It has only been 4
days since I last took my measurements. And over the past 4 days, things
improved further.
Although the weight
went up slightly, it was mainly due to muscle gained. I had lost about 200g of
fat, and put on 200g of muscle. In just over 4 days. I think that is good
progress, isn’t it? I didn’t do anything different. In fact, I find it more
challenging to keep to eating 3-3-3-3 during weekends, as I look after the kids
myself on weekends. hahaha. My consultant/coach reckons it is because the body
has gotten used to the new ‘lifestyle’ and it is continuously burning off fat.
I guess I will need to up the exercise factor to give the programme a boost in
the final 4 weeks….
TRA Programme: Day 79
Oh dear. I had put
back on 200g of fat, and lost 200g of muscle. What happened? I had started more
exercises (started utilizing the gym at home). I think I really ate too much
and too little vegetables. Looking at my food diary for the past week, I
realized that for some days, there was 0 vege!! oh my. Maybe that’s why I ended
up losing muscle…
I’m left with 2
weeks. Better seize the final 2 weeks and MAKE IT WORK!
TRA Programme: Day 88
Lucky number 88. (The
number 8 in Chinese symbolizes prosperity and wealth)
Over the past week, I
did more exercises. I ran the treadmill once for 15 minutes (did intervals on
the treadmill), did some weight / resistance exercises (lunges while carrying
weights), pushups 3 times this week and I only just started doing simple
resistance exercises while watching TV (use own body as the weight, with the
sofa/chair as my other tool). On some days, I had also forgotten to take the
TRA supplements (quite busy this week…)
I was not able to
meet my consultant this week, so I went down to the NuSkin office on my own, to
take my measurements. My measurements today were pretty good! Weight reduced by
a further 1.1kg over the week, while fat % was lower by 1.5%. On the whole, I
had lost 1.1kg of fat this week, while maintining muscle weight. This means, my
weight loss was due to the loss of fats. That’s good news! Have to keep this
up, so that I can start the new year, 2013, with a new health and new eating
lifestyle. Cheers to that!
Other indicators: BMR
went down. Hmmm….need to eat more frequently or snack more (on fruits and
vege). My body age dropped by 2 years! Wow! My body is at the real age now. I
was surprised. I think those little extra exercises helped. I guess given that
I was not very plump to begin with, I think simply walking more (e.g. climbing
stairs, alighting one stop earlier) does not help me lose much fats. My body
needed me to do more resistance exercises to build up muscle mass, which in
turn, would help burn off fats faster.
Got to work even
harder at it. Have to bring up the BMR.
Only 3 more days to
the end of the TRA programme (with a wedding dinner in between too…)! I hope I
can lose more.
I need a new
wardrobe.
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