Monday 4 February 2013

My 6 week challenge!

Hello ma'lovelies, In this post I will be explaining and starting my 6 week challenge. I am being really brave to do this post as it is something I tend not to really think about and it is something personal to me. 



This 6 week challenge is to help me keep fit and have a healthy lifestyle. I have got development logs and will be writing in them each day to monitor my progress. 

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The first part of my challenge is the declaration for exercise. 

To begin my healthy lifestyle, I Charlotte , commit to cycling/stretch exercises for 25 minutes on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 
I plan to do my exercise in the following location: My home 

My Goal - Total Minutes Per week minimum
Week 1 - 175 mins 
Week 2 - 175 mins 
Week 3 - 175 mins 
Week 4 - 210 mins 
Week 5 - 210 mins 
Week 6 - 210 mins


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The second part of my challenge is healthy eating. I will be recording everything I eat and drink each day for 6 weeks. This way I will be able to monitor how much I intake and check my eating patterns. I calculated my age, sex, height and BMI and in conclusion I need to have 1500 calories a day. 

Age - 18
Sex - Female
Height - 5ft
BMI - 27.34
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My 6 week challenge was a little bit harder than I expected. I had never calorie counted before and didn't think it would be that difficult. However after each meal I counted the calories and realised I need to eat slightly less and also food with less calories in them.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Snacks
Total
Monday
1213(cal)
260(cal)
350(cal)
96(cal)
1919(cal)
Tuesday
350(cal)
500(cal)
500(cal)
276(cal)
1626(cal)
Wednesday
146(cal)
500(cal)
450(cal)
414(cal)
1520(cal)
Thursday
Had a lie in! (hehe)
500(cal)
350(cal)
116(cal)
966(cal)
Friday
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
Saturday
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
Sunday
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
(cal)
The meal that let me down was breakfast. I thought that because you need a lot of energy for the day, I should have a big hearty breakfast. BIG mistake, I need to have food that will fill me up for longer and give me the energy that I need with less calories.

As for exercise, I did my workout quite late at night which is not all that brilliant for you, but as I was very busy I made sure that I squeezed it in. Well normally I hate exercise and give up halfway through, however this time I had Chris with me. This motivated me to finish my workout and without realising doing 35 mins instead of the targeted 25 mins. Thank god for boyfriends hehe.


Time
Monday
35 mins
Tuesday
35 mins
Wednesday
1 hour
Thursday
35 mins
Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Total Mins

I hope you lovely people enjoyed my post and in anyway found it useful.
If you have any questions or advice & tips feel free to comment below :)

Love Char_Beyy xxx

6 comments:

  1. What a great idea, Good luck .... You can do it :) xx

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  2. thats great motivation! I hope it works out for you, good luck! :) new follower!
    Juliet
    www.apurplesky.blogspot.com

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