Tea Gets Fit, Week 3

[teaberryblue]

I am way super behind on things I want to post! Special family news from this weekend, plus two ice creams and three cocktails coming up soon! But this is the one that is the most behind.

It seems like I’ve been doing this for longer than two weeks! A lot of the routines seem easier than they did in the beginning. Even though I can’t follow along perfectly– or even well- yet, I actually feel like I’m not hopeless or lost, and nothing feels like it’s out of the realm of “ever possible.” Two days this past week, I had barely broken a sweat after ten minutes of working out, so I did another ten minute routine. The third day I tried that, though, I was too tired and achey after one to try to do more.

I’m also getting significantly better at several of the Wii Fit routines! The one problem with the Wii Fit is it automatically weighs you and uses your BMI as a milestone for how well you’re doing. I wish there were other ways to set to measure your progress! I am not really interested in losing weight, but it’s annoying for the machine to keep telling me I’m not meeting my milestones because I’m not losing any weight. Well, I am, but not as much as the Wii thinks I should. My weight is down about a pound after a week and a half.

I have been walking a lot outdoors, lately, too. Today, I walked for about two and a half hours, not including the approximate hour I spent walking between home and work twice. I’m impressed I walked as much as I did!

A lot of people say that working out regularly gives them more energy and makes them sleep better, though, and I don’t feel that at all. In fact, I’ve been sleeping worse and having a harder time waking up in the morning since I started.

I think that is all the update for this week!

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

Comments

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I think that's more that those shorts have a higher waistband so they're hiding the belly bit.

I think BMI can be useful if you know exactly what yours is and what your current fitness goals are-- it was very useful for me when I was extremely underweight for gauging how much weight I needed to put on and helped me see exactly how unhealthy my weight loss was (it was as a result of clinical depression, not an eating disorder!) but 90% of the time, I totally agree with you.

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

I was marked down as obese by a GP surgery I registered with because they weighed me and took my height and that's where my BMI came out as. I was three months pregnant and no one looking at me would ever have said I was obese - but them's the figures, so they must be right.

My husband used to be a holistic therapist and did a lot of work with sportsmen. He hated BMI because it really didn't show where someone's healthy weight is because that's such an individual thing for you. He worked with a rugby player, for example, who would be classed as morbidly obese but didn't have an ounce of fat on his body - he was short and a muscle powerhouse. So although I see where you're coming from, you would be better off getting a clinician to come up with a personalised plan than to look at a chart which has one size to fit all and go with what that tells you to do because that may well NOT be the healthy goal. I mean, I don't care what your BMI is - looking at your photos, you don't need to lose any weight at all and toning is really more for your comfort and fitness levels than anything else. The problem comes there when you aren't in a space to look at yourself in the mirror and judge whether what you see is healthy or not. BMI won't necessarily tell you that.