Bobbieness

Week 44 runs from Monday 26th October — Sunday 1st November, 2020.

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The Week in Fitness & Food

10/26 – Monday. Completed 19:19.
Videos completed: Natacha Océane 10min Warm Up, Chloe Ting Best Booty Workout, Pamela Reif 15min Daily Stretch.

Wow it really looks like my period bloating went down because apparently I am 118.6lbs as of this morning. I was expecting to drop into the 118’s this week but I didn’t realise it’d be that fast, especially since I hadn’t really eaten diet foods or exercised much last week.

However, I was trying to eat at/around maintenance and tried to ensure I did not overeat. I also played piano a few times last week, which increased my NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis; basically calories I burned outside of exercising). I didn’t think it’d burn that many calories but maybe it does because my Apple Watch counted exercise minutes and a few hundred additional calories burned from my piano playing. I was sweating after playing for an hour or so, I guess.

I almost didn’t work out today but in the evening decided I still really wanted to exercise, so I ended up doing today’s videos after all! I’m glad I did because I felt much more energised afterwards.

I used 5lb dumbbells (with a 4lb extra weight for the squats) and a light resistance band for today. I think that was enough; I don’t think I trained to failure, but I didn’t want to over-exercise and be so sore I can’t do anything the next few days.

Tomorrow I will still be aiming to follow Chloe’s schedule with the 6 Pack Abs video first, but for Day 11 I will try doing her 2 Week Abs video after the arms video so I have enough strength to properly work my arm muscles first.

Food-wise I had a large pasta dinner with a protein bar and a decent sized brunch with coffee, plus a small smoothie snack between the two meals. Not sure how that will affect my weight tomorrow but we’ll see. I think it will remain about the same?

Either way I am so impressed to see 118 on the scale. I’m pretty sure the last time I weighed less than 119lbs, my body composition was very different and I was two dress sizes larger. I think it was something like 10yrs ago. Only 3-4lbs left to go to reach my initial target weight of 115lbs, but right now I’m not actually counting calories, nor do I feel like I’m on a diet, so I guess I can just keep tracking to see when my weight loss plateaus.

To clarify though: I did track my calories for about a week (I even weighed out my food), so even if I’m not tracking these days I still have an idea of approx calories I’ve eaten. Every few weeks I sort of track for a day just to make sure I’m still fairly accurate with my estimates.

I do eat what I want these days but much of the time I want healthy, nutritious food. Plus I love vegetables, which is very filling whilst being low in calories. That’s probably why I can get away with eating until I’m full, still have junk food every now and again, and still lose weight.