A wee update on Laura and her mini 8 week plan
for a fitness photoshoot! This week she
is half way through her programme, and 4 weeks in is making fantastic
progress. Her body fat has reduced by
2.5%, and she has even managed to slightly increase her muscle mass along the
way.
Although I am a firm believer in tracking
progress to keep morale and focus. One
of the reasons I failed on numerous attempts in the past to lose weight was
because I never tracked anything other than scales. When I started taking weekly progress
pictures and measurements I noticed changes every week – but some of those
weeks the figure on the scale actually went higher or stayed the same.
I always get criticised by my coach by
constantly telling him the figure I am on the scale and not practicing what I
preach! However I weigh myself daily out of habit not because I am obsessed
with the figure, its just part of my daily routine ‘OCD’.
I am at a point now where numbers really don’t
mean anything, and the mirror and how I feel about the body dictate to me how I
am progressing, but for people embarking on change it isn’t easy doing it this
way and they need the numbers to spur them on and keep them motivated – but trust
me there will come a point where numbers will not rule you, this also goes for food tracking.
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