Mood:
chillin'So, I'm back for more wafflings, this time we're back onto health and fitness. This week I got myself Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book. I read the whole thing over the weekend and I really, really liked it. No bullshit, everything he says makes complete sense. I like the fact that he doesn't try and sell you anything or make out like his programme is easy - he emphasises that it take lots of hard work.
So, I've decided to follow it and get into this whole fitness thing properly. I've been toying with using a "bodybuilding" style programme for a while, have started eating more protein and having more smaller meals through the day, and doing weight training, so I just need to step it up a level. I took a proper body fat reading this weekend with callipers and was slightly freaked to find it came out at 33%. Yes, one third of my body is fat. Eeeeeeeeew. I mean, I knew I could stand to lose a few pounds but I'm a size 10/12 and my BMI is 23%, so I thought I was at least in reasonably healthy shape. But that body fat is way too high.
Soooo Tom says I have to write down all my goals. I gotta say I hate doing this kind of thing but he really emphasises how important it is to have goals and chart your progress. So I've done all the maths and sat down and thought about it and here are the goals that I came up with. I'm putting them all down here so I can't back out of them :-)
Long term goals (no deadline!):
Get my body fat down to 23%. My target weight based on this should be around 119 lbs. Be able to do 10 full pull ups and 25 full push ups. Get my black belt in TKD. Wear a size 10 comfortably. Be able to wear things that show my midriff. Wear a slinky dress to our Xmas party.
After you've worked out your long term goals you work out your goals for the next 3 months.
3-month goals:
Lose 1 lb per week (except for the week we're on holiday!) which will take me down to 126 lbs and 27.5% body fat. Do 5 assisted pull ups and 10 full push ups. Get my TKD green tag. Be able to fit back into all my size 10 clothes which are currently too tight!
So there we go, it's all planned out, now all I have to do is stick to the eating and training plan. I think I'll be fine on the training side, as I'm really enjoying my exercise at the moment. I think I'll find the eating part hard though. But I'm actually looking forward to getting going with it. I've been eating pretty well most days for the last few weeks, so it shouldn't be a huge shock to the system. I'm trying to convince Dave to read the book and do the plan with me. That would certainly make the eating side much easier. He's kind of sceptical, mainly I think because he hears the word "bodybuilder" and thinks his wife is going to end up looking like this. Hopefully if he reads it he'll realise that's not going to happen!
And speaking of Dave, just to get me off to a flying start with the healthy eating, tomorrow is our seventh wedding anniversary so we'll be going out for dinner :-)
Oh and in other exciting news Michael told us in TKD this morning that we would be doing our green tag grading on August 27th. Yay!! I'm fairly confident about this one, I know all the moves and the patterns, so hopefully it will be ok. I'm looking forward to moving on to the next level. Today we had a go at breaking boards. I tried one with a front kick and couldn't manage it - I was really gutted. Will try again next week. Actually maybe I should add board breaking to my 3-month goals as well :-)
