Trenn – Lehekülg 401 – Nourish, Train & Flourish

Let’s go back in time, shall we?

16th of February 2013. Exactly one year ago. An unhappy girl has finally made a decision that this is it. She has had enough of this body that is nothing she wants to look like. Tired of being obese, tired, heavy. Yesterday she weighed herself and got numbers she never thought she would see: 85,5 kilograms. BMI of 30,7. Tears, self-pity, despair…

The plan called LCHF starts from that day along with 3 workouts per week. In the first week she loses 5,5 kilograms. Amazing! The first 3 months go in a similar pace: losing or zero (or nearly zero) weeks. Everything is easy and 13 kilograms go in 12 weeks.

First bigger weightgain week comes in June 2013. But this doesn’t stop her. She has her obstacles and mistakes and bad moments but no matter what: she keeps going. She falls but gets up every single time.

In the meanwhile, she has started to work out 5 times a week and gotten stronger and healthier.

My weight throughout one year. Easy beginning, rough end.

And today is the day that this girl, ME, celebrates her one year anniversary of living a healthy lifestyle. I have lost quite a bit of weight and am working out 7 times a week. And I have a lot of goals that are ready to be accomplished. I’m not at my ultimate goal weight of 63 kg yet but I’m more than sure that I will get there. One day! I can and I will!

And while being on my journey I decided to create this blog. And I cannot express what a great decision this has been for me! I’m happier and more positive and finally have a place to express my thoughts considering workouts and nutrition. Most people who read my blog are so supportive and give great advice. Thanks to my blog I’ve met people who I otherwise would have never met. I have found people who share my interest in food and sports. What more could you ask for? Great opportunities are flying on me all the time. Thank you all for that! 🙂

And to thank all of my wonderful readers I’m hosting a giveaway right here on my blog!

The winner will receive 2 prizes: 500 ml jar of organic extra virgin coconut oil and a motivational jar filled with great quotes courtesy of müüü.ee (thank you, Marelle!).

In order to win, you have to do the following:

Like my blog’s FaceBook page here.
Share my blog’s FaceBook page with your friends on your timeline. To share, click the little wheel on the same row as the Like button and choose Share.
Comment under this blog post telling me a short and catchy title for my blog (and add your name). Right now it’s a rather long and unattractive title. The title shouldn’t directly include the words LCHF or workouts in it. It should have something to do with healthy and/or active lifestyle and/or sports and/or my name. Short, simple and catchy! 🙂
If you really can’t think of anything, well, just comment with some thoughts about my blog and your name.

NB! Make sure you don’t comment anonymously! That way I can’t check if you have completed all terms of participation. Add your first and last name to the comment please 🙂

The giveaway is open internationally: I will send the prizes out to the winner no matter where he/she lives. Estonia or any other country: I will find a way to get this prize out to you 🙂

The giveaway ends on the 27th of February 2014 at 4 PM Eastern European time. The winner will be the person who offers the best title for my blog OR chosen by random if I can’t find a blog title I really like.

Good luck! 🙂

To end this important post, here are some before and after pictures. Or actually, on the “before” I’m not my heaviest and the “after” is actually “on my way”.

To read my full story click here and here. To see more about results, click here.

I’m ready for new adventures and accomplishments! Are you? 🙂

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday was BodyPumping day at the local fitness club. My best friend also decided to come although we both hate the equipment there. I had a good workout! My weights were what they usually are and I felt good.
Warm-up: 3,5+3,5 kg
Squats: 8,5+8,5 kg
Chest: 6+6 kg
Back: 6+6 kg
Triceps: 2,5 kg; 5 kg
Biceps: 3,5+3,5 kg; 2,5+2,5 kg
Lunges: 6+6 kg
Shoulders: 3,5+3,5 kg; 2,5+2,5 kg
Abs: –

Tuesday was swimming day. On Sunday the lady who sits by the pool, collects our tickets and makes sure we don’t drown (:D) told me that if the pool is almost empty, I can feel free and swim over the 45 minute limit. The same lady was there on Tuesday, the pool got empty at the end of the seance and I decided to swim extra 15 minutes. I did 500 m of breaststroke, 500 m of front crawl, 500 m of backstroke and extra: 250 m of breaststroke and 250 m of front crawl. 2000 metres in total, that’s my new personal record! 🙂

Wednesday was Zumba day. I love this workout more and more with every session. It’s not too complicated or intense and it’s so much fun. Totally recommended to everyone.

Thursday: BodyPump. Last time at the local club here in Ida-Virumaa. Thank god. Can’t wait for normal equipment and conditions! It was a good workout, I really got tired and sweaty. Oh, since I got to the club early and got cold just standing and waiting, I had some extra time to run for about 13 minutes and around 2,2K. The BodyPump class takes place in an indoor track-and-field stadium (eesti keeles: kergejõustiku hall), so there’s a lap to run on 🙂 I actually liked running indoors to my surprise.

Friday was the last Zumba class with my BFF for a while. We’re both going to be busy with school and not working out together until March. But Zumba was still good! My friend has great tracks and choreography for us, I really like the songs she picks. Thanks, Triin! 🙂

Saturday: 45 minutes of swimming. 1,5K of front crawl. I was angry with myself and let everything out in training.

On Sunday I did something new: intervals aka fartlek running. I went to Ahtme Spordihall and did 15 minutes of warm-up, then 2+3+4+5+4+3+2 minutes fast with 2 minutes of steady running in between the fast intervals. I ended my workout with 10 minutes of slow running. In total it came to exactly 1 hour. Fast was around 5 min per km, steady around 6 min per km and slow 7+ min per km. All in total around 8,7 km. I could have pushed myself even harder but since it was my first time intervalling, I really didn’t know how hard to push. I’ll be smarter next time 🙂

In total:

3 hours 30 minutes of walking

2 hours of BodyPump

2 hours of Zumba

1 hour 45 minutes of swimming

1 hour of running

My workouts were great this week: 7 workout sessions in 7 days. That’s awesome. But there’s such a big BUT. My nutrition. It hasn’t been like this during my whole time of LCHF (Christmas and Thailand included). 3 words: cheating, overeating and chaos. All week long! 😦

Cheating with everything but mostly lots of grains. Ate a few big portions of porridge this week, many slices of (rye) bread and some sugar. This behaviour is so not me! The scales ofcourse reflected everything… I haven’t seen numbers like THAT since May 2013. A HUGE disaster! Overeating (or binging) is another huge topic. Too much low carb foods and also too much cheat foods. And chaos. Chaotic behaviour all week long. This week has been catastrophic! 😦 I’m really upset and things need to change. Professional help is perhaps needed…

: Cooked millet (eesti keeles: hirss, kollatang). Never liked it… Until now I guess.

: Rye bread. From koduleivad.ee

: Oatmeal with bran. Craved it and ate it. From quakeroats.ca

In general I’m feeling like what’s the point of blogging about nutrition and sports if I’m failing big time? Who needs to read about my cheats? my weightgain not -loss? my bad mood and stress? No one.

No one.

New week, new semester at school and a new beginning? Hope so. Because if things continue this way, I’m going to back in February 2013 soon. I just have to stay positive and keep going!

Rubriik: Trenn

1 year of healthy lifestyle + GIVEAWAY (CLOSED)

Workout Week 3.–9.02.2014

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