I woke up this morning with a feeling that my body did not belong to me. The workout session with Team Mighty Mouse the day before defeated me. That feeling of soreness felt good! I actually like the pain, it sounds a bit sick but it's true. Thank you teammates!
Had lunch with some girlfriends and I was so good that I stuck with the antipasti buffet. I helped myself to a few extra oysters from the bar. I figured it's natural, no extra added salt, and it's protein. They tasted good! SLURP! My friends had a burger, pizza, AND desserts, and I prevailed! I am proud of myself!
It seems that the visceral fat around my belly is really adamant and resilient. I have yet to find a way to conquer them and kick them out!
Monday, July 25, 2011
Day 53 - Indulgence #2 of this week
Patrick sent out the email about our 2nd indulgence, and I replied saying I will skip this time because the withheld truth is I just had my unofficial indulgence 2 days ago on my bday. However Patrick insisted that we need to have our indulgence, it's an order! So Fergie and I went for yummy Indian food that night. It was yummy yum yum yumsters galore! I missed my carbs for dinner. The roti was singing in my mouth!!!
The aftermath of it was a funny feeling in my stomach, bloatiness, and gasiness....Why did Patrick make me indulge. Not only does he want to torture us with our diets and exercises, he also want to turn my desire for yummy normal food a nightmare in reality. He has succeeded, yet again.
The aftermath of it was a funny feeling in my stomach, bloatiness, and gasiness....Why did Patrick make me indulge. Not only does he want to torture us with our diets and exercises, he also want to turn my desire for yummy normal food a nightmare in reality. He has succeeded, yet again.
Day 51 - Happy Birthday to me!
I didn't feel the excitement of my birthday week this year as dinners are dictated by an apple, an egg white and a glass of milk EVERYDAY! Well I am not complaining but how excited can you get when there are no more countdown dinner binges leading up to your birthday?
My hubby took me to a nice lunch at Ritz Carlton's Tosca on the 102nd Floor, the view was spectacular and we didn't have any bubbly, just bubbly water, and pasta without salt. It was good and tasty even without salt, or should I say, especially without salt. This is something PCP have taught me, that food can taste really good without salt. OK the pasta had sausage in it, which was salty, but what the heck it was my bday afterall!
We had extra veg, no dessert, just coffee.
Overall, a great time with my great partner overlooking a great view of HK. What a picturesque city!
I indulged over dinner with my family at a newly opened French restaurant. Had 2 glasses of wine from my birth year (how can you say NO to that!?) appetizers and mains. I couldn't take the saltiness of some of the dishes, but overall it was good. Made a wish and blew the candle on the dessert plate but didn't have any dessert! I couldn't believe it, but the dinner itself already made me so full that I didn't want any sweets.
My stomach has shrunk! yeah!
My hubby took me to a nice lunch at Ritz Carlton's Tosca on the 102nd Floor, the view was spectacular and we didn't have any bubbly, just bubbly water, and pasta without salt. It was good and tasty even without salt, or should I say, especially without salt. This is something PCP have taught me, that food can taste really good without salt. OK the pasta had sausage in it, which was salty, but what the heck it was my bday afterall!
We had extra veg, no dessert, just coffee.
Overall, a great time with my great partner overlooking a great view of HK. What a picturesque city!
I indulged over dinner with my family at a newly opened French restaurant. Had 2 glasses of wine from my birth year (how can you say NO to that!?) appetizers and mains. I couldn't take the saltiness of some of the dishes, but overall it was good. Made a wish and blew the candle on the dessert plate but didn't have any dessert! I couldn't believe it, but the dinner itself already made me so full that I didn't want any sweets.
My stomach has shrunk! yeah!
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Day 47
Patrick was right...again! This is indeed a trying time in the program as I find myself losing the excitement about what I do or eat daily and slacking off!! I am finally fine with the apple, egg white, milk, veg dinner, it's funny I can't actually imagine myself eating anything else! It has become habitual and despite the lack of indulgence at dinner time, i am actually used to my monotonous dinners. However lunch is a different story. I eat out mostly during lunch and the temptations are great! On Sat I went berserk with the chirashi rice. I knew i overdid the carbo grams as i felt really full afterwards. Mentally I knew I will stick to the dinner allowance so I always let myself go a teeny bit, then a teeny bit more during lunch.
Today I had Char Siu for lunch!! Pork is supposed to be a no-no I know...I just couldn't help it. It started with thinking that a piece of it couldn't kill me....I am a bit ashamed to have weak fundamentals with shaky disciplines.
The Kung fu sit ups are a killer today! I was only able to lift my legs at most at 45 degrees. It's super hard when you are already dangling like a chimp and feel every strand of muscle fibre tearing in your arms, and still have to lift your legs using your abs! Planks seem so much easier in comparison.
Today I had Char Siu for lunch!! Pork is supposed to be a no-no I know...I just couldn't help it. It started with thinking that a piece of it couldn't kill me....I am a bit ashamed to have weak fundamentals with shaky disciplines.
The Kung fu sit ups are a killer today! I was only able to lift my legs at most at 45 degrees. It's super hard when you are already dangling like a chimp and feel every strand of muscle fibre tearing in your arms, and still have to lift your legs using your abs! Planks seem so much easier in comparison.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Day 38
Though my results to date have not been as obvious as Fergie's, I have been sticking to my diet as best I can and doing the workouts. The jumps are getting better, I can do them without much problem. I usually skip at home out on the balcony around 5/6pm when it is less hot. I am shortening my resistance bands as well to give myself more burn in some of the sets. The only thing I am skimming on is the incline pull-ups/pull ups because I still cannot find a place nor a way to do them. The 8MA is good, sometimes I do it twice in a day if I can. The weakest part of my entire body is likely to be my abs, and since my skin around the abdomen had been stretched out to its MAX during my pregnancy, I have quite a bit of way to go...
