Chez FitMercy

I did my workout for the day tonight. I worked my upper arms and a little in moves for the core. Meanwhile, I think I touched something in my "jiggly bits" as a friend calls it [arm flab] because my arms were terribly shaking during my cool down and stretching sessions. I know that I love to strength train much more than allow my heart to be thumping horribly in my chest with cardio, but there is a dire need for balance too. If weight loss must be achieved then there is need for balancing everything. While working out today, I remember a line that says "you cannot outdo a bad diet" this means that you cannot use exercise as an excuse to eat wrongly either. Talking about food today, I was very conscious of what I was eating and how I was eating it today because of the allergy drug I had been using, the reactions were more in my favour today because there was no case of excess binge. I thank God.

Why do you really want to lose weight? Are you doing it for you? Yes, I am doing it for myself and my health and to be able to keep up with my family too. I want to lose weight to be fit and healthy.

60 minutes this morning  Some awesome time of dancing in church too. So tired right now. Need a nap

I had opportunities to dance today [introduction ceremony and a music concert in church] and I will be counting that as my exercise for the day. It was fun and there will be much more tomorrow God's willing. Nothing like praising the name of the Lord and becoming more healthy in the process of doing that.

Question of the Day: Your greatest fear about Weight Loss? Plateau is my greatest fear in weight loss and that is what I am experiencing right now. I have been here for the past 2 years and it's making me really unhappy. Right now with the new style of intensity of HIIT which I have decided on, I know something positive will start happening to me soon and the pounds will surely start to drop.

I have done this before and I am doing this again. I call it a familiarization tour, just my little way of letting you know me. Since today is 3rd, I will start with the 3rd question: A picture of your Thinspiration. What features do you like about this person? I will rather call it Fitspo or Fitspiration, I wish I had any at the moment. What we have all over the media is a photo-shopped bodies of the so-called models etc but... I actually have one aunty [She lives abroad] who I watched shrink in a healthy way in just a year. She was so determined and strong willed, I would like to be like her when I grow old. I am not really fantasized about her physical features but her mind set which is taking her to places health-wise. Find below her sparkpage link... http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage.asp?id=FEMISLIM