I started my Nerd Fitness journey three weeks ago. I had high hopes for making big changes all at once. Of course, life happens, and not everything went quite as I’d planned. Generally, this would be a time for me to lament my awfulness by rehashing everything I could have done but didn’t. Then, in some cases, I’d backlash with the reasons why I should be proud/am awesome. Thanks for the most part to some #JustTrollin love, I’m changing that up to something simpler, more honest, and less morally charged.
What I did well:
- Week 1
- Veggies at 10/14 meals
- 1 strength workout
- 5 conditioning workouts (walking, yoga)
- Week 2
- Veggies at 8/14 meals
- 2 strength workouts
- 3 conditioning workouts
- Under 72g sugar 5/7 days
- Week 3
- Veggies at 10/14 meals
- 2 strength workouts
- 4 conditioning workouts (walking, yoga)
- Monitored my intake of processed foods
- Overall
- Transferred all of my workout notes, stats, and instructions into one notebook to make it easier to track and to know what I’m doing at the gym
- Completed 17 hours of intentional workouts, compared to less than 10 (and mostly <5) prior to these three weeks
- Upped my veggie intake at dinners and on weekends just by paying attention
- Started paying close attention to my sugar intake (no more sweetened coffee) and my processed food intake
- Lost 8.2 pounds
- Graduated from the Tutorial workout to the first level Bodyweight workout
What I could have done better:
- Week 1
- More strength! One workout a week is not enough to see the progress I want
- Week 2
- More conditioning. I like walking and yoga. No excuse not to do them
- Less sugar. Drop that level to even less than 72g, which was an arbitrary MFP value
- Week 3
- Step it up with processed foods. Now it’s not about monitoring, it’s about action
My goals for the next two weeks:
- One baked good/dessert sort of thing per day
- At least 2 veggies AND 2 fruit servings daily
- 3 strength workouts
- 5 conditioning workouts
- Less than 50% processed foods
- At least 20 consecutive minutes AWAY from my desk every day