I hope the next few weeks will be effective PCP weeks as we are off to Italy again end of the month. This time we hope to stick to the diet as much as we can. I wonder if PCP will grant an extra birthday indulgence day? I need it!
Taking my "medicine" now, though I am dreaming of sushi or some carbs...I will persevere!!
Yes we can! :)
I hope the next few weeks will be effective PCP weeks as we are off to Italy again end of the month. This time we hope to stick to the diet as much as we can. I wonder if PCP will grant an extra birthday indulgence day? I need it!
Taking my "medicine" now, though I am dreaming of sushi or some carbs...I will persevere!!
Yes we can! :)
Monday, July 4, 2011
Day 34
I could not get myself to do the skipping today for reasons only women would know, but I manage to do the other stuff including the floor jumps. I did them right for the first time, thanks to Marcus for pointing out that we are supposed to jump up high, instead of little skips down under like creep-jumping. I felt the real BURN this time and thought to myself "no wonder everyone's been complaining about how tough they are!"
The plunges have improved for me. I didn't scream out at the last 10 seconds until the last set. The idea is not to take count and just use a stop watch. I found counting makes time seem slower when your entire body is on fire!
btw, I haven't been weighing myself much for the past month since I started PCP, and today I just found out I only lost 1kg since June 2nd!!!! Is it normal? Am I not pushing myself enough? Maybe I have stored away too much fat during and post pregnancy and as I am changing those fat to muscle, my weight wasn't able to come down? Help! :(
The plunges have improved for me. I didn't scream out at the last 10 seconds until the last set. The idea is not to take count and just use a stop watch. I found counting makes time seem slower when your entire body is on fire!
btw, I haven't been weighing myself much for the past month since I started PCP, and today I just found out I only lost 1kg since June 2nd!!!! Is it normal? Am I not pushing myself enough? Maybe I have stored away too much fat during and post pregnancy and as I am changing those fat to muscle, my weight wasn't able to come down? Help! :(
Friday, July 1, 2011
Day 31
Am I the only one who's not enjoying our dinner? Let's put it this way...I don't mind eating the apple, the banana, and the egg white but there is just nothing to look forward to the whole day in terms of food. I guess this is all a mental game. Anyway, I have a few observations & reflections about myself:
1) I don't feel "hungry" much at all because the food that I am eating is not that exciting. I guess this is a good thing. I am actually reminding myself to eat that fruit for my metabolism sake.
2) I can sit in front of a whole table of yummy oily, salty, food and not feel a strand of hair on my body twitch. I have developed immunity towards normal food temptations! Yeah! Today I sat through a whole dim sum lunch and only ate boiled veg, boiled cod, and boiled shrimps.
3) All of a sudden, my babies' food look tempting as a spread for my morning toast! I decided to opt for noodles or rice over dry crunchy tasteless whole wheat toasts for breakfast carbs.
4) My abs are still flabby and my belly button is still talking to me when I take deep breaths.
5) I haven't tried the 8 minute abs workout yet but just looking at the video makes my abs tired! Must give it a try tomorrow!
6) Doing floorjumps facing your hubby while holding each other's hands can be a great way to share the burn together! :)
7) I am happy I forced myself to finish the 1300 jumps today, and added another 60 on top in preparation for tomorrow's 1350. I am even happier I gave Fergie Nazi pep talk by making him finish his jumps when he wanted to give up after 300 today.
8) We both realized afterwards all this is mental, and not physical. We CAN do it. It is just a matter of whether we WANT to do it.
9) But I am not sure if pull ups and 8 minute abs at this point apply to my point above.
10) I wonder if I can fit into my black leather dress many sizes too small, by this October....
1) I don't feel "hungry" much at all because the food that I am eating is not that exciting. I guess this is a good thing. I am actually reminding myself to eat that fruit for my metabolism sake.
2) I can sit in front of a whole table of yummy oily, salty, food and not feel a strand of hair on my body twitch. I have developed immunity towards normal food temptations! Yeah! Today I sat through a whole dim sum lunch and only ate boiled veg, boiled cod, and boiled shrimps.
3) All of a sudden, my babies' food look tempting as a spread for my morning toast! I decided to opt for noodles or rice over dry crunchy tasteless whole wheat toasts for breakfast carbs.
4) My abs are still flabby and my belly button is still talking to me when I take deep breaths.
5) I haven't tried the 8 minute abs workout yet but just looking at the video makes my abs tired! Must give it a try tomorrow!
6) Doing floorjumps facing your hubby while holding each other's hands can be a great way to share the burn together! :)
7) I am happy I forced myself to finish the 1300 jumps today, and added another 60 on top in preparation for tomorrow's 1350. I am even happier I gave Fergie Nazi pep talk by making him finish his jumps when he wanted to give up after 300 today.
8) We both realized afterwards all this is mental, and not physical. We CAN do it. It is just a matter of whether we WANT to do it.
9) But I am not sure if pull ups and 8 minute abs at this point apply to my point above.
10) I wonder if I can fit into my black leather dress many sizes too small, by this October....
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