The Naturale Yogi

It’s the end of week 16 since I started a meal plan and so far I’m progressing really slow because I hit a few days of falling ill but I’m glad to be back and “running” and getting back into the swing of the new normal in the time of COVID19. Getting back into eating on the plan and doing my best to follow through each day. So basically my 16th week got pushed back another week to accomodate the 4 days I was off sick and the next 7 days of rest and continued recovery.

Now here are my updates. Weight, I started at around 152 lbs in April and am currently hovering around 142 to 144 lbs. Physical changes have been a lot less bloating around my midsection and I also noticed a little less on my back which is a good sign. My apetite and metabolism has been good and I can tell because I can actually get away with minimal cheat meals now but I do keep that to a minimum. Physical strength has also increased prior to getting sick but I’m trying to slowly build that back up once again but making sure I take enough time to do that because it’s no use getting injured or sick again.

We are still in the middle of a pandemic and to make that work to my advantage aside from getting on a nutrition plan I also enrolled and finished an online diploma program for Fitness and Weightloss, did a Macronutrient workshop for Petite Women, and got the No Meat Athlete Vegan Strength and Plant Based Body Transformation progam. I also read a book that I had on Power Eating and increased my knowledge base on nutrition for health and wellness as well as knowledge on how to apply that into programs for fatloss and body shaping. I would be writing a separate blog to encapsulate the important things that I’ve watched, read, and learned but some of the headlines would be that 1. Fatloss doesn’t always equate to weight loss on the scale so the scale is the least of anyone’s problem and therefore shouldn’t be the sole basis of progess or metric of success, 2. Calorie calculators are inaccurate especially for petite men and women because due to the height factor that dies affect resting metabolism, 3. Dieting is the last thing anyone should be doing if they want to achieve lasting and permanent fat loss, weight lifting and resistance training should be the first thing to kickstart that metabolism, 4. Having a really high Resting Metabolic Rate is the best way to be able to burn as much calories as you can while doing nothing, and 5. Rest and recovery is the most important thing when it comes to achieving strength and muscle shape gains. These things and more are what I’ve learned and I’m super psyched to be applying all these things in my life moving forward.