The title’s a paraphrase of Emily Blunt’s character in The Devil Wears Prada and her terribly unhealthy starvation diet. I’m sure she’s a trim 110 lbs at the most, and yet she’s lean and ridiculously tall.
I on the other hand, am 5’5.5″ and well… let’s not talk about how much I weigh. Let’s just say I can practically lose 1/2 an Emily Blunt, and my stomach wouldn’t even bloat from hunger. But I’ve been exercising.
Okay, I’ve been exercising for 3 days. Not too great. But it’s a start. An hour a day. I’m planning to exercise 6 days a week until I’m so effing thin that my thighs are no longer the size of a model’s waist.
Maybe it’s my lack of patience, but I feel like 3 hours of exercise and 1200 calories burned should lead to more than just 3/5 of a pound of fat. (I remember something about 2000 calories = 1 lb of fat.)
I guess I’ve found my own answer. If I want to lose weight, say… 1 lb every 2 days, I need to exercise to burn 500 calories and then eat 500 calories less daily. That’s not easy, given that my company caters.
That means that if I want to lose 50lbs, it’ll take 100 days (100 days of no cheating). So that’s… about 3 months. And that’s some intense exercising. I’d also have to make up for not exercising the 7th day, when I’m taking a calligraphy class- w00t! I love cool pens and nice papers and stationery and stamps and… okay, not going to get side-tracked.
I will attempt to update every week or so… meaning I should love 3-4 lbs every time I write.
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In addition to my 1 hour of aerobic exercise, I’ll also need to do some weights, especially on my upper body. I user to dance ballet, so I have pretty strong legs, but my arms are pretty flimsy. Sadly, I’m top heavy, so I look kinda lopsided right now. “I’m working on it.” Promise.
So here’s the plan:
- Exercise 7 hours a week. No excuses. 6 hours of aerobic exercise and four 15 min segments of weighs.
- Eating more fruit (at least 1 serving a day) and veggies. Bread/corn bread, etc. only 3 times a week. More wheat. Lean meat only. No more stir fried Asian food- at least not from restaurants. Eat less. Eat better. Eat nuts.
- Drink more water. No sodas, unless they’re diet. No random juices (god it’s more sugar than anything… and don’t be fooled; they’re not simple sugars).
Steady wins the race.
See you in a week!
