It's a killer!
Have just come home from the y0ga/pilates class I've started - phew!!! It's a challenge, it's a killer! It's really pushing me and my body. On one move the instructor seemed to unfold and land gracefully face down on the mat, I tried it - splatt I went!! Flat on my face on the floor. Then she pushed herself back into the original position (hard to explain) but at this stage my arms were jelly!! They didn't want to support my body. It was a one on one session today as the other 'beginner' couldn't make out (max. of 4 per class normally). Some moves required a huge lot of concentration on moving different body parts, keeping others planted still, other movements seem to require a lot of strength and a couple got me to the point I thought my body just couldn't do it! A lot of encouragement is given though and I found it really great as she stopped after the class and we just talked. She noticed I was putting myself down - calling myself clumsy, awkward etc which I feel I am, but she has said it is all about re-finding the flexibility in pushing my body to do the moves, also having confidence in being able to balance on the swiss ball. We do some weird balancing acts on them!! Makes sense - as weight gradually crept onto to my body over years, I gradually lost some mobility, flexibility and physical strength. Years of doing the bare minimum physically does come home to hit you in the face! Aqua has helped - but now that's auto pilot, this is a different story and to me a lot harder than the gym. One move on the swiss ball, was to sit on it, plant both feet on the ground and then lie back on it - the object is to have your body lying backwards, wrapped totally around the ball, feet on the ground in front with your hands on the ground behind you..... she made it look easy - trying to actually do it was quite a different story. I'm a glutton for punishment - so I will be going back!
So I've been walking every day, trying a new form of exercise, still doing aqua, - yet after the initial loss my scales are determined they are not going to move any further! Points - or counting them doesn't seem to be the answer for me, in fact it probably hasn't been for some time! I stick to approx. 20 points a day so don't think the quantity of food is the problem. I think the culprit could be the amount of carbs I have! Any suggestions here would be more than welcome! Breakfast is either cereal, yoghurt or fruit bread toasted. Lunch is sushi, or a salad roll, or sandwich, snacks are normally crackers or a banana, (I do have other fruits but love bananas) dinner is usually meat/chicken or fish and veges - but once again a lot of the veges I have are starchy ones, I love kumera, pumpkin, parsnips etc (not all together) I do have green veges but carbs seem to be a good part part of my food. I'm looking at cutting them back for a week or two, not entirely, but trying to limit them and just see if this helps. And water - some days I have it - others I just forget. This week ahead, plans are to cut back carbs - and drink water! I'll miss my sushi for lunch:-(
6 comments:
You could be right about having too many carbs Anne, and perhaps you need to to drop your points to 18 for a while too? Worth a try anyway.
oh god it was such a tease reading your blog today ... I loveeeeeeeeee the swiss ball! Most of my work in the last six months has focussed on that gorgeous ball and I miss it ... it stretches me so good and as for core body work ... it is THE BEST! Keep up with it and you will get awesome results I promise you! :) On the carb thing ... try yoghurt and fruit or a ham and cheese omlette for breakfast, lunch stick to meat and salad (include advocado if you like it), limit your fruit to pears and apples not too ripe - nice and hard ones, introduce nuts and yoghurts for snacks ... yep go on eat your cashews - 30gms at a time just make sure they are raw that is unsalted and unroasted - you'll soon get used to them! There are some fantastic low carb recipes - you'll be amazed at how quickly you get used to not having them :) Good luck!
ouch - that class sounds too hard!
I love carbs too. I make sure I only have a small portion of them though and lots of other vegies. Yes, we must remember our water.
Myabe ease yourself into it by having no carbs at dinner?
I'm quite tempted to try Pilates now too...
I was entering a daily diet on Calorie King (a bit lot etools with WW but more comprehensive) and I was amazed that my carbs were always astronomical until I realised it was all the fruit I was eating that was sending my daily totals over the limit. Fruit is two serves a day but I eat heaps plus all the other normal carbs. Have a look it might help you narrow it down and 18 points a day is a good suggestion too or maybe switching to the core plan.
I don't think that dropping points is necessarily the thing to do - as you don't want to kick your body into the starvation mode which we all know is not great, BUT, cutting the carbs back at dinner alone to begin with could make a huge difference. By switching to less starchy vege's and salad you'll be cutting a huge part of the carbs down. And then perhaps swapping one fruit serve to berries which are lower in carbs and that way you can still have your Sushi for lunch (why give up everything :D )
You are doing great Anne, and you have reminded me why I loved Pilates so much when I went.
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