Friday 5 July 2013

Mathematics+cool poses

So...after doing the maths, I calculated that all of my excess calories add up to 9816 calories. That's pretty much 3 pounds of fatty fat fat.
How did I get here in the first place? Well, 2853 calories came from Wednesday 19th of June, one massive binge day. An excess of 2085 calories was the total of 3 days eating in excess, and 3678 calories is the total of the 3 fast days to be completed in August.
So yeah. After more math, I calculated that for the 4 weeks and 3 days I've been calorie cycling, I have an average of 1500 calories a day, including the 9816 calories.

I weighed myself today. I purposely did not get my hopes up, and thank goodness I didn't because I'm 53 (still). I guess that's an improvement from my 54.5 kilos, and I had to pee after my weigh in. So I must have been a tad lighter than 53? Hopefully! Oh well, I don't really care for the number on the scale anyway, because I want to lose fat, not muscle!

Speaking of fat, my body fat calliper came today. Only, even though it's meant to be more accurate than the tape measure method, the accuracy is quite questionable. According to the calliper's chart, I have a body fat percentage of 15%. And there is really no way that's true, because I can't see my abs (apart from at the very top) and my thighs are still massive! So I suppose I'll just follow the tape measure method then.

Oh, gues what?

I can totally do the splits! Just did them fully today, for the first time. My preferred split is the left leg split, because my right leg is really inflexible.I was so happy though :')
I went to a party yesterday, and my calisthenics and dancing friends were all there and being flexible and doing heatstands and leg mounts. And I was just there being...I can do a press?


Anyway, I kind of did a headstand there, but I'm struggling to hold it up. I can also do a one hand cartwheel, and I really want to be able to do an aerial. And a handstand. And a press hanstand. And a back handspring. And a front walkover. And a back walkover. And a scorpion, bow and arrow, leg mount, forearm stand, and all of these...

Tuesday 2 July 2013

One girl, one jump rope

Hello lovelies! Haven't posted in a while, yeah sorry about that.

Anyway, I supposed I should update everyone.
Foodwise, I had a "mini" binge. 2374 calories in total, so with my goal that day of 1440 calories I was in excess of 934 calories.

BUT.

Yes, there's a but.

My jump rope came.

It's purple. I was so excited. I still am. So anyway, it came. And after a few jumps, I finally felt like the  super-skilled-fourth-grader-jump-roper I once was. And it felt fantabulous. So I burned about 175 calories.
And from that day to this day, I have not parted with my purple jump rope. I have jumped every day. Happiness. And in total, I have burned 576 calories from 64 minutes of jump roping! I also had some other exercise in the past few days, so right now I'm logging all my excess calories on the mini-binge day until all the excess calories then are cleared. Right now, I have 229 excess calories to burn off from mini-binge day. Ugh.

Also, I'm one day over, if that makes any sense. So today's Tuesday, but I log all my food into Wednesday. That's how much I overate...
Oh well, as soon as I get rid of mini-binge day, I'll start logging all my cals on the actual day, and then log any exercise cals from then on into that day to get rid of the excess. Sounds like a grand plan, not.

Random note: I completed my first all-day fast in forever! (claps for self)

Sadly, I've stalled on my Crunch and Squat challenges. I'm meant to be on Day 21 (180 squats, 115 crunches), but I just completed Day 15 today and so I'm currently on Day 16. How sad...I actually do want to finish it though, no matter how long it takes me (hopefully no longer than 45 days!)

But yeah, jump rope. If you haven't got much money, space or time to get fit, get a jump rope. I got mine for $3 off ebay, and I jump in the barbecue pit (don't laugh okay), for about 15-30 minutes a day (again, don't laugh, I'm building it up haha). And it's sooo fun. Just beware of sore calf muscles the next day ;)