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"... from personal experience that when the people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness."
Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts

Monday, July 11, 2011

what a monday!

I have this routine every Sunday ---- do a mental reminder to get up earlier (than other weekdays) for work. I have no idea whyyyyyy Monday traffic is much much worse than any other days? Do people get up like really early on Monday morning?

So, after last night's (many!) self reminders - I woke up early. By early, I mean like super super early which was 4 am! And I couldn't even sleep after that. Can't blame me, I was already asleep by 11pm. After browsing internet trying to kill time - I got ready by the time I was 5 and out the house gate at 515am. Talk about being superrrr superrr productive. I couldn't even find restaurants that were open to get breakfast.

Super productive continued to work where I finished report for meeting by 7.30am --- tapi the thing about starting work early took forever to wait for 1pm lunch break. but the waking up early is only working out on weekdays, weekends are for sleeping in.

Today marks two months I have officially "working out" - so, here are what I've learned in these two months:-

1) no matter how much you want to lose weight, gotta eat, gotta eat- not eating is just gonna slow down metabolism and hence losing lean mass. During the first month, I lose almost 1kg of lean mass and less than that of body fat. So maybe, waaaay too much steady state cardio and skipped meals. The second month, I tried eating more frequently and gained back that lost lean mass and at the same time lose (more) bf than a month ago.
2) HIIT - high intensity interval training rocks! I can only do so much long steady state cardio, I think now, I just squeezed in 20-25 mins of HIIT after yoga class (i iz lazy to run for an hour)
3) Variety works - gotta fit variety of exercises into routine to avoid boredom.

And I have not had fast food for the last two months!

Going to some conference on Wednesday.. I am soooo lazy to pack, I have started listing down my to-pack-list , but yet to put anything in the luggage. heck, I haven't unpack my backpack from my (not so recent) kl trip... malass....

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