Not the best at blogging - been over 10 days since the last post and I can just abt hear Patrick's admonishment...so a quick overview of the last 10 odd days...
The Good
The Hubby - because he has been so darn dedicated to this project ( business travel/meals - don't think he has wavered at all, dahm it!), i've had little choice but to keep up. Just seems a little pathetic to use the little one as an excuse all the time...guess just abt everyone has a tiring day most days. So doing this together has been good - a big kick in the behind...
Less Mental Fog - Hubby and I were just commenting on how we seem to be thinking clearer, the senses more acute. Laying off the salt and sugar, cutting down on the red meat and heavy meals has been eye opening...nice to not feel ick after our meals.
Getting trimmer - starting to receive a few compliments from friends. Weighing in at 51.8kg now - yay! Some ways to go before pre-baby weight of 45kg but nice to feel strong whilst whittling down.
The Bad
The DREAD before each day's exercise. Me and exercise, we've just never been friends and I don't think ever will. So after 26 days, I still hate the excercises. I can't bear doing the sets in the morning and of course, by day's end, am so tempted to just call it quits. It's a daily fight....sigh....
The Ugly
Have thrown in the towel on 2 occasions now and honestly, don't know how I'm going to make it to day 90. The diet, I can handle but the exercises, sheer torture. And with the sets getting tougher each day, I'm just skipping some of the sets that are plain horrid....so the Pull Ups, V-Sit, the Creep are being conveniently ignored. There, I've admitted it.
So folks, it's been tough. I absolutely love how I feel each day after I've completed the sets, and can feel and see the good in the whole project but just dealing with the exercise part of it is tough! I just don't enjoy it! Am absolutely dreading the next few weeks.
But no, am not dropping out just yet....keeping Patrick's words in mind...be like a mule...head down, just keep going...anyone else feel the same??
I can definitely relate. I've not consciously skipped a set yet but I sometimes find sticking to 20 or 15 seconds a chore. Or pushing onto the next nasty exercise. Or taking a couple of minutes to psych myself up to The Plank.
ReplyDeleteDoing the worst stuff first thing in the morning seems to help (in my case, this is the strength work even though the theory is that if you split cardio and strength, it's better to do the strength later when you're core temperature is higher).
Having broken the back of it, it feels like the meals and jumprope are just a necessary chore rather than something to dread all day.
In the end though, I guess I just try to convince myself it's not a choice and that I simply must do all the exercises every day. If I miss it in the morning - well, that just means I have to do it in the evening. Maybe the mule analogy is pretty good.
Finally, while I'm hoping I will incorporate a lot of the lessons of PCP into my life for the long term, I'm guessing the maintenance stage will be much more manageable than the transformation stage. So in addition to being a mule, maybe you should think of yourself as a chrysalis!