My Recap: Week 3 of Body Revolution

I have just completed Week 3 of Body Revolution. Well, sorta... I missed one session of cardio middle of the week and didn't replace it. So, I achieve 5/6 Completion?

*pat on my back*

My current stat:

Week 3 Weight: 57 kg
Week 3 Fat Content: 25.6 %
Week 3 Muscle Content: 36.6%
Thigh Measurement: 21.1 inch
Arm Measurement: 10.6 inch

To be honest, there doesn't seem to be much improvement since the end of Week 1, which is kind of disappointing.

But to be fair, I did cheat fairly often during Week 3. I was clearly slacking because it is so hard to actually filter my food one by one off soy bean, peanut, MSG, and raw cruciferous vegetables. Last count, I had 2 days of ramen with spicy miso soup in a single week. Bam! Bam! One time, I had instant noodle for dinner, I thought simply by adding more vegetables and eating less noodles would compensate, I didn't realise MSG was added into the stock. Silly me! In my defence, I thought MSG would have been phased out by now. Because, come on, everyone knows that MSG is bad for health right?

I tried counting calorie too, not easy! I was using My Fitness Pal App to track my calorie, but only went as far as week 1 because it can get so hard (even though the app is fairly helpful, what with the barcode reader and the huge food databases) to manually think about portioning and calorie. I can only hope that I can live by the motto of 'Moderation goes a long way' and pray to God that my perception of 'moderation' is actually MODERATE and not SUPER-SIZE-ME in reality. If there is still no improvement, then I will definitely need to pull out the food scale and start to weigh what my normal portioning is causing me.

But I am super optimistic! Let's do this!!

May Update

Tomorrow is Mother's day!

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers all over the world. I read it in an article recently about how many nights of sleep parents were deprived once they have children. Hmm... understatement of the year! 

On a different note, I have just recently discovered a Malaysian singer, Shila Amzah who is just amazing! (Not that she needed discovering, she has already released her own album and all that! So I can't believe that I had just heard her sing for the first time recently!) Most singers can deliver a song nowadays. Listen to one of her Malay song here:



But for her to deliver a chinese song with such emotion and depth... omg... I was moved to tears. So beautiful!! I don't think I am the only one, because some of the audience were also crying. Major love~!!



Her pronunciation may not be the most precise but, omg, who cares? Her song sings of its own origin, soul, and background; unique from its original piece. So, I have no cause for complaints. I just love it!



Hope you have an awesome weekend with your mum or in my case, memories of my mum. :) God bless your soul, mum.

My recap: Week 1 of Body Revolution

Week 1 of Body Revolution : Complete~!

Starting fat content: 25.5%
Starting muscle content: 36.6%
Fitness level: Beginner
Thigh measurement: 21.5 inch
Arm measurement: 11 inch

I was so hesitant to reveal my weight because I have gained so much weight after I started work that it is not funny anymore. But I really wanted to put myself to this challenge and I hope people would actually appreciate it. So... here goes...

Starting weight: 57 kg

The complete Body Revolution program consists of 12 sets of workout and 3 cardio that spans over three months. And it is meant to be complemented by a clean and lean eating plan. Doesn't sound too bad, right?

So... Jillian Michael's Body Revolution started off with an optional 7 days of kickstart metabolism series, which is basically a morning strength workout and evening cardio for 2 days and then morning and evening cardio on the 3rd day. Complete and repeat and have a rest on Sunday.

I won't say the cardio was too kick ass, but by the third day of cardio for kickstart metabolism series, I gave up, ate chocolate cookie dough cupcakes and fried chicken. Not a very good start but I probably didn't feed my body right during that first 7 days either.

Week 1 was better, because once you get through the first 7 days of kickstart metabolism series (and IF you get through it... unlike me), 30 minutes of workout per day just doesn't seem that much. And by then, I have gained more stamina to actually complete the entire cardio session without giving up halfway through. And if you know how much I hated cardio, you would give me 4 star for my effort (deduct one star for my occassional fuck-this-I-am-going-to-eat-cake attitude ). There is just one particular move that gave me stitches down my sides but as JM says, 'you can do anything for one minute' because if you don't you are going to regret it later! So, 'GO! GO! GO!'

For workout 1 and 2, I needed yoga mat, resistance band, and weights. I am currently using 1.5 kg and 2.5 kg weights. The heavier weight will be used to train smaller and specific muscle. Nothing too taxing but I plan to increase the weights in the second week for more difficulty.

Diet wise, so hard to stick to!! Although the diet plan made it look like there isn't a lot of 'No-no food', some of those on the list are my favourite. Like, one of the hardest thing to give up is soybean in an asian diet, especially soy sauce and miso!! Even if it is for 3 months only. One of my favourite thing is Miso soup and it is the easiest soup (with low calorie) to prepare during the winter!! Drives me crazy that one. In contrast, one of the easiest thing to give up is dairy product but only because I always felt sluggish and bloated after taking dairy product.

Funny how the more you exercise, the more you feel like you are more energetic?!?

Looking forward to complete week 2!!