Last week, I hit an epiphany regarding fitness. Since I did not weigh myself the week before, I just assumed the workout routine as usual (more cardio with a touch of yoga.) Two weeks passed and guess how much weight I lost?
Two hundred freakin' grams!
Yeah, that's right. I lost less than half a pound. In two weeks. It tore me apart. It was not as if I was sitting idly and eating moon cake or anything. And by the way, the Autumn Festival just passed and so far, I have eaten half a moon cake.
I was doing all this and the scale just refused to move. It was a sad, sad day. I came home and felt like I should throw in the towel already. Why bother, right?
But again, that ain't me. I am not a quitter. I am a fighter. I have made a commitment to exercise for 100 days and I am going to stick to it. Scale, this is my warning: move the number down or I'm gonna smash you!
I gave myself some thought about this: why am I exercising? Am I doing it for my own health or for the vanity of seeing the number getting smaller on the scale?
And the answer came to me: I do this for me. And I'm not going to compare myself against anybody, including my old past record. I used to lose 5 lbs a month but that was years ago. I am not that same person anymore but persistence always pays off. One step at a time. Also, I was PMS-ing and that may affect my weight loss.
Here is how week 6 went:
- Monday: Activate 40 min
- Tuesday: walking + 30 day shred 40 min
- Wednesday: yoga+ walking 1hr 20 min
- Thursday: break
- Friday: yoga conditioning 50 min
- Saturday: gym 1 hr
- Sunday: gym 50 min
Total amount of time: 5 hours and 20 minutes.
I actually exercised 6 days a week last week and it was not pretty. It was a bit tiring not to have the second day off. I found myself reaching for yoga to cushion the blow. Regardless of the number of days I exercised, I still felt like I didn't do it enough.
So, this week I am going back to 5-day a week exercising routine. I'm adding weight training to my workouts to see if there is any changes.
Fitness tip of the week:
Whatever you do, don't give up. Just keep pushing until you reach your goals.
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