Yesterday, I failed.

Four days into this program and I have already ended my streak. I failed my diet, failed being optimistic, and even failing to do a blog post. This isn’t much of the problem at hand, but rather, my feeling towards these failures

See, despite having failed my goals for the day, I didn’t feel at most disappointed at myself. (It might really be because of the delicious mouth watering lunch that I had yesterday though….)

So to recap my day, here’s what I have done for the day.

I woke up at 8am, did some mild stretching, and proceeded to eat my Salad (its really coming together now, yay!) then went to my school’s gym to do some jogging.

The start of the day was really nice, and today, I had company with me to run around the oval. At first I thought it was really gonna be awkward since my other two companions were fitter than me. But it turns out it is better to have them because they will be the one to keep pushing you to go further. In the end, I managed to have 20 full minutes of cardio. One of my friends then suggested we do and ab workout and, being as the #roadtofitness people that we were, we obliged.

She asked me how many minutes we should do, 5, 8, or 10 and in my mind, I was like only 10 minutes max for the ab workout?! Then I became a little modest and tried 8. Oh boy halfway there I was dying.

But I did it, I finished it up and really felt great (and sore) but felt great!

Another reason why we did this was actually to prepare ourselves for a food trip that was planned later that afternoon. And so began my failures.

It was my first time going to Hole In The Wall, a place that had gained fame for their chic interior and delicious food. Everyone of us were first timers there so we really did not know what to expect. When we went inside, we were expecting some classy restaurant, but instead, it was a really cute food court with different stalls and each stall was absolutely divine!

Everything was so cute and delicious so we had a hard time deciding what to eat. After a while, I settled for Bad Bird, because of the countless instagram posts that I’ve seen about them.

 Umami spiced fried chicken with sweet potato waffles. Considering that I’m still in my Paleo Diet, it was hard to figure out which was okay and which werent okay in eating. I initially opted to eat only the chicken, but then there was waffles. Sweet heavenly waffles. Did I mention that I LOVE WAFFLES?! Not like, but LOVE. As in I can marry a waffle cart just so I can get free waffles. And this Paleo Diet is killing me because of that.

Although, the waffles werent technically a violation to my diet, since it used sweet potato, that meal really lived up to its name… Cause its really bad for your health. Total calories of the meal? 908 CALORIES. Ugh. I was actually feeling full after devouring the first chicken and waffle but it really hurts me to see leftover food so I had to eat it. It’s not really a bad trait, but its a bad habit for your health 😦

Afterwards, we roamed around the mall and, feeling full, we decided to call it a day because we all think we need a ciesta hahaha!

I actually felt bad for eating that much thats why I YOLOd myself with my other goals:(

I do hope next time, I dont need to eat that much.

Till next time,

Cheers,

Marie

Oh you know, just casually working out…

So my exercise routine for today basically involves

• Running/Brisk Walking/Casually Dying around the track for about 15 minutes.
• Doing my casual stretches (my trainer actually taught me a 30-40 minute stretch routine which I practice and abide by)
• Trying to do my aerial, handstand, and backbend kickover

Afterwards, I left to eat my lunch, freshen up and do some errands.

6PM was the call time for my dance training. See, I’m part of this dance organization in my school, and I really LOVE it because, I really love to dance. Though, I still have a lot to improve on.

Contrary to before, I actually came super early because it’s my first training in weeks!!! I also somehow was eager to find out if anything I did in the gym last month had any effect to my dancing life.

The day ended with me doing most of the routine. I, however, still need to improve on my turns. And I hate turns. Boohoo. 

 Me with my batchmates at my dance org 🙂

And that’s it for tonight! (you can really see how tired I am now HAHA! But it’s a good tired! It’s the product of so much hard work!)

Cheers,

Marie

June 29, 2015

Only my fourth blog post and I’m already really really tired. Who knew blogging could be so stressful? HAHA! It feels like all the words have already been sucked out of me and I’ve become really really quiet, and I am never quiet.

Anyway, this is my exercise routine for the road to fitness! insert muscle emoji here

Today, I went to my university’s gymnasium to exercise. Considering I didn’t want to enroll myself in any gym anymore (in order to save up), I decided to make use of the facilities around me.

It’s still summer here, and most of the people are either in their summer classes or vacation (or rotting at home like what I used to be), so I had the oval all to myself, which was perfect since I am so insecure when I exercise.

I had full cardio for 15 minutes running at 10.5mins per km, which burned me about 70 calories (WHAT). Then had brisk walking for 10 more minutes somewhere in between that 15 minute sprint.

I then proceeded(is this a word?) with doing flexibility, and gymnastics… AND I WAS SO THRILLED TO DO A BACKBEND RECOVER WITHOUT MUCH PAIN! I also went on with cartwheels, one handed cartwheels, and practiced of achieving my aerial (which, I might say is hard when you have noone to spot you)

Ended my workout sessions with some splits, and of course, a photo to commemorate the moment (well, just a photo of my shoes HAHA)

Cheers,

Marie