Hey guys and girls,
Firstly I owe you all an apology for not blogging more often! towards the end
of the calendar year and beginning of a new year is always super busy for the
Insurance industry and I have just been swamped with lots of work.
I have some time on my hands this afternoon and thought it was about time for
me to post, and here is to hoping I will be able to post more often so you can
follow my ongoing journey and continue to be inspired.
So it will soon be my 2 year Anniversary inducting myself into the 'Fitfam' and
I cannot lie, it has been a roller coaster. At the beginning I had all the
motivation and focus and Lost an amazing 24 kgs within 5 or 6 months. However
all that hard dieting, workouts, and fade detox (maple syrup diet) really did
batter my body if I was going to be honest with you. I lost all my boobies, and
that dented such a huge hole in my confidence! I attribute that to the Maple
Syrup diet. I have that all fixed now ;-) and have new found confidence.
I'm also no long trying to get as small as I can, because if I have to admit to
myself all I wanted to do was by 50 kgs! This rolled on a cycle of me becoming
so obsessed with the scale and doing all I could to continue dropping the
weight. I forgot where I started and one day I found a picture of myself from
2009 and thought 'why on earth am I killing myself? Look at the beautiful
healthy woman you have become' Also thanks to someone special my relationship
with food and my obsession over the scale has diminished!!
Now when I say obsession with
food, I mean before I would not eat what I wanted because I didn't want to ruin
my 'gains', now I eat whatever whenever, only difference is now I'm tracking my
macro's properly with the aid of an electronic scale, which I strongly urge you
to get. I have tried different ratios of macros, 40/40/20 and 50/30/20
(Carbs/Protein/Fat) but that wasn’t really helping me to drop the fat which is
currently the phase I'm in, once I shred I will then gain some healthy weight but
mostly muscle, I will do this by increasing my current Carb intake. I am
currently following ratio of 20/50/30. Low carbs I hear some of you thinking,
well I am an Endomorph (a person with a soft
round build of body and a high proportion of fat tissue.) so I researched and I
worked out I need to cut the carbs to drop unwanted body fat. I still take in
enough carbs to fuel my insane workouts and so far even though it has just been
a few days i feel great.
If you are
thinking of doing this, please do it properly! Don't just cut out your carbs or
do any guess work, use the internet and figure out how many calories your body
burns at resting rate, factor in your daily activity which will both give you
what your daily nutritional needs should be. Once you do this then use MFP to start
tracking what you eat. I have customized mine as MFP automatically factors a ratio of
50/30/20.
By the way I do not log my exercise into MFP as you should ideally only stick
to the calories/macros suggested after you have worked out your BMR and
factored in your daily activity. This may seem like it will take up all your
time, however if you want to be accurate and get the results you want then I can’t
stress how important this part of it is, otherwise all those hours in the gym
could potentially be wasted.
Since I have been tracking my
daily intake properly I have also started a lifestyle called ‘if it fits your
macros’ otherwise known as iifym. This lifestyle basically allows you to eat
whatever you want as long as it fits into your daily macro needs. I am
following this because I believe it is ok to eat some foods that are not ‘clean’
however; I do not use it as an excuse to eat junk all day! I keep my food clean
80-90% of the day and may have a little treat IF IT FITS!!! This could be something you might want to look
into especially if you have a sweet tooth. I eat pancakes every other day, in
fact I always make a batch on Sundays. I will start posting recipes, my first
will be the carrot pancake I made last weekend which serves 9 pancakes and was
49 kcals per pancake and only 1.38 g of fat and even low in carbs at 4.13 with
4.91 g of protein.
Remember strong is the new
sexy and that is what I am to achieve by the summer and I hope to be flaunting
a nice set of ripped abs on the beach!
B xx
