22/03/2023
And the 1st place winner of our 8 weeks transformation challenge is Teodora
Congratulations 🎊
Hello,
So this is the "short" story :) For the last two months I think the hardest was to sustain the temptation. And one's mind does not change. Ever. I constantly wanted to eat snacks or peanuts or something that starts with 500 calories per 100 grams :) Which was more or less my whole calorie supply for the day. What I found interesting was I have never thought of eating something sweet, which normally is my biggest challenge. If there were two boxes of chocolates and one snack, I would go for the snack. Still wonder why. One of my colleagues at work suggested that maybe the lack of salty food is more physically demanded by my body and the lack of sweet food is only troubling my mind :). Maybe it is true. The training on the other hand was a real disaster from the beginning. Not because I could not train or I was exhausted, but because all my bones, knees and wrists were in real pain. On week 3 I ended up barely walking down the stairs, because of the pain in my knees. So I had to stop some of the exercises and change them with something hard enough, but not adding more pain. Our group leader, Kalina, helped with finding the right ones. We were using the same fitness instructor video lessons. So she dug and advised me how to swap some of the exercises. Maybe when I go down below 100 kg it will become easier.
And finally the most important. I have done this before. For more than a year. But then many personal problems came to my life, I got tired of being constantly on a calorie deficiency and I gave up less than a year ago. In the past 6 months I constantly thought of starting all over again, but I also thought that it should not be "that bad" and this comfort me for a while. When the challenge came up, I thought - well, this is it. The time has come. That feeling that you are not alone and someone else is doing the same as you do and you have support (basically you can complain to someone, when you get sick of being strong) was irreplaceable. It comforts you. The psychological effects of not being alone into something is very strong from my experience so far.
Finally - I am not stopping, the challenge is not over for me, but it was good to have these friends right in the beginning, when I was most tempted by giving up on it.
8 weeks, 9 kg less ( from 115.5 to 106, measured this morning) , 6 sm less on waist and butt. Feels a lot better!
Thanks to all the ladies in my group. We had a lot of fun:)
