing the 5 mins walking to 5 mins running for the full 60 minute session on the Sunday, but again, I pushed myself and I did it. I only hope I find it starts to get easier if I keep with this routine in my future treadmill sessions in week 3.
I discovered from doing 30 minutes swimming on the Sunday morning (before needing to pick my son up from Stagecoach) that there appears to be a regular Aqua fit (almost daily) at 11am (I went for a swim around 11:15am, and saw the class taking place whilst I did my usual 30 mins swimming in a separate dedicated lane). After my Sunday swimming session, I took a look at my gym app and could see I could book onto Aqua fit classes most mornings at 11am. I managed to get myself booked in for 11am on Monday and Tuesday next week and look forward to seeing if I enjoy this or not.
Weekly Calorie Overview
My husband set up the app he had been using to track what we had been eating on my phone. This made it easier for me to also track my calories and include my exercise sessions and have an overall view of how my calorie consumption was and how my exercise sessions were also impacting my calorie deficit.
Overall, I am happy with how this week went, felt proud of myself for pushing myself more at the gym. I did struggle some days to stick to my calories - in that I just really wished I had a big bar of chocolate to chow down on - however, I resisted (as evidenced above in my calorie overview). I may also clarify at this point that I am sticking to my daily calories and not including calories gained from exercising. I'm looking forward to what next week will bring and hope Monday will show weight loss in the end after worrying about a gain throughout the week.
Current progress:
-8lbs
(No change to body measurements yet).
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