Healthy New You: Your Change For Life #2

I'm not particularly religious, but I have decided that this year, for the first time ever, I am going to do lent! I decided to give up bread, just because I eat it nearly everyday, so I think it would be a good challenge to try to give up bread for forty days! I'm still going to allow wholemeal pittas, though.

I'm not particularly religious, but I have decided that this year, for the first time ever, I am going to do lent! I decided to give up bread, just because I eat it nearly everyday, so I think it would be a good challenge to try to give up bread for forty days! I'm still going to allow wholemeal pittas, though.

Got on the scales this morning because I'm too impatient and CAN'T not step on them. Same weight as I was last week, which tbh I found just astounding. This week I've had:

-12 pieces of fudge.
-4 pieces of toffee.
-Handful of Revels.
-8 Lindor chocolate ball things.
-2 packets of Lindor mini eggs.
-Crunchie.
-Packet of chocolate buttons (small packet).
-Little bar of Cadbury's.
-Bar of Cadbury's caramel.

..and I still haven't gained. AND TOTM is due, which means I really should have gained at least a little bit. Also won £10 on the lottery last night, so I'm feeling slightly cocky this morning.

However, I only have a flake and a fudge to go, and then I can get back to it. Sounds like the exercise cancelled out any naughtiness this week, so fingers crossed I can make next week even better.

I gained a lb about a month ago and still have not lost it. BUT everyone keeps telling me that I look so much slimmer and I feel it (depending on the day of the week) because I've been exercising alot. I have been doing body pump three times a week and upped my weights a bit too. I'm just confused, I think I look slimmer but I don't think the measurements show that but then again, I have gone down a jeans size since the Christmas holidays! I should stop weighing myself but I soooo dreamt of the day that i'd see 8 stone on the scale! Maybe I should go by how I look and feel...

Those Lindor easter egg things are soooo nice. Can't wait till after easter when they stop selling then and the creme eggs as I keep getting tempted to eat them.

TOTM has also been hard for me too. I've been more hungry than usual and end up eating a lot of junk this week

How many calories have you been eating in the last month and how much calories do you burn in a week in the gym

Tbh I'm not really sure. I don't have an HRM and I generally don't go by what the treadmills say due to inaccuracy. An average workout for me on a weekend consists of 30mins of treadmill, 45 spinning and an hour of body pump. Or it could be 40mins treadmill (and I run at least 30mins of it on 11.5-11.8km/hr), half hour kettlebell class and then 45 spin. Basically I always do 45 cardio plus a class at the very very least. In terms of food, I have been eating a fair bit but this week I didn't go over my BMR on average and I still lost nothing. But apparently I look slimmer esp in my arms which were my major weakness

Looking at your stats and the fact that you are eating at BMR I know for sure that you are eating too little which is why you haven't lost any weight. Can I just ask outside of exercising do you travel alot, walk alot e.t.c due to being at uni and having no access to a car. Also how much do you currently weigh now?

I drive into uni but I'd say I'm fairly active on a daily basis. I find it so difficult to eat alot but eat healthy at the same time if that makes sense. I think that maybe i'm just at the lowest weight that my body will go. I'm 5,5 and 8st6lbs (2 stone in total) so maybe I should stop obsessing. Tbh 8 stone is the lowest I can be before i'm apparently underweight. I know it was a stupid ultimate goal to set but I really wanted to reach it just to say that I did achieve it! I just don't look how my stats sound at all...