week 5

Last week was a difficult one to deal with. I had urges to eat junk food from time to time and I even ate some :(

Our cook didn't show up on two days this week and due to this we were forced to order food. In the last one week in the name of junk food I've had Chinese noodles, Masala Dosa, couple of Kitkats and choco chip cookies/Oreos.

My wife is worried that I'm starving myself a lot and it may affect my health :). So being a good wife that she is she makes me have a at least a couple of Almonds and Pistachios every day.

I read couple of articles on weight loss a week before and most of them mentioned that HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is one the fastest way to loose weight. I decided to try that out and here  is what I did.

I setup my treadmill session for 25 mins and  then:
- Walk at 6 km/hr for first 3 mins to warm up
- Then have 6 sessions of 3 mins each wherein I run at 10 km/hr for first 90 seconds and then walk for 6 km/hr for next 90 seconds.
- In the end I again walk for 4 more mins to cool off.

In this whole process I burn approximately 170 kcal. Apart from this I now spend 10 mins on elliptical trainer which helps me burn additional 70 kcal. So all in all I've made my target to burn a total of 240 kcal/day in gym.


My last week's average calorie intake was around 1495 kcal/day and my current weight is 90.8 kg (phew! long way to go)