MY FITNESS & WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY UPDATE #1

So you may remember at the start of February I mentioned that I would be getting #FitForFeb. My aim was to increase my workouts and exercise every day. It was quite ambitious I must admit and although I didn’t do every day (I did 20 out of 29), I still did a lot more than I’ve done in years.  In fact, during February I did 1224 minutes worth of exercise and burnt off 6618 calories just from doing that, not bad hey?

I’ve tried to mix my workouts as much as possible and get a good variety to push my body, such as: Spinning, Kickboxing + Karate, Pilates, Yoga, LBT, Running, The 30 Day Shred, Walking, Cycling and Swimming . This month I’ll be focusing more on weights and introduce Kettlebells to my routine.

Recently I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall with my weight loss and it was starting to get to me, so instead of focusing on a number on the scales I wanted to focus on myself and how I feel. I took my measurements (in inches) on the 1^st and again on the 29^th and I was pretty surprised with what I saw:

Bust: -1.5

Chest: +0.5

Waist: -4.5

Hips: -0.5

Leg: -1

Arm:  +0.25

The small increases I’m putting down to muscle which is fine, but losing 7.5 inches off my body is a great start and I’m so happy, especially the -4.5 off my waist alone! I don’t feel any different at all, so I’m glad it took the measurements otherwise I wouldn’t have believed it.

I’ve really enjoyed my #FitForFeb challenge and I’m going to continue it for the foreseeable too. I’ve also joined a new gym which is specifically for exercise classes and part of my membership gives me 12 PT sessions which is awesome. Although I’m still following Slimming World, it’s a bit more loosely than it was previously as I’ve decided to focus on a high fat, low carb diet to see if it makes any difference now I’m doing more.

Two things which have also really helped (and now can’t live without) are the Fitbit Surge which James very kindly gifted me and a Spiralizer. But I’ll be doing a separate post on those shortly.

Here’s to another fitastic month!