Have you heard about the Michelle Bridges body transformation plan? If you haven't, it is amazing! The most amazing program I have ever been involved in. I have done all sorts of other stuff before. Weight Watchers, where I did learn many healthy eating choices but did not lose a great deal of weight (the most being 8kg); channel 10's recent weight loss campaign where I just spent way too much time in the kitchen preparing food; diet pills; shakes, that made me so constipated it hurt (yes, I know: too much info...); and other diet programs too numerous to mention (or remember).
Let's face it, the market out there is for healthy eating and so clever marketing people come up with a diet usually too good to be true; HOWEVER, THIS TIME I FOUND ONE THAT ISN'T... WELL IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, YET IT LIVES UP TO ITS REPUTATION. How can a diet live up to its reputation? Well for one thing, it is not a diet. BINGO. It is a healthy eating plan. For life. Let me tell you of some earlier struggles of mine.
Just over a year ago I was attending a gym at West Gosford (Planet Fitness) which I was very happy with. I was eating well, or what I thought was well and attending gym about 3 or 4 days per week. I was doing an early morning program called: The biggest winner. It was from 6-7am in the morning. It was really hard getting up especially since the program was in winter. It is hard getting out of bed that early at anytime for me, so this was a big commitment to achieve this. It went for 6 weeks, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I really thought that I would see results but I didn't. I was a little fitter but not at a pace I could run. I hated running. For our fitness test we were required to run for 1km but I could never make it and just decided that I would bike it instead of running as the running made the front of my legs hurt. Now, I don't know why this time was different for me but I can run now. And my legs don't hurt. I think it is because I do various aerobic classes now where at Planet I didn't. I do zumba 3 times per week, which I just adore. This has really changed me I think. I definitely was very discouraged when I was working at the gym last year (or the year before now...) That is why this program is so good.
I work out always Monday (pump class); Tuesday (body balance at 10:30am and zumba at 6:30pm); Wednesdays I sometimes have off, although today I wanted to get an extra tone class in so I did the MB program (learning to run program) which was toning legs and abs; Thursday I do double zumba at 9:30am and 6:30pm) although I have the option of doing yoga at 10:30am instead of zumba - I will see how I feel tomorrow); Fridays I do a mixture of cardio & tone - although ultimately I will probably do some learning to run stuff; and Saturdays it just depends, I sometimes do a fat blaster class but it is at 9:30am and I do not work at my best at that time I have found. It is funny, I can do pump class at 9:30am on Mondays but on Saturdays I usually sleep in a bit as I stay up late on Friday night. I always do some exercise regardless. And Sunday is my chill day, which of course I love too.
I will write up another post soon interviewing myself and so that will have less essay style questions and more straight to the point answers. XX
Let's face it, the market out there is for healthy eating and so clever marketing people come up with a diet usually too good to be true; HOWEVER, THIS TIME I FOUND ONE THAT ISN'T... WELL IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, YET IT LIVES UP TO ITS REPUTATION. How can a diet live up to its reputation? Well for one thing, it is not a diet. BINGO. It is a healthy eating plan. For life. Let me tell you of some earlier struggles of mine.
Just over a year ago I was attending a gym at West Gosford (Planet Fitness) which I was very happy with. I was eating well, or what I thought was well and attending gym about 3 or 4 days per week. I was doing an early morning program called: The biggest winner. It was from 6-7am in the morning. It was really hard getting up especially since the program was in winter. It is hard getting out of bed that early at anytime for me, so this was a big commitment to achieve this. It went for 6 weeks, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I really thought that I would see results but I didn't. I was a little fitter but not at a pace I could run. I hated running. For our fitness test we were required to run for 1km but I could never make it and just decided that I would bike it instead of running as the running made the front of my legs hurt. Now, I don't know why this time was different for me but I can run now. And my legs don't hurt. I think it is because I do various aerobic classes now where at Planet I didn't. I do zumba 3 times per week, which I just adore. This has really changed me I think. I definitely was very discouraged when I was working at the gym last year (or the year before now...) That is why this program is so good.
I work out always Monday (pump class); Tuesday (body balance at 10:30am and zumba at 6:30pm); Wednesdays I sometimes have off, although today I wanted to get an extra tone class in so I did the MB program (learning to run program) which was toning legs and abs; Thursday I do double zumba at 9:30am and 6:30pm) although I have the option of doing yoga at 10:30am instead of zumba - I will see how I feel tomorrow); Fridays I do a mixture of cardio & tone - although ultimately I will probably do some learning to run stuff; and Saturdays it just depends, I sometimes do a fat blaster class but it is at 9:30am and I do not work at my best at that time I have found. It is funny, I can do pump class at 9:30am on Mondays but on Saturdays I usually sleep in a bit as I stay up late on Friday night. I always do some exercise regardless. And Sunday is my chill day, which of course I love too.
I will write up another post soon interviewing myself and so that will have less essay style questions and more straight to the point answers. XX
Oh, I forgot to mention I lost 2.4kg this week, a bit of a record but how good is that!? Love this program as I see results. Next week I may not lose anything but I don't care. It is about mindset.
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