Did it in a day!

Yes, I have kept that promise I made to myself. Did manage to fit it all in a day.  Started with a brisk walk @ 6.00 am, back @ 645.  Did a few stretches after getting back home.  After breakfast, getting kids ready for school, packing lunch, getting them to have their milk, plaiting hair and rest of the chaos.  Dropped the little one to his playschool and did the stairs on the way back, all of 9 floors! This had me sweat like crazy as I got back home.  So, wrapped up some balance cooking while waiting to cool off. 

The rest of the day went by as usual.  This was followed by my routine Kickboxing-cum-Pilates workout for an hour in the evening.  So, this means I could manage my 3-pronged approach in a day! This also means I am that much nearer to my goal and have discovered how much I can push my body!Yyippee!!!

Just do it!

When I got myself enrolled into the Kickboxing classes, my intention was to just push myself into some kind of exercise regime which will improve my fitness levels and help shed some of the unwanted pounds.  The class I go to has helped me in the following ways -

- Lose weight (1 kg in 11 days and still counting)
- Curb my apetite (have stopped unhealthy snacking, which I used to earlier)
- Watch my diet (try to mentally keep track of the no.of calories I am consuming)
- Increased stamina and lung capacity (I can vouch for it, as the stair climbing and killer treadmill seem easier these days !)
- Toned muscles (lost 1.5 inches on the waist, can kind of squeeze into a pair of denim capris which I had hopelessly written off!)

When I discussed my tamer apetite with my instructor-cum-doc, her opinion was that exercising regularly releases positive hormones into our system.  This “feel-good” factor enhances your confidence levels, lessens stress and could be playing a part in lessening your apetite.  Like many a times, when you feel like bingeing on food when you are depressed or stressed out, exercising has the opposite effect on the system.  That’s another reason to keep pumping yourself each morning/noon/evening, whenever!