Back to Basics

I finished my first 4 week boot camp session... All week I was tossing up whether to sign up again as I hadn't seen any results, but today I decided I was going to!  Todays session was brutal.  We did a "round robin" course where we would have to run two laps of the field with our partner in alternate directions and then do 10 reps of whatever strength exercise the instructor threw at us.  I was absolutely dead by the end of it!  Usually I head to the gym afterwards but today all I wanted to do was go home and have a nice hot shower.  Anyway, while I was running the field for what felt like the 50th time, I realised that my fitness had certainly improved!  If we had of done the "round robin" course four weeks ago, I would have either thrown up or passed out.

I'm forever starting things and then giving up when I don't see results, but today taught me that results happen gradually, and we don't always notice them right away.  So while I am missing my sleep ins, I'm going to come back for round two!

On another note, it's day two of the paleo eating plan.  I'm still bright eyed and bushy tailed, excited to try a new way of eating... Don't worry, that will no doubt wear off in about 5-7 days!  I think the hardest thing for me will be cutting out cheese... Especially since omelettes will be the breakfast of choice most days.  

I love how organic the paleo diet is.  It really is all about going back to the basics, cutting out all the processed crap we have become reliant on.  Cooking is one of my favourite past times and I've already found a bunch of recipes I'm itching to try!!! 

I was talking to the dietician about how people just keep telling me that I don't need to lose weight, or that maybe this is just the weight I'm supposed to be.  She said that anything is possible, just sometimes when our body is really happy at the weight it's at, it will fight even harder not to lose anything.  She said once I'm at my goal weight, I then have to maintain it there for three months... And that those three months will be incredibly trying.  She then went on to tell me that while my body is resetting its "set point" I will experience the strangest cravings and my moods will go from sky high to rock bottom... 

I am not looking forward to that!!!

Sorry this is so over the place and doesn't really have much of a structure, I'm just typing what I think.  Maybe I'm on a bit of a high from this morning's boot camp!