Weightwatchers Week 2
This week has been significant to me. I went to see the herbalist that I mentioned in the last weighwatchers post and a lot changed for me. The very talented Neil McNulty spent a total of three hours with me, and I can honestly say that this moved me a lot more than I thought it would.
To the amount of training I was doing he asked me 'how is it logic that when you're doing something that's not working for your body, you try to do MORE of it?' He also announced after a study of my eye that my body was close to exhaustion, so much in fact that he was surprised I hadn't hit the wall yet. So his first bid to me was to reduce my amount of training.
He also told me that my body (all of our bodies) knows what it's doing, it's been developed through thousands of years so it knows what it needs and what it doesn't. So the second bid was to listen to my body, if I craved something, I should get it, if I was tired I should rest and if I didn't like something there was no need to push it. He wasn't surprised at all after mentioning a few vegetables I should stay away from, that I didn't like any of them. I sheepishly had to ask 'so when my body is craving bottles of coke and bags of crisps, does that mean I should obey at any cause?' And was fairly quickly told: That's your head, not your body :P
There was a lot more said and done, obviously since it ran over three hours, but for me, the rest of what was said are personal matters that I don't feel like sharing with just anyone. But I will say this, it is amazing how someone can look, feel and read your body and instantly know a great deal about you and your person. And Neil, definetly saw a lot more than what he could tell from the words coming out of my mouth.
At the end if it all, I had a book, two bottles of herbal tinctures and clear instructions to how I was to do my homework to get on my bodies good side again.
Anyways, back to business, here's this weeks nutrition rating:
Comment: I've naturally come to between 1600-1800 kcal a day this week, which is weird considering I haven't gone for the healthiest options every day, but overall that's a good number considering I've followed Neil's teachings, if I'm hungry I should eat etc :) I've actually even started to crave salads and such, which believe you me is a very new thing for me :P
This weeks fitness rating:
Comment: I have, after herbalist orders, not as many hours clocked as last week, but the exercise I have done has been hard and effective so I'm still giving my self four stars :)
Monday: 1 hour. Pole Fitness
Tuesday: 2 hours. 90 minutes fast walking and 30 minutes PowerPlate strength exercise.
Wednesday: 45 min. Cycling/X-trainer
Saturday: 2 hours. 90 minutes fast walking and 30 minutes PowerPlate strength exercise.
Sunday: 30 minutes of swimming
Total: 6 hours and 15 minutes
To the amount of training I was doing he asked me 'how is it logic that when you're doing something that's not working for your body, you try to do MORE of it?' He also announced after a study of my eye that my body was close to exhaustion, so much in fact that he was surprised I hadn't hit the wall yet. So his first bid to me was to reduce my amount of training.
He also told me that my body (all of our bodies) knows what it's doing, it's been developed through thousands of years so it knows what it needs and what it doesn't. So the second bid was to listen to my body, if I craved something, I should get it, if I was tired I should rest and if I didn't like something there was no need to push it. He wasn't surprised at all after mentioning a few vegetables I should stay away from, that I didn't like any of them. I sheepishly had to ask 'so when my body is craving bottles of coke and bags of crisps, does that mean I should obey at any cause?' And was fairly quickly told: That's your head, not your body :P
There was a lot more said and done, obviously since it ran over three hours, but for me, the rest of what was said are personal matters that I don't feel like sharing with just anyone. But I will say this, it is amazing how someone can look, feel and read your body and instantly know a great deal about you and your person. And Neil, definetly saw a lot more than what he could tell from the words coming out of my mouth.
At the end if it all, I had a book, two bottles of herbal tinctures and clear instructions to how I was to do my homework to get on my bodies good side again.
Anyways, back to business, here's this weeks nutrition rating:
Comment: I've naturally come to between 1600-1800 kcal a day this week, which is weird considering I haven't gone for the healthiest options every day, but overall that's a good number considering I've followed Neil's teachings, if I'm hungry I should eat etc :) I've actually even started to crave salads and such, which believe you me is a very new thing for me :P
This weeks fitness rating:
Comment: I have, after herbalist orders, not as many hours clocked as last week, but the exercise I have done has been hard and effective so I'm still giving my self four stars :)
Monday: 1 hour. Pole Fitness
Tuesday: 2 hours. 90 minutes fast walking and 30 minutes PowerPlate strength exercise.
Wednesday: 45 min. Cycling/X-trainer
Saturday: 2 hours. 90 minutes fast walking and 30 minutes PowerPlate strength exercise.
Sunday: 30 minutes of swimming
Total: 6 hours and 15 minutes
Siv-Terese
08-Feb-2010 kl.08:08