Eleana's Weekly Check-In

Weight: 68 kg (- 2 kg)

Waist: 30.25" (- 2.25)
Hips: 41.5"(- 2")
Thighs: 24" (+ 0.5")

Another week, another check in! And what a week it's been. As you can see from figures, while I am struggling to lose weight overall. I am still losing inches, so I'm not totally disheartened!

I can't really explain my lack of overall weight loss, not being an expert. I know that weight is very dependent on the day and how your body is in various things other than mass weight (e.g. water, time of the month etc.) but ultimately I do want to see those numbers go down to at least what they used to be.

Happily I am still seeing difference in my measurements (as long as I am doing it right, really hope I am). I have seen a difference to both my waist and hips to my delight, although once again I have gained in my thighs. I'm hoping this isn't a repeat of my karate years where I kept myself in good shape but got big uber thighs from it.

This week's challenge was the reflection chart. It was pretty much what I expected, I didn't really have any surprises. I woke up feeling tired and found it difficult to get out of bed, even after 8-10 hours sleep, but that's not unusual at all for me. About 30 minutes later I am awake and won't even want a nap for the rest of the day and will struggle to get to sleep in the evenings. I've never figured out why this is, but I've been like this so long I don't question it. I am usually in a good mood and not stressed, lucky! This week I had two major last minute homework assignments, but even this did not affect my eating. I was still under my calories. It did affect my exercise, however, as for Tuesday and Wednesday I just didn't have the time in the day to do exercise. 

Thursday I had a very unusual very bad day for personal reasons. It really affected me that evening and the next morning. It, amongst other things, prevented me from working out on Thursday, and it almost stopped me from exercising Friday too, but I forced myself to join Jodie at Zumba. The bad episode continued into the afternoon until I was able to clear the air in the evening. I can now really see how Rachael struggles when things get on top of her. It really does affect your motivation, or even ability to stick to your plan.

This weekend I had a major spring clean which took me 4 hours on Saturday so, considering it involved a lot of physical exertion and time, I didn't exercise that day. Sunday was the only day where I was truly lazy and could have exercised, but didn't. Not bad for me! But room for improvement as always.

I wrote a piece on Baby Steps in changing your habits, which you can see by clicking here.

Considering everything I wrote in this post, I am not as disheartened about my efforts this week as I might have been, because I accept that sometimes life gets in the way and the small steps and changes I made this week still helped me work towards my goal. I am, however, going to restart Week 1 of the Ripped in 30 Challenge. I shall not be defeated!