Todays fitness journal - 29-09-2013

My food intake today was as follows:

Breakfast – Fruit salad (melon, mango, apple, pineapple, pear, plum and strawberry)

Lunch – Chicken breast with lettuce, pepper and avocado

Dinner – 2 scrambled egg, 2 small slices of cheese, lettuce and tomato with 2 slices of wholemeal bread.

Snack – small bowl of fruit salad

My workout for today:

Cardio.

Exercise bike – Resistance 8 – Distance 3 miles – Time 11. 55 minutes

Treadmill - Cross country – Speed 4 mph – Time 15 minutes

Resistance/Strength

Sit ups on exercise ball – 20 x 2 reps

Hip roll with exercise ball – 20 x 2 reps

Hamstring curls on exercise ball – 20 x 2 reps

Russian twists with medicine ball – 20 x 2 reps

Squats with 15 kg weight – 15 x 3 reps

Lunges with 8kg – 10 x 2 reps

Triceps push down on cable – 60lb – 16 x 2 reps

Triceps pull down on cable – 40lb – 16 x 2 reps

Lat pull down – 55lb – 16 x 2 reps

Power plate squats – 30 sec

Power plate lunges – 15 seconds each leg

Todays fitness journey.

I will try, as best as possible, to record what I eat and what exercise I have done for the day.

Todays food intake has been as follows:

Breakfast.

1 cup mixed oats, 2 tsp honey and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Lunch.

1 skinless chicken breast, ½ cup rice, 2 cups mixed vegetables

Dinner.

Salad with avocado.

Snacks.

2 slices wholemeal toast with peanut butter.

I’d say my food intake for today was pretty good, until I let my cravings get the better of me and I had some toast.

Todays workout routine was as follows:

Cardio.

Exercise bike – Resistance 7 – Distance 3 miles – Time 12.06 minutes.

Treadmill – Cross country – Speed 4mph – Time 10 minutes                                     .

Resistance/Strength.

Sit ups on exercise ball – 20 x 2 reps

Hamstring curls on exercise ball – 20 x 2 reps

Hip roll with exercise ball – 20 x 2 reps

Russian twist with medicine ball – 20 x 2 reps

Squats with 15kg weights – 20 x 2 reps

Lunges with 8kg – 15 x 2 reps on each leg

Leg press – 55kg 15 x 3 reps

My workout was cut short today as I didn't realize the time and I needed to get to work. 

Getting started.

I have decided to write a health and fitness blog to keep a track of my fitness journey. No doubt I will be the only person reading, but I figure it will be good to have in writing the journey I am on and plan to continue on.

For several years I have tried to lose weight and all my motivation has always been short lived. This time I am determined to be different. 

After some big things happened in my life a little while ago I put on weight (I have never been slim) but I saw a photo from a night out I had at the start of the year and was disgusted at myself. From that moment on I have been set on getting my body to its physical peak.

No crash diet can help, if it took 5 years to put on it’s not going to come off over night, so it is all about clean eating and exercise.

I am a 21 year old female at 5’3” and at mid-August 2013 I weighed 14 stone. This gave me a BMI of 34.7 meaning I am clinically obese and putting my life at risk. I should not need anything more than that to turn my life around.

A month and a half later (and with a few slip ups) I have managed to lose a stone. Now weighing 13 stone and giving myself a BMI of 32.2, still clinically obese but I am on the right track.