{"id":261,"date":"2011-08-07T13:14:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T13:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=261"},"modified":"2011-09-23T13:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:17:47","slug":"progress-or-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anastasiacheetham.ca\/experiment-of-one\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Progress (or lack thereof)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time I posted<\/a>, I wrote about my new membership at Precision Nutrition<\/a>. Today’s post is a copy (slightly modified) of a post I made to their Member’s Logs section…<\/p>\n

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I was very excited to receive the PN package in the mail, and I started very gung-ho: Shopping for recommended foods, cooking up batches of dishes from the tasty recipes, limiting carbs to after workouts, taking fish oil supplements, getting the blender out of storage for shakes…<\/p>\n

After one week, I was thoroughly discouraged. The food prep time was very difficult to work into my schedule, and limiting carbs to only after workouts was *really* hard. I was already eating low-carb, and already only having “good” carbs (whole grains, etc.), but, I’m sorry: I *like* carbs. A lovely artisan loaf of bread… quinoa with a stir-fry… my own homemade super-healthy muffins… Plus I enjoy sharing meals with my hubby, but he’s not on The Plan, so we couldn’t comfortably eat together the way we used to.<\/p>\n

Also, my workouts are after breakfast, so that means the only time I could have carbs was the mid-morning snack, at work. Changing my workout schedule would not be easy – it took forever to figure out something I could stick with, so I’m not eager to try to change it.<\/p>\n

I managed to stick to the Plan for the week, but it was NOT enjoyable at all. And after the week was over: Not one change in anything: weight, body fat, girth measurements… Nothing. Nada. Zip. “All pain, no gain” was how it felt. I was ready to ask for my money back.<\/p>\n

I tried to keep it up for another week, but I slipped-up much more often and again saw no change at all. Then, I spent the third week on vacation at a cottage, with lots of fabulous BBQ and excellent beer and wine. Needless to say, the PN Plan went out the window.<\/p>\n

But…<\/p>\n

While I was lounging on the dock with a lovely “Leffe Blonde” Belgian beer in hand, I pondered what went wrong. I realize now that in my eagerness for change, I took on too much at once. I know you have to stick with something for a while before it becomes habit, and I’ve had success changing habits before, but I’m going to have to take this one a little bit more slowly.<\/p>\n

I watched the recent fat-loss course videos offered by PN, and that’s helped inspire me to start with small changes that I firmly believe I can stick to. I’m going to start with:<\/p>\n

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  1. fish oil supplements,<\/li>\n
  2. slightly smaller portion sizes, and<\/li>\n
  3. more vegetables.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have also finally receive my fat calipers in the mail, so I can start logging my stats on the PN site with the ResultsTracker. I’ll check in in a couple of weeks to see how I’m doing.<\/p>\n

    Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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