Went to a cafe for breakfast with my friends and we ordered Waffles, which were very sweet full of 2 types of syrups, peaches, and a ball of cheese that tasted like cheesecake's cheese.  It was soo incredibly SUPER sweet that I felt sick.  It was yummy, but its the guilty food, ya know!!!!  I was regretting not ordering something healthier like eggs or something. 

It was probably packed with calories, carbs and fat.  I felt no need to eat lunch.  I never even felt hungry. 

To make up for it, I went to the gym for 2 hours of high intensity workouts. 

• 1hr 10 mins weights & abs
• 50 mins of high intensity cardio on the bike and elliptical

Now dinner shall be light as ever.

Yup!  That's right!    I may be overreacting about this, but I am really stoked!!  I jumped on the scale at the gym on Monday afternoon and it said 64kgs (140.8lbs).  Then this afternoon (Wednesday), I checked my weight on the same scales and it said 63kgs (138.6lbs)!!  My heart skipped a little from excitement. 

This is seriously a great motivator.  I'm super keen on keeping this up! 

I haven't skipped a meal the past 2 days.  I woke up early each day to eat breakfast.  I made sure I ate all 3 proper meals!  Previously, I have tried to skip breakfast, but it REALLY DOESN'T help with weight-loss! Coz I usually end up getting hungry by afternoon, and snack excessively on things like museli & yoghurt, water crackers and too much almonds or peanuts!

Personal-experience-tip-#1:  Don't skip meals.  Eat slowly and enjoy each mouthful.

I also tried to make better choices in what I consumed.  Today, for example, my best friend Hema called me to go to a cafe this afternoon.  It is incredibily hot here in New Zealand, so we wanted cold drinks.  She ordered an iced chocolate while I got an iced lemon tea (50 calories!).  When our orders arrived, my tea looked so refreshing.  Her iced choc looked yummy, but I didn't crave it coz all I saw was too much marshmellows, cream & choc sauce on top, and she said the drink tasted very chocolatey.  I don't think she would worry about the calorie/fat content of it though, coz shes already VERY slim.  I bet shes about 110lbs.

For exercise the past 2 days, each day I did Pilates for Abs(10 mins) in the morning, went to the gym in the afternoon to do cardio & weights for 40 - 60 mins, then at night time before bed, I did push-ups, crunches, lunges, criss-cross, bicep & tricep dumbbell lifts, and whatever else I could think of.  I do about 2 - 3 sets of each exercise, and my older skinny brother, George, does it with me to motivate each other, usually in front the TV.   Its funny how my ab muscles are stronger than George's.  He has a lean body, and pretty strong arms, but he whined like a little girl about how much the criss-cross hurt him, 3 repetitions into the exercise!! hehehe  If I lose my unwanted fat, I ?could possibly? have more toned-looking abs than him!  Note-to-self:  Gotta do more intense cardio to burn off that fat!!!  I wanna see the results of my abdominal exercises!!!!

I think the top contributor to this weight loss in 2 days was my high intensity interval training on the treadmill using Cardio Coach.  It was truly a workout.  It was hard but totally worth it.  I sweated like a pig, and I was left breathless after each high intensity challenge. 

So basically, it all came down to staying on track and not giving in to temptations .  I haven't felt guilty about anything the past few days.  I'm really trying my hardest to keep my mind pointed in the right direction and achieve my goal. I want my weight tracker at the bottom of my blog to say "Congratulations! Goal Achieved!". 

That's all for now.  Tomorrow, I will be playing tennis for an hour or so with my friend Lily coz I'm not going to be in the city for the gym, plus I have work to go to in the afternoon.

Hopefully I'll blog again soon, if I don't, that's probably because I have to study for my summer school exam on Wednesday next week. 

Cheers,

Astonisher

 Today was a pretty good day for me.  Here's how it went down:

Breakfast:  1/4 avocado + 1 toast

Lunch:  Plain Oatmeal

Snack:  1 plum, 1 manderin

Dinner Steamed carrot, chicken with rice.

Drink:  Tonnes of water and oolong tea (apparently it helps with weight loss)

I ate my meals incredibly slow and concentrated on e-v-e-r-y mouthful.  I was the very last to leave the table.  And I felt full!  

For exercise:

• 10 mins Pilates for Abs
• 35 mins on treadmill using Cardio Coach Volume 1 (will elaborate more on that later)
• 40 mins strength training with weights - focusing on arms and legs.

OH-MY-GOSH Cardio Coach is simply the best!!  Usually I hate doing cardio, coz once i start feeling tired, I start losing form, get bored and just want to give up.  Using Cardio Coach for the first time today on the treadmill was exhilarating!  I was motivated to keep going, to push myself, to stay in form and not give up!  I sound like an informercial right now, but seriously!  Not once was I bored, coz the music was interesting, kept to the right beat, and the coach's talk was very motivating and powerful.  Time flew by fast using Cardio Coach on the treadmill!  If you don't know what Cardio Coach is, check out the link here.  It's basically mp3 tracks you can load into your music player while exercising on any cardio machine.  There's music and the coach's voice guiding you through a high intensity workout.  I absolutely love it and recommend it to everyone out there.  For real!!! 

Take care everybody!

Astonisher