a day of discovery
went to the gym yesterday after month. and had a session with my trainer din. the last time i saw din was before my sri lanka trip in august, so its been two months. i have to confess that although i have been running i have been neglecting the weight training bit of the equation. haven't been doing any push-ups or crunches for the longest time. and it definitely showed yesterday. we did some arm and ab work and i was wimpering and whining through it all. before i could do 20 reps for most exercises and yesterday i maxed out at 15 or even 10. really pathetic. oh well. slowly but surely i guess. i thought i'b be really sore today, but its not too bad.
after a month of weighing myself at home i now have 'official' figures. the weight's 67.3kg. also did a body composition test. muscle mass is down by 2%, which is not too bad considering i've not done any weight training in a long time. body fat is down 2% from august to 35%. healthy range for women is 25-31%, so just another 4% baby! am quite surprised by the body fat figures because if anything, i had expected it to have gone up slightly.
after the session with din i did 30 min on the threadmill. jogged some 4.25 km. i know its damn slow but hey i've gotta start somewhere right? but it felt great to be all sweaty and outta breath. my knee has been holding up relatively well after the runs (touch wood!), but i do wear a knee guard and also ice it immediately after getting home. its weird though how it seems to hurt after a long day at work or after a day of shopping.
afterwards i went on a bit of a window shopping expedition. one of the places i went to was this fashion, because i wanted to get some pretty skirts and dresses and also some basic cardigans. it was hard to keep from getting depressed because most of the dresses were available only in a size s and m. the m sizes were too small in the bust and the arms. damn. but i had to remind myself that i used to only be able to fit into their xxxxl stuff (isn't it funny how they seem to have skipped the middle part in their sizing), so being just a bit too big for their m is- in a weird way- progress.
oh! i also discovered something very interesting which i have to share. was chatting with one of my bro's body-builder friends on msn last night and was asking him how to get rid of my belly. he said that sometimes stress and even exercise can cause a build up the hormone estrogen. if ur wondering why that sounds familiar, its a hormone known to regulate many female funtions, but it also stores fat. so he said i probably have an excess of estrogen, causing it to be difficult to shed the last few kilos. apparently green tea helps to lower estrogen levels, which will then make shedding the last bit of stubborn fat easier. i finally have reason to be glad that my mum lugged back so much of the stuff frm sri lanka...
after a month of weighing myself at home i now have 'official' figures. the weight's 67.3kg. also did a body composition test. muscle mass is down by 2%, which is not too bad considering i've not done any weight training in a long time. body fat is down 2% from august to 35%. healthy range for women is 25-31%, so just another 4% baby! am quite surprised by the body fat figures because if anything, i had expected it to have gone up slightly.
after the session with din i did 30 min on the threadmill. jogged some 4.25 km. i know its damn slow but hey i've gotta start somewhere right? but it felt great to be all sweaty and outta breath. my knee has been holding up relatively well after the runs (touch wood!), but i do wear a knee guard and also ice it immediately after getting home. its weird though how it seems to hurt after a long day at work or after a day of shopping.
afterwards i went on a bit of a window shopping expedition. one of the places i went to was this fashion, because i wanted to get some pretty skirts and dresses and also some basic cardigans. it was hard to keep from getting depressed because most of the dresses were available only in a size s and m. the m sizes were too small in the bust and the arms. damn. but i had to remind myself that i used to only be able to fit into their xxxxl stuff (isn't it funny how they seem to have skipped the middle part in their sizing), so being just a bit too big for their m is- in a weird way- progress.
oh! i also discovered something very interesting which i have to share. was chatting with one of my bro's body-builder friends on msn last night and was asking him how to get rid of my belly. he said that sometimes stress and even exercise can cause a build up the hormone estrogen. if ur wondering why that sounds familiar, its a hormone known to regulate many female funtions, but it also stores fat. so he said i probably have an excess of estrogen, causing it to be difficult to shed the last few kilos. apparently green tea helps to lower estrogen levels, which will then make shedding the last bit of stubborn fat easier. i finally have reason to be glad that my mum lugged back so much of the stuff frm sri lanka...
posted by liza @ 10/28/2006 10:33:00 AM
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