Before I get into the my week 2 recap I should note that the measurements are not perfect. They're more than likely not recorded in the same spot each week resulting in sporadic numbers. The madness behind it is to see inches being removed as weight is hopefully lost.
Summary of Week 2: Week 1 was a wake up call. Not the pleasant "Hey, it's time to wake up" kind of call. This was the slap in the face and pushed out of bed call. My body was sore and my thighs were even sorer. Can't stress the thigh part enough, this game really focuses on your thighs. However I felt good. Counting calories seemed to have become part of the everyday life and was no longer a hassle. I bought bottled water because I wasn't drinking enough prior. So now I was getting at least 10 cups a day from bottled water. It's recommended that you drink half your body weight in ounces. So with that theory I'm suppose to be drinking 140 ounces of water a day! Which is just north of a gallon. What most people fail to tell you is that that water can come from other sources, like juice or milk. So it's honestly not that hard to get your daily intake. Onto Week 2 now. After my weekly Saturday weigh in I was pretty excited about losing 5 pounds. So the impatient person that I was rushed to the scale Sunday morning. I weighed in at 274 pounds. Down another pound from the previous day. Now a lot of things could have factored into this happening. Without considering anything else I hopped online and did a little research. The consensus was that losing a pound a day really isn't a healthy way to go about things and that I should consider raising my daily calorie intake just to be on the safe side. So I did as instructed and upped my daily intake to 2,000 a day. This really simplified finding out all my daily values considering everything is packaged for a 2,000 calorie diet. For this week I started a workout program on Your Shape. My main focus was obviously weight loss and the class I chose was kick boxing. I had three choices of goals, Weight Loss, Endurance and Balance I believe. There were a few classes to chose from as well but I figured it'd be the most difficult and therefor would yield the most results. Some of the routines look ridiculous. Not ridiculous in being hard, but my girlfriend and I actually started laughing pretty hysterically when one of the workouts came on and we had to quit because we just couldn't take it seriously. I'm pretty sure it was one of the Ultra classes in the Kickboxing class. The program I chose consists of 4 weeks and 4 workouts each week. Some people might say that's too much and some will say that's not enough. We thought it wasn't enough so we play the game at least 6 times a week. Trying to get a day off on cheat days or whatever but we find most of our workouts leave us feeling good about ourselves. Week two's results were a little discouraging after such a successful first week. Once again there could be many factors that contribute to random results in measurements. Muscle gain, water weight, waste weight. Those are just a few to name off. So here they are and remember don't get discouraged if you find similar results. Measurements at the start of the week (3/14): Weight: 275 Chest: 44.5" Waist: 43.5" Hips: 45" Bicep: 15.5" Measurements at the end of the week (3/21): Weight: 276 (+1) Chest: 43.5" (-1") Waist: 43" (-.5") Hips: 45" (-.5) Bicep: 15.5" Week 3 will be posted April 17th. You can follow my daily results here.
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So first off my basics for the start of my program. I'm 23 years old and live a sedentary lifestyle. I started this exercise and diet plan off weighing in at 280 pounds. I'm 6' 3" so I don't look as terrible as the weight suggest; however, it was enough for me to decide that I needed a heavy lifestyle change. With having a love for video games and lacking the desire to revert to my military days I decided to use my Wii U for something other than Nintendo exclusives. I contemplated between Wii Fit U and Your Shape and after reading reviews on both it wasn't much of a decision. I also purchased both Just Dance 2014 and 2015 to use as an alternative to cardio workouts. So without anymore delay; lets get into it.
Summary of Week 1 (March 7th - March 14th): So along with a healthier workout regimen comes with the obvious healthy diet plan. I was a heavy soda drinker. I was in the area of six 12oz cans a day of Mountain Dew. So my first step toward a healthier life was to completely cut that out. Next was to start counting calories. I looked into applications that had syncing between my pc and phone and My Fitness Pal was the most recommended. So now I was counting calories and exercising. The next thing was to find how many calories my bodies metabolism was suppose to be burning naturally each day. There were multiple sites telling me different things and considering my size and relatively cheap budget for food I settled for the least; 2,920 calories per day via My Fitness Pal. The general rule of thumb for losing a pound a week is eat 500 calories a day less than what your body burns naturally. So to try to maximize my results I decided to eat 1,800 calories a day in hopes of losing a little more than two pounds a week. To my surprise or maybe due to weighing myself in the P.M on March 7th (I weigh myself first thing in the morning now) I lost 5 pounds in the first week. This week probably has the most inaccurate results due to it being my first week. Either way at the end of the week I was pretty ecstatic and feeling good about myself. However when it came to my measurements they didn't change to much. So here I was pretty confused about the results. Measurements at start of the week (March 7th): Weight: 280 Chest: 45" Waist: 44" Hips: 45" Bicep: 15.5" Measurements at the end of the week (March 14th): Weight: 275 (-5 pounds) Chest: 44.5" (-.5") Waist: 43.5" (-.5") Hips: 45" (+.5") Bicep: 15.5" Week 2 will be posted April 10th. You can follow my daily progress here: |
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