Getting back into it!

Hi!

I realise that I haven’t posted for a while, but I did that on purpose… I needed a bit of a break from thinking, dreaming, eating, and living only for my fatloss and fitness goals.

Good news is I had a 3 week trip around Hawaii, Japan and Korea and it was amazing! The food, the whisky, the people and most importantly the memories! I did indulge a bit, for the most part I did my best to eat at normal as I could get to. Though I did drink more alcohol than normal and I enjoyed every moment! I did my best to keep up with my goal of no refined sugar for 2015. However there were a couple of instances where I took a mouthful of something then realised it would have had sugar then stopped eating it. Sometimes I couldn’t read the packaging so I guess you could say that this goal isn’t fool proof. However I didn’t knowingly eat or drink anything that had refined sugar in it.

When we got back I was sick for about 9 days, while I did want to get straight back into my workouts and routine being really sick just messed with me so I just focused on eating well and giving my body the boost of nutrition I know it needed.

I’m happy to report that I am now back to training. This evening I did my first short workout to get me back into it. It felt so good to get my blood really pumping again. Though I know I lost some strength in the last 4 weeks, I really felt like I needed a break. Obviously my plan was to get straight back into it but my body had other ideas!

The great thing about all of this is that when I was away I didn’t go on some major bender, it was pretty easy to maintain with walking and being mindful of what I was eating… and indulging a little bit more.

Nardia’s idea for me is to train in blocks of time. Say 12-16weeks with a 2-4week break. During those times of training I choose to avoid dairy, gluten, alcohol and processed foods. I don’t have much of this food anyway but I’m just more mindful about it when I am in blocks of training because I feel that it really helps me loose fat, gain muscle, have energy for my training and life. I choose to have optimal nutrition during this time so that the build and repair of my body happens as efficiently as possible.

First sweaty selfie being back into it!

This ended up being a really long blog post! hahahah

Anyway a couple of points to sum it all up:

• I can go on a 4 week break and get back into it
• Trying to train when your body is sick and already dealing with stress is stupid
• I can trust myself to maintain while I’m traveling
• Running in Japan when it was really cold hurt my lungs
• It only takes 3 weeks for my body to get addicted to caffeine!

…SBK

What the heck did I get myself into!?!?!

Hi

So… I get this email from the Spartan Race Australia saying “Hi Shanti As you have signed up to run the ANZ Stadium Race, you are privileged to two (2) Complimentary Spectator Passes!”

I shat myself!

It’s real, I’m signed up, they know I’m coming and I have people coming to watch.

I literally now have no idea what I’m getting myself into, I’m not qualified to do this… 2 years ago I was a totally lost fatty. I had been a fatty my whole life, I hated myself, I was miserable and my resting heart rate was around 90.

Since then I have:

• lost and maintained a loss of over 30kgs
• I can deadlift a small person (65kg)
• I can run a 5km
• I actually like myself and like different parts of my body… I’m like 80% positive
• I eat well (80% of the time) and I love it, I train well and I love it, I sleep… of course I want more but I’m working on that
• My resting heart rate is now between 55 and 60

With all of this I thought I might be ok… but I just got this wave of fear.

I am honestly so scared… I’m going to do it, and I’m going to finish I think I’m just getting the jitters and thats ok.

I think the last time I felt like this I was just about to get married and that turned out awesome so… I just have to do it.

I mean I’m trained as much as I can be, I’m in the hands of some of the best trainers ever!

*GULP*

…SBK

 

 

2015 No Refined Sugar: Week 5

Hello

Well this post is a little late but as my mum and I would say “it’s still good, it’s still good!”

Last week was a crazy week, I was doing all my training for the Spartan Race and moving house.

Food is going fine, sometimes if there is a refined sugar type sweet I melt a little inside but it is only very temporary and I’m committed… plus it is only a year.

I have had a couple of people say or suggest “it’s only this once” or “how can you do that for a whole year?” but it really doesn’t seem that big of a deal really.

There are plenty of “sweets” or “treats” that don’t have refined sugar and also I don’t usually crave really sweet foods anyway.

This week required a lot more energy from me so I was eating more fruit and drinking more coffee than usual but I have gone back to normal as soon as the energy requirements were less.

I find it funny that my body craves fruit/sweet potato now for energy rather than other things.

I know I’ve had a big day when I really want more sweet potato at lunch or dinner time.

Some food from last week…

Some tips from last week:

• When your body is asking for sugar it really can get the energy from healthier sources… just because it’s not white and doesn’t give you a rush doesn’t mean you don’t get energy from it!
• When you require more energy, you may need to eat more food. When you require less energy, you may need to eat less food – simple but we really don’t listen to our bodies sometimes.
• Sometimes when 100% awesome food isn’t available and your moving house you just have to make do and choose as best as you can

…SBK

2015 No Refined Sugar: Week 4

Hi

This week has been pretty straight forward… training, eating, sleeping, working and moving house.

I do feel like I’m getting into the swing of things, more mindful when looking at ingredients labels. I’ve found a few alternatives to satisfy my sweet tooth and I have been having a bit more fruit… mostly because it’s just so good at the moment!

Training this week:

Food this week:

A couple of lessons from this week:

• there is plenty of junk food that doesn’t have refined sugar
• I need to stop eating when I am satisfied, not when I’m stuffed
• there is plenty of filling, tasty food that doesn’t have refined sugar, wheat, diary or alcohol
• I love eating this way, it really helps me give everything in my training sessions
• real food is so tasty!

…SBK

A Week of What I Eat: Day 6

Hello

Today was a crazy day first there were sand dunes then we started moving stuff into our new place!

Today’s training was running in the sand dunes in Cronulla we got there at 7am and were done by 8.30 but I was done in the first 5 minutes I think. It really was a test of everything I had.

 

Today’s food:

• 6.00am – black coffee, a protein ball and a date on the way to training
• 8.30am – protein shake after running the dunes
• 9.30am – breakfast (forgot to take the before photo) 2 eggs, chunky bacon, potatoes (I didn’t finish the potatoes) and a side of half an avocado, and a long black
• 1.00pm – lunch at the real food connection was breakfast, green smoothie, bacon and sweet potato has with an egg finished off with their banana protein bread… eaten over about an hour
• 6.00pm – dinner from lewrap was beef, salad and brown rice… that was massive and I couldn’t finish it… especially the brown rice – what a boring food!
• 7.00pm – vegetable rice followed up by 2 squares of my new favourite chocolate!

 

Today was amazing, tomorrow is going to be fun as well! Coogee stairs and more moving!

…SBK