Waist Goals Update

At the beginning of September I mentioned how I was hoping to lose 6 cm from my waist, as my waist goal resolution September.

Technically I started in mid August even though I didn’t mention it until September. I’ve been posting progress updates in the right sidebar of the blog every 10 days or so

Progress: (the measurements are waist/belly/weight)

Aug 15: 83cm/ 91cm/ 166.8lb
Aug 31: 82cm /89cm/ 166.8lb
Sep 10: 83cm/ 89cm/ 166.2lb
Sep 20: 83cm/ 89cm/ 166.2lb
Oct 1: 83cm/ 88cm/ 165.6lb

Not too shabby, right? My waist measurement has actually stayed the same but my belly measurement (at my belly button) dropped by 3cm! (That’s an inch, folks)

My weight is not really a concern to me. My body really seems to like being 166 pounds and I’ve been at this weight for over a year now (yay for maintenance!). But I have managed to drop a 0.8lbs this month.

How I’m Following Through with my Game Plan:

Start the Day with Protein

A lot of smoothies with protein powder, cottage cheese, or eggs. Something like these breakfasts. Also, I’ve been making sure to take protein after every workout…something I often neglect to do. All this has really been thrown to the wayside with the Fab Detox this past week, but I’ll get back on track with high protein breakfasts this weekend.

Cut out processed food and white carbs.

I’ve actually done a pretty good job with this. I’ve cut back on bread drastically (which means less bread baking) and have tried to plan meals during the week that don’t include white rice or pasta.

Cheat Meal

This needs work. I planned to allow myself one cheat meal and one dessert per week but that really has been more like 2 cheat meals a week (one each weeekend day) and dessert practically daily. I guess that’s still a step in the right direction from multiple desserts every day though, right?

High Intensity Exercise

I’m loving this. I start my weightlifting sessions with 2 or 3 of heavy lifting exercises (deadlifts, bench presses, chin-ups, and various forms of squats) and finish with circuits of compound exercises with lots of intensity and minimal rest. It’s been really great and my workouts are much, much shorter.

My workout schedule has been looking like this for the past 4 weeks:

Mon: Rest or Strength + Intensity Weight training.

Tue: Strength + Intensity Weight training.

Wed: 8 Tabata sprints (20s sprint + 10s rest)

Thu: Strength + Intensity Weight training.

Fri: Strength + Intensity Weight training.

Sat: Easy Yoga

Sun: Long distance run or Rest

Plan Night Time Snacks

Surprisingly I’ve been a lot less hungry in the evenings so I really haven’t done much late night snacking. This is for a few reasons. 1) We’ve been eating later because Matt comes home late from coaching football. 2) All the protein I’m eating throughout the day and 3) Removing the high GI carbs which make me both crash and crave more by 9 or 10 pm.

So basically it’s typical Samantha-style triumphs and tribulations: getting all my exercise in like a good little girl but struggling not to eat dessert 6 times a day. Some things never change.

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