I Did It!! My First 1,000 Calories
I did it!!! I finally freakin did it. Well, not like I really fully tried before. But last night I finally burnt my first 1,000 calories. And as I'm an auditor, I'm all about the evidence, and here it is............
It felt so amazing to achieve that! I worked so hard. I sweated buckets in that gym. Pretty sure they would have had to mop up after I left. Haha. Just kidding.
As well as being nice and sweaty, after the ordeal my feet ached, my legs burned, and my face looked like a tomato. One feeling I had that I had never experienced before was that my chest felt so short of breath that I could not physically take a deep enough breath to give it what it needed. It was a weird feeling. It went away after about an hour though.
All that pain didn't matter. I'd hit my 1,000 calories and it felt so amazing!!! What a rush!
How did I do it?
First I did a Pump class at the gym.
Then I basically went on a treadmill and did Michelle's "Learn to Run" week 8 program until I hit the 900 calorie mark.
Then I hopped off the treadmill and powerwalked home, then did my stretches.
And that is how I got to 1,169 calories.
It took for bloody ever! I have 2 hrs and 50 minutes on the clock. A big part of that taking forever is that I burn next to nothing whilst doing Pump. About 270 calories to be exact. So that means it took 1hr 50 mins to burn 899 calories. That's all right then.
So tomorrow is my next 1,000 calorie challenge day. And I'm doing an Attack class rather than a Pump class. So I should burn heaps more calories in the class, and then spend less time on the treadmill afterwards. Which would be nice because I didn't get home until about 9pm and didn't get to eat dinner until about 10pm that night!!
It felt so amazing to achieve that! I worked so hard. I sweated buckets in that gym. Pretty sure they would have had to mop up after I left. Haha. Just kidding.
As well as being nice and sweaty, after the ordeal my feet ached, my legs burned, and my face looked like a tomato. One feeling I had that I had never experienced before was that my chest felt so short of breath that I could not physically take a deep enough breath to give it what it needed. It was a weird feeling. It went away after about an hour though.
All that pain didn't matter. I'd hit my 1,000 calories and it felt so amazing!!! What a rush!
How did I do it?
First I did a Pump class at the gym.
Then I basically went on a treadmill and did Michelle's "Learn to Run" week 8 program until I hit the 900 calorie mark.
Then I hopped off the treadmill and powerwalked home, then did my stretches.
And that is how I got to 1,169 calories.
It took for bloody ever! I have 2 hrs and 50 minutes on the clock. A big part of that taking forever is that I burn next to nothing whilst doing Pump. About 270 calories to be exact. So that means it took 1hr 50 mins to burn 899 calories. That's all right then.
So tomorrow is my next 1,000 calorie challenge day. And I'm doing an Attack class rather than a Pump class. So I should burn heaps more calories in the class, and then spend less time on the treadmill afterwards. Which would be nice because I didn't get home until about 9pm and didn't get to eat dinner until about 10pm that night!!
Woo hoo! Keep it up Ren :)
ReplyDeleteHope day two went okay. (Must confess I'm not actually trying to do the 1000 calorie thing!)
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