Week 3 started in a flurry of enthusiasm. I’d lost 2 inches off my waist and woke on Day 15 having seen a shift in the scales. The problem was that, in my overexcited state I rather over did it…
Day 15:
I was so caught up with the thrill of seeing some results that I decided to do a long walk/run (4 miles) followed by an hour on the exercise bike, thus condensing the day’s cardio into one efficient block. With hindsight, that was a rather stupid thing to do.
My second mistake was to follow this whirlwind of exercise with a hot bath.
The result of this madness was that when I got out of the bath, hot and exhausted, I felt a little faint. I sat on the edge of the bath wrapped in a towel and became aware of the next song on the ‘midnight mixtape’ that I’d been listening to.
It was ‘Far too Good’ by John Smith. I hadn’t heard it before and the lyrics made me cry. Well, I say cry, I started sobbing. It just sounded like a conversation between my fat self and the healthy person that I was starting to become.
Whenever I’m feeling a bit fed up with the endless protein and lack of crisps, I listen to this song and it gets me back into the right frame of mind.
I was tired and had a snooze in the afternoon and went to bed at 19:30.
Day 16: Easter Sunday
I’d had a really bad night. I was exhausted but I couldn’t sleep and my right glute and calf pain was making me demented. I did lots of stretching and some gentle walks.
I was stressed out about lockdown and suffering from waves of bursting into tears.
Lunch was a Sunday roast, I avoided the roast potatoes and skipped the home made brownies and profiteroles that everyone else scoffed. I deserved a medal.
Day 17:
A difficult day. I was tired. My morning walk was cold and miserable and I struggled through training. I just couldn’t find my mojo.
I ended the day by laying out my kit for an early morning walk when I woke up. I figured that it would remove one of my excuses not to go.
Day 18:
I had a great walk and it really helped that I laid my kit out last night. If I hadn’t then I honestly don’t think that I would have gone.
Having slept for the first time in ages I had a much better day.
It would have been so easy to slack off the exercise today but I’m SO glad that I didn’t.
Day 19:
I had a long chat with Luke about the fact that I hate cardio so we shook up my plan and decided to do weights 4 times a week, cardio twice with one rest day a week.
Luke told me not to put too much pressure on myself and to consider taking a magnesium supplement in the evening if I continued to have trouble sleeping.
Day 20:
Another really bad night’s sleep. I had really sore muscles after yesterday’s workout . When I woke up I went for a short walk to try and ease my aching legs. It worked.
The weights session was amazing and I spent the rest of the day in a buoyant mood, although I craved carbs all afternoon.
The buffalo mozzarella salad was a ‘deconstructed pizza’. My family were all having home-made pizzas but I held my nerve!
Day 21:
Finally an amazing night’s sleep – nine and a half hours straight through. (I’d never had any problems sleeping properly before I started training so clearly the changes had been messing with my sleep patterns.)
Today was a really good day.
End of week 3 photos:
I didn’t take any photos this week. I had a really tough week, I was exhausted all of the time and I completely forgot!