Week 9: The importance of planning

by Grace on July 4, 2009

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I can’t believe how fast time flies – when you’re having fun and when you’re trying to lose weight and seriously PLAN it.

You’ve heard it a thousand times over, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

One of biggest factors to a successful weight/fat loss is setting goals. You don’t simply say, “I want to lose weight”. You have to be specific and say “I want to lose 20 lbs by September 30, 2009″ and work your way until that date. To seriously plan losing weight, it helps to make goals and make them known to you and the people around you. Talk about accountability and social support.

*when I say “you” here, I’m basically talking to myself so take no pressure. *

I’ve been given a free 3-month access to the Turbulence Training forum after I purchased the Turbulence Training program and I’m very touched by how people motivate each other there. These are real people who are trying to lose weight like me lifting each other up, reviewing each other’s nutrition and workout log or just simply check out on you and say, “how’s it going with the workout?”. I feel very motivated thanks to the people in the forums.

For me, seriously planning means, month by month, week by week, day by day, meal by meal, ingredient by ingredient planning on nutrition until the goal date. Same goes with exercise. Each workout should be planned well ahead so you won’t go to the gym, stare at the space, look at the sweaty people and say, “Well, what shall I do today?” and end up wasting time. Believe me, I’ve seen people walking around aimlessly and yawning at the gym!

The Turbulence Training program has given me the organization with regards to my workout. I don’t want to waste my time at the gym because my time is so limited already, having only my lunch break time as my gym time. I go there with the program outlined in paper and do my stuff. In 45 minutes, I am out of the gym and on with my life.

Week 9 was about changing to another 4-week program. I wrote it in my notebook last week and cringed at the thought of more pushups (decline pushup is a killer), a chinup! and step ups. The new program is challenging and fun. I am still doing my interval training after the resistance training routine and so far, it’s great. I can go to the gym the next day without having to think of doing intervals.

I didn’t weigh myself this week but will do after Week 10. I feel I am lighter, clothes are getting bigger but still have belly fat. The darn thing just won’t go easily like that. It loves me too much! I might scratch off starchy bread altogether, even if it’s whole wheat to see how it goes.

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