THE FITNESS DIARIES NO. 14

Hello!
So as you know from my previous blogpost, I have completely cut my diet. Limited myself to 1200 calories, 45g sugar, 40g fat - just gone for it. I've been fuelling my body with the nutrients it's desired and I am feeling so much better for it! My runs are the fastest they've been in a year, my workouts are more varied, my endurance is stronger, my sleep is better. And this all comes from the way you fuel your body, basically. As mentioned before there is going to be a MASSIVE shake up on here. I'm not going for a half-hearted attempt anymore, you are going to read about every time I eat or move, and I'm not sugar coating anything (*emotional sigh*)

Workout count:
1 x Leg and cardio - 20 minutes treadmill, 10 minutes bike, 10 minutes stepper. 3 x 12 reps of adductor and abductor. 4 x 25 reps of calf raises. 3 x 16 sets of normal, plie and narrow squats with 5lbs weight. 2 x 16 walking lunges with 2 lbs weight.
1 x Arms and cardio - cardio as above. 3 x 16 reps bicep curls. 3 x 16 reps tricep extensions. 3 x 12 hammer curls. 3 x 12 skull crushers
1 x  Cardio hour. 30 min spinning class and 30 min run
1 x Fat burn session (consisting of weighted squats, wall sits, sprints, burpees, panks, dumbbell rows, walking planks push ups) and 1 x Abs Class (Jackknives, reverse crunches, bicycle crunches and spider planks)

Breakfast:
Onken Fat-Free strawberry yogurt with graze's strawberries and cream granola topper and raspberries on the side (411 calories)
Nakd banana crunch bar and strawberries
Onken Fat-Free strawberry yogurt
Nakd banana crunch and coffee x2
Sultana, raisin, cranberry and apple oatmeal x 2

Lunch:
Heinz cream of tomato with a hint of basil soup and 2 pieces wholemeal dry toast (314 calories) x 2
Turkey bacon and scrambled eggs, with carrot sticks and hummus
Light cheese and green tomato chutney toastie with carrot sticks and hummus
1/2 can baked beans on 2 pieces wholemeal toast with side of honeydew melon
2 eggs scrambled, 2 pieces toast and 1/3 can baked beans
Prawn mayo sandwich on wholemeal bread with apple and grapes on the side

Dinner:
Grilled chicken with spinach and broccoli
Grilled seabass with broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
Slimming world chicken wings with Moroccan couscous
Grilled salmon with left over Moroccan couscous and broccoli
Salmon parcel with baked sweet potato and broccoli
*Cheat meal* 1 piece fried chicken, 1 waffle, bacon, maple syrup and mango juice
1 nandos chicken pitta with mash

Snacks:
Graze lemon and poppyseed slice (my faaaaaaavourite)
Nakd banana crunch bar
Hartley's sugar free strawberry jelly
1 bottle Dr Pepper (sorry. not sorry)
Graze herby bread basket
6 strawberries
Muller light toffee yogurt
2 x Kopparberg strawberry and lime
1 can cherry dr pepper
6 Tuc biscuits

Water: 2 litres a day every day

Weight loss:  - 1lb

Total weight loss (2 weeks): - 4lb

Motivation of the week: Nikki Blackketter

Overview: I did want to lose at least 2 lbs, if not 3 in order to be at my short term goal weight for my holiday. I'm not disappointed with only losing 1 lb this week and I'm absolutely putting it down to the poor choices I made in the snack department towards the end of the week (cough, cough the 2 kopparbergs and dr peppers). I've been keeping track of my calories and I have almost always been under my calorie goal of 1200 except on the days I had the kopparbergs. Point for next week: no alcohol at all.

Thanks for following my new and improved weight loss journey, of course it's not all about the number on the scale but the way my body improves. After I realised I'd gained this weight, it made sense to me why my miles hadn't been as fast; it was taking me nearly 2 minutes to run a mile and this time last year it took me 9 and a half. However, this week I managed to get it down to 10 mins 57 seconds which is the lowest it's been since October! Therefore, the scale was my second biggest achievement of the week.
If you missed last week's, here's a link - Fitness Diaries no. 13
Catch you next time!
CJ x

THE FITNESS DIARIES NO. 13

OK, so first of all, I want to apologise for my absence over the past MONTH. I could give you a million excuses about exams, illness, whatever. But this blog isn't for excuses, this blog is for fitness.
I would just like to say that over the course of writing the fitness diaries, I did not have a perfect diet and exercise routine, but instead I was working on making improvements, which I did. However, although my diet wasn't necessarily a high calorie, high fat one, it did contain a lot of sugar, and that's not good for your body.
Exams are the absolute WORST THINGS for anyone trying to lose weight or tone up, because you just don't have time to work out. I'm not one to cover up the truth, so here it goes. For four weeks I literally just sat in bed or at my desk, barely moved for entire days and ate. A LOT. Once a week, my boyfriend and I would have our Game of Thrones pizza nights, order a Papa John's and obviously, watch Game of Thrones. I honestly hardly even walked anywhere.
Now, because I've never been one for weighing myself, I didn't see the problem with my weight ... until I weighed myself. Finding out I'm around 20 lbs heavier than where I would like to be is shit. I just stood there and stared at the number thinking that if I didn't move, or tried again, it would go down (it didn't).
So now is the time to make a change I thought. I went into my cupboards and threw out EVERYTHING which wasn't good for me, and then went shopping. I stocked up on high protein, low fat foods, green, leafy veg, fruits and that's it. Cut out half of my carbohydrates, half of my sugar, and half of my fat.
Then I set a target of burning 500 calories a day (or more if I'm only doing 5 workouts a week). First couple of days went better than expected, I was headed to spinning classes, going on runs, doing at home workouts all to get to that glorious number. The sad thing is, I could tell in myself that I'd gained weight just from how heavy I felt when running, it really hit home hard.
AND THEN, the abdomen pain hit. This is still undiagnosed but it basically put a stop to everything. I had to leave the gym early, I couldn't eat anything, it was awful. I'm currently awaiting results from a blood test so hopefully it's sorted out soon.
Starting my new lifestyle on Monday, I was 3 lbs lighter by Friday, and now it's Monday again, I'm still at that weight. I really wanted lose at least 12 by the time I go on my summer holidays (which is three weeks away!!!) Although it's not looking likely with the intensity of my workouts at the moment, I'm going to give it my best shot, and as long as the number's going down, that's good.
Thanks for listening to my ramble this week, hopefully there'll be better news and better results next week!
CJ x