Dairy of competition prepping
#4weeksout
Weeks are flying…but weight loss at a stand still……SHIT!!!!
This week I had no appointments to look forward to in a progress way, so the mind starting working overtime. Will I drop enough weight for the stage, will my legs look good enough, will the fat reduce around my lower stomach and triceps???? So many questions and so little time to go.
I have a dairy I enter everyday with training schedule, meal times, water, coffee and green tea intake. I note my moods, energy level and overall concerns. I also have a goal for weight each week! I need numbers and organization to help me through this process and to stay focused, I need back up plans as well if things aren’t going the way I first planned.
At my posing class with Vicki she gave me some advice if my weight loss stopped and I had plan B to go to – eat smaller meals – as in the 5 meals I prepare for the day, eat half of them every 1.5 hours so I burn smaller meals more often. If that doesn’t help – increase cardio if need be.
So I tried the eating smaller portions more often, but it’s not working (well not straight away to me the impatient one!). I dropped the sweet potato so no carbs for me anymore. Liz’s first answer to no weight loss was to drop sweet potato to every second day, then a minute later it was to a couple of times week, then once a week! I just said don’t worry I’ll just drop it completely – I’m an “all or nothing” type of person. So needless to say panic is about to set in! 3 kilos to be lost in just over 4 weeks – I’m not sure what “the process” is going to do, but I know I need to trust my advisers and work out some plans.
Training itself is going very well with the weights, still pushing some good weights and mixing it up as much as I can. With the cardio side of training I have added some bench jump squats into the stepper interval training. I’ve also started skipping and including box jumps at each minute or 30 second interval. I have also included hill sprints with my training buddy. I need to change up what I was doing to get my body to react, to get the weight to drop off again.
My fibre intake was still a concern. I have now added ground flaxseed to a couple of meals each day, and put chia seeds in my protein shake to help with bowel movement. Maybe this is why I am not losing weight these last two weeks? Again more experimenting with my body.
Liz advised me not to have too much licorice tea purely to not be reliant on the sweetness factor, so I’ve alternated with licorice tea one day and black coffee another to keep the energy levels up.
My moods have been ok, just the tiredness is starting to effect my afternoon group sessions, I am aware I need to stay bright and alert, but it is becoming harder some days. I really do look forward to bed each day to simply let my body rest. I am feeling sore in the muscles after a session each day, but it’s that feeling that makes me feel good, because I then think my weight session has been worthwhile. In saying that I know that rest day coming up, and it is well needed and appreciated.
I headed off camping on the weekend and knew it would be hard as it was a reunion of my camping group from my teen days and partying days. I packed all my food that I had prepped, along with packing the boys snack foods and bbq food. My girlfriend has asked me if I was drinking champers or wine, but the brief answer of “no just water” I think made her realize I was not going for the good old camping days. Yes it was hard to sit there and watch everyone eat and drink at “happy hour/s” but I just told myself I can do this one day, just not today. I kept busy driving the boat for the kids to water ski or go on the biscuit behind the boat. I love wakeboarding, it’s my “calm”, I feel so good doing this and never pass up an opportunity to get out behind the boat. I even had a go on the air chair and got up, so I got a high out of doing this (reward without food is a good thing!)
One thing I found hard at camping was to keep the hydration up – not having drinking water on tap and close by was playing on my mind. I was also watching my watch to make sure meals were eaten in the right time frames. I know I needed to relax a bit with it all, but knowing I needed to lose these extra kilos was making me nervous. I also wanted to have a sleep in and relax my body on my day off, but that wasn’t going to happen with a cabin full of kids and a late night.
Next week will be some more slight changes to see if I can lean down more. I must say I am enjoying the daily changes in my body, abs are starting to show, shoulders are starting to show more separation and legs do look a bit leaner. Our bodies are amazing and this journey is really showing me some amazing results.
Soon I’ll be counting down the days and that’s when this all becomes so real……
