Permanent Fitness

The first week of the 30 day challenge has gone by and I must say I am really happy with the results I achieved. This week I lost 2.7 pounds! That is almost 3 times more than I intended to lose according to my weight loss plan.

The feeling I had today when I stepped on my scale was fantastic. I was really proud of myself. Actually, I still am   I can’t stop smiling when I’m writing this post. I am back on track to getting thin and fit, or better than that – I am on a highway!

Detailed update

Calories

As described in the post about energy deficit, I am staying on 65%-70% of my DCN. Throughout the week I kept my daily calories below 1900. Each day I tried to get as close to 1900 limit as possible without exceeding it. On the right you can see a detailed graph.

You may notice the dip on Thursday. This happened accidentally. I skipped a meal during the day and I completely forgot about it till late afternoon, when I found it in my bag. It was already close to midnight and I was getting ready to go to sleep, so I decided not to eat it – it would just stuff me up. I will try to avoid such situations in future. Going too low with calories has a negative impact on metabolism and impairs the weight loss process.

I had some cravings for food, especially in the beginning of the week. I was getting easily irritated and felt really hungry every once in a while. These sensations, however, were weaker each day and since Thursday or so I feel alright.

Exercising

I was running 3 times this week: Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Each time I run 3 miles within 40 minutes. The distance is good for me. In total it requires around 15 – 20 minutes of actual running, the rest is just quick walking. I am not too fit (yet) so this amount of cardio is sufficient to make me sweat.

Apart from running, I did some belly crunches and push ups – nothing spectacular. I will have to come up with a more coherent approach to anaerobic exercises, otherwise I will not build up muscles and my body will burn them instead of burning fat (I wrote about that, in the post about exercising on a diet, but didn’t really put it into action yet).

That’s the update. I feel really great and I am already getting ready to go through week two.

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