![]() I was able to up my weights and go much heavier than I anticipated. The 3 x 10 sets that this week’s workouts were based around were such fun – the time flies and you really feel the burn by doing heavier weights for fewer reps. In terms of the workouts, I’m definitely enjoying phase 2’s workouts. Right now, after a few days, I’m not feeling a noticeable difference being gluten free, but I know enough about inflammation and food sensitivities to know it takes longer than a few days to notice benefits. We’ll see if that makes a difference to how I’m feeling. I’m also tweaking my meals a little – where I’ve been eating a lot of wholemeal bread for my carb source, I’m trying to swap for a gluten free sweet potato option. ![]() Maybe it’s just the swole-ness of weight lifting! I’m trying to trust the process, as I know I’m feeling stronger, healthier and have more energy than I have in years. I’m trying to work out if it’s the moving up to the next food bracket (Plan B from Plan A) in phase 2, or the fact I’m currently having 2 weeks holiday from my physical day job. The weight loss has slowed and I’m not feeling quite as lean. The first few weeks I noticed I lost weight quite suddenly and made almost instant progress. Mentally, this week has been a tough one. This may have been the extra glycogen after refeed day, or just the 3×10 sets that allowed me to up my weights. ![]() The next few days however, I did notice extra power in my workouts…upping my weights and pushing myself harder. The day after refeed day, I didn’t notice any extra energy or strength, or the leaness that other people said they noticed. I got extra carbs, extra fruit and it was all new again. There was a lack of confidence with my meals, compared to the regular meal plan that has become second nature now. While I enjoyed my fast-absorbing carbs, it kind of brought me back to the uncertainty about the eating plan that I felt on Day 1…not knowing what containers to eat, in which grouped meals and when. Refeed day was interesting – I had been looking forward to eating some foods that I’d not been ‘allowed’ on the regular eating plan, craving white bread and cereal. The added new aspect in this week was refeed day, which I posted ‘What I ate on refeed day’ here. While last week was a bit of a struggle starting new combinations and movement patterns to ‘burn out’ the muscle, this week I found I was a little more used to the moves and did them with more confidence and better form. ![]() This week was week 6, or the second week in Phase 2. ![]()
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