Chez FitMercy

This delay was not intentional but I found myself not able to start the challenge immediately. This week, all I have been doing is low impact  in nature. I got some nice fitnessblender videos on YouTube which had helped me to keep everything low pace and sweaty too. I realized about ME, that to see a significant weight loss on the scale and measurements, I have to do at least 250 minutes a week of 80% HIIT  or over 300 minutes of moderate exercise. Some medical constraints will not allow me to do any HIIT this week, so that is the cogent reason for the slight delay. I am doing a meal plan for the next one week today, and I will do that today. It helps me a lot [I have done it before], I am released of all the stress accompanying "what will I cook today" and I am able to shop in a more healthy manner as I prepare for the coming week. In short, planning is very essential to life and living. When you plan yourself, you are relieved of the headaches that comes with making

I am done with a 30 Days Fitness Challenge , I always love the challenges I see on about.com. The previous ones I had done over the years always left me with loss of weight and a stronger, fitter body. As I cleaned the house this morning I thought hard and I think I am treading the right path to get me to my desired and healthy weight this year. Here are some fact findings: - They say eat 6 meals a day i.e. try to eat small throughout the day so that your metabolism is raised through the day. It never worked for me, in fact I packed on so much pounds on when I tried it I really surprised myself. It cannot work for me because I typically take large portions (I think it is an African thing), they are not just large portions but large portions of carbs.  - The typical meal is like: 3 cups (peak milk tin) of cooked rice (carbs);  2 tablespoons stew (veggies);  4 slices of fried plantain (more carbs);  2 pieces of meat (protein).  That is the go to meal around here.

Well today, I am just a little blue exercise-wise and in such moments there is little appeal to exercise. I think some issues are just on my mind and I am finding it hard ejecting them or rather stopping them from disturbing me. Anyways, I still ended up with a 15 minutes workout because I am under some compulsion to get my TNT (Tight n Tone) points in today and I will never draw my teammates backwards under any circumstance. Participation not Perfection is what is desired. I think such days as these are just inevitable, how much I am able to draw myself out of this is what really matters. So much on my mind... I hope to feel this way as I wake tomorrow morning.

I am loving that I had kept 21 days straight and strong in the 31 days of the first month in this year. It is a sign of good things coming this year. I am most grateful for the BLC Round 27, it really did keep me accountable and the need not to let down the team. So I had to really push myself [not beyond limits yet, because I still workout just a little bit above my heart rate target] in order to see the scale move, and to be true to myself it's been cooperating with mama. Coming week is the mother of them all with 300 minutes in all. I will give myself a week rest from the challenge and I begin again. Below is my schedule for the coming week. Week 4 Fitness Minutes Goal = 300 Sunday =   Cardio (60) Monday = HIIT (50) Tuesday = Moderate Cardio/ST (Cardio 15/ST 45) Wednesday =  Rest Thursday = ST (45-60) Friday = Active Rest (10 minutes walking) Saturday = Upper Body Workout (60)

I think I wrote a blog on Sparkpeople in December about a personal reward-turned gift. This is my story, I decided to buy a Heart Rate Monitor mid last year (I lost my precious Fitbit Zip courtesy of a wedding) and so I started saving towards buying on Amazon. Luckily for me, I got a good buy on Black Friday and a friend who was coming home from the US ordered it for me. When he eventually arrived for Christmas, he decided to give it to me as a xmas gift. My soul blesses him always. I kept it for sometimes because, I see bonding the stuff to my chest as a burden that could easily wane my motivation to workout (trust me I still see it that way). But beyond the cons I am associating with it, the fact that it beeps whenever I am below my designated zone, keeps quiet when I am within and beeps more when I am above my zone, makes me tick. I think I am truly in love with it. I track my meals and workout with Sparkpeople (workout), meals in MyFitnessPal. My HRM is so so accurate an

It's becoming a reality for me. I am in the 160s on the scale. Yesterday was both weigh in day and rest for me too. Squatted on the scale and I saw 169.4lbs [Another standing gave me 170lbs] I decided to stick with the lesser. There is a saying that "every woman loves to be weighed and be found wanting". Yesterday was rest day and it was also my IF day, and beyond my expectation, I was so full of energy. At dinner I ate like this: - 2 cups of mixed fruits - 33cl Yogurt + a handful of peanuts (10g) - 0.5 cup rice + 3 slices plantain + fish + beef (I felt so filled after, I have not checked the calories yet but I am sure to be as under and wanting as possible) A new BLC week starts for me yesterday and today I will be doing my TNT, it's yoga moves.

Hi there, Today is the end of another week and how time flies and waits for no one. What can I say? It had been an awesome week for me and very busy too. The internet had been the worst in my office since the millennium, lol. I seemed to underestimate how much my life revolves around the web [I hate to think that way, but it's the truth], it looks like not able to browse makes me cranky and anxious too. Anyways, I had to recharge the phone so that I can do my stuff on the mobile [thank God]. I am still owing someone anyways... All in my mind, I have decided to be as positive as I can be this year because I know in it lies my success with everything I put my mind to do. I want to be positive not only about what I plan to do, but even about others, those around me, - a mind that they are not here to harm me; - a mind that I can talk to them about ME; - a mind that God had brought them my way that I may or they may influence me positively; - a mind that I can get it when I