My Health Chronicles: Shrink 1 Inch Waistline A Week!

Hi Steemians, as some of you might have seen my first post; I have recently met a new friend in Steemit, @rin , and I did mention that if I have my old health chronical archives I will be sharing with her.
And I finally found them!
Today I would like to introduce you my way of “shrinking” back in 2015, and I think I need to do that again as I have be a tiny bit slacking . (haha)
When I looked at my old archives, I felt encouraged because I managed to survive 23 days as it is the most essential “body re-programming” I ever embarked, in order to have my body (now I am maintaining it) accustomed to being active. And 2 years has passed although my weight yoyo between 1-2 kg (if I slack too much) but it gets back to shape very quickly if I jump back into my routine.

A little of my past why I started this.

Back in 2014 I was actually diagnosed with lumps in both of my breasts (8 of them if I remembered correctly) and though they were not huge but something happened. One day, I woke up and realized that my left breast was swollen with a size of a ping-pong ball lump!
This took a toll on me, many things happened, and now, seeing back what I have gone through I really am thankful that if I did not go through this I will never be able to understand the hardship of people being sick, yet all this can be overcome!
(Just to let you know, through my faith walking with Christ, prayers and right “re-programming” with my mind, body and soul; I am now declared benign ! How I got there, I will share with you next time)

What was my problem

So one of the problems I had was I did not have a really good diet throughout the years. I can’t say I was fat, but I was not on the lean side. And exercise and change of diet is very important to readjust my body to health.

How I started experimenting and creating something that works for me.

Have you ever heard of freeletics ? When I was looking for something to work on and I didn’t have a gym to go, I bumped into YouTube links of this kind of exercise.
I can tell you. This is really an exercise from hell routine sort of exercise for people who hardly / have not been exercising for a long time.
So, I improvised
What I did was, I kept things slow and steady. I did it every day, and I gradually increase my workout, one day at a time.

My result

When I started it I was really suffering as I could not even do 5 sit-ups. To do them was really painful, and I even had slight fever; that is because our bodies will tend to “fight back” when we are pushing it to work.
As my trainer once said, “No pain, no gain”
Muscles tend to work when they are pushed. When you feel slight pain is because it is working. That is just muscular tiredness. That is why I never recommend strenuous exercise from day one. I gradually train my body to be stronger.
Let me show you how I look like after my first week, first.

If you have decided to continue to read on, which means you are really interested, now I will show you what I did.

My day 1 – day 7 routine.

Just to let you know, I have weak knees and when I was plumper I always had this knee pain sting. So my routines are specially designed for knee complications (like me).

Now when I keep a borderline knee-pain-free weight, I am much more active and I feel more alert!

If you are interested, you can follow the routine I had below.

I can tell you, if you have never exercised before, it is very hard but do not give up!

Note: If you do not have youtube or you do not like dancing (staring at the video), I recommend 1km brisk walk. It is less strain for your knee and it keeps your body rate metabolized. I would recommend you to do the brisk walk first then come back to start the routine if you are in for a more challenging routine; or you can ideally do the routines first, then go for a brisk walk to both cool down and less straining for you.

Note2: If you have serious knee injury, I would not recommend you jumping jacks until you know your knee is stronger. You can try squats by holding onto a table (at home) or holding on a side bar (at the gym) for support until your knees are stronger.

Video tutorials for the routines.

Zumba workout (the one I followed)

Workout Tutorial: Situps - Freeletics training tips

Workout Tutorial: Squats - Freeletics training tips

Super Plank With Leg Raise

Opposite Arm and Leg Raise

All freeletics tutorial video resources are found from YouTube, courtesy from Freeletics official YouTube site.
That’s about it! Feel free to ask questions if you are not certain on the exercises. I will try to answer you as I can. Please note that this was before gym so I didn’t have a proper trainer, but my trainer was impressed I could do most of the exercise almost accurately. Thanks to YouTube!

Food wise

As for my diet, I try my very best to stay on Clean food diet and you can see one of my recipes here for Overnight Oat , just click on the link below (or the image)!

My Health Chronicles: Eating Healthy within Budget – Mini Overnight Oats #1

I hope you enjoyed this health sharing as much as I have enjoyed preparing it.

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