Fit & Curvy

I decided to start running simply because it’s something I’ve always hated yet always wanted to conquer. Then I got the idea to start training for a 5K and of course, you have to start somewhere. So after we dropped our little one off at daycare we headed to the Tan and I ran a lap (3.6K) I stopped to briefly to walk maybe 4 or 5 times but mostly I ran. I have no idea how long it took me but I felt fantastic afterwards.

Tomorrow morning I’d like to try and run 5K on the treadmill since my bf will be busy and I can’t be arsed going to the Botanical Gardens just for a lap.

I guess my only goal at this point is to complete 5K under 30min.

Green smoothie: coconut water, 1/2 cucumber, nashi pear, kiwi fruit, mixed berries, red grapes, 2 handfuls spinach leaves, parsley.

2 whole egg mixed herb omelette

can of putanesca tuna in oil

99 cal cookies & cream protein bar

kiwi fruit

2 cups of instant coffee with splash of full cream milk

12 minutes interval on the highest incline alternating between walking/running. Then 50 minutes of mixed cardio (jogging, walking, bike, elliptical), some upper body weights

So far today:

Yoghurt panacotta w strawberries & figs
Boiled egg
Soy macchiato

2 small kiwi fruits
2 teaspoons of Peanut Butter

2 poached eggs
1/4 avocado
Instant coffee, dash of full cream milk

100ml pomegranate & acai smoothie.

Just came back from the gym having spent 1h45 mins doing some mixed cardio. I started off doing 10 minutes of HIIT, 20 minute walk, 5 minutes of hill jogging intervals, 10 minutes on bike, 30 minute walk, 20 minutes bike, 15 minutes walk, 4 x 10 leg presses.

I always walk on an incline at a minmum of 7.5% but usually go up to the highest incline and when I jog I do it at the highest incline also.

For some reason I have a lot of trouble jogging on flat or semi-flat ground. This has always been the way even at my fittest. It fucking sucks. Although I have found that running intervals raises my heart rate the same as steady-paced running.

I feel so much better eating just fruits and vegetables. This morning I drank a whopper of a fruit & greens smoothie that included: ruby red grapefruit, banana, nashi pear, apple, stalk of celery, 3 leaves of cavalo nero. I am stuffed!

I spent a lot of time last night researching now to get a model body. For someone of my stature (155cm) with a super curvy figure I would love a more longer, leaner physique.

I tend to put on muscle pretty quickly. I could get a six pack in a week if I kept my diet 100% clean and worked out every day. I’m not actually that much of a fan of the ripped look on women though. But as someone who prefers weights over cardio I’m going the wrong way about creating the body of my dreams.

In order to get a longer, leaner model-like body I need to up the cardio and decrease the weights. 5 x 30 second sprints with 1 minute recovery in between followed by a 25 minute jog then a 1-2 hour walk (depending on my mood.) Daily yoga and stretching. A highly restrictive diet of 400 calories per day for the near-emaciated look.

The latter would not be done as part of a healthy diet but more so done a 2 days-week before an event. Otherwise calories would be capped at 800-1200 dependent on energy expenditure. Diet would be mostly raw with lean meat (fish), little to no dairy, no wheat.

I always struggle with eating enough greens. I despise the taste of lettuce, dressing to make it taste better is usually too calorific, green smoothies do nothing for me, so instead I’ve been making Green Soup.

So, my green soup consists of:

Cavalo Nero (black cabbage or kale)
Italian Parsley
2 vegetarian beef stock cubes
1 head of garlic
knob of Ginger
red chili
Celery
Green Pepper
Zucchini

I like to cook everything besides the cavalo nero and parsley until soft then at the very end add the two leafy ingredients and blitz with a bamix.

Next week i may add avocado as an extra ingredient to promote a healthier complexion.

I exercised for 2 hours per day and are very minimally and mostly protein, veggies.

In two weeks I shed about 5kgs.

Male doctors of a certain age seem to have a very no-nonsense approach to weight loss. Advice I’ve been given in the past has ranged from “just skip breakfast” it’s one less meal for the day and instantly creates a deficit of 300-500 calories depending on how much you usually eat for breakfast, to “cut one thing out of your diet” and he gave the example of a man who cut potatoes out of his diet and lost substantial weight. Of course, this only works if you don’t replace it with something else, you just cut it out full stop.

To be serious about weight loss it would help if i cut out energy drinks and chocolate since a lot of my daily diet seems to rely on those two things to get me through my day.

I think when it comes to weight loss it’s best to keep it simple. None of these ridiculous convoluted diets and theories about eating breakfast or not eating after 7pm or things like that.