Now To Love‘s Health Editor Sinead Corcoran is on a mission to get back in shape, and has enlisted the help of personal trainer Rhys Jolly.
He’s known around town as Coach Rhys, and has trained everyone from top athletes, busy CEO’s, new mums and Kiwi celebrities – and now he’s stepped in to help Sinead find her motivation to enjoy exercising again, eat better and feel good about her body.
In Week One we introduced Sinead and Rhys, and this week we are checking in with Sinead on how her new diet and excersise regime is going, two months in.
I feel like in the first month I lost loads of weight and I was like ‘Sweet! I love this life’.
Within two weeks I’d lost 3kg, but this month I think I’ve only lost 1kg in total. Maybe it’s just all muscle?
Although I’m not totally sticking to the eating plan anymore so I guess that’s probably why. I am still sticking to the principles though: I don’t really eat carbs or sugar unless it’s a treat and most of the time I’m just having things like chicken and salad, but during the weekends I really struggle.
I feel like most of my life revolves around meals. I meet up with people for brunch or for lunch, and of course if I’m going to spend money on a meal, I want it to be something delicious. It’s not like I’m ordering pancakes and hashbrowns but anything at a café is going to be more fattening unless you just get the poached eggs every time.
Feeling good
I’m definitely feeling better overall though.
Before I started all of this I thought I was fine. I thought I was healthy because I didn’t eat loads of junk, I didn’t drink that much and it’s not like I was grossly overweight. Thinking back now though, I wasn’t that great.
I was very tired and I was quite unfit. Now I sleep way better, I don’t feel tired throughout the day and I can walk up the stairs without feeling like I’m having a heart attack.
Also, I don’t eat fast food now so if I do have a bite of a burger it tastes super-rich – even a flat white tastes full on because I’m used to having black coffee.
Keeping it up
At the moment I’m exercising every day, just because I feel like it.
I’ll work out with coach Rhys two to three times a week and the rest of the time I go to Les Mills.
I either do a class or I run on the treadmill. I probably run once a week, but every time I add five minutes to my time.
I can run for about 20 minutes – I know that it isn’t that much but I’ve never run before so it’s heaps for me.
On Saturday I went to the gym with a friend, who is about three sizes smaller than me. We were both running on the treadmill and I was way fitter than her! That’s never happened to me before.
I have to say the progress photos are definitely good motivation. Even when this 12-week programme is finished, I know I’ll keep going – I’ll just have to remember that life is your ‘progress photo’. So lame! But true.
