Project Indigo- Week 6- Finally!
Week 5:
Work Outs x3
1x FitByFrankii Upper Body and HIIT
1x FitByFrankii Lower Body and HIIT
1x FitByFrankii Core and HIIT
Eating Plan: Better but London Baby
Week 6:
Work Outs x3
1x FitByFrankii Upper Body and HIIT
1x FitByFrankii Lower Body and HIIT
1x FitByFrankii Core and HIIT (including a run that almost killed me it was so hot!)
Eating Plan: Amazing but terrifying...
INDIGO INTROSPECTION
Finally I have gotten off my arse, I am eating well, I am following an exercise programme, finally I am actually doing something and IT FEELS AMAZING!
I am starting the FitByFrankii Ambassador programme in August but I basically annoyed Frankii into writing a sneaky programme for me so that I had a programme to following for 3 weeks in July because I go to Budapest a month.
I love my new routine. LOVE IT. I do one workout of upper body with HIIT, one workout of lower body with HIIT and one core workout with HIIT (including a run) each week that's it. Each session takes about an hour and I am dripping with sweat afterwards. Franks has written the three programmes to incorporate things I love including using my TRX straps and weights, but has also included things I dislike like burpees and high knees. I think this is really important because its when you get out of your comfort zone that you improve the most.
On that note...
CALORIE COUNTING
My biggest challenge when it comes to any of my projects is eating. I LOVE food but saying that I don't eat a lot of it. Yes I'll have a burger or a meal out with lots of gin that will rack up my calories but normally on average, on a day to day basis I would eat quite little, somewhere between 1000-1100 calories. When I'm being super strict (this normally involves eating loads of gross grapefruit) I can eat as little as 800 calories a day.
Every time I sit down and make a new plan for my projects I review my food, I research a new diet, I make a plan and my calories intake is always low. I even do the calorie calculators online that tell me I should be eating more and I ignore them. Then I start my project, it goes well for about 6 weeks, I lose weight, but then I get exhausted to the point of fatigue, I get ill and then I have to stop and the weight piles back on. Every single time this happens and I have done this religiously for the past 10 years.
Why would I do this to myself? Eating a higher number of calories on a day to day basis really scares me and this by far has been the hardest part of any plan for me. A long time ago I had a very unhealthy relationship with food and I know I'm much better now but saying that this is the first time ever that I will make the effort to eat MORE in one of my regimes.
My aim is 1500 calories on non-workout days and 1800 calories on training days. Those numbers are huge for me but the reason I'm doing right now is for Frankii. I trust her and she has asked me to believe in her and her expertise so that is exactly what I'm doing. I cant wait to be able to look back in a year and laugh/be horrified at my former self at how little I was eating but right now I'm taking it a day at a time and aiming for the higher numbers.
Its only been a week but already I feel less tired during the day, I have more energy during my workouts and I'm sleeping better. I do have a 'podge' which is most likely caused by water retention and my body isn't used to processing so much bread, it does make me feel very uncomfortable BUT I am trusting in the process and I know that it will get sorted in the next few weeks.
Week 6
Monday
Calories In- 1416
Tuesday
Calories In- 1883 Exercise- 550
Wednesday
Calories In- 1526
Thursday
Calories In-1986 Exercise- 550
Friday
Calories In- 2028
Saturday
Calories In- 893 Sunday
Calories In-1816 Exercise- 600
Total- Eaten: 11548 Workout: 1700
Am desperately thinking of the before and after photos atm...
