1. Woke up and headed out the door to measure my run. Running, for me, is the fastest way to drop my weight, and with about 3 weeks left to go, I still have about 3kgs to drop. One of my coworkers leant me a watch that not only times your runs but it also tells you how many calories you’ve burned, your running pace, and how far you have ran. Actually, it does much more than that though. It’s got it’s own GPS software that lets you track the actual exact route of your run and then look it up on Goggle Earth… how cool is that?! Anyways, I measured my running route and it came out to being 6.48kms.
2. Junior Mint wants me to up my route distance and so we agreed that starting this Friday I will be running a route. I measured it out today and it is 8.83kms. Weight training, although it’s been helping to build up muscle, is leaving me sore and weak for boxing. The plan is to drop weight training from here on out and replace it with early morning runs. Then, of course, I have my boxing training every evening.
3. I knew the stress of me testing out Snickers’ game diet was getting to me when I snapped at Snickers failing to help me in the morning like how he had promised he would. Snickers has me on this wickedly-hard diet that’s all about quantity of food verses my quality of food (clean eating). Today his diet royally kicked my butt and sent me into super-spaze-owski mood.
4. I knew I had to get out Snickers’ diet when I found myself hiding the TV remote and then taking it a step further and hiding the remote batteries. “What’s wrong with me?” I asked myself. “I definitely need my protein and veggies back” was my answer.
5. What works for one doesn’t necessarily work for another, this was definitely the lesson of the day for me! And on that note, I jumped off Snickers’ crazy game diet and tried to make an adaption diet that incorporated both Snickers’ game diet and mine.
6. Tried to snap out of my spaz-owski rut by doing some online shopping. Picked out some of the things on my Victoria Secret wish list and exercised the plastic.
7. Despite the numbers on the scale not exactly impressing me, my body feels so different and it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what to wear because my pants are now too big, my shirts fit different, bra shopping was a must, skirts don’t hug my hips like before, and leggings are quick to creep off my waistline. Moreover, I don’t really like how my face looks anymore. I use to think I had a cute face cause of my pudgy cheeks but now the pudge in my cheeks isn’t exactly there. And to tell you the truth, I’m kind of nervous of what I will feel like and look like after I get down past the 47kgs mark. It’s not going to be a pretty sight.
8. All week I’ve been struggling with following Snickers’ crazy-man game diet and tonight I definitely snapped. After putting in a grueling effort at boxing, what should I do but stomp into Lotte Super and buy a massive bag of Snickers snack-size chocolate bars.
9. I’m not a particular fan of chocolate. I usually chop up chocolate and store it in my freezer for the rare occasions when I want a treat or when I come in from an exceptionally hard workout or run. I’m not a diabetic but consider somewhat on the borderline because I get the shakes sometimes if I train too hard. My blood-sugar level after training sometimes leaves me dizzy feeling, especially morning weight training when I train on an empty stomach. I use get the shakes back when I was a high school student and so I use to have to snack on a couple of cinnamon heart candies after track and field or field hockey practice.
10. However, my blood-sugar level had nothing to do with tonight’s buying of chocolate. I wanted to trash the diet and gain my strength back. Mind ya, eating a handful of snack-size chocolate bars and then downing almost a liter of milk left me feeling nothing less than bloated and unable to move… but it felt GREAT!!! After, I laid on the floor and enjoyed the feeling of being full and the feeling of not being a slave anymore Snickers’ crazy game diet.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why do we willing put ourselves through repeated torture?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.
-- Chinese Proverb
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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