comfort zone

Sometimes even self care needs one to go out of the comfort zone.

Not happy

I wish I could see a quick result. Everything seems to takes forever to get to the end- works, learning, muscles... but some good result that I can see very fast is my health. HIIT workout for just 10 minutes everyday for 5 days a week really did boost my energy and stamina. Not feeling sleepy at work now. Less tired after work. Hooray!

Seriously need to think of changing all other areas of my life. Haven't done anything significant about family and de-cluttering. Am not feeling happy. Though I managed to keep up with 90 days New Testament plan and HIIT. I'm really settling for current situation and not working for what I really want. Should I go with the flow? Or should I push harder? Where is the balance? Somehow I'm looking for more challenging task. Overcoming challenges give me a sense of accomplishment.

New task:

• reading the Poetry section of the Bible once I wake up(3-4 chapters)
• eat breakfast(feel grumpy without it, but very challenging consider the effort to wake up earlier also time spend on thinking what to get)
• spend more time on exercising(still thinking of what skills I can learn at home, such as splitting or standing on my hands)
• be more productive during the weekends(too vague, need a breakdown list, struggling between my own task and the house task)

Looks like more reflection is needed!

The moment cake taste best is before you buy it

Cake always looks delicious on the shelf, but doesn’t taste as good when I try it. This happened most of the time. It’s bloating. Plus, I tend to eat more when the food is there, finishing them before the right time. I should not buy cakes or junk food again. That’s called emotional eating: what I really want is cookie or chips. But the true hunger should be feeding the belly, not craving for something sweet. Hence the desire to eat does not equal to feeling hungry.

No-no list:

Cakes

Chips

Dried fish fillet(my favourite)

Biscuits

Etc.

Instead, I will consume more fruits and beans. If I want snacks, I should start making them myself; such as sandwiches, sushi rolls, and perhaps cakes. Hmm, seems like a lot of inconvenience…

Keep going!

I kept my workout plan 5/7 for last week. Where did I stop myself? “I have no time.”

I knew it was an excuse, haha, I just don’t want to do it today.

I will change my workout plan to weekdays only, and leave my weekends to my family.

On the other hand, I’ve been an “extra good” daughter for the weekend. I bought some food, did some cleaning, and some cooking. I could’ve done better if I have a proper to-do list for the weekend. I’m beginning to write down the baby steps I could take in de-cluttering my house. 

Don’t try hard; try with your heart

“I decided to do it.” My heart feels lighter. I choose to do it. So I will do it happily.

No more of this: “Ugh. I need to force myself to do it.” How dreadful! “If I do it every day, gold will fall from the sky.” (Even though it sounds absurd)Silly me, gold is always a better motivation than a bikini body.

I’m still working on 30 days HIIT challenge, the only difference is that I’m doing it happily.

Don’t try hard; try with your heart, try wholeheartedly.

Do not focus on your pain

“I feel like skipping HIIT today.” I can have a lot of reason not to do it so I just grab myself to do it. And I’m glad I did. Never did I know what I would miss by skipping the 10-minute.

The exercise was just doing plank. When I was doing the 45 seconds plank, I felt my abs.

“My abs can’t hold it anymore, I want to let go” “Just hang in there a few seconds” My mind was blank. I hold on.

In a blink of eyes I came back to mind and I discovered: “Wow, I don’t feel my abs anymore, I can hold on for even longer.” Epiphany!

Whenever you feel hurt, do not run away from it. Remember when you focus on your pain, you only help to intensify the hurt you feel. Instead, face it, accept it, until you can live with it, till then it has lost its control over you. Never let the same hurt hit you down again.

Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4

Less is more

I’m going to try HIIT 30 days programme(Got it from Neilarey.com) Greater training in less time. Perfect for those who are either busy or lazy, just like me. The program that I choose takes only about 10 minutes each day. Equipment free. Sounds too simple? Well whenever I started some project very ambitiously they never work. 10 minutes? I can do it. I hope it works. No. I will work on it. I don’t want to find myself looking back at this post and sigh: “Oh! Will never work”. The feeling of a loser. What is the use of this blog? Accountability. After all I need accountability.

In HIIT, you need to push yourself as hard as you can in the short period. So for my blog post, I’m trying to use fewer words as I can for the greatest impact. Hope this blog would be an inspiration to others. I love to hear about it.

Why aren’t you workout today?

For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. (Romans 7:15)

I struggle with exercising.

I know people who can spend 2 hours every day in the gym, cook every meal, to ensure the nourishment of their body. But why not me?

“I’m tired. I need rest. I want to lie down. I am lazy.”

Ridiculous. You get tired easily because you don’t move. The cure to fatigue is to exercise.

“I have no plan for workout. I can’t decide which exercise to do for today.”

Then design a plan and stick to it. If it doesn’t work, change it.

After one day of workout, “Muscle pain.”

Active recovery, which is light exercise during the recovery phase can stimulate blood flow to the muscles to help reduce muscle pain. 

“I am a couch potato.”

You are what you think you are. Prove it otherwise.

If you were given $5000, would you do it? “Yes!”

But you won’t do it for health? Are you fit enough? Are you satisfied with your body size? “Well,….”

What is your excuse today? They’re sick. From now on, no more hesitation, simply do it.

If you want a strong body, you know the price you have to pay.

It is hard, but perfect body line is worth fighting for. Plus, I can reward myself with more tasty food.  

Fighting!

“If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.” –Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running