My goal is to gain muscle, lose fat and generally become much leaner in my body composition, and I definitely feel much slimmer, stronger and my clothes are loser! The bloat I usually suffer with, and ‘puffy’ feeling has gone, and I can’t wait to see how my body changes over the next 76 days! And considering I didn’t have much weight to lose, it’s quite a substantial drop. However, my weight on the scales has dropped – I’m down 5lb in almost 2 weeks, from 140 to 135 lb. But there’s also part of me that wonders if I’m going to notice changes in my body composition at the same rate every week…of course, I trust the process, but I know that my body fluctuates during the month and I don’t want to be disappointed if I don’t feel I’m getting increasingly leaner every week. I caught a glance of myself a few times by accident while working out and was shocked at the reflection I saw…I’m looking leaner, more shredded, and can see my abs coming through.
I guess I really should avoid comparing myself with other people who are at different stages of their journey compared to me. Mentally, this week was mixed – while I was more confident with the moves and the nutrition plan, part of my week was spent feeling really powerful and impressed with my progress, and part of my week was spent worrying if I was making enough progress. I managed to double up on bands on some moves and increase weights on almost everything to push myself further…so much so, I’ll need to start shopping for heavier dumbbells now. Having only 10 reps in 3 sets instead of 15 x 2, made the time fly by! Even though there were 3 rounds, each workout moved so quickly and I really enjoyed every move, concentrating on form and increasing weight now I was familiar with the move. I found 15 was a struggle last week, but I seem to have improved my strength already as I managed to up my weight quite a bit and finish strong with each move. I found I enjoyed this week much more than week 1 as we did the moves in 3 sets of 10 reps, instead of 2 sets of 15. Week 2 focuses on lower reps, more sets, and heavier weights! You know the moves already from week 1, so there’s less talking and demonstrating from Autumn, and it’s a much faster pace. So I started week 2 feeling refreshed after my first rest day and motivated that I’m just feeling better in general. I started week 2 feeling leaner, tighter and with less jiggle – while I didn’t take any week 1 progress photos, I definitely feel it in my body and clothes that something has changed.
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