Get fit & healthy challenge update

Sometimes we forget that if we don’t post anything here, this blog will be like a desert.

Pretty empty.

The last few days we've been curiously checking the blog, wondering whether something has changed.

Shockingly, nah!

Nothing’s happened.

So since this blog ain’t gonna write itself, we figured we better update you on our lil’ challenge.

As you know we started a 30 days challenge to get in shape WITHOUT FEELING MISERABLE, because well we always feel miserable when we have to do something we're not in the mood for.

So we do want to get in shape, but we just don’t wanna stuff our face with protein powder and do soldier workouts. Even though it sounds tempting and we're barely holding myself off.

Blah, blah, blah, here’s our update:

weight:

before: 63.5kg after: 62.5kg -1kg (2 pounds)

waist:

before: 72cm after: 70cm -2cm

hips:

before: 102cm after: 100cm -2cm

chest:

before: 95cm after: 92cm -3cm

Aaaaah, we're living every woman’s dream right now – losing more in the chest area.

We know, now you’re like:

Wow, all that in 2.5 weeks, what’s your secret?

The snail speed diet?

Well, we'll tell you our sarcastic, funny, funny friend.

It’s the only change we stuck to and that is: Exercise. That is literally the only thing we have changed. We do 30 minutes of exercise every day. You can find the workout plans here and here. Right now we're doing the workout plan for week 1 again. We love these workouts and they make us feel awesome.

Diet: However. We don’t have a reliable diet at the moment. We try to eat more fruits and vegetables, but some days we're just way off and eat a lot of pastries. Not proud of that, but not ashamed either. So our goal to drink a smoothie and eat a salad every single day? Most days – pass! We even found out, we kinda hate smoothies right now. We hate their texture. However we looooooove salads. And now we're also crazy about melon, watermelon to be exact. So we're trying to eat more of those things.

Sleep– we haven’t slept more than 6 hours/day. Which is not too little, however far from the solid 8 hours. We know, we need to work on going to bed earlier! We have stopped looking at our phone/computer for at least 30 min before bed and we're also putting our phone and its annoying alarm far from our bed, so we wake up on time and don’t just hit snooze. Instead in the evening we're drinking some tea and reading The Alchemist (love it).

Moderation. Talk about struggle here. One day, we're good at moderation, another day – we are horrible at it. We noticed that we can be moderate with our food if we had something we loved and seriously felt happy with at the moment we ate it. That’s probably mindful eating for dummies like us. We will be talking about it later this week.

Movement other than exercise. When we started the challenge, one of our goals was to have a walking break from our desk every 30-45 min. We're doing okay with that, but our sister also bought us a large stability ball for our desk and we'll be trying it out next week. Feeling like we're gonna love it. We inflated the ball yesterday in the evening and now we just need to start using it. We'll observe and report here on that too, we do hope it helps with our posture and with our neck and shoulder pain.

Stop postponing and do things you’re afraid of. Still doing that for the most part. And we're kinda mad about it, because this is the part we WANTED to change. We already started making small changes – like organizing our stuff, but now we need to get to the big stuff.

Spend at least an hour outdoors: We actually do that. Although, not everyday, but probably 90%.

Choose the healthier option: Believe it or not, we do.

So that’s the update. Not judging myself and we're not blind – we know there’s a lot of space for improvement and we'll do our best.